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As I tucked a second swimming suit into my bag that was probably too large for the three days I’d be away, I actually said aloud to myself, and I suppose perhaps my cat, “I’m going to a music festival. On the beach. As a VIP. With a press pass.” A little yelp came next, accompanied by an involuntary jig I can only assume looked like a combination of the Bluths doing their respective chicken dances. Such behavior showed up in spurts since [CoS photographer] Josh [Mellin] texted me on a cold March morning and said, “Um, guess what I [...]

The end of May brings a welcome break from the barrage of patio brunch and festy pics that signal the arrival of spring on Instagram. According to my calculations, 100% of the people I know attended a graduation ceremony this past weekend, treating us all to rare glimpses into their family life with photos of wide-eyed little brothers and sisters ready to take the world by storm (once they sober up). But when I think of the senior year that set the course for my life, it's not college that comes to mind. It was four years earlier, [...]

Today we have the most bizarre combination of artists sitting alongside each other, to promote their involvement in the new advert for Relentless Energy Drink . British rapper Professor Green , popular DJ Zane Lowe and newcomers, rock band Pure Love are here, working alongside each other to promote the brand's 'No Half Measures' attitude and the exclusive of the new advert. Whereas many brands use famous faces to promote their products, Relentless seem to have a different attitude, choosing artists who have worked hard, who are passionate about their music and most importantly, [...]

It happens every summer: Lineup after lineup entices you to join their party, visit some distant city or town, and brave the heat and crowds in the name of music. Whether it's trekking outside of Seattle, navigating traffic in Tennessee, squeezing onto the BART in San Francisco, or copping rides in Los Angeles - you'll do whatever's necessary to make that experience a reality. Don't you want to make it count, though? Sometimes a festival isn't for everyone. Maybe you're not into mud. There's a chance that agoraphobia of yours might act up at The Gorge. Who [...]

This past weekend marked the sixth annual Downtown Music Festival — a miniature SXSW-style event featuring plenty of new, rising artists, scattered across multiple NYC venues, all within a one-mile radius. A seasoned festival goer knows there are two approaches to these types of festivals: choose a venue and watch all the artists playing there, or exert the most mental and physical energy possible by attempting to catch multiple sets at overlapping venues. Of course, we chose the latter, knowing exactly what we were getting ourselves into. Sort of. Racing to six or seven shows a night in [...]

It's with a faint sense of trepidation we hike forever upward toward Alexandra Palace, not least as the sweltering trudge seemingly represents the metaphoric arrival of festival season which begins in earnest in but a few short weeks' time. It's the time of the season for early starts and later nights, lager glugged from the moment morning stumbles into afternoon as liver, lobes and inner ears quiver as one. Which painfully reminds me I've neglected to bring the old in-ears. Shite. Though Karen O & co. haven't opted for anywhere near as ruinous a line up as ATP [...]

It's not lost on us that some of the biggest and most talented artists and musicians of this or any generation have gone on the record—on records—here at TVD. This week we're sharing some of our favorites from the archive. —Ed. I spoke with David Johansen as he was surrounded by devastation from Superstorm Sandy. “I’m doing good for being in a disaster area,” he said in his distinctive growl. He knows the City will make it. Johansen is a New Yorker through and through: resilient, creative, irreverent. [...]

Well, it's better than The Weirdness . That 2007 album from The Stooges at least featured an apt name, as it managed to dismantle the band's legacy in the span of its bizarre forty-minute runtime. Sure, the original group (with Mike Watt on bass) was back, but the album felt stilted and nothing like the classic three-album run from the band's heyday. With that in mind, there's plenty of trepidation going into their latest album, Ready to Die . Guitarist [...]

Photo by Jelmer Gremmen The passion for their craft is almost palpable in some creative people. For Brendon Moeller it's visible through his incredible stats: in the past 11 years, there have been eight albums, more than 40 singles and over 120 remixes credited to his various monikers. And that's without looking at his work with other artists or what he puts in to running his own label. It is that passion that made Moeller leave his native South Africa in the early 902s and relocate to New York. With the price of music equipment in [...]

• Brendon Moeller - LWE Podcast 158: Brendon Moeller

Incoming: Stagecoach, Wavves, Japandroids, the Revival Tour, Herbie Hancock, Bat for Lashes, Spectrum, AraabMuzik, the Three O'Clock, Ziggy Marley, Viza, Har Mar Superstar, Manchester Orchestra, Telekinesis, Los Amigos Invisibles, Crystal Castles, the Veils, the Cave Singers, the Mother Hips, Shuggie Oits, Paul Van Dyk, Danzig, Ann Magnuson, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Lonely Forest Above: That's Doldrums' video for "Lost In Everyone" from his debut "Lesser Evil." Doldrums will be supporting Crystal Castles at the Fox Theatre in Pomona on Thursday. Our staff picks of [...]

When it comes to breaks, there are two DJ's that are hard to beat: There's Krafty Kuts and his inimitable partner in crime, A-Skillz . Since the release of their debut album Tricka Technology in 2003, the pair have set a standard for creatively cutting together breaks, hip-hop, funk, soul, drum and bass and electro. The pair have toured the world over both as a pair and individually, setting alight dance floors and festival arenas with their bass heavy and funk driven grooves. I spoke [...]

• Stickybuds~ - Shambhala 2012

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Bilal, Hawthorne Headhunters, Sa-Ra Song: Coultrain - Streams & Rivers [download here ] What's so good? Soulful nomad Coultrain [...]

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James Blake has reached the point where he’s transcended genre definition, which is no mean feat. Arguably one of the most influential figures in the electronic music scene recently, his first self-titled album reached critical acclaim, gaining a stunningly broad audience despite not being overtly accessible to most ears. Now is the time for the challenging ‘follow up album’. Undoubtedly one of the most hotly anticipated releases of 2013, 'Overgrown' has a lot to live up to. James Blake’s big label singer-songwriter releases have always had quite a different feel to his indie label EPs, and 'Overgrown' has [...]

If you're relatively new to the scene and "saw the best set of your life" while in attendance at one of Kaskade's   Freaks of Nature stops last summer, then his It's You It's Me Redux   Tour might not be for you...or is it? Officially announced earlier today on Kaskade's   This is a Dynasty Tumblr , Ryan informed the masses that he will be embarking on a nine city tour called "It's You It's Me Redux" . The purpose of the tour is to [...]

Though he'd actually released his self-titled debut back in 2011, James Donadio seemed to come out of nowhere (technically Cleveland, but you know) with last year's lovingly damaged Psychedelic Black , an album that melded analogue tones with the sort of neo-industrial techno the likes of which labels like Opal Tapes have been trading in. No surprise, then, that earlier this year Donadio put out a split release with similarly crunchy noise auteur Basic House for that very same imprint. But Crushed Interior is his solo followup proper to Psychedelic [...]

Deen is not easily amused, except when he is. Hey! It's new 50 Cent. Wow. Say what you want about the man - and there's a lot to say if you're so inclined - but you can't say that he doesn't love music. He keeps trying and trying and trying! He clearly doesn't have to, yet he persists. Then again, he might be addicted to the fame and adulation that comes with being a legit/hot rap superstar. You know, like he sorta used to be and how Kendrick is right now. Whatever the case is, [...]

Chelsea Light Moving is Thurston Moore’s new band. It often sounds very much like his old band. And potential listeners will obviously use an individual calculus to arrive at their own level of interest regarding the whole endeavor. But in extending the qualities of Sonic Youth by engaging with assorted long-standing personal touchstones, Moore riffs with confidence upon a big part of what’s made his musical journey so appealing from both inside and (often far) outside the parameters of the group that’s established him as a rock icon. Thurston Moore’s abilities as guitarist and vocalist [...]

The Polyphonic Spree @ SXSW BY PETER LILLIS The gripes with SXSW are well documented and justified, no doubt about it. As Brooklyn’s DIIV stated, it’s just “ drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine .” Or as Roomrunner stated on stage at Club DeVille last Thursday, “keep tweeting, none of this fucking matters.” Even the supremely likable Foxygen suffered a sort of meltdown, calling a criticizing audience member a “coward.” Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield said on stage at her first of five performances “ I feel like I’m [...]

By Beth Martinez ( @dangervillage ) of Danger Village , a music publicity firm. In four days, I’ll be leaving Los Angeles to attend my eighth South by Southwest Music Festival. Having been attending festivals for over ten years now, I’ve developed a few methods for surviving the madness that comes with integrating into a crowd of thousands of festivalgoers for days on end. If you’re serious about your festival experience, you’ll want to figure out a way to enjoy yourself, see [...]

David Bowie played his last concert (to date) on June 25th, 2004 in Scheeßel, Germany. On one of the final legs of his tour behind 20032s Reality , Bowie began dealing with a series of health problems, which caused the dates following the Scheeßel performance to be scrapped. Afterwards, Bowie slowly faded out of the public eye for the first time in forty-odd years, and the music community began to assume that David Bowie - inarguably one of the last century's most dynamic and striking figures in Western music, film, and fashion - had retired to [...]