Austin Psych Fest Announces 2013 Lineup and Location
The Austin Psych Fest is excited to announce its initial lineup. The sixth annual festival will be held April 26 – 28, 2013 at Carson Creek Ranch, a scenic 58-acre ranch on the banks of the Colorado River, just five minutes from downtown Austin, TX, and minutes from the airport. Discounted weekend passes are on
Preview – St Jerome’s Laneway Festival – Singapore
St Jerome’s Laneway Festival – the quintessential Indie Rock Festival - will return to Singapore for a third successive yearon January 26th. This year the festival’s moving to Singapore’s iconic landmark, The Meadow at Gardens By The Bay. It’s a great lineup, as always, with great mix of known and soon to be known bands, including some of
CMJ Highlights: Wild Nothing, BRAIDS, and Weekend
Saturday night was the finale for CMJ 2012, five days jam-packed (literally) with panels, shows, powwows, and late nights. It was like cramming a month into a week. The final show that I was not mad about at all was Wild Nothing, BRAIDS, and Weekend at Bowery Ballroom. In a way, this show summed up
CMJ 2012 Day 4: Dent May and Turbo Fruits
Friday night was the Panache Showcase at Public Assembly, with their fun and eccentric roster of bands ranging from Dent May to Violent Bullshit. I ended up only seeing enough of the latter to see front man Jayson Green getting in a heckling war with a dudebro. After realizing the futility of what was becoming
CMJ 2012 Highlights: Daughn Gibson, METZ, and King Tuff
Thursday night of CMJ ended up being good for sweat and beer at Knitting Factory, but it didn’t start out that way. The first musician I caught there was Daughn Gibson. who paired some dark country croonin’ with electronic beats. He was joined by a librarian-esque keyboard player, who added an extra layer of dusty
More CMJ 2012 Highlights: Buke and Gase, Death Grips, and Flying Lotus
I’m just going to go ahead and say the NPR/WNYC Soundcheck showcase at Le Poisson Rouge was the hottest showcase of CMJ this year. Just about every media outlet was there, and it was broadcast live. Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest DJ’d in between sets, remarking that we were a tough crowd.
CMJ Highlights: Corrupt Autopilot and Juicebox
After the first day of CMJ panels and wrapping my head around the overly ambitious music schedule I had created (as well as juuuusst missing last call for the open bar at the press mixer), I decided a pizza party at L’asso should be my first stop. That’s where I ran into the congenial guys
Preview: Treasure Island Festival
Treasure Island Festival is this weekend – October 13 and 14, on the man-made Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. It’s a great lineup and there are lots of other activities besides the concerts, like a whole silent disco lineup, separate nights shows, local bands on the new Porch Stage in the Cove, and a
Festival Preview: Moogfest
What better way to honor a musical visionary like Bob Moog than to have a music festival dedicated to his memory, and the mark his musical inventions have made on music. Moogfest, taking place in Moog’s last place of residence in downtown Asheville, N.C. on October 26 and 27, does just that. It’s a somewhat