Summerfest has revealed the lineup for its 2013 installment. Self-described as "The World's Largest Music Festival," the Milwaukee-based event spans 11 days (June 26-30 & July 2-7), and features over 700 bands performing across 11 stages on the Summerfest grounds. The lineup includes Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, Empire of the Sun, Diplo, Yeasayer, Pretty Lights, Dispatch, Imagine Dragons, Dropkick Murphys, Atmosphere, Silversun Pickups, Grouplove, Billy Idol, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, The Airborne Toxic Event, Cake, Dr. John, Alice Cooper, LL Cool J, The Features, and Atlas Genius. Advanced sale general admission tickets are now available [...]
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros have covered John Denver, in situations where you want to speak with confidence on covers it helps if you have knowledge of the artist covered, but alas mine is incredibly limited. I like this cut though, it has a sort of cinematic scope and is so willfully contra modern musical trends that you at the very least have to admire it. I also like the restlessness of it. This track sounds tireless and frenetic, especially towards the crescendo which grabs you by the neck as if you haven't [...]
Once aflame with inspiration, there's little refuting The Flaming Lips having burned out somewhere or other along the Vein Of Stars they once so ebulliently floated on down some time around 2009, and Embryonic . The record represented something of a spontaneous combustion in kind: it lacked the engrossing cerebral themes adorably childishly articulated on At War With The Mystics and so too the mystifying brilliance of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots , The Soft Bulletin and the majority of their antecedent releases – the sanity-obliterating, ramshackle surround sounds of Zaireeka [...]
The compilation The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver sees an official release today and features artists including Sharon Van Etten, J Mascis, Evan Dando, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Emmylou Harris and many more reinterpreting some of the pop icon's classic tunes. Listen to a few choice selections from it below and order it via iTunes (USA) here . Follow @madmackerel
Esce oggi 2 aprile "The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver" disco tributo a John Denver. Tra gli altri Edward Sharpe e i suoi Magnetic Zeros rifanno "Wooden Indian": TRACK STREAM: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Wooden Indian (John Denver cover) pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES
Enjoy their take on 'Wooden Indian' via SoundCloud. Watch 'Child' here. Purchase Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros items via Insound. MP3: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Janglin (RAC Mix)
La edición 2013 del BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente), que tendrá lugar desde el 10 y hasta el 21 de abril en distintas salas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, trae consigo una gran variedad de rockumentales y filmes que acompañan la vida y obra de compositores, así como revisa la historia de espacios icónicos y géneros musicales. A nivel internacional, una de las más destacadas es Shut Up and Play the Hits (2012), de [...]
A new tribute album collects some of John Denver?s all time favorites, including Today's Top Tune, beautifully rendered by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
Throughout the early part of the aughts Devendra Banhart was best known as the face of the of "freak-folk" movement, thanks in part to the fact that he looked as if he had stepped straight out of the Haight circa 1967. Earlier this month the talented singer-songwriter released his eighth studio album and debut for Nonesuch Records - Mala . The 14-track effort features Banhart's familiar mix of wispy folk and Tropicalia sounds, with bits of synth-y dance beats. Banhart will kick off an extensive world tour in support of the [...]
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros today announced an extensive run of live headline dates to kick off in May 2013 in addition to previously announced festival appearances at McDowell Mountain Music Festival, Beale Street Music Festival, Bottle Rock Festival, Sasquatch Festival, Governor's Ball Music Festival, Bonnaroo, Firefly Music Festival, Kanrocksas Music Festival, and Floydfest. The band will travel to Europe in July for dates in Portugal, Ireland, and the UK with more international dates to be announced soon. Pre-sale for most dates begins this Wednesday at 10:00 AM PDT with general on sales this Friday, March 22nd. [...]
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros will spend most of the summer on the road, splitting their time between the U.S. and Europe. Today, the band added new shows across the U.S. for June and August. Check out the full docket below. The band is touring behind last year's sophomore LP, Here , and its followup, which should see light soon. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros 2013 Tour Dates: 03/22 - Phoenix, AZ @ McDowell Mountain Music Festival 05/01 - West Palm Beach, FL [...]
Filed under: News Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images In the new interview for their cover feature with Rolling Stone , Mumford & Sons keyboardist Ben Lovett spoke out on the mainstream music industry's appropriation of their folk-rock sound. After hearing "American Idol" winner Phillip Phillips ' track " Home ," Lovett says, "I was like, 'What's that? Did we do that?'" Speaking to Rolling Stone senior writer Brian [...]
By Danielle Gibson March 12, 2013 Great news! Summer Series at Somerset House has announced its 2013 line-up. From July 11 – 21, Brit Award nominee Alex Clark will kick of proceedings, with the likes of Lianne Le Havas, Tom Odell, Of Monsters and Men and Jessie Ware to follow. Also performing are Basement Jaxx, Band of Horses, First Aid Kit, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Richard Hawley . Odell said on the event: [...]
I'm not sure it gets much better than this. It's just Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros performing an all acoustic version of " Man On Fire " while riding on horse and carriage through the French Quarter in New Orleans on Bourbon Street. Yeah, I'm just as shocked as you that Alex and the couple dozen members of the band can all fit on the carriage also, but the end result shouldn't surprise you in the least considering what we've come to expect from Edward and crew. And yes I realize that [...]
Like every rational, sane person on this planet, I need a little something to get going on Monday mornings. With five consecutive days of work looming, it helps to find something that let's you know, "You are going to be okay. Life is pretty damn beautiful". Today I found that in the form of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros recently released Bloody Sunday Session version of their song Man on Fire . The video features the entire band being carted around the streets of New Orleans singing a lovely, stripped-down [...]
The late folk singer-songwriter John Denver will be remembered on April 2nd with a new tribute album by ATO Records. Titled The Music Is You , the compilation strings together covers by My Morning Jacket , Dave Matthews , J Mascis , Sharon Van Etten , Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros , Kathleen Edwards , Evan Dando , Lucinda William s, and more. To hear what Denver's 1972 track "Prisoners" would sound like by way of Amherst, MA, head on over to Pitchfork , where they're currently [...]
If Valerie June had been a roots artist in America 80 years ago, and she often sings as if she was, she might have been a principle influence on today’s myriad retro troubadours, hers a stunningly emotive amalgamation of blues, folk, gospel, soul, Appalachian and bluegrass (including irresistible banjo). She exists, however, today, an artist as modern as an iPod Shuffle, a musician for the generation which carries the entire history of recorded music so casually inside its phone. Like a potent distillation bubbling on a Prohibition-era porch, Valerie June makes self-styled “organic moonshine roots music”, music for [...]
Kanrocksas has revealed the lineup for its 2013 festival, which takes place June 28th - 29th at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, KS. The festival took a hiatus last summer following its inaugural edition in 2011 . This year's lineup features Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, MGMT, Kendrick Lamar, The Avett Brothers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, She & Him, Miguel, Empire of the Sun, Descendents, Yeasayer, Grimes, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Killer Mike, A-Trak, and Camera Obscura. Also playing are Tiësto, fun., Pretty Lights, Imagine Dragons, Sublime with Rome, Dropkick Murphys, [...]
Beale Street Music Festival has revealed the lineup for its 2013 installment, which takes place May 3rd - 5th at Tom Lee Park during the Memphis in May International Festival in Memphis, Tennessee. The lineup includes The Black Keys, Phoenix, The Flaming Lips, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Roots, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Deftones, Big Boi, The Black Crowes, Patti Smith, Alice in Chains, Bassnectar, Hall & Oates, Gary Clark Jr., Public Enemy, Gov't Mule, Deer Tick, The Joy Formidable, Lucero, Jake Bugg, The Wallflowers, Davy Knowles, and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others. Three-day festival [...]
Today's the day that Bonnaroo tickets officially go on sale. Now although you'd have been a fool to miss previous Bonnaroo's, this one exemplifies why you can't not be there. So get your tickets early (ie now) before they're sold out. So do as you're told, trust us, we've done it many times before, it's good for you. Pre-book your flight to Nashville, or set up some sort of epic road trip and grab your Bonnaroo 2013 tickets right now. The Bonnaroo 2013 Lineup includes: Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons, [...]
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