Happy Birthday to my sister!

Today is my older sister's birthday, so a shout out to her. I wish all of her favorite songs on the radio today. Appropriately, I gave her a CD, one which I haven't listened to yet but I can still heartily recommend: Your Love Never Fails by JesusCultureMusic. Another CD by the same people/group, We Cry Out, is my worship music of choice.

Other than that, I wanted to comment on the lack of a complete June playlist. I am allowing June to be swept under the carpet as the bland filling my May-July musical sandwich. May's playlist was on heavy rotation in both the car, and on the earphones. However, I blame Sasquatch for inspiring me to switch from a playlist to just a rotation of several new CDs for June.

So although there was no list, there was plenty of fine, fine music this month. I'm finishing out the month with the best thing I've found (musically that is) in a while, free playlists from magazines/websites. UrbanOutfitters.com puts out playlists of 20-23 songs every so often called LSTN and they are available for full download through iTunes or the site itself. Along with their annual music issue, Nylon magazine also had a summer playlist full of new gems, old classics, and a fair share of crappy techno. Most likely my July playlist will be the whittled down versions of these lists with a few of my current fav songs thrown in.

The summery run of weather, coupled with spending a bulk of my time with people aged 12-20 has influenced the genre's I've been listening to so expect lots of obscure/canadian type electro-rap-punk-pop duos with bizarre, intentionally misspelled names and no discernible rhythm. And for those July nights, I predict a lot of live stuff or acoustic guitar. The new M. Ward perhaps?

We shall see! I reserve the right to go wherever the summer wind takes me!