I Moved. I Like The Scenery. While Settling In, I Stumbled Upon This Appropriate Gem: RAC's mix Of

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!!!"

Phoenix - The French indie-pop band too good for their own good. Their singles became ubiquitous in 2009, and thankfully for my sanity and probably their own, they've stayed away this past year or so. Sure, Girl Talk sampled "1901" on All Day and then Phoenix frontman's wifey Sofia Coppola featured "Love Like A Sunset" in her film Somewhere. 

But really, this song above is awesome because it isn't Phoenix. Strange Talk is out of Melbourne, Australia, and they ape Phoenix HARD on this track.

Honestly, I could have very well just said this was new Phoenix, and been on my merry way knowing I had convincingly deceived every one of my 3 followers (hi Mom). 

Where would that leave them? With "Eskimo Boy," a fresh and pleasant sounding track perfect for this Bay spring breeze. Holla.

Too Short came into my restaurant in Oakland last night. He was accompanied by a fine-ass young lady who hell yeah wanted steak sauce in a Pan-American restaurant. 

grey day in the hood.

fuck charlie sheen. this is winning.

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.

Black Marble's "A Great Design".

Another Brooklyn duo with another stellar track. 2012 seemed to be reeking of them. This is one of my favorites.

Includes many of my favorite things - sneakers, new Justice track, skateboarding, killer editing, and Katy Perry.

Well done.