Mixtape Monday: Wide-Eyed and Brilliant
Ride – Vapour Trail
The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends
The Beta Band – Dry the Rain
Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
Blonde Redhead – 23
Galaxie 500 – Ceremony
Radiohead – House of Cards
Suzanne Vega, DNA – Tom’s Diner
Slowdive – When the Sun Hits
Catherine Wheel – Black Metallic
The Ocean Blue – Ballerina Out of Control
The Black Ryder – Santeria
The Raveonettes – War in Heaven
Sonic Youth – Teen Age Riot
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
The Smiths – Oscillate Wildly
Wide-Eyed and Brilliant is a collection of dream-pop, shoegaze-y tunes to turn to when life is moving a little too fast for you.
Samantha Lopez: small town Oregon to Austin, Texas. Music journalist and Creative Writer. Feeling things a little too much since 1994.

