2025 is here, and what better way to tap into the possibilities of a new year than with new music? In this spirit, we’ve...

2025 is here, and what better way to tap into the possibilities of a new year than with new music? In this spirit, we’ve put together a mix of 23 recent jams by North Carolinian musicians for your aural delectation, available via our link in bio. One listen and you’ll have the lay of the land for the state of music in NC in the coming year. It’s a diverse mix, featuring rap, indie rock, old-time, coldwave, R&B, shoegaze, and more. Despite this variety, though, the music here’s connected by the shared energy, invention and heart of the many fantastic musicians of our state. Tracklist: MAVI - “the giver” Skylar Gudasz, “Mother’s Daughter” Wednesday, “Quarry” verity den, “priest boss” Gibson & Toutant, “The Click” DUNUMS, “mouthful of pears” Teens in Trouble, “In My Dreams” MJ Lenderman, “Wristwatch” Jake Xerxes Fussell, “Going to Georgia” Magic Tuber Stringband, “A Dance on a Sunday Night” Hard Drive, “Smith’s Reel” Larry & Joe, “Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms” Moonshine State, “Highway Nine” C. Albert Blomquist, “Your Words are Gracing Lists” Entrez Vous, “Beach Boys (Don’t Live in Vermont)” Faun Tempol, “Hermit Song” Datahata, “Cartesian Vortices” LUCI, “Lips” Tescon Pol, “Silver Unit” XOXOK, “Come Around” BeMyFiasco, “Festival (feat. Phonte)” Setting, “Zoetropics” Nathan Bowles Trio, “Gimme My Sh*t” Image: From L to R clockwise: Album covers for Skylar Gudasz’s COUNTRY, Wednesday’s RAT SAW GOD, MAVI’s shadowbox, verity den’s S/T Alt. text: Four album covers in a grid: a woman standing in a field near white clad men with a rope (COUNTRY LP), a painted portrait of a band (Rat Saw God LP), a black and white photo of a man (shadowbox LP), a photograph of a woman blowing out candles on a birthday cake (verity den LP)