After an amazing experience at Bonneroo, I couldn’t wait to go to my home town Pitchfork Music Festival. Braving the rain the crowds poured over to see Japandroids. Holy cow where I have been when it comes to this band. Obviously this crowd and the other photographers were on top of their game as the
You know Pitchfork Music Festival has begun when Chicago’s Union Park, located on the west side of the city, morphs from your run of the mill park, baseball diamond and all, into a walking catalog for Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and a dash of a grandma’s closet with music cascading through the crowd. Braving the
The Independent in San Francisco holds 500 people. It is the premier small venue in the Bay Area. On Thursday, Vancouver sent their premier small band and the two converged in a symbiotic mind meld that turned San Francisco into a place where degenerates, punkers and drunkards were one. I knew Japandroids had a phenomenal
This has been weird year for music. Rap is pretty much dead and this hybrid of hip-hop and pop has formed. Indie rock is more mainstream than what used to be alternative, which is now pretty much dead as well. And punk rock is reviving itself the way it did 20 years ago. To expound