2011 has seen innumerable festivals fall off the edge of solvency, which has begged an overarching question: what makes a festival special? In a not-too-hippy way, it's clearly more than the line-up - by virtue of it changing each year, and each festival's audience not only fluctuating in number but differing in terms of attendees. Music changes with each year too, meaning - necessarily - that the popular mass's tastes alter in a similar-looking chart. So we land at The Big Chill Festival , set in amidst rolling hills and spotlit trees in Eastnor Castle Deer Park. [...]
Znów zaczynam bez wstępniakowego wodzirejstwa i znów (znów?) posługuję się bardzo prostym modelem, którego w swoich "Listach z podróży" użył Karel Čapek. Dzielę więc relację na "dwie przegródki, opatrzone dwoma zbiorczymi tytułami: co mi się podobało i co mi się nie podobało". O ile jednak mistrzowi weneccy nowożeńcy mogli nie podobać się "w ogóle i bez podania powodu", o tyle ja postaram się o kilka, choćby i błahych, argumentów. CO MI SIĘ PODOBAŁO: - organizacja. Katowice po raz kolejny udowodniły swoją przewagę nad Mysłowicami. Słupna miała swój urok, ale Trzy [...]
Teman baik kita dari Chugg Entertainment, membagi kebahagiaan melalui foto-foto karya Aloysius Lim; sehingga kita bisa turut menikmati sedikit keceriaan dari show di St.James Factory, Singapore kemarin. enjoy
Teman baik kita dari Chugg Entertainment, membagi kebahagiaan melalui foto-foto karya Aloysius Lim; sehingga kita bisa turut menikmati sedikit keceriaan dari show di St.James Factory, Singapore kemarin. enjoy
This will be my first Field Day , I was tempted to go last year but it was the day after my birthday and the lure of curry and beers in my home-town proved more than sufficient to keep me out of East London. Taking place at Victoria Park the line-up is pretty spectacular, if the weather cools down a little (yes I'm now moaning it is too hot after weeks of asking where our summer was) it promises to be a spectacular day. Here's my suggested day plan, there are so many great bands that clashes [...]
The Treasure Island Music Festival has been five years running. But every year they continue to surprise us with their ever amazing lineup. Starting on Saturday, Oct. 15, this autumn weekend festival will be full of B-Sides' favorites. Death Cab For Cutie, Cut Copy, Beach House, Warpaint, The Naked and Famous, Friendly Fires and much more make a perfect combination of seasoned and emerging indie artists from several different popular genres. Who doesn't love Death Cab for Cutie ? Well just in case you haven't listened to their new album yet, they're still going strong [...]
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The annual Treasure Island Festival is once again returning to the San Francisco Bay for its fifth year. Set to take place October 15-16, the 2-day bash is set to be headlined by Empire of the Sun (10/15) and Death Cab For Cutie (10/16). The opening day of the festival (October 15) will see performances by Cut Copy, Death From Above 1979, Flying Lotus, Battles, Chromeo, Dizzee Rascal, Shabazz Palaces, YACHT, Buraka Som Sistema, the Naked and Famous, Aloe Blacc, and Geographer. The second day of the bash [...]
The lineup for the Treasure Island Music Festival was just announced , promptly crashing the Treasure Island website and bringing down the Noise Pop site with it. Whoops. Here's the scoop from Pitchfork: The first day, headlined by (somewhat surprisingly) Empire of the Sun , has a lineup that leans toward stuff with dancey electronic influences: Cut Copy , Death From Above 1979 , Flying Lotus , Battles , Chromeo , Dizzee Rascal , [...]
San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival returns for its fifth go-around from October 15th to 16th at the breath-taking Treasure Island. As has been the case throughout the festival's history, the bill mixes the best of indie and electronic, with Death Cab for Cutie, Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Chromeo, and Death From Above 1979 heading the bill. The festival's first day leans toward the electronic side. Joining Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Chromeo, and DFA 1979 are Battles, Flying Lotus, Buraka Som Sistema, YACHT, The Naked and Famous, Dizzee Rascal, Shabazz Palaces, Aloe [...]
Rapidly becoming a regular London festival institution, the annual Field Day event is set to hit the UK once again on Saturday, August 6th. Taking place in the mammoth Victoria Park – set in the unashamedly hip confines of East London – Field Day 2011 has what looks to be the strongest lineup so far. Covering all manner of alternative and leftfield tastes, the festival boasts a healthy mix of producers, DJs and bands (from both the UK and further afield), and its artist list reads like a Who's Who of current hot topics in [...]
It's been a long while since I've posted a Sunday Radio Dick feature, which usually required hours of prep work for me each week. I'm feeling a little energetic rolling into Sunday, so I'll throw down with an old school Radio Dick - our long-time readers know how these roll. For those new to the garden party, it's essentially a weekly roundup of some tracks that either 1) garnered plenty of newsworthy hype - warranted or not, or 2) were missed by me throughout the week. I consider this the arena to sort of lob tracks at [...]
Facebook I forget who I was talking to but it was just in the last couple of weeks and it was about how Feist has done a pretty good job of not having anyone notice it's been a long time since her last record - almost four years, three months and counting. Sure, the first couple years of that was spent touring and promoting The Reminder as it blew up worldwide, but after that wound down she's struck a pretty good balance between guest appearances - whether occasionally onstage [...]
A look at what's happening right now: Shortlist for Mercury Prize '2011 Albums of the Year' has been released. 12 albums gunning for the top prize include: Adele - 21 Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys! Everything Everything - Man Alive Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam Gwilym Simcock - Good Days At Schloss Elmau James Blake - James Blake Katy B - On A Mission [...]
Warpaint goes on an undersea adventure.
The good thing about instrumental hip-hop artists? Their doors are open to all kinds of collaborations. L.A. musician Bryan Charles Holton, better known as Boom Bip , will demonstrate this with a new album, out this fall. Boom Bip, who has released only two proper solo albums in his 13-year career, will follow up on Blue Eyed in the Red Room (2005) and his Mercury-nominated collaboration with Gruff Rhys Stainless Style (2008) by branching out and grabbing some diverse indie and alternative names. The new [...]
We've always had the idea to do a video underwater, and were excited when our friend Ted Newsome sent us a treatment, which involved just that. It was an opportunity to create a fantastical world where oxygen, time and style were simply not an issue. Turned out to be far more challenging than we had initially expected, but we pulled through. We're excited about it and hope you enjoy. - Warpaint [ Warpaint Official Site ] [ Warpaint Twitter ]
I don't get to see my Sister very often because we live on opposite sides of the country from eachother. She came to visit me this past weekend and forgot a couple of cd's in my car when she left. Even though Montreal is a lot better known for it's music scene than Jasper, we still seem to have very similar taste in tunes. Here is the first one I popped into the ole stereo and have been listening to for the past 3 days. Reminds me of summer. Stay tuned for the second cd... 1. [...]
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