I made my first-ever summer playlist for you guys to download. For those of you that download this, I want you to put this on at some point and just go for a drive or go for a walk and soak up the mood of these songs. Here’s the order I had it in:

1. That’s Some Dream - Good Old War
2. Pretty Girls Make Raves - Young Statues
3. Who Knows Who Cares - Local Natives
4. Having It All - Vacationer
5. The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
6. I’m Not Crying. You’re Not Crying, Are You? - Dear and the Headlights
7. The Sound Of Settling - Death Cab for Cutie
8. 1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
9. OK - Person L
10. As Tall As Cliffs - Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s

For those of you followers of mine (and anyone else that sees this) that have been trying to get into Weatherbox and don’t really know where to start or haven’t really liked what you’ve heard so far, I put together a little playlist that has a big range of their music to help. You can download it here. I put it in order from the softest stuff to the heaviest so you can start wherever you want. Give the whole thing two or three listens and I’m sure it will all grow on you if you don’t like it immediately. Here’s the order:

1. Brian Wins Again
2. Untitled
3. YouTube The Clouds (Anything That Flies)
4. Cowboy Mountain
5. Is Nice
6. Don’t Say Nice Things
7. Kickflips For Weeks
8. Heavy Map
9. Broken Glowsticks
10. Secret Muslim
11. Mindthings To W.A.S.T.E.
12. Trippin’ the Life Fantastic
13. Moments Before the Smashing of Future Ryan
14. The Thinnest Of Maps

I have a new playlist for those of you who are interested which you can download here. Put it in this order for the best listening experience:

1. Sasha - Turnover
2. At Dawn We Left - Prawn
3. Porch Luck - Hightide Hotel
4. I Will Be Okay. Everything. - The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die
5. The Worst Things Happen To Me - Brave Bird
6. Sunshine - Person L
7. Can’t Go Home - Good Old War
8. Lucie, Too - Now, Now
9. Pacing the Cage - Paper Rival
10. Everyone Knows - Vacationer
11. To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

I made a new playlist for you all to download. I haven’t done this in quite a while, but this one is really, really great. For the best listening experience, order the songs like this:

1. Chilsen - Castevet
2. OK - Person L
3. Where Your Nights Often End - Into It. Over It.
4. Earl Grey - Basement
5. Highway 85 - Strange Vacation
6. Impressions & Impressing People - Stay Ahead Of The Weather
7. 1978 - Transit
8. Coffee And Keys - Deer Leap
9. Kickflips For Weeks - Weatherbox
10. My Friends - All Get Out
11. I’ll Get By - Pianos Become The Teeth

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This is a link to these two “albums”. The covers one has 6 songs from YouTube as well as a cover of You Be The Anchor that I did several months ago. The demos one has my 2 original songs from YouTube and a demo I recorded in an actual studio a year ago last December called From Here To Where You Sleep. Feel free to download this and pass it along to everyone else. Please and thank you muchly.

I made a new playlist for Dani and it’s the greatest thing ever so you should all download it.

1. Generator ^ First Floor - Freelance Whales
2. Holidaze - Mansions
3. Don’t Go Slow - Benjamin Francis Leftwich
4. We Trusted Everything Enough - Young Statues
5. Legit Tattoo Gun - The Front Bottoms
6. Where Your Nights Often End - Into It. Over It.
7. Two Notes And A Beat - The Lonely Forest
8. No Sound For You - Marksmen
9. The Season - All Get Out
10. What We Had - Harvard
11. Why I’m Not Where You Are - The American Scene
12. I’m Sorry (John Denver cover) - Red House Painters

My albums of the year with honorable mentions, as well as a playlist with a song from each. Download the playlist here.

1. Proper - Into It. Over It. | Where Your Nights Often End
2. Young Statues - Young Statues | We Trusted Everything Enough
3. Something Left Behind - Transit | Something Left Behind
4. Waves - Moving Mountains | Furnace Woods (acoustic)
5. War Paint - The Dangerous Summer | In My Room
6. The Sun Will Rise And Lead Me Home - Gates | In The Morning
7. Arrows - The Lonely Forest | Be Everything
8. Dig Up The Dead - Mansions | Close That Door
9. The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms | Legit Tattoo Gun
10. By Way Of Introduction - The American Scene | A Million Minutes In The Making

Honorable Mentions:

• Record Machine - Sissy Mena | Soon Speeding Gear
• Young States - Citizen | Right Through 

I have a new playlist for you guys of stuff I’ve been listening to a ton lately. The full albums of these songs can be found and downloaded here. Here’s the order and why some of them are relevant to my life right now:

• The Frames That Used To Greet Me - Into It. Over It. “Your eyes seem to observe my room so neatly behind the frames that used to greet me. Tonight they tell me that you never sleep too soundly, and that you might have even missed me more times than you could count.”
• Losing A Friend - Young Statues “I know I’m losing a friend, and I can’t help it.”
• Upper Deck San Diego - Joie De Vivre
• Goodbyes - Mat Kerekes (of Citizen) “If it were up to me, I wouldn’t be hopelessly out of reach saying all my goodbyes.”
• Blood - The Middle East
• We Could Be Friends - Freelance Whales “I am convinced that we could be friends. We have several interests in common.”
• An End Weight - Harvard “I’ve got you like a tattoo on my body.”
• Let Me Go - All Get Out “If you’re not with me then hell, I’m not fine…Don’t let me go.”
• Seven Years (acoustic) - Mansions “It’s me and me and me and me alone.”

Post-Rock Mix

How To Make Love Stay - Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate)

Walls - Gates

The Death Of Paradigm - If These Trees Could Talk

Fight Song - The Appleseed Cast

I Am Withdrawal - Athletics

Glosoli - Sigur Ros

The Cascade - Moving Mountains

Story Board - The Album Leaf

Ode We Will Bury Ourselves - Moving Mountains

This is a playlist that I have compiled recently of songs that kind of pull at your heart and tug at your stomach when you hear them. There’s just a certain sound in the music that makes you feel more when you’re listening to them than anything else and you’ll know you’re alive. I encourage you to download it and share it with your closest friends.

• As Tall As Lions - I’m Kicking Myself
• The Early November - Ever So Sweet
• DeYarmond Edison - Silent Signs
• Transit - Something Left Behind
• Dear and the Headlights - Run In The Front
• Max Bemis and The Painful Splits - Lowman
• Red House Painters - Have You Forgotten
• American Football - Never Meant
• Lydia - It’s In Your Blood
• The Format - On Your Porch
• Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s - Jen Is Bringing The Drugs
• The Weeks - Sailor Song

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I just made a new playlist that you all need to download. Well, if you want.

1. Ghost of York - As Tall As Lions
2. Buttons - The Weeks
3. Of A Broken Heart - Zwan
4. I Still Remember - Bloc Party
5. Overture - Patrick Wolf
6. A Vague Ambition - Gates
7. PDA - Interpol
8. Silent Signs - DeYarmond Edison
9. Born Again - Badly Drawn Boy
10. Wake Up Kid - The Crash Engine
11. Grace - Dear and the Headlights
12. Newerwaves - Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
13. Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco
14. Young Girl - Sissy Mena (bonus song. it’s my brother’s band)

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