Summer 2014 Mixtape: Sounds of Now

Editor's Note: This content appeared in its original format in the Summer 2014 issue of Variance. Click here for the full version.

Photo by Jennifer Steinglen

Our Summer 2014 Mixtape is here!

Featured in our new Summer 2014 issue of Variance, this playlist is culled from a combination of readers' suggestions and new releases, a collection of more than three hours of new buzzworthy, underground and mainstream music.

The playlist, which can be heard below via Spotify, includes new offerings from Angus & Julia Stone (pictured above), Luke James, Rick Ross, BANKS, Shy Girls, OK Go, Bleachers, BROODS, Porter Robinson, Magic Man, Movement, Kimbra, Caribou, Black Milk, FKA twigs, Alt-J, Generationals and many more.

Take a listen below (followed by the tracklist).

NOTE: This playlist may be updated from time to time over the next few weeks.

Prinze George - Victor
Years & Years - Real
Solomon Grey - Last Century Man
Ben Khan - Youth
Kiesza - Hideaway
Brett - Golden
Angus & Julia Stone - Grizzly Bear
Black Milk - What It’s Worth
Miniature Tigers - Used to Be the Shit
Panama Wedding - Uma
Tomas Barfod - Pulsing (featuring Nina K)
Dawn Golden - All I Want
Blackbird Blackbird - Tangerine Sky
The Weeknd - Often
Vacationer - Paradise Waiting
Allman Brown - Ancient Light
Shy Girls - All for Show
OK Go - The Writing’s on the Wall
Bleachers - Rollercoaster
The Apache Relay - Katie Queen of Tennessee
Movement - Like Lust
Slow Magic - Girls
Cold War Kids - All This Could Be Yours
Glass Animals - Love Lockdown (Kanye West cover)
Sia - Dressed in Black
G-Eazy - I Mean It (featuring Remo & Rick Ross)
BROODS - Mother & Father
LANY - ILYSB
Busta Rhymes - Calm Down (featuring Eminem)
The Shins - So Now What
La Roux - Tropical Chancer
Caribou - Can’t Do Without You
Luke James - Options (featuring Rick Ross)
Shy Girls - All for Show
Porter Robinson - Lionhearted
BANKS - Drowning
Magic Man - Out of Mind
Kimbra - 90s Music
Rhodes - Morning
Buy the World - Mike Will Made It
Generationals - Gold Silver Diamond
Kirko Bangz - Rich (featuring August Alsina)
Rippy Austin - Never Say Never
Zhu - Paradise Awaits
Borgeous - Wildfire
FKA twigs - Two Weeks
Samo Sound Boy - Open
Racing Glaciers - Moths
Chrome Sparks - Meaning of Love
Vaults - Premonitions
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
We the Wild - Mercury
JUNGLE - Time
Alt-J - Left Hand Free
BANKS - Beggin for Thread