JUNE 2ND, 2010
Top 5: Songs of Summer
Don
Henley’s “The Boys of Summer” is fine for Friday night karaoke, but for
outdoor barbeques and road trips we’re relying on these five great new
albums from fellow females:
Vancouver-based Hannah Georgas is the It-girl on the Canadian music scene right now and rightly so. There’s a touch of Emily Haines in her, and her debut This is Good is exactly that.
Janelle Monáe magically mashes nearly every musical genre, from funk to classical, on her epic 18-song album The ArchAndroid. With each track effortlessly flowing into the next, you can leave it to play start to finish.
The piano pop of Diane Birch’s Bible Belt calls to mind Carole King, long hair and large floppy hats, and we like that.
An Illinois native with a gorgeous, gutsy voice, Lissie
is perfect for porch swings and lakeside cabins. She doesn’t release
her full-length album till the end of this month, but tie yourself over
until then with her EP “Why You Runnin’.”
I Will Be from all-girl group Dum Dum Girls
has that ’60s pop-rock sound that makes you wish you dated a bad boy on
a motorcycle. No surprise then that the album involved the co-writer of
“My Boyfriend’s Back.”
