Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Soren Well Video: 'After' Highlight: The Brooklyn indie-rockers perform on a boat in New York City's East River, with camera-work duties crowd-sourced to their fans.

Hearing that a band is from Brooklyn may predetermine your attitude towards it, but good music rises above petty biases, good or bad. Soren Well is a quintet from the aforementioned trendy borough that plays a frighteningly accurate amalgamation of Loveless -era shoegaze with showers of guitars and dreamscape vocals. The tonal similarities to My Bloody Valentine's career-defining album are almost overwhelming. Upon first listening to "After", I just harped on all the noises and bended tremolos I could pick out that sounded like they were sampled straight from Loveless . But the more I listened, the less [...]

VANISHING POINT PRESENTS: AUDN (midnight) www.myspace.com/audnmusic Brooklyn-based quintet Audn combines the swirling layers of early shoegaze sound with ringing psychedelic guitars, intricate Kraut-rock-inspired textures and a Madchester sensibility. With intertwining guitar and vocal melodies, shifting rhythms, Audn's spacey shoegaze is dreamy but focused. SOFT (11pm) www.myspace.com/soft Taking the psychedelic pop of Manchester's finest, The Stone Roses, as a starting point, and incorporating the lush atmospherics favored by the shoegazers who supplanted them in the early 90's, Soft has condensed a five year era of British music into one seamless, signature [...]

Another summer weekend with a boatload of shows to check out. Here's what's going on. Summer is the time for festivals and this Saturday the Download Festival rolls through the Philly area for the only east coast date of this three city festival. It is a huge line-up featuring The Killers, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Ghostland Observatory, The Parlor Mob, The Duke Spirit, Colour Revolt, Louis XIV, Sia, The Whigs, The Airborne Toxic Event, Eli Reed, and Philly's own Man Man. It'll be a [...]