If we are all the dead conversing with the dead, I like to think the language we use to bridge the space between us is called music.

Songs for the Elegy Issue (A Selection)

A series of songs chosen by Issue X’s contributors, a mix to light up all that desperate quiet & sing the grief alive.

A selection of songs that have marked this era of fluid warmth, the soundtrack to which we’ve been dreaming a bright new thing into breath.

This is the final season of Half Mystic Radio. As we wrap up the series, we want to celebrate this magnificent thing we made with you.

From the Editor: The Sforzando Issue

Nothing in this place has ever been abandoned. If we sound desperate, that’s only because we know what our hands can do.

Thank you for teaching us the grace of sandpaper, the razor-kiss of wreckage, staccato-sharp skeleton strung up to a 4/4 time signature.

Songs for the Sforzando Issue (a selection)

The songs our team has been spinning as we work to curate your—& our own—burning & cracking & aching into something beautiful for you.

What a space we made for ourselves last night—& when I say space I hope you hear salvation. You’re the best love we know, dear songbirds.

From the Editor: the Aubade Issue

My first memory is the most beautiful song I ever heard. An act of peace. An intake of breath. A space suffused with hymn.

The aubade reading period was one of our busiest yet, with hundreds of submissions reimagining dawn in tender, intricate ways.