Come Sunday that oppressive sense of impending end begins to engulf your every emotion: patches of verdure sprout from space smoothed by humanity, moods dampen under the dribble of dread that the return voyage engenders each and every time, and your final few pounds dissolve in your final few drinks. Praise be to all manner of things holy therefore for Rufus Wainwright ; the preacher in the ornate, Orientally styled blazer and sequinned collar. Opening with an a cappella Candles to melt into unthinkingly, his is an appositely languorous set come Sunday, what with lassitude beginning to settle in [...]
05 a 07.07 - Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Bat For Lashes, Battles, Apparat, Supernada, The Rapture, The Horrors, Wraygunn, Friendly Fires, The Shins, St. Vincent, Regina Spektor in Festival Super Bock Super Rock 2012 @ Herdade do Cabeço da Flauta, Meco, Sesimbra 12 a 14.07 - Zola Jesus, Death in Vegas, Radiohead, Refused, The Stone Roses, Big Deal, Justice, Mumford & Sons, SebastiAn, The Antlers,
Bonnaroo will webcast a number of this weekend's performances on YouTube , including Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, Bon Iver, St. Vincent, The Shins, Ben Folds Five, Mogwai, The Avett Brothers, Alabama Shakes, Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, tUnE-yArDs, Battles, Das Racist, and Laura Marling, among others. Check out the full schedule below (all times in CT). Friday, June 8th: 12:30 - Steven Bernstein's MTO Plays Sly 01:00 - The Soul Rebels 01:45 - tUnE-yArDs 02:00 - The Infamous Stringdusters 02:45 - The Lonely [...]
Finalmente chegou o Record Store Day ! Quem acompanha o Rock'n'Beats já deve ter lido notícias sobre esse dia nas últimas semanas. Caso você ainda não saiba o que é, não se desespere. Seus problemas acabaram. Segue com a gente e veja detalhes dessa iniciativa que marca espaço na venda independente de discos. O Record Store Day ocorre anualmente no terceiro fim de semana de abril simultaneamente em vários países. A comemoração foi criada em 2007 para relembrar os eternos vinis e alavancar vendas dos artistas. Nesse dia, as lojas de discos contam [...]
Earlier in our coverage of Record Store Day 2012, KEXP has covered both the full list of record exclusives and live events around Seattle ; however, amidst the many, many special releases available this weekend, we've highlighted the vinyl releases that we're super excited about. Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II" (Mountains Beyond Mountains) Courtesy of Merge Records. Remixes of The Suburbs tracks "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) and "Ready to Start" by producer Damian Taylor with Arcade Fire. [...]
I've never been to Bonnaroo. I've always wanted to go but I never had the money/didn't have the time/wasn't impressed by the line up. But I am making it my mission to get down to Tennessee this year for the 'Roo because, dammit, I wanna listen to good music while on lots of drugs. The line up for the Bonnaroo festival has been announced and it's quite a big one this year. Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish are headlining this year's installment. Other acts including The Beach Boys, Bon Iver, The [...]
If you find something you like on this list, download the complimentary MP3 and click the album art, which will take you to the Amazon MP3 page so you can purchase it (some of these albums are $5 or less). 25 // Glassjaw – Coloring Book EP/Our Color Green EP Eight years in the making and completely worth the wait, both the Coloring Book EP and the Our Color Green EP expose the bands reason for generating a dedicated fan base of true post hardcore and [...]
50 (All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here . We hope you enjoy the music.) 20. Gil Scott-Heron & Jaime xx - We're New Here [...]
2011 started a new decade with a bang. The year saw tragedies strike major populations, dictators overthrown, "occupy" redefined, and the casually pepper spray everything cop . As far as music goes, a lot happened too - pop became even more influenced by electronic, helping Adele sound that much better than her Top 40 contemporaries. Dubstep found itself at a heavy fork in the road, one side running all the obnoxious frat parties and the other (perhaps humorously) aiming straight for your heart. Hip-hop became overrun by Tumblr and Twitter personalities pushing "SWAG" into the vocabulary. Indie rock still [...]
Music videos accomplish what has never been done before in the history of media: They make experimentation a commercial enterprise. They afford musicians, filmmakers, and multimedia artists the chance to have their craziest ideas not only produced, but shown to a large audience. What's more, in the age of Internet video, indie productions are now on equal footing with million-dollar productions. There's no visual medium more diverse or creative than music videos. Thirty years after the launch of MTV, the format is not only alive and well, but it's matured, expanded, and become a part of our global culture. When [...]
50 (All week we’re counting down the top songs of 2011. For previous entries on the list, click here . We hope you enjoy the music.) 20. Shabazz Palaces feat. THEESatisfaction - "Swerve... the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)" A lot of adjectives could be used to describe our #1 hip-hop album of the year , Shabazz Palaces' Black Up . "Accessible" is not one of them. [...]
With two - time best video of the year winner, Andreas Nilsson taking 2011 off to focus on adapting Ingmar Bergman’s horror classic Hour of the Wolf for the stage, the field was wide open for a new batch of directors to step in and create some really amazing work. Two all-caps video-making collectives - CANADA and DANIELS - dominated the year with their visually spectacular and incredibly innovative clips, while a number of old faves like Garth Jennings, Patrick Daughters, Megaforce and Keith Schofield did some spectacular [...]
There's a lot of pork in Asheville, NC. Like, tons. Everywhere you go, they're advertising beef, BBQ, and, well, pork. It's sort of funny because there's also a lot of tofu. (Hey, vegans gotta eat something.) And yet it's this polarizing, yet mutual, relationship that exemplifies the town's unique persona. Oh, delightful food. But food bonds us. It's the one thing that anyone can agree upon (anorexics, religious fanatics excluded): We gotta eat. And with a weekend party like Moogfest , which essentially strangles the town for three long nights, the overall community of food is an [...]
We just got hit with the first snowfall of the season here in NYC. Even though the weather's starting to chill out, the live shows are keeping up the heat. Check out my preview of the week's shows with some videos of my top picks, including Ween, Battles, and Steve Kimock & Friends. Monday's all [...]
Photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Battles w/ Nisennenmondai Friday, October 28 The Masquerade - 695 North Avenue in Atlanta 30306 Admission $18 / Purchase Tickets I can't think of a more innovative rock band to emerge in the last decade than New York-based, Battles . I put the emphasis on rock because for all their experimentation and rhythmic ingenuity, the never strays too far from the traditional rock template. At [...]
Boasting past acts like Justice, MGMT, Modest Mouse, and Vampire Weekend, the Treasure Island Music Festival returned to San Francisco this year with a whole new dose of indie jewels. Billed for the weekend? Such critically-acclaimed artists as Cut Copy , Empire of the Sun , and St. Vincent . Those in attendance? Pirates, indians, and aliens alike. Saturday was a time for raucous play and shameless dance parties. Dizzee Rascal , Cut Copy, and Empire of the Sun led the way, attracting the weekend's highest volume of festival-goers. Chromeo 's [...]
It was just one of those epic weekends here in San Francisco, and The Owl Mag got a bird's eye view.
Ritwik Deshpande picks some of the best music, and music-based, videos around on the wonderful interwebz. 'Midnight City' - M83 The lead single off the new M83 double album Midnight City gets a beautifully bleak video, rife with telekinetic kids breaking out of an asylum. It’s an oddly menacing scene, but given the context of the music, it takes on an almost hopeful quality. Wonderful stuff. 'Senator' - Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks Jack Black plays a coke-sniffing, [...]
Watch Porishead perform "Chase the Tear" and "Mysterons" on Jimmy Fallon. Suuns have a tour EP called River Phoenix streaming on their bandcamp page. Stereogum points to St. Vincent covering The Pop Group from KCRW. Fluxblog shares a new song from Atlas Sound . A bunch of great Wilco videos from their Madison concert via Dan and Craig . NPR has audio from Battles , [...]
Asheville, North Carolina's festival ode to all things electronic music and Moog, Moogfest , just added some power to its already-solid lineup for 2011. Today, they threw a few new names into the mix, including TV on the Radio , Special Disco Version (featuring James Murphy and Pat Mahoney of DFA/LCD Soundsystem), St. Vincent , and Flying Lotus , among a bunch of others. This fleshes out an already-stellar lineup of acts that cross the spectrum of electronic genres and styles, including three pioneers of electronic music: Tangerine Dream, [...]
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