Nice As Fuck - Angel

I’m an angel in the evil
I’m a child in my mind
I’ve been searching for salvation
I’m my own valentine
I’m a baby
Without you

Nice as Fuck are, well, I guess you’d call them an indie super-group (starring Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis) with a funky vibe and a silly name. Their self-titled album fun and feels a bit like a low-fi Fleetwood Mac tribute. It’s also catchy and a great listen for a summery afternoon. If you make it to the end, and you should, you’ll get a kick out of the NIF theme song. Good luck!

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Tipling Rock - Low Tide Love

Can't you help me get through the grinds?
When this life takes time, I'll make time
I got you on my mind, by the seaside low tide
I can be with you
You don't think so, think so
Will my dream come true?

Fairly new Boston indie garage rockers, with surfer-sounding guitars, Tipling Rock have broken through to some major attention with this single, released earlier this summer and still gaining popularity. Just listening to it makes me think I need to check my toes for sand. 

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Vacationer - Good As New

I've got a good friend living it up when I'm home
Yea I've got someone waiting for me when I'm gone
Yeah I have got a good one lifting me up when I'm down
Well it's been perfect time and new moon rising
You are looking to,
I'm feeling good as new, new
Feeling good as new, new

So Kerri has declared this feel good week huh? Well I'm pretty sure the dreamy, emo, summer-pop of Vacationer fits the bill. This is dance-in-your-seat-go-for-a-summer-drive music if I've every heard it.

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Sia - Clap Your Hands

I've been neglecting the good things
What I mean is I need the good things
I'm finding the light in the good things
I might need help to see the good things

Shake me out of my misery
Make me get out and wiggle it
Clap your hands, clap your hands
Turn the lights on my nights this is life and we only get one chance
Clap your hands, clap your hands
Come on dance, take a chance on romance, we only get one shot at love

Released in 2010, this groovy-bassed, melancholic dance track was not one of Sia's biggest hits (although NME thought so before her last record came out), doing the best in her native Australia by breaking the top 20. Anyway, I love it and have listened to it often when I needed to cheer up, or wanted someone to commiserate with me as I prepped to go out, haha. So... maybe this isn't super-duper-happy-feel-good, but it is about wanting to feel that way, and doing what you can to feel that way. And her carpool karaoke with James Corden (from earlier this year) will make you feel that way! 

P.S. Keith has a story about meeting Sia after an intimate SXSW show many years ago. Maybe he'll chime in and share it. Or not. :)

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Walk the Moon - Anna Sun

Live my life without
Station wagon rides
Fumbling around the back
Not one seat belt on
Wait for summertime
Coming up for air
Now it's all a wash
Now it's all a wash
Live my life without
Coming up for air
Now it's all a wash
I want everyone
Racing down the hill
I am faster than you
Wait for summertime
Wait for summertime

This week, I kicked off the blog with a nostalgic hit from 1977, and now I'm using it as inspiration/excuse to post a song that references childhood around that time, and sounds decidedly 80's. Anna Sun makes me feel like I'm re-living some perfect summer day from my youth, and I joyfully dance and sing along whenever it comes on. I also dance and sing along joyfully whenever I see Walk the Moon in concert - they are the most fun! This is happy, feel-good, (maybe throw-back?) song week, y'all! 

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