Category: Music

  • Psychedelics, Memory, and the Work of Healing

    Psychedelics, Memory, and the Work of Healing

    Nancy Reagan told us our brains were frying eggs. In college, i dropped acid anyway. Decades later, I’m in ketamine therapy, still rattling the cage…

  • ATLantis: The Soundtrack

    ATLantis: The Soundtrack

    A 35-track playlist tracing Atlanta’s mythic rise—where trap beats, soul, and Southern swagger collide in a phoenix-powered soundtrack. From Outkast to Latto, ATL becomes Atlantis…

  • The Lost Rituals of Listening to Music

    The Lost Rituals of Listening to Music

    Before music became invisible streams, it had weight. We rewound cassettes with pencils, flipped records, memorized the hiss and flaws that made songs ours. Listening…

  • An Ode to the Lost Rituals of Listening to Music

    An Ode to the Lost Rituals of Listening to Music

    Before streaming made music disposable, we lived by the rituals: rewinding tapes with pencils, flipping records, pressing pause at the perfect moment. Imperfections became memory,…

  • The Lost Art of the Mixtape in the Age of Playlists

    The Lost Art of the Mixtape in the Age of Playlists

    A Curious Stack Mixtape – Volume 001 is a rewind to the days when feelings lived on cassette. Nineteen handpicked tracks, no repeats, built for…

  • what the algorithm doesn’t understand: a love letter to phantogram

    what the algorithm doesn’t understand: a love letter to phantogram

    A grounded, emotional tribute to Phantogram—and to the music that kept me going when words couldn’t. Music isn’t just a vibe. It’s survival.

  • Nina Simone
  • Ambient Relics: Apps That Help You Focus Using Sound

    Ambient Relics: Apps That Help You Focus Using Sound

    A quiet collection of music and focus apps that feel more like sonic artifacts than software. Each one creates space—for attention, for thought, for breath.

  • A Curious Playlist

    A Curious Playlist

    A Curious Stack: Volume 001 is a playlist shaped like a signal—part code, part spell. It drifts through genres like shifting constellations, syncing mood with…

  • A Curious Intro

    A Curious Intro

    “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates…