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FESTY PREVIEW: Outside Lands Music Festival 2015

This weekend marks the 8th annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival and expectations are sky high once again. Over the last seven years, Outside Lands has ste...

PHOTOS / RECAP: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Nurses @ Barboza, Seattle, WA 5.9.15

Psyche-rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra from Portland, Oregon and Auckland, New Zealand hosted an intimate show at Barboza last month. The band were on tour pro...

FYF Fest 2015 Lineup Announced: D’Angelo, Flume, Frank Ocean & more

Building momentum over the past few years, FYF has officially established itself as a major player in the Southern California festival scene. And with yesterda...

Unknown Mortal Orchestra Extend Tour

LMB favorites Unknown Mortal Orchestra have been selling out dates on both sides of the pond (getting a ton of love in England especially) since the release of ...

PHOTOS: Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC 2/28/13

Kenny Sun went and caught Unknown Mortal Orchestra last night at the Bowery Ballroom and brought back this photo gallery. -Editor "If Unknown Mortal Orchestr...

WEBCAST: Foxygen and Unknown Mortal Orchestra will stream their show tonight!

Hipster Couch Tour Alert for tonight! NPR will be streaming the sold-out double-bill of the psych-trio Unknown Mortal Orchestra (UMO) and Foxygen tonight LIVE ...

RECAP: Unknown Mortal Orchestra w/ Foxygen @ One Eyed Jack’s, New Orleans 2/22/13

On a stormy Friday in the French Quarter, New Orleans’ young and hip packed into One Eyed Jack’s for an evening of delightfully unique music that was worlds awa...

PHOTOS: Liars / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Joan of Arc @ The Metro, Chicago 7/19/12

Liars played to an ecstatic crowd at The Metro in Chicago on this past Thursday, July 19th. Starting with the first track on their recent release WIXIW, “The Ex...

PREVIEW / INTERVIEW: Liars @ The Metro, Chicago, 7/19/12

LA/Brooklyn band Liars, consisting of Aaron Hemphill, Angus Andrew, and Julian Gross (left to right above), are set to play The Metro in Chicago this Thurs...

Pitchfork Music Festival: Final Lineup Posted!

The lineup for the Pitchfork Music Festival was just announced with dates confirmed for the weekend of July 13-15, 2012 at Chicago's Union Park. Headlining...

Sasquatch 2012 Lineup: Jack White, Beck, Bon Iver, The Shins, Pretty Lights, Tenacious D

The Sasquatch Music Festival has released their 2012 lineup, and as usual, it's a doozy. Headliners included Beck, Bon Iver, Jack White, Pretty Lights, Tena...

Snowball Music Festival: Snoop Dogg, Bassnectar, Rusko & more…

In case you missed it, the lineup for this year's Snowball Music Festival was announced recently and it's totally nuts. Any festival set in Vail, Colorado woul...

LMB SF: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 7-13)

Sorry for the absence of this here column last week; I got hit with an acute case of tonsillitis which definitely killed my Monday pretty badly. Felt like I wa...

INTERVIEW: Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson

What’s next for UMO? We start our first headline tour straight after our tour with Toro. Then we go to the UK to tour with Foster the People and then play so...

PHOTOS / REVIEW: Toro Y Moi / Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Bass Drum of Death @ One Eyed Jacks, NOLA 10/10/11

Seeing three young and hungry bands delivering fresh goods to an equally engaged and curious audience was invigorating. There is a burgeoning scene in town that...

VIDEO PREVIEW: Toro Y Moi and Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ One Eyed Jacks – 10/10/11

Chaz Bundick, better known by the moniker Toro Y Moi, makes his return to New Orleans a week from today seven months after having to cancel his highly-anticipat...