Exhortations to socialize

Connection: titles that plainly describe the contents of the song

Come on, let’s keep this /m/ alive.

Monday, but this jam is for next Saturday.

Nina Hagen's boyfriend for a while. I used to make him food a few times when I was cooking at La Rocka on Damrak, Amsterdam.

Germany, this track from Nina's first album in 1978. Amazing voice and freaking good band.

Both songs have the word "alone" in the title. The former has "alone" written in English; this song has it written in German ("Allein") and Danish ("Alene").

Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubille → Cindy

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cindy#Etymology

In the 20th century adopted as a pet form of Cynthia.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cynthia#Alternative_forms

(my bold)

Cinthia, Cinthya, Cintia, Cintya, Cynthea, Cyntheia, Cynthya, Sinthia, Sintia, Synthea, Synthia, Syntia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_(given_name)

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Also both are Canadian, and both songs were released in the 2020s.

Diamonds. Both albums are real gems too

"Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile..."

Autolux - Turnstile Blues → turnstiles, and the Be Good Tanyas song is bluesy.

Greg Edwards is a member in both bands

The [person] who [past-tense verb phrase]

Cowgirl -> Milkmen
Great live version of Mongoose: https://youtu.be/t812FBsTctg?si=T9_Ngh9V98aMuu_D

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records. The album is Young's first with longtime collaborators Crazy Horse

This is a cover of the first song on the album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, which is where (MM) Ohio comes from.

Same title, slightly different vibes.

Both are from Baltimore and one of the members of animal collective goes by Deakin

Fishbone -> Bonefish

Perhaps a little too on the nose, but Hemingway is a dead poet.

Porkbellies are from pigs.

Both songs have pig in the title

Both bands have umlauts in their names, solely for stylistic reasons

Rollins Band - Liar

→

"I am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet."

...

"and all my promises are lies, all my love is hate."

At one point Rollins being Ian MacKaye's roadie, really long time friends though. Rollins bsnd became known in the Netherlands for this song.