June 2017 had five Fridays – which means five weeks of new releases. My playlist is a little longer as a result and featuresa cross-section of indie pop/rock, as well as some hip hop and EDM music from megastars like Calving Harris and Bog Boi. Superfruit is also in there, a pop delight from 2/5 (well, now 1/2 as of a few months ago) of the a cappella group Pentatonix. I think this is a…
I typically only listen to music when I am racing, and enjoy my handful of podcasts during my daily runs. However, with April once again continuing the cycle of never ending rain, I spent a lot more time listening to tunes this month as a way to keep me motivated and running quicker than I would otherwise. What a wild up listening to was heavy on the indie music side of things. While I did…
March 2017 had 5 weeks of album release Fridays, the maximum that can there can be in any month. While this maximized the opportunity for great songs, I found this month relatively lacking across the board. There were some big releases by Indie stalwarts (The Shins and Spoon) and some others from up-and-comers in the same genre (Milky Chance, Real Estate, and Temples). Toss in a few women crooners (Valerie June and Laura Marling) and…
After taking a few year’s off from really being a “music-nerd”, 2017 has really started bringing me back into listening once again. I am not 100% sure what forced me away from really being hardcore in the new music scene, though most likely it was my OCD forcing me to explore EVERY album that was released each week (which is super impossible, overwhelming, time-wasting, and downright unenjoyable). A new outlook on music has really allowed…
It may be mid-February, but I have finally gone through January’s music releases to pull together 9 of my favorite tracks from the past month. While I have turned into a ordinary podcast listener during my runs, I was surprised that (for the first time in a while) I connected to a variety of albums. There is a pretty diverse split of tunes that includes hip-hop (3 songs – some explicit), indie rock (3 songs), indie…
Our team of Run Oregon bloggers are a diverse group. Of the 15 bloggers we have, we range in age from low-30 to mid-50’s, are spread out from Bend to Portland to Salem, and our race finishes vary from top-5 overall to middle of the pack. So when I asked our bloggers to submit their favorite song to run to, I shouldn’t have been surprised. As it turns out, our diversity carries over into the…
