All we need is music right? My friends and I certainly feel that way, and summer is the season to bleed your feelings out from your stereo on volume 12.
With that in mind, here's what should be on your hot/warming-up-to lists:
- Fleet Foxes
- Blitzen Trapper
- Band of Horses
- Bon Iver
- The Juan MacLean
- Buraka Som Sistema
- The Twelves
- Taken by Trees
- The Presets
- Empire of the Sun
- Plants and Animals
- Phoenix
- Peter Bjorn and John
- M83
- M. Ward
- Neon Indian
- Ladyhawke
- La Roux
- Glass Candy
- Futurecop
- Friendly Fires
- Explosions in the Sky
- The Duke Spirit
- The Doves
- The Boxer Rebellion
- The Clips
- Black Moth Super Rainbow
- Air France
- The Golden Filter
- Clutchy Hopkins
- Conor Oberst
- Minitel Rose
- The Teenagers
- Florence and the Machine
- Ghostland Observatory
- Avner
- Circlesquare
- Jenny Lewis
- The Tough Alliance
- Emilliana Torrini
- Cecile
- Bloody Beetroots
- Starfucker
- Bag Raiders
- Birdy nam nam