San Francisco – Every October, for ten years, concert fans in the Bay Area have been flocking to the Treasure Island Music Festival, a small oasis located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay promising a weekend filled with music and celebration. Plagued by several last-minute artist cancellations and a very rough period of
New York – Nestled on a deserted stretch of The West Side Highway, it would be palpably improbable to happen on The Westway by chance. Yet, Manhattan’s Lower West Side venue called forth a cadre of Sylvan Esso supporters on Thursday night. Pooled against the club’s doors, the crowd seemingly materialized out of thin air. A quiet
New York – Sylvan Esso was not meant to be a band. Rather, Amelia Meath had written a song called “Play It Right” and sung it with her trio Mountain Man. She’d met Nick Sanborn, an electronic producer working under the name Made of Oak, in passing on a shared bill in a small club
Nashville – Sylvan Esso is a name that has been popping up on tastemaker music blogs with more and more frequency over the past year. Their music is so electric, so sticky that it’s difficult to declare which of the three songs they’ve released is the strongest. Sylvan Esso delivered on a much anticipated South