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Viva Amoeba!
When is the last time you walked into a record store? For me, it's been uhh whiiile. Back in the day I used to go to Sam Goody, CD Source, and my local record stores and spend hours just touching, looking and listening to great music, but since the way we consume...

DNA Relative Profile: Meet Neville!
Here's a brand spanking new DNA relative profile from Neville, a change management professional in DC, great artist and my 5th cousin according to DNA ancestry! Read below to learn more about Neville (pictured below with his fiancé.) TELL ME ABOUT YOU! My name is...

Let’s Make a Mixtape!
One of the things I enjoyed most about creating the Universal DNA playlist was collecting the songs. It reminded me of (prepare to listen to me sound really old) back in the day when friends would make each other mixtapes just because. The deliberateness of choosing...

DNA Relative Profile: Meet Kerri-Leigh!
Kerri-Leigh and I are 5th cousins and her contribution to the DNA playlist was Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me.” Kerri is pretty bad-ass—and I’m not just saying that because we share DNA, or because I'm obsessed with all things 80s and her look in the picture is...

It’s Alive!
Welcome to Universal DNA Playlist — a site that’s been more than a year in the making. I’m excited to finally share it with the public, but I’m most excited to finally share it with the amazing strangers (my DNA relatives) who got a random message requesting their...