Ireland's Electric Picnic has revealed the lineup for its 2013 festival, which takes place August 30th - September 1st at Stradbally Estate in Laois. The lineup includes Arctic Monkeys, Björk, My Bloody Valentine, The Knife, Wu-Tang Clan, David Byrne & St. Vincent, Franz Ferdinand, Fatboy Slim, Johnny Marr, The Walkmen, Disclosure, Warpaint, Eels, CHVRCHES, Hudson Mohawke, Savages, Poliça, Parquet Courts, Palma Violets, Mount Kimbie, Clinic, Hurts, Merchandise, Noah and the Whale, Deap Vally, The 1975, Peace, and more. Single-day and weekend passes go on sale Saturday, April 27th through the festival's website .
Instead of keeping us at arm's length with a cool reserve, The Walkmen invite us in for a warm embrace in their most personal, most commerical, most accomplished record yet. I think this is the album I'd hoped U2 might have made after The Joshua Tree . "Song for Leigh" just crushes... Heaven indeed. The Walkmen - "Song for Leigh" (from Heaven )
A biografia virtual dos rapazes do Shy Nature resume perfeitamente a aura do indie rock que o quinteto londrino faz, dizendo que o som deles nada mais é do que “s ongs about growing up in your 202s”. Declaradamente influenciados por The Walkmen , Kate Bush e Beach Boys , a banda usa o flat do baterista Matt como lugar para escrever, ensaiar e gravar suas próprias composições. Apesar de ser apenas a primeira amostra do que o Shy Nature tem a oferecer, “Deadly Sin” está fazendo um barulho considerável nas [...]
All photos and text by Alex Crick If I could choose a single children’s book to describe this year’s Treefort Music Festival , it would be The Little Engine That Could . After the resounding success of the inaugural Treefort Festival last year, the organizers truly did listen to all of the feedback and incorporated it to make this year’s festival bigger and better than before. On the top of the improvement list was the addition of a new venue The El Korah. By day, the Shrine [...]
>> While its counterpart in Oregon continues to be a hotbed of indie rock (more on that below), Portland, Maine has also been producing a steady stream of quality acts and recordings. In just the past year that city's Coke Weed and Endless Jags have released a tremendous record and EP respectively, and this Tuesday veteran indie quartet Brenda returns with a long-awaited sophomore record titled Fix Your Eyes . The 10-song collection echoes somewhat the aforementioned Endless Jags EP, as the two bands share some members and, likely [...]
By Hayley Scott April 09, 2013 Live At Leeds returns bigger and bolder for 2013, over the weekend of 03-06 May. Featuring the likes of The Pigeon Detectives, The Walkmen, Darwin Deez, Everything Everything and Melody's Echo Chamber along with a veritable barn load of up and coming acts for a mere £22.50 there is also the Unconference, for those of you looking to do a bit of industry networking and the Football Tournament so you can see your musical heroes both on [...]
The Walkmen @ T5, 2012 ( more by Gretchen Robinette ) The Walkmen are playing a free, ticketed show in McCarren Park on June 15 as part of the 2013 Northside Festival . It's the Walkmen's only show of 2013 and tickets are available now. If you have a Northside Fest badge you are guaranteed entry. Continue reading "The Walkmen playing free NYC show as part of Northside Fest (tickets available now)" [...]
Welcome back to the Friday Fives, where I add some random shit from the internet to another page on the internet, and you get to chip in in the comments section with yet more random shit. Welcome to Friday's Random Shit-O-Rama. Tomorrow is BAD FUN, remember, with Magic Eye , Fur Hood and Peter playing at Henry's Cellar Bar. We've just uploaded a new Magic Eye video , actually, from the Beer vs. Records/Split 123 sessions. It's only a fiver in and doors are at half seven, so please go along and keep Ian [...]
It's all gone a bit 2001 this month, with the return of The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. As we were listening to Mosquito yesterday, we got to wondering about some of the less heralded bands from the garage and post-punk revivals that brought a whole heap of hype to NYC around the turn of the millennium. Some of the bands from that scene are still around and doing well, of course — Interpol spring to mind immediately — but the others... Well, we've put on our deerstalkers and done some digging. [...]
By Rob Aldam & Cat Schaupp March 26, 2013 Live At Leeds began back in 2007 in order to celebrate the city’s 800th birthday, but has now morphed into a much bigger event that now sprawls itself over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. Taking place this year from the 3rd to the 6th of May, the ethos of the festival is to celebrate the best in music that Leeds has to offer, alongside featuring more established international acts. The main event takes [...]
Light Heat is led by Quentin Stoltzfus, formerly of Mazarin, who's last release was 20052s We're Already There . Light Heat will release their self-titled debut LP on June 25, 2013 via Ribbon Music. We're Already There seems like the kind of album that could have been monumental in 2000s indie rock, but somehow it's a little lost in the shuffle. Quentin Stolzfus has been busy with other things for a bit, but Light Heat's debut marks his return to "main guy" status. The band he put together features most of The Walkmen, who did great justice [...]
I never got around to mentioning, but for anyone who looks at my mixes over at 8tracks , I finally got around to a "Best Of 20123 mix and put it up there, instead of the Opentape thing I had been doing for the last few years that I doubt anyone ever used. Here's the tracklist for 2012 : 01. Moses Gold - Powder and Blood 02. Grimes - Oblivion 03. Serengeti feat. Yoni Wolf - Geti Life 04. Sean Born - Pour Out Liquor 05. Divine Fits [...]
In honor of Josh Ritter ’s lovely yet heartwrenching new album , inspired by the tragic disintegration of his marriage, I’ve compiled a mix of some of my favorite breakup songs. To keep this at a reasonable number, I’ve limited it to songs from the last 15 years (apologies to Bob Dylan , Nilsson , Sam Cooke , Love , and The Cure , among others). Click here to download the mix / listen on Spotify . 01. Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead [...]
photo by Jim Bennett Last month, KEXP, STG, and Starbucks hosted the 5th edition of the Little Big Show at the Neptune Theater to benefit Youth In Focus , an after-school program that gives students an opportunity to develop positive identity, social skills, and voice through intensive photography training. The Walkmen and Father John Misty played two rousing sets to a sold-out house. Check out the KEXP exclusive video of the performances below, and makes sure to get your tickets as soon as possible for [...]
Bill Ryder-Jones has filmed a video for 'He Took You In His Arms', the first track to be aired from the forthcoming his new album 'A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart' which will be released via Domino beginning of... READ MORE
The city of Liverpool brought us The Beatles, it’s brought us Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, and they’ve been European Capital of Culture in 2008. It’s a city that just keeps on giving! Now, what could they have next to give? Well, how does an incredible array of exciting new names for the UK’s first big festival of the year, Liverpool Sound City resonate within? Last year saw those 2012 Mercury Prize-winning scamps alt-J grace one of the festival’s many stages, alongside teenage sensation (who isn’t One Direction) [...]
Live At Leeds have added more bands to this year's fest. The Yorkshire festival, which takes place this time round between 3-6 May, will play host to The Walkmen , Savages , Still Corners , Indians , Wolf Alice and more. Also revealed today are the likes of MØ , MS MR , Sky Larkin , Splashh , Syron and [...]
This past year (well past by this point might I add) provided us with a slew of good to great music. There were new albums from Ben Gibbard, Muse, The Killers, and B.o.B. to name a few. They all made solid efforts in 2012, but they didn't quite crack the top ten albums. Below is my list, long overdue. 01: Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal From the opening of the first track you can almost sense that this is a special effort. There is a quiet [...]
It's been a long time - too long - since I've mentioned Mazarin's name on this blog. To be exact, it's been more than six years . That was in November 2006, when Mazarin was forced to retire its name because of a cease and desist order by an attorney hired by another band with the same name. Long story short: Mazarin retired its name and, worse, retired as a band, playing a final show in December 2006 in its hometown of Philadelphia. It was a shame for Mazarin to endure such an [...]
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