Songs on Tap
Music is universal. A soundtrack to life. Just like cryptids and craft beer. When I'm writing a story, I think about the music from that region and songs that match the vibe of the hunt. Each book gets its own curated playlist that captures the atmosphere, the tension, and the adventure.
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These playlists aren't just background noise. They're part of the experience. Whether it's bluesy garage rock for a Southern swamp encounter or haunting folk for a Northeastern forest investigation, the right soundtrack brings the story to life.
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Check out the playlists below, and if you think a song should be included, let me know on our Discord server. Music, myths, and malts. It all comes together.
Playlists
From the Books
Every cryptid hunt begins with a song
Each of these playlists can be found in the back of the books in the Field Notes section, complete with a QR code for easy access. Below, you'll find a brief introduction to each playlist and a direct link to listen.
You can also use the Spotify icon in the Follow Us section below to access all playlists on our company account.
The Chupacabra and the Bat Rastard
South Texas heat, neon barlights, and a hunt that starts with a pint and ends with something snarling in the dark.
San Antonio grit, Hill Country heat, and the sound of a busted jukebox humming through a roadside bar. This playlist captures the attitude of the hunt: boots on gravel, headlights on empty highways, country swagger, small-town stories, and the soundtrack of chasing a blood-drinking legend through South Texas.
Champ and a Bit of Sunshine
Folksy road-trip charm meets cryptid curiosity on the shores of Lake Champlain.
This mix blends indie wanderlust, retro energy, and coastal Americana perfect for long drives, small-town diners, and chasing something old beneath the waves.
Sunny, strange, and a little off-kilter. Just like the adventure.
The Red Ghost and a Chocolate Bunny
Red desert highways, neon-lit chaos, and an investigation that crackles with heat and danger.
The desert turns electric
in this high-octane playlist where outlaw folklore meets witch-punk swagger. Industrial beats, Latin rock grit, and dust-kicked metal channel the energy of a creature born from frontier myth and modern fear. It’s the soundtrack of a hot Arizona night where hooves thunder, legends breathe, and no one leaves the highway unchanged.
The Loveland Frog and a Narrow Path
By Moonlight and Riverwater: A Playful Haunting on the Narrow Path
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Beneath Ohio twilight, where river mist curls around old bridges and legends hop just out of view, this playlist walks the narrow path between absurdity and revelation. It mirrors the strange nights following Tegan’s death and resurrection, where the world felt familiar but tilted, stitched together with grief, hope, and something otherworldly blinking in the dark.
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Garage rock, alt-pop mischief, classic rock swagger, and tongue-in-cheek amphibian anthems echo the Loveland Frog’s chaotic charm. Humor blends with the cosmic as intergalactic frog energy collides with Tegan’s sharpened second-life clarity. Every track jumps between silliness and the sacred, between roadside weirdness and the quiet truth of coming back changed.
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It’s the sound of surviving the impossible, laughing in the dark, and following the ripples of something stranger than fate.
Tegan Stone and the Gibson County Beast
Forged in fire, reborn in shadow, and walking the line between the living and the mythic.
Tegan’s playlist is built for resurrection. Heavy riffs, dark anthems, Viking war-cries, and pulse-pounding metal track the moment she stepped back into the world changed. This soundtrack follows her through Tennessee backroads, storm-lit confrontations, and the awakening of abilities she never asked for but refuses to fear.
These songs match the fury of the Gibson County Beast, the quiet grief she carries, and the sharpened edge of the warrior she becomes. If Tegan had a battle hymn stitched from every version of herself, this would be it.
The Ringdocus and a Guy on a Buffalo
Dust, Hooves, and a Legend on the Loose
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A rodeo arena under a scorched Western sky, dirt lifting in spirals as something ancient barrels out of the chute. This playlist blends cowboy swagger, arena-fire riffs, outlaw country, and backroad anthems into the soundtrack of a hunt that feels half-myth, half-stampede. It rides alongside a lone buffalo rider and the Ringdocus that shadows him, kicking up dust across open country where folklore refuses to stay buried.
Into the Dark with the Maryland Goatman
Where the Beltway hum turns to a warning and the shadows under the overpasses start to breathe.
This playlist steps into the underbelly of Maryland and D.C., where urban myth collides with failed government experiments and something horned watches from the treeline. It blends industrial grit, East Coast swagger, metal pulse, and late-night paranoia into a soundtrack built for tunnels, abandoned labs, and backroads that were never meant to be on the map. Every beat drags you deeper into the conspiracy, where the Goatman stalks the margins and truth is just another thing buried under concrete.
Kareem Ortiz and the Menehune of Kaua'i
Island Rhythms and Ancestral Echoes
Island soul with mystical undercurrents. Smooth R&B grooves, tropical rhythms, Latin heat, and Hawaiian harmonies drift through KauaÊ»i’s lush valleys where Menehune magic moves in the bamboo shadows. Every track hums with the blend that defines Kareem Ortiz: gentle heart, steady courage, and a destiny shaped by ancient spirits and modern storms. This is the soundtrack of a healer who becomes a hero, carried by trade winds, drumbeats, and the quiet power of the island that raised him.
The Jersey Devil and the Silky Intergalatic Pajamas
Where dark pines meet intergalactic chaos
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New Jersey backroads, boardwalk neon, and the Pine Barrens breathing something ancient into the night. This playlist blends cosmic weirdness with Jersey attitude: crunchy guitars, reckless swagger, mythical edge, and a dash of UFO-era paranoia. It captures the moment the T.I.M.E. team steps onto cursed soil where hooves thunder above the treeline, the sky hums with something not of this world, and the legend of Azraelion begins to stir awake.
The Lizard Man of Lee County and the Sope Creek Cryptidweizen
Swamp-born beats in the moonlit heat
Southern Gothic hip-hop prowls through this playlist with the weight of something scaled moving just out of sight. Heavy bass, humid night rhythms, and Lowcountry swagger echo the tension of Lee County backroads where rumors breathe and Scape Ore Swamp never sleeps. It is the soundtrack of a hunt through mud, shadow, and folklore, where every chorus feels like a creature rising from the dark to remind you the legend is real.
BONUS: Lizard Man: Dirth South Dispatch
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Dirty South heat, basslines that shake the pavement, and the swagger of a city that invented its own orbit.
This bonus playlist that does not appear in the books. But it is a favorite genre of mine, the birth period of Vanilla Heat, and it rides straight through Atlanta’s golden era of crunk, snap, and Southern bounce. Heavy 808s, chant-along hooks, and club anthems thump like headlights cutting through humid night air. It’s the soundtrack of backroads and block parties, where the beat is law and every corner has a legend. Perfect for the Lizard Man’s off-the-books dispatch, or anyone who knows the South doesn’t just make music. It moves it.