15 Aug Matador Playlist 8/13/26

Heat, smoke, opera, Indian Market, scarcely a drop of rain, barely a place to park—yes, it’s August in Santa Fe, Gentle Reader(s). Add Ye Olde Matador Bar & Lounge to the mix and it’s quite the uniquely Tierra del Encantado combo. Well, less smoke and more rain would be preferable but we all gots to work with what we have at hand. At current hand, it’s another Thursday night deep beneath Galisteo Street and DJ Inky is once again back in his crepuscular hidey hole, hidden behind fans, blowers, blown woofers, twitchy tweeters, pints of ale, computers, mixers, cables… Through the Frijoles Fire haze and high season hullabaloo duty’s clarion call is sounded and to the Matador I must go. Your exclusive playlist is enumerated below—as always, click your clicky clicker right HERE to access the YouTube-ish iteration thereof. For Ivy, wheresoever she may be—this one’s for you.

Matador Playlist 8/13//26

Grammar of Life – Charles Bukowski
Sophisticated Boom Boom – Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds
Sunglasses After Dark – the Cramps
The Look of Love, Pt. 1 – ABC
Phone Bill Song – Hole
3’s and 7’s – Queens of the Stone Age
Little Green Bag – George Baker Selection
Cool Scene – the Dandy Warhols
Afrika Shox – Leftfield feat. Afrika Bambaataa (request)
Army of Me – Bjork
Clean Escape (The Crew Is Here) – Bill Laswell & Roots Tonic (request)
Give Up the Funk – Parliament
This Is Radio Clash – the Clash
Outside – David Bowie
Can I Get A Witness – Marvin Gaye
Tell Her No – the Zombies (request)
Long Snake Moan – PJ Harvey
Nail In My Coffin – the Kills
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You – Led Zeppelin
I Want You So Hard (Boys Bad News) – Eagles of Death Metal
Your Generation – Generation X
Live Wire – the Meters
Guns of Brixton – the Clash (request)
It’s O.K. – Dead Moon
Friend of Mine – the National
Psychotic Reaction – Count Five
Media Blitz – the Germs
Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
Kneebending – Cowboy
Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
A History of Bad Men – the Melvins
In The Street Today – the Jam
New Pony – the Dead Weather
I’m In Love (Mason’s Glowsticks Mix) – Moby
Harper Valley PTA – Jeannie C. Riley
Freak Scene – Dinosaur Jr.
Come and Get Your Love – Redbone (request)
What Do I Get? – Buzzcocks
Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
Looking for a Kiss – New York Dolls
Rockin the Rez – John Trudell
Barabajagal – Donovan + the Jeff Beck Group
Whole New Way – the Horrors
Ballad of a Teenage Queen – Johnny Cash
Paranoid – Black Sabbath
Smoke My Peace Pipe – the Wild Magnolias
Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) – the Neville Brothers
Ça Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand
Back In Your Arms Again – the Mavericks
Streets of Bakersfield – Dwight Yoakam
Sexy Muthafucka – Prince
Ooh Las Vegas – Gram Parsons
Coma Girl – Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Bad Indian – the Gun Club
Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
96 Tears – ? & the Mysterians
Cumbia Sampuesana – Aniceto Molina
Honky Tonk Women – the Rolling Stones
Auliando – Wisin & Yandel & Romeo Santos
(Hey Baby) Que Paso – Texas Tornados
Gimme Sympathy – Metric
Catarino y Los Rurales – Banda Limon
Double Flash – Leftfield
La Bamba – Richie Valens
Living in America – James Brown
Si Antes Te Huberia Conocido – Karol G
Cut Your Hair – Pavement
Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauryn Hill
Angry Chair – Alice In Chains (request)
Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chili Peppers (request)
Aneurysm – Nirvana
Stir Fry – Migos
Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill (request)
Where Eagles Dare – the Misfits
Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 2 – the Isley Brothers
Come On, Let’s Go – Girl In A Coma
California – Low
Bomber – Motörhead
Who’ll Be the Next in Line – the Kinks
The Passenger – Iggy Pop
World Without Tears – Lucinda Williams
Buona Sera – Louis Prima
Happy Trails – Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
Taxi – Bryan Ferry