John Friend, center, a famous yoga instructor, leads a session at the Wanderlust festival at Lake Tahoe. (c) Jon Hyde for NY Times.
Epic weather went hand in hand with Owen Pallet’s (Final Fantasy) epic performance at the recent Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario, where the multi-versed talented musician delivered one hell of a show. Interestingly enough, Owen played quite a lot of songs off his new and upcoming album “Heartland,” including “Lewis Takes Off His Shirt” part of the pack of new material. In the video bellow, you can see Owen defying nature, whilst playing Lewis Takes…
One of my favorite albums of the past year was “Alopecia” by alternative hip-hop outfit Why?. Seems like there’s no slacking within the band’s grounds though, since Why? will release a new album soon titled “Eskimo Snow” via anticon. The new album will apparently mark a change of direction in the band’s sound, as we’ll be greeted with little to no hip-hop, instead Why? preferring to adopt a more conventional indie rock approach. The bellow…
The North Carolina bluegrass quartet The Avett Brothers recorded an incredible Daytrotter session a few months ago, during the bands stint at SXSW. Like always in their live performances, The Avett Brothers were simply incredible, shinning thanks to their rootsy, soulful approach to music. Sincere, from the heart music is hard to find during our contemporary vocal auto-tune money chasing times, such that these four live gems landed by the brothers should not go unnoticed….
Buddyhead just recently caught up with the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound frontman Brandford Cox and made this … let’s say insightful interview. Don’t threat guys, he’s not robotripping, he’s just got some sort of weird ass flu (swine flu maybe?!). The dude’s still very much insane though! The interview peaks at well over 20 mins, but it’s definitely fun to watch Cox babbling like he’s on two tons of acid. Haha! Atlas Sound’s new record, “Logos,” will…
Photo courtesy of Chris Devers. Portland rockers The Decemberists have just announced details of a Fall tour which will begin in Newport, RI at the Newport Folk Festival and end across the Atlantic in the UK at London’s Coronet. The full tour schedule is as follows, 08/01 Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival 08/02 Montreal, Quebec – Osheaga Music & Arts Festival 08/03 Toronto, Ontario – Kool Haus 08/05 Madison, WI – Orpheum Theater 08/06…
stands for the Stockholm-based solo performance of Magnus Sätterström . This Swedish indie pop performer has released a couple of songs that could perfectly get squeezed among the good pop songs we’ve listened to lately. Different keyboards get mixed with guitars and a variety of computer editings. Don’t be fooled – it wouldn’t fit under the electronica label or something equally artificial. The relaxed and sometimes quite pessimistic vocals, the honest and up-front lyrics and…
So that’s how you pronounce “Veckatimest”! Thanks, Dave. Grizzly Bear paid a visit to Letterman’s Late Show last week (how the heck did I miss this?!), where they played an incredible performance of “Ready, Able” with a string quartet. The end result was simply stunning – clean, sharp and full of passion. No One Does It Like Grizzly Bear, I guess :). Definitely glad they didn’t choose to play the usual Two Weeks. Which reminds…
Being both a huge Josh Homme and Arctic Monkeys fan, it’s impossible for me not to love this neo-psychedelia bomb. Adventurous and murky, “Crying Lightning” is a brilliant move forward by the monkeys. Oh, yes, this is gonna be a terribly interesting album – the third in the Arctic Monkeys catalog. Not too interesting of a video for Crying Lightning , though. Just the band, with increasing hair issues (somebody should tell Alex Turner the…
My one presiding memory of visiting my granddad when I was knee high to a shepherd’s pie is, of all things, screwing around with the old man’s stair lift. Utterly lost on me and my brother was the importance of the machine for allowing my granddad easy ascent – all we saw was a hilarious toy that distracted us from the boring grown-up talk that was going on around us. I’m fairly certain we broke…
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