So I Was Going To Post The Brand New XX Single "Angels" But Everyone On This Side Of The Internet Has

Three months and counting.

Bill Eppridge - Skateboarding in New York City, 1965

This is The Horrors. They're from London. This past week, they released their third lp Skying off XL Recordings (home of every artist that seems to matter at the moment, including Radiohead, the XX, and Adele). 

The once punk-and-goth inspired five piece continue to lighten up(only slightly) with lead single "Still Life." 

It's a catchy, synth-filled cut that grows until bam! We got horns! 

I've been reading reviews on other sites(the big fancy blogs you've heard of) that their new sound mimics early Simple Minds. Like those kids ever really listened to Simple Minds. Who makes that up? Regardless it's got that era written all over it. Along with M83's "Midnight City" and Washed Out's "Amor Fati" we're sure building the greatest John Hughes movie soundtrack that never was.  

The Horrors play Bimbo's 365 Club September 10 in San Francisco.

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.

The Sounds play this Thursday at the Rickshaw Stop, SF. Which means Maja (at left) will be there. Which means heaven because I die.  

P.S. that new Katy Perry alien video w/ Kanye and the deer legs is ridiculous and I'm totally entertained. She's been making up for her suckatude since faking bi-curiousity and calling Lady Gaga "blasphemous."

After "Teenage Dream," "Firework," that Adidas clip, and now this, I'm on the team. We'll just see how much time passes until she's loses me again. You go, K.P. 

My 14-year-old kid sister Caroline is obsessed with Kid Cudi. In fact, this past Mother's Day when we talked music, she pined over tickets to his show on June 19th at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF, which of course, are sold out. This is while now family-favorite Florence + the Machine is playing on the stereo out on my older sister's deck, where we all share homemade sopapillas and good drink. 

I was already hoping to scoop some tickets off Craigslist to Florence for the June 12th show at the Greek Theater in Berkeley and taking Caroline. This of course, to solidify my standing, as all-time best older sister #1.

With tickets soaring to over $75 a pop (I'm not desperate, I've seen Flo twice already), the odds of purchase are not good. Especially when there's a consellation like this track - a fantastic mashup by Riley Keating (known as R3K), fusing Cudi's verses off Dan Black's "Symphonies" with Flo's "Cosmic Love." 

By the way, when I sent this track to my sister, she replied, "oh...my...god! i LOVE it! LOVEEE ITTTTT!!!"

Some genius thought to set one of the best tracks off the new Arcade Fire's record Reflektor to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Thanks internet. 

ride's "going blank again" on 180 gram double vinyl came in the mail today, just in time for christmas. came in the mail. in the MAIL. and appeared so effortlessly on my coffee table. if only everything this great was always that easy.