We’re in it now. It’s July and it’s HOT and I’ve blown my fuses twice already. That’s what I get for making toast with the A/C on. Try not to lose power when cranking this one, though volume should definitely be set to Very Loud. Cover art this week is by Mazing Vids co-conspirator and genius tie-maker Ryan Sovereign did the cover. He’s Summer Fridays’ lucky number, as he did the ace cover for 3.7 last year. Nice job, don’t you think?

Ryan is a post-punk aficionado so I tilted slightly in that direction on this one. Enjoy!

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Tracklist:
1. Sloan - People of the Sky
2. Robert Pollard – Aspersion
3. Las Kellies – Bling Bling
4. Nightingales - Idiot Strength
5. Grass Widow – Milo Minute
6. Beau & the Arrows – 0.7.9.3
7. The dB’s – Black and White
8. Peoples Temple – Sons of Stone
9. The Horrors – I Can See Through You
10. Simple Minds – Up on the Catwalk
11. David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging
12. Hooray for Earth – No Love
13. The Breeders – Saints
14. Super Wild Horses – Black Book
15. Easybeats - Friday on My Mind
16. House of Love – I Don’t Know Why I Love You
17. Helium - Pat’s Trick
18. The Tony Castles – Juice
19. The Legends – There and Back Again
20. Letting Up Despite Great Faults – Teenage Tide

You know the deal: NO SHUFFLING. Please. Or do what you want. Liner notes after the jump.

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Hey it’s the first Summer Fridays of actual Summer! And it’s supposed to rain! Which actually works out ok, given the content this week. Cover art is by Sable Yong who fronts two bands in Brooklyn: Year of the Tiger and Chalk and Numbers. I’m not sure what dissecting a gummi worm says about summer (she calls it “morbid cuteness”) but it kind of reminded me of old 4AD artwork for some reason… so this week’s mix is on the darker side. It does rain in the summer. Usually around 6PM. And with 4AD, there are three classic tracks from the label on here, plus a little shoegaze (old and new) and a bunch of other cool new stuff. Dig in.

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Tracklist:
1. Colourmusic – Tog
2. Zaza – Are What You Aren’t
3. The Wolfgang Press – Raintime
4. Acid House Kings – Would You Say Stop (Invisible Twin Remix)
5. Kindest Lines – Running Into Next Year
6. ***mystery artist*** – **mystery song**
7. Cocteau Twins – 50-50 Clown
8. SBTRKT – Pharaohs
9. Roberto Cacciapaglia feat. Ann Steel – My Time
10. Wild Beasts – Reach a Bit Further
11. Heart Throbs – Dreamtime
12. Det Vackra Livet – Juni berättar
13. Ghost Animal – In Your Room
14. My Bloody Valentine – When You Sleep
15. Austra – Hate Crime
16. Colourbox - Tarantula
17. Serafina Steer – GSOH

Liner notes after the jump:
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Did you know there’s an animal park in Florida that develops bonds between tigers and humans by having them swim together? You probably did, it’s been around for three years. I just found out via this week’s cover art done by my friend and frequent art contributor Kelly Hitzing. If you didn’t, there is such a park and the photos are terrifying. It’s like that Truck-o-Saurus episode of the Simpsons come to life…minus the Truck-o-Saurus and the sharks.

Anyway, my nightmares are your awesome cover art to the second Summer Fridays of 2011. By pure coincidence there’s a song by Cat’s Eyes. And lots of other new music, plus at least one song about the summer which is a cheeseball thing to do and I can’t promise I won’t do it again. But I can promise that the song will be good if I do so. Without further ado…

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Tracklisting:

1. Fun Boy Three – Summertime
2. Cat’s Eyes – A Face in the Crowd
3. Wild Flag – Future Crimes
4. Seapony - Into the Sea
5. pow wow! – It’s Not That Easy
6. The Monochrome Set – Karma Suture
7. Hong Kong in the ’60s – You Can Take a Heart but You Can’t Make it Beat
8. Love Inks – Wave Goodbye
9. Ivy - I Get the Message
10. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Groovin’ in the Bus Lane
11. The Attack – Colour of My Mind
12. Starfucker - Astoria
13. Small Sins – Why Don’t You Believe Me?
14. The Young Knives – Woman
15. The Hollies – Postcard
16. Nina Slash – Candy Box
17. Lemonheads - Confetti
18. The Arctic Monkeys – Suck it and See
19. Dani Sheridan – I Guess I’m Dumb
20. Girls Names – Lawrence
21. Hunters & Collectors – Everything’s on Fire

I know you know, but I can’t post this without reminding you that the songs herein are mixed together, so listening on shuffle would be a bad thing. So don’t do it! Liner notes after the jump.

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It’s Memorial Day Weekend and that, of course, means the start of the fourth year of these seasonal mixes. Please enjoy whether you’re heading out of town for a three day trip to the beach, or use at a backyard bbq, or just clogging up your hard drive unzipped. Sunbathing season hasn’t really started yet, so this mix is pretty damn white. Please enjoy the quality pop tones within. Cover art this week designed by Kate Bryant who has helped kick off nearly every season of Summer Fridays since the beginning so long ago. Enjoy.

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Tracklist:

1. Let’s Wrestle – In Dreams Pt. II
2. Eternal Summers – Prisoner
3. The Belltower – Outshine the Sun
4. Terry Malts – Distracted
5. Comet Gain – Thee Ecstatic Library
6. The Modern Lovers – Dignified and Old
7. Milk Maid – Not Me
8. Boat - Kinda Scared of Love Affairs
9. 20/20 - Yellow Pills
10. Pete & the Pirates – Little Gun
11. The Wedding Present – Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
12. Gold-Bears – Totally Called It
13. Radical Dads – Walking Wires
14. Slade - Coz I Luv You
15. Gross Relations – Blame the Records
16. The Strokes – Machu Picchu
17. The Hairs – Duh x 12
18. Crystal Stilts – Death is What We Live For
19. The Feelies – Nobody Knows
20. The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon

Like I always always always say, these mixes are actually, you know, mixed together. So no skipping! Liner Notes after the jump.

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This is it, folks for Summer Fridays 2010. The weather is already full-on Fall, though it’s not actually Autumn until the 21. Autumn is my favorite time of year in NY anyway. Enjoy this last one, think it turned out pretty good. (Especially after redoing it last minute today, which is why this is up so late.) I might do a monthly mix, so maybe look forward to that. Hope you enjoyed these . I had fun making them. Just think this is the last time you’ll have to read this phrase till next year: NO SHUFFLING.

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Tracklist:

1. Parlovr - Hell/Heaven
2. Reading Rainbow – Wasting Time
3. Animals That Swim – New Boots
4. Casino Music – The Beat Goes On
5. Talk Talk - Life is What You Make It
6. The Crayon Fields – All the Pleasures of the World (Dan Block Remix)
7. The Special AKA – What I Like Most About You is Your Girlfriend
8. The Drums – Me and the Moon
9. The Mighty Lemon Drops – Out of Hand
10. Translations - The M.O.
11. North Highlands – Steady Steady
12. Edwyn Collins – Come Tomorrow, Come Today
13. Aberfeldy - Mean Ol Misery
14. Lancelot Link & The Evolution Revolution – Sha-La Love You
15. The Balancing Act – She Doesn’t Work Here Anymore
16. Butterglory - She’s Got the Akshun
17. Superchunk - Hot Tubes
18. The Trilobites – I Can’t Wait for Summer to End

Liner notes after the jump.

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I know, I know. It's past Labor Day and maybe some of you think these mixes are as over as white shoes. Summer Fridays, in the office sense, are definitely over. But technically the season goes till September 21 so I'm gonna do these for two more weeks. Clearly I'm running out of stuff as this week features some Repeat Offenders. That's a bonehead name but I'm all for recidivism. And when a new Fresh & Onlys album gets handed to me, how can I say no?

Cover art this week is courtesy Alan Hevelone who has saved you all from seeing another of my creations. I probably wouldn't have been able to resist using a picture of a dude in a rainbow wig at a football game. 

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Tracklist:

1. Abe Vigoda – Dream of My Love Chasing After You
2. Coin Under Tongue – Beyond Yes
3. House of Love – The Hedonist
4. Crocodiles - Mirror
5. The Stone Roses – Waterfall
6. Procedure Club – Rather
7. The Intelligence – The Beetles
8. X-Ray Spex – Germ-Free Adolescents
9. Violens - It Couldn't Be Perceived
10. The Fresh & Onlys – Fascinated
11. The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
12. Brian Eno – The True Wheel
13. Furniture - Your Brilliant Mind
14. Laetitia Sadier – Un Soir, Un Chien
15. Automelodi - Rose A.D.
16. Grand National – Talk Amongst Yourselves

Not even gonna say the thing I normally say here. Do what you will. Next week's it, though it'll probably be a double. Liner notes after the jump.

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Labor Day weekend is the romantic end of Summer, even if it doesn't official end until the 21st. But, psychically, this is it. Let's do it up. (These mixes will continue for two more weeks, I'm going till the Vernal Equinox.) Even if you don't have a job, this is for you. A perfectly good strawberry shortcake bardied for the artwork this week. I hope you appreciate it. They're hands down my favorite junky frozen treat.

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Tracklist:

1. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine
2. High Places – The Longest Shadows
3. (The) Tony Castles - Black Girls in Dresses
4. America - Ventura Highway
5. Junip - Always
6. Rainy Day – I'll Keep it with Mine
7. The Fresh & Onlys – August in My Mind
8. The Bees – Listening Man
9. The Silver Seas – What if it Isn't Out There?
10. Minature Tigers – Gold Skull
11. MYSTERY TRACK
12. Pete & the Pirates – Selina
13. Big Star – September Gurls
14. Cosmic Rough Riders – Sometime
15. Connan Mockasin – Megumi The Milkyway Above
16. Astrud Gilberto – Beginnings

Have a great long weekend. No shuffling. Liner notes after the jump.

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This is the last Summer Friday of August but we've still got a few week of mixes to go. I run them through the actual end of summer, so there's three more after this. Cover art this week by Robyn Lee who has the enviable job of working for Serious Eats where, among other things, is editor of A Hamburger Today. (They really need to try the Commodore's burger which is the best in Williamsburg.) She also has her own site, The Girl Who Ate Everything which is also worth checking out. (Robyn used to have a good music blog too which I wish she still did! I'm one to talk.) It's also worth mentioning that it is ROBYN'S BIRTHDAY TODAY. I wish this blog was a Sixth Street Indian Restaurant 'cause if it was, lights would be flashing with weird disco music blaring. HAPPPPPPYYYYYYBIIIIIRRRRTHDAY!!!

Musically-speaking, this week's mix is strictly a white jeans affair. It all stemmed from news about this Orange Juice box set that's coming out on Domino, and then I was all "ooh I should put on some Style Council and Haircut One Hundred and Eggstone and Magic Bullets" and here we are. Light the tiki torches, pour yourself a cocktail… and beware of the blob!

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Here's the tracklist:

1. Seinking Ships – Digging His Own Hole (ft Miki Berenyi)
2. The Wolfgang Press – Heaven's Gate
3. Eggstone - Tarasamalata
4. Kings of Convenience – Gold for the Price of Silver
5. Belleruche - Clockwatching
6. Club 8 – Isn't That Great?
7. Magic Bullets – Millions of People Running Around
8. Orange Juice – Flesh of My Flesh
9. Dominant Legs - About My Girls
10. The Style Council – Have You Ever Had it Blue?
11. Frankie & the Heartstrings -Ungrateful
12. The Beat - Sole Salvation
13. The Beets – God
14. Beck - Tropicalia
15. Top Sound - A Matter of Precision
16. Haircut One Hundred – Lemon Firebrigade
17. The Five Blobs - The Blob

While wearing white jeans past labor day is now considered acceptable, listening to this mix on shuffle would be a faux pas. Liner notes after the jump.

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We're in the last month of summer but in NYC at least it's still blazing hot which is making a lot of people angry. I'll say one of the best things about being currently underemployed is not having to brave the overcrowded subway platforms at rush hour. You can just feel the tension in the air, or maybe it's just the humidity. This mix doesn't reflect this in any way, I don't think, but you know, just saying. It's hot.

Cover art this week is courtesy my friend Kelly and these flamingos are from her mom's back yard Florida or something. Summer seems to be over for these guys.

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Tracklist:

1. Figurines – Lucky to Love
2. Oranger – Suddenly Upsidedown
3. Klaxons – Echoes
4. Of Montreal – Enemy Gene
5. Blonde Redhead – Not Getting There
6. Medicine – Never Click
7. The Intelligence – Like Like Like Like Like Like Like
8. I Was a King – Nightwalking
9. One Man Band – Love You
10. Gabor Szabo – Sunshine Superman
11. A Classic Education – Terrible Day
12. Tennis – Baltimore
13. Prefab Sprout – Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone)
14. East River Pipe – Here We Go
15. Eternal Summers – Disciplinarian
16. Lotion – Feedback Queen
17. Winter Gloves – Strange Love
18. Penelope Houston – Harry Dean
19. Game Theory – The Real Sheila
20. Kelley Stoltz – I Don't Get That
21. The Woodentops – Why

Blah blah blah no shuffling, ok. Liner notes after the jump.

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Nothing tropical on this week's mix but songs contained herein are pulled from at least a couple desert island discs. Another great cover from Greg Morris who really came through in the clutch. I have to say this week's mix turned out pretty good. Nice mix of new and old and everything flows together well… so no shuffling ok? That is a running gag at this point but, you know, funny cause it's true or something.

EDIT: Greg just pointed out that "Any Major Dude" was on the first-ever Summer Fridays mix. (Which is now out of print.) I try to keep track of these things but it was bound to happen at some point. Coulda sworn I used "Barrytown." Sorry folks. Refunds at point of purchase.

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Here's the tracklist:

1. The Boo Radleys – (I Wanna Be) Touchdown Jesus
2. Dungen - Soda
3. My Tiger My Timing – This is Not the Fire
4. Fugiya & Miyagi – Taiwanese Boots
5. The 6ths - San Diego Zoo
6. Steely Dan – Any Major Dude
7. Shrag - Tights in August
8. This Many Boyfriends – I Don't Like You ('Cos You Don't Like The Pastels)
9. The Pastels – Simply Nothing to be Done
10. Dog Day – Wait it Out
11. Violens - Acid Reign
12. The Cribs – Housewife
13. Fergus & Geronimo – Girls with British Accents
14. Bare Wires – Dancing on a Dime
15. Candy Butchers – What I Won't Give
16. The Byrds – Why?
17. The Jazz Butcher – Big Saturday
18. Frankie Rose & the Outs – Girlfriend Island
19. Built to Spill – Fling
20. Louis Armstrong – We Have All the Time in the World

Liner notes after the jump.

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