Meet Music Intern Sam

Via the `net's top middle-aged 100 gecs fan forum, the Tabs subscriber Discord

I’ve closed this newsletter with a song almost every day that it’s run since October 14th, 2013 (the first one was El-P doing “Drones Over Brooklyn” live, still a solid banger). It’s a good way to signal my brain that it can stop generating content and to signal you that you’re finished reading and you can throw your phone in the toilet and go frolic in the sunshine for the rest of the day, which I assume is what you all do after you read Tabs. It also (I eventually realized) echoes the variety show tradition of the musical guest, and Tabs is, when you think about it, just an email variety show. Am I giving away too many professional secrets here? Maybe!

I love music, but like most Olds I struggle to keep up with what’s going on in music today. So the song of the day has forced me to find at least one thing to listen to every day no matter what, and in the Tabs reboot era it’s created an incredible 22 hour+ playlist of my favorite songs. Here’s all the previous seasons, and Season Eight is ongoing right here.

But now I also find myself the proprietor of the `net’s top middle-aged 100 gecs fan forum, the Tabs subscriber Discord, via which I got to know the impeccable musical taste of Sam Gavin, who recently agreed to help find Today’s Songs for us and ascended from being regular Sam to Music Intern Sam. The raves for his selections have been near constant, so for subscribers today let’s get to know Music Intern Sam and give him an opportunity to pick a few weekend jams for us.

I borrowed Blackbird Spyplane’s Exquisite Vibes scanner so please just step through this floral divider and let’s meet Music Intern Sam.

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