Necessities. 

straight girls.

Me: They're kinda my jam. R: I wouldn't be going around calling it your jam. Me: Shit, it's happened enough you could call it my greatest hits collection.

Stages of Grief

jesus fucking christ, this is it. 

Janet Jackson's 25th Anniversary of Rhythm Nation 1814

fuck charlie sheen. this is winning.

I want to go back.

Now Future Islands. They reduce me to pieces. They're the A-side on a recent release of the Less Artists More Condos 7" series benefiting the late Ariel Panero of the Brooklyn-based artist collective Famous Class. "Cotton Flower" is a comforting ode to letting go. 

They play SF's Independent September 4th.

I finally caught The Horrors live at Bimbo's 365 Club in SF last week when they co-headlined two shows with The Black Angels. It was a loud, and achingly gorgeous-sounding set in a beautiful venue.

Back in England, where these decidingly throwback shoegazers are from, they're Album of the Year winners(well, NME says) and doing duets of their single "Still Life" with mega fan Florence Welch. It's about as good as you'd hope, which is close to perfection.