

Coffee and Keyboard Christmas is a new playlist that features 32 instrumental holiday and winter songs to listen to while you work, or any time that words will just get in the way.
Read More: Coffee and Keyboard ChristmasI used to run an Internet radio station at Live365 called Polka Dot Radio. I gave that up in 2008 and since then, I’ve gotten my fix for music sharing by creating playlists, first at 8tracks, and now at Spotify.
The original radio station had a tagline of alt-folk, 1990's, and indie pop, and for the most part, that is still a pretty good description of my musical taste. My current playlists are heavy on the alt-folk / indie pop / alternative sound, with a smattering of favorites from other decades peppered in there.
You can play all of my virtual mix tapes and get more details about them in the posts below. Or, just shuffle one of these two playlists.
| Polka Dot Radio, which features a few days’ worth of tunes, spanning the stuff I was listening to in the late 80’s through to my current favorites. New music rotates in and out at the beginning of every month: | Polka Dot Radio Classic, which combines a bunch of the actual playlists that I used on the original radio station. This is a static playlist, and will not have any new music added to it: |
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NOTE: I highly recommend listening to these playlists on Shuffle, otherwise you’ll get a lot of similar music clumped together. Shuffle will give you a better variety and more enjoyable listening experience.
Happy listening! 🎶


Coffee and Keyboard Christmas is a new playlist that features 32 instrumental holiday and winter songs to listen to while you work, or any time that words will just get in the way.
Read More: Coffee and Keyboard Christmas

A new playlist for fall. Plus, I talk a little bit about 8tracks, my process, and ask you what your favorite music streaming services are. I’m open to publishing playlists elsewhere.
Read More: Less Traveled Roads

This series is just never going to end, I think. As long as there is bedtime, daydreaming, and noises to drown out, there will be Quiet Time playlists.
Read More: Quiet Time Seven!

I made a playlist to listen to when I need to focus, and words just get in the way. Come listen to my eclectic instrumental mix!
Read More: Coffee and Keyboard

It’s another hour of mellow feel-good tunes to help you drift off to sleep.
Read More: Quiet Time SIX

Yeah, I know I have popped out a lot of these playlists over the past year, but I just can’t help myself!
Read More: Quiet Time 5

As is the case with most of my “mix tapes,” this one consists mostly of relatively new indie pop/folk kind of tunes, with a few older tracks thrown in for good measure.
Read More: Dear 2017, Please Don’t be Bad

Today I tore my hair out over a technical problem, and I made a new playlist. Those two things are not related at all.
Read More: Quiet Time 4

I thought maybe I just had some weird hangup with this season and music, but I’m starting to realize that it may be more universal than that.
Read More: My decades of Fall music