Oh Land (Copenhagen, Denmark), Phox (Madison, WI), Delta Spirit (San Diego, CA), Chance the Rapper (Chicago, IL), Toro Y Moi (Columbia, SC), The Mowgli’s (Los Angeles, CA) May 4th, 2013 Revelry Music and Arts Festival at Union South in Madison, Wisconsin Full Gallery: Revelry Fest at University of Wisconsin-Madison In bold font with liberal usage of(…)
From April 23rd to April 28th, festival goers and the industry descended in droves to the French department capital of Bourges for Printemps de Bourges. Since 1977, the town of about 100,000 has hosted the festival and industry conference that has become an “incontournable” step in the French and European music. Booking agents, managers, label(…)
Alex Hepburn (London, England) April 19th, 2013 Nouveau Casino in Paris, France Overcoming emotion, Alex had to step off stage for a moment at the packed to the gills Nouveau Casino Friday night. She couldn’t see; her make-up running as she tried to hold back emotions. The Scottish Alex Hepburn grew up in London, and(…)
Tomorrow’s World (Paris/London), Yeti Lane (Paris, France) and Ricky Hollywood (Paris, France) Friday, April 12th, 2013 La Maroquinerie in Paris, France Full Gallery: Tomorrow’s World at La Maroquinerie With Daft Punk, Phoenix and M83 (with the soundtrack for Oblivion), France is taking on 2013 with charging crusade of electro and high profile, high quality releases. What you may not(…)
Moriarty (Paris, France) and Mama Rosin (Geneva, Switzerland) April 10th, 2013 La Flèche d’or in Paris, France Full Gallery: Moriarty and Mama Rosin at La Flèche d’or La Flèche d’or on Wednesday evening served to be the perfect venue for this meeting. A former train station in and of itself, even with the rails still visible out(…)
Lescop (Paris) April 7th, 2013 Pop In in Paris, France Imagine the biggest buzzing group of the moment in America posting on Facebook at noon, announcing a show down the street from you-not in a venue, but a concert bar. A 200 capacity max, maybe, concert bar (obviously smaller in the venue part itself, though(…)
I bet if you told anyone catching one of the many showcases that CHVRCHES performed at SXSW that they were looking at one of the members of the perennially introspective soundscapey The Twilight Sad, they’d likely look at you as if, finally, someone had reached the physical limit of Lone Star consumption. But hey, that(…)
Team Ghost (Paris) and Her Magic Wand (Paris) March 28th, 2013 La Maroquinerie in Paris, France Full Gallery: Team Ghost at La Maroquinerie While the world waits for M83/Anthony Gonzalez to produce a proper follow-up to Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, outside of the upcoming Tom Cruise film, his former collaborator (and M83 cofounder) Nicolas Fromageau(…)
