DZ Deathrays Review and pictures by Melissa Tan with additional photography by David Payne. St Jerome's Laneway Festival returned to the gates of Footscray Community Centre on Saturday. Walking through the gates at 11, it felt more like a small gathering on a residential road rather the large franchise patron St Jerome would have intended. The crowd dribbled in small droves as the morning went on, but the sun did not. As the afternoon went on, the raging celsius turned the pale, insipid skin of punters down [...]
Filed under: News Glassnote I'm a huge fan of Spotify and tend to be outspoken when technophobes in the music industry make things difficult for companies helping to develop solutions for the broken system. Remember Lars Ulrich 's anti-Napster commercials? He's since learned a thing or two about the web, yet somehow Coldplay still choose money over access . Isn't it a bit ironic that Daughtry was the first [...]
This April nearly 80,000 people will land near Indio, California once again for a sold out Coachella. To get you prepared and pumped we've made this playlist.
The lineup for this year's Mountain Jam was just released. Steve Winwood and Gov't Mule will be headlining, with Michael Franti & Spearhead, The Roots, Ben Folds Five, The Word, Trombone Shorty and tons others joining them for the weekend of May 31-June 3 (right after Memorial Day) back on Hunter Mountain in NY. Read [...]
I heard this one on the radio the other day. I was impressed by the Arcade Fire meets Rusted Root meets (slight hint of) Animal Collective on Yo Gabba Gabba vibe. Don't know much about the band. But this tune is a perfect way to warm up on these cold January days. Listen via SoundCloud : Saw You First by GIVERS
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Written by: Billy Mack Taking to the stage for the first time in 2012, Lousiana quintet GIVERS lit up the Music Hall of Williamsburg with NY based openers, Yellow Ostrich . Audience members trickled onto the floor for the sold out performance, as Yellow Ostrich's frontman Alex Schaaf summoned enthusiasm from the crowd with his trademark a cappella loops & hypnotizing harmonies. The band unleashed an emphatic performance with tracks from the soon-to-be-recorded Marathon Runner . "WHALE", "Mary", and another tune fresh off the rack, "The [...]
Up until compiling this list, I was pretty sure 2011 was not a fantastic year for music. Well, I may have been completely wrong. There might not have been giant releases from the most prominent artists of our generation, but this is only because there are no more prominent artists of our generation. The internet and availability of music has made anybody a contender for making a great record, and I believe it has become a complete toss up as to who makes a future classic in any given year. Relax, for this is a good thing. Here's my big [...]
Another year, another astonishing array of releases to get you through January to December. But where last year had some very clear cut winners across the board (from the likes of Arcade Fire, Kanye West and LCD Soundsystem), this year has not appeared so obvious. But, better late than never, Hotcakes brings you an eclectic list carefully decided by our five writers. Enjoy! 30. Givers - In Light 29. Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder 28. The Black Keys - El Camino 27. Gui Boratti - III [...]
Another year, another astonishing array of releases to get you through January to December. But where last year had some very clear cut winners across the board (from the likes of Arcade Fire, Kanye West and LCD Soundsystem), this year has not appeared so obvious. But, better late than never, Hotcakes brings you an eclectic list carefully decided by our five writers. Enjoy! 30. Givers - In Light 29. Balam Acab - Wander / Wonder 28. The Black Keys - El Camino 27. Gui Boratti - III [...]
Happy 2012 live music freaks! Hope you all had a killer 2011 and finished it off with a bang and some good shows! Last week was obviously a busy week for live music fans in the New York metro area, so naturally, the concert calendar slows down a bit this week as we start the new year. But that's not to say there aren't some great shows to hit...
Posted in General Clickable Play-This-List Soundbite Following on from yesterday's post featuring our favorite albums and EPs of 2011, today we're highlighting our favorite songs. The list below is again in no particular order, the songs we chose may not have necessarily been singles, but were tracks on albums - we're basically highlighting any tune we heard over the past year [...]
HCM's Top 25 tracks of 2011 25-20 25. The Knocks - Brightside The NYC duo premiered this infectious tune several months ago in anticipation of their Magic EP, and it has been stuck permanently in my head since than. 24. Neon Indian - "Polish Girl" While many people felt Era Extrana was an inferior record to Psychic Chasms , "Polish Girl" stands out to me as his best song to date. The futuristic love [...]
It's that time of the year again and we've procrastinated till the last minute, but have no fear we've put together a list of our favorite 50 albums of 2011. This list reflects all of the Vagabonds that contribute throughout the year. We do our best to put it in to some sort of numerical order, but in the end all that matters is that we get to look back and recognize the music that has been soundtrack to our lives all year long. Below are our picks for numbers 50-40 we'll have another ten for you [...]
Sharon Van Etten Editor's Note: I don't do "Best of" or "Top" lists, but I do like things … as hard as it might seem to believe. I'm going to post a few editorials between now and the end of the year about the various things I've liked about 2011. For me to do a post on all the songs I liked that came out in 2011 I'd have to type for about 20 hours straight. I'm going to pair down the list through a couple of parameters. [...]
As if fighting in the "War On Christmas" isn't stressful enough this time of year, The New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Foundation just released the lineup for the 2012 Jazz Fest, setting off an almost inevitable debate about The Current And Future State Of Music™: Local Edition that has become as much of a yearly tradition as the purchase of ridiculous BayouWear leisure shirts adorned with piano keys shaped like fleurs-de-lis (or vice versa). Regardless of whether last night's announcement was a beacon of hope or a harbinger of disaster, we've got ourselves another solid festival on our hands. [...]
When taking on the arduous task of editing Wikipedia, one is faced with a draconian and arbitrary editorial process, hyper-specific technological codes and an altogether baffling insider culture. If you haven't done your research, learned how to tailor citations to meet certain ambiguous yet rigid criteria or developed a neutral voice, you might as well quit. By the same token, even if you've mastered Wikispeak , perfected the art of navigating Wikipedia's difficult reference guidelines and honed your journalistic writing style, you still have an uphill battle to avoid speedy deletion . But it is a [...]
2011 was (another) odd year for music. It felt like the average quality of albums was raised a bit, but nothing really stood out as a life-changing album or single of the year. Still, there was a lot of great music to be heard. Here's fifty of my favorite tracks from the year, ranging from [...]
Young Man, the project of singer-songwriter and producer Colin Caulfield, is set to tour the southeast with Givers in January fresh off of tours with the Cold War Kids and Grouplove. See below for a list of dates. Young Man's second full-length album, part two of a trilogy on Frenchkiss Records that began with Caulfield's recent debut LP Ideas of Distance, will be released in May 2012. The forthcoming album was produced by John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Tortoise,...
Waking up to intimate, bizarrely under-attended sessions from Nika Roza Danilova and Shara Worden betters most mornings, beneath grotty canvas in a field or otherwise and the pair are evidently more awake than most, chirpy and chirruping their separate ways through respectively spine-chilling and heartwarming slots. From the most proficient to the most poignant, it's then onto the wayward quirk of Lafayette, Louisiana's Givers . Any peculiarity seems carefully constructed as drum kits are butchered and reconfigured in inverted formations, a dreamcatcher is caught on the neck of Tiffany Lamson's ukulele, and flute solos intervene momentarily. Like Dirty Projectors [...]
Young Man, the project of singer-songwriter and producer Colin Caulfield, is set to tour the southeast with Givers in January fresh off of tours with the Cold War Kids and Grouplove. See below for a list of dates. Young Man's second full-length album, part two of a trilogy on Frenchkiss Records that began with Caulfield's recent debut LP Ideas of Distance, will be released in May 2012. The forthcoming album was produced by John McEntire (Broken Social Scene, Tortoise,...
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