Citay Play the Echoplex on Thursday (with the Fruit Bats!) Monday 1/25/10 [Pick of the Night] The French Semester / Team Abraham / Le Switch / Wonderground @ The Echo (Free) – The French Semester are doing the free Monday night residency in January. Get there by 10 PM to see Le Switch (one of my favorite local bands). They're now a bit more rockin' as a quartet. [Recommended] Girls @ Detroit Bar ($12) – Great chance to [...]
Sonic Youth Play the Wiltern on Saturday Lots of January residencies begin this week (not a lot of touring bands in town).... Monday 1/4/10 [Pick of the Night] The French Semester / Letting Up Despite Great Faults / The Spires / The Health Club @ The Echo (Free) – The French Semester are doing the free Monday night residency in January. Get there to see LUDGF. [Recommended] Year Long Disaster / Open Hand [...]
With the exception of New Year's Eve, not too much going on this week. I also recommend checking out the 88 tonight for free.... Monday 12/28/09 [Pick of the Night] Mere Mortals / The 88 / Vesuviasonic / Shield @ Spaceland (Free) - I always forget how good the 88 is until I see them. Great chance to see them for free at a tiny club. This is the last night of the Mere Mortals residency. [Recommended] [...]
Dum Dum Girls Play Spaceland on Saturday (photo credit: Lauren Dukoff) Thanksgiving week means a much more manageable calendar of live shows. If you want to check out the hype go see Real Estate on Monday at Spaceland, Real Estate and Best Coast and Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, Japandroids and Surfer Blood on Friday and Dum Dum Girls and Pearl Harbor on Saturday. Monday 11/23/09 [Pick of the Night] The Happy Hollows / Dios / [...]
Last Week's Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows that took place the previous week. Thanks to jimna for the photo. Artist & Title: the Disco Biscuits - Donde? Date & Venue: 2009-09-12 Starland Ballroom, Sayreville NJ Taper & Show Download: Jesse Hurlburt the Disco Biscuits didn't hit their goal of releasing their next studio album before Chinese Democracy, but Planet Anthem IS slated for a January 2010 release. The Biscuits also have [...]
Grace Potter and The Nocturnals have popped up a couple other times on the site via our weekly Top 5 Most Played Songs series. I commented previously on how their sound was reminiscent of the great jam bands of the 60's and 70's, and Potter's soulful, bluesy voice is just a joy to listen to. Bonnie Raitt described the band as "one of the most soulful new bands around," and I tend to agree. So, today I was quite pleased to come across this live show from the band that took place last weekend at Florence, MA's Pines Theater. [...]
The stage is set for one of the summer's best concerts this coming Saturday. Soulive, and their record label Royal Family , has assembled an incredible lineup of talent to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band's inception. The Royal Family Get Down is taking place at the Pines Theatre in Look Park in Northampton Massachusetts this Saturday September 12th. The schedule is as follows: 1:00 Gates Open 2:00 Nigel Hall 3:00 Charlie Hunter 4:15 Grace Potter & [...]
So last weekend I took my pilgrimage down to Brooklyn to check out some classic soul acts . Coming up next weekend I'm sticking closer to home to check out The Royal Family Get Down , a one day soul fest featuring some more contemporary soul acts including Soulive (who are hosting the whole shin-dig), Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (who weren't on the original bill and for whom I'm extra excited to check out), John Scofield, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (who I've seen many times and [...]
I know it's ages away, but if you live anywhere in the Northampton, MA area, mark your calendars folks for September 12th - you've now got plans. It's the date for the first Royal Family Get Down , a brand new festival put on by the folks over at Royal Family Records , with their band Soulive headlining the whole shebang. Also pumping out tunes for the day will be John Scofield, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, the Charlie Hunter Trio, Nigel Hall , with more artists to be announced. Can [...]
MUSIC NEWS - To celebrate their 10th Anniversary , the release of UP HERE (order a copy below) and the launch of their record label, Royal Family Records , Soulive is hosting a one-day festival that will feature some of their closest friends. The band has akeded John Scofield , who will join the band during their festival closing performance, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals , Charlie Hunter Trio and soul singer Nigel Hall to join them for the festivities. More artists will be announced in the coming months. " [...]
Photo: Soulive - Neil Evans, Alan Evans, Eric Krasno In continued celebration of their 10th Anniversary and the launch of their record label, Royal Family Records, Soulive will host a one-day festival featuring some of their closest friends. The band has invited John Scofield , who will join the band during their festival closing performance, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals , Charlie Hunter Trio and soul singer Nigel Hall to join them [...]
Yall. Looking at the cities that visit HRO the most. Trying to 'get a better sense' of who reads HRO. From what I can tell, people in suburbia do not read HRO. People from 'the city' read HRO. I can conclude that only white people and rich people read HRO, because they live in 'the city' and 'can afford rent/Macbooks.' Can u find urself in this list? Are yall 'surprised' by a city that u 'didn't think was THAT authentic? Still need more demographic info, because I basically 'guessed' this list. [...]
Top Album Releases: January 2009 Nick's Top: Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel Andrew Bird: Noble Beast / Useless Creatures A.C. Newman: Get Guilty Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light [...]
Top Album Releases: January 2009 Nick's Top: Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel Andrew Bird: Noble Beast / Useless Creatures A.C. Newman: Get Guilty Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light [...]
The first big music release date of the year offers a bonanza of indie rock albums. The CD release of Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion has been garnering most of the press, but A.C. Newman's Get Guilty , Antony and the Johnsons' The Crying Light , Andrew Bird's Noble Beast , and Bon Iver's Blood Bank EP have all been greatly anticipated and have mostly lived up to their hype. Other releases I have heard [...]
Here are a few of the albums that I am looking forward to in 2009: Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Beware Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel Dan Deacon: Bromst Eminem: Relapse A.C. Newman: Get Guilty Andrew Bird: Noble Beast Morrissey: Years of Refusal Jay Reatard: TBA [...]
Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! Four times a year, we round up a big ol' list of albums, singles, EPs, and DVDs set to be unleashed over the coming months, hoping to get you pumped about going out and buying records. (You do still do that, right? RIGHT?) This installment covers early 2009. Compiling such a list isn't easy in this day and age, with different release dates for digital and physical [...]
Scotty Boombox and J. Rhodes of Ocean Ghosts take over the first hour of pat radio this week. They play some of their music, some of the bands that are playing with them at their release show at Skully's this Saturday night, and other favorite tunes. It's a switch from the usual pat radio, and I like it. I spotlight some of the musicians taking part in this Sunday's Hootenany at Lost Weekend Records in the second hour of the show. Stream it at patradio.org . [...]
It's that time of year again, when bands both big and small converge upon New York City for a debaucherous , music-filled five days...that's right we're talking about the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon. Spanning Oct. 21 to Oct. 25, there's just too much to see. We'll do our best...this isn't our full time job. Come on! (in Gob voice.) Stark has enjoyed watching certain acts from all over the nation strive for immediate, Black Kids-like fame. Alas, they're not all that lucky. From Nashville to Chicago to NYC, Stark has highlighted [...]
Will from Brainbow stops in to introduce two songs from the new self-titled Brainbow album. Also, we hear plenty of bands playing tonight, tomorrow, and the next two days in Columbus, Ohio. The second hour of the show is whatever I could put together before heading into work today. Grab it if the playlist looks appealing to you. Stream it at patradio.org . Download it here . (Right-Click or Cntrl+Click and "Save As") 1. Magic City - OH/IO (Washington Beach Party) 2. Terribly Empty [...]
The often excellent Odd Blood is a step into new directions for Yeasayer, and vocalist Chris Keating touched upon their process in a recent NY Times profile: [...]More about Yeasayer
This week we have a new numero uno and three tracks making the chart for the first time. [...]More about Hot Chip
I dag dök nya albumet från Massive Attack, Heligoland, upp på Spotify. Min recension: Helt jävla grymt! Splitting The Atom fick vi ju [...]More about Massive Attack
Miike Snow are pretty awesome, had the chance to see them perform when they opened up for Lykke Li and boy did they impress me. [...]More about Vampire Weekend
Phoenix, who delivered one of the best albums of 2009 once once with “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix“, recently played an acoustic set for the German magazine [...]More about Phoenix
I don’t know about you guys, but for me there’s no better time of the year than late January to sit back, contemplate and assess the [...]More about St. Vincent
check it! beach house headed over to daytrotter to record a few tunes from their massive new album “teen dream,” already being hailed by many [...]More about Beach House
I’ve been listening to a lot of Pavement lately, and the more I do, the more increasingly clear it becomes that Spoon is the Pavement of the 2000s: Indie [...]More about Spoon
i know what youre thinking. “really? another day n night remix? really?” well, this one is way better than any other one youve ever heard, [...]More about Kid Cudi
Gorillaz / Damon Albarn has always held a very special place in my heart. Demon Days was one of my top albums [...]More about Gorillaz
TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB | UNDERCOVER MARTYN
The Strange Boys - Be Brave
Phonat - "Love Hits The Fan" music video
Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (Official)
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields - Official Trailer
Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Review)
Hot Chip: One Life Stand
TOUR: The Tallest Man On Earth Announces U.S. Dates
[mp3] Joanna Newsom - "Kingfisher"
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