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Endless Summer: 28 Songs To Keep The Heat In Your Heart

Summer is forever if you want it. Sam Sanders' playlist is pure nostalgia, with hazy flashbacks triggered by Frank Ocean, Lorde and Nick Hakim.
Summer never ends if you have roséwave in your heart.

We close out the second season of Roséwave, the ultimate summer playlist series, with our friend Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute. —Lars Gotrich

I do that thing a lot where makes me think of getting lost in the city at night on purpose and buying something at the too-expensive ice cream shop only because they were playing . takes me back to that spontaneous trip to the desert when it was entirely too hot to go, but the 405 was super easy get through leaving L.A., so look on the bright side right? is the rooftop birthday party we snuck onto just before sunset. is the bouncer who miraculously let us in to that club we were much too old to enter. is the end of that sloppy, decadent summer fling – an ending that wasn't painful at all – just before I dropped you off at the wrong airport.

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