ILLUSTRATION BY LYDIA CONKLIN Another year has passed, and with that comes our best attempt to gather our favorite tracks and order them from best to, well, the very best. This collective is about as subjective as it gets - it's not something that necessarily represents what was popular or what certain sites wrote about. It's simply the music we loved in 2012. Without further ado, we present to you our list of the top 100 songs of 2012. While we had a blast putting this together, it didn't come without an argument or two. What [...]
I know that December tends to be a time to purchase gifts for friends and family members. But Shopping kind of sucks. Instead, go to a show? Thursday, December 6th El Gavachillo, Regimen Sinaloense at Elbo Room El Gavachillo is a side project of Wil-Dog from Ozomatli. It's a band that does classic punk covers [...]
Today is Black Friday, the holiest of holy days for mindless consumerism, so what better time for another edition of Commercial Watch ! Like always, I'm featuring all the latest hip, indie tracks that advertisers are using in their never-ending pursuit to get people to buy more stuff. Since the last edition I've found twenty more commercials you can watch below with MP3s / streams of the songs included. Make sure to click the continue reading link to see them all! Windows 8: Best Coast MP3 [...]
We've hooked up with The FADER and vitaminwater to give away two autographed, limited edition concert posters from their uncapped concert series –– 1 from 2 Chainz and Passion Pit 's show in Seattle, and 1 from Wale and Santigold 's show in Chicago. They're also being really cool and throwing in an uncapped tour t-shirt. [...]
El soundtrack para el juego FIFA 2012 estará repleto de artistas internacionales: con una lista de 50 bandas y solistas de 12 países, FIFA 2013 será lanzado el 28 de septiembre de forma internacional. Algunas de las bandas que participarán serán Bloc Party , Two Door Cinema Club y Kasabian . De hecho, los de Kasabian ya han aparecido cuatro veces en el soundtrack de FIFA. Su primera aparición fue en el [...]
Any artist can play a concert. It takes a special kind of artist to curate a festival. It takes something entirely different to shut down one of the most heavily trafficked roadways in the fifth biggest city in the country and set up a gigantic stage with wings coming out the sides. Jay-Z’s first annual Made In America Festival took over Philadelphia this past weekend, serving as another glorious manifestation of all the rapper’s successes over his career. Just when you think he couldn't climb any higher, he finds a way to take it just a little bit [...]
The inaugural Made in America music festival will webcast a number of this weekend's performances, including festival curator Jay-Z, Run-DMC, D'Angelo, Janelle Monáe, Miike Snow, Passion Pit, the Rick Ross-led Maybach Music Group, Odd Future, Santigold, DJ Shadow, Gary Clark Jr. and Dirty Projectors. You can watch live on YouTube , and listen live on Pandora .
Pop stars, rock stars, rap stars and not-yet-stars from all over the musical spectrum descended upon England this weekend for the vaunted Reading Festival. Up top you can watch the entire crowd singing along and nearly drowning out Azealia Banks as she performs her breakout banger "2123 on the festival's second day. Check out more of our favorite Reading performances from Passion Pit , Santigold and others after the jump. Old vets Green Day rattled [...]
In all my years as a festie, I've never been to a festival where gloves seemed like a perfectly sound idea. But San Francisco defies the logic of California (as comedian Marcus Monroe put it, "It's summer, so tell your fucking city that"), with cool days and downright cold evenings. Still, the City by the Bay plays one hell of a host. Coming from Boston, the honest politeness of the people here was shockingly apparent from the moment I stepped onto the BART. With sunny skies above, it was a warm welcome to the weekend ahead. Of course, [...]
Kicking off its fifth year, the Outside Lands Festival 2012 takes place this weekend in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Headliners include a number of music's biggest names, such as Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Metallica, The Foo Fighters, Stevie Wonder, Jack White, Beck, and Andrew Bird, among others. There are also plenty of other [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
The official schedule for Outside Lands Festival , located at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, has arrived. If you're going, you'll get to see a bevy of exciting performances in two weeks' time, like Foo Fighters , Beck , and Justice , to name a few. Check out the full schedule for the weekend of August 10th to 12th below. Friday: Saturday: Sunday:
The moments we all (and some) have been waiting for have arrived: Outside Lands announced the daily lineups and single-day tickets go on sale Friday!
The daily lineups were finally announced (now all we need are some actual set times). Saturday is definitely the day not to miss. Which day are you most excited about? More at sfoutsidelands.com
Governors Ball doesn’t really feel like a festival. Maybe it’s the fact that none of the sets overlap, something that has it’s merits and issues, but most likely it’s the fact that for many of us, we go home at the end of the night. There's no camping, no wild late-night partying (of course, they did have some wild after parties at Brooklyn Bowl), there’s your bed at the end of the night. Let me tell you, having your own bed at the end of the night has its merits too. [...]
With a sea of neon shirts, jean shorts, face paint, and Ray Bans, Governors Ball 2012 was all that and a bag of kale chips.
The 2nd Annual Governors Ball Music Festival went down in style this past weekend on Randall’s Island in New York City. The two-day festival played host to nearly 50,000 people and boasted an eclectic roster split between two stages without any overlapping sets. Some of the artists on the lineup included Passion Pit, Modest Mouse, [...]
Estamos mantendo um ritmo meio frenético por essas bandas, e voltamos mais uma semana consecutiva com um Friday Mixes novinho em folha, com as melhores releituras que surgiram nos últimas dias na internet. Como avisado, dia 06 de Julho estaremos novamente em São Paulo para comandar as pickups da Funhouse, eu e o nosso querido DJ Amplis, que retorna com tudo em uma imbatível mixtape que une nossa bagunça aleatória em um único stream de quarenta minutos, prontinho para ser ouvido. Bom final de semana a todos e até semana que vem, quando voltaremos com mais detalhes da festa! [...]
Pre-game for Governor's Ball with our list of artists to watch.
Living in Oakland for several years has taught me (at the very least) two things: what hipsters like and what hipsters hate. Fusion tea bars, high-waisted shorts, and “this great band that you probably haven’t heard of yet” have continued to be very popular this year, while one usual favorite’s name has become a target of blasé looks and exasperated eye-rolls. This name: Outside Lands. Since August of 2008, Outside Lands has been the premiere San Francisco music festival (rivaled [...]
The countdown to the 2012 edition of Governor's Ball is quickly winding down and with less than a week to go, it's time to shine a spotlight on what each day has to offer. But first, be sure to check out festival basics below. The Basics To start off, Governor's Ball has just released the daily schedules and festival map . Make sure you take a look at those before the festival so you can plan your weekend. Be sure to also keep an eye out for [...]
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