In what is an exciting and major addition to Boston’s music scene, Crash Line Productions, in partnership with Bowery Presents, announces Boston Calling, the very first two-day music festival to take place in Boston proper. The festival will be held on Memorial Day weekend, Saturday May 25th and Sunday May 26th at the city’s historic City Hall Plaza [One City Hall Square, Boston, Massachusetts]. Tickets will go on sale Friday March 1, 2013 at 10AM EST at www.bostoncalling.com , www.ticketmaster.com , and with no service fee at The Sinclair box office (52 Church St, Cambridge MA). [...]
A new festival called Boston Calling will take place at Boston's City Hall Plaza on May 25 and 26. The National's Aaron Dessner curated the lineup, along with Bowery Presents, for the two-day event. Among the acts joining The National at Boston Calling will be fun., The Shins, Of Monsters and Men, Young The Giant, Marina and the Diamonds, Andrew Bird, Matt & Kim and Portugal. The Man. The festival is being put together by Crash Line Productions' Brian Appel and Mike Snow. Appel discussed Boston [...]
Bottle Rock Music & Arts Festival has revealed the full lineup for its inaugural edition, set for May 10th-12th in Napa Valley, California. Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Furthur, and Zac Brown Band top the bill, appearing alongside The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, The Black Crowes, Jane's Addiction, Primus, Dirty Projectors, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird, Sharon Van Etten, Best Coast, Ben Harper, Mavis Staples, Cake, The Wallflowers, Bad Religion, Grouplove, Justin Townes Earle, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Michael Franti & Spearhead, among others. Festival passes go [...]
This is not your ordinary best songs of the year post. First off, we're not dictating the best songs to you as most media sites and blogs do, but rather highlighting the number one songs from each weekly Top 10 Songs playlist in 2012. If you're familiar with IRC's top ten series, you know that [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Top 25 tracks of 2012 Well, it's December, it's a week until Christmas, it's midweek and I'm drinking. That can mean only one thing, I've read Trotter's Top 10 for this year and felt compelled to pen a response. Yes, it's time to pore over the musical detritus of 2012 and pick out the wheat from the chaff... Or, to let my inner geek put things into lists... Here, we look at the top 25 tracks from 2012 that do not feature on any of my top 10 albums of [...]
• Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Email • RSS The list continues on. If you missed the beginning of the list, click - here - for the first post. 35. Aidan Knight // Smal Reveal Minimalism is highlighted in this overly mature sophomore album from Aidan Knight - the baroque touches on a classically dream album paint a smoldering audio scape full of [...]
Holidays Rule ( availalbe now ) The set boasts 17 all-new recordings, including pop phenoms fun. , the legendary Paul McCartney , indie-pop luminaries The Shins , Americana favorites The Civil Wars , adored singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright (with Sharon Van Etten ), playful popsters Fruit Bats , bluegrass revisionists Punch Brothers , soul icon Irma Thomas (with The Preservation Hall Jazz Band ), cinematic rockers Calexico , eclectic troubadour Andrew Bird , Latin neo-traditionalists Y La Bamba , Texas twang-rock troupe [...]
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I'll be the first to admit that I have never gotten too excited for holiday music. Often times it just feels over-done, half-hearted, and tacky (Sorry, I ran out of hyphenated compound words to describe Christmas albums after two). There's only so many things you can change in "Jingle Bells" before it gets old. With that said, I think I have finally found a holiday compilation album that I can enjoy. The artist lineup is stellar, with the likes of Fun., The Shins, The Civil Wars, Punch Brothers, Head and the Heart, Andrew Bird , and many more. So [...]
A little more than midway through the second day (Saturday) of Austin City Limits, the unthinkable happened. Rufus Wainwright played the main stage. Just kidding! The flamboyant singer-songwriter's unique croon held up quite well on the monolithic platform. And he's actually pretty funny without trying to be. Here's the real story: just as Band of Skulls began its set, the sky opened up, emptying buckets of marble-sized raindrops upon the fest grounds. That brief, but torrential shower subsequently drowned guitarist Russell Marsden's equipment and caused the band to [...]
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More holiday tunes to look forward to! Starbucks’ label, Hear Music , and Concord will release a compilation of artists covering holiday classics on Oct 30th. Holidays Rule will feature the likes of The Civl Wars , Eleanor Friedberger , The Head and The Heart [...]
Austin City Limits will webcast a number of this weekend’s performances, including Jack White, The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy and the Stooges, The Roots, The Weeknd, The Avett Brothers, Childish Gambino, Florence and the Machine, Alabama Shakes, Andrew Bird, Tegan and Sara, Thievery Corporation, The Shins, Delta Spirit, Gary Clark Jr., and more. Watch the webcast live at YouTube , and check out the full schedule below (all times in CST). If you're attending Austin City Limits in person, the be sure to check out our Weekend Guide . Also, check out [...]
Following Sufjan and Will Oldham' s lead, Starbucks is offering its own collection of music for the holiday season. On October 30th, the coffee company's label Hear Music and Concord will release Holidays Rule, a 17-track compilation feature a bunch of great artists covering a bunch of great holiday tunes. You've got "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" by Paul McCartney , "Wonderful Christmastime" by The Shins , "Auld Lang Syne" by Andrew Bird , and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" by Fruit Bats . There's also a duet [...]
Six months of 2012 have already gone by! Catch up on this year’s best new songs before the summer concert season ends. 1. “My Love is Real” by Divine Fits. Spoon’s Britt Daniel and Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner are taking turns on vocals in their new supergroup, Divine Fits, which also features Sam Brown of [...]
One of the most popular pages on IRC is the Top 10 Songs page. Since we started the series in 2010, there has been nearly four million views of the page, thousands and thousands of free and legal MP3s, and arguably dozens upon dozens of some of the best Top 10 indie and alternative rock [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
With their first Coachella 2012 performances a not-quite-distant memory, over the weekend some artists engaged in live collaborations to make for unique experiences in their second fest go-around. John Fogerty joined the Black Keys , Annie Clark of St. Vincent sang with Andrew Bird, and Thom Yorke came out during Modeselektor's set to perform "Shipwreck." The spine tingling magical moment of the weekend was during Radiohead at the end of "Karma Police" when the crowd continued to sing "I Lost Myself" after the band had stopped. Check out the robust gallery of photos above and [...]
It was all about adrenaline for Day 2 of Coachella 2012.
En esta edición Boris Orellana y Claudio Ruiz presentaron lo nuevo de The Shins ( Port of Morrow ), Andrew Bird ( Break it yourself ), Julia Holter ( Ekstasis ), Sharon Van Etten ( Tramp ), Chairlift ( Something ) y The 2 Bears ( Be strong ). MP3: Super 45 Podcast # 663 (25 marzo, 2012) Escucha todos nuestros podcasts desde Duna Suscríbete al Podcast de Super45 Suscríbete al Podcast de Super45 en iTunes
Frank Yang If you were to ask me what I thought MOG did - and for the life of me I can't imagine why you would - the best I could offer is that they excel at getting my exhausted ass out of bed early on the Saturday of SXSW to go line up at The Mohawk so I can stand around for hours on end. They did it last year with a bill of Smith Westerns , Wild Flag , Okkervil River and TV On [...]
Woooohoooo, new music! I finally had a chance to cruise around the internet and get my fill. Here are the newest songs to hit my iPod playlists. Enjoy. Free mp3: You Won't - Television (Big Ugly Yellow Couch session) Free mp3: Saskatchewan - Fronting Free mp3: Inspired and the Sleep - Take Pills (Instructed Bliss) [...]
Frank Yang Know what makes it a bit difficult to concentrate on covering stuff in the afternoon? Finding out in the morning that you've won a ticket to see Bruce Springsteen in an intimate theatre show that night. Not bragging - okay, a little - just adding some context. And bragging. Yeah. Anyways, after doing my victory dance (don't pretend you don't have a victory dance) I did get out into the world to check out a day show at Jackalope run by fellow blogger Rawkblog that featured [...]
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