London – Somehow, a strong whiff of marijuana doesn’t feature too highly in the list of things you expect to encounter at a gig by teen-friendly indie band The Vaccines. Sure, you could locate other shows in London’s 2015 diary where the combination might feel more jarring – Catfish & The Bottlemen, S Club 7,
Chicago – Despite being a Tuesday and a school night, U.K. rockers The Vaccines packed Lincoln Hall, selling out the venue, filling it with excited fans young and old, for the English Graffiti Tour, bringing their fantastic mix of indie, garage rock, and punk. The foursome recently released their third album, English Graffiti, hence the
The sophomore full-length from London guitar band The Vaccines is a baffling back-step from the irony and cool distance of their exceptional 2011 debut. Gone is much of the playful humor of their earlier work, replaced by a sullen through line of self-conscience doubt. The clear influence here is still The Strokes. And, while that
Over the past week, we’ve showcased the best new bands to check out at Coachella. Like last week, we’ve dedicated our Artist of the Week feature will again take a look at some of our favorite new bands to play at the festival that we didn’t have a chance to cover last week. Without rambling
West London’s The Vaccines are one of the hardest new bands to peg at times. On first listen, they’ve totally got one of those late ‘50s, early ‘60s pop revivalist things going, except with a little more reverb and maybe a pinch more aggression. But if you listen a bit more closely, the lines begin
Our Daniela Montelongo spent three days shooting the fun at Lollapalooza. She sent back so many great shots, that we couldn’t use them all. So here are some of the great photos we didn’t have room for the first time. We’re at Outside Lands in San Francisco and The Wilderness Festival in the U.K. this
Young Buffalo are Oxford, Mississippi natives (the home of Ole Miss), but they could just as easily have come from Oxford, England (which has, you know, that OTHER Oxford school). The trio of Southerners released their Young Von Prettylips EP on Tuesday via Cantora Records and is set to go out on what is sure
Picked By: Daniel Kohn Who: The Parlotones Where: The Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA When: Tuesday, May 31st at 8pm Cost: $12 Age: All Ages
Yesterday I caught up with Madison, who recently released installment one of four of her EP series, The Noise Some People Make. As mentioned before, Madison left her studies of neurology and psychology to pursue her pop ambitions. The coolest thing about Madison is that she is writing, recording and producing her records on her