Chicago – The second day of Pitchfork Music Festival kicked off with plenty of sun and sweat, with the humidity causing temps to rise and deodorant to fail. Though, given that Pitchfork weekend tends to bring with it a heatwave, having temps linger in the 70s and 80s was an absolute delight! The crowds didn’t
Chicago – People in Chicago often joke that the city is one of the few places where you can experience all four seasons in one day. The weather here can change at any given moment. So when it comes to summer festivals, like Pitchfork, you never know what you’re going get… though, you can be
Los Angeles – Just a handful of days after performing to a packed house at the mid-size venue The Fonda Theater, The Shelters took to the much more intimate confines of Bardot, as part of the venue’s School Night series. Instead of opening for a music legend, like the band did as the opening act for Tom
San Francisco – Three is a powerful number. Now, I’m no numerologist, so I can’t explain the scientific or divine properties these mundane and otherwise ordinary entities contain, though I do know that practically everything can be expressed in numbers, in some way. The number three seems to hold a certain degree of influence — in language, in mathematics,
Somerset, UK – Sunday morning. Forgive me for starting with the weather once more. Thankfully, there had been no overnight rain at Glastonbury to speak of, yet ground conditions remained extremely muddy, and we were in for a largely overcast day with showers expected later. Of course, the weather is pretty fundamental to festivalgoers’ experiences, whether they are
Somerset, UK - Those Glastonbury campers who were actually in bed rather than partying at Shangri La didn’t get a great night’s sleep, woken by heavy overnight rain drumming on tents, followed by more early morning precipitation. It hardly dampened spirits; though, the result of the EU referendum still weighed heavily. An opinion poll by The Times
Somerset, UK – Glastonbury Festival kicked off for real on Friday after campers woke up to sunny intervals vying with overcast skies and a muddy terrain, though no worse than it was the day before. All the stages opened today so festival goers were hit with those “mission impossible” schedules. A high class problem. Talking of problems, this
Somerset, UK - 2016′s Glastonbury Festival opened its gates on Wednesday followed by tales of up to 12 hour queues to get onsite, along with the combination of rain and people on already well-watered land, turning the lush pastures of Worthy Farm into a familiar quagmire. The weather was kinder to early festival goers on Thursday but less so to those
San Francisco – “What?” That was the word being shouted from virtually everyone leaving San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday night, with futile attempts at conversation over the resounding din of blossoming tinnitus. Earplugs were a necessary accessory that night, as Canada’s SUUNS blasted drone-heavy, electro-stained post rock through the eardrums and straight down to the bones
Chicago – On a beautiful Friday night in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, just a stone’s throw from Lake Michigan, excited fans walked the streets towards Park West to see twenty year-old U.K. singer-songwriter Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde, better known as Birdy, who has been touring in support of her third album Beautiful