Travelmarx Summer 2026 Playlist – Never Be the Same

A composite image of 36 albums used in this playlist.

For our summer playlist, we chose the title "Never Be the Same." It feels right for this moment because the pace of change can seem too quick, and it’s easy to look at a place, situation, or people and think that’s it; it’ll never be the same. Either in a good or a bad way. This playlist doesn't propose anything other than acknowledging this feeling.  Spotify link. 

We picked the title just because we liked the song of the same name by Yana Pavlova & Pavel Milyakov from the album "Thrill". Later after including it in our playlist, we learned (here, here) that Pavlova passed away in February 2025.

18 Rays – EP"18 Rays", track "I Feel Rain"
Steve Gunn – EP "Shape of a Wave", track "Shape of a Wave"
Samantha Crain – single "Belly"
Landhouse – single "Long Dark Tunnel"
RICEWINE – single "Uncut"
Mac DeMarco – album "Salad Days", track "Salad Days"

exmagician – album "Sit Tight", track "Storyline"
Astral Bakers – album "Vertical Life", track "No Rain On Internet"
Sterling Grove, Ellyn Woods – single "Sound of Home"
Lilly Miller, Damien Jurado – single "It Will Come Back"
Golden Ivy – album "Kammarn", track "Vandringslåt"
fastmusic – album "I Want to Love, and I Love", track "Wow"

Sunrom – single "Glory"
Fink – single "Wishing For Blue Sky"
Alela Diane – single "In My Own Time"
Elder Island – EP "Seeds in Sand", track "Black Fur"
JAGUARE AFFAIR – single "Comment lui dire"
bby – album "1", track "In Spite Of My Head"

Little Joy – album "Little Joy", track "Brand New Start"
The Holydrug Couple – album "Sesión En Vivo Estudio Novena CDMX (Live)", track "Concorde (Sesión En Vivo Estudio Novena CDMX)"
Yana Pavlova & Pavel Milyakov – album "Thrill", track "never be the same"
Vicky Sometani – single "Keep Coming Back To You"
Gem Club – album "Emerald Press", track "Sea So White"
Aufgang – album "Broad Ways", track "Épopée, pt. 1"

Darkstar – album "Civic Jams", track "Blurred"
Jitwam – album "selftitled", track "later..."
Williams & Chaz Bundick – EP "Trance Zen Dental Spa", track "Luxury Vinyl"
Common Saints – EP "Starchild", track "Starchild"
Autograf & WYNNE – single "Nobody Knows"
Kimi Hird & Yukimi Nagano – album "Moving On", track "Keep You"

Assaf Spector – single "New Wave"
Rozi Plain & Alabaster DePlume – album "Prize", track "Spot Thirteen"
Gizmo Varillas – album "The World in Colour", track "Follow the Sun"
Hanakiv – album "Goodbyes", track "Goodbye"
Tash Sultana – album "Notion", track "Jungle"
Tatanka – single "Alfaiate"

Music Album Covers with Televisions on Them

36 albums covers featuring TVs on them.

Ah, the good old television. TV, tube, boob tube, telly, idiot box. A piece of furniture, a glowing shrine, background noise, babysitter, cultural glue, and eventually just another rectangle in our lives competing for attention.

The word “television” itself was introduced by Russian engineer Konstantin Perskyi at the 1900 Paris Exposition during the International Congress of Electricity. He combined Greek and Latin roots into a neat term meaning, roughly, “seeing at a distance,” replacing clunkier technical descriptions floating around at the time. It was the perfect debut venue: a world fair dedicated to showing off the future through electricity, machinery, and spectacle.

In this album cover mosaic, we collected examples of televisions appearing on album covers in all their forms: glowing consoles, portable sets, static-filled screens, rabbit ears, surveillance monitors, and late-night blue light. TVs on album covers can signal comfort, alienation, mass culture, boredom, nostalgia, or just the simple fact that for decades the television sat at the center of domestic life.

As usual with these mosaics, we’re not trying to be exhaustive. There are plenty of examples we missed, forgot, or perhaps once saw at 1 a.m. illuminated by the flicker of a CRT screen.

01 Foretaste – "Terrorist TV" (2008)
02 Lichen – "The End is Near" (2018)
03 Graham Parker – "Imaginary Television" (2010)
04 Cocksure – "T.V.M.A.L.S.V." (2014)
05 Dramarama – "Color TV" (2020)
06 Frank Zappa – "A Token Of His Extreme Soundtrack" (2013)

07 Kacy & Clayton, Marlon Williams – "Plastic Bouquet" (2020)
08 Kiyotaka Sugiyama – "Kona Weather" (1987)
09 Roger Waters – "Amused to Death" (1992)
10 The Bees – "TV Mentality" (1979)
11 DelicTrips. – "Motivated Abstract" (2017)
12 The Cars – "Moving in Stereo The Best of The Cars" (2016)

13 Sweet – "Waters Edge" (1980)
14 Berlin – "Pleasure Victim" (1982)
15 Family – "Bandstand" (1972)
16 Benny Golson – "Tune In, Turn On The Hippest Commercials Of The Sixties" (1999)
17 Lizzy Borden – "Visual Lies" (1987)
18 Tai Verdes – "TV" (2021)

19 A Flock of Seagulls – "A Flock of Seagulls" (1982)
20 Elton John – "The Fox" (1981)
21 George Harrison – "Brainwashed" (2002)
22 Joni Mitchell – "Wild Things Run Fast" (1982)
23 Proctor and Bergman – "TV Or Not TV A Video Vaudeville In Two Acts" (1973)
24 Various Artists – "100 Greatest TV Themes" (2011)

25 AC-DC – "Blow Up Your Video" (1988)
26 The Tubes – "Remote Control" (1979)
27 Holger Czukay – "Movies" (1979)
28 Monty Python – "Monty Pythons Flying Circus" (1970)
29 Rebel Kicks – "A Portrait of Man, Pt 1" (2020)
30 Lou Reed – "New Sensations" (1984)

31 Rush – "Power Windows" (1985)
32 Harry Nilsson – "That's The Way It Is" (1976)
33 Fish – "Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors" (1990)
34 World Party – "Private Revolution" (1986)
35 Tom Jones – "Reload" (1999)
36 Randy Newman – "12 Songs" (1970)

Travelmarx Spring 2026 Playlist – Powerless

A composite image of 36 albums used in this playlist.

Our spring playlist's title is Powerless, from the first song in the list by Balthazar. Theodor W. Adorno (1903 – 1969) said in 1951 “The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.” Happy listening. Spotify link.

Balthazar – album “Sand”, track “Powerless”
Matt Berninger – album "Serpentine Prison", track "Silver Springs"
Aim – album “Cold Water Music”, track “Cold Water Music”
Fabienne Debarre – album “Welcome to the Age of Broken Minds”, track “Welcome to the Age of Broken Minds”
Shana Cleveland – album “Manzanita”, track “Faces in the Firelight”
Wallners – album “Ships”, track “Ships”

Doc Rhombus – album “Distant Generation”, track “Never Thought”
Black Sea Dahu – album “Ants on the Wall”, track “One Day Will Be All I Have”
Honahlei – album “Nosara Tapes”, track “Gone Away”
Fellini Félin – album “Oddy”, track “Charlie”
Eola – album “Dang”, track “And I Know”
Heartless Bastards – album “A Beautiful Life”, track “A Beautiful Life”

RHODES – track “Sleep is a Rose”
Bertrand Belin – album “Watt”, track “Watt”
Jode – album “Jode”, track “Tomorrow is Gone”
Blanco White – track “So Certain (Something Reminds Me)”
Ocie Elliot – album “In That Room”, track “Forest Floor”
Al Nicol – album “Only Hoping”, track “Marylebone”

Sabine McCalla – album “Don’t Call Me Baby”, track “Sunshine Kisses”
Nick Hakim – track “Waiting”
Midori Hirano – track “Illuminance”
La Luz – album “News of the Universe”, track “I’ll Go With You”
Thomas Dybdahl – single “Hard Liquor”
Anna von Hausswolff – album “The Miraculous”, track “Stranger”

These New Puritans – album “Field of Reeds”, track “Organ Eternal”
Little Element – album “Fire”, track “Tel Aviv”
Timmy Thomas – album “What Can’t We Live Together”, track “Why Can’t We Live Together”
John Martyn – album “Grace & Danger”, track “Some People Are Crazy”
Nicolas Michaux – album “Les Chutes”, track “Amusement Park”
Pedro Mizuntani, Skinshape – album “Mostrando Os Dentes”, track “Sozin”

Robot Koch – album “Hypermoment”, track “Dreams”
Common Saints – album “Cinema 3000”, track “Sweet Release”
David Bowie – album “Young Americans”, track “Win”
Lapcat – album “She’s Bad”, track “Lavender”
Duke Garwood – album “Garden of Ashes”, track “Blue”
The Bamboos – album “Medicine Man”, track “The Wilhelm Scream”

Travelmarx Winter 2025 Playlist – Black Sheep Boy

A composite image of 36 albums used in this playlist.

“I’m the family’s unowned boy”...We like that phrase from Okkervil River song "Back Sheep Boy" and decided on that for the secondary title for this season’s playlist. Being a “black sheep” is a badge of honor. A badge that means independence, creativity, or in the least, the courage to defy expectations. We don’t need our wool dyed so black is fine. The playlist is here on Spotify.

Beirut – album “Gallipoli”, track “Corfu”
Nev Cottee – album “Broken Flowers”, track “Open Eyes”
Okkervil River – album “Black Sheep Boy", track “Black Sheep Boy”
Hannah Miette, Rozi Plain – album “Hanna Miette”, track “Let Me Know”
Habe – album “Far From Everywhere”, track “Not Anywhere”
Grayson Hamm – single “Whiskey River”

Jonathan Jeremiah – album “We Come Alive”, track “How Can I Shake You Out of My Mind?”
John Stammers – album “Waiting Around”, track “Waiting Around”
Fink – album “Sort of a Revolution”, track “Walkin’ in the Sun”
The Saxophones – album “No Time of Poetry”, track “Wayward Men – feat. Indigo Street”
FC Atlaska – album “Rhythms from the Schelde Valley”, track “Two Moons Away”
Later. - album “The Daydream (EP)”, track “All the Time”

Toro y Moi – album “What For?”, track “Lilly”
Steve Gunn – album “Daylight Daylight”, track “A Walk”
MEZERG – album “Extended Play”, track “Sitting on a Log”
Clara Rockmore – album “Music In and On the Air”, track “The Swan”
Luce – album “Blue Star Soft Eyes”, track “Shadows and Shells”
Pharaoh – album “The Heat Warps”, track “Pharoah”

Alan Sparhawk, Trampled by Turtles – album “Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles”, track “Get Still”
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – album “Gush”, track “Gush”
Velvet Meadow – album “Saturday Morning Meadowlies”, track “The Velvet Showdown”
Flavor Crystals – album “The Shive of the Flavor Crystals”, track “Antenna House”
Aunt Cynthia’s Cabin – album “Misty Woman”, track “Misty Woman”
Bahamas – album “Pink Strat”, track “Whole, Wide, World”

Marty O’Reilly & The Old Soul Orchestra – album “Pray for Rain”, track “Cinnamon Tree”
Ask Carol – album “AC II: Desert Sky”, track “Cold July”
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp – album “We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway”, track “Blabber”
Monde UFO – album “7171”, track “Lowered Shelf”
Saya Gray – single “ANNIE, PICK A FLOWER..(MY HOUSE)”
Chinless Wonder – album “Moon Phaser”, track “Ynda”

Alex Maas – album “Luca”, track “Shines Like the Sun (Madeline’s Melody)”
CCFX – album “CCFX”, track “The One to Wait”
Jerkclub – album “Night Fishing On a Calm Lake”, track “Night Fishing On a Calm Lake”
Vinnie Who – single “Blue Blue Sky”, track “Velvet Sleep”
Kyle Scott Wilson – album “Journey to the Center of the Egress’ dream”, track “Traveling High”
NIGHTIES – single “saying hi”

Travelmarx Fall 2025 Playlist – Our Lovely Days

A composite image of 36 albums used in this playlist.

We wrote about them in the Vajont – Vittorio Veneto post, and here we go again: biases.

We based the name of this playlist on the Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe track “My Lovely Days”. We were thinking that we should celebrate these lovely days of our lives. Our desire is to counteract our “sometimes” biases of:

• Declinism – our world has passed it’s high-water mark and is in decline.
• Rosy retrospection – glossing over bad times in the past.
• Nostalgia bias – longing for the “good old days”.
• Chronocentrism – what we grew up in is superior to the turbulent present and an uncertain future.

Our feelings have names and descriptions. What we are feeling is not new. That’s reassuring...I guess.

Anyway, here’s to lovely days. Smile, chin up. There are good days ahead. The playlist is here on Spotify.


Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe – album “Luminal”, track “My Lovely Days”
Nina Storey – album “Nina Storey”, track “Be With You Tonight”
Oisin Leech, Steve Gunn, Tony Garnier – album “Cold Sea”, track “Colour of the Rain”
Captain Planet – “Tony’s House”
Clarissa Connelly – album “World of Work”, track “An Embroidery”
Ebony Lamb – album “Ebony Lamb”, track “Salt Sand Sea”

Maladé - album “Mezz’Aller”, track “Ripagnola Alle 19”
Chapelier Fou – album “Muance”, track “Philémon”
Enji – album “Ulaan”, track “Taivshral”
Room Service – album “Things Left to Do”, song “Good Morning”
Keeley Forsyth – album “Debris”, track “Start Again”
The Fantasy Orchestra – album “The Bear and Other Stories”, track “One Rainy Wish”

Tosca – album “Tlapa The Odeon Remixes”, track “In My Brain Prinz Eugen - Richard Dorfmeister vs Madrid De Los Austrias Ybbs Version”
GHOSTWOMAN – album “Ghost Woman”, track “All the Time”
mark william lewis – album “Still Above”, track “Still Above”
Chilly Gonzales – album “L’Accident de piano”, track “Maglie Postlude”
noonday underground – album “Surface Noise”, track “The Surface Noise”
Josin, Lambert – track “Traveller - Lambert rework”

Delayan – album “Looking Towards the Atlantic”, track “English Motorbike”
Midnight Sister – album “Painting the Rose”, track “Satellite”
40 Winks – album “Field Recordings”, track “We’re Flying”
Freedom Fry – album “Rio Grande”, track “Rio Grande”
Wau Wau Collectif – album “Yaral Sa Doom”, track “Mouhamodou Lo and His Children”
Danika – track “For My Baby”

Natalie Bergman – track “Dance”
Velvet Meadow – track “Silent Crying”
RIO KOSTA – track “Unicorn”
Céline Dessberg – album “Hödöö”, track “on est pareil”
Assaf Spector, Tom Meira Armony, Tamir Muskat – track “Monochromium”
Vaughn – track “Mystic Vale”

Brightblack Morning Light – album “Motion to Rejoin”, track “Hologram Buffalo”
Alex Maas – album “Luca”, track “500 Dreams”
O & The Mo – album “Make Way for the Sun”, “I Don’t Know”
Júníus Meyvant – album “Floating Harmonies”, track “Signals”
Toshizo Shiraishi – album “Oasis Session Vol. 1”, track “Iizuna Forest (feat. Yoshio Kobayashi, Jody Tenku & Marter”
FKJ – track “Is Magic Gone”

Music Album Covers with Turntables, Record Players, or Gramophones on Them

20 music album covers that feature a turntable, record player or gramophone on them.

Here are 20 album covers featuring turntables, record players, or gramophones. We initially thought we’d easily find many more album covers to make our composite image, but that wasn't the case. Some definitions:

• A turntable is typically a standalone device that spins vinyl records, picks up the playback signal, and sends it to an attached amplification or speaker system.
• A record player integrates a turntable, amplifier, and speakers into an all-in-one system.
• A gramophone (phonograph), the precursor to record players, relies on mechanical energy and acoustic amplification. It was widely used from the 1890s into the early 1900s.

01 Dafuniks - Enter the Slideshow Groove
02 The Delgados - Universal Audio
03 Hugo Kant - Another Point of Mix I
04 Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

05 Junior Jack - Trust It
06 Status Quo - If You Can't Stand the Heat
07 Thievery Corporation - Sounds from the Thievery Corporation HiFi
08 Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boy - Turntable Matinee

09 Les Baxter - Young Pops
10 The Blazers - College Drinking Songs
11 Barney Kessel - Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By
12 Erasure - Other People's Songs

13 Sweet - Off the Record
14 The Spinners - The Best of the Spinners
15 Various Artists - Turntable Essence
16 Verve Remixed

17 Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
18 Vetiver - Thing of the Past
19 Dirty Vegas Sound System - A Night at the Tables
20 Southern Avenue - Be the Love You Want