Archive for June, 2012
Voodoo Releases 2012 Expansive Lineup: Jack White, Avetts, Bootsy Join The Ritual
BOOM GOES THE RITUAL. Check out our Voodoo 2012 playlist HERE. Via the festival’s Twitter page, a big chunk of the final 2012 lineup has arrived, meaning fans of the yearly City Park gathering won’t have to slog through an entire summer of one-at-a-time lineup drips that seemed to peeve a... more
PREVIEW: Galactic featuring Corey Glover @ Tipitina’s Uptown – 9/8/12
Okay, so we know this show announcement is WAY EARLY, but such declarations are necessary when a band like Galactic rolls into town, especially when there’s no special occasion besides a good, old-fashioned FUNK THROW DOWN. Landing on the hallowed stage of Tipitina’s Uptown, the celebrated brainchild of New Orleans... more
SETLIST / VIDEOS / TWEETS: Phish @ Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati OH, 6/22/12
Phish is about to take the stage at Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, OH and we'll be following along with the setlist as it rolls in... Phish @ Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati OH, 6/22/12 Set I: Wolfman's Brother, Peaches en Regalia, Shaggy Dog, Runaway Jim, Light Up or Leave Me Alone, Wilson,... more
PREVIEW: Lower Dens with No Joy and Ellie Beziat plus The Dropout @ One Eyed Jacks 6/23/12
WHO: Aquarium Drunkard and WTUL present Lower Dens with No Joy and Ellie Beziat, plus The Dropout WHEN: Saturday, June 23rd – Doors at 9:00 WHERE: One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans French Quarter TICKETS: $12.00 (PURCHASE) Fresh off the release of Nootropics, Lower Dens is crushing the world with their mind-maze of entrancing sound,... more
VIDEO: Phish – “Maze” (with light saber) from Portsmouth #1
This is the good stuff.
RECAP / PHOTOS: El-P plus Killer Mike, Mr. eXquire and Despot @ House of Blues Parish Room – 6/20/12
The Parish Room at the House of Blues was vivid last night with the sweet stink of smokey joints and the vibrant lights of the Wednesday rap revolution, as Despot kicked things off with a little bit of impressive wordsmithing and a dash of crowd-controlled aerobics. In the back... more
MP3 / GIVEAWAY: Phish Chicago ’94 Box Set
While our trusty friends from Hidden Track were all over this a week or so ago, Phish made the news official last night during their second webcast from Portsmouth, VA: The band will release an audio box set of their two shows that were played at UIC Pavilion in Chicago... more
SETLIST / VIDEOS / TWEETS: Phish @ nTelos Pavilion, Portsmouth VA, 6/20/12
Phish is about to take the stage for their second night at nTelos Pavilion in Portsmouth, VA. We'll be following along with the setlist and tweets as they come in... Phish @ nTelos Pavilion, Portsmouth VA, 6/20/12 Set I: Sparkle, Ha Ha Ha, AC/DC Bag, Divided Sky, Dog Log, Undermind, Mike's... more
PHOTOS: STS9 (Axe the Cables) @ Boulder Theater, CO 6/17/12
Our friend Patrick Hagan made it down to Boulder Theater this weekend for an STS9 acoustic set (Axe the Cables) along with a screening of #ReGeneration, a film STS9 was heavily involved in as well as did the original soundtrack for. Patrick took some photo of the show as well... more
PHOTOS / VIDEO / SETLIST: STS9 @ Red Rocks Amphitheater 6/16/12
After Ghostland Observatory and Mimosa laid it down on Friday night, it was STS9's turn for a ragin' show at Red Rocks Amphitheater the following night. There's no better way to spend a Saturday in Colorado than at Red Rocks in Morrison. This beautiful venue continues to showcase what is... more
PHOTOS / RECAP: Ghostland Observatory, MiM0SA and ZION-I @ Red Rocks 6/15/12
Last Friday, Zion-I, MiM0SA, and Ghostland Observatory took the stage at Red Rocks, delivering a multi-genre musical experience that far exceed my expectations. Having seen all three artists play multiple times at festivals in the past few months (Snowball, Altitude Festival, Wakarusa, and Bonnaroo), I wasn't exactly sure how this... more
VIDEO: WU LYF – “Brooklyn Girls + Summa Bliss”
Remember that WU LYF show that we covered back in April?! Well turns out there was some video footage going down! According to their Facebook page: LYF compadres and videographers the ABF spent some time with us in NYC on the final leg of our last tour. We bro’d it... more
Moogfest 2012: Dates announced!
Save the date for this year's Moogfest! The image above basically says it all; the festival will return to Asheville, NC over the "Halloween" weekend of October 26-27, 2012 and will be "different" this year...somehow. We don't exactly know yet, but it seems that they're definitely going to... more
SETLIST / VIDEOS / TWEETS: Phish @ nTelos Pavilion, Portsmouth VA, 6/19/12
Phish is about to take the stage for their two night run at nTelos Pavilion in Portsmouth, VA. The shows will be offered up via a paid webcast at LivePhish.com, so there will be tons of Couch Tour action happening in Twitter land tonight. Follow @CoventryMusic, @surefootedllama, any of the... more
Phish announce “Fan Photo Week”
Phish is a few hours away from kicking off a two-night run at nTelos Pavilion in Portsmouth, VA, and this week they're asking the fans to contribute a little more directly to their @Phish_FTR account by tweeting at them during the show (or soon after). The band has never... more
REVIEW: Big Freedia @ Public Works, SF 6/14/12
Public Works was crowded on Thursday night as the Hard French DJs spun a pleasing variety of 50's and 60's pop songs to open the much-hyped Big Freedia show. The DJ's worked the crowd of mostly hipster lesbian couples and gay men into a two-hour long fervor as we... more
VIDEO: Skrillex rocks the rain at Spring Awakening
This past weekend was the Spring Awakening Music Festival at Soldier Field, arguably the "first" major EDM festival to come to Chicago after the whole industry has started to take more notice in the marketability of such events. Skrillex headlined the main stage on Saturday night to plenty of... more
LMB LA: FYF Announces 2012 Lineup featuring M83, Refused, Yeasayer and More
The 2012 FYF Fest lineup was released earlier today and it is absolutely killer from top-to-bottom. So many personal favorites in here and FYF has done an admirable job of featuring big ticket indie acts wielding a reputation for great live performances like M83, Yeasayer (one of the best live... more
Don’t skip the “2001″ from last night’s Phish show…
We updated our night three Bader coverage with the video.
I liked what I heard from the Phish streams last night but I wasn’t there. Here’s some more informed criticism…
"When the band never even attempts to jump into adventurous jamming, we are left with last night—Singlestown, USA."
