Sonic Youth Gossip - Free Kitten summer playlist

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"Newbury Port" is blasting in the club before we take the stage.
—Free Kitten (Photo: Andrew Kesin 2008 / Courtesy of Ecstatic Peace)

ROAD TRIP
Free Kitten, Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore’s Julie Cafritz’s post-punk pet project, released their album Inherit last month. The band hits the highway this summer. Cafritz shares what they’ll listen to on the drive.

“Here Come the Warm Jets”
Brian Eno
If I could dive into the production of one song like it was a pool, this song would be the one.

“Golf Girl”
Caravan
Their whole CD In the Land of Grey and Pink could be on tour with us. But this song in particular, well, it’s about a guy flirting with a girl on a golf course. It feels summer-appropriate.

“Tengo Amore”
Michael Nesmith
I’m always impressed when a gringo sings Spanish. And perhaps this is revealing too much, but I think this song is the closest that Free Kitten is going to get to a Jimmy Buffett vibe.

“Nuvem Cigana”
Milton Nascimento
I secretly like this one because it reminds me of the Weather Report songs of my childhood.

“Futures & Folly”
Blitzen Trapper
Blitzen Trapper have that sort of hillbilly rock vibe—something to smoke pot on the bus to. If we smoked pot, this is the song we’d do it to.

“Shining Star”
Earth, Wind & Fire
This band screams proms and graduations, and all those types of things that I didn’t actually attend. But as long as I don’t have to see white people dancing to this song, it makes me very happy.

“Mr. Bellamy”
Paul McCartney
I happen to think this is very good. We’ll put it on in the background and pretend we’re drinking cocktails in the Hamptons with him and his New York socialites.

“Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy”
Queen
Every band is brought together by a little musical-theater number. I imagine us all standing up and singing while the bus driver is trying to park.

“Automatic Husband”
The Fiery Furnaces
I think one day Eleanor will drive a stake through her brother’s heart. He puts every word in her mouth, like she’s his slave puppet! He might get away with that with a girlfriend. But between brother and sister, that’s going to end in violence.

“I Got You”
Split Enz
Toward the end of any mix I tend to add songs that are kind of forgotten, that other people don’t seem to appreciate nearly as much as I do.

“Newbury Port”
Scout Niblett
This is the redeeming last song—the one that’s blasting in the club before we take the stage.