Just like food, music flourishes according to season. Lively steel-drum beats go down easiest under a July sun; languid jazz is best consumed fireside, with a heady aroma of coq au vin in the air. Fittingly, it was James Beard Award-winning chef April Bloomfield—best known for such New York dining institutions as The Spotted Pig and The Breslin—who reminded us of that relationship. (more…)

The intriguing combination of Bossa Nova, funk, folk, and rock on designer Andria Crescioni’s Spotify soundtrack results in a playlist that’s both meditative and uplifting. (more…)

Artist Jim Franco’s studio soundtrack has a dreamy quality to it (more…)

Journeying to new places might inform the work of jewelry designer Lena Skadegard, but musically, she finds comfort in the familiar. (more…)

Several of the songs on jewelry designer Sarah Loertscher’s studio soundtrack are anchored by a core, pervasive rhythm; (more…)

Studio soundtrack: Music exec-turned-ceramicist Dana Brandwein supplies an insider’s playlist (more…)

Dominik Kowalik, the man behind Dominik Woods, was once a guitar craftsman, so we predicted an interesting, informed playlist.

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