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Four Spotify playlists to get you through your three-day weekend

I hope you’re having a restful week!

With the three-day weekend on the horizon, here are four playlists on Spotify to enjoy while you’re entertaining, spending time with family and friends, or chilling alone.

Chill Summer Dinner Party Vibes

These tracks serve as great background music, but also are songs that you can do a little two-step to. Enjoy songs from Durand Jones and the Indications, Jungle, Amber Mark, Parcels, and many more.

Yacht Rocking

I love Yacht Rock so this playlist is the closest I can get to a Yacht Rock party haha! After watching Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary on HBO, Peg by Steely Dan will probably be in my top songs on my Spotify 2025 wrap-up. I’ve always adored Hall and Oates so obviously it’s mostly them lol (I know Darryl Hall doesn’t like to be considered a Yacht Rock artist, but Hall and Oates’ sound is undeniably Yacht Rock 🤭 they have bigger issues going on right now so they’ll get over this). I’ve also included some newer Yacht Rock artists like Young Gun Silver Fox, and artists’ interpretations of the genre like John Mayer, Chromeo, and Thundercat.

Disco, Pop Divas, and Everyone in Between

This is for when dinner is over and you want to do Karaoke with a wooden spoon as a mic (or what I did last weekend when I heard Somebody Else’s Guy by Jocelyn Brown and used a wine glass as a mic. I do not recommend). We have some deep cuts and classic hits from the Spice Girls, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sister Sledge, and Janet Jackson. You’ll definitely lose your voice singing along to this playlist!

Kaytranada and his sons

If my internal monologue could be a loop of Kaytranada and his sound, it would be this playlist. As Nicki Minaj says “all these b****** is my sons”, some of the artists on this playlist are Kaytranada’s sons and have a similar sound🤭. SG Lewis, Kaytranada’s brother, Lou Phelps, and Disclosure flood these tracks along with smaller artists like Darius and Cosmo’s Midnight, and obviously Kaytranada classics. Kaytranada, if you’re seeing this, please drop tickets for your next Montréal show! I’m dying to go back to MTL and Parc Jean-Drapeau!!!

Take some time to rest, reconnect with loved ones, and get some sunshine. Let me know if you like the playlists in the comments!

x Gab(rielle)