New playlist: Fall 2011

   I love the fall, even as I often wonder why a season that is so
   obviously about decay, a season that marches us intractably
   towards the bitter winter, can yet be so lovely and nourishing.
   The songs here are not obviously about the fall but rather
   address the season’s bittersweet glory indirectly.

The Fingertips Playlist is a curated flow of music featuring free and legal MP3s, all of which are still available to download, and all of which were originally featured on Fingertips. This time around most of the songs are all from the last couple of years. Total play time is about 46 minutes.

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Fingertips was founded in 2003 with the express intent of scouring the internet for the best free and legal MP3s, and reviewing said songs in idiosyncratic detail. Fingertips seeks out 21st-century music with heart and spirit, grounded in one sort of rock’n’roll lineage or another but with feet planted solidly in the here and now. Check the Artist Index for a sense of what you may have missed to date.

In 2014, the Eclectic Playlist Series was introduced as an adjunct feature—a monthly streaming playlist that willfully combines music from seven or more decades of music.

MP3s have grown less relevant culturally over the years but in the process it’s more relevant than ever to foster an environment for music curation on the internet that is humane and music-focused. Fingertips is not concerned with mass quantities of followers or viral sensations, and only sporadically tiptoes into the overheated world of social media. The focus here is on humans making quality music for other humans, not on trivial performative bullshit.

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