songs of the summer

Back when I was just a pretty young thing growing up on the mean streets of suburban Cleveland, like most kids, I couldn’t wait for summer to come.

It’s tempting to say that Jenny Lewis’ song “Just One of the Guys” is to outdoor festival sing-alongs as Friday the 13th is to horny summer...

I freakin' love summer. I love that you can just wear basically nothing and don't have to put on a coat and, like, five million other things that...

It’s just before sunrise. Hours in, I feel I have given all I can, the battle is slipping through my fingers. I reach for my phone, I call in...

I’m not sure I believe in summer songs. Summer is my least favorite season. I grew up in Minnesota where it’s mostly cold. I can deal with cold.

I was in seventh grade, and I was a future burnout kid riding BMX bikes with my best friends. We lived somewhere between nowhere and somewhere else.

Kirin J. Callinan’s “Embracism” isn’t my song of the summer yet, but it will be. This song, this lurching life-dirge of Frank Tovey covering...

The western Massachusetts band Speedy Ortiz's “No Below” is a strange summer hit. It’s a song about hitting rock bottom, about literally looking...

Before I explain why I’m talking about this song and not “Get Lucky,” I’m going to cough up two kinda obvious points about the Daft Punk album as...

My band was on tour somewhere in America. I can’t remember where because that’s what touring does to you. Our guitarist had ripped the latest Kurt...