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Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up!

Daniel Warren Johnson

Where heavy metal, heady psych, dreamy ambient, furious punk, chooglin' rock, twinkly emo and cotton-candy pop music all come to freak out. All of these disparate sounds make sense in the brain of NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and are documented on his Viking's Choice newsletter.

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June 18 Mixtape: The Seer

Nubya Garcia, "The Seer"
The Jesus Lizard, "Hide & Seek"
GUU, "Split My Body"
Tristwch Y Fenywod, "Ferch Gyda'r Llygaid Du"
The Softies, "I Said What I Said"
Pigeon Pit, "Stone Song"
ZULI (feat. MICHAELBRAILEY), "10000 (Papercuts pt. 1)"
Ira Glass, "Nancy's Hell"
Respire, "Distant Light of Belonging"
Denzel Curry (feat. TiaCorine & A$AP Ferg), "Hot One"
Fax Gang & Parannoul, "Lullaby for a Memory"
Terry Green, "Safety"
Robber Robber, "Sea or War"
Fulu Miziki, "Mosala"
Olof Dreijer & Diva Cruz, "Brujas"
De Schuurman & DJ Chuckie, "Gangster Sht"
Sumac, "World of Light (Moor Mother Remix)"
F***** Up, "Stimming"
Maulawi, "Street Rap"
Short Dark Strangers and the Shady Motherf******, "We're Not Animals"
Ville Pirinen Combat School, "Lintunen"
WUT, "Talking to Strangers"
Kississippi, "Last Time"
Velocity Girl, "Audrey's Eyes"
The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die, "Auguries of Guilt"
Mast Year, "Teignmouth Electron"
David Byrne, "Glass, Concrete & Stone"
C. Lavender, "Melt Into Light"
Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew, "Day Song"
Wes Tirey, "Work 4"
Charlatan, "In the Reeds"
Penza Penza, "Much Sharper, More Focused"
Loren Connors & David Grubbs, "The Pacific School"
Slow Salvation, "Call a Friend"