Here is some joyful music to help you usher in the new year, with fondness and best wishes from the Mapgies. May you all have a year full of creativity, kindness, happiness, and peace peace peace.
Magpies’ Mix Tape: Magpies’ Best Songs of 2023
Musical X-Rays: A Story of Improvisation and Rebellion
A brief history of bootleg records printed on salvaged X-rays. “It’s easy to imagine a yearning, a dreaming and a longing for what you’ve been repressively denied. The forbidden often has an added excitement, an added expectation and ultimately, an added value.”
Magpies Mix Tape: Sweet Songs for Troubled Times
The backbone of this mix tape is songs on the subject of the love that makes us glow together with the light we all carry, so that we can keep out the darkness of ignorance, want, and cruelty.
I Hate to See the Evening Sun go Down
Memphis Minnie tells us that she hates to see the evening sun go down, and I feel that, too. Dusk always makes me feel a little melancholy, particularly this time of year […]
Magpies Mix Tape: Undone in Sorrow
A sad and beautiful Mix Tape from artist Tracie Noles-Ross
Magpies Mix Tape: Surviving the Fuckening
Music continues to shape the collective consciousness of my people. Music binds us. It alters moods and speaks to us, and sometimes, it is the only healing for our aching hearts. The songs on this ‘Surviving the Fuckening Mixtape’ are carefully curated for listening on a bad day, or just about any day when things don’t seem to be going right.
July Issue, 2023
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Magpies Mix Tape: Soul-selling Stories
A small selection of the haunting, plaintive, wild, human, soulful songs of Tommy Johnson and Robert Johnson, two blues musicians who sold their soul to the devil at the crossroads.
Voutie-o-roony-mo
“Like, voutie-o-roony-mo means super extra happy and good. It means everything is voutie, like roony-o, you know.” – Slim Gaillard
Review: Northern Kin Festival 2023
He doesn’t have the resources of Glastonbury and pretty much runs the festival at a loss because he believes in doing it. The music was fabulous.
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