The New Music Discovery Project, Vol. 25

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{Note: The NMDP offers exclusive playlists of contemporary music to help those too busy to track down great new music on their own find amazing new sounds. Retro-recommended songs first released in the 1970s appear in Retro’s “Singular Songs of the Seventies” series, instead, whereas songs from the 1960s appear in the “Lost Classics of the 1960s” series. I have eclectic taste in music, so I hope you’ll enjoy journeying through the past fifty years of music with me!}

While my expertise when I was a disc jockey was in American and British psychedelic music released between 1965 and 1972, I have been thrilled to have the opportunity to use Twitter, Threads, and other social media platforms to share the hundreds and hundreds of remarkable songs of more recent vintage I discovered in my decades of collecting LPs (and the countless hours I spent hanging out at a college radio station).

I hope these playlists will launch new conversations—including giving members of the Retro community a chance to share your own favorite songs.

• Volume 1

• Volume 2

• Volume 3

• Volume 4

• Volume 5

• Volume 6

• Volume 7

• Volume 8

• Volume 9

• Volume 10

• Volume 11

• Volume 12

• Volume 13

• Volume 14

• Volume 15

• Volume 16

• Volume 17

• Volume 18

• Volume 19

• Volume 20

• Volume 21

• Volume 22

• Volume 23

• Volume 24

• Volume 25 (below)

If you’re a subscriber to Retro, feel free to let everyone know your favorite song(s) from among the ones below in the comments—and post your own favorite songs, too! I do take suggestions, so you may well see a song you’ve recommended in a future NMDP.