Picked By: Kristina Villarini Who: The Hold Steady w/ The Gay Blades Where: Music Hall of Williamsburg, NYC When: Monday, January 31st at 9pm Cost: $25 Age Restrictions: 18+ ***
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Parallels’ Visionaries: For Generations and Chromosomes X and Y
Everytime I think I’ve lost interest in electro pop, a band like Parallels comes along and sucks me back into a world where perfect beats and sweeping synths rule supreme. There’s such a difference between good electronic dance music and bad, and there seems to be little in between. Then there’s the dichotomy between the
Thee Oh Sees Tear Up FYF Fest
Standing in line outside of Los Angeles’ Historic State Park, one would’ve thought FYF stood for ‘Fuck you fest’ instead of the infinitely cheerier ‘Fuck yeah fest‘. Tensions were high as we sweated it out for over an hour amidst pure chaos: no one seemed to know which line was VIP, or the difference