Category: Winter Playlist

Originally posted in Jan. 2011 – Spotify playlist below has been updated to 200 CHOICE winter-focused songs from indie artists and bands across the spectrum (many who were ‘indie’then are more ‘mainstream’now)

Last week, we shared our first winter mix, the second most viewed and streamed page right behind The Best Break-Through Bands of 2010 of the past week. Obviously, yall wanted more so we felt compelled to create a second indie winter songs playlist.

This follow-up to last week’s playlist features a pretty solid selection of ‘wintery’ (or close enough) songs from big hitters like Beach House, Sufjan Stevens, The Arcade Fire, Galaxie 500, Joy Division, and other favorites, like The Answering Machine, Little & Ashley, School of the Seven Bells, Sambassadeur, and so on.

There are certainly plenty of people along the east coast (who’ve struggled through three major blizzards in the past three weeks) and other regions of the U.S. who are not happy about the cold, ice and snow. Perhaps it’s just best to accept the reality of winter, and embrace what we think is a great collection of songs, regardless of their subject matter.

For people who live in the usually coldest parts of the country, and who just plain loathe or hate winter to no end, we can only hope that some of these tracks will warm you up. There were many otherwise relevant songs that we decided not to include over others in this playlist mix. For you seemingly rare folks who like, or absolutely love, winter, there should be an extra tinge of specialty, one may assume, to these songs.

And yet so far this winter, the line drawn in previous years for the coldest regions on a U.S. map has moved south considerably, to include unlikely cities like Mobile, Atlanta and Jacksonville. There have been record breaking low temperatures and snowfalls from Florida to Virginia, where snow and below freezing temperatures are conditions that people in those regions are not accustomed to, and used to be rare events compared with recent decades.

And, of course, the dark comedy that puts the cherry on the winter drama of recent weeks, is provided by none other than the political and media idiots who spout out loud that it all proves there is no “global warming”.

All things considered, January seems the most appropriate time to share as many “winterish” songs that we have in the bins. With a sleigh full of theme appropriate songs, the following are the second mix of 25 winter songs, making 50 altogether. In case you missed it, you can access the first S-25 Winter Mix from last week.