Well well well, what do we have here? Why, it’s the relaunched Portland Mercury Spotify account of course!
We’re dropping three heater playlists on you today with many more coming down the pipe in the weeks/months/years to come! These highly curated playlists have been pulled together by real Portland humans who care deeply about your listening experiences—Al Gore’s Rhythm has been shut TF down and will never be used when building Mercury playlists.
Give our Spotify account a follow to keep your eyes and ears on that space—we’ll be dropping new playlists and updating our current lists on the regular!
Our three current playlist offerings are as follows:
This is thee playlist featuring all the hottest bops by bands and artists pulling up to Portland in the coming months. Mercury Music Picks will be updated every time a new, sick band is announced playing the tri-county area, trust. Zero rules for this bad boy—it’s genre-fluid, just the way you like it. This is the companion playlist to our weekly Mercury Music Picks column that drops likes it's hot every Tuesday 🫦
Is it just me or does this summer feel like it’s gonna pop off? I’ve been seeing your beaming faces at all the shows around town the last months and those few golden days we’ve had that felt like summer have been magical. There’re festivals galore coming our way (see below) along with so many rad club shows right around the corner. Portland Summer Fuzz is for you photosynthesizers out there—throw this one on at a BBQ, while picnicking at the Bluffs, and driving in from a Gorge hike on your way to Sugar Pine. I love Portland summer, and I love you!
Next we’ve curated a playlist with our two favorite tracks from each of the bands playing Project Pabst this summer. This short-n-sweet mix is giving punk icons, emo heartthrobs, and Portland favorites all wrapped up in a tight hour fourtyfive. Project Pabst 2025 is gonna bang—Project Pabst 2025 the playlist is your bedmate!
Related: Check out our rundown of this year’s Project Pabst—like we told ya, it’s a banger.
Lastly, I want to acknowledge that Spotify is not it; it’s not the end point for music discovery and is certainly not everything we need to be doing to support musicians, venues, and our local music scenes. Spotify needs to do so much better with paying the artists on their platform and chilling with the fucking algorithms. Use these (and all) playlists as a means to discover and organize music but don’t stop there… Go to all the shows! Buy merch! Support your favorite artists on Bandcamp Fridays! Tell them you appreciate them and their art! It truly takes every single one of us to build and sustain thriving art scenes—get out there!
