200 Festive Songs for Your Holiday Profiles
2013-12-14
It’s holiday playlist time and the 2013 list is edited and better than ever!Read more…
180 Songs for Your Thanksgiving Playlist
2013-11-18
The Thanksgiving Song Playlist has been updated with 24 new songs, for a total of 180 songs about gratitude, food, Black Friday, and family. You’ll surely find some entertaining tracks to liven up your turkey day ride.Read more…
ICA Member Shares Hounds of Halloween SoundCloud Playlist
2013-10-30
ICA member Ramiro Morejon is so excited to teach Christine’s Hounds of Halloween profile tomorrow. He’s been working hard on mixing the playlist and wanted to share it with you. He left this comment on the post: I just finished mixing the music for this ride. I am a fanRead more…
Over 300 Halloween Songs and Albums!
2013-10-22
This year I’ve got over 300 great Halloween songs and albums. If you’re a new member this is an invaluable resource. If you have last year’s list, it’s been updated with over 50 additional songs and 8 albums for your Halloween pleasure. You can teach dozens of classes this weekRead more…
85 Tracks For Your Back-to-School and Labor Day Playlists
2013-08-29
Yes, it’s that time of the year: Labor Day and Back to School! Here are a total of 85 songs you can use in your end-of-summer themed playlists.Read more…
Free Music!
2013-08-23
Special thanks to ICA member Davide Camerini for sending me this free music download. It’s an album called Ethnoscapes and has eight downtempo tracks.Read more…
The Sounds of Summer
2013-06-17
Next week is the summer solstice. It might be time to put together a fun playlist of songs that reflect the joy and happiness that summer brings. Here is a playlist of 81 songs that you can choose from. I recommend an intervals class! Read more…
Christian Music: Should You Play it in Your Indoor Cycling Class
2013-05-24
Bill Roach has had students request Christian music for his playlists, and Jennifer Sage has had instructors who have requested Christian music suggestions for ICA. Have you had these requests from your students? What have you done? Bill gives you some ideas for how to approach this kind of request, with input from Jennifer Sage, Gene Nacey, and Tom Scotto. We provide you with some song suggestions from this genre, and welcome all of your own. Please give us your input on this potentially touchy subject!Read more…
Saint Patrick’s Day Song List 2013
2013-03-09
A few additions to last year’s Saint Paddy’s Day playlist. Many thanks to Brian Greene for rounding out this entertaining song list!Read more…
Free Legal Electronic Music
2013-02-19
I know it’s not Friday Favorites or Wednesday Classics day, but here’s some free music anyway! In May of 2011 I wrote about a great free legal downloading source for electronic music (trance, psy-tran, downtempo, etc.). I want to remind members about this site, but because there is so much music it can be a little overwhelming to search through it, so here’s a tip about a group I just discovered. Many of these songs are excellent for fast flat cadence work, in the 90–100 bpm/rpm range. Perfect for endurance and mind-body classes!Read more…