I miss getting summer music recommendations. Before Spotify or Pandora, my friends would send me what they were listening to. That's how I discovered a lot of cool artists I'd never otherwise listen to.
For the summer months, I thought this might be a cool community thing for cohost.
What do you say? Wanna make a mixtape together?
how to participate
- post a song; link to the artist's soundcloud/bandcamp/website so that folks can listen and support.
- single songs ok! playlists ok!
- make sure to tag your chost #cohost summer mixtape
- bookmark and listen to folks' music
- if you think this is cool, rechost it
Send over some jams, please! 
Three varieties of summer songs:
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Full sun heightening you and everything around you. Exmples: Stretch Princess's "Sugar"; Nina Hynes' "Mono Prix"; Charly Bliss's "Percolator"; Sir Babygirl's "Pink Lite". (I feel like this is probably the idea of The Mixtape, so if you want more SUMMER JAMS! in your summer jams, well, these are those.)
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Full sun, ironically. Shining, spiteful stuff like Palmdale's "Here Comes the Summer." Souls' "Expensive".
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Full sun, making you sunsick. Maybe like Shut Up Stella's "Light It Up." A lot of Colleen Green's music falls here: songs like "Posi Vibes" beam hard and purposefully on their surface, hoping no one look past it. Summer as faking it until you make it. "Highway" takes that quintessential summer mood of racing down the highway, friends in tow, perhaps toward an amusement park or water park or beach or some other nostalgic or idyllic getaway, and says that honestly, it sucks.1 Her delivery on this is sotto-voce, channeling the kind of unbothered cool that perhaps disguises a great deal of internal bothering. There's a subtext to "I don't like it when you take the highway / it just goes on and on and on," giving a distinct impression that things are not being said -- things that likely sound like "Someone Else" or "Deeper Than Love." You'd think a song called "Highway" would be about driving so fast you outrun those things; this one's about languishing in them and calling it relaxation. Which is also a summer mood.
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To be fair, the highway she has in mind is probably a Los Angeles highway, in which case that totally checks out.