it's a junior boys kind of day. #nowplaying their new release:
it's all true.
stream it here ( on hype machine, just hit play).
silver varied hem cardigan- boston proper
floral print lace tank - forever 21
grey cargo leggings - hue
necklace - forever 21
leopard cat eye shades - can't recall. :-(
love,
sunlovey

BIRDS & BLOSSOMS

once upon a time... there was a little smocked waist, lace-trim bird skirt that asked, wait, no no no, that BEGGED to be paired back to bright blooming wedges. sunlovey obliged & voila! a summery love affair began...
While on the subject of things that flower, how about a little track from california's Garden & Villa. the german insisted i give them a listen on the way home from the children's musical (katy perry) the other night. was utterly killing me that i couldn't recall who they reminded me of, remembered just now. mason proper & their track, fog.
check it: garden & villa's black hills:

love,

sunlovey

holy hot damn! i think it's safe to say i'm quite close to smitten where hooray for earth's forthcoming LP is concerned. stream the whole bloody thing here and see if it makes YOU swoon too. i want to say i'm pretty pissed tho, 'cuz upon listening i thought "weird, this feels like old MGMT somehow". and then i noticed that spin said the same thing, or rather, that this is what they wish congratulations would have sounded like. so yeah. like old MGMT, you'll probably feel it hard.
dear hooray for earth, please book (another) a florida date.
love,
sunlovey
p.s. feels like doesn't mean is knocking off. that's a loose comparison. hooray for earth is tres unique. #LOVE

addendum: i've SEEN hooray for earth. or at least PART of their set, in '10 at grand central. i'm a bloody dumb ass to have forgotten. i mentioned that i liked them then. HELLO.

utterly obsessed with layering textures, mixing prints, popping colors. it's so summer. oh & accumulating some sound sounds over the last couple of weeks.

stand outs:
Perfectly Crystal (Beach Fossils / Spirit Animal Remix) Asobi Seksu

Bee Nose (Put Yr Face On) Pink Skull

Blue Cassette Friendly Fires

Julius Starf*cker (press play)-->


love,
sunlovey

just when you thought i was done gushing and gushing and gushing on end about #UMF

IDENTITY FEST
came along...
and this, my loveys, is a nationwide tour.
so try to go wherever you are.
then, prepare to
DANCE
it appears there will be varying line-ups
so click your city for the details.
i'm so in: bookashade, kaskade, holy ghost!+
YAY YAY YAY!!!
happy friday.
love,
sunlovey

addendum: my brain is one jacked little place. i hesitate to drop $100 on a dress without carefully mulling it over, but a show goes on sale & $100+ is dropped faster than you can say 'excuse to dance my a$$ off'. conversely, i will dole out $50 at the drop of a hat for a killer top, but hesitate and think in great detail about spending the same on a $50 music compilation.
i don't get myself.

do you remember:

The Lightning Seeds

this song leapt into my brain

a bit earlier today & i embraced

the flashbacks it evoked, the flood

of emotion it stirred up.

& simp

ly did NOT have a choice in the

matter when it came to either

sharing it with you or reminding you of it.

watch the band's vid here:

ALL I WANT.

such #LOVE.

love,

sunlovey
p.s. that's me at my shower on saturday.

#YAY for new washed out. feeeeeels good. download Ernest Greene's 1st new track, Eyes Be Closed here:

the dress.
spotted it on haute look a couple months ago.
it's by SugarLips & is such love. especially the back.
worn with shoe dazzle wedges & H&M bracelets + my new fave necklace from @MKtiernan, featuring a most appropriate 'L'... you'll have to tweet her & ask where she got it. LOVE LOVE LOVE.


hope your weekends ruled.
MINE SURE DID.
miss all my loveys, now though.
love,
sunlovey

summertime rolls
& rules.

yeah, it's not technically summer.
but the song popped in my head
& word on the street is, it's blazing
in NYC today. give them a round of applause.
finally.
yep, you got it, summer continues to inspire all things
shorts, dresses & wedges for this little sunlovey.
thought i'd overload you with summery looks galore
before my week goes utterly haywire, as so many of
my faves converge on south florida
& i stop the world and melt with them.

tunic (will wear as dress in august) - forever 21.
bracelet - anomaly (jacksonville).
shorts - loehmann's.
wedges - shop.com.

sequin tunic - forever 21.
tribal shorts - forever 21.
wedges -steve madden.
necklace - jewel mint.

dress - desigual.
necklace - boston proper.
wedges - shoe dazzle.

love,
sunlovey

thieves like us = such #LOVE
always have,

& still very much do. to...



in the last week or so i've acquired their One Night With You (Nite Jewel remix) and Your Love Runs Still mp3s from the beloved RCRDLBL & dig both to the max. smart kids know that 'thieves like us' was a new order track way back in '84. & that that is where Swedes Pontus Berghe (drums) and Björn Berglund (keyboards) & American Andy Grier (vocals)got their name. and i adore them.
get all RCRDLBL has to offer by way of Thieves Like Us here.
love,
sunlovey
in a boston proper racer-back top
old navy cargos
and patricia fields platforms

being a fashion pack rat
pays off once again
acquired this vibrant, embellished dress a thousand years ago from boston proper. and i loved it so much, i bought it even though it was one size too big(my size was sold out). today, am mad glad i did. and that i kept it all these years. i still #LOVE it & it fits perfectly right now thanks to, well, you know... thought you'd just love seeing me wearing it ages ago, hanging out with queens in key west.

p.s. this song has been on the brain. perhaps because when it 1st came into my consciousness, i WAS young, like REALLY young... but now, i get it. and adore the track even more... Alphaville's Forever Young (1984)


hope your weekends rocked.
love,
sunlovey

downloaded rainbow arabia- 'without you' from EarBlessings' blog this a.m. 1st listen, thought to self, 'i dig'. then, it came on again later this afternoon and i was like 'WHO THE HELL IS THIS, I TOTALLY FREAKIN' FEEL IT'. it grows, it soars. the drums capture me. vocals hurt & haunt a bit. it's melodic & thoughtful. that's when i decided the only the right and honest thing i could do is link YOU to it. thank you for the hook up, Ear Blessings.

love,

sunlovey

happy valentine's day, loveys
things i #LOVE today:
Alice + Olivia's show tonight @ #NYFW 5:00 PM
Betsey Johnson's show tonight @ #NYFW 6:00 PM
Marc Jacob's show tonight @ #NYFW 7:30 PM

Also... Urban Outfitters' #MusicMondays offering today RULES. check it:


Lastly dear beloved Yeasayer's giving out three mixes of I Remember, the haunting track that makes all smart girls smitten with Anand Wilder.
#SpreadTheLove
love,
sunlovey

New Beat FOUND. thank you @IGIF. totally blasted toro y moi's #NewBeat on my drive home yesterday, feeling all kinds of '70s danceable grooves and made it my mission to acquire the MP3 today. here it is, loveys. turn it up loud & have fun. Toro Y Moi - New Beat via I Guess I'm Floating.
In other news. #LOVE is...
when a fave walks up to you & says, "do you want this?" and "this" happens to be something so fun & perfect for #UMF. merci, @gusberus. you are love.
love,
sunlovey

mirrors = #love.
the band is from brighton, england. they're no doubt inspired by early '80s synth pop &
there's definitely something white lies about them, but with far more electronic tangents.
i dig. check out mirrors' new vid for "Into the Heart":


love,
sunlovey

looking back:
I'll stop the world and melt with you...
so if you follow me on twitter, you know i've been reading Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, which has been most fun thus far. I was a wee kid in the heyday of brilliant new wave '80s sound but my GOD, i love it. #love the era & compare every single bit of new sound i encounter to '80s new wave. while some chapters focus on tracks i'm not in love with, the whole experience has got me spending an immense amount of time delving deeply & endlessly into all the '80s sound on my ipod. have found myself utterly stuck on my Just Can't Get Enough Genius Mix. And wanted to post some vids from tracks on it for your Friday enjoyment. Have a smashing weekend, loveys. Me personally? I'm going to Miami to check out Small Black = dancing = #YAY. (p.s. if you give them a listen & dig, their latest release is only $5 on amazon.com RIGHT NOW. this will change, so don't screw around) OK, back to fun friday '80s new wave...dig in.
love,
sunlovey

THANKFUL.
while i'm without a doubt thankful for a plethora of substantially more important things (family, health, love) in the lead up to thanksgiving, the fact that cut copy's 2nd track from their upcoming zonoscope album sounds like the cut copy we know & dance to is definitely worthy of my gratefulness. check it. #YAY.
Cut Copy - "Take Me Over" (Radio Edit) Premiere by modularpeople
happy thanksgiving, loveys!
love,
sunlovey

bringing the trouser back
in my own little world. spent an hour and a half trying on pants in my own closet on a laid back sunday afternoon and came to the realization that they're hot. and i'd forgotten. there's something to their clean lines, their tailored nature, their sleek, polished fit. trust. skinny jeans and shiny leggings are my heart. but i am vowing to revisit the pant and reinvent it in my own wardrobe. exhibit A: happened upon this marabou feather scarf with satin tie at the sketchiest of flea markets over the weekend. totally vamped up my pale blue trousers. love.









nitzer ebb in photos
i last saw nitzer ebb when they toured with depeche mode for violator. i was in junior high. and i was SHOCKED. what the hell was this music? banging, beats, shouts. erratic, yet rhythmic. who was this guy flailing around energetically, with a powerful, sometimes menacing voice? i loved it. instantly. fasssssst forward to this past saturday night. i was seeing them again. gone were their baggy shorts, t-shirts and trainers, douglas mccarthy's wildly curly locks (i did know this about douglas as i saw him as 1/2 of fixmer/mccarthy a year or two ago). replaced with dapper newsboy caps (on bon harris), suspenders with trousers (on jason payne), mccarthy in an insanely well-fitting suit. but not gone: that bloody energy. the banging, the beats, the cacophony of industrial brilliance that grabs you, pulls you in, implodes you, causing involuntary stomping & frenetic dancing. the vibration from the speaker beside me compounded the experience. that & grand central's LED screen. and actually, seeing nitzer ebb again has made me rock-bottom sad. there's just not new sound out there that comes close to theirs. raw, jarring, beat-driven electronic with pulsating percussion that dominates the atmosphere. there's not. you won't convince me otherwise.

highlights for me are likely obvious: hearts & minds, let your body learn, murderous, control i'm here, blood money, join in the chant... oh, all of it!

i did manage to snap a few cellphone photos amidst the bad a$$-ness, crumpled set list courtesy of grand central's facebook page.

LEARN. CHOOSE. BUILD.

love,

sunlovey

LISTENING TO...

how about a random little collection of sounds i've been tripped up on recent days & why:
Starfield- The New Division

i just love it. beautiful. atmospheric, like literally, you might picture the sky, crickets, waves, listen...

A Little Respect - Erasure (listen via hypem.com)

because andy bell was spotted at the robyn show in tampa, fl this past monday by one friend and DJed someplace in manhattan last night where another friend was in attendance, erasure's just on the brain.

The One - The Radio Dept. (download it via pitchfork.com)

O.M.Beats! and a seriously lovely & nostalgic vibe. and why ever is this track so short i want more more more...#love.

Bikini - 04 (listen via hypem.com)

a fuzzy, youthful anthem full of layers, chanting, heartfelt melodies—you'll dance to it as much as you reflect to it.
Fun to be had - Nitzer Ebb

1st time i saw nitzer ebb i was 13, they were opening for depeche mode on the world violation tour. i got a beer spilled on me. i fell in love with industrial music. am seeing them again this saturday in miami and well, there's mad fun to be had, loveys.

Ghost in my head - Niva

this track is like a dream you don't really want to wake up from. and yet, it still makes you a little melancholy. there are underlying beats that remind me of london jungle music in the mid '90s. and who doesn't have a ghost or two in their heads?

happy listening!

love,

sunlovey

catching up with sunlovey forever

yeah it's been a minute since i've posted. here's what's been on...

WEARING...
eeek, i actually wore this diagonal sequin-stripe lace print tunic on it's own a few months ago. holy what the HECK was i thinking? much better with my boston proper ponté legging and ancient granny military boots from nordstrom.
kids, THIS is my favorite cardigan under the sun, acquired at the boston rugby store. i dig how the combination red/white stripes against blue remind me of a union jack. my imagination led me to pair it with a red-lined leopard sheath dress. annnnnd, my utmost fave brown victorian boots. a sparkling scarf made the look all the more eclectic.
i wore this mini-dress in september when it was still blazing outside. to celebrate our recent "cool" front i tossed my shaggy black faux fur vest (recently snagged at filine's in boston) on over it, pulled on cobalt blue tights and my major fringe boots. i figured the fringe and the shag would balance out proportions. and turn heads. am still dressing like a nick cage sound suit lately, i can't help it.

LISTENING TO...
Starfield- The New Division
The One - The Radio Dept.
A Little Respect - Erasure
Ghost in my head - Niva

04 - Bikini
Fun to be had - Nitzer Ebb

INDULGING IN...
vegetarian shepherd's pie
michelle bernstein's oceanfront restaurant @ the omphoy

whole crisp bronzini served with wilting greens, crushed fingerling potatoes and charmoula

JUST BACK FROM...
boston, cambridge & salem

and yeah, i'm still not in a place to tell you more about that. but i endeavor to...

love,

sunlovey

november? is that you?
november has crept up upon us once again, this time, perhaps more sneakily than ever, ever before. autumn months make me so reflective. which is why i think i've latched on to wild nothing's golden haze out of nowhere. get it here, it's quietly beautiful:
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
perhaps you're wondering "why the photo of the dark crystal's kira on your post?" well. i insisted upon wearing a sweater-dress today despite it being stupid hot. and well, the hood of it keeps making me feeeeeeel like kira. i swear. laugh. i don't care. i can't count how many times i watched that film. my little brother & i loved it. i think he was obsessed with aughra.
i really ought to post about boston, and trust, i'll try. just wanted to make sure i communicated with you today no matter what though. i missed you.
love,
sunlovey