Tagged: beachhouse + forecastle

#ForecastleHangover Flying Lotus pictured above Yes, Forecastle Hangover. Not in a literal sense... well, maybe in a literal sense from Saturday night... but hungover in the sense that we were exhausted, dehydrated, had physical discomforts, aches, pains, etc... and we would most certainly do it all over again in a heartbeat. A heartbeat, or whatever beat Flying Lotus was treating us all to on Friday night. Typically people partying and playing loud music under a highway gets the fuzz involved like in Free Willy (yeah, I [...]

They say that if you lose a sense, your other senses get stronger. For example, if you're blind, the story goes that you hear better than most people. It seemed apropos, then, that your intrepid reporting team here at  Consequence of Sound ended up sharing our hotel for Louisville, Kentucky’s Forecastle Music Festival with an entire convention of blind people: They spend their lives listening hard, and though we’re able to see, we also put a lot of focus on the aural—especially this weekend. Luckily Forecastle is focused on sound as well, and for their [...]

Brooklyn's Sleigh Bells will be playing Forecastle on the opening day, so the bar is going to be set pretty high for the rest of the weekend.  If you were at the sold-out Zanzabar show a while back, you know what I'm talking about.   Since the Z bar show, they have released a new album (below), played SNL and countless other TV performances, and basically took over the indie airwaves.  Call it experimental pop, or whatever, but the bottom line is that it hits hard and you can dance to it.  Sounds like a [...]

Of all the bands playing at Forecastle X this year, we may be most excited about Beach House on Friday.  We fell in love with the band after their release of Teen Dream , and just in time for this summer, Beach House has released the first track of their upcoming album, Bloom , out May 15th.  Check out "Myth" below.  It's just as hauntingly beautiful as their sophomore album, so I can't wait to hear the rest, then see it live in-person at Forecastle! [...]