Summer mixes are VERY IMPORTANT. They have to be a bunch of great songs like any other mix, but they also have to match the weather outdoors and be the kind of song that’s a good vessel for nostalgia. It’s a lot of pressure to put on a group of songs. But we don’t shy [...]

In 1992, I co-hosted an early-80′s show at my college’s radio station, and 80′s dance nights were starting to spring up. At the time, I figured it was a fun novelty and that we’d all move on eventually. But here we are, almost two decades from the end of the 80′s, and every club seems [...]

The romance of the summer song is too great to ever let go, even though I’m not often in the kind of places where ordinary songs turn into definitions of one season of one year. But it’s still in me to look for those shared experiences and cultural touchstones, even if I’m not sharing or [...]