Schmutzie’s April 2026 Playlist

This playlist is out on 8 platforms:

Apple Music & Spotify & Tidal & Qobuz (55/59) & Deezer & Amazon Music (52/59) & YouTube Music & Last.fm (58/59)

I love lists and facts, so, to continue:

59% of the songs are from 2025/2026, and the complete original playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 25 minutes long with 59 songs across 18 genres and 9 decades: alternative, alternative folk, Americana, comedy, country, electronic, folk, hip-hop/rap, indie pop, indie rock, jazz, pop, punk, R&B/soul, rock, singer/songwriter, soul, and soundtrack. The songs are in reverse order by year and then in alphabetical order by artist within each year.

These monthly playlists are a bit of a music history sampler moving backwards through time if you play the songs in order, but I like to hit shuffle and let them surprise me.

The Playlist

1. Don’t Stop Me Now — bassvictim (2026)

2. Stepping Out for Air — Bill Callahan (2026)

3. Strangers — Black Country, New Road & War Child Records (2026)

4. 🅴 New Self — THE BOBBY LEES (2026)

5. I Like You — Cardinals (2026)

6. Ache — Chalk (2026)

7. 🅴 Go Fuck Yourself — Dutch Interior (2026)

8. Tonite — Emmett O.C. (2026)

9. 🅴 WoopWoop — Fantomes & Rebecca Baby (2026)

10. Choo Choo— Friko (2026)

11. Fruitflies — FUZZY TEETH & plonki (2026)

12. Running — GIMMY (2026)

13. Dragonfly — Ken Park (2026)

14. These Things We Do — Lily Talmers (2026)

15. New York — Marmozets (2026)

16. as a dad — Mclusky (2026)

17. Ingrid the Sailor — Miike Snow & Yttling Jazz (2026)

18. Lists — MOULD (2026)

19. Love Story — My New Band Believe (2026)

20. 🅴 Acid Rain — A Place to Bury Strangers (2026)

21. Let’s Get Lost — Sammy Brue (2026)

22. 🅴 WTF — Sluice (2026)

23. 🅴 Trickle Down — SPRINTS (2026)

24. Hollywood Trash — Together Pangea (2026)

25. SCORPIO MOON — VIAL (2026)

26. Everythings Worthless! Everythings Worth It. — Wait, What Did You Say? (2026)

27. Robbery — Billions (2025)

28. Throw Yourself to the Sword — Die Spitz (2025)

29. Lover Boy — Fast Money Music (2025)

30. 🅴 Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat — Getdown Services (2025)

31. Just a Dream — gobbinjr (2025)

32. Song for the Record Exchange — Golden Apples (2025)

33. 🅴 Shame — James the Seventh (2025)

34. No Kings — Jesse Welles & Joan Baez (2025)

35. Where The Road Goes From Two Lanes Down To One — Julie Doiron, Michael Feuerstack, Land of Talk & Dany Placard (2025)

36. Simulation Swarm — Big Thief (2022)

37. Man or Muppet — Jason Segel & Walter (2011)

38. Theme (from “Night Court”) — The Daniel Caine Orchestra (2007)

39. Suicide Bomber — Tripod (2006)

40. Wake Up — Essential Logic (2003)

41. Hush — Afroman (2001)

42. Claire — Rheostatics (1995)

43. 🅴 Something I Can Never Have — Nine Inch Nails (1989)

44. Tony’s Theme (2007 Remaster) — Pixies (1988)

45. 🅴 M.T.V. Get Off the Air — Dead Kennedys (1985)

46. I Love a Rainy Night— Eddie Rabbitt (1980)

47. Cows — The Suburbs (1980)

48. Whatever Happened to...? (1996 Remastered Version) — Buzzcocks (1978)

49. Get Up Offa That Thing — James Brown (1976)

50. Let’s Stay Together — Al Green (1971)

51. Sandman — America (1971)

52. With a Little Help from My Friends — Joe Cocker (1969)

53. Picture Book — The Kinks (1968)

54. Feelin’ Alright? — Traffic (1968)

55. I Don’t Mind Failing — Malvina Reynolds (1967)

56. Pushin’ Too Hard — The Seeds (1966)

57. In My Life — The Beatles (1965)

58. Tear the Fascists Down — Woody Guthrie (1951 or 1952)

59. Let’s Misbehave — Irving Aaronson (1928)