This Future Islands tune Is So Fucking Sweet. Like Sunday-happy-morning-time Sweet. Off Their On The

Yelle at the Regency Ballroom, SF. May 19, 2011. Sweaty, dancey fun. Forgive my iPhone camera's suckatude.

Been listening to GEMS for months - and now obsessed with this extended edit of their best track, "Medusa."  

Yucca Valley, CA

Ernest Greene, aka Washed Out, was all over the internets yesterday after announcing his Sub Pop full-length debut (out July 12). Additionally it's mentioned he's coming around the Bay with a gig at the Great American Music Hall a few days prior on July 9th. I'm totally stoked...in that chillwave kinda-way.

Streaming from the upcoming Within and Without, is "Eyes Be Closed" - a track undoubtedly influenced by Enya, and that standing outside a phonebooth song. 

EDIT (7/20): Two days ago Domino Records (by way of Subpop) released the "short beautiful visual piece" for "Eyes Be Closed," which can be now be seen above. 

Take responsibility for your choices, for your whims. Own your greatest strength and your most humbling mistakes. Cultivate the purpose you seek. Recognize your unbridled freedom. Everything else is meaningless.