Albums That Feel Like Summer

 Figured I'd throw down this list of the LPs that conjure images of the sun, of dancing, of joyous nostalgia, of neon cityscapes -- all the funnest memories of summertime. I may add to this list over time, I may not.

1. The Cars - First Album

2. Billy Squier - Don't Say No

3. Two Door Cinema Club - First Album

4. Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil

5. ZZ Top - Eliminator

6. Beach Boys - All Summer Long

7. Chuck Berry - After School Sessions

8. The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike

9. Aerosmith - Rocks

10. Pixies - Dolittle

11. Franz Ferdinand - First Album

12. The Pretenders - First Album

13. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

14. Fang Island - First Album

15. Beck - Odelay

16. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

17. The Strokes - Is This It

18. Friendly Fires - Pala

19. STRFKR - Reptilians

20. Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light

Summer Indie Music Playlist 2020

 My hope is one day there will be universal free healthcare, so all the indie kids who are fixated on their heartbreaks will finally get the mood stabilizers they need, and we can start hearing happy uptempo songs again. In the meantime, I'll keep sifting through 2000+ dismal slow funeral dirges to bring you the little nuggets of glory you'll find on this list.

Here's the Spotify link to the playlist. Blogger changed something about how HTML reads, so I can't seem to embed to code anymore. Because the motto of the internet is "If ain't broke, break it".

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VbQwM6gqs5jm971m0ZIVT?si=0iBWkX90Swu6SZHPBVyC2g

1. Bananagun -- She Now

2. Caroline Rose -- Feel The Way I Want

3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever -- Falling Thunder

4. Kate Von Schleicher -- Wheel

5. Thundercat -- Funny Thing

6. Kiwi Jr. -- Leslie

7. Phoebe Bridgers -- Kyoto

8. Poolside w/ Ben Browning -- I Feel High

9. Tennis -- Need Your Love

10. Neil Francis -- Better Way

11. Sorry -- Perfect

12. Jackie Lynn -- Diamond Glue

13. Catholic Action -- Witness

14. Wild Nothing -- Sleight Of Hand

15. Hinds -- Burn

16. Cornershop -- No Rock Save In Roll

17. GUM -- Airwalkin'

18. HAIM -- Up From A Dream

19. Nation Of Language -- On Division St.

20. Melkbelly -- Season Of The Goose

21. Tim Burgess -- I Got This

22. Boniface -- Oh My God

23. I Break Horses -- I'll Be The Death Of You

24. Rose City Band -- Morning Light

25. The James Hunter Six -- Nick Of Time

Summer Indie Music Playlist 2019

Did I really forget to post this last year? Chalk it up to the difficulty of finding upbeat, happy music from indie artists. Most of them traffic in navel-gazing heartbreak and slow beats, or post-punk anger.

Oh well, I'm here to cheer you up, if you can turn that sad shit off for an hour.

I'm not doing YouTube playlists anymore. Below is the written playlist, and here's the Spotify link:




 1. Ex Hex -- Cosmic Cave
2. Two Door Cinema Club -- Talk
3. Sunflower Bean -- Come For Me
4. Deerhunter -- Plains
5. Mattiel -- Heck Fire
6. Vacations -- On Your Own
7. Lizzo -- Juice
8. Tame Impala -- Patience
9. Frankie Cosmos -- Windows
10. Wild Nothing -- Blue Wings
11. SOAK -- Knock Me Off My Feet
12. The Black Keys -- Go
13. Billie Eilish -- Bad Guy
14. The Raconteurs -- Sunday Driver
15. Sloan Peterson -- Here
16. Yeasayer - Fluttering In The Floodlights
17. Nilufer Yanya -- In Your Head
18. Vinyl Williams -- None With Other
19. Empath -- Soft Shape
20. Stephen Malkmus -- Rushing The Acid Frat
21. Mattiel -- Je Ne Me Connais Pas
22. Broken Social Scene -- Remember Me Young
23. Jay Som -- Superbike
24. The New Pornographers -- Dreamlike And On The Rush
25. Argonaut & Wasp -- Composure
26. Daniel Norgren -- Let Love Run The Game

My Favorite Movies Of 2019

Don’t know why it took me so long to get to this:

1. JoJo Rabbit
2. Booksmart
3. Parasite
4. 1917
5. Joker
6. Prospect
7. Sisters Brothers
8. Peanut Butter Falcon
9. Dr. Sleep
10. Fighting With My Family
11. Us
12. Always Be My Maybe
13. John Wick 3
14. Crawl
15. Long Shot
16. Ford vs Ferrari
17. The Two Popes
18. Midsommar
19. Dolemite Is My Name
20. I Am Mother
21. Rocketman
22. Hole In The Ground
23. Irishman
24. Cats (if you’re drunk and heckling it)