Sounds of Summer V4

This summer, Visible will be interviewing employees from across the organization on their musical tastes and preferences, and most importantly, the songs they’ll be listening to all summer long.

Visible Summer Playlist V4

In a series of interviews crafted by our resident music junkies, Jonny and Hunter, we’ll learn about what our team listens to while they work, and their musical guilty pleasures. Each person’s top 3 songs will be added to our very own Spotify Visible Summer Playlist. Check back each week for new additions.

This week, we’re spotlighting the founders of the Visible Summer Playlist: Jonny Kaufman, Head of Social, and Hunter Mathews, Senior Art Director, Visible.

Hunter:
Q: What are your top 3, cruising with the windows down, soaking in the sun, all-time-favorite songs of summer?

A:

Q: You’re stuck on a desert island that inexplicably allows you to listen to ONE album for the rest of your life…what is it?:
A: Wilco — Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Q: Best concert you’ve ever been to?
A: Built To Spill at Stubbs BBQ

Q: Do you have a go-to artist or genre you listen to while working?:
A: Classic jazz like Miles Davis, Coltrane, or Art Blakey

Q: No one is around and you can blare it as loud as you want without any judgement...what’s your musical guilty pleasure?:
A: Beyoncé’s Halo

Q: An older sibling introducing you to the next big thing, your cool best friend sharing back-issues of Rolling Stone, or a local radio DJ — who has most influenced your musical taste?:
A: All my friends and I in high school were in bands and would play shows out of our garage so it kinda spun out from there.

Q: Some of us practiced the moonwalk, dreamt of scorching guitars on fire, or running from screaming hoards of fans. If you could be any musician, who would it be?:
A: Jeff Tweedy

Jonny:
Q: What are your top 3, cruising with the windows down, soaking in the sun, all-time-favorite songs of summer?

A:

Q: You’re stuck on a desert island that inexplicably allows you to listen to ONE album for the rest of your life…what is it?:
A: Yellow & Green by Baroness

Q: Best concert you’ve ever been to?
A: Sharon Van Etten and the National at Red Rocks

Q: Do you have a go-to artist or genre you listen to while working?:
A: Anything rock that’s interesting and has a groove that calms my ADHD

Q: No one is around and you can blare it as loud as you want without any judgement…what’s your musical guilty pleasure?:
A: Atmospheric black metal, a la Deafheaven & Alcest

Q: An older sibling introducing you to the next big thing, your cool best friend sharing back-issues of Rolling Stone, or a local radio DJ — who has most influenced your musical taste?:
A: Myspace and Alternative Press magazine

Q: Some of us practiced the moonwalk, dreamt of scorching guitars on fire, or running from screaming hoards of fans. If you could be any musician, who would it be?:
A: Chuck Ragan. Give me a gruff voice, a fly rod, and a Martin guitar.

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