Moods: Mellow

This playlist features mellow indie tunes that provide the perfect soundtrack for working, studying, or just plain old relaxing.

Not all electro acts aim for the dance floor. Explore the low-key, laid-back side of the style though these well-known names and under-the-radar indie acts.

Whether you're lounging in a hammock or soaking up rays on a summer afternoon, this eclectic mix will help you reach your full potential for relaxation.

Get a taste of Jamaica with these sun-kissed reggae jams.

Indie R&B (a.k.a. PBR&B) combines dreamy, synth-based indie music with contemporary R&B beats. The soothing, warm qualities of this new sound are influencing underground and mainstream artists alike.

This playlist of electro-tinged pop songs is perfect for long, relaxing nights in your bedroom. By yourself, or with someone special, listen to this until the sun rises.

This playlist of mostly acoustic, guitar-based songs is perfect for long, relaxing nights in your bedroom. By yourself, or with someone special, listen to this until the sun rises.

The world comes together when chill beats meet international rhythms. Songs for cocktail or coffee hour, or just for grooving to the global beat.

Tie a sweater around your neck and set sail for the high seas with these smoother than smooth yacht rock classics.

It's easier than ever to lose it these days, so here's a little music therapy from the '70s. Enjoy these songs of comfort, joy, and common sense from the "Me" generation.

Listen to the breeziest lite rock songs of the '70s.

This playlist is the cure to a long, hard day at work; real music that's really relaxing.

This playlist features comforting folk songs from the '60s to today, replete with warm acoustic guitars and soothing vocal harmonies.

Starting in the late 1940s, a new, more cerebral and mellower response to bebop became one of the dominant strains in jazz. Enjoy the birth, maturation and continuation of cool jazz, with an emphasis on ballads.

Life can't all be thrash. Enjoy the more relaxed side of post-2000 pop-punk artists, with slower tempos and acoustic guitars for those mellow moments.

If it's raining outside, you should be listening to this.

Jazz on the light and easy side, spanning the decades with plenty of mellow R&B flourishes.

Eclectic sounds from the African continent, from afrobeat, highlife and juju to desert blues and Ethio-jazz.

Some call it chillwave, others call it glo-fi; Pitchfork calls it "synth-based, homemade-sounding, 80s-referencing, cassette-oriented, sun-baked, laid-back, warped, hazy, emotionally distant, and slightly out of focus."

Put on your slippers, wrap yourself in a blanket, and get cozy by the fire.

Originating in the 1950s, bossa nova (Portugese for "new trend") combined harmonies and rhythms from American jazz with Brazilian samba. Now these songs have become standard jazz repertoire.

Developed by John Fahey and artists on his Takoma Records label, this finger-picking style of guitar playing combines country and blues techniques with neo-classical composition.

Hazy, soothing pop songs that'll make you feel like you're having the best dream ever.

Your Sunday mornings need a soundtrack. This is music for taking it easy with a newspaper and a big cup of coffee.

Folk rock was born when bands started using rock instrumentation to play traditional folk music in the 1960s. These are the songs that defined this important development in popular music history.

Afro-Portuguese music combines the sorrowful vocals and delicate guitar work of Portuguese fado music with the upbeat rhythms of Angolan pop. This playlist will transport you to a grey morning on Cape Verde, watching the fishermen pull into dock.

Since the late 1950s, bossa nova has entranced listeners around the world. Enjoy over five decades' worth of music from Brazil and beyond, all influenced by the languid sensuality that began on Ipanema beach.

Classic Jamaican reggae songs, plus newer songs from reggae artists in the U.K., U.S. and Africa.

Who loves the reefer? Throughout the history of hip-hop, rappers have extolled the virtues of weed. Dig.

Drawing on influences from traditional folk, psychedelia, and tropicalia, freak folk was born out of the "New Weird America" cultural movement in the mid-2000s that inspired a new generation of hippies and expanded the definition of folk music.

Turn any old room into a trendy cocktail lounge with this jet-setting collection of swank, laid-back grooves.

Organic and electronic sounds are far from mutually exclusive in this eclectic set that ranges from Kraftwerk to Bon Iver and mixes the natural and synthetic to mesmerizing effect.

In 1963, Bob Marley and childhood friend Peter Tosh decided to form a reggae band called The Teenagers, a band that would later become The Wailers. Here are the best songs from The Wailers, their influences and members' solo careers.

Over three decades after his death, singers around the world still pay tribute to reggae's most influential singer-songwriter, the great Bob Marley.

Recently popularized by the movie "The Descendants," Hawaiian folk is a soothing style of acoustic folk music featuring slack-key guitar, ukulele, and warm vocal harmonies. Say aloha to traditional Hawaiian folk's best artists, both past and present.

The islands call with this mix of hip-swaying Hawaiian classics, contemporary singers, and tunes for ukelele or slack-key guitar for that luau state of mind.

Sleek, sophisticated, lushly arranged records full of artful elegance -- from idiosyncratic alt-pop to moody art rock and cool, classy balladry.

Kick back on a Sunday morning to let the cares of the week -- or the dust you kicked up on Saturday night -- blow easily by in the breeze. Here's some easy-rolling tracks to set the mellow mood for a "no sudden moves" sort of Sunday.

Ever find yourself gently swaying in your booth at your favorite neighborhood coffee shop? One of these easygoing, acoustic-centered tunes may have been why.

Hawaiian steel guitar classics from the 1920s through the early 1940s.

A disturbed sibling of traditional folk ballads, murder ballads detail the motivation, execution, and aftermath of killings.

What if you could listen to Bob Dylan's record collection? This is probably the closest you'll ever get. All songs taken from Dylan's XM radio show, "Theme Time Radio Hour." (Also, this station is a work in progress.)

Classic roots reggae from the 1970s: Rasta, repatriation, and reefer.

British reggae for lovers, along with its romantic Jamaican predecessors. Share it with someone you fancy.

In the early 1970s, the confluence of roots reggae and studio technology spawned the uniquely Jamaican art of the remix known as dub, in which the producer or engineer is the star of the show.

Everyone with a soft spot for singer/songwriters knows their Troubadour History 101, filled with songsmiths from previous generations, but here's where you'll find the best of the current crop of artists committed to the crafting of thoughtful tunes.

These are the women who wander freely through the worlds of folk, country, bluegrass, and other Americana styles, stirring up a sound that evokes an evening spent watching the sun go down on a rural back porch.

Enjoy these all (or predominantly) acoustic, unplugged songs with a distinctly wintry feel. Imagine yourself snowed in the house on a winter day, sitting by the fireplace with little to do but reflect.

Go deeper into the chilly beauty, imagination and melancholy that's at the heart of Justin Vernon's music. Explore his influences, contemporaries and several of the artists Vernon (aka Bon Iver) has collaborated with.

A Julliard-trained pianist, Nina Simone was as comfortable with Broadway standards as she was with African polyrhythmic rave-ups. Here are the best songs from her influences and contemporaries, as well as the songs she covered with her unmistakable voice. Request songs at http://on.fb.me/NinaSongza