The Best September 2015 Playlist This Month

 

September has always had that schizophrenic nature of being placed in the middle of the year, yet it’s the month that represents the beginning of many new things in our culture.  September is the month that a new school year begins, it’s the month when TV shows begin their new season and new TV shows debut, and it’s the beginning of the award season for Golden Globes, Oscars and Grammys. It’s also the time of the year when record labels begin releasing their biggest albums of the year, gearing up for the holiday season.  There are more new album releases in the first two weeks of September than in July and August combined.  (I just made that up but it sounds accurate.)  To kick off this new start as we head into the end of the year, I’ve concocted a playlist for such a time.  I’ve chosen a wide variety of music from old artists, new artists, rock to hip-hop to dance and everything in between.  Some of these are new songs to debut this month, others are from albums that will be released in the coming weeks.  Sit back, enjoy, while watching the new NFL season.

The Best September 2015 Playlist This Month:

  1. The Arcs – Outta Of My Mind
  2. New Order – Restless
  3. Neon Indian – Annie
  4. Disclosure – Willing & Able
  5. The Weeknd – In The Night
  6. Small Black – No One Wants It To Happen To You
  7. Big Grams – Fell In The Sun
  8. The Libertines – Gunga Din
  9. The Dead Weather – I Feel Love
  10. Silversun Pickups – Nightlight
  11. Chris Cornell – Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart
  12. Metric – The Shade
  13. Empress Of – How Do You Do It
  14. Baio – The Names
  15. CHVRCHES – Leave A Trace
  16. Mac Miller – 100 Grandkids
  17. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown
  18. Craig Finn – Maggie I’ve Been Searching For Our Son
  19. HONNE – No Place Like Home
  20. Lana Del Rey – High By The Beach
  21. Glen Hansard – Lonely Deserter

 

 

 

The 11 Best Songs By The Hold Steady

No lyricist can capture life better in a song than Craig Finn.  If you need to hire someone to paint a picture of the tired, the working class, and the rejected in one portrait than the Hold Steady can put it to music.  They’re the blue collar garage rockers to white collars of mainstream rock radio.  What Springsteen was raging about before he found his calling as a runner, The Hold Steady delivers with a habitual grind of grit, pantheon and pride.  They’re the Northern States answer to the Skynyrds and the Tuckers.  From a world of skyscrapers, coffee carts and bitter cold, where salvation is defined by finding just enough pocket change in your coat for a cab ride home.  It’s about staying positive when life is at its most mundane.  That no matter the height of the struggle, everyone of us is in it together.

Here are the 11 Best Songs By The Hold Steady:

  1. Chips Ahoy! (Boys And Girls In America)
  2. Soft In The Center (Heaven Is Whenever)
  3. Both Crosses (Stay Positive)
  4. Cattle And The Creeping Things (Separation Sunday)
  5. Stuck Between Stations (Boys And Girls In America)
  6. Your Little Hoodrat Friend (Separation Sunday)
  7. Stay Positive (Stay Positive)
  8. Knuckles (Almost Killed Me)
  9. Sequestered In Memphis (Stay Positive)
  10. The Swish (Almost Killed Me)
  11. Hot Soft Light (Boys And Girls In America)

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