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We’ve diverted your attention away from your newly-normal quarantine life, and we’ve invited you to wallow in your COVID-fueled paranoia and claustrophobia, but today we ask you to look forward.

Planet Pandemic will be our life for a good long while, but (hopefully) soon we can start to see each other and work our way back to a modified version of normalcy. This playlist celebrates coming out of the darkness with songs of little hard-earned victories, celebrations, and realistic affirmations.

It’s going to be okay, so settle in, listen up, and #StaySafe and #MuchLove from your friends at NewsWhistle…

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NewsWhistle music contributor Chad Werner is “ahead of the curve, behind the times.” You can contact this rock n’ roll sphinx at chad@newswhistle.com (e-mail) or @scooternotmoped (Twitter).

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IMAGE CREDITS

From Chad: This album cover was going through my head as I put the playlist together. I love everything about it (and the album!).

• Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising Album Cover – Courtesy of SST Records
• Lead-In Image (An Homage to the Hüsker Dü Album) Courtesy of Ovchinnikova Stanislava / Shutterstock.com