We’re approaching Valentine’s Day, and whether you’re hitched up for the holiday or you’re enjoying the single-life, you need to be listening to Beach House’s Teen Dream. This album not only made me remember why I love Beach House, but also why I love to love. Teen Dream is easily Beach House’s best album. It maintains Beach House’s west coast lo-fi pop sound, but on this album we get some of the best dream pop I’ve heard in a while. Beach House incorporates more of a romantic 80s feel to their sound making for some pretty lush, hypnotic tunes...

It's hard to imagine musicians who collaborate with Madonna and perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live as punk rockers, but punk is an attitude and Gogol Bordello's live shows prove it to their audience with ferocious energy and heart. All nine band members are on stage almost a hundred percent of the time, but I'm venturing to say 30% of their time on stage, they're in mid-air, not actually on the stage. You can verify the numbers on your own time. At 9pm the lights went out, the giant sling-shot image lit up in red and in front of it sauntered Eugene Hütz...