Classical arrangement. There’s a painfully brilliant light peeking through my blinds. I think it’s called “summer” and I think it’s about time to go play in it. While I bask in my Southern California...
Sunsquatch. (Erin Flanagan/treeswingers) After 420 minutes spent walking from camp ground to concert, four hours of sleep per night and a grand total of zero showers, our final day in the Gorge was c...
Exodus. (Erin Flanagan/treeswingers) Day Three of Sasquatch! Music Festival and the sun was out in full force. Flower headbands and bikinis were de rigeur, as were hotpants so short we dubbed them “c...
“Hipsterrunoff doesn’t have shit on us.” (Erin Flanagan/treeswingers) Only at Sasquatch! do festival-goers wake to the sound of mooing. As the sun rose on Day Two, weary campers eme...
Bumper to bumper. (Erin Flanagan/treeswingers) Next to a trip to the dentist or paying a phone bill, waiting in line is definitely high up there on the list of most dreaded every day trials. The firs...
Heaven is a place on Earth (Photo courtesy of Sasquatch! Festival) First there was Coachella. Then there was Coachella again. This Memorial Day weekend, we grab our Ray-Bans and Redbull and head to t...
Brooklyn-based Baauer is a 22-year-old DJ/producer who makes house music that sounds like hip-hop. All heavy bass and filthy drops, Baauer’s sounds take you to a dingy basement club, which is e...
No longer in his blue period. (Brian Valdizno/treeswingers) The last time we saw Kristian Matsson, the mind behind The Tallest Man On Earth was strumming somberly, filling the creaking frame of the F...
Um, there’s something on your forehead. After a few good listens to King Charles‘s peppy debut album, LoveBlood, one thing becomes clear: Charles Costa, the man behind the King, has a few...
These men love Steely Dan. (Photo: Matthew Bologna & Jesse Mann) Another day anoth buzz band. Not so with The Stepkids, a Connecticut trio of music industry veterans attempting to stand out from ...
I <3 the 80s. (Photo courtesy of brandondorf.tumblr.com) Despite the moniker, Twin Shadow doesn’t like being in the shadows for very long. Less than two years after releasing full debut Forg...
I left my heart (and the heat) at Coachella. One week has officially passed since the end of the Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival. Remembering the blistering heat and highs of 110 degrees, th...
I love it when vocalists give themselves up to emotion and for a split second, their voice breaks on a high note. Maybe it’s the fallibility I perceive in them that convinces me of the sincerit...
Happy Friday, everybody. Enjoy this sexy wonderland of a music video, courtesy Dev Hynes’ synths-n-jamz persona, Blood Orange, which has been making its way around the internet today. Moving fr...
Purity Ring quietly supplied the world with a taste of their much anticipated full-length release, Shrines, late Monday night. “Obedear” is as rhythmically infectious and stunningly crafted as any tr...
Thats DMX, right? 5-Hour Energy should make a separate slogan for Coachella for when that “2:30 feeling” on Sunday afternoon hits. You know, that time when your head is pounding, your thr...
Spray-on tan. It seemed that Coachella’s two Saturdays had something in common. They were warmer. Weekend One’s version didn’t have the rainstorms and gales that punished campers th...
Yes, that is who you think it is. Two weekends. Two results. While Weekend One opened as Coldchella, the 2012 Coachella Valley Arts and Music Festival opened on Friday in normal fashion: with swelter...
The smallest men sometimes have the most commanding presences. Fig. 1, Thom Yorke. (Dan Honda/San Jose Mercury News) It should have been billed as the Thom Yorke show. Radiohead‘s frontman is u...
The last time we saw Ian Bavitz, aka Aesop Rock, he was tearing apart a giant dinosaur piñata on-stage in San Francisco backed by Kimya Dawson and big Rob Sonic. That was over a year ago when the New...
Are you going to Morrow today? (Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org) The Shins definitely ran the risk of finding their style dated and copied since their last album five years ago. Or since their indie ...
The other day, I was engaged in a deep conversation with Charlie and few German friends regarding the best arists that have come out Europe’s biggest country. For the two of us, our contributio...
As James Russell Mercer continues to dismantle The Shins, its becoming harder and harder to recognize the band. Now the only original member left, Mercer, also of Broken Bells, has ruled with an iron...
Photo courtesy of Justin Hollar. An old soul in modern times, Justin Hollar always loved music. He embraced The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, icons of a time period when the photographer...
Here’s fresh track from a relatively new band named, Wanderlings. If you ask me to name this band without prior knowledge, I probably would have said they were Cut Copy or a very hip (and happ...
For over a year, Australian singer-songwriter Matt Corby has been performing what have been coined as “Secret Garden” shows throughout his homeland. These shows are designed to be intimate gath...
Wandering around backstage, Karen Orzolek seemed like anyone else at the Creators Project production in San Francisco. Face painting aside, you could hardly tell that she was the beer-fueled, battle-...
My alter ego compiled a little mixtape during a fit of insomnia-associated creativity at some point last week. Its overarching theme: his affinity for the most enchanting time of the day–the middle o...
Arcade Fires Régine Chassagne at Berkeleys Greek Theatre in 2010. (Brian Valdizno/treeswingers) After cutting up and producing one of my favorite remixes ever–a version of the Klaxon’s &#...
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