San Francisco – Day 2 Outside Lands is coming up. Hopefully, you’ll get there early enough to enjoy the food, the wine and the general ambience created by 60,000 or so of your fellow music crazies. Before you wonder off to claim your place for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers or Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, here are some
Photo By Jeff Kravitz San Francisco – Outside Lands, San Francisco’s great outdoor music and arts festival starts on Friday. 60,000 people show up at Golden Gate Park to see scores of bands and enjoy some of the best food and drink San Francisco has to offer. Friday’s at Outside Lands are always great and
Los Angeles – There are bands meant to record in the studio and there are those who thrive in front of a live audience. White Arrows has catchy jams with introspective lyrics and sexy electronics that tease the senses with visions of kaleidoscopic swirls, but when they step foot on a stage they are animalistic and
San Francisco – We’re in the thick of festival season and this weekend brings one of the best festivals for new bands. Outside Lands offers a broad spectrum of acts from different genres over four main stages, while in addition offering a comedy venue and a DJ tent to boot. Like many festivals of this
Chicago – Sunday festivalgoers at Lollapalooza can be divided into two camps. First you have 3-day pass holders. They are having a lazy Sunday, moving at a snail’s pace, mustering up every ounce of energy in them, to fit in as many new bands as possible, but settling for lounging in the grass listening to
Chicago – Oh, Lolla Lawrd! Day two of Lollapalooza was filled with tons of up-and-coming bands, keeping me jumping form stage to stage throughout the day. My feet may have been hurting but the music was jumping, so I ran around Grant Park to fill you in on Saturday’s best new bands. I entered the
Los Angeles — White Fence’s distinctly warped sound was just what was needed to get a crowd of hipsters’ heads bobbing. Tim Presley and his crew were like something out of the mod era, but rolled around in the dirt. They walked onto the stage with disheveled mop tops and managed to envelop the crowd
Portland - “Show me love. Show me love.” These words seemed suspended in air, plaintive and fragile like snowflakes, before wafting gently into the ears of the audience. The room was almost dead silent when Hundred Waters began their performance Sunday night at Portland’s Mississippi Studios. Each line from the band’s first song, “Show Me Love,”
Chicago – The day started off beautifully: the sun was shining, the crowds were pumped, and music was flowing in every direction. Alas, it was all too good to be true. Chicago weather had a different plan. Halfway through the day, the rain came poring down, but that’s not to say the rainy afternoon blues
San Francisco – Hearing a favorite artist or band perform a stripped-down or acoustic set is a rare thrill. When it does happen, it brings back memories of the olden days of MTV, with programs like “MTV Unplugged,” offering a glimpse into the softer side of singers or groups that tended to be lost amongst