Schmutzie’s October 2026 Playlist

You can listen to this playlist on 9 different platforms:

Apple Music & Amazon Music (56/57) & Deezer & Last.fm & Pandora (55/57) & Qobuz (56/57) & Spotify (56/57) & Tidal (56/57) & YouTube Music.

I love lists and facts, so, to continue:

47% of the songs are from 2026, and the complete original October 2026 playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 27 minutes long with 57 songs across 8 decades and 13 genres: alternative, alternative folk, blues, country, folk, hard rock, hip-hop/rap, indie rock, pop, punk, R&B/soul, rock, 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

🅴 = explicit lyrics 🇨🇦 = Canadian artists

1. 🇨🇦 🅴‍ ‍The Death of Indie — Art d’Ecco (2026)

2. Human — BAD WITH PHONES (2026)

3. 🅴 HEY NA — THE BOBBY LEES & Lady Boy (2026)

4. 🅴 OKAY NOT TO BE OKAY — Ecca Vandal (2026)

5. Argue — Girl Trouble (2026)

6. 🇨🇦 I Believe In You — Heathers (2026)

7. 🅴 head, shoulders, knees and ankles — hemlocke springs (2026)

8. 🅴 End of the World — Inpatient, Chris Webby & Ren (2026)

9. Walk On Me — Julia Jacklin (2026)

10. Deportee — Ken Pomeroy (2026)

11. 🇨🇦 Blowin’ Up — Kiwi Jr. (2026)

12. Sunlight and Doom — Laura Veirs (2026)

13. Illusion — Leon Bridges (2026)

14. Wake-n-bake — My Guardian Angel (2026)

15. 🇨🇦 Fell In Love — Natural Sympathies (2026)

16. Hack It Up — of Montreal (2026)

17. 🅴 ALPHA/BITCH (feat. WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP) — Oscar Goldman (2026)

18. the breeze — paris jackson (2026)

19. Four in a bed — Pollyfromthedirt (2026)

20. I’m an AI — Prisoner (2026)

21. The Coup — SAM HODGSON (2026)

22. 🅴 Tom Will Smack Your Ass — Sorry (2026)

23. Thunder and Lightning — Stef Chura (2026)

24. Counting the Days — Stimpies (2026)

25. 🇨🇦 Plastic Sword — Sylvan Esso (2026)

26. Can’t a Girl Dream — Tabitha Meeks (2026)

27. 🅴 Coyote — Westside Cowboy (2026)

28. Radical — The Blushes (2025)

29. Breaking Into Acting — Matt Berninger & Hand Habits (2025)

30. Transgression Is Outdated — Other Half (2025)

31. Stop Caring — J.E. Sunde (2023)

32. Narrator — Squid & Martha Skye Murphy (2021)

33. Anseo (Single Mix) — Denise Chaila & Jafaris (2020)

34. 🅴 Nobody Speak (feat. Run The Jewels) — DJ Shadow (2016)

35. 🅴 I Don’t Fuck With You (feat. E-40) — Big Sean (2014)

36. ICU — Lou Doillon (2012)

37. Is This Love — Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)

38. Feel Good Inc — Gorrilaz (2005)

39. Tribulations — LCD Soundsystem (2005)

40. Transatlanticism — Death Cab for Cutie (2003)

41. Psycho / Psychose (Suite) — Bernard Hermann (1993)

42. I Was Dancing In the Lesbian Bar — Jonathan Richman (1992)

43. Velouria — Pixies (1990)

44. Plug Tunin’ (Last Chance to Comprehend) — De La Soul (1989)

45. L.A. — The Fall (1985)

46. Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Tears for Fears (1985)

47. 🇨🇦 Making It Work — Doug and the Slugs (1982)

48. I Was a Teenage Werewolf — The Cramps (1980)

49. Train In Vain (Stand By Me) — The Clash (1979)

50. Carry On Wayward Son — Kansas (1976)

51. I’m the Slime — Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention (1973)

52. 🇨🇦 California — Joni Mitchell (1971)

53. What Is and What Should Never Be — Led Zeppelin (1969)

54. Spooky — Classics IV (1968)

55. Good Times — Aretha Franklin (1967)

56. Boom Boom — John Lee Hooker (1962)

57. Bo Diddley (Single Version) — Bo Diddley (1955)