We have more summer indie songs in a playlist to share.
[Originally published in 2010] The long days of what has been a brutally hot and humid summer for many areas of the United States, Europe and Russia are beginning to wane as August tips towards September.Millions of kids are getting ready to go back to school; people are returning from vacations, and millions more are hoping that the autumn brings more than just cooler temperatures.
For much of the west coast, especially here in northern California, it has been an unusually cool summer compared to past years – and we’re not complaining.
The only exception, of course, is the typically foggy areas like San Francisco, and other points along the northern coast, where summer is commonly foggy, chilly and windy, and yet, less than 20 miles in any easterly direction, it’s blazing hot and tinderbox dry. It does not rain in most of California from May through November.
Because the indie summer songs this year is such a huge hit, with more than 140,000 visitors from around the world since early June, we’ve put together another few mixes – including today’s – featuring approximately 130 more summer-themed songs.
NOTE: Click this tiny flash player and it will stream all of the songs on this page uninterrupted. No fking commercials! Updated June 2019
[zbplayer]“Ocean Size” – Janes Addiction (1997)
“Buggin” – The Flaming Lips (1999)
“Hotwax” – Beck (1997)
“Hot Love”(T. Rex) – Elf Power (1999)
“The Ocean Breaths Salty” – Modest Mouse (2003)
“In The Flowers” (Animal Collective) – Blind Man’s Colour (2008)
“Down By The Water” – The Drums (2010)
“Gold In The Air of Summer” – Kings of Convenience (2004)
“You’re So Damn Hot” – OK Go (2002)
“The Sun On His Back” – Camera Obscura (2004)
“Gossamer Hair” – Pearly Gates Music (2010)
“Star and Sun” – Bells Of (1995)
“Waves” – The Elected (2004)
“Amber, Ember, Glow” – Saxon Shore (2003)
“The Secret Ocean” – Of Montreal (2005)
“The Sun Shines Down on Me” – Guster (2004)
“Hello Sunshine” – Super Fury Animals (2003)
“Summertime” – Great Northern (2008)
“Oceanside” – The Decemberists (2003)
“Pickerel Lake” (Outtake) – Sufjan Stevens (2003)
“Falling From The Sun” – The Album Leaf (2006)
“At The Beach” – The Avett Brothers (2004)
“Keep On Burning” – Edwyn Collins (1997)
“Seasick on Land” – Rogue Wave (2004)
“On Vacations” – Rival Oceans (2001)
“River, Sea, Ocean” – Badly Drawn Boy (2002)
“Definitely Beachy/Reprise” – Air Miami (1995)
“Ocean of Wine” – Helium (1997)
“Stay in the Shade” – Jose Gonzalez (2003)
“Shadow in the Light” – Opus Orange (2009)
“Wasted Days” – The Slackers (2001)
“Oceans of Despair” – Retreat From The Sun (1999)
“Ocean” – Sebadoh (1999)
“Shade And The Black Hat”– Jeremy Enigk (1996)
“On A White Lake Near A Green Mountain” – M83 (2003)
“A Walk On The Beach” – The Strange Boys (2010)
“Sunshower” – Chris Cornell (1998)
“Burn One Down” – Ben Harper (1995)
“Hott in Here” (Nelly) – Beck (2003)
“Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans” – The Smashing Pumpkins (1995)
“Summer Breeze” (Seals & Croft) – Jason Mraz (2004)
“In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” – Neutral Milk Hotel (1998)
“Baseball Jam” (Live) – Tea Leaf Green (2002)
“While Oceana Sleeps” – Sparta (2004)
“Ten Thousand Lakes” – Kid Dakota (2004)
“Holly’s Dream Vacation” – Super Deluxe (1995)
“Wires and Waves” – Rilo Kiley (2001)
“Too Many Sandwhiches” – Stereophonics (1997)
“The Sad Sun” – Deer Tick (2010)
“There Was Sun” – Devendar Banhart (2004)
“Permanent Waves” – The Kinks (1978)
“Here Comes The Night” – Them (1965)
“Flamenco Sketches” – Miles Davis (1959)
“They’re Red Hot” (Robert Johnson) – Eric Clapton (2003)
“Somewhere Over The Rainbow” – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (RIP)
PHEW!