Bristol, UK - Glass Animals are pleased to unveil their reworking of Kanye West’s ‘Love Lockdown’. Having premiered the track live on Australia’s Triple J earlier this year, the band received an ecstatic reaction to it during their Glastonbury performance last month, and it has subsequently become a live favourite across their current sold-out US tour. Produced
New York – This Saturday at South Street Seaport marked the fourth installment of The Village Voice’s 4Knots Music Festival. As the masses of NYC convened in downtown Manhattan’s historic, waterfront district to revel in a day’s worth of free concerts by a handful of up-and-coming and established indie acts, the natural forces at play
New York – Speedy Ortiz are currently in the midst of a month of festival hopping (Bonnaroo, 4 Knots, NXNE, Pitchfork), which is to say that the extremely hard-working band only has to play one or two shows a week instead of seven. To celebrate this brief respite, the band, in conjunction with Adult Swim,
New York – “Get these rocks out of my mouth,” Chris Porterfield pleads on “Wings,” a brand new song off of Field Report’s forthcoming Marigolden, which premiers today. This line echoes a theme that runs throughout much of the new album — Porterfield’s complicated relationship with alcohol, sobriety, and reflection on his new life as a touring
Chicago – It was a beautiful, breezy afternoon, perfect for Chicagoans’ favorite summer past time: strolling through street festivals. Just about every weekend throughout the warmer months, you can saunter through a mesh of beer and food tents – featuring fried anything and everything – and catch live music in some corner of the city.
Portland – Everybody loves an album with a back-story; Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago emerging from Justin Vernon’s three months of post-breakup solitude in a snow-bound Wisconsin cabin, and John Coltrane, kicked out of Miles Davis’ group as a junkie, experiencing a life saving spiritual awakening and setting it to tape in the form of A Love
Chicago – Perhaps it was fate that brought Tony Oller and Malcom Kelley together because although their Nickelodeon show was short lived, MKTO was born. In 2010 the two actors met on the set of Giganticand instantly connected over a mutual love of music. Inspired from a variety of genres, from hip-hop and Motown to pop
New York – My Iron Lung’s Relief, a follow-up to their 2012 record Grief, is an album that promises more of a maturity in sound, songwriting ability, and complexity than anything we’ve heard from the band before. Their new record comes across, as expected, as a relentless torrent of screaming vocals and rolling drums, but not in
Seattle – There was no better spot to beat the heat on Friday than Capitol Hill’s underground venue Barboza, where Peter Matthew Bauer delivered a heavy indie rock performance. The Walkmen bassist/organist (who has affirmed that the group is on “extreme hiatus”) has kicked off a summer tour to promote the release of his debut
Nashville – Roadkill Ghost Choir, a six piece indie alt rock band, has so much going for it that the band was invited to Bonnaroo with only one, awesome EP on the books. Andrew, Zach, and Maxx Shepard (a trio of brothers) and three other band members cozied up on the stage at the New