Esopus Now Streaming Selected Tracks

May 8, 2013

Each week, Esopus magazine will select one of the more 200 tracks that have appeared on the magazine's 19 themed CD compilations and stream it on Soundcloud. Each track will be announced via Facebook and Twitter and will stream for one week. Selections featured thus far have included Jens Lekmans's "Regarding a Package" (from the Esopus 19: Customer Service CD), Doveman's "David Dunlap" (from the Esopus 14: Artists CD) and Frightened Rabbit's "Son C" (from the Esopus 13: Nostradamus CD).

Esopus themed compilations have featured music inspired by Craigslist “Missed Connections” listings (#2), subscribers’ imaginary friends (#4), spam emails (#8), works of art (#5),black-and-white films (#12), television shows (#15), and readers’ irrational fears (#17). Past contributors include Stephin Merritt, Neko Case and Carl Newman, Sam Amidon, Vetiver, Cloud Nothings, The Mountain Goats, Kimya Dawson, Frightened Rabbit, Doveman, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, The Baptist Generals, Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson, El Perro Del Mar, Grizzly Bear, Busdriver, Atlas Sound, Lee Ranaldo, Low, Wye Oak, The Ruby Suns, Owen Pallett, Dirty Projectors, Andrew Bird, Autre Ne Veut, and more than 200 other artists working in all genres of music.

Find a complete list of Esopus's themed CDs, as well as clips from each song, here