Playlist of the Month: November 2025

While I made some solid progress on clearing out the backlog of music I’d saved to listen to later, the resulting monthly playlist is longer than usual, and I feel like I haven’t done as much listening through it as I’d like. Tough, when the thing is nearly 8 hours long, whoops.

Listen to the full thing here, or get individual tracks and occasional comments below:

Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP

Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving

Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single

Options – Cameron Whitcomb on Clean Country 2025

Azalea Place – Max McNown on Night Diving

St. Helens Alpenglow – Max McNown on St. Helens Alpenglow – Single

Flicker – Yoste on Flicker – Single

Take Me Away (Stripped) – Noah Brigden on Take Me Away (Stripped) – Single

Livin’ Missing You – Hayden Blount on Livin’ Missing You – Single

American Trail – Dylan Gossett on Westward

Normal Day – Brendan Walter on Normal Day – Single

Space in My Heart (Original Version) – Enrique Iglesias on Space in My Heart (Original Version) – Single

Bloodline – Alex Warren & Jelly Roll on Bloodline – Single

Sea Shanty Medley – Home Free on Sea Shanty Medley – Single

The Barn – Landon Smith on The Barn – Single

Loud and Heavy – Cody Jinks on Adobe Sessions

Did What You Did – Noah Brigden on Bad Habits – EP

Life’s Worth Living – Nick Folwarczny on Life’s Worth Living – Single

Dale Dickens (RIP) – Cooper Alan on Dale Dickens (RIP) – Single

Shadowverse – The Midnight on Syndicate

Cold Shoulder – Zach John King on Slow Down – EP

Life Behind Bars – Zach John King & Bayker Blankenship on Life Behind Bars – Single

Man of the Year – Sam Barber on Man of the Year – Single

Bowery (feat. Kings of Leon) – Zach Bryan on Bowery (feat. Kings of Leon) – Single

HIGHWAY KIND – Fabrizio on HIGHWAY KIND – Single

Space – Zach John King on Space – Single

The Vulture and the Little Boy – Bukahara on Canaries in a Coal Mine

Dust and Smoke – Sam Barber on Music for the Soul

808 HYMN – Erin LeCount on 808 HYMN – Single

Hangin’ On – Dylan Gossett on Westward

Nobody’s Famous In Hell – Waves_On_Waves, Crimewave & Waves On Waves After Dark on Nobody’s Famous In Hell – Single

CATHEDRAL. – Kesha on .

Gun To My Head – HARDY on COUNTRY! COUNTRY!

Hard to Break – Blake Whiten on Hard to Break – Single

Music for the Soul – Sam Barber on Music for the Soul

BerwynGesaffNeighbours – Fred again.. & BERWYN on USB

Luckiest Man Alive – HARDY on COUNTRY! COUNTRY!

Seventeen Going Under – Sam Fender on Seventeen Going Under (Deluxe)

American Vintage – Aidan Canfield on American Vintage – Single

Cheap Shots – Ian Harrison on Cheap Shots – Single

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Home Free on Challenge the Sea

Bedrooms In The Sky – HARDY & Stephen Wilson Jr. on COUNTRY! COUNTRY!

Comfort in Misery – Buffalo Traffic Jam on Comfort in Misery – Single

Lose A Friend – Evan Honer on Everything I Wanted

When You Were Young (Track Star Presents) – Jack Van Cleaf on JVC (Deluxe Edition)

The Gold – Manchester Orchestra on A Black Mile To The Surface

Later Tonight – Josh Ross on Later Tonight

Long Island – The Midnight on Syndicate

Old White Lincoln – The Gaslight Anthem on The ’59 Sound

Storytime – Majik on Blood, Sweat & Tears

Road to Gold – Luke Beling on The Good Side of Somewhere – EP

Oh! The Anxiety – Joe Jordan on Oh! The Anxiety – EP

Baptized By Rain – Dylan Gossett on Westward

Drift Away – Orville Peck on Appaloosa

Leave Her Johnny – Home Free on Challenge the Sea

Spinning – Chance Peña on When I Change My Mind I Don’t Mean It

Digital Dreams – The Midnight on Syndicate

nah – Khalid on after the sun goes down

Lungs – Fabrizio on Lungs – Single

Teardrop – Elderbrook & Jan Blomqvist on Teardrop – Single

Drive You Home – Waves_On_Waves, Castles Made Of Sky & Waves On Waves Orange Crush on Drive You Home – Single

Windy City – Dylan Gossett on Westward (Deluxe) 1

Aftercare – Imogen Heap & ai.mogen on Aftercare – Single

Undone (The Bonfire Sessions) – Sons of Habit on The Sticks (The Bonfire Sessions) – EP

We’re Onto Something (feat. Zach Bryan) – Kings of Leon on We’re Onto Something (feat. Zach Bryan) – Single

Bad Morphine – Arcade Beach on Music for Night Drives

erase me (feat. Jacob Collier) – Lizzy McAlpine on five seconds flat

Wish You Well – Vincent Mason on There I Go

No One Has to Know – Bob Moses on BLINK

Facilita – Fred again.., Caribou & Menor Teteu on Facilita – Single 2

Mother – Tyler, The Creator on CHROMAKOPIA +

The End of Eurydice – Vincent Lima on To Love A Thing That Fades

Hardwired – Fabrizio on Hardwired – Single

hate to be lame (feat. FINNEAS) – Lizzy McAlpine on five seconds flat

Better Broken – Bob Moses on BLINK

Lonely Man (One Take Acoustic) – Cody Jinks on Lonely Man (One Take Acoustic) – Single

Skull and Bones (2025 Version) – Home Free on Challenge the Sea 3

Berghain – ROSALÍA, Björk & Yves Tumor on LUX 4

Wild One – Madeline Megery on Wild One – Single

The Good Side of Somewhere – Luke Beling & T.F. Jennings on The Good Side of Somewhere – EP

Livin’ The Dream – Dylan Gossett on Westward

Slip Away – Nils Hoffmann & SILÖ on Everlight

Maybe For Once – Evan Honer on Everything I Wanted

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Cody Jinks on In My Blood 5

The Parting Glass – Home Free on Challenge the Sea 6

Foolish Pride – Slater Nalley on Foolish Pride – Single

It’s Not Your Fault – Max McNown on Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up)

My Side Of Town – Josh Ross on Later Tonight 7

Bonnie Ship the Diamond – Home Free on Challenge the Sea

Howl At The Moon – Noah James & Anna Rae on The Tracks – EP

Don’t Give Up On Me – Noah Rinker on The Pines – EP

HARDSTYLE 2 – Fred again.., KETTAMA & Shady Nasty on USB

Who Don’t – HARDY on COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY!

Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus) [Remix] – Lil Nas X on 7 – EP

Heavenly – Chance Peña on When I Change My Mind I Don’t Mean It

Mingulay Boat Song – Home Free on Challenge the Sea 8

Santiana – Home Free on Challenge the Sea

Once More – Waves_On_Waves, Sonic Shades Of Blue & Waves On Waves Orange Crush on Emotions In Every Color

Bottled Up Inside – Harrison Storm on Empty Garden 9

La Rumba Del Perdón – ROSALÍA, Estrella Morente & Sílvia Pérez Cruz on LUX

Sauvignon Blanc – ROSALÍA on LUX

Holiday Road – Kesha on Holiday Road – Single 10

Mine to Hold – Bob Moses on BLINK

Divinize – ROSALÍA on LUX

Deeper Talks – Joe Jordan on Deeper Talks – Single 11

We Never Left The Sunset – Tyrian84 on Exhale

Roses and Wolves (feat. Hailey Whitters) – Max McNown on Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up)

Wave – Yoste on Wave – Single

I’ll Be There – Nick Folwarczny on I’ll Be There – Single

Shovel – Tyler Nance on Shovel – Single

Reliquia – ROSALÍA on LUX

Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti – ROSALÍA on LUX

I Want You – In Color on Snow Day – EP

Sunflower – Amber Run on Sunflower – Single 12

Roots – Cooper Alan on Winston – Salem

Challenge the Sea (feat. The Longest Johns) – Home Free on Challenge the Sea

Fool’s Gold – Buffalo Traffic Jam on Take Me Home – EP

WTF (the f**k) – Gracie and Rachel & Elliot Moss on WTF (the f**k) – Single

Human – Brandi Carlile on Returning To Myself 13

Memória – ROSALÍA & Carminho on LUX

Magnolias – ROSALÍA on LUX

Hotel Dorado – Maxx Parker on Infinite Blue: Golden Hour 14

Got It All Wrong – Peech. on Small Town America (Vol. 1) – EP

Atchafalaya (feat. Noah Cyrus) – Orville Peck on Appaloosa

Maybe This Time – Orville Peck on Appaloosa 15

My Side of the Mountain – Orville Peck on Appaloosa

Te Amo – Rihanna on Rated R 16

One of those “I love this but I can’t keep it” songs, because it’s just… heart-wrenching, in tone ↩

Pretty different vibe from almost everything else in this list, but an absolute banger ↩

Absolutely gorgeous bass line ↩

well of course it’s Björk on the most delightfully weird entry in this album ↩

I’m vaguely aware that the second part of the Wicked film is out now, and I choose to believe that this is a hilariously subtle marketing tie-in. ↩

I still kinda want Parting Glass to be faster than Home Free’s take, but it’s a great version nonetheless. ↩

A good one to sing along to. ↩

The pinnacle of “Home Free makes me sing along and miss being in choir.” ↩

oof ouch my bones ↩

I think this might be entirely winter-holiday-agnostic, and yet it does a great job of capturing that Christmas Song vibe. I love it. ↩

A lot of my taste in country music has been “soft boys singing about being in love,” but I think this one best captures that actual feeling, for me. ↩

Excited to see something new from Amber Run, they’ve done a string of re-releases prior to this, which is… something, but not as good as actual new music. ↩

Watched her performance on SNL with family, which is maybe the first time I’ve watched an entire episode of SNL? I felt like I’d suddenly been given a much better understanding of an entire generation of liberals. ↩

I should see if Maxx Parker is actually creating the music videos to go with these, because if he is, this man is really out here slow-rolling the release of a new 80s movie. ↩

I really want to like this one, because it’s the sort of hope-punk lyrics I ought to be shoving into my brain, but I think I’ve only managed to listen to it all the way through without skipping, like, twice. ↩

Brought in because something about Facilita reminds me of Rihanna.
Anyhow, I dealt myself several points of psychic damage the day I added this by looking at some of Rihanna’s release dates and realizing that there are kids getting their learner’s permits now who were conceived to the hot new Rihanna single, S&M. This is, like, probably the line at which “music I grew up listening to” starts counting as “oldies,” isn’t it? ↩