SG Lewis Makes His Chicago Debut

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Chicago – On Tuesday, London EDM producer and musician SG Lewis made his first appearance in the Windy City, where he performed at Beat Kitchen. The twenty-one year-old was fresh off his first weekend of Coachella. So fresh, his tour manager was still wearing his festival wristband! It was interesting to see a dance show

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Frankie Cosmos Headlines The Echo in Los Angeles

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Los Angeles - While Greta Simone Kline, better known as Frankie Cosmos, may have celebrity blood coursing through her veins, she represents anything but the Hollywood elite. Of course, that may be affected by the fact that her father is the well-respected and award winning actor Kevin Kline and not some out of touch industry insider. Blending the heavily

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Wild Nothing Begins North American Tour Tomorrow

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Los Angeles - This past February, Wild Nothing – a.k.a L.A. based indie musician Jake Tatum – released Life of Pause, his third studio album and much anticipated follow up to 2012’s Nocturne, via Captured Tracks (US) / Bella Union (UK). Tomorrow Wild Nothing embarks on a North American tour, that includes support from Whitney and label-mate Charlie Hilton, in support of Life

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Foals – Live At The Fox Theater

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Los Angeles – Now with four records under its belt, it seems Oxford indie rock band Foals is finally receiving the much-deserved attention it was always deserved. I was witness to this last Thursday night, at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California, when the band blew the roof off the historic venue with an intensely wild performance. The quintet – consisting

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Suuns Returns with ‘Hold/Still’

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Berlin – Canadian psych-rock band Suuns – pronounced “soons,” which translates to “zeroes” in Thai – just released its third studio album, Hold/Still.  This follows 2013′s Images du Futur and the band’s 2015 collaboration with Jerusalem in My Heart, led by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. Hold/Still officially hit shelves on April 15th, through Secret City in Canada and Secretly Canadian in the U.S. Suuns‘ new material was recorded with

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Lucius Takes London By Storm

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London – “Good evening, London! What a beautiful theatre… so many beautiful places here,” was how Jess Wolfe of Lucius responded to the reception afforded to the band’s two opening songs. Lucius loves London, and the city seems to hold the Brooklyn five-piece in similar regard, given the size of the crowd crammed into the three floors of Koko.

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