smash cuts: summertime yamz

Summertime, when the livin’ is cheesy. So that’s why our Spotify Smash Cuts super secret special playlist is filled with HECKA cheesy music this week, not to mention funky music. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, Lyte Funkie Ones, 7 Days of Funk- it’s got all the funk you need to kick the summer off right. But not to fear- the playlist has quote-unquote “Good Music” too, plus the latest from folks like Mac Demarco, Tobacco, and more. We’ve also got more songs with the word “summer” in the title than there are beads of sweat on your back during the hottest day in August. So get down with that summer sound, break out the bomb pops, sit by the pool but don’t get in the water, do whatever you like, because the pavement is hot, the fire hydrants are full, and the tunes are dope as can be. And that’s the quintessential truth, Ruth.

Smash Cuts: rock the yacht

At one time or another, we’ve all wanted wealth. While listening to Todd Terje’s new and aptly-titled album It’s Album Time, I was mesmerized by many richly-colored mental montages of the upper-class. This led me to think about “yacht rock,” that Southern California sound popularized by artists like Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, and Toto. Both of these things in mind, I thought I’d share my pre-vaporwave capitalist fantasies with you, in the form of our weekly Smash Cuts playlist. Acceptable activities to carry out while listening to this playlist include but are not limited to: spooning caviar onto Ritz crackers at the Ritz-Carlton; sinking cruise ships off the coast of Croatia; binge-watching Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous on Betmax; buying out biotech companies whose products you can’t pronounce; bequeathing a collection of priceless LaserDiscs to your stepson; putting puppet regimes into power in small Caribbean islands; attending a Miami Vice LARP camp; acquiring an entire endangered species for your mountain-house menagerie; carving various household appliances out of lone blocks of gold; taking out the recycling.