Schmutzie’s September 2026 Playlist

You can listen to this playlist on 9 different platforms:

Apple Music & Amazon Music (58/60) & Deezer & Last.fm & Pandora (56/60) & Qobuz (56/60) & Spotify (58/60) & Tidal & YouTube Music.

I love lists and facts, so, to continue:

48% of the songs are from 2026, and the complete original September 2026 playlist on Apple Music is about 3 hours and 29 minutes long with 60 songs across 9 decades and 18 genres: alternative, blues, country, folk, hip-hop/rap, indie rock, jazz, musicals, pop, pop/rock, psychedelic, punk, R&B/soul, rock, singer/songwriter, soundtrack, traditional country, and vocal. 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. Pain Is the Heart of Love (feat. Paul Buchanan) — Alex G (2026)

2. Follow — Andrew Sa (2026)

3. Jane Ate the Apple Seed — Artificial Go (2026)

4. Reverie for work — Asher White (2026)

5. Mission St. — Big Red (2026)

6. Hourglass of the Eye — Blind Yeo (2026)

7. Got Me Good — THE BOBBY LEES (2026)

8. 🅴 A Good Day for Dying — The Bug Club (2026)

9. God Don’t Like It — DUG, Nat Myers & GemsOnVHS (2026)

10. Fixer — Elanor Moss (2026)

11. I Don’t Know — Foglights (2026)

12. Foreign Agent — Gnoomes (2026)

13. Dictionary — The Hobknobs (2026)

14. Overdrive — Imperial Teen (2026)

15. Sunshine — Jungle (2026)

16. 🇨🇦 Pure Michigan — Kiwi Jr. (2026)

17. 🅴 Phoenix Garden — My Guardian Angel (2026)

18. Foremothers — Nina Winder-Lind (2026)

19. Dismissal Mosaics — Nina Winder-Lind (2026)

20. Never Going Back! — Phoebe Bridgers (2026)

21. 🅴 God Gotta Afro (feat. KARABO YA MORENA) — Rapsody (2026)

22. Freight Train — Rhiannon Giddens (2026)

23. 🅴 Hot Slob — Sylvan Esso (2026)

24. Ending — Tasha (2026)

25. The Shed Song — tenlung (2026)

26. Sick of the Times (feat. The Linda Lindas) — THAO & Tune-Yards (2026)

27. 🅴 She’s the Best — Troye Sivan (2026)

28. You Are Not a Cowboy — Vehicle (2026)

29. Yr Big Day — Why Horses? (2026)

30. Theres no such thing as england — Pollyfromthedirt (2025)

31. 🅴 Above the Neck — SOFIA ISELLA (2025)

32. 🇨🇦 Satan — Andy Shauf (2022)

33. Nightswimming — Okay Kaya (2021)

34. Let It Go — Peter Broderick (2020)

35. Lips — Baxter Drury (2014)

36. Lived In Bars — Cat Power (2006)

37. 🇨🇦 I’ll Believe In Anything — Wolf Parade (2005)

38. Birds — Electrelane (2004)

39. 🇨🇦 Lodestar — Sarah Harmer (2000)

40. Your Ghost — Kristin Hersh (1994)

41. Nobody But Me — Lyres (1993)

42. 🅴 So What'Cha Want (Remastered 2009) — Beastie Boys (1992)

43. De-Luxe — Lush (1990)

44. 🇨🇦 High School Confidential — Rough Trade (1985)

45. Can’t Find My Mind — The Cramps (1981)

46. Don’t You Want Me — The Human League (1981)

47. Kids In America — Kim Wilde (1981)

48. Don’t Leave Me This Way — Thelma Houston (1976)

49. Sweet Transvestite (2015 Remastered) — Tim Curry & The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

50. Rainy Days and Mondays — Carpenters & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1971)

51. Here I Am — Dolly Parton (1971)

52. Rumble — Link Wray (1970)

53. America — Simon & Garfunkel (1968)

54. Hold Tight! — Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich (1966)

55. You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd (Single Version) — Roger Miller (1966)

56. I Love Onions — Susan Christie (1966)

57. Highway 61 Revisited — Bob Dylan (1965)

58. 🇨🇦 C-Jam Blues — Oscar Peterson (1963)

59. It’s Oh So Quiet — Betty Hutton (1951)

60. Exactly Like You — Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli & The Quintet of the Hot Club of France (1937)