Music Minute, Extra Super Hot Outside Edition!

It's hot outside. 92 degrees with a heat index of 106. (Heat index is, all things considered, how hot it actually feels outside.) I hope you're staying cool and drinking lemonade and wading around in your little brother's plastic pool. :)

This week has been pretty stressful. A lot of plans I've made have been interrupted. It's hot, I'm crabby, and you know how you reset your iPod when it acts up? I kind of need that. And funny enough, listening to the music for this column has really helped a lot. (Hope y'all like it too.)

Here are two new albums for you to check out this week:

Everyday Sunday is back with a new album called The Best Night Of Our Lives. Interestingly (think of Kala's story below), a lot of the lyrics have to do with friends—backsliding friends and friends who stand by you. It's straight-ahead power pop that you'll want to listen to over and over. If you like Forever the Sickest Kids or The Plain White T's, you'll really like this album. We're fans of the title track.



Next up, it's a little trickier to recommend this one but we do want y'all to know that Hawk Nelson has a 4-song EP out that previews their October 09 album release, Live Life Loud. You can only find this record at their concerts, but from what we hear, it's well worth a little work to find it. Just click the link above to see their summer tour dates.

Stay cool, y'all. (I know you will.)