Sharon Van Etten on three songs to stream to help artists affected by the L.A. fires

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For The FADER's Mini Tapes series, we typically ask artists to come-up with short playlists for things like soundtracking a spa day, eating your lunch, or texting your crush.

Today, Sharon Van Etten participates in the series with an especially timely one: a playlist dedicated to three artists that have been affected by the on-going Los Angeles wildfires.

Since January 7, over 12,000 homes, businesses, and structures in the L.A. area have been destroyed by the fires and thousands more people and families displaced, with a significant fraction of that being artists and musicians.

Fat Tony, Emily Elbert, and Maxim Ludwig are three musicians among those who've been directly impacted by the crisis, and they are whom Van Etten dedicates her Mini Tapes playlist to today, in the hopes of shining "a light on artists you may not know," she tells The FADER.