https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5pQfHtV9GNASYz4fcoQk3E?si=65486104c98548dc<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Window\u201d – Ratboys
\nEvery time I type this band\u2019s name, my devices autocorrect it to \u201cBatboys.\u201d You would think I\u2019ve typed their name enough over the years that my various Apple OSes understand that, yes, I really mean Ratboys. Given that their up-coming album seems like it is going to be excellent and I will be writing about them plenty more this year, maybe the OSes will finally figure it out once the fall updates land and Apple\u2019s new auto correct, machine learning algorithms take over. Three-for-three on great songs from said up-coming album.<\/p>\n
\u201cCellar\u201d – Sea Lemon
\nThis song has been banging around in my running playlist of new music for nearly two months. I\u2019m not sure why it has taken me so long to share it. Perhaps because its haziness seems ideal for the warmest part of the year? Sea Lemon is on tour with Hatchie right now. That\u2019s probably quite a show if you\u2019re into this kind of sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaper Machete\u201d – Queens of the Stone Age
\nI was never a huge QOTSA fan. I loved their 2002 single \u201cNo One Knows,\u201d which launched them into the mainstream. But not much else. This track rocks and rolls properly.<\/p>\n
\u201cTooth Ache\u201d – Lydia Loveless
\nNow we\u2019re talking! Lydia sounding like the Lydia I love most again.<\/p>\n
\u201cPit Viper\u201d – Guardian Singles
\nSome fine, twitchy, post-punk from New Zealand.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome Back\u201d – Pearl Jam, live in Chicago, 5\/16\/06 \u201cSummer In The Park Pt 1\u201d – East Coast Connection
\nWe are less than two months from Pearl Jam\u2019s visit to Indy. I\u2019ve always thought this was a highly underrated song, from the 2006 \u201cAvocado\u201d album<\/a>. This live version was used in season two of *The Bear*, and miraculously popped up as a single on Spotify shortly after. I\u2019m sure that was just a happy coincidence.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve been getting the free posts from Dan Epstein\u2019s Jagged Time Lapse newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for some time. I came to know Epstein through his baseball books, but his newsletter is more about the music he grew up on that goes along with those classic baseball eras his books cover. This week he had an entry about his favorite 1970s funk and soul songs about\/for summer time. This will likely not be the last song you hear from that list before this summer ends.<\/p>\n