Arctic Monkeys

Anyone who spent summer 2009 in New York will tell you, straight up, it was a wash. It rained almost every weekend all three months, and not cute, dainty, cherry-blossom-scented dewdrops either. Big, gray, scummy buckets of water drenched everything, forever, all summer long. I remember turning on the local news from under a blanket on my couch and hearing that a new NYC rainfall record had been set in Central Park for the month of June. Literally, not hot. (More …)