What’s the Song of the Summer 2011?

by Anthony Valadez

That is always the question around this time of year. NPR Music asked our DJs to suggest their picks to create a “Best Beats of Summer”mix for the upcoming holiday weekend but they didn’t use all of them so I want to show them in all their glory below!

What’s your pick? I want to know!

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***Music Director Jason Bentley***

• Death Cab for Cutie “You Are A Tourist”

• SebastiAn — “Embody”

***DJ Anne Litt***

• Gomez – Options

• The Morning Benders – Excuses (RAC remix)

• Da Cruz – Sexta-Fiera

• Sebastian – Embody

• The Black Lips – New Direction

• Daedelus – Penny Loafers (featuring Inara George)

• Fool’s Gold – Street Clothes

• Brett Dennen – I’ll Come Running

• Raphael Saadiq – Radio

• CSS – “HIts Me Like A Rock” (feat. Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream)

• Hey Champ – “Anything At All”

• Cee Lo Green – “(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care” (Buddy Holly cover)

• Wild Flag – “Romance”

***DJ Gary Calamar***

• My Morning Jacket “Holding On To Black Metal”

• Foster The People “Helena Beat”

• YACHT “Shangi-La”

• Raphael Saadiq”Radio”

• Naked and Famous “Young Blood”

• Jenny O “Well OK Honey”

• Gomez “Options”

• Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Heart In Your Heartbreak”

• Rome w Jack White “Two Against One”

• Lykke Li “Get Some”

• Steve Earle “Waitin On The Sky”

• Lucinda Williams “Seeing Black”

• Bosco Delrey “Baby’s Got A Blue Flame”

***DJ Valida***

• Foster The People: Pumped Up Kicks (The Knocks Speeding Bullet Remix) Torches

• Grouplove: Don’t Say Oh Well Grouplove

• Generationals: I Promise Actor-Caster

• Cee Loo Green: It’s OK The Lady Killer

• Peter Bjorn and John: Second Chance Gimme Some

***DJ Dan Wilcox***

• SebastiAn — “Embody”

• Hanni El Khatib — “I Got A Thing”

• The Cool Kids – “Swimsuits” feat. Mayer Hawthorne.

***DJ Mario Cotto***

• Gunnar Bjerk – Back Then

• Gatto Fritto – The Curse

• Cosmic Kids – Reginald’s Groove

• Nite Jewel – It Goes Through Your Head

• Poolside – Do You Believe!

***DJ Jason Eldredge***

• SebastiAn – “Love In Motion (feat. Mayer Hawthorne)”

***DJ Chris Douridas***

• Beastie Boys “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” featuring Santigold

• Adele: “Rumor Has It” from 21

• Raphael Saadiq – “Radio”

• The Cars – “Blue Tip”

• Young Knives – “ Love My Name”

***DJ Marion Hodges***

• The Go! Team – “Buy Nothing Day”

• Raphael Saadiq – “Heart Attack”

• Daedelus – “Tailor-Made”

• YACHT – “Paradise Engineering”

• Work Drugs – “Third Wave”

• Jessica 6 – “House of Dread”

• Holy Ghost! – “Wait and See”