Just when the music on your ipod was getting a little moldy... Stereogum comes to the rescue!
You can get on the website and download two "mix tapes" of sorts.. Cruel Summer Volume 1 & 2. Totally free and totally awesome. (The reference to the 80's song is bringing out my inner-valley girl)
Go HERE and download for yourself, then jam!
Take a look at the playlists:
Volume1
01 DOM – “Living In America”
02 Cloud Nothings – “Didn’t You”
03 Restless People – “Days Of Our Lives”
04 Lemonade – “Lifted (Le Chev Remix)”
05 Japandroids – “Younger Us”
06 Sleigh Bells – “Tell ‘Em”
07 Toro Y Moi – “Leave Everywhere”
08 Cults – “Go Outside”
09 ceo – “Come With Me”
10 BRAHMS – “Brought It Out”
11 Buke & Gass – “Medulla Oblongata”
12 The Acorn – “No Ghost”
Volume 2
13 HEALTH – “USA Boys”
14 Dominique Young Unique – “Show My Ass”
15 Chromeo – “Don’t Turn The Lights On”
16 Javelin – “Oh! Centra”
17 Robyn – “Dancing On My Own (Buraka Son Sistema Remix)”
18 Best Coast – “Boyfriend”
19 Blonde Redhead – “Here Sometimes”
20 Male Bonding – “Franklin”
21 Mr. Dream – “Scarred For Life”
22 Twin Sister – “All Around And Away We Go”
23 Washed Out (Feat. Caroline Polachek) – “You And I”
24 MNDR – “I Go Away”
25 Baths – “Hall”
26 Magic Kids – “Summer”
27 ARP – “Summer Girl”
And because it's sadly omitted on the list, but it's now in your head--here's Bananarama's Cruel Summer.
They are rocking the overalls.
