12 songs to accompany a Reagan-era streetpunk’s fight against the living dead.

Songs that perfectly describe the past autumns of a person’s life.

12 standout cover songs from movie soundtracks that rival the originals.

Heather Beattie assembles 12 songs that conjure up life in a saddle and on the plains.

Jackie Jardine assembles 12 songs perfect for those nights when sleep eludes us.

12 songs that take the author back to middle school and his pre-apocalyptic adolescence.

A playlist for dancing in the face of doom.

In honor of Fourths Of July, David James Henry assembles 12 songs that cycle through the four seasons.

For Fourths Of July, Alex Nguyen assembles the best 12 tracks for the summer from musicians’ fourth albums

Tina Kakadelis calls together a playlist made up of the four classical elements.

12 tracks of contemplative Canadian country music through the decades.

Alexis M. Collazo assembles 12 tracks that resemble, and helped her cope with, the past two chaotic years.

Everything old is new again as Eduardo Hernandez compiles a playlist of bangers from past movie blockbusters.

12 tracks emblematic of the summer season and all it entails.

Jason Robinson assembles 12 songs salvaged from a relic of a more civilized time.

Justin Howard Query's playlist for those still trepidatious about socializing in our chaotic world.

Ryan Brown assembles 11 songs about things he’ll never experience (or never will again), but that describe an inevitable reality that awaits.

Jessica Scott assembles 12 acts she formerly dismissed for being too popular but now can't get enough of them.

Taffeta V. assembles 13 tracks inspired by the characters and world of Katherine Dunn’s 1989 book, Geek Love.

Songs with “ghost” in the title can be stories of love, loss, or simply eerie tales. Amber R.W. Knapp’s playlist covers that entire spectrum.