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Viking's Choice

Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (<em>Murder Falcon</em>, <em>Extremity</em>) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up!
Daniel Warren Johnson
Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up!

Updated March 21, 2024 at 10:07 AM ET

Where heavy metal, heady psych, dreamy ambient, furious punk, chooglin' rock, twinkly emo and cotton-candy pop music all come to freak out. All of these disparate sounds make sense in the brain of NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and are documented on his Viking's Choice newsletter

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March 21 Mixtape: That Thang

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis, "That Thang"
Rra, "Fraid So"
Elf Power, "The Secret Ocean"
Jim White and Marisa Anderson, "Bitterroot Valley Suite I: Water"
Marion Cousin & Eloïse Decazes, "A fonte do salgueirinho"
Habibi, "On the Road"
Amy Aileen Wood, "Rolling Stops"
Tidiane Thiam, "Neene Africa"
Pelican, "Adrift"
Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers, "Gidigidi ka Makhelwane"
Kamasi Washington, "Prologue"
Pat Thomas, "Gye Wani"
American Culture (feat. Midwife), "Let It Go"
Thank You, I'm Sorry, "Car Sick"
Martha, "A Praise Chorus (Jimmy Eat World cover)"
Flower, "Physical God"
Zao, "Ghost Psalm (Live from The Church)"
James Elkington and Nathan Salsburg, "Buffalo Stance (Neneh Cherry cover)"
Myriam Gendron, "Long Way Home"
Luke Stewart, "Unknown Rivers"
Nick Dunston, "Fully Turbulent"
Bull Run, "Race for Death"
Oddbodi, "I've Been Waiting"
Alan Braufman, "Edge of Time"
Shane Parish, "Journey in Satchidinada (Alice Coltrane cover)"
Chantal Michelle, "the gradual destruction or diminution of something"
Maoupa Mazzocchetti (feat. Clara!), "Mantequilla"
Limbo District, "Have You Seen Margo?"
Jackie West, "Snow Amplified"
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, "Destejer"
Earth Ball, "A Need to Cool Down"
Chairs, "Dilaudid"

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