Coachella has just announced that the 2013 edition of the festival would once again take place over the course of two weekends. Weekend One will be held on April 12, 13 and 14, while Weekend Two will be held on April 19, 20 and 21.
In the immediate days following Coachella weekend one, post-festival depression set in, and I found myself envious of Coachella weekend two-ers for the first time since I learned the festival would be split into two consecutive weekends. Just as weekend two attendees began their Coachella journey, weekend one attendees and I began to cling to [...]
Out of Oklahoma like a shotgun shell, Annie Clark began her ascent as part of The Polyphonic Spree before moving into the national and international limelight. Having learned to play the guitar at the age of 12, she went on to study at the Berklee College of Music before creating the unique sound that is [...]
If you’re reading this, or are at all familiar with our lovely eventseekr blog, you are probably getting ready to go or wishing you could be going to Coachella. Or maybe you never had any intention of going and you’re tired of hearing about the Indio-based music festival altogether. Well, whichever group you belong to, [...]
tUnE-yArDs is a collaborative music project created and led by New Englander Merrill Garbus, whose powerfully dynamic voice and attention to musical detail has proven to be nothing short of amazing. The project was introduced to the public in 2009 when Garbus self-released her first album as tUnE-yArDs. The album, BiRd-BrAiNs, showcased a similarly stylized name as well as [...]
Carrie Brownstein first announced the creation of Wild Flag on NPR’s All Songs Considered Blog in September 2010, a declaration that sent the indie rock crowd into a state of frenzied excitement and expectation. How could it not? Through that blog post, fans found out that Wild Flag had pulled together some of the best [...]
Emerging from Bolton, England in 1976, Buzzcocks continue to impress the punk rock scene with their pop-friendly hooks, irreverent lyrics, and youthful energy. Although original members Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle are in their mid ’50s, they still rock out like teenagers. ESSENTIAL LISTENING: Buzzcocks’ oft-covered track, “Ever Fallen in Love”, performed in 2003.
As Landon pointed out in last week’s Coachella Focus featuring Pulp, Britpop is returning with a vengeance for this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. If the catchy hooks and anti-grunge sentiments of the 1990s music trend are too optimistic for you to handle, there are plenty of bands on the lineup to ease [...]
If we can pull some truth from the somewhat tired observation that musical trends recycle themselves every so many years, then 2012 seems to be the year of Britpop’s reemergence. As the Gallagher Brothers continue to squabble with one another while toiling away on individual projects (High Flying Birds, Beady Eye) and Blur prepares for [...]
First Aid Kit are Johanna and Klara Söderberg, a pair of Swedish sisters barely out of their teens when they signed to Rabid Records, the label part-owned by fellow Swedes, The Knife. They first emerged with their haunting cover of Fleet Foxes‘ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song,” which became a YouTube sensation, and have since produced [...]
Monday, May 14, 2012
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