That is always the question around this time of year. NPR Music asked our DJs to suggest their picks to create a “Best Beats of Summer”mix for the upcoming holiday weekend but they didn’t use all of them so I want to show them in all their glory below!
What’s your pick? I want to know!
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***Music Director Jason Bentley***
***DJ Anne Litt***
- Gomez – Options
- The Morning Benders – Excuses (RAC remix)
- Da Cruz – Sexta-Fiera
- Sebastian – Embody
- The Black Lips – New Direction
- Daedelus – Penny Loafers (featuring Inara George)
- Fool’s Gold – Street Clothes
- Brett Dennen – I’ll Come Running
- Raphael Saadiq – Radio
***DJ Chuck P***
- CSS – “HIts Me Like A Rock” (feat. Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream)
- Hey Champ – “Anything At All”
- Cee Lo Green – “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” (Buddy Holly cover)
- Wild Flag – “Romance”
***DJ Gary Calamar***
- My Morning Jacket “Holding On To Black Metal”
- Foster The People “Helena Beat”
- YACHT “Shangi-La”
- Raphael Saadiq”Radio”
- Naked and Famous “Young Blood”
- Jenny O “Well OK Honey”
- Gomez “Options”
- Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Heart In Your Heartbreak”
- Rome w Jack White “Two Against One”
- Lykke Li “Get Some”
- Steve Earle “Waitin On The Sky”
- Lucinda Williams “Seeing Black”
- Bosco Delrey “Baby’s Got A Blue Flame”
***DJ Valida***
- Foster The People: Pumped Up Kicks (The Knocks Speeding Bullet Remix) Torches
- Grouplove: Don’t Say Oh Well Grouplove
- Generationals: I Promise Actor-Caster
- Cee Loo Green: It’s OK The Lady Killer
- Peter Bjorn and John: Second Chance Gimme Some
***DJ Dan Wilcox***
- SebastiAn — “Embody”
- Hanni El Khatib — “I Got A Thing”
- The Cool Kids – “Swimsuits” feat. Mayer Hawthorne.
***DJ Mario Cotto***
- Gunnar Bjerk – Back Then
- Gatto Fritto – The Curse
- Cosmic Kids – Reginald’s Groove
- Nite Jewel – It Goes Through Your Head
- Poolside – Do You Believe!
***DJ Jason Eldredge***
- Adele: “Rumor Has It” from 21