San Francisco – The ninth annual Outside Lands Music Festival kicked off this Friday in the misty glens of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The sparse early afternoon crowds swiftly grew to massive proportions as the day progressed, and the areas around the festival’s four stages quickly filled with attendees keen to catch some of the most renowned acts
Austin—Another weekend of ACL brings another weekend of Late Night sets. This time I wound up on 6th Street west of I-35 to see Poliça, the Minneapolis electronic group that has been releasing music for two years, starting with 2012’s Give You the Ghost and following that up with last year’s Shulamith. Their music is
Seattle – Influential radio station KEXP has just released a live, filmed session of electronic group Poliça, with six songs from their recent performance at Bumbershoot Festival. Poliça recently released their Raw Exit 10″ on Mom+Pop. The EP includes the lead single, “Raw Exit,” and the band’s rendition of the Lesley Gore ballad, “You Don’t Own
Nashville – Channy Leaneagh appeared on stage at Mercy Lounge through a haze of smoke. She’s beautiful in an androgynous way. Her presence is both pixie-like and commanding. She is the unwilling star of the band Polica, the electronic group who first raised hairs in 2011 with the evocative album Give You The Ghost. Leaneagh’s
Los Angeles – Excitement is mounting with only seven days until the release of Shulamith, Polica’s eagerly awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed Give You The Ghost. The band’s sophomore release is streaming in full now over on NPR: FIrst Listen, where writer Andrea Swensson calls the LP “nearly perfect.” Listen to Shulamith HERE. In other
Last weekend’s edition of Coachella featured everything you could hope for in a festival. There was heat, wind, dust and oh yeah, some great music as well. Between the babes and the bros, everyone seemed to have a good time taking in the sights and sounds of the desert. As weekend two is upon us,
Remember when Montreal seemed like a total breeding ground for great art and all your favorite indie bands back around the mid-2000s? Well, it still kind of is. From August 3-5, Osheaga Festival presents what’s been dubbed as the largest festival of its kind in Canada, showcasing some of the best bands around, as well
Minneapolis continues its golden run of producing great new bands with the first project to arrive out the Gayngs collective, the super slick electronic pop-soul outfit Poliça. Fronted by ice cool vocalist Channy Leanagh who sang with Gayngs, produced by Ryan Olson and featuring Mike Noyce from Bon Iver, it’s a who’s who of the current