Red Hands + Patron Saint + August Ruins + a prior i + Nevada Mountains + Echo Jade Stage AE / 06.21.2013 / $12-$15 Words by Brendan The Pittsburgh Scene has put together a great event happening on this-coming-Friday evening. Six local bands of various genres will be performing at Stage AE, and the best part is that all proceeds will go [...]
Every once in a while a someone come's into your life and inspires you to be better at what you're passionate about. Jae Bueno is most definitely one of those people. We stopped by the Lowrider magazine x LRG Clothing x Bombclub BBQ / Jae Bueno Benefit a few weeks ago to pay our respects to one of the best photographers in the game and to hang with some friends and enjoy some cool cars, cool tunes, and hot BBQ. In attendance were some of the coolest Lowriders we have ever seen, [...]
Photos and words by Scott Sheff Even veteran musicians get butterflies when stepping on stage, especially when playing at the famed Troubadour. Such was the case with award-winning English singer-songwriter Beth Orton, who admittedly was nervous as she played the venue for the first time in her career. While fans save ticket stubs to remember their favorite shows, Beth planned to save her Troubadour artist wristband as her own personal memento. But as the nerves gave way, the music triumphed. Accompanied by her husband Sam Amidon on guitar, and former Soul Coughing member Sebastian Steinberg on [...]
Prior to their tour launch, Atoms For Peace assembled at the tiny club Fais Do-Do in Los Angeles, rebranded as Club AMOK for a rehearsal show for the live debut of tracks from their latest album, AMOK . Thom Yorke switched between guitar, piano, and shakers in the midst of his trademark dance moves as Flea's bass playing propelled the songs to new heights. Nigel Godrich was very busy triggering samples, playing synthesizers, and contributing distorted backing vocals and textured guitar parts. Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco held down the different shades of all the [...]
Photo by G. Susannah Melvoin and St. Paul of fDeluxe Funkateers! If you live in New York, Minneapolis or Chicago, you are in luck. One of the funkiest bands of the 80s (and still going strong), fDeluxe , have announced 3 shows in August 2013: August 21, 2013 at City Winery in New York August 22, 2013 at City Winery in Chicago August 23, 2013 at Dakota in Minneapolis If you don't know the music of fDeluxe, [...]
Owls. Riffs. Norway. KVELERTAK. -- Kvelertak @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Ben Gibson Back Next Picture 1 of 11 [...]
LOOK! It's a picture of Doris Yeh, aka Doris Thunder Tears. We know what you're like. We know why you're coming to look at our gallery of photos from Chthonic's set at Download Festival 2013. -- Chthonic @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme Back [...]
Photo by Blake. Eve and Geoffrey Dicker I love Eve! On a hot summer New York night, I met the rapper/actress and she was really nice. I wish I would have gotten a photo of her shoes, because they were wicked! It's not my only regret of the night. Eve has worked with Prince before and I didn't even think about asking her about that experience. They collaborated on one of the last "classic" Prince tracks, "Hot Wit U," which spawned a bunch of officially unreleased [...]
Josh Homme spent a lot of Queens of the Stone Age's set talking about taking LSD. Because hey, when you're a giant ginger man who could probably crush 95% of the festival's attendees' heads in the crook of your arm, no-one is going to tell you otherwise. -- Queens of the Stone Age @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme [...]
Photos and words by David Hall Day 2 (Friday) of Bonnaroo might have been more accurately described for most attendees as “MACCAROO,” an apt phrasing flying high on one homemade fan banner. Tens of thousands flocked to the 70-year-old Beatle’s 38-song performance on the enormous What Stage to witness enough fireworks, pyro and top-notch Beatles jams (25 total) to fill at least two stadiums. Still, though the euphoria of that iconic headliner will be difficult to trump (even for Sunday’s super sharp and equally legendary fest closers, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), there were [...]
Photos and words by Sam Saturday “I love Dolly Parton so much. So, so much,” confessed Idahoan singer Josh Ritter at the Grammy Museum in a discussion with Executive Director Bob Santelli. Hailed as one of the best songwriters of this era, Ritter participated in the museum’s Spotlight series, revealing details behind his newest release The Beast In Its Tracks . When asked if it is difficult to sing songs borne from heartbreak (the album centers around Ritter’s divorce), he responded, “You can sing a song for five years and then something about [...]
Photos and words by Ethan Shvartzman Homecomings tend to be bittersweet; Emily Well's show at the Echo was no exception. Throughout her nearly 2 hour set, the Texas-born multi-instrumentalist one-woman-band-wonder showcased songs from her entire catalog, interspersed with personal stories of their origin and meaning. Emily started the night with a 4-song acoustic set to celebrate the just-released album Mama Acoustic Recordings playing songs such as "Los Angeles" and "Darlin'." In-between songs, Emily began to describe each song as having a place on her "map" (that map mostly [...]
Photos by Debi Del Grande LA's The 88 held its record release party/show for The Fortune Teller at The Troubadour. Adam Merrin belted it out while looking dapper. Gliss and Aaron Embry also had friends and family in the house, making it one solid evening. [View with PicLens] [...]
We love hanging out with Swedish people at festivals. They always try to pour more beer down our throats. We didn't hang out with Katatonia this weekend, but we imagine they'd have tried to do that, which makes them okay in our book. -- Katatonia @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme Back [...]
Karnivool are Australian prog. That's all we could get out of Raz when we asked him to sum them up for this intro speil. The weather at Download Festival 2013 wasn't good enough for us for us to get a BBQ to make tired, cliched jokes about throwing shrimp on it at them. -- Karnivool @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme [...]
Look at Troy from Mastodon, pretending he can't hear the crowd. We heard the Download Festival crowd for Mastodon from the other side of the arena. They were more than a little but rowdy. -- Mastodon @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme Back [...]
Photo by G. Unicorn If there is ever a place on this planet you'd find a Unicorn, it's New York City, obviously. Some people say they don't exist. I say don't stop believing! Share/Save
Lemmy is still alive. Lemmy is at Download Festival. Lemmy and Motörhead RULE ALL. -- Motörhead @ Download Festival - 15 June 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme Back Next Picture 1 of 4 [...]
The dapperest of dapper gents, Ville Valo, led his boys in HIM to produce a barnstormer of a set headlining the third stage at Download Festival 2013. -- HIM @ Download Festival - 14 June 2013 c/o Ben Gibson Back Next [...]
The sound might not have been tip-top for Converge at Download Festival 2013, but there's no band here this weekend who attack the stage with the force of Jacob Bannon and co. No-one was safe. -- Converge @ Download Festival - 14 June 2013 c/o Ben Gibson Back [...]
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