Sasquatch!—like many music festivals—is an entity in flux; new bands come and go, while different promotional events and partnerships set up shop around the grounds, ensuring another year is paid for. Still, one constant exists in the form of the reunited. You see it in airports too, the hugs and high fives of friends from years past. No matter w...

Even before Tom Van Buskirk proclaimed Javelin’s love for Portland during the end of their set at Mississippi Studios last week, I felt the band might have a special reverence for the city. Maybe it was the fact that Van Buskirk mentioned in our interview that his house looked more like the houses "you might see in Portland" or that he realized w...

Javelin is Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford, two cousins from Providence, RI who began playing music together in 2004. But unlike many of the mash-up artists of the mid-2000s of which they are often compared, Javelin’s sonic collage of samples are re-assembled and recorded with live instruments—thumb pianos, drums, wooden recorders and anythin...

"Check this guy out," a friend wrote me in an email last year. "This white guy sounds exactly like Ghostface Killah." In the beginning, this is how I imagine most people came to know Action Bronson: not through his talent as a rapper, but because the voice of this Queens native is a dead ringer for that of the legendary Wu-Tang member. In that wa...

  If you’re at all familiar with Grave Babies, lead singer Danny Wahlfel’s recent response to a question from IntoTheWoods.tv about song meaning might not be all that shocking— “They’re pretty much just all about depression and nihilism. A lot of nihilism going on.” That’s fair, considering the aesthetics of a band that’s LP (Crusher, released t...