The New Music Discovery Project, Vol. 24
These Retro-exclusive YouTube playlists offer a mix of contemporary genres curated by a former DJ. And if past is precedent, each is guaranteed to hold at least one new favorite song per listener.
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{Note: The NMDP offers exclusive playlists of contemporary music to help those too busy to track down great new music on their own find amazing new sounds. Retro-recommended songs first released in the 1970s appear in Retro’s “Singular Songs of the Seventies” series, instead, whereas songs from the 1960s appear in the “Lost Classics of the 1960s” series. I have eclectic taste in music, so I hope you’ll enjoy journeying through the past fifty years of music with me!}
While my expertise when I was a disc jockey was in American and British psychedelic music released between 1965 and 1972, I have been thrilled to have the opportunity to use Twitter, Threads, and other social media platforms to share the hundreds and hundreds of remarkable songs of more recent vintage I discovered in my decades of collecting LPs (and the countless hours I spent hanging out at a college radio station).
I hope these playlists will launch new conversations—including giving members of the Retro community a chance to share your own favorite songs.