We love it when Eminem is all pro-gay marriage, instead of a psychotic woman-hater. We do like this song. We hope he continues to evolve. (As we hope to continue evolving ourselves.)

We’re not sure how we feel about putting an Eminem song here, so we will also include this Eliza Doolittle song, which is—well, on the other side of the spectrum.

We’ve been listening to loads of interviews with Nicholas Carr, talking about his book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to our Brains. (Destroying it, obviously.) At one point he talked about this guy who gave up the Internet, and found himself listening to the actual radio instead of, say, Pandora—and how doing so left him open to all these weird, awesome moments of synchronicity, where the music was unexpectedly tuned into an actual moment—which doesn’t happen in the same way when you’re basically programming your computer to play certain songs. (In our experience with Pandora, this means Coldplay, over and over and over again.)

In this spirit, we’ve been listening to Radio 1 on the BBC more and more lately—recommended! Er, long story short, they played the XX like three times today, and we love them, and we were going to put up the XX doing a Florence and the Machine cover (of a Candi Stanton). But then we decided we didn’t love any of that as much as we did “Drumming” by Florence and the Machine, above, which also makes us want to buy as much eyeliner as possible, as quickly as we can.

We love this song so much it’s ridiculous, and we love the video slightly more. We first heard Marina and the Diamonds last year—February 25, 2009, thank you very much Gmail search function—when we were working very late at the NYLON office, and our very nice editor sent it to us to cheer us up because we’d gone all the way to Rite Aid and forgotten to buy snacks. It was successful. (The cheering-up operation.) That song was not the one above: It was “Obsessions (Golden Panda Remix.” But then we saw this one, and we fell in love all over again—apparently, in both music and other things, we are quite fickle.

Here are some screenshots from the song. We put in a call with the video people to see if we could interview the stylist—wish us luck!

Seeing this makes us think of the new “net-zero climate impact” hairspray from Aveda.

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We know, we’re about exactly one year too late on this—but eh, it’s somehow bubbled to the top of our iPod this week. Fast fact: In Spain, our friend D. assures us, her name is commonly pronounced “La Ruche.” (We cannot verify this information as fact or disprove it as fiction.) Random bit of information: Forever 21′s offering a free “exclusive” track here with this code: F21LAROUX2.

Jesus! We interviewed Drew Barrymore once, and she was super nice, and we just hope to God for her sake that she is completely, 100% over Fabrizio Moretti—because this portfolio of photos with him and his girlfriend, Binki Shapiro, would make anyone who wasn’t completely insane.

The sweater she’s wearing is Sportmax and apparently costs $575, and we love it.

Photos by Serge Leblon—so much more lovelier than the Vogue story with Karen Elson and Jack White, speaking of music super-couples.

Glastonbury! It’s our favorite music festival for which it is necessary to wear mud boots. We were there, last year: missed Florence and the Machine, saw Bruce Springsteen, so let’s call it a draw. We spent ten extremely half-hearted minutes looking for well-dressed festival-goers to photograph, gave up, and went back to watching the music. However! We do love Glastonbury: It’s like someone said to all the celebrities in Britain: You must go to this field, and you must live in a tent, and you must wear wellies and sunglasses and various other warm-weather things, but it’s still Britain, so there will be socks.

Anyhoo: These are our favorite looks from the festival, beginning, above, with Emma Watson (in a Louis Vuitton corset), Kate Moss, and Pixie Geldof.

I just found out I’m writing about this South African band called Gazelle, which I love and was one of our favorite discoveries of our seven weeks in southern Africa. I love this song. I watched this video with the two of the guys who made it, and in general, I think it is ridiculously beautiful, but I was all like, Yes, but why? The girls? Who do nothing? But stand there? Eh, cultural differences. It’s not like it’s worse than Whitesnake or anything. Sometimes I close my eyes when I watch this video, but the rest of it is so beautiful that I open them eventually.

Hello! This is our site. It is broken, or at least not quite finished working. So while we fix all those links that aren’t working, here is our current favorite song [that is not sung by Kelly Clarkson]. Usually we don’t like live YouTube footage, but this is hysterical, because (a) the song is amazing, (b) it’s a singalong, which means we must see the Mountain Goats live as absolutely soon as possible, and (c) this screen-grab contains the funniest YT comments we have ever seen: