What makes for a summer song?

NPR | By Anamaria Artemisa Sayre,

Hazel Cills, Robin Hilton

Published July 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM CDT

Robin Hilton, Anamaria Sayre and Hazel Cills gather to share songs that feel like summer — and that means staying indoors to avoid the heat as well as partying on a Brooklyn rooftop. We talk about our No. 1 songs from 2020 in the All Songs Considered 25th anniversary segment and provide the weekly reset: grilling on a summer night just ahead of a thunderstorm.

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Anamaria Artemisa Sayre

Anamaria Artemisa Sayre is co-host of Alt.Latino.

Hazel Cills

Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music. Before coming to NPR in 2021, Cills was a culture reporter at Jezebel, where she wrote about music and popular culture. She was also a writer for MTV News and a founding staff writer for the teen publication Rookie magazine.

Robin Hilton

Robin Hilton is a host and senior producer for the All Songs Considered podcast and Tiny Desk, a series he helped create -- and named -- in 2008.