I was a young kid the last time we experienced a total eclipse of the sun. Sitting in my Catholic school classroom, I remember the nuns telling us this once a once-in-a-lifetime event. Naturally, since we didn’t have viewing glasses, they half-lowered the shades and only allowed us to peer out for the fleeting moments when the sun was completely hidden behind the moon. I’m a few years older now, and the beauty of being a goddamn adult, is that I can control my own sun viewing habits.
Since this is a once-in-a-lifetime (or maybe twice!), this is a special playlist that brings together our favorite tracks that celebrate the sun, the moon, and the sky. Entitled after The Swans song by the same name, you will find a variety of artists in the post-punk, new wave, electronic, experimental, psychedelic, glam rock, and indie rock artists that we love on Strawberry Tongue.
Starting at 9:00am CDT and playing until 3:30pm, this is a playlist that perfectly accompanies the sky going out.
Artists featured include:
- 50 Foot Wave
- After Death Plan
- After The Flood
- Alien Sex Fiend
- Almark
- And Also The Trees
- Bat For Lashes
- Battles
- Bauhaus
- Black Arcade
- Black Lab
- Bleib Moderne
- Blue Orchids
- Born Gold
- Calla
- Candy Claws
- Captain Beefheart
- Chrome
- Cindytalk
- Cold Cave
- Comsat Angels
- Cut Copy
- Dalek I
- Dead Can Dance
- Dead Skeletons
- Echo Arcadia
- Eyeless in Gaza
- Feeding Fingers
- Formes Nouvelles
- John Cage
- Junior Boys
- Little Nemo
- Loop
- Love and Rockets
- Lunar Twin
- Lush
- Lusine
- Killing Joke
- Mark Nine
- Moi Caprice
- Modern English
- Moonbabies
- Music For Pleasure
- New Order
- Nick Drake
- On The Water
- Otzi
- Phoenix
- Pilot Scott Tracy
- Red Temple Spirits
- Reptar
- Sad Lovers And Giants
- Shellac
- Slowdive
- Solvent
- Sort Sol
- Stella In The Clouds
- Swallow
- The Chameleons
- The Cravats
- The Horrors
- The Intelligence Service
- The Naked and The Famous
- The Suncharms
- The The
- T-Rex
- Troubled Gardens
- TV On The Radio
- Velvet Underground
- Voderhaus
- VvvV
- We Draw A
- Wire
- Xiu Xiu
