Coffee cups and rain falling from the ceiling | 2/18 playlist

Song of the week: "Darling" by MAX. I featured MAX in my "artists to watch in 2015" article I wrote for Examiner and he's a featured artist to watch on The Blaze's music blog, COTMA. According to Pete Wentz's not-so subtle hints he's been dropping on Twitter for the past week, he's also the latest addition to DCD2 Records, home of literally every single one of my favorite bands, including Panic! At The Disco, LOLO, New Politics, Cobra Starship and of course, Fall Out Boy. So happy that one of my favorite new solo artists found a home with all of my all time favorite musicians.

As per usual, my DJ shift was earlier today, and I played a pretty solid playlist today. Check it out here and view all of the tracks below!

• "Video Girl" - FKA twigs
• "Step" - Vampire Weekend
• "Killing Me" - decker.
• "Riptide" - Vance Joy
• "Stardust" - Neon Tiger
• "Love You Much Better" - The Hush Sound
• "Identify" - The Maine
• "High" - Young Rising Sons
• "You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away" - The Beatles
• "Boyfriend" - Best Coast
• "Sex On The Regular" - Miniature Tigers
• "I Wanna Get Better" - Bleachers
• "Cecilia And The Satellite" - Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
• "Dreaming" - Smallpools
• "Shut Up and Dance" - Walk The Moon

This time last year, I was pretty clueless when it came to local music except for a few bands here and there, but now I've expanded my horizons and learned about so many local bands and even befriended a few, which is super rad.

Coming up on one year (tomorrow, actually) marks the first time I ever interviewed a band. That's also the last time I interviewed a band... haha. But luckily for me, I have the opportunity along with DJ Kaley K to interview John O'Callaghan from The Maine next month. Super stoked on that, plus some other interview opportunities may pop up around then, but we'll see!

This week's been pretty solid so far. The only thing that'll make it better is seeing Panic! At The Disco from the barricade again, like the past two times. Here's to hoping!

And in honor of seeing the lovely men of Panic! on Friday, I'm signing off this post with the piano version of "This Is Gospel." My favorite part about this entire video is that Brendon told them to throw whatever they wanted on him, so they literally threw whatever they wanted. Beautiful.

-Deanna