500 Days of Summer

(because june-august deserve one great playlist, rather than three mediocre ones).

1 Willow Tree/Chad VanGaalen (for Laura Lev)

2 GfC/Albert Hammond, Jr.
3 Gotta Have You/The Weepies (for Izora)
4 Low Man/Alberta Cross
5 You're the One That I Want/Chris and Thomas
6 Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois/Sufjan Stevens (for Henry Mosher)
7 I've Just Seen A Face/ The Beatles (for Everest)
8 In My Time of Dying/The Be Good Tanyas
9 Furr/Blitzen Trapper
10 Laughing With/ Regina Spektor (for Hughes, Julie and Travis)
11 Who You Gonna Run To?/Solid Gold
12 Silence/Takka Takka
13 A Change is Gonna Come/Sam Cooke (for Will Veitch)
14 The Wolves (Act 1 & 2)/Bon Iver (for Teen Camp 2009)
15 Lost?/Coldplay (for Besty Pike)
16 People/Animal Collective
17 I Wanna Die/Jolie Holland
18 Hallelujah/Jeff Buckley
19 It's Summertime/The Flaming Lips

May

1 Palms/Jana Hunter
2 Turn Time Around/N. Lannon
3 Colors and the Kids/Cat Power
4 Creature Fear/Bon Iver
5 The Strangers/St. Vincent
6 Flutes of Chi/Ween
7 Woodstock/Alice Smith
8 Staring at the Sun/TV on the Radio
9 Runaway/Yeah Yeah Yeahs
10 Hospital Beds/Cold War Kids
11 You're the One/The Black Keys
12 California Part II/Mason Jennings
13 Postcard/Lucy Michelle & The Velvet Lapelles
14 Blue In Green/Miles Davis
15 Cantaloupe/Carlon
16 Teenage Viking/The Lovely Sparrows
17 When a Woman Loves a Man/Billie Holiday
18 Hey Mama Wolf/Devendra Banhart
19 Mama, You've Been on My Mind/Jeff Buckley
20 Oh! Sweet Nuthin'/ The Velvet Underground

April

1 Armageddon/CocoRosie
2 Josephine/Ghostface Killah
3 California/Phantom Planet
4 Aretha, Sing One for Me/Cat Power
5 The Hand/Dark Dark Dark
6 Horny Hippies/The Dodos
7 The Old Days/Dr. Dog
8 Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well/Lucky Millinder
9 Education/Mirah
10 You Are/Built to Spill
11 Crown/Mason Jennings
12 Waltz/Harlem Shakes
13 103/Whispertown2000
14 The Pushers/Wooden Wand
15 Bring it On Home to Me/Sam Cooke
16 You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go/Bob Dylan
17 A Song for Lou/Hayward Williams
18 Navy Taxi/Kate Nash
19 Orange Sky/Alexi Murdoch
20 This is the Way/Devendra Banhart

March

1 New York/Cat Power
2 April in Paris/Billie Holiday
3 Chan Chan/Buena Vista Social Club
4 What I Am/Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
5 Red and Purple/The Dodos
6 Bridges and Balloons/Joanna Newom
7 Offer/Doug Martsch
8 California/Joni Mitchell
9 Where Did You Sleep Last Night?/Leadbelly
10 Let's Dance/M. Ward
11 Pretty Little Baby/Josephine Baker
12 Stars Shine Quietly/Mason Jennings
13 Flightless Bird, American Mouth/Iron & Wine
14 Bones & Skin/Mirah
15 Two-Headed Boy/Neutral Milk Hotel
16 I Feel Evil Creeping In/Islands
17 A Change is Gonna Come/Sam Cooke

February

1 Blood Bank/Bon Iver
2 Let it Die/Feist
3 Carry the Zero/Built to Spill
4 Metal Heart (2008 Version)/ Cat Power
5 Emeltime of the Season/Wooden Wand
6 Breathe Me/Sia
7 The Swimming Song/Vetiver
8 Like a Rolling Stone/Bob Dylan
9 Criminal/Fiona Apple
10 Birthday Boy/Ween
11 Don't Pass on Me/Woods
12 Ramblin' (Wo)man/Cat Power
13 United States Global Empire/Mason Jennings
14 Nobody Has to Stay/Mirah
15 Now That I Know/Devendra Banhart
16 Wish You Were Here/Pink Floyd
17 O Superman/Laurie Anderson

January

1 Thirteen/Elliott Smith
2 Dig a Grave/Dark Dark Dark
3 My Girls/Animal Collective
4 The Grobe/Ween
5 All I Really Want to Do/Bob Dylan
6 Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You/Josephine Foster
7 The Ballad of Benson Creek/Hayward Williams
8 King of Carrot Flowers Part 1/Neutral Milk Hotel
9 Before the Sun Goes Down/Vetiver
10 Let it Fall/Lykke Li
11 Hazey Jane l/Nick Drake
12 Chinese Lanterns/Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles
13 My Dearest Friend/Devendra Banhart
14 The Mountain/Mason Jennings
15 Devil Town/Bright Eyes