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The songs that made you. Part music blog, part music journal app. Come join us! 🤘

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Crucial Tracks @crucialtracks.org · Jul 20
Crucial Tracks is 100 days old!

If you love music, come join us. It’s the best place to share the songs that mean the most to you.

One song a day and a growing community of amazing people who have shared almost 1500 songs and stories to date.

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Crucial Tracks music journal - the songs that made you
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Crucial Releases: July 25 & early August

Jam packed. 20 highlighted releases, including new by Indigo De Souza, Emily Hines, and JID.
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Crucial Releases: July 25 & early August
Jam packed. 20 highlighted releases, including new by Indigo De Souza, Emily Hines, and JID.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The latest issue of Community Tracks is up! The weekly playlist compiled from songs shared on Crucial Tracks. Listen along as you read posts from some of our featured community members. Enjoy!

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July 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Crucial Tracks is 100 days old!

If you love music, come join us. It’s the best place to share the songs that mean the most to you.

One song a day and a growing community of amazing people who have shared almost 1500 songs and stories to date.

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Crucial Tracks music journal - the songs that made you
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July 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Crucial Releases: First Half of July

New records from Clipse, Open Mike Eagle, Wet Leg, Forth Wanderers, Alex G, Madeline Kenney, Billie Marten and more!

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Crucial Releases: First Half of July
New records from Clipse, Open Mike Eagle, Wet Leg, Forth Wanderers, Alex G, Madeline Kenney, Billie Marten and more!
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July 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Crucial Releases: middle of June edition

New releases from S.G. Goodman, Hotline TNT, HAIM, and Yaya Bey highlight this issue.

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Crucial Releases: middle of June edition
New releases from S.G. Goodman, Hotline TNT, HAIM, and Yaya Bey highlight this issue.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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A little later than usual, but the latest edition of Community Tracks is here -- the weekly playlist compiled from songs shared on Crucial Tracks. Listen along as you read posts from some of our featured community members. Enjoy!

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June 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Crucial Releases: June 6 edition

New releases from Turnstile, Little Simz, Lifeguard, and Activity.
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Crucial Releases: June 6 edition
New releases from Turnstile, Little Simz, Lifeguard, and Activity.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Crucial Releases: rest of May edition

A whole lot of new music in May!
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Crucial Releases: rest of May edition
A whole lot of new music in May!
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June 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Crucial Tracks music journal - the songs that made you
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May 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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A little Friday treat for the Crucial Tracks community... the first release of Community Tracks - a Crucial Tracks powered playlist:

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Some of the songs shared by the community in the past week. Going to try to do this every week! Enjoy.
Community Tracks - a Crucial Tracks Playlist: May 9 by Jason Dettbarn on Apple Music
Playlist · 18 Songs
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May 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Crucial Tracks additions...

1.) Public Tracks page: added an RSS feed and a link to each user's public page
2.) Within the app, each of your entries now has a visible 'View Public Post' link that takes you directly to the public/shareable URL for that entry.
May 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Crucial Releases for May 2: New music by Men I Trust, Carriers, Mei Semones, PUP, Club Night, and Samantha Crain.
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Crucial Releases: May 2
New music by Men I Trust, Carriers, Mei Semones, PUP, Club Night, and Samantha Crain.
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May 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Crucial Releases for April 25: New music from Viagra Boys, Emma-Jean Thackray, Beach Bunny, Samia, and... Wu-Tang!
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Crucial Releases: April 25
New music from Viagra Boys, Emma-Jean Thackray, Beach Bunny, Samia, and... Wu-Tang!
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April 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Sharing to Bluesky and Mastodon is now available on Crucial Tracks! A set up guide can be found here: www.crucialtracks.org/crucial-trac...
April 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Crucial Releases (most of April edition): Bon Iver, Momma, Speedway, Casper Skulls, Blu, quickly quickly, Ribbon Skirt, Black Country New Road, Florist, Scowl, Bedridden, Julien Baker & TORRES, Superheaven, The Convenience, and Valerie June. 🤘

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Crucial Releases: most of April edition
Geez, April is almost over isn't it? Lots of good music this month -- Bon Iver, Momma, Speedway, Casper Skulls, Blu, quickly quickly, Ribbon Skirt, Black Country New Road, Florist, Scowl, Bedridden, Julien Baker & TORRES, Superheaven, The Convenience, and Valerie June.
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April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Crucial Tracks 008: Annie Mueller:

Please welcome Annie Mueller, blogger and professional writer. Not just any blogger — one of my *favorites*. Enjoy the interview!

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Crucial Tracks 008: Annie Mueller
For Crucial Tracks #8, please welcome Annie Mueller, blogger and professional writer. One of my *favorite* bloggers!
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April 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Crucial Releases for March 28

New music from Perfume Genius, Great Grandpa, Bria Salmena, Free Range, Lucy Dacus, and Sam Akpro.
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Crucial Releases for March 28
New music from Perfume Genius, Great Grandpa, Bria Salmena, Free Range, Lucy Dacus, and Sam Akpro.
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April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Crucial Tracks 007: Kevin Humdrum

This month's Crucial Tracks interview features Kevin Humdrum, host of the webzine foofaraw amongst other adventures.
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Crucial Tracks 007: Kevin Humdrum
This month's Crucial Tracks interview features Kevin Humdrum, host of the webzine foofaraw amongst other adventures.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Finding New Releases: An in-depth look at how I find and manage new releases each week, using the app Albums.
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Finding New Releases using the app Albums
An in-depth look at how I find and manage new releases each week, using the app Albums.
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March 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Crucial Releases for February 28: Another week of new releases! This time from Deep Sea Diver, Doves, Panda Bear, Cloakroom, Runaway Brother and many more...
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Crucial Releases for February 28
Another week of new releases! This time from Deep Sea Diver, Doves, Panda Bear, Cloakroom, Runaway Brother and many more...
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March 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Announcing the Crucial Tracks 2025 Record Giveaway: We're looking to give away up to 10 records, across a variety of genres, to lucky readers. Enter today!
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Announcing the Crucial Tracks 2025 Record Giveaway
We're looking to give away up to 10 records across a variety of genres to lucky readers. Enter today!
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February 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Crucial Releases for February 21: Brand new albums from Anxious, The Murder Capital, Saya Gray, Youth Lagoon and more!
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Crucial Releases for February 21
Brand new albums from Anxious, The Murder Capital, Saya Gray, Youth Lagoon and more!
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February 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Crucial Releases: New releases for the week ending February 14th, including Bartees Strange, venturing, Horsegirl, Kestrels, and Frog.

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Crucial Releases for February 14
New releases for the week ending February 14th, including Bartees Strange, venturing, Horsegirl, Kestrels, and Frog.
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February 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Crucial Recap: February edition
Welcome back to another newsletter issue from the Crucial Tracks team. A lot has happened in the last month, so this recap will try to get us caught up to the current moment. As always, thanks for subscribing and reading! Up first is the next issue of our Crucial Tracks
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February 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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New Crucial Tracks interview is up! And it’s a good one… I present to you, the one and only Patrick Rhone:
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I hope you enjoy it as much as I did…
Crucial Tracks 006: Patrick Rhone
This month's Crucial Tracks interview features Patrick Rhone, author, blogger, and Master Generalist.
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February 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM