Actual Wolf (Grand Rapids, MN), Bomba De Luz (St Paul, MN), The Chalice (Minneapolis, MN), Eleganza! (Minneapolis, MN), John Mark Nelson (Excelsior, MN), Strange Names (Minneapolis, MN) and Wiping Out Thousands (St Paul, MN) January 11th, 2013 First Avenue Main Room (Minneapolis, MN) Full Gallery: First Avenue’s Best New Bands 2012 On Friday night, First Avenue brought together(…)
ATP curated by The National Day 3 Yellowbirds (Brooklyn, NY), My Brightest Diamond (Detroit, MI), The Philistines JR. (NYC), Perfume Genius (Seattle, WA), Wye Oak (Baltimore, MD), Owen Pallett (Toronto, CAN), Local Natives (Los Angeles, CA), The National (Cincinnati, OH) December 9, 2012 Pontin’s in Camber Sands, United Kingdom Gallery: ATP curated by The National Day(…)
ATP curated by The National Days 1 & 2 Bear in Heaven (Brooklyn, NY), Kurt Vile and The Violators (Philadelphia, PA), The Kronos Quartet (San Francisco, CA), Lower Dens (Baltimore, MD), Sharon Van Etten (Brooklyn, NY), The Antlers (Brooklyn, NY), Wild Beasts (Kendal, England) December 7 & 8, 2012 Pontin’s in Camber Sands, United Kingdom(…)
Patrick Watson (Montreal, Quebec) November 30th, 2012 Turner Hall in Milwaukee, WI Cabaret tables, candles, and one short-billed cap. Patrick Watson stopped by Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Friday night, just a few blocks from the Riverside Theater where the Alabama Shakes were playing a sold-out show the same evening. Milwaukee indie music aficionados were again divided.(…)
Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 3 La Dispute (Grand Rapids, MI), Japandroids (East Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada), Deerhoof (San Francisco, CA), The Promise Ring (Milwaukee, WI), Lagwagon (Santa Barbara, CA), Explosions in the Sky (Austin, TX), Turbonegro (Oslo and London) November 4, 2012 Auditorium Shores in Austin, Texas Gallery: Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 3(…)
Sainthood Reps (Long Island, NY), La Dispute (Grand Rapids, MI) November 3, 2012 Holy Mountain in Austin, Texas After Day 2 of the festival I biked down to Holy Mountain to catch another one of the NITES shows. These shows are free to anyone with a festival wristband and go on after the festival at(…)
Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 2 Joyce Manor (Torrance, CA), Anamanaguchi (New York, NY), Braid (Urbana, IL), DMC (Queens, NY), Why? (Cincinnati, OH), The Riverboat Gamblers (Denton/Austin, TX), Surfer Blood (West Palm Beach, FL), Paul Banks (NY), Real Estate (Ridgewood, NJ), Youth of Today (New York, NY), The Head and The Heart (Seattle, WA), STRFKR(…)
Fun Fun Fun Fest NITES Astronautalis (Seattle, WA) November 1, 2012 The Belmont in Austin, Texas So right after the Run-DMC performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest I biked down to The Belmont to see one of the Fun Fun Fun Fest NITES shows going on. You see, the festival not only had music all(…)