Howdy friends!

Welp, once again it’s Valentine’s Day… that dreaded/celebrated-weirdly-constructed 24 hours designated to showing people we love that we love them. (Pro-tip: You can do this 365 days a year!).

Since I don’t have much love for this so-called “holiday of love” I’ve been doing a anti-Valentines series of mixes the past couple years called Paperhearts. Not so much love songs although there are some of those in there. It’s more heart-centric tunes that display the full-spectrum-wild-wonderous-wonky range of this mysterious blood pumper that we all have in our chests and that is supposedly responsible for much of the good (and bad) that we feel in this life.

Hope you enjoy… behind my Autumn series this is becoming my favorite annual mix. You can check out the full mixtape above on Spotify or check out some of the individual songs via videos below. Don’t forget to give oodles of love to the artists that give us so much musical enjoyment… hopefully you can find a new fave in this list!

Much love to you on this day no matter what state your heart is in.

Donora - This Heart
Cataldo - Little Heartbeat
Craig Cardiff - Heart
Kristin Andreassen - Jump Start My Heart
Lewis & Leigh - Heart Don’t Want
The Glorious Sons - My Poor Heart
David Ramirez - Good Heart
Colin & Caroline - Elastic Heart
Whim - Empty Heart
Birdtalker - Free Like A Broken Heart
Carsie Blanton - Idiot Heart
Laurie MacAllister - My Stupid Heart
Mitski - Washing Machine Heart
The Damnwells - Heavy Heart
Alejandro Escovedo - Heartbeat Smile
Schuyler Fisk - Irregular Heart
Glossary - Gasoline Soaked Heart
National Park Radio - Oh My Heart
Tyler Lyle - One Beating Heart

"This Heart" is the lead single from Donora's new album Sun To Me. Get it here: http://smarturl.it/SunToMe?IQId=YT Hear the album: Spotify: http://smarturl.it/SunToMe/spotify Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/SunToMe/applemusic iTunes: http://smarturl.it/SunToMe/itunes Follow Donora: https://twitter.com/donora https://instagram.com/donora https://facebook.com/donoramusic

From the album "Keepers" out now: https://open.spotify.com/album/1iylsRTAOg5waP22QDNUKB Directed by Christopher Harrell Produced by Bobby McHugh Director of Photography - Tyler Kalberg AC - Roxy Ewing Gaffer - Casey Schmidt Styling by Meg Schmitt Visual Effects by Electric Sheep www.cataldomusic.com

Download the Hidden Truths EP now - http://radi.al/HiddenTruths Filmed by Rhys Davies http://www.lewisandleigh.com/ https://www.facebook.com/lewisandleighmusic https://twitter.com/LewisandLeigh http://www.instagram.com/LewisandLeigh Lyrics: All of the signs I've tried to ignore Keep me weak and I'll be coming back for more All of the lies sing like a flame Draw me in and I can't look

This live, one-shot acoustic performance of "Free Like a Broken Heart" was recorded in Nashville on April 4th, 2018. Filmed by Gavin Nutt: http://gavinnuttphotography.com/ iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1368871438 Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/6Uz6n0Mx7tqeD5MSTJzKqk Birdtalker's debut album One releases June 22, 2018. http://www.birdtalkermusic.com/ http://twitter.com/birdtalkermusic http://www.facebook.com/birdtalkermusic http://instagram.com/birdtalkermusic http://soundcloud.com/birdtalkermusic

Carsie Blanton makes songs, records, videos, blog posts, and mischief. She lives in New Orleans, and loves all kinds of music: Ray Charles to Joni Mitchell; The Beatles to Erykah Badu; not to mention Nick Lowe, Tom Waits, Dolly Parton and Billie Holiday. She loves songs, but hates genre.

Longtime, but now former Austinite Alejandro Escovedo returns to Austin City Limits. His episode premieres February 11th on PBS. Watch Austin City Limits on PBS. For more, visit acltv.com. About the Episode Revel in an hour of modern rock with UK superstars Foals and Texas legend Alejandro Escovedo.