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Photos: FYF Fest 2010

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Photos by Natalie Kardos; Above: Washed Out

Los Angeles' Saturday-only FYF Fest saw performances by Panda Bear, Wavves, Ariel Pink, Washed Out, Local Natives, the Rapture and many more. Photographer Natalie Kardos was there.

Check out a selection of shots after the jump, then head over to our photo book for a complete set of full-size photos.

Festival watch | Music

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:06:19 +0000

Reading, Richfield Avenue

The talk of this year's Reading and Leeds festivals wasn't so much a band as the absence of a band. Sure, Reading's Friday night headliners Guns N' Roses did eventually turn up, but it was the hour-long wait for them to take the stage – followed by a lacklustre performance – that defined the event.

The biggest diversion from the gossip (would Axl Rose even turn up for Sunday's Leeds leg?) came on Saturday with the Libertines' much-hyped "comeback" show. Sadly, their chaotic, tinny indie failed to rise to the occasion. The same can't be said for Arcade Fire (see Régine Chassagne, left), whose gigantic sound stretched far beyond the admittedly rather modest crowd, making theirs a classic Reading show.

Sunday's bill featured 90s relics like Blink 182 and Limp Bizkit. Still, Reading is well-stocked with other choices – I caught Local Natives, the Drums and Health, as well as Kele Okereke who won't be trudging back to Bloc Party in a hurry. His thrilling electro-rave makeover was still ringing in my ears as I left, along with the news that Guns N' Roses had turned up in Leeds – and they were even worse.

Best performance Arcade Fire

Best discovery Local Natives

Overheard Constant sibling rivalry: "The lavatories would never be this clean in Leeds" etc.

Tim Jonze

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Electric Sunset, 'Soda' -- Free MP3 Download

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:12 +0000

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Sarah Cass

Artist: Electric Sunset
Hails From: San Francisco
Song: 'Soda'
Album: 'Electric Sunset'
Sounds Like: Local Natives, Grizzly Bear

In Their Words: "I was inspired to write 'Soda' by all the street kids in the big city." -- Frontman Nic Zwart

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Small Black – “Photojournalist”

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:18:36 +0000

With “Bad Lover” and an eponymous EP, Small Black introduced themselves as the new project from the men behind Class Of 2006 local natives Slowlands. Since then, the band’s gone on a press-positive tour with (along with performing as backing band for) Washed Out, ushered in another affiliated project into our consciousness with the promising [...]

Local Natives played Governors Island (pics, selist), touring w/ Ruby Suns & Union Line (and Love Language) (dates)

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:00:12 +0000

FEATURED: Øya Festival Playlist

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:45:44 +0000

Unless you have a private jet and/or live in Norway, you are probably not going to the Øya Festival, which is happening right now. Bummer, no? We hear you. Explore this playlist–over half of which is Norwegian-made!–eat some smoked salmon and lefse and you will basically replicate the experience. And you won't pay like thirty dollars for one beer.

The Megaphonic Thrift - Dragon Vs. Dust

Miike Snow - Sylvia (Robotberget Remix)

Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (Radio Edit)

Blood Command - On And On Chameleon

Ost & Kjex - Continental Lover (Radio Edit)

diskJokke - 1987

Major Lazer - Hold The Line (DJ Edit)

Local Natives - Eyes Wide (Fool's Gold Remix)

Marina And The Diamonds - Oh No! (Active Child Remix)

Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

Casiokids - Fot I Hose

La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)

Yeasayer - O.N.E.

News in Brief: Eels, Royal Trux, Capstan Shafts, Reading and Leeds Festivals

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:45:00 +0000

Photo by Autumn de Wilde

-- On August 24, Eels will release Tomorrow Morning, their second new album of 2010, via the group's own E Works label. They'll follow it with a big world tour.

-- Cats and Dogs, the 1993 album from scuzz-rock greats Royal Trux, will return to print on August 24, when Drag City reissues the record.

-- On August 24, Dean Wells' lo-fi bedroom-pop project the Capstan Shafts will release the new album Revelation Skirts via Rainbow Quartz. Pitchfork contributor Matt LeMay produces and plays drums.

-- As previously reported, the Libertines will reunite to play England's titanic Reading and Leeds Festivals, which go down August 27-29 in the towns that bear the festivals' names. The festival lineups also include Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Guns N' Roses, Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, the Walkmen, Crystal Castles, Band of Horses, Dizzee Rascal, Yeasayer, Girls, Weezer, Los Campesinos!, Klaxons, Caribou, the Big Pink, Surfer Blood, Warpaint, Local Natives, Kele, and about a million other bands.

Matthew Dear, 'Soil to Seed' -- Free MP3 Download

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:00:35 +0000

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Ghostly International

Artist: Matthew Dear
Hails From: New York
Song: 'Soil to Seed'
Album: 'Black City' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Richie Hawtin

In Their Words: "Soil to Seed happened in an instant. It's about copying art, drinking lots of coffee in the morning, getting things done, and letting someone scold your mischievous horse. My favorite songs happen without over-thinking anything, and this was about as easy as they come." -- Matthew Dear

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Local Natives, “Wide Eyes” live at the Levi’s® FADER Fort

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:23:23 +0000

Rock ‘n roll harmonies live on with Local Natives at the Levi’s® FADER Fort!

Local Natives, 'Wide Eyes (Fools Gold Remix)' -- Free MP3 Download

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:00:11 +0000

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Collin Erie for AOL

Artist: Local Natives
Hail From: Los Angeles
Song: 'Wide Eyes (Fools Gold Remix)'
Album: 'Gorilla Manor' (Black Iris Label) [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes

In Their Words: "The combo of the half time rhythmic feel and the soulful/bluesy vocal hook just reminded me so much of modern R&B, so it was quite obvious which direction to go. I started by re-playing the bass synth and blowing it out, making it huge and distorted, next came the 808 drums. Getting an underground rapper to drop a fresh verse really took it to the next level, right where it needed to be." -- Lewis Pesacov (Fool's Gold)

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Festivals in Brief: Outside Lands, Mile High, Pukkelpop, Strom

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:05:00 +0000

WHAT: Outside Lands Music and Art Festival
WHEN: August 14-15
WHERE: San Francisco, CA
WHO: The Strokes, Phoenix, My Morning Jacket, Cat Power, Gogol Bordello, Janelle Monae, Nas and Damian Marley, Chromeo, Empire of the Sun, Al Green, Wild Beasts, Kings of Leon, Tokyo Police Club, Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

WHAT: Mile High Music Festival
WHEN: August 14-15
WHERE: Denver, CO
WHO: Phoenix, My Morning Jacket, Weezer, Nas and Damian Marley, Atmosphere, Drive-By Truckers, Jimmy Cliff, Cypress Hill, Mayer Hawthorne

WHAT: Pukkelpop
WHEN: August 19-21
WHERE: Hasselt, Belgium
WHO: Queens of the Stone Age, the Flaming Lips, the National, Band of Horses, the xx, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Major Lazer, Diplo, Beach House, Girls, Jonsi, Goldfrapp, Broken Bells, Die Antwoord, Flying Lotus, Caribou, Four Tet, These New Puritans, Kele, Fuck Buttons, Local Natives, Washed Out, Bear in Heaven, Gonjasufi, Joker and Nomad, Frightened Rabbit, Tame Impala, Tallest Man on Earth, Surfer Blood, Toro Y Moi

WHAT: Strøm Festival
WHEN: August 16-22
WHERE: Copenhagen, Denmark
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, Jonsi, Four Tet, Pantha du Prince, Mount Kimbie, Untold, Nosaj Thing, Wolfgang Flur, No Bra, Actress, Kasper Bjørke, Thomas Fehlmann, Gonjasufi, Barbara Morgenstern, To Rococo Rot, Jimmy Edgar, Gold Panda

Local Natives announce November UK and Irish tour and ticket details

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:46:57 +0000

Band set for headline shows this winter

Indie Rock's Finest Head For Leeds Constellations

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:11:04 +0000

Les Savy Fav, Broken Social Scene, Four Tet, Los Campesinos! and Local Natives have all been confirmed for the inaugural Constellations festival in Leeds. The event, at the city's university on November 14, is a brand new music and arts festival.

News in Brief: Rock for Kids, Ocrilim, Suuns, Wavelength Music Festival

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:15:00 +0000

-- At this year's Pitchfork Music Festival, artists including Sleigh Bells, Major Lazer, Titus Andronicus, Local Natives, St. Vincent, and more personalized records, posters, and other items for Rock for Kids, a Chicago organization that provides music education for youngsters. The items are currently up for auction-- check 'em out here.

-- Experimental metal guitarist Mick Barr (Krallice, Orthrelm, Crom Tech) has a new guitar-only opus under his Ocrilim moniker called Absolve. It's a limited-edition, 100-copy CD run only available at his site.

-- Montreal-based dark electro-rockers Suuns have signed with indie powerhouse Secretly Canadian. Download their six-song Zeroes EP for the price of an e-mail address here. Suuns go on tour with Besnard Lakes and Land of Talk this fall; dates here.

-- Archer Prewitt (The Sea and Cake), Freakwater, Bottomless Pit, Robbie Fulks, and Scotland Yard Gospel Choir are a few of the bands playing this year's Wavelength Music and Arts Festival in Three Oaks, Michigan this Saturday, July 31.

Top Ten Week of 7.18.2010

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:03:23 +0000

Props to Tracey Thorn / Morgan Geist for netting the number one spot this week, and a warm top five welcome to Bombay Bicycle Club, ceo, of Montreal / Yip Deceiver, and Local Natives / Fool's Gold.

1. Tracey Thorn - Why Does The Wind? (Morgan Geist Remix)

2. Bombay Bicycle Club - Lamplight

3. ceo - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright

4. of Montreal - Coquet Coquette (Yip Deceiver Mix)

5. Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix)

6. Dam Funk - A Day At The Carnival

7. The Like - Release Me (Viking Remix)

8. Janelle Monae - Tightrope (feat. Big Boi) (Organized Noize Remix)

9. Tame Impala - Jeremy's Storm (Live On Viva Radio's Me + You)

10. Dax Riggs - No One Will Be A Stranger

RND UP: 7.17.10

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:00:18 +0000

Another amazing week here at RCRD LBL has come to a close. In case you missed any of the great tracks we released this week, here's the RND UP. This is your chance to catch up on all the new music.

July 16

Gilles Peterson - Roforofo Fight (Louie Vega Remix)

The Bewitched Hands On The Top Of Our Heads - I Don't Know

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix)

Becoming Real - Jen's Clock (Forest Swords Remix)

July 15

Sky Larkin - Still Windmills (Ghost Hunter Remix)

Rittz - Rattle Back

Dark Party - Patrol Patrol (Mux Mool Remix)

Dragonette - Easy (Buffetlibre Remix)

Liturgy - Ecstatic Rite

Liturgy - Beyond The Magic Forest

of Montreal - Coquet Coquette (Yip Deceiver Mix)

July 14

Dom Kennedy - Locals Only

AM - Self Preservation (Los Amparito Remix)

The Like - Release Me (Viking Remix)

OPTMSM - Marblehead

The Biters - Hang Around

Tracey Thorn - Why Does The Wind? (Morgan Geist Remix)

July 13

Pharoahe Monch - Shine (feat. Mela Machinko)

Human Life - In It Together (Jaymo & Andy George's Moda Remix)

Human Life - In It Together (Louis La Roche Feeling Remix)

Dam Funk - A Day At The Carnival

Bombay Bicycle Club - Lamplight

d'Eon - Qiyamah

July 12

Black Milk - Welcome (Gotta Go)

Tallest Trees - Skinny Little Wrists

Tallest Trees - Alouette!

Señor Stereo - Hot Damn!

ceo - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright

Weekend Playlist Vol. 12

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:30:00 +0000

In this edition of the Weekend Playlist: ceo talks us back from the ledge, Viking electrifies The Like, Morgan Geist takes Tracey Thorn back to the club, and nine other essentials from this week. Enjoy your weekend, we'll be back with more on Monday.

ceo - Everything Is Gonna Be Alright

Black Milk - Welcome (Gotta Go)

The Like - Release Me (Viking Remix)

Dam Funk - A Day At The Carnival

Pharoahe Monch - Shine (feat. Mela Machinko)

Bombay Bicycle Club - Lamplight

Tracey Thorn - Why Does The Wind? (Morgan Geist Remix)

The Biters - Hang Around

of Montreal - Coquet Coquette (Yip Deceiver Mix)

Dark Party - Patrol Patrol (Mux Mool Remix)

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix)

Curensy - Skybourne (feat. BIG K.R.I.T. & Smoke DZA)

RCRD OF THE DAY: Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix)

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:30:00 +0000

Soon, boutique label Black Iris will release their Local Natives and Free Energy split 7-inch. In the meantime, they’re gifting this wild, genre-busting remix by Lewis Pesacov (Fool’s Gold, Foreign Born). Pesacov gets his hands dirty with “Wide Eyes,” molding it into a thick, bumping summertime jam. There’s still plenty of soft-hearted yelping, it’s just now simmering under a trick beat so rapper Aristotle Pop A Bottle’s can spit some quick southern verse.

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Fool's Gold Remix)

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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., 'Vocal Chords' -- Free MP3 Download

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0000

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Artist: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Song: 'Vocal Chords'
Album: 'Horse Power' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: of Montreal, Local Natives

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Club 8, 'Western Hospitality' -- Free MP3 Download

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:00:00 +0000

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Artist: Club 8
Song: 'Western Hospitality'
Album: 'The People's Record' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Vampire Weekend, Local Natives

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Pitchfork Music Festival Playlist

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:07:21 +0000

This weekend, indie bible Pitchfork host their annual music festival in Chicago's Union Park, bringing the website into the realm of the corporeal for 72 or so hours. Headliners include Pavement, Big Boi, LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, and Broken Social Scene, all of whom are admittedly absent from this twenty-three song playlist. Whatever, though! Championing the smaller bands is admirably Pitchforkian of us, no?

The Tallest Man On Earth - King Of Spain

Freddie Gibbs - National Anthem (Fuck The World)

Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica (XXXChange Remix)

Bear In Heaven - Wholehearted Mess (Pink Skull Remix)

Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure

WHY? - This Blackest Purse

The Smith Westerns - Boys Are Fine

Dam Funk - A Day At The Carnival

Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside The Womb

Kurt Vile - I Wanted Everything

Delorean - Deli

Real Estate - Beach Comber

Free Energy - Hope Child

Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

Major Lazer - Hold The Line (DJ Edit)

Lightning Bolt - Colossus

Local Natives - Sun Hands

Beach House - Norway

Washed Out - Feel It All Around

Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

Best Coast - When I'm With You

Cass McCombs - Lionkiller Got Married

Glastonbury | Pop review

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:40:18 +0000

Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset

Glasto turned 40 this year and, seemingly aware of the occasion, even the weather behaved: countless pairs of dusty wellies languished in sweaty tents as the festival's 1, 000-plus acts turned Worthy Farm into the very best place to be. U2 replacements Gorillaz put in a slightly lacklustre turn on the Pyramid stage on Friday night, but Kissy Sell Out was on hand to get everyone raving as he deejayed from th e cockpit of a Louise Bourgeois-esque metal spider. Shakira 's set on Saturday - over all too soon - included a euphoric cover of the xx's "Islands" (which elicited a rare grin from singer Romy in the crowd). Later, a relaxed Laura Marling charmed a loved-up a udience (including a couple down the front who'd just got engaged) as the sun set over the Park stage, while Stevie Wonder brought the weekend to a close with a mass singalong to "Happy Birthday".
Best act: The rousing vocal acrobatics of tUnE-yArDs.
Overheard: "This is too much!" - an overwrought Radiohead fan with tears in his eyes as Thom Yorke (left) and Jonny Greenwood played "Karma Police" at the end of their secret set.
Best new discovery: LA quintet Local Natives, who belted out their harmony-driven alt-rock to a huge crowd in the Queen's Head tent on Thursday night.

Hermione Hoby

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Local Natives – “Wide Eyes (Fool’s Gold Remix)” (Feat. Aristotle Pop A Bottle)

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:23:03 +0000

With two remixes of Local Natives’ “Wide Eyes” (complements of Suckers and Teen Daze) in the can, there would be no need to post yet another. Unless it jacked up the original with The-Dreamy ATL club beats and a wet verse from a rapper named Aristotle Pop A Bottle. Oh hai: Local Natives – “Wide Eyes [...]

Local Natives 'shocked' by crowd at last-minute Hoxton Square gig

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:03:13 +0000

Band only 'expected ten people' for outdoor show

Local Natives - Local Natives Play Surprise Set On London Streets

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:07:00 +0000

Rockers LOCAL NATIVES surprised fans in London on Monday (05Jul10) by unveiling plans for a last-minute gig in the city via social networking website Twitter.com.The...

Local Natives announce last minute 'open air' London gig tonight (July 5)

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:05:10 +0000

Band announce Hoxton Square show via Twitter

Get eMusic's Free Pitchfork Fest Comp

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:55:00 +0000

This year's Pitchfork Music Festival is right around the corner. A whole bunch of our favorite bands are all set to invade Chicago's Union Park July 16-18. To help you gear up for the big weekend, our friends at eMusic have put together a free digital Pitchfork Music Festival sampler, featuring 12 songs from bands on the bill, like Broken Social Scene, Best Coast, Local Natives, and Real Estate.

Click here to download the compilation (you need to be an eMusic member), and check below for the tracklist.

2010 Pitchfork Music Festival Sampler:

01 Real Estate: "Beach Comber"
02 Broken Social Scene: "World Sick"
03 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: "Wail"
04 Here We Go Magic: "Casual"
05 Sonny & the Sunsets: "Too Young to Burn"
06 Cass McCombs: "Dreams Come True Girl"
07 Bear in Heaven: "Lovesick Teenagers"
08 Local Natives: "Sun Hands"
09 WHY?: "Against Me"
10 The Tallest Man on Earth: "King of Spain"
11 Sharon Van Etten: "Save Yourself (demo)"
12 Best Coast: "Make You Mine"

Local Natives – “Wide Eyes (Teen Daze Remix)”

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:07:08 +0000

Mysterious Canadians Teen Daze do this melodic, synth-saturated version of Local Natives’s “Wide Eyes.” The Suckers remix of this song was all deconstructed and noisy, but this one has a lush, polished feel unlike either the Suckers version or the original. Local Natives – “Wide Eyes (Teen Daze Remix)” Gorilla Manor is out via Frenchkiss.

Festivals: T in the Park, Forecastle, Lounge on the Farm, La Mar de Músicas

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:40:00 +0000

WHAT: T in the Park
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Balado, Scotland
WHO: Jay-Z, Vampire Weekend, Julian Casablancas, Dirty Projectors, Broken Social Scene, Hot Chip, Dizzee Rascal, the Black Keys, Florence and the Machine, Yeasayer, Goldfrapp, Four Tet, Kele, the Big Pink, Local Natives, Frightened Rabbit, Gossip, Eminem, Echo & the Bunnymen, Black Mountain, the Prodigy, Tricky

WHAT: Forecastle
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Louisville, KY
WHO: The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Devo, She & Him, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Smashing Pumpkins, Cap'n Jazz, Drive-By Truckers, Against Me!, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Cloud Cult, Minus the Bear, Light Pollution

WHAT: Lounge on the Farm
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Canterbury, England
WHO: Hercules and Love Affair, These New Puritans, Male Bonding, Toro Y Moi, Slow Club, Television Personalities, First Aid Kit, Gold Panda, Rose Elinor Dougall, Lucky Soul, Tunng, Dam Mantle, Don Letts, Gaggle, Hot Club de Paris, Silver Columns, Wolf Gang

WHAT: La Mar de Músicas
WHEN: July 9-24
WHERE: Cartagena, Spain
WHO: Dirty Projectors, Patti Smith Band, Os Mutantes, the Very Best, Martha Wainwright, Kings of Convenience, Omar Souleyman, Salif Keita, Toumani Diabate, Youssou N'Dour, Staff Benda Bilili, Basekou Kouyate, Youssou N'Dour

Local Natives On World Cafe

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:04:00 +0000

These long-time friends from Orange County called their debut album Gorilla Manor in honor of the space they shared while living and working together. Hear an interview and tunes from their energetic live show.

Pitchfork Festival Adds Comedy Stage

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:45:00 +0000

In a recent Pitchfork interview, funny guy David Cross talked about the similarities between musicians and comedians: "There's quite an overlap between musicians who have an affection towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being in a band," he said. "The two worlds have more similarities than they do differences."

With that in mind, we're happy to announce the first ever Pitchfork Music Festival comedy stage! It's hosted by Les Savy Fav frontman (and Pitchfork.tv jokester) Tim Harrington and features veteran stand-up artist Eugene Mirman, "The State"/Wet Hot American Summer star Michael Showalter, "Daily Show" correspondent Wyatt Cenac, and "Saturday Night Live" writer Hannibal Buress. All the jokes go down on Friday, July 16, on the Balance Stage.

The Pitchfork Music Festival takes over Chicago's Union Park July 16-18. Three-day passes for the festival are sold out, as are tickets for Sunday and, as of right now, Saturday. But you can still get passes for Friday here.

The Pitchfork Music Festival's full schedule, including set times, is below.

2010 Pitchfork Music Festival schedule:

a = Aluminum Stage, b = Balance Stage, c = Connector Stage

Friday July 16 (gates at 3 p.m.):

3:30 Sharon Van Etten (a)
4:00 The Tallest Man on Earth (c)
4:35 El-P (a)
5:30 Liars (c)
5:45 Hannibal Buress (b)
6:25 Robyn (a)
6:30 Wyatt Cenac (b)
7:15 Michael Showalter (b)
7:20 Broken Social Scene (c)
8:00 Eugene Mirman (b)
8:30 Modest Mouse (a)

Saturday July 17 (gates at 12 p.m.):

1:00 Free Energy (a)
1:00 Netherfriends (b)
1:45 Real Estate (c)
1:55 Sonny & the Sunsets (b)
2:30 Delorean (a)
2:50 Kurt Vile (b)
3:20 Titus Andronicus (c)
3:45 Dâm-Funk (b)
4:15 Raekwon (a)
4:45 Smith Westerns (b)
5:15 Blues Explosion (c)
5:45 WHY? (b)
6:15 Wolf Parade (a)
6:45 Bear in Heaven (b)
7:25 Panda Bear (c)
7:40 Freddie Gibbs (b)
8:30 LCD Soundsystem (a)

Sunday July 18 (gates at 12 p.m.):

1:00 Allá (a)
1:00 Cave (b)
1:45 Cass McCombs (c)
1:55 Best Coast (b)
2:30 Girls (a)
2:50 Washed Out (b)
3:20 Beach House (c)
3:45 Local Natives (b)
4:15 Lightning Bolt (a)
4:45 Surfer Blood (b)
5:15 St. Vincent (c)
5:45 Here We Go Magic (b)
6:15 Major Lazer (a)
6:45 Neon Indian (b)
7:25 Big Boi (c)
7:40 Sleigh Bells (b)
8:30 Pavement (a)

Pitchfork Festival Set Times Revealed

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:30:00 +0000

The big weekend approaches! We're less than a month away from the Pitchfork Music Festival, which takes over Chicago's Union Park July 16-18. We have now announced the set times, so check the schedule below to see which bands will play when and on which stages.

Three-day passes for the festival are sold out, as are tickets for Sunday. But you can still get passes for Friday and Saturday. Click here to buy those.

2010 Pitchfork Music Festival schedule:

a = Aluminum Stage, b = Balance Stage, c = Connector Stage

Friday July 16 (gates at 3 p.m.):

3:30 Sharon Van Etten (a)
4:00 The Tallest Man on Earth (c)
4:35 El-P (a)
5:30 Liars (c)
6:25 Robyn (a)
7:20 Broken Social Scene (c)
8:30 Modest Mouse (a)

Saturday July 17 (gates at 12 p.m.):

1:00 Free Energy (a)
1:00 Netherfriends (b)
1:45 Real Estate (c)
1:55 Sonny & the Sunsets (b)
2:30 Delorean (a)
2:50 Kurt Vile (b)
3:20 Titus Andronicus (c)
3:45 Dâm-Funk (b)
4:15 Raekwon (a)
4:45 Smith Westerns (b)
5:15 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (c)
5:45 WHY? (b)
6:15 Wolf Parade (a)
6:45 Bear in Heaven (b)
7:25 Panda Bear (c)
7:40 Freddie Gibbs (b)
8:30 LCD Soundsystem (a)

Sunday July 18 (gates at 12 p.m.):

Local Natives Schedule Fall Tour

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Photo by Kyle Johnson

The Rising mustachioed L.A. indie harmonizers Local Natives have been touring hard behind Gorilla Manor, their BNM'ed debut. And the band has no plans to let up in the months ahead. They'll spend this summer hitting clubs and festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, including our own Pitchfork Music Festival.

And in September, they'll tour North America, with the Love Language and the Ruby Suns trading off support duties. Dates below.

Local Natives:

06-18 Tuttingen, Germany - Southside Festival
06-19 Scheessel, Germany - Hurricane Festival
06-20 Effenaar, Netherlands - Eindhoven
06-23 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg %
06-24 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Old Queen's Head
06-25 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-27 Paris, France - Solidays Festival
06-29 Ravenna, Italy - Hana Bi
06-30 Ancona, Italy - Mole Vanvitelliana
07-02 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France - Beauregard Festival
07-04 Rosklide, Denmark - Rosklide Festival
07-10 Kinross-shire, Scotland - T in the Park Festival
07-11 Punchestown, Ireland - Oxegen Festival
07-18 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Festival
07-18 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
08-05 Boston, MA - Middle East
08-06 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
08-07 New York, NY - Governors Island
08-08 Montauk, New York - The Surf Lodge
08-11 Cannes, France - Pantiero Festival
08-12 Haldern, Germany - Haldern Festival
08-13 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-14 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-15 Leicester, England - Summer Sundae Festival
08-19 Pully, Switzerland - For Noise Festival
08-20 Hasselt, Belgium - Pukkelpop Festival
08-27 Zurich, Switzerland - Open Air Festival
08-28 Leeds, England - Leeds Festival
08-29 Reading, England - Reading Festival
09-17 Los Angeles, CA - The Henry Fonda Theater *@
09-19 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern *@
09-20 Santa Barbara, CA - SOHO Music Club *@
09-22 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *@
09-24 Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market *@
09-25 Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom *@
09-28 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater *@
09-30 Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room *@
10-01 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *@
10-03 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note *@
10-05 Oklahoma City, OK - Academy of Contemporary Music *@
10-06 Dallas, TX - House of Blues *@
10-07 Houston, TX - House of Blues *@
10-09 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits
10-11 New Orleans, LA - Tulane University $@
10-13 Birmingham, AL - Work Play Soundstage $@
10-14 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom $@
10-15 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade $@
10-16 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle $@
10-19 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club $@
10-20 Montreal, Quebec - La Tulipe $@
10-23 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club $@
10-27 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero $@
10-28 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club $@

% with Mountain Man
* with the Love Language
@ with the Union Line
$ with the Ruby Suns

Festivals in Brief: Roskilde, Sled Island, Open'er, Afropunk

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:05:00 +0000

WHAT: Roskilde
WHEN: July 1-4
WHERE: Roskilde, Denmark
WHO: Prince, Pavement, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Robyn, Patti Smith, Dirty Projectors, Titus Andronicus, Beach House, Drake, Them Crooked Vultures, Van Dyke Parks, Kings of Convenience, HEALTH, Japandroids, Local Natives, Lindstrom & Christabelle, Wild Beasts

WHAT: Sled Island Music Festival
WHEN: June 30 - July 3
WHERE: Calgary, Alberta
WHO: Built to Spill, Girl Talk, the Melvins, the Thermals, !!!, Les Savy Fav, Fucked Up, GZA, No Age, Black Lips, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Deerhoof, Almighty Defenders, WHY?, the King Khan & BBQ Show, Anti-Pop Consortium, Dinosaur Jr., Women

WHAT: Open'er Festival
WHEN: July 1-4
WHERE: Gdynia, Poland
WHO: Pavement, Gorillaz Sound System, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, the Dead Weather, Nas and Damian Marley, Massive Attack, Tricky, Grace Jones, Klaxons, Regina Spektor, Kings of Convenience, Pearl Jam, 2ManyDJs, Tinariwen, Die Antwoord, Wild Beasts

WHAT: Afropunk Festival
WHEN: June 25-27
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
WHO: Bad Brains, the Cool Kids, P.O.S., Ninjasonik, J*Davey, K-Os, God Forbid

Suckers – “Black Sheep” Video

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:45:48 +0000

The stomping, Modest Mouse gone Glasslands Wild Smile standout “Black Sheep” gets a Todd Yeager directed video and it’s exactly what a Suckers video should look like: colors and kitsch, green screens and ’80s VHS era visual tropes rendered in digital-rate resolution. The band’s wrapped a tour with Local Natives (dig the commemorative remix) and [...]

Pitchfork Fest Sunday Tickets Sold Out

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Tickets for the final day of the Pitchfork Music Festival, Sunday, July 18, have sold out. Three-day passes for the festival, which comes to Chicago's Union Park July 16-18, sold out a while back. So if you didn't snap up your tickets to see Pavement, Big Boi, Major Lazer, St. Vincent, Girls and many more play on Sunday, it's time to call all your friends and see who has an extra ticket.

We still have single-day tickets left for Friday and Saturday, so you still have a chance to see LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, Raekwon, and all the other artists playing the first two days. Buy those tickets here. But act fast! Saturday tickets will be gone soon.

In addition to providing a rewarding experience to music fans, the Pitchfork Music Festival takes its responsibility to the environment seriously, and we encourage our audience, musicians, and vendors to do the same. Last year, PMF recycled 46% of waste by weight (12 tons), and this year, the goal is to break 50%. The following are some steps we're taking to ensure that our environmental "footprint" is as small as possible:

Recycling

Managing waste is a very important part of any large gathering, and PMF has put together a comprehensive recycling program to limit what we send to the landfill. Our recycling crew works with all of our vendors to help them recycle as much as possible, but we need your help as well.

If you come to PMF, please recycle your plastic cups and bottles, along with any cans and paper you come across. We will have more recycling receptacles than ever this year, and your participation is greatly appreciated!

Biking, Walking, and Public Transportation

We're happy to announce an enhanced bike parking area under the Chicago Reader's biker village, brought to you by Clif Bar. Free, secure bicycle parking will be available at the south end of the festival site, which will help aid traffic congestion. We encourage you to bike, walk, or take the bus or train to and from the festival. For folks coming from the Chicago area, please visit the following to plan your trip: Chicago Transit Authority, Pace Suburban Bus Service, Metra Rail.

If you are traveling from outside Chicago, please consider using a bus or train for your journey. Check for trains or buses with Amtrak, Greyhound, and Megabus.

Thank you for being responsible in planning your trip!

Sustainable Power

All power for the festival comes from biodiesel fuel, which is cleaner than normal diesel fuel and reduces demand for oil. For more information on this energy resource, please visit the National Biodiesel Board.

Carbon Offsets

The nature of an international music festival creates the need for a lot of travel. All the plane, train, van, and car miles that bring bands and fans from around the globe to the festival contribute significantly to the pressing problem of climate change. One way to fight this is to purchase "carbon offsets" that help fund projects which reduce emissions causing climate change. Individuals, companies, and other groups can buy these carbon offsets.

We've researched different companies that do good work in the carbon offset market. TerraPass is one of the best out there; you can visit their website to calculate your travel emissions, and then buy reasonably priced offsets to cover your trip. You can also see TerraPass' past and present projects on their website.

PMF Artist Offsets

PMF is putting our money where our mouth is: This year, we are buying carbon offsets to cover the travel of all our musicians. Please consider purchasing your own!

The 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup:

Friday, July 16:

Modest Mouse
Broken Social Scene
Robyn
Liars
El-P
The Tallest Man on Earth
Sharon Van Etten

Saturday, July 17:

LCD Soundsystem
Panda Bear
Wolf Parade
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Raekwon
Titus Andronicus
WHY?
Delorean
Real Estate
Bear in Heaven
Free Energy
The Smith Westerns
Dâm-Funk
Kurt Vile
Freddie Gibbs
Sonny & the Sunsets
Netherfriends

Sunday, July 18:

Pavement
Big Boi
Major Lazer
St. Vincent
Lightning Bolt
Beach House
Girls
Sleigh Bells
Neon Indian
Cass McCombs
Here We Go Magic
Surfer Blood
Local Natives
Washed Out
Best Coast
Cave
Allá

Bonnaroo 2010: Local Natives In Concert

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:22:00 +0000

The California indie-rock band performed a live set for NPR's South by Southwest party, and it's kept busy ever since. The group's debut album, Gorilla Manor, features blended harmonies and hyperactive rhythms while bringing both cheer and profundity to its songs. Hear Local Natives perform live from the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

FEATURED: Bonnaroo Playlist

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:00:54 +0000

Much like we did for Coachella back in April, we put together a playlist of artists playing this year's Bonnaroo, the infamous, enormous four-night, three-day festival-cum-rager in the Tennessee woods. Its twenty tracks cover everything from 'Roo regulars like The Disco Biscuits to promising newbies like Dawes–who contributed an exclusive live cut we posted just moments ago–and should be either appropriate company for the journey South or useful in replicating the experience at home. That latter option involves fewer Dave Matthews fans, though.

Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (RAC Remix)

Dawes - When My Time Comes (Live)

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home

The Dead Weather - Die By The Drop

Jay Electronica - Suckas

Phoenix - 1901

Enter (Tinie Tempah Remix)">Nas And Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - As We Enter (Tinie Tempah Remix)

The Disco Biscuits - You And I (The Juan MacLean Remix)

The Temper Trap - Fader (Pivot Remix)

The Crystal Method - Come Back Clean (feat. Emily Haines) (Kaskade Radio Edit)

Local Natives - Sun Hands

Bassnectar - Cozza Frenzy

Ozomatli - 45

Billy Newton-Davis & Deadmau5 - All You Ever Want (Deadmau5 All My Dreams Mix)

Wale - Pot Of Gold (feat. Daniel Merriweather) (prod. Mark Ronson)

The Melvins - Evil New War God

Thievery Corporation - Sound The Alarm

Miike Snow - Silvia (Robotberget Remix)

Tokyo Police Club - Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)

The Horrors, Yeasayer, Foals and Bloc Party design T-shirts for charity

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:10:47 +0000

The Maccabees, Local Natives and Ellie Goulding also offer a helping hand for special pop-up shop

New Release: Various Artists: Aquarium Drunkard Presents L'Aventure

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:45:00 +0000

Artist: Various Artists
Album: Aquarium Drunkard Presents L'Aventure
Release Date: June 22
Label: Aquarium Drunkard

Tracklist:

01 The Henry Clay People: "Glory"
02 Foreign Born: "Days"
03 The Happy Hollows: "Foxhole"
04 Local Natives: "Careful"
05 The Deadly Syndrome: "Carried Away
06 Imaad Wasif: "The Fire [ft. Lykke Li]"
07 Dirt Dress: "Ain't That Nothin'"
08 Growlers: "The Dream's Dream"

Notes: L.A. blog Aquarium Drunkard presents this digital-only compilation of Los Angeles bands covering every song from Television's 1978 album Adventure. (Aquarium Drunkard did something similar with Paul McCartney's Ram last year.) Proceeds go to the Silverlake Conservatory of Music.

Media: Download Local Natives' version of "Careful" below.

MP3: Local Natives: "Careful"

Caribou, Local Natives & Freelance Whales played Sasquatch (pics), Wild Nothing & Alberta Cross playing Governors Island

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:09:09 +0000

photos by Chris Graham & Rae Holtsbaum

Caribou @ Sasquatch

Seattle Weekly: Where did the name Caribou come from?
Daniel Snaith: It came from an acid trip actually. We were touring Canada at the time, and I knew I had to change the name. We had a day off and we were just hanging out in the prairies. We sat in a field and took acid, and that name appeared to me during that.

Caribou, Local Natives & Freelance Whales all played Sunday at the Sasquatch Festival in Washington State. Pictures & videos from their sets are in this post.

Caribou, Local Natives & Freelance Whales all play shows on Governors island this summer, as do Wild Nothing (added as opener on the Morning Benders / Freelance Whales date) and Alberta Cross (added as opener for Portugal. The Man). The first free Governors Island show is THIS Saturday (Yeasayer). More pictures, and some videos (including a Caribou dance party) from Sasquatch Day Two, below...

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Gone to Governors - full 10 mostly-free show lineup (Caribou, Phantogram, Josh Ritter, She & Him & Local Natives included)

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:42:14 +0000

DOWNLOAD: The Morning Benders - Cold War (Wallpaper. Winter Remix) (MP3)

Caribou @ Bowery Ballroom (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)

What is now being considered the full lineup for the ten-show, Converse-sponsored "Gone to Governors" series at Governors Island is almost complete (openers still TBA). There are ten shows total - seven of which are on Saturdays. One is on a Friday. Two are on Sundays (one of which is July 4th). All except Local Natives on August 7th are free.

The lineup's latest additions include co-headliners Caribou & Phantogram with The Chain Gang of 1974 (July 16th), and Josh Ritter with openers Justin Townes Earle and Dawn Landes (August 8th).

Here's the whole thing:

June 05 - Yeasayer, Keepaway, Delicate Steve
June 19 - The Morning Benders, Freelance Whales & TBA
July 03 - Portugal. The Man & TBA
July 04 (Sunday) - She & Him
July 10 - Lucero & TBA
July 16 (Friday) - Caribou, Phantogram, The Chain Gang of 1974
July 17 - Dr. Dog & TBA
Aug. 07 - Local Natives & TBA ($10 ticket)
Aug. 08 (Sunday) - Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, Justin Townes Earle, Dawn Landes & the Hounds
Aug. 14 - Neon Indian & TBA

The doors are at 6pm, show at 8pm for all shows (except for the afternoon She & Him show, which has doors at noon, show at 4pm). I originally thought there would be shows every Saturday, but I'm told this is it (for now anyway).

Ferry service to Governors Island for the "Gone to Governors" shows is free. As previously reported the series is being co-produced by Bowery Presents, Highline Ballroom and Mad Dog Presents with Converse and event partner Water Taxi Beach. BrooklynVegan is the media sponsor.

The shows will be held at the Beach at Governors Island, one of three venues on the Island. The others are Colonel Row (where Passion Pit will be playing, for instance) and South Island Field (which'll host M.I.A./HARD NYC). Michael Franti & Spearhead w/ Trombone Shorty kicks off the season of pay-shows at the Island with a Thursday, June 3rd performance there.

The Morning Benders will headline the second show in the series on June 19th, and they just released new song "Go Grab A Stranger," a Big Echo b-side currently available as a limited tour 7", streaming below. A remix of their song "Cold War" by Oakland act Wallpaper is available above.

"Go Grab A Stranger" and more info on the Gov. Island shows are below...

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RND UP: 5.29.10

Sat, 29 May 2010 16:09:38 +0000

Another amazing week here at RCRD LBL has come to a close. In case you missed any of the great tracks we released this week, here's the RND UP. This is your chance to catch up on all the new music.

May 28

Nacho Lovers - Deeper (CFCF Remix)

Solvent - Life-Size Image

The Roots - Dear God 2.0 (feat. Jim James & Monsters Of Folk)

Woven Bones - You're Way With My Life

Young Fathers - Automatic (Jayou Remix)

Hussle Club - Loose Tights

Hussle Club - Loose Tights (VHS Or Beta Remix)

May 27

Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss (Mickey Moonlight Remix)

Homeboy Sandman - Yeah, But I Can Rhyme Though

Fugative - Crush (Nadastrom Remix)

Wild Nothing - Chinatown

Wonderswan - A Stitch In Space-Time

Kelis - Acapella (Friends Electric Mix)

May 26

Bot'Ox - Overdrive (Morgan Geist Remix)

New Look - Numbers

Angelique Kidjo - Move On Up (Radioclit Vocal Remix)

Suckers - A Mind I Knew

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Suckers Remix)

The Drums - Forever And Ever Amen (Saint Etienne Remix)

Sebastian Blanck - Thunder (feat. Caroline Polachek)

The Longcut - Repeated (Toro Y Moi Remix)

May 25

Pure Ecstasy - Dream Over

Dan Sartain - Atheist Funeral

Renaissance Man - Scat Track (Buried Treasure Mix)

The Melvins - Evil New War God

Hot Hot Heat - Zero Results

Caribou - Sun (Altrice's Only What You Gave Me Remix)

May 24

Born Ruffians - Sole Brother

Indian Jewelery - Excessive Moonlight

Donnis - Yup (prod. Needlz)

Band Of Skulls - Death By Diamonds And Pearls (MightyMetronoms Remix)

Thieves Like Us - Shyness

Oceana - Cry Cry (Deichkind Remix)

Weekend Playlist Vol. 5

Fri, 28 May 2010 19:30:00 +0000

In this edition of the Weekend Playlist: blissful vibes from The Drums and Saint Etienne, daffy jazz-house from Renaissance Man, floor-crawling indie-rock from Hot Hot Heat, Kelis goes Euro-dance in the hands of Friends Electric, and seven other highlights from this week's bounty of MP3s. Enjoy the weekend–we'll be back with more on Monday!

The Drums - For Ever And Ever Amen (Saint Etienne Remix)

Thieves Like Us - Shyness

Hot Hot Heat - Zero Results

Renaissance Man - Scat Track (Buried Treasure Remix)

Caribou - Sun (Altrice's Only What You Gave Me Remix)

Kelis - Acapella (Friends Electric Remix)

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Suckers Remix)

Hussle Club - Loose Tights

Donnis - Yup (prod. Needlz)

Tame Impala - Solitude Is Bliss (Mickey Moonlight Remix)

Nacho Lovers - Deeper (CFCF Remix)

Pitchfork Guide to Summer Festivals

Fri, 28 May 2010 17:30:00 +0000

Photo by Eirik Lande

Memorial Day weekend is here in just a few hours, which means summer unofficially starts right about now. Among many other awesome things, that means we're now heading straight into summer festival season.

If you've got the time and the money to do enough traveling, you could spend every weekend between now and September standing out in a field with thousands of other like-minded music fans. Every year, more and more festivals seem to show up on our radar, and there's just a staggering number of multi-band extravaganzas coming up. So to help keep things straight, we've compiled info on a whole lot of big upcoming shows below.

While you're perusing, keep in mind that our very own Pitchfork Music Festival comes to Chicago's Union Park July 16-18. And we've got troops on the ground at the Primavera Sound Festival going on right now in Barcelona. Stay tuned to our Primavera page for updates.

MAY

WHAT: Primavera Sound
WHEN: May 28-29
WHERE: Barcelona, Spain
WHO: Pavement, Pixies, Wilco, Spoon, Built to Spill, Grizzly Bear, Panda Bear, Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Major Lazer, Yeasayer, the xx, No Age, Sunny Day Real Estate, Titus Andronicus, Pitchfork-curated stage

WHAT: Vivid Live! Festival
WHEN: May 28 - June 21
WHERE: Sydney, Australia
WHO: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson (curators), Emily Haines, Boris, King Khan & BBQ Show, My Brightest Diamond, Melt-Banana, Bardo Pond, Holly Miranda, Doveman

WHAT: Bad Bonn Kilbi
WHEN: May 28-29
WHERE: Dudingen, Switzerland
WHO: Aphex Twin, Wolf Parade, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Neon Indian, HEALTH, Atlas Sound, the Antlers, Dum Dum Girls, Joker feat. Nomad, Polvo, Wolf Eyes, Luke Vibert, Sun Ra Arkestra

WHAT: San Francisco Popfest
WHEN: May 28-30
WHERE: San Francisco, CA
WHO: tUnE-YarDs, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, All-Girl Summer Fun Band, My Teenage Stride, Nodzzz, the Tyde, the Art Museums

WHAT: Maryland Deathfest
WHEN: May 28-30
WHERE: Baltimore, MD
WHO: Converge, Eyehategod, Pentagram, D.R.I., Entombed, Krallice, Tombs, Trap Them, Obituary, Autopsy, Gorgoth, Sodom, Possessed, Repulsion

WHAT: Lightning in a Bottle Festival
WHEN: May 28-31
WHERE: Irvine, CA
WHO: The Very Best, the Album Leaf, Booka Shade, Nosaj Thing, Daedelus, Apparat, Krazy Baldhead, the Glitch Mob

WHAT: Beck's Vier Music Inspires Art UK Tour
WHEN: May 28-August
WHERE: Various cities in England
WHO: Ariel Pink, Mount Kimbie, the Invisible, Little Boots, New Young Pony Club, Hudson Mohawke, Plaid

WHAT: Memory Burns Psych Fest
WHEN: May 29
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
WHO: Sunburned Hand of the Man, Psychic Ills, Golden Triangle, Hopewell, White Hills, the Black Hollies, Future Hunter, Weird Owl, Revival Times

WHAT: Sasquatch! Festival
WHEN: May 29-31
WHERE: George, WA
WHO: Pavement, My Morning Jacket, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, the National, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Massive Attack, the Hold Steady, the xx

WHAT: Movement
WHEN: May 29-31
WHERE: Detroit, MI
WHO: Plastikman, Inner City, Model 500, Ricardo Villalobos, Michael Mayer, A-Trak, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Kid Sister, Martyn, DJ Koze, Hudson Mohawke, Radio Slave

WHAT: Dot to Dot Festival
WHEN: May 29-31
WHERE: Bristol, Nottingham, and Manchester, England
WHO: Beach House, Liars, Los Campesinos!, Field Music, Wild Beasts, Washed Out, Ruby Suns, Small Black, White Hinterland, Growing, Fol Chen

WHAT: Soundset
WHEN: May 30
WHERE: Shakopee, MN
WHO: Atmosphere, Method Man & Redman, Hieroglyphics, Brother Ali, Freeway & Jake One, P.O.S, Wiz Khalifa, Yelawolf, Themselves, Busdriver, Cage, Murs, Eyedea & Abilities

WHAT: Bring Our Music Back
WHEN: May 30
WHERE: Durham, CT
WHO: Of Montreal, Lupe Fiasco, Girl Talk, the Cool Kids, Quintron with Miss Pussycat

WHAT: Villette Sonique
WHEN: May 31 - June 6
WHERE: Paris, France
WHO: Joanna Newsom, Young Marble Giants, Diamanda Galas, Owen Pallett, Fuck Buttons, Atlas Sound, Washed Out, Wolf Eyes, Polvo, Acid Mothers Temple, Oneida, Om

JUNE

WHAT: Central Park Summerstage
WHEN: June 1 - September 26
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: Pavement, the Flaming Lips, Public Enemy, Hot Chip, St. Vincent, the Black Keys, the Morning Benders, Hercules and Love Affair, tUnE-yArDs, Gil Scott-Heron, Tinariwen, Chairlift, Jimmy Cliff

WHAT: Mutek Festival
WHEN: June 2-6
WHERE: Montreal, Quebec
WHO: Mouse on Mars, Matmos, Nurse With Wound, Theo Parrish, Tim Hecker, Vladislav Delay, DJ Koze, Matias Aguayo Presents Comeme, King Midas Sound, Actress, Nathan Fake

WHAT: Verge Music Festival
WHEN: June 4-5
WHERE: Milwaukee, WI
WHO: She & Him, Weezer, Eagles of Death Metal, the Raveonettes, Rogue Wave, Jaill

WHAT: Selector
WHEN: June 4-5
WHERE: Kraków, Poland
WHO: Friendly Fires, Boys Noize, Metronomy, Delphic, Booka Shade, Uffie, Faithless, Calvin Harris, Thievery Corporation

WHAT: Do-Division Street Fest
WHEN: June 5-6
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: YACHT, Ponys, Pelican, the Hood Internet, Warpaint, Earl Greyhound, the Mynabirds, Headlights, Maritime

WHAT: Suoni per il Popolo
WHEN: June 6-23
WHERE: Montreal, Quebec
WHO: Oneida, Grouper, Kath Bloom, AIDS Wolf, Reigning Sound, Oneohtrix Point Never, Vandermark 5, No-Neck Blues Band, Hair Police, William Basinski

WHAT: Rock am Ring and Rock im Park
WHEN: June 3-6
WHERE: Nurburgring and Nuremberg, Germany
WHO: Jay-Z, Rage Against the Machine, Them Crooked Vultures, Crystal Castles, Mastodon, Gossip, Slayer, Gogol Bordello, Dizzee Rascal, Motorhead, Wolfmother, the Cribs, Foals, the Hives

WHAT: Gone to Governors
WHEN: June 3 - August 14
WHERE: Governors Island, NY
WHO: Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Passion Pit, She & Him, Neon Indian, Local Natives

WHAT: Synch
WHEN: June 4-5
WHERE: Athens, Greece
WHO: Hot Chip, Fuck Buttons, Busy P, Peaches, A Place to Bury Strangers, Jimmy Edgar

WHAT: The Roots Picnic
WHEN: June 5
WHERE: Philadelphia, PA
WHO: The Roots, Vampire Weekend, Clipse, the Very Best, tUnE-yArDs, Mayer Hawthorne, Pattern Is Movement, Das Racist, ?uestlove and DJ Jazzy Jeff, Money Making Jam Boys

WHAT: Huichica Music Festival
WHEN: June 5
WHERE: Sonoma Valley, CA
WHO: Vetiver, Citay, Fruit Bats, Tussle

WHAT: Free Press Summer Fest
WHEN: June 5-6
WHERE: Houston, TX
WHO: The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Stars, Bun B, Ra Ra Riot, Slim Thug, Dead Prez, Kid Sister, Mixmaster Mike, Detroit Cobras, Lucero, Municipal Waste, Givers, Cro-Mags, Saviours

WHAT: Hot 97 Summer Jam
WHEN: June 6
WHERE: East Rutherford, NJ
WHO: Usher, Drake, Gucci Mane, Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek, Ludacris, Fabolous, Nicki Minaj, Juelz Santana, Trey Songz, DJ Khaled and Friends

WHAT: Edible Audio Picnic
WHEN: June 7 - September 4
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: El Guincho, High Places, the Juan Maclean, Javelin, the Cool Kids, Dosh, Nice Nice

WHAT: Filmer La Musique
WHEN: June 8-13
WHERE: Paris, France
WHO: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Xiu Xiu, Anni Rossi, Bot'Ox, Zombie Zombie

WHAT: Celebrate Brooklyn!
WHEN: June 9 - August 8
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
WHO: Sonic Youth, Metric, the Roots, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Talib Kweli, Konono N°1, the Swell Season, Eugene Mirman, White Magic, Holly Miranda

WHAT: Noise for the Needy
WHEN: June 10-13
WHERE: Seattle, WA
WHO: The Album Leaf, Delta Spirit, Visqueen, John Vanderslice, Thunderheist, Portland Cello Project, Horse Feathers, Tiny Vipers, Kinski

WHAT: Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
WHEN: June 10-13
WHERE: Manchester, TN
WHO: Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, the Flaming Lips, Phoenix, LCD Soundsystem, the Dead Weather, the National, the xx, Damian Marley and Nas, Kings of Leon, Weezer, Tenacious D, Conan O'Brien, Aziz Ansari

WHAT: Les 3 Elephants
WHEN: June 10-13
WHERE: Laval, France
WHO: Love Is All, Tricky, Getatchew Mekuria and the Ex, Lucky Dragons, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Yann Tiersen, We Have Band, DAT Politics

WHAT: B-Sides
WHEN: June 11-12
WHERE: Lucerne, Switzerland
WHO: Xiu Xiu, Menomena, These New Puritans, Micachu & The Shapes, Publicist, Knut, Three Trapped Tigers

WHAT: RockNess Music Festival
WHEN: June 11-13
WHERE: Dores, Scotland
WHO: The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, Crystal Castles, Aphex Twin, Doves, Blondie, Fatboy Slim, Soulwax, 2 Many DJ's, Ian Brown, Leftfield, Booka Shade, Vitalic, Optimo, Green Velvet

WHAT: Isle of Wight Festival
WHEN: June 11-13
WHERE: Isle of Wight, England
WHO: The Strokes, Jay-Z, Vampire Weekend, Paul McCartney, the Hold Steady, Florence and the Machine, Blondie, Doves, Crowded House, Editors, Spandau Ballet, Friendly Fires

WHAT: Meltdown Festival
WHEN: June 11-21
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Richard Thompson (curator), Elvis Costello, Broken Bells, Field Music, Van Dyke Parks, Clare and the Reasons, Paolo Nutini, Bettye Lavette, Loudon Wainwright III

WHAT: Woodsist Festival, Big Sur
WHEN: June 12
WHERE: Big Sur, CA
WHO: Real Estate, Woods, Kurt Vile, Moon Duo, the Fresh and Onlys, the Art Museums, the Mantles, Eat Skull, Spectre Folk

WHAT: Metronome Celebration
WHEN: June 12-13
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Akron/Family, Pegboy, the Bitters, Margaret and the Nuclear So and So's, the Pack A.D.

WHAT: Topshop Bandstand Picnics for Teenage Cancer Trust
WHEN: June 12-20
WHERE: Various Cities in England
WHO: Los Campesinos!, Charlotte Hatherley, Slow Club, Chew Lips, New Young Pony Club, I Blame Coco, Stricken City, Blue Roses

WHAT: Beach Break Live
WHEN: June 14-18
WHERE: Pembrey Country Park, Wales
WHO: Vampire Weekend, 2ManyDJ's, Calvin Harris, Chase and Status, Plan B, Ellie Goulding, New Young Pony Club, I Blame Coco, Silver Columns, Annie Mac, Sub Focus, High Contrast, Plastician

WHAT: NXNE
WHEN: June 14-20
WHERE: Toronto, Ontario
WHO: Iggy and the Stooges, X, De Le Soul, Mudhoney, Les Savy Fav, Japandroids, HEALTH, Surfer Blood, Cold Cave, Wavves, the Raveonettes, Man or Astro-Man?, Zola Jesus, Best Coast

WHAT: Woodsist Festival, Los Angeles
WHEN: June 15
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: Real Estate, Woods, Kurt Vile, Abe Vigoda, the Art Museums, the Mantles, Nodzzz, Sun Araw, All Saints Day, the Baths

WHAT: Sónar Festival
WHEN: June 17-19
WHERE: Barcelona, Spain
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, the Chemical Brothers, Air, Roxy Music, Jonsi, Caribou, Broadcast, Flying Lotus, Delorean, Fuck Buttons, Plastikman, Dizzee Rascal, Joy Orbison, Zomby

WHAT: Taste of Randolph Street
WHEN: June 18-20
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Superchunk, Waco Brothers, Califone, Lucero, Headlights, the Love Language, Twin Tigers

WHAT: Hurricane and Southside Festivals
WHEN: June 18-20
WHERE: Scheesel and Neuhausen ob Eck, Germany
WHO: The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Massive Attack, the xx, the Hold Steady, Florence and the Machine, the Gaslight Anthem, Tegan and Sara, Local Natives

WHAT: Toronto Island Concert
WHEN: June 19
WHERE: Toronto, Ontario
WHO: Pavement, Broken Social Scene, Band of Horses, Beach House, Timber Timbre

WHAT: Westword Music Showcase
WHEN: June 19
WHERE: Denver, CO
WHO: Dirty Projectors, Superchunk, Neon Indian, Ghostland Observatory

WHAT: Rock the Garden
WHEN: June 19
WHERE: Minneapolis, MN
WHO: MGMT, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, OK Go, Retribution Gospel Choir

WHAT: Cleveland Museum of Art Summer Solstice Party
WHEN: June 19
WHERE: Cleveland, OH
WHO: DJ/rupture, Javelin, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Omar Souleyman, Lionel Loueke, Burkina Electric

WHAT: One Love Festival
WHEN: June 19-20
WHERE: Istanbul, Turkey
WHO: De La Soul, Wild Beasts, the Whitest Boy Alive, the Ting Tings, Groove Armada

WHAT: Barbican Blaze Festival
WHEN: June 19 - July 31
WHERE: London, England
WHO: The Knife's Tomorrow in a Year, Dirty Projectors, Shearwater, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Caetano Veloso Lee "Scratch Perry, Toots and the Maytals, Max Romeo, Staff Benda Bilili, Dean and Britta, Giant Sand, Kristin Hersh, Phillip Glass and the Kronos Quartet

WHAT: KCRW's World Festival
WHEN: June 20 - September 19
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: Goldfrapp, Yeasayer, She & Him, the Chemical Brothers, Tinariwen, YACHT, tUnE-yArDs, Chromeo, Fool's Gold, Jimmy Cliff, Sly and Robbie, the Swell Season, the Bird and the Bee

WHAT: Glastonbury Festival
WHEN: June 23-27
WHERE: Glastonbury, England
WHO: Stevie Wonder, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, the Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Phoenix, the Dead Weather, Hot Chip, MGMT, the xx, the Hold Steady, Dirty Projectors, Muse

WHAT: Northside
WHEN: June 24-27
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
WHO: Titus Andronicus, Liars, Fucked Up, Les Savy Fav, the Fiery Furnaces, Polvo, Islands, Memory Tapes, Real Estate, High Places, Woods, Wavves, Twin Sister, Cults, Thao and Mirah

WHAT: Openair St. Gallen
WHEN: June 24-27
WHERE: St. Gallen, Switzerland
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, the Strokes, the Big Pink, Frightened Rabbit, Kelis, the Drums, 2Many DJ's, Vitalic

WHAT: Summerfest
WHEN: June 24 - July 4
WHERE: Milwaukee, WI
WHO: Modest Mouse, the Hold Steady, the Roots, Passion Pit, Public Enemy, Devo, B-52s, Against Me!, Tokyo Police Club, N.E.R.D., Cypress Hill, Weird Al Yankovic, Usher

WHAT: Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats
WHEN: June 25-26
WHERE: Evreux, France
WHO: The Black Keys, Caribou, Monotonix, Brother Ali feat. BK One, Chokebore, Shining, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Suicidal Tendencies, Babyshambles

WHAT: Solidays
WHEN: June 25-27
WHERE: Paris, France
WHO: Florence and the Machine, Local Natives, N.E.R.D., Brother Ali, Femi Kuti, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Crookers, Wolfmother, Kasabian, Delphic, Staff Benda Bilili, Toots and the Maytals

WHAT: Jazz Winnipeg
WHEN: June 25 - July 4
WHERE: Winnipeg, Manitoba
WHO: The Roots, Deerhoof, Freeway and Jake One, Martha Wainwright, Buck 65, Think About Life, Great Lakes Swimmers, the Budos Band

WHAT: Taste of Chicago
WHEN: June 25 - July 4
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Passion Pit, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, Salt-N-Pepa, Bel Biv Devoe, Rob Base, Trey Songz

WHAT: Montreal Jazz Festival
WHEN: June 25 - July 6
WHERE: Montreal, Quebec
WHO: Andrew Bird, the Roots, Gil Scott-Heron, !!!, Holy Fuck, Plants & Animals, Poirier, Kode9, Nadja, Anti-Pop Consortium, Think About Life, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, George Clinton

WHAT: The Creators Project
WHEN: June 26
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: Interpol, Sleigh Bells, Die Antwoord, Gang Gang Dance, Salem, N.A.S.A., Mark Ronson

WHAT: TRKFest
WHEN: June 26
WHERE: Pittsboro, NC
WHO: Megafaun, Hammer No More the Fingers, Mount Moriah, Embarrassing Fruits, Midtown Dickens, Veelee, Butterflies, Ryan Gustafson, Vibrant Green

WHAT: Green Music Fest
WHEN: June 26-27
WHERE: Petrcane, Croatia
WHO: Fang Island, Cloud Cult, David Bazan, Maps and Atlases

WHAT: Seaport Music Festival
WHEN: June 26 - August 6
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: Free Energy, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Zola Jesus, YACHT, Avi Buffalo, Thee Oh Sees, the Apples in Stereo, Woven Bones, Golden Triangle, Chad VanGaalen, So Cow

WHAT: Bang on a Can Marathon
WHEN: June 27
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: Bang on a Can, Mira Calix, Buke and Gass, Burkina Electric, Fred Frith, Vernon Reid

WHAT: Hove Festival
WHEN: June 29 - July 2
WHERE: Arendal, Norway
WHO: Arcade Fire, Massive Attack, Them Crooked Vultures, Beach House, Florence and the Machine, Neon Indian, Japandroids, Dizzee Rascal, Fuck Buttons, Empire of the Sun, Muse

WHAT: Sled Island Music Festival
WHEN: June 30 - July 3
WHERE: Calgary, Alberta
WHO: Built to Spill, Girl Talk, the Melvins, the Thermals, !!!, Les Savy Fav, Fucked Up, GZA, No Age, Black Lips, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Deerhoof, Almighty Defenders

JULY

WHAT: Roskilde Festival
WHEN: July 1-4
WHERE: Roskilde, Denmark
WHO: Prince, Pavement, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, Them Crooked Vultures, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Robyn, Patti Smith, Dirty Projectors, Titus Andronicus, Beach House, Drake, Muse

WHAT: Rock Werchter
WHEN: July 1-4
WHERE: Werchter, Belgium
WHO: Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, the xx, Them Crooked Vultures, Dirty Projectors, Yeasayer, Florence and the Machine, the Gaslight Anthem, Pearl Jam, Muse

WHAT: Heineken Open'er Festival
WHEN: July 1-4
WHERE: Gdynia, Poland
WHO: Pavement, Gorillaz Sound System, Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Nas and Damian Marley, Massive Attack, Tricky, Grace Jones, Klaxons, Regina Spektor, Kings of Convenience, Pearl Jam

WHAT: Hop Farm Festival
WHEN: July 2-3
WHERE: Kent, England
WHO: Bob Dylan, Pete Doherty, Devendra Banhart, Ray Davies, Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Tunng

WHAT: O2 Wireless Festival
WHEN: July 2-4
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen, Missy Elliott, Jamie Lidell, the Big Pink, Drake, Wale, Gossip, DJ Shadow, UNKLE, Alphabeat, the Ting Tings, 2 Many DJ's, Roll Deep

WHAT: Nateva Festival
WHEN: July 2-4
WHERE: Oxford, ME
WHO: The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, She & Him, Drive-By Truckers, George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic

WHAT: Festival de rock Les Eurockeenes de Belfort
WHEN: July 2-4
WHERE: Belfort, France
WHO: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Janelle Monae, Broken Social Scene, the Dead Weather, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Missy Elliott, the Black Keys, Julian Casablancas, Chromeo, Massive Attack, Memory Tapes, HEALTH, Fuck Buttons, the Drums, Foals, the xx

WHAT: Garden Festival
WHEN: July 2-11
WHERE: Zadar and Petrcane, Croatia
WHO: Mayer Hawthorne, Henrik Schwarz, Tensnake, the Phenomenal Handclap Band, Terry Callier, Ame, Faze Action, Rub-n-Tug

WHAT: Montreux Jazz Festival
WHEN: July 2-17
WHERE: Montreaux, Switzerland
WHO: Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, the Dead Weather, Julian Casablancas, Erykah Badu, Massive Attack, Nas and Damian Marley, Beach House, Missy Elliott, De La Soul, Air, Roxy Music

WHAT: 80/35
WHEN: July 3-4
WHERE: Des Moines, IA
WHO: Spoon, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, the Walkmen, the Cool Kids, Avi Buffalo, Holly Golightly, William Elliott Whitmore, Earl Greyhound, Solid Gold, Psalm One

WHAT: Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest
WHERE: Ottawa, Ontario
WHEN: July 6-18
WHO: Arcade Fire, the Flaming Lips, Metric, Weezer, Andrew Bird, the Hold Steady, Passion Pit, Hole, Blonde Redhead, Drake, Joan Jett, the B-52s, Crowded House, the Swell Season, the Gories

WHAT: Winnipeg Folk Festival
WHEN: July 7-11
WHERE: Winnipeg, Manitoba
WHO: Andrew Bird, the Avett Brothers, the Swell Season, Emmylou Harris, Jimmy Cliff, the Levon Helm Band

WHAT: Optimus Alive!
WHEN: July 8-10
WHERE: Lisbon, Portugal
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, Faith No More, the xx, Girls, Florence and the Machine, Gogol Bordello, Devendra Banhart, Gossip, the Big Pink, Manic Street Preachers, Crookers, Pearl Jam, Deftones

WHAT: Les Ardentes Festival
WHEN: July 8-11
WHERE: Liege, Belgium
WHO: Pavement, Erykah Badu, Broken Social Scene, Julian Casablancas, Crystal Castles, Missy Elliott, Babyshambles, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jamie Lidell, Public Image Ltd., HEALTH

WHAT: EXIT Festival
WHEN: July 8-11
WHERE: Novi Sad, Serbia
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, Yeasayer, Crystal Castles, Ricardo Villalobos, Faith No More, the Chemical Brothers, Missy Elliott, Klaxons, A-Trak, Joker, Chromeo, the Horrors, Bad Brains, Placebo, Mika

WHAT: Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival
WHEN: July 8-11
WHERE: Sete, France
WHO: Flying Lotus, Gil Scott-Heron, Gonjasufi, Joy Orbison, Floating Points, the Gaslamp Killer, Theophilus London, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

WHAT: Quebec City Summer Festival
WHEN: July 8-18
WHERE: Quebec City, Quebec
WHO: Arcade Fire, Andrew Bird, Passion Pit, Konono N°1, Fool's Gold, Think About Life, Jimmy Cliff, Great Lakes Swimmers, Ethiopiques, Kid Koala, Staff Benda Bilili, Iron Maiden

WHAT: Somerset House Summer Series
WHEN: July 8-18
WHERE: London, England
WHO: the xx, Gil Scott-Heron, Air, Florence and the Machine, Mystery Jets, Noah & the Whale, the Temper Trap, the Divine Comedy, Soul II Soul

WHAT: RiverRocks
WHEN: July 8 - August 12
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: Deerhunter, the Antlers, Phosphorescent, Dawes

WHAT: Twilight Concert Series
WHEN: July 8 - August 26
WHERE: Salt Lake City, UT
WHO: Modest Mouse, Big Boi, She & Him, New Pornographers, Beirut, Girl Talk, Dum Dum Girls, Memory Tapes, Avi Buffalo, Twin Sister, the Dodos, Jamie Lidell, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Chromeo

WHAT: T in the Park
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Balado, Scotland
WHO: Jay-Z, Vampire Weekend, Julian Casablancas, Dirty Projectors, Broken Social Scene, Hot Chip, Dizzee Rascal, the Black Keys, Florence and the Machine, Yeasayer, the Prodigy, Muse, Eminem

WHAT: Oxegen
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: County Kildare, Ireland
WHO: Arcade Fire, Jay-Z, Eminem, Vampire Weekend, Hot Chip, Broken Social Scene, Dizzee Rascal, Julian Casablancas, Dirty Projectors, Neon Indian, Florence and the Machine, Jamie Lidell, Muse

WHAT: Forecastle
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Louisville, KY
WHO: The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Devo, She & Him, Drive-By Truckers, Against Me!

WHAT: Lounge on the Farm
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: Canterbury, England
WHO: These New Puritans, Male Bonding, Slow Club, Lissy Trullie, First Aid Kit, Gold Panda, Rose Elinor Dougall, the Phenomenal Handclap Band, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

WHAT: Nitetrotter Fest
WHEN: July 9-11
WHERE: East Moline, IL
WHO: Bastard Noise, Wet Hair, Purple Chong, the Tanks, Pictures of a City, Eyes, Men Among Giants, Some Flavour, Up! Rise and Fall, Motorcycle, ARU, Meester Magpie

WHAT: Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
WHEN: July 10
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
WHO: De La Soul, Smif-N-Wessun, Buckshot

WHAT: Camp Bisco
WHEN: July 15-17
WHERE: Mariaville, NY
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Girl Talk, Major Lazer, Diplo, Caribou, Holy Fuck, Talib Kweli, the Album Leaf, Gift of Gab

WHAT: Festival Mares Vivas
WHEN: July 15-17
WHERE: Gaia, Portugal
WHO: Goldfrapp, Placebo, Editors, Morcheeba

WHAT: Latitude Festival
WHEN: July 15-18
WHERE: Suffolk, England
WHO: Belle and Sebastian, Vampire Weekend, Spoon, the National, Grizzly Bear, Florence and the Machine, Dirty Projectors, X, Jonsi, Black Mountain, These New Puritans, Wild Beasts, Midlake

WHAT: Dour Festival
WHEN: July 15-18
WHERE: Dour, Belgium
WHO: Spoon, Faith No More, the Sonics, Os Mutantes, De La Soul, Black Mountain, Fucked Up, Los Campesinos!, Owen Pallett, A-Trak, Baroness, the Raveonettes, Carl Craig, Gwar

WHAT: Benicàssim
WHEN: July 15-18
WHERE: Benicàssim, Spain
WHO: Vampire Weekend, Gorillaz, Dirty Projectors, Julian Casablancas, Cut Copy, Goldfrapp, Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal, Klaxons, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Four Tet, Foals, the Prodigy, the Cribs

WHAT: Pitchfork Music Festival
WHEN: July 16-18
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, Big Boi, Panda Bear, Wolf Parade, Robyn, Major Lazer, St. Vincent, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Liars, Raekwon, Lightning Bolt, El-P, Beach House, Titus Andronicus, Girls, WHY?, Neon Indian, Sleigh Bells

WHAT: Melt! Festival
WHEN: July 16-18
WHERE: Ferropolis, Germany
WHO: Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, Dirty Projectors, the xx, Yeasayer, Jonsi, Fucked Up, Hercules and Love Affair, Ricardo Villalobos, Black Mountain, the Very Best, HEALTH, Kele, Four Tet, Jamie Lidell

WHAT: Super Bock Super Rock
WHEN: July 16-18
WHERE: Lisbon, Portugal
WHO: Prince, Vampire Weekend, the National, Hot Chip, Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Spoon, Cut Copy, St. Vincent, Jamie Lidell, Ricardo Villalobos, Julian Casablancas, Wild Beasts, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the Morning Benders

WHAT: Lovebox Festival
WHEN: July 16-18
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Hot Chip, Dizzee Rascal, Yeasayer, Cut Copy, Hercules and Love Affair, These New Puritans, Grace Jones, Joy Orbison, Wild Beasts, Roxy Music, Toro Y Moi, Empire of the Sun, Crookers

WHAT: Xponential Music Festival
WHEN: July 16-18
WHERE: Camden, NJ
WHO: The Walkmen, Free Energy, Fool's Gold, Dr. Dog, Rosanne Cash, Nicole Atkins, Earl Greyhound, These United States

WHAT: What the Heck Fest
WHEN: July 16-18
WHERE: Anacortes, WA
WHO: Mount Eerie, Calvin Johnson, Kimya Dawson, Liturgy, LAKE, Ian Svenonius, Karl Blau

WHAT: HARD LA
WHEN: July 17
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: M.I.A., Die Antwoord, Sleigh Bells, Flying Lotus, Joker, N.E.R.D., Rye Rye, Switch, the Gaslamp Killer, Ninjasonik

WHAT: Siren Music Festival
WHEN: July 17
WHERE: Brooklyn, NY
WHO: Matt and Kim, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Surfer Blood, Harlem, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Wye Oak, Night Marchers, Screaming Females, Earl Greyhound

WHAT: de-Affaire
WHEN: July 17-23
WHERE: Nijmegen, the Netherlands
WHO: The Antlers, Pantha Du Prince, Dum Dum Girls, the Morning Benders, Fucked Up, Junip, Toro Y Moi, Los Campesinos! Shearwater, Gold Panda, Clues, King Khan & the Shrines, Dungen

WHAT: Italia Wave
WHEN: July 21-25
WHERE: Livorno, Italy
WHO: Underworld, Editors, OK Go, Julian Marley, Faithless

WHAT: Whartscape
WHEN: July 22-25
WHERE: Baltimore, MD
WHO: Dan Deacon Ensemble, No Age, Lightning Bolt, HEALTH, Ponytail, Deakin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Wye Oak, Xiu Xiu, Arab on Radar, Lil B, Future Islands, Double Dagger, Javelin

WHAT: Calgary Folk Music Festival
WHEN: July 22-25
WHERE: Calgary, Alberta
WHO: St. Vincent, Stars, the Avett Brothers, the Swell Season, Konono N°1

WHAT: Wickerman Festival
WHEN: July 23-24
WHERE: Kirkcudbright, Scotland
WHO: Buzzcocks, the Undertones, Teenage Fanclub, the Charlatans, the Futureheads, 808 State, Sons & Daughters

WHAT: Capitol Hill Block Party
WHEN: July 23-24
WHERE: Seattle, WA
WHO: Bands to be announced

WHAT: Indietracks
WHEN: July 23-25
WHERE: Derbyshire, England
WHO: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Love Is All, the Pooh Sticks, the Primitives, Ballboy, the Cannanes, Boy Genius, White Town

WHAT: Hillside Festival
WHEN: July 23-25
WHERE: Guelph, Ontario
WHO: Stars, Japandroids, Calexico, Jason Collett, Basia Bulat, Hidden Cameras, Horse Feathers

WHAT: Midi Festival
WHEN: July 23-25
WHERE: Hyeres, France
WHO: Toro Y Moi, Memory Tapes, Best Coast, Lee Ranaldo, the Strange Boys, Dominant Legs, Memory House

WHAT: Maha Music Festival
WHEN: July 24
WHERE: Omaha, NE
WHO: Spoon, Superchunk, the Faint, Old 97's

WHAT: HARD NYC
WHEN: July 24
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: M.I.A., Die Antwoord, Sleigh Bells, Skream, Benga, Rye Rye, Theophilus London, Ninjasonik

WHAT: Festival Heineken Paredes de Coura
WHEN: July 28-31
WHERE: Paredes de Coura, Portugal
WHO: Klaxons, the Dandy Warhols, the Specials, White Lies, We Have Band, Gallows, Enter Shikari

WHAT: Global Gathering
WHEN: July 30-31
WHERE: Stratford-Upon-Avon, England
WHO: Dizzee Rascal, 2 Many DJ's, Carl Cox, Booka Shade, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, Goldie, Caspa, Fabio and Grooverider, Faithless

WHAT: Camp Bestival
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Dorset, England
WHO: The Fall, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Joker, Joy Orbison, Friendly Fires, the Human League, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Billy Bragg, Madness, Marc Almond, Gold Panda

WHAT: Fuji Rock Festival
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Niigata, Japan
WHO: Atoms for Peace, Belle and Sebastian, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Them Crooked Vultures, Broken Social Scene, Dirty Projectors, Yeasayer, Hot Chip, Air, Broken Bells, !!!

WHAT: Splendour in the Grass
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Woodford, Australia
WHO: The Strokes, Pixies, LCD Soundsystem, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, Passion Pit, Jonsi, Goldfrapp, Florence and the Machine, Surfer Blood, School of Seven Bells, the Drums

WHAT: Newport Folk Festival
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Newport, Rhode Island
WHO: Andrew Bird, Yim Yames, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the Avett Brothers, Calexico, Blitzen Trapper, the Swell Season, Levon Helm, Steve Martin

WHAT: Kendal Calling
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Cumbria, England
WHO: Doves, Wild Beasts, the Futureheads, British Sea Power, Badly Drawn Boy, Stereo MCs, the Coral, Calvin Harris, Erol Alkan, OK Go

WHAT: PDX Pop Now!
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Portland, OR
WHO: Bands to be announced

WHAT: SappyFest
WHEN: July 30 - August 1
WHERE: Sackville, New Brunswick
WHO: Holy Fuck, Diamond Rings, Chad VanGaalen, Felice Brothers, the Sadies, Julie Doiron, Lullabye Arkestra, P.S. I Love You, Rockets Red Glare, Apollo Ghosts

WHAT: Field Day Festival
WHEN: July 31
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Phoenix, Caribou, Atlas Sound, No Age, the Fall, Mouse on Mars, These New Puritans, Memory Tapes, Joker and Nomad, Dam-Funk and Master Blaster, Pantha Du Prince

WHAT: Ponderosa Stomp Detroit Breakdown
WHEN: July 31
WHERE: New York, NY
WHO: the Gories, Death, ? and the Mysterians, Motor City Soul Revue, Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels, Eddie Kirkland

WHAT: Afisha Picnic Music Festival
WHEN: July 31
WHERE: Moscow, Russia
WHO: Hercules and Love Affair, Editors, Metronomy, Roots Manuva

WHAT: Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
WHEN: July 31 - August 1
WHERE: Montreal, Quebec
WHO: Arcade Fire, Pavement, the National, Metric, Weezer, Beach House, Robyn, Devo, the Black Keys, Stars, Owen Pallett, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Gaslight Anthem, the Walkmen

WHAT: Wicker Park Fest
WHEN: July 31 - August 1
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Holy Fuck, Cap'n Jazz, Torche, Baroness, Plants and Animals, the Gaslamp Killer, the Hood Internet, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Local H

AUGUST

WHAT: Underage Festival
WHEN: August 1
WHERE: London, England
WHO: M.I.A., Los Campesinos!, Lightspeed Champion, Micachu and the Shapes, Gold Panda, New Young Pony Club, Rox, Tinchy Stryder

WHAT: Sudoeste TMN
WHEN: August 4-8
WHERE: Zambujeira do Mar, Portugal
WHO: M.I.A., the Flaming Lips, Massive Attack, Air, Beirut, Lykke Li, the Very Best, Rye Rye, Friendly Fires, Sugababes

WHAT: Off Festival
WHEN: August 5-8
WHERE: Katowice, Poland
WHO: The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Jr., No Age, Shearwater, the Fall, Atlas Sound, Fennesz, Tindersticks, the Very Best, Matmos, Memory Tapes, the Tallest Man on Earth, Joker and Nomad, Mew, Toro Y Moi, Archie Bronson Outfit, the Raveonettes

WHAT: Wolfe Island Music Festival
WHEN: August 6-7
WHERE: Wolfe Island, Ontario
WHO: Weakerthans, the Sadies, Think About Life, Diamond Rings, Memoryhouse

WHAT: Lollapalooza
WHEN: August 6-8
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Arcade Fire, the Strokes, Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Spoon, the National, Grizzly Bear, MGMT, Hot Chip, Devo, Cut Copy, the New Pornographers, Erykah Badu, Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, the xx

WHAT: Pickathon
WHEN: August 6-8
WHERE: Portland, OR
WHO: Bonnie Prince Billy & the Cairo Gang, Fruit Bats, the Cave Singers, Megafaun, Black Prairie, Little Wings, Dr. Dog, Cotton Jones, Heartless Bastards, Roadside Graves, Frank Fairfield, Langhorne Slim, T Model Ford, These United States, Michael Hurley

WHAT: Standon Calling
WHEN: August 6-8
WHERE: Standon, England
WHO: Liars, Fucked Up, Pantha Du Prince, Delorean, El Guincho, These New Puritans, Ruby Suns, Gold Panda, Esben and the Witch, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Plants and Animals

WHAT: HARD Summer
WHEN: August 7
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: Crystal Castles, Major Lazer, Soulwax, Diplo, Tiga, Digitalism, Green Velvet, Erol Alkan, Skream, Benga, Caspa, Sinden, Destructo, the Twelves, Breakbot, Rory Phillips

WHAT: Summer Sonic
WHEN: August 7-8
WHERE: Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
WHO: Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Pixies, Pavement, a Tribe Called Quest, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nas, Hole, Band of Horses, Jonsi, Passion Pit, Girls, Free Energy, Eels, Surfer Blood, Orbital

WHAT: Øya Festival
WHEN: August 10-14
WHERE: Oslo, Norway
WHO: Pavement, M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Iggy & the Stooges, Big Boi, Panda Bear, the xx, Robyn, Major Lazer, Q-Tip, Raekwon, Jonsi, Air, Girls, Fucked Up, the Gaslight Anthem, Sleigh Bells

WHAT: Athens Popfest
WHEN: August 10-14
WHERE: Athens, GA
WHO: Mission of Burma, Apples in Stereo, the Wedding Present, Circulatory System, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Bunnygrunt, Casper and the Cookies, Go Sailor, Marshmellow Coast, Rose Melberg

WHAT: Sziget Festival
WHEN: August 11-16
WHERE: Budapest, Hungary
WHO: Gorillaz Sound System, Yeasayer, the Cribs, the Hives, Gwar, Nina Hagen, Kasabian, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan, Enter Shikari, Faithless, Bad Religion, Iron Maiden, Madness, Muse

WHAT: Haldern Pop Festival
WHEN: August 12-14
WHERE: Rees-Haldern, Germany
WHO: The National, Beirut, Yeasayer, Beach House, Dan Deacon, Frightened Rabbit, Bear in Heaven, the Tallest Man on Earth, Local Natives, Serena-Maneesh, Micachu and the Shapes

WHAT: Way Out West Festival
WHEN: August 12-14
WHERE: Goteborg, Sweden
WHO: M.I.A., Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, the National, the xx, Beach House, Q-Tip, Girls, Jens Lekman, Lykke Li, Sleigh Bells, Local Natives, Surfer Blood, Real Estate, Marina and the Diamonds

WHAT: Solid Sound Festival
WHEN: August 13-14
WHERE: North Adams, MA
WHO: Wilco (curators), various Wilco side projects, the Books, Avi Buffalo, Vetiver, Mavis Staples, Sir Richard Bishop, Mountain Man, Brenda, Deep Blue Organ Trio

WHAT: La Route du Rock, Saint-Malo
WHEN: August 13-15
WHERE: Saint-Malo, France
WHO: The Flaming Lips, the National, Massive Attack, the Rapture, Liars, Caribou, Owen Pallett, Dum Dum Girls, Serena-Maneesh, Yann Tiersen, Martina Topley-Bird

WHAT: Doe Bay Music Festival
WHEN: August 13-14
WHERE: Olga, WA
WHO: Fruit Bats, Hey Marseilles, the Portland Cello Project, Grand Hallway, THEESatisfaction

WHAT: Summer Sundae Weekender
WHEN: August 13-15
WHERE: Leicester, England
WHO: Caribou, Los Campesinos!, the Fall, Frightened Rabbit, the Futureheads, Local Natives, the Go! Team, Megafaun, the Besnard Lakes, Fool's Gold, Laura Viers, Mumford and Sons

WHAT: Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival
WHEN: August 14-15
WHERE: San Francisco, CA
WHO: Bands to be announced

WHAT: Mile High Music Festival
WHEN: August 15-16
WHERE: Denver, CO
WHO: Phoenix, My Morning Jacket, Weezer, Nas and Damian Marley, Atmosphere, Drive-By Truckers, Jimmy Cliff, Keane, Cypress Hill, Mayer Hawthorne

WHAT: Strøm Festival
WHEN: August 16-22
WHERE: Copenhagen, Denmark
WHO: Jonsi, Four Tet, Pantha Du PRince, Thomas Fehlmann, Mount Kimbie, Untold, Nosaj Thing, To Rococo Rot, Barbara Morgenstern

WHAT: For Noise
WHEN: Pully, Switzerland
WHERE: Hasselt, Belgium
WHO: Jonsi, Caribou, the National, Local Natives, the Fall, Peaches, Villagers

WHAT: Pukkelpop
WHEN: August 19-21
WHERE: Hasselt, Belgium
WHO: Queens of the Stone Age, the Flaming Lips, the National, Band of Horses, Yeasayer, Diplo, Beach House, Jonsi, Soulwax, Kele, Gogol Bordello, Four Tet, Kelis, the Prodigy, Iron Maiden

WHAT: Neon Marshmallow Festival
WHEN: August 19-22
WHERE: Chicago, IL
WHO: Keith Fullerton Whitman, Excepter, Julian Lynch, Sunglasses, Noveller, Emeralds, U.S. Girls, Carlos Giffoni, Tom Carter

WHAT: Coke Live Music Festival
WHEN: August 20-21
WHERE: Krakow, Poland
WHO: The Chemical Brothers, N.E.R.D., Muse

WHAT: Green Man Festival
WHEN: August 20-22
WHERE: Crickhowell, Wales
WHO: Joanna Newsom, the Flaming Lips, Beirut, Girls, Tindersticks, Neon Indian, Fuck Buttons, Wild Beasts, Cass McCombs, the Tallest Man on Earth, These New Puritans, Doves, Billy Bragg

WHAT: Lowlands
WHEN: August 20-22
WHERE: Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
WHO: Queens of the Stone Age, the National, Massive Attack, the xx, Air, Joker, A-Trak, Marina and the Diamonds, Plastikman, the Specials, Snow Patrol, Placebo

WHAT: Philadelphia Folk Festival
WHEN: August 20-22
WHERE: Philadelphia, PA
WHO: Bonnie "Prince" Billy and the Cairo Gang, Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, A.A. Bondy

WHAT: Sunset Junction Street Festival
WHEN: August 21-22
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA
WHO: Bands to be announced

WHAT: Rock the Bells
WHEN: August 21-29
WHERE: Various U.S. Cities
WHO: Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, KRS-One, Slick Rick, Clipse, Wiz Khalifa, Brother Ali, Yelawolf, Street Sweeper Social Club, Murs & 9th Wonder, Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks

WHAT: London Electronic Dance Music Festival
WHEN: August 27-28
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Aphex Twin, Goldfrapp, Soulwax, Friendly Fires, Shy FX, Ocelot, Leftfield

WHAT: London Electronic Dance Festival
WHEN: August 27-28
WHERE: Stockholm, Sweden
WHO: Belle & Sebastian, Hot Chip, Robyn, Neon Indian, Shout Out Louds

WHAT: Reading and Leeds Festivals
WHEN: August 27-29
WHERE: Reading and Leeds, England
WHO: Arcade Fire, the Libertines, Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, Dizzee Rascal, Weezer, the Gaslight Anthem, Klaxons, Band of Horses, Guns N' Roses

WHAT: Electric Elephant Festival
WHEN: August 27-29
WHERE: Petrcane, Croatia
WHO: Fuck Buttons, The Juan Maclean, Andrew Weatherall, Francois K, the Phantom Band, Jesca Hoop

WHAT: Rock En Seine
WHEN: August 27-29
WHERE: Saint-Cloud, France
WHO: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Jonsi, Crystal Castles, Beirut, Queens of the Stone Age, Roxy Music, Massive Attack, Kele, Band of Horses, Underworld, Foals, 2 Many DJ's, the Ting Tings, Eels

WHAT: Zurich Openair
WHEN: August 27-29
WHERE: Zurich, Switzerland
WHO: Belle and Sebastian, the xx, Local Natives, Shout Out Louds, jj, Kate Nash, Booka Shade, Maximo Park, Underworld, Hole, Placebo

WHAT: Loufest
WHEN: August 28-29
WHERE: St. Louis, MO
WHO: Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, She & Him, Jeff Tweedy, Titus Andronicus, Alejandro Escovedo, Lucero, Fruit Bats, Airborne Toxic Event

WHAT: Southwest Four Weekender
WHEN: August 28-29
WHERE: London, England
WHO: Fatboy Slim, A-Trak, Carl Cox, Skream & Benga, Boys Noize, M.A.N.D.Y., Vitalic, Ms. Dynamite

SEPTEMBER

WHAT: ATP New York
WHEN: September 3-5
WHERE: Monticello, NY
WHO: Sonic Youth, Iggy & the Stooges, Sleep, Raekwon, Explosions in the Sky, the Breeders, Fucked Up, Girls, Sunn o))) and Boris Present Altar, Mudhoney, the Books, Tortoise, Fuck Buttons

WHAT: Electric Picnic
WHEN: September 3-5
WHERE: Stradbally, Ireland
WHO: Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Roxy Music, Massive Attack, Gil Scott-Heron, Liquid Liquid, the New Pornographers, Jonsi, Bad Lieutenant, Mumford & Sons, Leftfield

WHAT: Stop Making Sense Festival
WHEN: September 3-5
WHERE: Petrcane, Croatia
WHO: The Very Best, Optimo, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Theo Parrish, Matias Aguayo, Nathan Fake, Friendly Fires, Radioclit

WHAT: moe.down
WHEN: September 3-5
WHERE: Mohawk, NY
WHO: Built to Spill, Tortoise, the Black Keys

WHAT: Jersey Live Festival of Music
WHEN: September 4-5
WHERE: Jersey, Channel Islands
WHO: Kate Nash, Here We Go Magic, We Have Band, Peggy Sue, Paul Weller, Calvin Harris

WHAT: Bumbershoot
WHEN: September 4-6
WHERE: Seattle, WA
WHO: Bands to be announced

WHAT: Hopscotch Music Fest
WHEN: September 9-11
WHERE: Raleigh, NC
WHO: Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Public Enemy, Fucked Up, Tortoise, No Age, Atlas Sound, Washed Out, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Marissa Nadler, Javelin, Active Child, Harvey Milk

WHAT: Bestival
WHEN: September 9-12
WHERE: Isle of Wight, England
WHO: The Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, the xx, Hot Chip, Dizzee Rascal, Fever Ray, Flying Lotus, Sleigh Bells, Gil Scott-Heron, Black Mountain, Four Tet, Jonsi, Roxy Music, Chic, the Prodigy

WHAT: Musicfest NW
WHEN: September 9-12
WHERE: Portland, OR
WHO: Bands to be announced

WHAT: Berlin Festival
WHEN: September 10-11
WHERE: Berlin, Germany
WHO: LCD Soundsystem, Fever Ray, Caribou, WHY?, Washed Out, Soulwax, Editors, Tricky, Atari Teenage Riot, 2 Many DJ's, Junip, Boyz Noise, Peaches, Lali Puna

WHAT: End of the Road Festival
WHEN: September 10-12
WHERE: Dorset, England
WHO: Wilco, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Parade, the Mountain Goats, Black Mountain, Iron & Wine, the New Pornographers, Caribou, Here We Go Magic, the Antlers, Mountain Man

WHAT: Incubate Festival
WHEN: September 12-19
WHERE: Tilburg, Netherlands
WHO: Dan Deacon, the Ex, Damien Jurado, Lucky Dragons, Bachelorette, Ducktails, Wino, Jason Urick

WHAT: Pygmalion Music Festival
WHEN: September 22-25
WHERE: Champaign-Urbana, IL
WHO: Caribou, Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, Cap'n Jazz, Cults, +/-, Those Darlins, Fang Island, Owen, Colour Revolt, David Dondero

WHAT: Decibel Festival
WHEN: September 23-26
WHERE: Seattle, WA
WHO: Fennesz, Carl Craig, Grouper, Ikonika, Plasticman, Kevin Saunderson, Gold Panda

WHAT: Ponderosa Stomp
WHEN: September 24-25
WHERE: New Orleans, LA
WHO: Duane Eddy, Sugar Pie Desanto, Thee Midnight

Morning Benders, Freelance Whales, others playing Governors

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:01:12 +0000

The Morning Benders @ MHOW in April (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

The free Yeasayer "Gone to Governors" show at Governors Island is soon! June 5th to be exact. Keepaway and Delicate Steve have been added as openers by the band. It will be the first of many free shows at "The Beach" this summer, only a few of which have been announced yet.

There will probably be a free show on June 12th (save the date), and there will definitely be a free one on Saturday, June 19th which will include sets by The Morning Benders and Freelance Whales (and one more band TBA).

Other announced shows in the free series are Neon Indian on August 14th, and She & Him on the 4th of July (a Sunday). Local Natives on August 7th (a Saturday) will be lumped in with the series, but it costs $10. More coming.

When I first posted about the "Gone to Governors" series, I compared it to Sunday's Jelly Pool Parties. In a way that's true, but not when it comes to show times. The Yeasayer and Neon Indian shows are 6pm doors, 8pm show (Pool Parties were always over by 7pm if I remember correctly). She & Him (on Independence Day) is a 4pm show.

Matinee NYC party for Pride 2010 is happening at the Beach on Governors Island Governors Island on June 26th ("The World's Hottest Party Comes to NYC for the First Time!"). That's a Saturday and it's a pay show, so no "Gone to Governors" on that day (Tickets go on sale at noon).

Rock the Bells NYC, set for August 28th, is another of the recently announced Governors Island shows, but that will be in a larger "venue" on the island (there are three main areas where shows can happen on the island - "The Beach" is where the free shows are).

Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen and Gang Gang Dance play a pay show at the Beach on Thursday, August 12th.

The Morning Benders are currently on tour with Broken Bells. Both bands come to NYC for a sold-out June 5th show at Irving Plaza. Their shows after that include Europe and a pair of SummerStage shows with the Black Keys in July.

Continue reading "Morning Benders, Freelance Whales, others playing Governors" at BrooklynVegan.com

DOWNLOAD: Suckers - A Mind I Knew + Local Natives Remix

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:30:28 +0000

(Photo: Sam Fleischner)

Today, sun gods beget sun gods with two freebies from Suckers—the first an upcoming album track and the second a safari-like refit of fellow Frenchkiss shamans Local Natives. “A Mind I Knew” radiates celebratory, canorous vibes while “Wide Eyes” blows by in an illuminated and jaunty hymnal. Pre-order the most-excellent Wild Smile, and peep an impressive tour with Local Natives, Passion Pit and Tokyo Police Club right here.

Suckers - A Mind I Knew

Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Suckers Remix)

Find More Free Suckers Music Here

Find More Free Local Natives Music Here

Bonnaroo 2010: The Schedule

Mon, 24 May 2010 19:00:00 +0000

This year's Bonnaroo is only a few weeks away-- June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee, to be exact. Like usual, there are many bands playing but only so much time to see them: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix, the xx, the National, the Flaming Lips (doing Dark Side of the Moon), not to mention comedians like Conan O'Brien and Aziz Ansari.

So, to help you decide who to see where and at what time, we've devised a handy schedule of Pitchfork-approved acts set for the big get-together. Study it below, and head over to the fest's official site for the unabridged schedule:

Thursday, June 10:

5:45 pm Baroness (The Other Tent)
6:00 pm Here We Go Magic (This Tent)
7:00 pm Local Natives (That Tent)
8:30 pm Neon Indian (That Tent)
9:00 pm The Dodos (This Tent)
10:15 pm Blitzen Trapper (The Other Tent)
11:30 pm The xx (That Tent)

Friday, June 11:

1:00 pm Tokyo Police Club (The Other Tent)
1:00 pm Conan O'Brien (The Comedy Theatre)
1:45 pm The Gaslight Anthem (Which Stage)
1:45 pm Jay Electronica (This Tent)
4:00 pm Damian Marley and Nas (What Stage)
5:00 pm She & Him (This Tent)
5:45 pm The National (Which Stage)
11:30 pm Warpaint (Troo Music Lounge)
12:00 am The Flaming Lips (Which Stage)
12:00 am The Black Keys (That Tent)
12:00 am Daryl Hall and Chromeo (The Other Tent)
12:00 am Hercules and Love Affair (DJ set) (The Lunar Stage)
2:30 am LCD Soundsystem (This Tent)

Saturday, June 12:

1:00 pm Conan O'Brien (The Comedy Theatre)
3:30 pm Isis (This Tent)
5:15 pm The Melvins (This Tent)
6:00 pm The Dead Weather (What Stage)
6:00 pm Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel (The Comedy Theatre)
8:30 pm Stevie Wonder (What Stage)
11:30 pm Jay-Z (What Stage)
12:30 am Dan Deacon Ensemble (This Tent)
2:30 am GWAR (The Other Tent)

Sunday, June 13:

12:00 pm Tinariwen (Which Stage)
12:30 pm Japandroids (This Tent)
1:15 pm Calexico (Which Stage)
5:30 pm Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel (The Comedy Theatre)
7:15 pm Phoenix (Which Stage)
7:30 pm Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel (The Comedy Theatre)

Sasquatch! Festival Schedule Revealed

Mon, 24 May 2010 13:00:00 +0000

We're inching closer and closer to Memorial Day Weekend, the unofficial beginning of summer and also the weekend of the Sasquatch! Festival, taking place May 29-31 at the Gorge in George, Washington. (Yes, George, Washington. Ha ha, LOL, etc.) This year's fest has a ton of big names: Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, the National, Broken Social Scene, the xx, and plenty more. It also features comedians like Patton Oswalt, Rob Riggle, Craig Robinson, and Todd Barry.

We've got a handy little guide after the jump, pointing you toward the acts that Pitchfork recommends. To see the full schedule, click here.

Saturday, May 29:

12:05 Shabazz Palaces (Sasquatch Stage)
1:20 Fool's Gold (Yeti Stage)
4:30 Patton Oswalt (Rumpus-Room Stage)
5:35 Broken Social Scene (Sasquatch Stage)
6:45 WHY? (Yeti Stage)
7:00 The National (Sasquatch Stage)
7:30 The Hold Steady (Bigfoot Stage)
7:30 The Very Best (Rumpus-Room Stage)
8:30 Vampire Weekend (Sasquatch Stage)
8:40 Dam-Funk (Rumpus Room Stage)
10:00 My Morning Jacket (Sasquatch Stage)

Sunday, May 30:

12:05 Caribou (Sasquatch Stage)
1:30 Local Natives (Bigfoot Stage)
2:35 The Tallest Man on Earth (Bigfoot Stage)
3:10 tUnE-yArDs (Yeti Stage)
3:40 Cymbals Eat Guitars (Bigfoot Stage)
4:15 Avi Buffalo (Yeti Stage)
5:50 the xx (Bigfoot Stage)
7:00 LCD Soundsystem (Sasquatch Stage)
7:00 Girls (Bigfoot Stage)
7:30 YACHT (Rumpus-Room Stage)
8:15 Dirty Projectors (Bigfoot Stage)
8:30 Pavement (Sasquatch Stage)
8:40 A-Trak (Rumpus-Room Stage)
9:45 Public Enemy (Bigfoot Stage)
10:15 Massive Attack (Sasquatch Stage)
11:30 Booka Shade (Bigfoot Stage)

Monday, May 31:

3:00 Drive-By Truckers (Sasquatch Stage)
3:25 Quasi (Bigfoot Stage)
4:10 Passion Pit (Sasquatch Stage)
5:10 Japandroids (Yeti Stage)
5:20 She & Him (Sasquatch Stage)
5:40 The Mountain Goats (Bigfoot Stage)
6:15 No Age (Yeti Stage)
6:40 Band of Horses (Sasquatch Stage)
6:50 Camera Obscura (Bigfoot Stage)
8:05 MGMT (Sasquatch Stage)
8:20 The New Pornographers (Bigfoot Stage)
8:40 Neon Indian (Rumpus-Room Stage)

Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup Changes, Activities Announced

Fri, 21 May 2010 17:10:00 +0000

The Pitchfork Music Festival, which goes down July 16-18 in Chicago's Union Park, is getting closer every day. But first, we've got a couple of quick changes to the lineup to announce.

Unfortunately, Swedish Balearic pop synthesists jj have canceled their appearance at the fest. Replacing them will be the San Francisco garage pop crew Sonny & the Sunsets.

After the jump, we've got the revamped festival lineup, as well details on the non-musical activities at this year's Pitchfork Festival. As in previous years, there's a ton of cool stuff going on around the festival grounds, including the CHIRP Record Fair, the Coterie Chicago handmade market, the FLATSTOCK poster show, and the Rock for Kids auction.

Three-day passes for the festival are already sold out, but tickets for all three individual days are still on sale. You can buy your tickets at Ticketweb. Tickets for Sunday, headlined by Pavement, are almost gone, so hurry!

The 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival lineup:

Friday, July 16:

-- Modest Mouse
-- Broken Social Scene
-- Robyn
-- Liars
-- El-P
-- The Tallest Man on Earth
-- Sharon Van Etten

Saturday, July 17:

-- LCD Soundsystem
-- Panda Bear
-- Wolf Parade
-- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
-- Raekwon
-- Titus Andronicus
-- WHY?
-- Delorean
-- Real Estate
-- Bear in Heaven
-- Free Energy
-- The Smith Westerns
-- Dâm-Funk
-- Kurt Vile
-- Freddie Gibbs
-- Sonny & the Sunsets
-- Netherfriends

Sunday, July 18:

-- Pavement
-- Big Boi
-- Major Lazer
-- St. Vincent
-- Lightning Bolt
-- Beach House
-- Girls
-- Sleigh Bells
-- Neon Indian
-- Cass McCombs
-- Here We Go Magic
-- Surfer Blood
-- Local Natives
-- Washed Out
-- Best Coast
-- Cave
-- Allá

FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES

-- CHIRP Record Fair & Other Delights
The Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) Record Fair & Other Delights is a can't-miss event for music lovers and vinyl enthusiasts from around the country. Bringing you the best selection of vinyl and CDs to be found under one tent, vendors offer everything from rock and pop to psychedelia and folk, soul and jazz to country and international, house and hip-hop to rockabilly and R&B, and even more!

-- Coterie

At Coterie Chicago, you will find handmade goods created by a skilled artisan workforce committed to providing cutting-edge art, style, and accessories that enhance your life. Buying directly from the maker creates a heightened sense of community, and now, more than ever, buying products from local artists and makers puts you at the forefront of real, lasting economic and creative stimulus.

-- FLATSTOCK presented by API

The FLATSTOCK poster show series, presented by the American Poster Institute (API), is an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring the work of many of the most popular concert poster artists working today. The FLATSTOCK shows provide the public with opportunities to see fine poster art in person and to meet the artists who've created it, while showcasing the breadth of individual styles they represent. Since beginning in 2003, Flatstock has presented events in the U.S. and Europe and has become the epicenter of the current phenomenon in handmade poster art.

-- Rock for Kids
Rock for Kids is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free music instruction to underprivileged children in the Chicago area. The Rock for Kids booth features a variety of ways for concert-goers to learn more about Rock for Kids and support their mission, including an auction of unique items from your favorite Pitchfork artists.

Suckers, 'A Mind I Knew' -- Song Premiere

Fri, 21 May 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News, New Music, Exclusive

Another indie rock band from Brooklyn, N.Y.? Yes, that is the case here -- but one listen to the Suckers and you'll surely agree that they're a welcome addition to the borough. The band's debut full-length, 'Wild Smile,' doesn't drop until June 8, but fans may already recognize them from their current tour with fellow French Kiss labelmates Local Natives. When that tour wraps shortly before the actual album release, Suckers will then perform various dates with Passion Pit, Tokyo Police Club and Mates of State. It's not bad company they keep.

This single, 'A Mind I Knew,' shows that there's good reason for all the hype. Frontman Quinn Walker tells Spinner that the song is actually "a bedtime story for adults." So put earmuffs on your roommates, if needed, and give a listen after the jump.

Watch: New Local Natives - 'World News'

Wed, 19 May 2010 14:59:00 +0000

We're still enjoying the great videos that Los Angeles' Local Natives have brought us before, but this one is the perfect beast. Directed by Matthew Lessner, who's worked on films by the Raveonettes and the Dirty Projectors, this one features the cutest jumping dog imaginable, while sporting more swimsuits than the latest ASOS catalogue.

Austin City Limits Lineup Announced

Tue, 18 May 2010 14:20:00 +0000

This year's Austin City Limits Festival takes place October 8-10 in the city's Zilker Park, and the line-up is filled with festival biggies you know and love. People like: LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A., the Strokes, the Flaming Lips, the National, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, the xx, Band of Horses, Monsters of Folk, Sonic Youth, the Black Keys, Broken Bells, Yeasayer, Beach House, Matt and Kim, Girls, Local Natives, Devendra Banhart, Mountain Goats, Bear in Heaven, the Morning Benders, Gaslight Anthem, Gayngs, and the Very Best.

Click here for the full roster and more info.

ACL 2010 Lineup Features Muse, Phish, The Eagles

Tue, 18 May 2010 12:19:20 +0000

M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend also among Austin City Limits headliners.
By Gil Kaufman

Muse
Photo: Jo Hale/Getty Images

A little something old, a little something new. That's the story at this year's Austin City Limits festival, which will take place October 8-10 at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, and feature headlining sets from the Eagles, Muse, M.I.A., LCD Soundsystem and Phish.

Also on the 130-act roster from the same folks that bring you Chicago's Lollapalooza are the Strokes, the Flaming Lips, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Norah Jones, Band of Horses, Monsters of Folk, Sonic Youth, the National, Broken Bells, Yeasayer, Beach House and Gaslight Anthem.

The eclectic roster ranges from such Austin favorites as singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen and techno superstar Deadmau5, to gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, blues duo the Black Keys, soul revivalists the Temper Trap and freak folkie Devendra Banhart. According to organizers, three-day passes for the event sold out even before the lineup was announced, but single-day tickets ($85) go on sale Tuesday (May 18).

Among the other acts on the bill: Slightly Stoopid, Rebelution, the Sword, Matt & Kim, the XX, Portugal. The Man, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Girls, Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses, Blues Traveler, Local Natives, Lucero, Pete Yorn, the Soft Pack, Ozomatli, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Richard Thompson, Manchester Orchestra, Miike Snow, Mountain Goats, Mayer Hawthorne, Foals, the Morning Benders, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, the Very Best and the Constellations.

Are you going to any music festivals this summer? Share your plans in the comments below!

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Weezer & other Waterfront & Governors Island shows on sale

Fri, 14 May 2010 14:55:21 +0000

Tickets are on sale at 11am for the Weezer show at Williamsburg Waterfront.

Tickets are on sale at noon for the Keane show at Williamsburg Waterfront.

Other Williamsburg Waterfront shows on sale are Band of Horses/Grizzly Bear, Silversun Pickups, Faith No More, Modest Mouse, Primus/Gogol Bordello, and Nas/Damian Marley.

Free Waterfront shows have not been announced yet.

Corinne Bailey Rae is playing the Beach at Governors Island on August 6th. Tickets, currently on AmEx presale, go on general sale at noon.

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros have added a 3rd NYC show. Their two at Webster Hall are both sold out (July 22-23), so they're also playing the Beach at Governors Island on July 21st. Tickets, currently on AmEx presale, go on general sale at noon.

Other Governors Island shows on sale include Michael Franti & Spearhead w/ Trombone Shorty, Passion Pit/Tokyo Police Club, MIA/Sleigh Bells/Die Antwoord and Local Natives.

Free Governors Island shows so far include Yesayer and Neon Indian.

Continue reading "Weezer & other Waterfront & Governors Island shows on sale" at BrooklynVegan.com

Local Natives – “Wide Eyes (Suckers Remix)”

Thu, 13 May 2010 17:00:59 +0000

Here’s a tour document of sorts, coming a month into Local Natives’ seven-week tour with Brooklyn’s Suckers. Both bands have had Yeasayer thrown out as reference points — Local Natives for their occasional dips into African rhythms, Suckers for their colorful and ebullient aesthetic and vocals (not to mention Anand Wilder’s production of their BTW [...]

Hear Full Live Shows From Caribou, Hold Steady, Local Natives, More

Tue, 11 May 2010 18:30:00 +0000

NPR Music is on fire today. The NPR Music website just started streaming the new Sleigh Bells album, as well as a few other new albums. And elsewhere on the website, we can also hear full live shows from several notable artists.

First off, you can click here to stream a full live show from psych-pop standard bearer and BNM staple Caribou, recorded last night at Washington, DC's Rock and Roll Hotel. Also streaming: The opening set from chillwave guy Toro Y Moi.

NPR Music also has a lot more recent shows for your listening pleasure. For instance, there's Local Natives, playing live at Philadelphia's World Cafe Live last Friday, thanks to WXPN. Or the Hold Steady, playing a 47-minute set of jams old and new, also at World Cafe Live on April 30, via WXPN. Or Shout Out Louds and Freelance Whales, playing a show at DC's famed 9:30 Club on May 2. Tomorrow, they'll stream Public Image Ltd's show from the 9:30 Club here.

There are more live shows streaming, too; just click around this page.

Local Natives played 2 nights @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Suckers (pics), released a new video for "World News"

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:54:10 +0000

by Andrew Frisicano

Local Natives

Both [Local Natives & Suckers] played music from their debut albums, on the Frenchkiss label. Between them there were three-part vocal harmonies, clear-pinging guitars, repurposed dance rhythm. There was electronic geekery and lyrical vagary, and drums pounded by someone other than the drummer. There was a Talking Heads tune, a trumpet, an occasional augment of strings. There was a makeshift cape and memorable facial hair.
Local Natives has two appealing lead singers, the guitarist Taylor Rice (mustache) and the keyboardist Kelcey Ayer (beard). Another guitarist, Ryan Hahn, completes those three-part harmonies, which have earned the band a lot of reflexive comparisons to Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear. But "Gorilla Manor," the band's impressively sure-footed first outing, involves more driving rhythm than either of those other bands typically employs. The show made this distinction even clearer. [NY Times]

When Local Natives covered of "Warning Sign" at their second Bowery Ballroom show, they made sure to give a shout out to Talking Heads and David Byrne (who could be seen in front row of the balcony nodding along).

Local Natives and Suckers tour together through May. This summer, Local Natives will play an August 7th show on Governors Island.

Suckers have a few big NYC shows coming up: they play their own record release show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 18th, and then play Prospect Park Bandshell with Passion Pit and Tokyo Police Club on June 29th and Governors Island with those same bands and We Were Promised Jetpacks on June 30th.

More pictures from Local Natives/Suckers' Friday, May 7th Bowery Ballroom show (they played the same venue the night before too) and Local Natives' new video for "World News" are below...

Continue reading "Local Natives played 2 nights @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Suckers (pics), released a new video for "World News"" at BrooklynVegan.com

Video: Local Natives: "World News"

Mon, 10 May 2010 16:50:00 +0000

In director Matthew Lessner's video for Local Natives' "World News", a group of guys who are most assuredly not Local Natives play the song, while the Natives themselves enjoy a beach picnic and their ladyfriends splash around in a wading pool full of juice. Then everyone jumps up and down ecstatically while some dogs chase frisbees. Like Lessner's clip for the Dirty Projectors' "Stillness Is the Move", none of it makes much sense, but all of it is gorgeously shot.

Watch the clip below, or at Pitchfork.tv:

Music Review: Local Natives and Suckers Perform at the Bowery Ballroom

Mon, 10 May 2010 15:26:09 +0000

Local Natives and Suckers perform in New York, part of their seven-week tour.

new Peggy Sue MP3, album info, video, tour dates & live pics

Mon, 10 May 2010 14:59:48 +0000

words by Andrew Frisicano, CMJ photos by Bryan Bruchman

DOWNLOAD: Peggy Sue - Watchman (MP3)

Peggy Sue is London trio Rosa Rex, Katy Klaw and their drummer Olly. Their new album Fossil's and Other Phantoms (out now in the UK) comes out stateside on Yep Roc Records June 1st. Previously, they had an EP out last summer. The band joined us all the way back in October for a BV day party at Pianos during CMJ. They played the upstairs room and their tour-mates at the time, Sky Larkin, played downstairs. Pictures from both of their sets are (finally) in this post (below).

Peggy Sue comes to North America again for tour dates this June. The full schedule is below - they play NYC on Thursday, June 10th at Pianos (tickets TBA). They love Pianos.

The new record's first single, "Watchman," is available for the first time above. The song is a simmering minor key that actually has its roots in Brooklyn. About the song, Katy writes

This was one of three songs written whilst we were in the studio in Brooklyn and recorded a few months later when we returned to London. The beginning part of the writing process is always quite an insular thing for us. You find yourself an empty room and then that's all you can do until its written. We were recording and living in quite small spaces so it was quite intense and writing new songs was in some ways an excuse for some private time. Lyrically, it's about how there is always a boy who is looking at a girl who is looking at a different boy. Sometimes we play it and I'm the person looking and sometimes I'm the person being looked upon.

A few listens through the song's expertly layered harmonies and Peggy Sue's pairing with Local Natives on a recent UK tour will make a lot of sense.

All Peggy Sue tour dates, album info & cover, the video for "Watchman" and more are below...

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Local Natives – “World News” Video

Mon, 10 May 2010 14:40:13 +0000

The pre-Ferguson video for Local Natives’ “Airplanes” featured chilly skeletons and crumbling interiors. This Matthew Lessner-directed “World News” clip takes us to the sunny, sandy outdoors, a place with wild flowers, floral bathing suits, citrus salads, finger sandwiches, and beach-Frisbee. Even if the oxygen masks, etc., are meant to be cheeky, it’s a better fit [...]

Local Natives + Suckers + JBM: 6.May.2010 - New York (Notes from the Road)

Mon, 10 May 2010 13:30:00 +0000

Coming off their highly acclaimed debut LP, Gorilla Manor, Los Angeles' Local Natives jumped on stage to a sold out Bowery Ballroom last Thursday. After having played that album about 100 times now, I and the thousand or so other fans in the build were ready to scream our heads off.

Coming off their highly acclaimed debut LP, Gorilla Manor, Los Angeles' Local Natives jumped on stage to a sold out Bowery Ballroom last Thursday. After having played that album about 100 times now, I and the thousand or so other fans in the build were ready to scream our heads off. But despite being a die hard enthusiast of the up-and-coming band, I wondered whether they were ready to rock a packed house, especially in…

What's going on Monday?

Mon, 10 May 2010 04:03:36 +0000

Phosphorescent @ the Bell House in 2009 (more by Ryan Barkan)

tonight in NYC
* It is It @ Pianos
* Whiplash @ UCB
* Ratt @ Irving Plaza
* Chicha Libre @ Barbes
* Mike Birbiglia @ Union Hall
* Ricky Gervais @ Hunter College
* Phosphorescent @ Other Music
* Aqualung, Krista Polvere @ City Winery
* Magnetic Fields movie @ the Bell House
* Ane Brun, Olof Arnalds @ Bowery Ballroom
* Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir @ Union Pool
* The Joy Formidable & She Keeps Bees @ Mercury Lounge
* Crash Ensemble plays Donnacha Dennehy, David Lang and Terry Riley @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Silya, Debbie Miller, Sam Bisbee, The Last 55s, Jim Campilongo Electric Trio @ The Living Room

Phosphorescent is at Other Music tonight and play Union Pool tomorrow.

The Joy Formidable play Mercury Lounge tonight, and you can catch them live on the Internet at noon.

Craig Ferguson is playing Carnegie Hall on October 23rd at 2pm (on sale today at 11am) and 7pm (already on sale).

Local Natives made their late night television debut on Craig Ferguson the other day. Video below...

What else?

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M.I.A. played with Sleigh Bells, Emily Haines played with BSS

Sat, 08 May 2010 07:15:27 +0000

Sleigh Bells & M.I.A. (I think) @ Coco66 on 5/7 (actually 5/8) (Seva Granik)

As if the hype wasn't through the roof enough, M.I.A. helped popularize the act her label co-signed (is that the right term?) a little bit more this evening by joining Sleigh Bells on stage at the end of their show at Coco66. The show's promoter Seva Granik writes, "MIA closes Sleigh Bells' set on "Ring Ring." Crowd go nut. Ima get another drank."

In unrelated news, David Byrne was seen checking out Local Natives cover a Talking Heads song at Bowery Ballroom earlier the same night, and Emily Haines joined Broken Social Scene for three songs at Webster Hall. More on those later.

For prettier pictures of Sleigh Bells, check out the set from their show at Webster Hall earlier in the week. Sleigh Bells play another NYC show on May 11th. M.I.A. and Sleigh Bells officially share a bill this summer on Governors Island.

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What's going on Friday?

Fri, 07 May 2010 20:11:40 +0000

Broken Social Scene @ SXSW (more by Bryan Bruchman)

tonight in NYC
* EPMD @ BB King's
* Steve Kimock @ The Stone
* Joseph Arthur @ Maxwell's
* Matt Mottel @ Issue Project Room
* Sleigh Bells, Mr. Dream @ Coco 66
* Broken Social Scene @ Webster Hall
* A-ha, Sondre Lerche @ Nokia Theatre
* Patrick Watson, Doveman @ 92YTribeca
* Mary Halvorson, Kevin Shea @ The Kitchen
* Starscream, Idiot Glee, Blair @ Glasslands
* The Jay Vons, The Suspicions @ Bruar Falls
* The Clean, Dimmer, Coasting @ The Bell House
* Local Natives, Suckers, JBM @ Bowery Ballroom
* Stinking Lizaveta, Pigs, Wizardry @ Union Pool
* Sharon Van Etten, St. Claire, Julie Fader @ Union Hall
* Boy Crisis, J'aime & I, Frances Rose @ Knitting Factory
* The Glitch Mob, Free The Robots, Deru @ Highline Ballroom
* Boom Chick, The Fieros, The Tales, The London Souls @ The Cameo
* Caribou, Toro y Moi, Hounds Of Hate @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* The Get It, Killing Phantoms, Apothecary Hymns, Cock Lorge @ Pianos
* All Leather, The Death Set, Cerebral Ballzy @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise
* JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, The Revelations, The Ex Caminos @ Southpaw
* Alex Bleeker & The Freaks, Big Troubles, Sore Eros, Procedure Club @ Cake Shop
* The Golden Palominos, The Wingdale Community Singers, The Walking Hellos @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

David Bazan plays someone's apartment tonight and tomorrow, and does Radio Happy Hour Saturday afternoon.

This Week in Indie focuses on this weekend's shows that aren't sold out.

Hounds of Hate are first of third opener for Caribou and Toro y Moi.

Sharon Van Etten played a short set at the Chris Knox benefit last night. Tonight she's at Union Hall. A video of Sharon performing for NPR at SXSW, below...

What else?

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'Gone to Governors' = free Saturday shows on Governors Island (Neon Indian & Yeasayer announced!)

Fri, 07 May 2010 17:52:48 +0000

Yeasayer @ Webster Hall (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)

This summer in NYC is already boiling over with free shows and none of the Sunday Pool Parties at the Williamsburg Waterfront have even been announced yet (sort of). Spending Sundays at free concerts in Williamsburg is now a tradition that started a few years ago at McCarren Pool (and relocated last year to the Waterfront). Sponsors come on board to make sure the bands get paid, and we all get to spend days outdoors in a somewhat unique NYC concert environment.

There's Summerstage, Celebrate Brooklyn, and other series of shows all summer long, but none are quite like (as "hipster"?) as the Pool Parties. Until now. As previously mentioned, there will be "a new free Saturday-afternoon concert series at the Beach". Sponsored by Converse, and booked by Bowery, there's now a place to go on Saturday too. Also with bands in the day, outside and for free. They're calling it "Gone to Governors".

Between the Seaport after work on Fridays, Governors Island on Saturdays and the Pool Parties on Sunday (with alternative options in Prospect Park, Central Park and elsewhere), you can probably see slightly less than a zillion free shows this summer and be busy every single weekend day.

As also previously announced, She & Him are playing a free show on Governors Island on the 4th of July (a Sunday). That show will be considered part of the "Gone to Governors" series that now also so far includes Yeasayer on June 5th and Neon Indian on August 14th.

"All shows at The Beach on Governors Island will be held rain-or-shine. Beer, liquor, non-alcoholic drinks and food will be available for purchase. For more information about the ferry schedule, the series, artists and performances, general restrictions and rules and the latest updates and additions to the lineup, visit The Beach at Governors Island website at www.thebeachconcerts.com."

I'm also happy to announce that BrooklynVegan will be the official media sponsor of the series which will also sort of include the Local Natives show which is a pay show but on a Saturday and only $10.

You probably know or have noticed that bands don't/can't really play more than one big show a summer. Now you know where Neon Indian's is taking place. Chad VanGaalen & Avi Buffalo on the other hand are playing the Seaport. That said, Neon Indian does have two more NYC shows coming up before August.

A relevant video from Yeasayer's Webster Hall show this week, below....

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Local Natives, Recorded Live In Concert

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:36:00 +0000

The band made its first impression in the U.K., where it released its debut album in 2009. Earlier this year, Gorilla Manor made its way to the U.S., where it's helped the rootsy pop group make a major breakthrough. Hear Local Natives perform live in concert from WXPN in Philadelphia.

Local Natives Bring “Airplanes” To Craig Ferguson

Fri, 07 May 2010 15:11:10 +0000

In a twist of television magic, ascendant Los Angeles locals Local Natives appeared on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson the same they played a sold-out show with Suckers at Bowery Ballroom. Dudes are literally everywhere (or Craig pre-recorded last night’s show). The band’s set at the Levi’s/FADER fort was one of the more [...]

Local Natives Hit "Craig Ferguson"

Fri, 07 May 2010 15:10:00 +0000

Rising L.A. indie band Local Natives have complex, confident harmonies and impressive, robust facial hair; clearly, they belong on TV. And last night, they made their late-night TV debut, stopping by the "Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" to run through an intense, committed take on the Gorilla Manor track "Airplanes".

Watch the video below, via You Ain't No Picasso:

Zeus, Broken Social Scene, New Numbers, Penguin Prison, The Primitives, Alex Bleeker & more in This Week in Indie

Thu, 06 May 2010 19:46:46 +0000

by Bill Pearis

DOWNLOAD: Loose Limbs - Red Hands (Martin Clancy Remix) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: New Numbers - Islands EP (Zip)

Broken Social Scene @ SXSW (more by Bryan Bruchman)

Aquarian Weekly: Where does Broken Social Scene go from here? Are there any cinematic soundtracks on the horizon?
Brendan Canning: We've got a lot of cinematic music in the can. There's a few movies we're working on while we do a month of touring and festivals to promote the record. We're involved with Daydream Nation, It's Kind Of A Funny Story, and This Movie Is Broken, which mixes Broken Social Scene live concert footage with a plot line that's half fiction thrown in. Now's the time to work hard, stay on top of things, and know this is our moment.

This weekend boasts an insane amount of awesome shows: Broken Social Scene, Beach House, The Clean, Caribou, Local Natives, Jonsi... of course they're all sold out. So I'm gonna try and suggest things to do that the more lackadaisical music fan can still get into. It's broken up by day...

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What's going on Thursday?

Thu, 06 May 2010 18:05:49 +0000

tonight in NYC
* A-ha @ Nokia Theatre
* Tarek Atoui @ New Museum
* Lucky Dragons @ Thirty Days NY
* Sia, Girl in a Coma @ Terminal 5
* John Zorn, Marc Ribot @ The Stone
* Beach House, Washed Out @ Webster Hall
* Patrick Watson, Doveman @ The Bell House
* Local Natives, Suckers @ Bowery Ballroom
* Mary Halvorson, Kevin Shea @ The Kitchen
* As Tall As Lions, Bear Hands @ Irving Plaza
* Cinema 16 @ Archway under the Manhattan Bridge
* Willie Nelson @ Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom
* Zeus, Robbers on High Street, New Numbers @ Union Hall
* Ike Reilly Assassination, Brendan O'Shea @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Clipse, Freddie Gibbs, NinjaSonik, XV @ Highline Ballroom
* Guardian Alien, Kokomo, Omnivore, Diana Joy @ Shea Stadium
* Suzanne Vega w/ Yuka Honda, Spooky Ghost and Poez @ City Winery
* Loose Limbs, Gost Trio, Imaginary Friends, Mataromos @ Bruar Falls
* Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, Apollo Heights, Smoota @ Southpaw
* Fixed w/ Van She, Lemonade, JDH & Dave P (late) @ Santos Party House
* Power Animal, ACLU Benefit, Bad Teeth, Dinosaur Feathers @ Silent Barn
* Converge, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts, Black Breath (early) @ Santos Party House
* Lymbyc System, Slow Six, (The) Slowest Runner (In All The World) @ Littlefield
* Tigercity, Sugar & Gold, The Seedy Seeds, Free Blood @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Blondes, Red Wire Black Wire, Shadowbox, The Binary Marketing Show, Teletextile @ Glasslands
* Chris Knox Benefit w/ Jeff Mangum, Yo La Tengo, Kyp Malone , The Clean, Portastatic Sharon Van Etten, more @ (le) Poisson Rouge

The Fall in the slo-mo video for their song "Bury Pts. 1+3" are below.

What else?

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Kele, Diana Vickers, Darwin Deez, Big Pink for T In The Park

Wed, 05 May 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Everything Everything, Local Natives also added to line-up

M.I.A., Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, the xx Do Øya Festival

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:05:00 +0000

This year's Øya Festival crashes down in Oslo, Norway August 10-14. And here's another list of bands that'll make you want to book a flight to Europe ASAP: M.I.A., Pavement, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, the Stooges, Big Boi, the xx, Air, Jónsi, Raekwon, Girls, Robyn, Major Lazer, Sleigh Bells, Surfer Blood, Converge, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Fucked Up, the Gaslight Anthem, tUnE-YarDs, and Local Natives. And that's not all. Check out the fest's official site for all the details.

Suckers opening Passion Pit shows, headlining their own

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:15:14 +0000

Suckers @ SXSW (more by Tim Griffin)

Suckers play two sold-out shows with their labelmates Local Natives on May 6th and 7th at Bowery Ballroom. They'll have an NYC show of their own at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Friday, June 18th as a release party for their debut, Wild Smile, out June 8th on Frenchkiss. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon.

Suckers have also been added to the lineup of the sold-out Passion Pit/Tokyo Police Club show at Prospect Park on June 29th and the show the next night at Governors Island with the same bands plus We Were Promised Jetpacks.

Local Natives play Governors Island in August. On Sunday they played Coachella. Passion Pit played the California fest on Friday. Tokyo Police Club played Saturday.

All Suckers dates below...

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Coachella 2010 - Day Three in pics, video & review (the Thom Yorke & Pavement setlists included)

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:44:34 +0000

photos by Rachel Carr, words by Daiana Feuer

Gorillaz Clash

The third and final round of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was funky, and not just because the port-a-potties reeked. Keeping a loose theme every day (see Friday & Saturday), Sunday focused on relentless rhythm and groovy basslines. The absolute golden moment belonged to Yo La Tengo's blistering final song. Rhythm that revels in repetition + guitar that tries to destroy itself = wee mind blown. Sometimes the moodiest things are the most uplifting.

Thom Yorke brought his dancing shoes, his favorite Flea, and Nigel Godrich. His band Atoms For Peace played almost every song off The Eraser, many of which featured strong world rhythm sections. When Yorke didn't have a guitar in hand, he danced, whirled, and punched the air like he was rehearsing a scene from Fame. We wanted a high kick, but it didn't arrive. King Khan & The Shrines, on the other hand, featured legs flying all over the place, DJ Lance Rock and Yo Gabba Gabba characters, burning money, as well as a visit from the police-who crept on stage to snap pictures. Probably the first time Khan runs into cops and doesn't leave wearing cuffs. Sunny Day Real Estate had the audience offering bids to buy property, and Phoenix had people choking on dinner as they tried to dance and eat at the same time.

King Khan Gabba Gabba

Not every Julian Casablancas song captivated, but his band delightfully binged on rhythms. Each musician had a personal backbeat player supporting each fill. The drummer plus his sidekick especially sounded great. Matt & Kim's ebullient smiles inspired chaos in the audience, as usual. Mayer Hawthorne and the County revived Motown soulful brassiness and covered Biz Markie's "Just a Friend." The Big Pink played some new songs from next year's album, reaching out for Depeche Mode with a drummer in a pink bathing suit. Electro sweet popper Little Boots forgot her pants as well, wearing a sparkly shirt and knickers, and played with the lasers on stage. Charlotte Gainsbourg inaugurated her "first tour, first everything" with a feminine "Candy-O" sensibility, sometimes in French. Florence & the Machine rounds out the great lady performances of the day, and brought on Nathan Willett of Cold War Kids.

All clad in white, France's DJ ego-powers Club 75 demonstrated the ability to cooperate together with just a few elbows thrown. Cassius, Justice, Busy P, and DJ Mehdi still use CD's (so old school), and took turns passing on the headphones between them and finishing each other's remix sentences, trading places at each station. Backstage security bobbed along while staying tough. When it was their turn, Rusko turned the Sahara tent into a mechazoid robot battle and Orbital live-produced virtual reality anthems for Satan wearing Matrix miner lights around their heads. Infected Mushroom instructed on the benefits of "Becoming Insane" flanked by two mushrooms with red eyes.

The Middle East should not be confused with The Soft Pack, formerly The Muslims. The former may be from Australia but it sounds like a back porch band from Woodstock, and the latter offers a "Parasite" infestation that's as pure as sunshine and a neat drum set up that packs a giant tom punch. What appears as regular rock on headphones reveals its brilliance when experienced live. One of the strangest live moments of the festival belongs to Sly Stone, who played four hours late and on the wrong stage. He bitched, he slurred, he cursed, lay down, walked off, stopped songs and good grief, made a total mess of himself. But that's rock and roll.

Sly Stone made history look unable to get past its youthful drug phase, but Jonsi, Pavement, and Spoon come from a music scene that did a little bit less cocaine. Jonsi repped the awesomeness of Sigur Rós and great hats. Steve Patterson of White Rabbits joined Britt Daniels and the rest of Spoon to add percussion on "I Turn My Camera On". Spoon's tour-mate Bradford Cox (who played earlier in the day in Deerhunter) also joined Spoon on stage, like he did on their recent Kimmel appearance. Pavement ran through the hits during one of their first U.S. shows since reuniting. "That's the 90's in a nutshell," said Stephen Malkmus after the angsty "Unfair"...

"...Pavement, the iconic slacker band of the '90s, who took the main stage against what turned out to be one of the fest's chief attractions, the finally wildly popular French dance-rock band Phoenix, who wowed possibly the biggest crowd of the entire fest ... while Pavement played to a field half-full of true believers rather than the massive throngs many expected, and thought the band deserved.
No matter, though. Pavement still delivered a set that vindicated the group of prior crimes -- namely a Coachella performance near the end of their career so notoriously bad, many in attendance point to it as the moment the band decided to break up.

This night, however, they were tight, they were loud, and they sounded large on that vast field -- an odd statement, given the fact that in their heyday they were far more known for being introspectively small rather than arena-ready..." [The OC Register]

Virtual Snoop Dogg introduced the Gorillaz set, but Blur's Damon Albarn appeared in the flesh, with a few special guests including Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, De La Soul-who kicked their own old school jams earlier in the day-and Little Dragon's Yukimi. One unique rhythm transcended the next, showing the mutability of hip hop and dance music. And then that was it, suddenly. The festival ended and tens of thousands of people started wondering where they left their car keys...

Radiohead Peppers For Peace

Daiana's Weekend Top 10:
1. Yo La Tengo's last song
2. Little Dragon's Yukimi
3. Gossip leading a revolution
4. Thom Yorke dancing to African rhythms
5. PiL giving a history lesson
6. Sly Stone wigging out
7. Bouncing penises + fat people in undies (Die Antwoord + Major Lazer)
8. Devo putting on the hats that ushered in modern pop culture for "Whip It"
9. John Waters corrupting many young minds
10. The Gorrilaz lyric: "Super fast jellyfish going super fast. You can't even see him but you wanna eat him."

Owen Pallett, Local Natives, Miike Snow, and Yann Tiersen also played the fest Sunday. Gary Numan was among those who couldn't. Reviews & pictures from Day One, HERE and Day Two, HERE. Setlists (Thom Yorke and Pavement), pictures, and videos from Day Three, below...

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Glastonbury Lineup Revealed

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:05:00 +0000

Glastonbury, the granddaddy of all British festivals (and, by extension, pretty much every annual outdoor multi-day music festival), has just announced its 2010 lineup. As usual, it's a monster. The fest goes down at Worthy Farm in Pilton, England June 23-27, and the three big headliners are U2, Muse, and Stevie Wonder. With music scattered across 11 stages, there's plenty more to look forward to.

The lineup is too huge to give any kind of comprehensive summary, but it features names like these: the Flaming Lips, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Grizzly Bear, Julian Casablancas, the National, Hot Chip, Dirty Projectors, the Hold Steady, Crystal Castles, Broken Social Scene, Gang of Four, the xx, Beach House, Local Natives, Dizzee Rascal, the Black Keys, Kele from Bloc Party, Os Mutantes, Mos Def, Frightened Rabbit, and the Gaslight Anthem. And there are a few big glaring "TBA" notices on the schedule, so maybe we'll see some more big names.

Check out the full lineup here.

Glastonbury 2010: the lineup in full

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:28:00 +0000

The complete list of the acts appearing at this year's festival

Pyramid stage

Friday 25 June

Dizzee Rascal

Vampire Weekend

Snoop Dogg

Willie Nelson

Corinne Bailey Rae

Femi Kuti

TBA

Saturday 26 June

Muse

Scissor Sisters

Seasick Steve

Jackson Browne

Lightning Seeds

TBA

Sunday 27 June

Stevie Wonder

Faithless

Jack Johnson

Ray Davies

Slash

Norah Jones

TBA

Other stage

Friday

The Flaming Lips

Hot Chip

Florence and the Machine

La Roux

Phoenix

The Courteeners

Gaslight Anthem

The Stranglers

Magic Numbers

Saturday

Pet Shop Boys

Editors

The Cribs

The National

Kate Nash

Imogen Heap

Coheed and Cambria

Reef

Two Door Cinema Club

Sunday

Orbital

lcd soundsystem

MGMT

We Are Scientists

Grizzly Bear

Temper Trap

The Hold Steady

Frightened Rabbit

TBA

John Peel stage

Friday

Groove Armada

The Black Keys

Mumford & Sons

Ellie Goulding

Kele

Bombay Bicycle Club

Tegan and Sara

De Staat

Chapel Club

TBA

Saturday

Jamie T

Foals

The xx

Marina & The Diamonds

Delphic

Field Music

Cymbals Eat Guitars

Sophie Hunger

TBA

Sunday

Ash

Julian Casablancas

Broken Social Scene

Gang of Four

Drums

Holy F***

These New Puritans

Everything Everything

TBA

Dan Mangan

West Holts stage

Friday

Mos Def (with full live band)

Femi Kuti

Breakestra with Chali 2na

Mariachi El Bronx

Tune-Yards

Matthew Herbert Big Band

TBA

Saturday

George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic

Jerry Dammers Spatial aka Orchestra

Os Mutantes

Devendra Banhart

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba

Phenomenal Handclap Band

Brother Ali

Troy Ellis & The Longshots

Sunday

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Toots & the Maytals

Quantic & his Combo Barbaro

Staff Benda Bilili

Dr John

Tunng

The Bees

Dizraeli and the Small Gods (chosen from the Emerging Talent Competition finalists)

The Park stage

Friday

The XX

Broken Bells

Special Guests

The Big Pink

Local Natives

Steve Mason

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Beth Jeans Houghton

Lissie

TBA

Saturday

Midlake

Laura Marling

TBA

Special Guests

Stornoway

Beach House

Strange Boys

Frankie & The Heart Strings

The Ballad of Britain

Peggy Sue

TBA

Sunday

Empire Of The Sun

Dirty Projectors

TBA

Archie Bronson Outfit

TBA

Portico Quartet

Fionn Regan

TBA

Here We Go Magic

Travelling Band

East Dance stage

Friday

DJ Fatboy Slim

Live Chase and Status

DJ Zane Lowe

Live Plan B

DJ Rob da Bank

Live Example

DJ Roger Sanchez

DJ TBA

Saturday

Live N-Dubz

Live Chipmunk

Live Kelis

DJ DJ MistaJam

Live Tinie Tempah

Live Giggs

DJ Yasmin

Live Chiddybang

Live McClean

Live Bashy

Live Donaeo

Live Roll Deep

DJ TBA

Sunday

DJ Above & Beyond

Live Crystal Castles

DJ Filthy Dukes

Live Professor Green

Live Reverend Sound System

Live Crystal Fighters

West Dance stage

Friday

DJ Boys Noise

DJ Simian Mobile Disco

Live Delphic

DJ Fake Blood

DJ Rusko

Live Chromeo

DJ Aeroplane

DJ Boy 8-Bit

DJ Hannah Holland

Saturday

Live Dubfire

DJ Nick Warren

Live Mix Hell

DJ Sander Kleinenberg

Live Banco de Gaia

DJ Riva Starr

Live Neville Staple

Live Dub Pistols

DJ TBA

Live Foreign Beggars

Sunday

Live Magnetic Man

DJ Jackbeats

Live Stanton Warriors

DJ Adam F

Live Blasted Mechanism

DJ Toddla T

Live Alex Metric Live

DJ South Central

Live Jaguar Skills

DJ A1 Bassline

Live Killaflaw

DJ Virus Syndicate

Glade stage

Friday

Sasha

Quivver

Hybrid

Way Out West

Afrobeta

Husky Rescue

TBA

Charles Hazelwood Allstars

Saturday

Sub Focus Live

Freq Nasty

Dreadzone

Don Letts

The Orb

Head Charge

ON u Sound/Sherwood

TBA

Sunday

Levellers

Alabama 3

Arthur Brown

Quintessence

System 7

Casenuva

Ans & Allaby

Inverse Gravity Vehicle

Acoustic stage

Friday

Bootleg Beatles

Alan Price Set

McIntosh Ross

Turin Brakes

Brian Kennedy

Danny & The Champs

Megan Henwood

Cory Chisel

Julie Feeney

Saturday

Christy Moore

Nick Lowe

Imelda May

Al Stewart

Michael Eavis In Conversation

Gandale Murphy & The Slambovian Circus

The Leisure Society

Ellen & The Escapes (competition winner)

John Allen & Band

Sunday

Jackson Browne with David Lindley

Richard Thompson

Loudon Wainwright III

Blues Band

London Community Gospel Choir

Joel Rafael

Robinson

Fisherman's Friend

Mayhew

Avalon stage

Friday

New Model Army

Transglobal Underground

Newton Faulkner

The Woodentops

Lou Rhodes

Goldheart Assembly

Gabby Young & The Other Animals

Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs

Saturday

The Lightning Seeds

Alabama 3 acoustic

Charlie Winston

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

The Unthanks

The Avett Brothers

The Wurzels

Nick Harper

Tom Williams & The Boat

Sunday

Gomez

The Saw Doctors

Imelda May

Judy Collins

Teddy Thompson

Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds

Kirsty Almeida

Ellen & The Escapades

plus special guest

Croissant Neuf stage

Thursday

Kissmet

Curved Air

The Strumpettes

Posh Boy

Friday

TBA

6ixtoys

Steve Knightley

Julien Tulk Band

Undercover Hippy Band

Seth Lakeman

Biggles Wartime Band

Saturday

The Beat

Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer

Hot Feat

The Kevin Brown Trio

The Vagaband

TBA

Dizraeli & The Small Gods

TBA

Sunday

The Baghdaddies

Zen Elephants

Prof Nohair & the Wig Lifters

Corinne Bailey Rae

TBA

The People's String Foundation 27/06

The Theatre and Circus fields presents …

Marcus Brigstocke

Phill Jupitus

BlackSkyWhite Theatre

Arthur Smith

Three Bonzos and a Piano

The Beat

Space Cowboy

Jeremy Hardy

Four Poofs and a Piano

Rufus Hound

Atempo Circus Theatre

John Hegley

Funny Frank Olivier

Andre Vincent

The Stephen Frost Impro All-Stars

Robin Ince

Circo Para Todos

Haggis and Charlie

Poetry & words

Friday

TBA

Penny Ashton

Baba Brinkman

Sabrina Mahfouz

Tony Walsh

Aisle 16

Kat Francois

Ventriloquist

Paula Varjack

Andreattah Chuma

Jonny Fluffypunk

Kate Tempest

Pete the Temp

Poeticat

Helen Gregory and Pete Hunter

Saturday

John Hegley

Paula Varjack

Andreattah Chuma

Attila the Stockbroker

Hollie McNish

Luke Wright

Kate Tempest

Murray Lachlan Young

Sabrina Mahfouz

Bohdan Piasecki

Open mic (hosted by Julian Ramsey-Wade)

Ventriloquist

Jonny Fluffypunk

Sunday

Glastonbury Festival Poetry Slam (hosted by Kat Francois)

Helen Gregory and Benita Johnson

Pete Hunter

Pete the Temp

Jean Binta Breeze

Poeticat

Luke Wright

Jo Bell (Website Poet in Residence)

Bohdan Piasecki

Julian Ramsey-Wade

Penny Ashton

Baba Brinkman

Comperes – Dreadlcokalien and Abbey Oliveira

Queens Head

Thursday

The King Blues

TBA

Chapel Club

Local Natives

Egyptian Hip Hop

Two Door Cinema Club

Howls

My Luminaries

Friday

Good Shoes

TBA

Magic Numbers

The Mystery Jets

Fanfarlo

Detroit Social Club

Tubelord

Tiffany Page

Frank Turner

Fiction Plane

Saturday

Earl Brutus

TBA

Phenomenal Handclap Band

Band Of Skulls

Holy F***

Blood Red Shoes

Here We Go Magic

Cate Le Bon

Lissie

Sunday

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

TBA

Chief

I Am Kloot

Field Music

Goldhawks

The Middle East

Mountain Man

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Coachella Schedule Revealed

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:15:00 +0000

Other than a wicked sunburn, heat stroke, and getting tangled in some hippie's dreadlocks, the most troubling thing about Coachella can be the constant feeling that you're missing the best set of the festival. There are a lot of great acts playing across the desert fest's five stages this weekend, and tough choices must be made. We're here to help you make those choices.

Below you'll find a list of Pitchfork-approved bands set to hit Coachella this year, including can't misses like Jay-Z, Pavement, Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Fever Ray, and the newly added South African hip-hop oddballs Die Antwoord. The full schedule is here.

Friday, April 16

2:00-2:45 Baroness (Mojave Tent)
3:30-4:10 Sleigh Bells (Gobi Tent)
4:20-5:10 Yeasayer (Mojave Tent)
5:45-6:35 She & Him (Outdoor Theater)
6:20-7:20 The Specials (Coachella Stage)
6:55-7:55 Gil-Scott Heron (Gobi Tent)
7:00-7:50 Passion Pit (Outdoor Theater)
7:50-8:40 Them Crooked Vultures (Coachella Stage)
8:05-8:55 Grizzly Bear (Mojave Tent)
8:35-9:25 Echo and the Bunnymen (Outdoor Theater)
9:05-10:00 LCD Soundsystem (Coachella Stage)
9:55-10:45 Vampire Weekend (Outdoor Theater)
10:50 Jay-Z (Coachella Stage)
11:10-12:20 Fever Ray (Mojave Tent)
11:20-12:10 Public Image Limited (Outdoor Theater)

Saturday, April 17

2:45-3:35 Frightened Rabbit (Outdoor Theater)
3:10-3:55 Camera Obscura (Mojave Tent)
3:25-4:10 Girls (Gobi Tent)
4:25-5:15 Beach House (Mojave Tent)
6:25-7:10 The xx (Outdoor Theater)
6:55-7:45 Dirty Projectors (Mojave Tent)
7:35-8:25 Hot Chip (Outdoor Theater)
7:55-8:45 Faith No More (Coachella Stage)
8:50-9:40 MGMT (Outdoor Theater)
9:25-10:10 Major Lazer (Mojave Tent)
10:45-11:35 Flying Lotus (Gobi Tent)
11:05-12:00 The Dead Weather (Outdoor Theater)
11:35-11:55 Die Antwoord (Sahara Tent)
11:50-12:45 Devo (Mojave Tent)

Sunday, April 18

2:10-2:55 Local Natives (Gobi Tent)
2:25-3:10 Owen Pallet (Outdoor Stage)
3:35-4:20 Deerhunter (Outdoor Stage)
3:50-4:40 De La Soul (Coachella Stage)
4:25-5:10 Matt & Kim (Mojave Tent)
4:30-5:15 Florence and the Machine (Gobi Tent)
4:45-5:30 Sunny Day Real Estate (Outdoor Stage)
5:00-5:50 Yo La Tengo (Coachella Stage)
5:35-6:20 Julian Casablancas (Mojave Tent)
5:40-6:30 Charlotte Gainsbourg (Gobi Tent)
5:55-6:45 Jónsi (Outdoor Stage)
6:30-7:20 Spoon (Coachella Stage)
7:00-7:45 Sly Stone (Gobi Tent)
7:10-8:00 Phoenix (Outdoor Theater)
7:45-8:55 Pavement (Coachella Stage)
7:55-8:45 Gary Numan (Mojave Tent)
9:00 Thom Yorke (Outdoor Theater)
9:25-10:15 The Big Pink (Mojave Tent)
10:30 Gorillaz (Coachella Stage)

Modest Mouse playing Williamsburg Waterfront, the Pitchfork Festival (updated full lineup) & other tour dates

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:06:43 +0000

Modest Mouse @ Terminal 5 in March 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)

Modest Mouse will join Faith No More and Nas & Damian Marley (tickets) as one of the acts set to play at Williamsburg Waterfront in Brooklyn this summer. Their Friday, July 23rd show will be ticketed/non-free (like the others mentioned). Tickets go on sale Friday at noon (which is when the just-added Faith no More show goes on sale too).

Modest Mouse's Brooklyn show is a week after they play the Pitchfork Festival which recently updated its lineup. New acts playing the Chicago fest include Big Boi, Major Lazer, Neon Indian, Beach House, Free Energy, Local Natives, Robyn & more. Check that out in full below. Single day tickets are still on sale.

UPDATE: Modest Mouse's Brooklyn show is one day after they play one in NJ.

Modest Mouse will be reissuing their third album, The Moon & Antarctica, on vinyl for its 10th anniversary, on Record Store Day - this Saturday, April 17th. "The album features restored original artwork and replicates the infinite lock groove found in the original vinyl pressings of 2000. The new vinyl reissue includes a download card for the album." All dates the the P4K Fest lineup, below...

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RND UP: 4.10.10

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Another amazing week here at RCRD LBL has come to a close. In case you missed any of the great tracks we released this week, here's the RND UP. This is your chance to catch up on all the new music.

April 9

Acid Washed - Change

Caribou - Odessa (David Wrench's Drumapella)

B U R N S - Kiss N Hold

Rolo Tomassi - Party Wounds (Produced By Diplo)

The Glass - Four Four Letter

Oh Mercy - Lay Everything On Me

April 8

The Sight Below - Fervent

Hey Today! - Toasted

Penguin Prison - The Worse It Gets (Starsmith Remix)

Penguin Prison - The Worse It Gets (RAC Mix)

Prins Thomas - Orkenvandring

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (DJ Dials Lil Wayne Vocal Remix)

April 7

Hooray For Earth - Surrounded By Your Friends

Kill The Noise - Roots

Herve - Zombies (Franzy Scanner Zombie Dandruff Remix)

The Nels Cline Singers - Floored

Trumpeter Swan - Loose Lips

Local Natives - World News

April 6

All Leather - When I Grow Up, I Wanna F**k Like A Mixtape

Tommie Sunshine - 5AM (A Girl Like You) (feat. Oh Snap!!) (Mightyfools Remix)

New Young Pony Club - We Want 2

Ozomatli - 45

Django Django - Skies Over Cairo

April 5

AC Slater - Take You (feat. Ninjasonik) (Tête-À-Tête Remix)

Double Dagger - Pillow Talk

B U R N S - Fourteen

Wolf Parade, The Clipse, Crystal Stilts, The 1990s, the series finale of Lost & other tickets

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:00:19 +0000

Tickets are on sale at 10am for the Wolf Parade show at Terminal 5.

The Clipse are playing Highline Ballroom on May 6th with Ninjasonik. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets go on sale at the same time for a July 22nd "US Air Guitars Finals" show at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are on sale for the Buzzcocks show at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are on sale for the Goldfrapp show at Hammerstein Ballroom.

The final episode of Lost airs Sunday May 23rd. Tickets are on sale if you want to watch it at the Bell House.

Crystal Stilts, The 1990s, and Tanks Amigo plays The Bell House on April 22nd. Tickets are on sale.

The Middle East, Neon Indian, Crystal Castles & Local Natives tickets also went on sale.

Hold Steady & Willie Nelson tickets also went on sale.

Only three tickets left for the Will Johnson & Anders Parker NYC living room show.

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What's going on Saturday?

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:09:34 +0000

Sam Amidon @ Le Poisson Rouge in 2009 (more by Ryan Barkan)

tonight in NYC
* Zola Jesus @ SUNY Purchase
* Mike Birbiglia @ Carolines
* Asobi Seksu @ Japan Society
* Thou @ ABC No Rio
* Particle @ The Bell House
* Janelle Monae @ Joe's Pub
* Lupe Fiasco @ Irving Plaza
* Sam Amidon, Doveman @ 92YTribeca
* Carlos Giffoni @ Issue Project Room
* Mahogany, Arc in Round @ Littlefield
* Will Johnson & Anders Parker in a Living Room
* Freezepop, Plushgun @ Mercury Lounge
* GWAR Crack-a-thon kickoff party
* Baby Dee & guests @ Santos Party House
* The Wedding Present, The Jet Age @ Maxwell's
* Meta & the Cornerstones, Emily King @ Zebulon
* Darcy James Argue's Secret Society @ Galapagos
* The Defibulators, The Woes, Quintus @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Meshell Ndegeocello sings Gil Scott-Heron @ Joe's Pub
* Mahogany, Arc in Round, Long Distance Poison @ Littlefield
* New York Night Train's Soul Clap and Dance-Off @ Glasslands
* MV & EE, Flower-Corsano Duo, Meg Baird, Nonhorse @ Silent Barn
* The Shondes, Alina Simone, Secret History, Jive Grave @ Southpaw
* Care Bears On Fire, Wild Babies, The Truants, Tunnels @ Cake Shop
* White Mystery, QXBXRX, Zbornak, Richie White Orchestra @ Cake Shop
* Nullsleep, Winslow Turner Porter III, Flavorheard @ Knitting Factory
* Wild Yaks, Lil Daggers, Bad Indians, Nude Beach, Estrogen Highs @ Don Pedro
* Dinosaur Feathers, Shark?, Kleenex Girl Wonder, The Capstan Shafts @ Union Hall
* Washed Out, Small Black, Pictureplane, Pyschobuildings @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Weedeater, Gates of Slumber, Black Tusk, Struck by Lightning @ Studio @ Webster Hall
* Roadside Graves, Dusty And The Dreaming Spires, Blair, Common Prayer, The Laureates @ Pianos

The show at Pianos tonight is a release party for Roadside Graves' new You Won't Be Happy with Me EP. Their Aquarium Drunkard labelmate Blair is also on the bill.

Blair started her career in New Orleans, moved to L.A. and now lives in Brooklyn. Aquariam Drunkard says this about her debut, Die Young:

Musically Blair echoes the early days of Liz Phair in the minimalist structure of some of her songs. It's an interesting comparison to make, but it makes sense also as she came of age in Phair's peak as a musician. Within this structure though are moments as scattered and diverse as the Southern shuffle of "Wake Up Shake Up," the girl group shimmy of "Paris France" and the closely cropped haze of "Rampage." The title track even follows the loping, punctuated delivery of Suicaine Gratifaction-era Paul Westerberg. Die Young never abandons its tone and the album keeps a cohesive feel. It always seems to be going somewhere, even if the destination is as uncertain as the lyrics' narrator.

Baby Dee's show at Santos tonight comes after the release of the newly produced A Book of Songs for Anne Marie, which came out March 23rd on Drag City. Little Annie & Paul Wallfisch are also on the bill.

Asobi Seksu perform at Japan Society (333 E 47th St) as part of a 12-hour Open House titled j-CATION. Their show, with opener Me & Mars, starts at 9:30. Tickets will be released first-come, first-served starting at 8pm, and admission to the show is included in the $5 suggested donation for the fest.

Washed Out and Small Black end their tour together with one more NYC show, this time at MHOW. They started the tour with two shows at Mercury Lounge.

White Mystery are featured this week in This Week in Indie (as are The Wedding Present who play Maxwell's tonight).

Sam Amidon and Doveman join forces once again at 92YTribeca tonight. It's a record release party for Sam who we recently interviewed. Video from the Big Ears Fest below.

BrooklynVegen Presents, as BBG said, "a killer four band bill of Weedeater, The Gates of Slumber, Black Tusk, and Struck By Lightning who will lay waste to The Studio at Webster Hall."

Thou play ABC No Rio earlier in the day. Check out the interview we just posted with the band.

The Middle East, Neon Indian, Crystal Castles & Local Natives tickets recently went on sale.

Drive-By Truckers recently stopped by Sirius-XM to record a perormance. Video from that below...

We recently uploaded a video of Olof Arnalds performing at SXSW. Check that out below...

What else?

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The Middle East, Neon Indian, Crystal Castles & Local Natives tickets

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:49:45 +0000

Tickets are on sale at noon for The Middle East show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets are on sale at noon for the Local Natives show at Governors Island.

Tickets are on sale at noon for the Crystal Castles show at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale at noon for the Neon Indian show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Speaking of Neon Indian & Music Hall of Williamsburg, Alan Palomo was spotted checking out LCD Soundsystem at the venue last night.

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Big Boi, Wolf Parade, Robyn Join Pitchfork Music Festival Lineup

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0000

This year's Pitchfork Music Festival comes to Chicago's Union Park July 16-18, and the lineup is already ridiculously stacked: Pavement, Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem, Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene, Raekwon, and plenty more. And now it's time to finish announcing the artists that will play this year's festival.

OutKast rapper Big Boi, Montreal indie supergroup Wolf Parade, Swedish pop queen Robyn, Diplo and Switch's dancehall crew Major Lazer, dreampop duo Beach House, and art-punk veterans Liars all join the Pitchfork Festival lineup. Rounding out the bill, we've also got WHY?, Neon Indian, the Tallest Man on Earth, Delorean, Real Estate, Free Energy, Surfer Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Local Natives, Washed Out, Kurt Vile, Best Coast, jj, and Netherfriends.

Single-day tickets for all three days are still available! Buy them over at Ticketweb. Below, you'll find a list of all the acts playing the festival, broken down by day.

Here's the full, final lineup:

Friday, July 16:

-- Modest Mouse
-- Broken Social Scene
-- Robyn
-- Liars
-- El-P
-- The Tallest Man on Earth
-- Sharon Van Etten

Saturday, July 17:

Sunday, July 18:

as you probably noticed, Bowery Presents does shows at Governors Island now...

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:13:29 +0000

view from the ferry in 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)

First Passion Pit & Tokyo Police Club, then M.I.A./Sleigh Bells, and then Local Natives (and I just noticed Michael Franti & Spearhead w/ Trombone Shorty). All of a sudden Bowery Presents is doing shows on Governors Island, a space that was booked last year by AEG & Highline Ballroom. Well, Highline Ballroom is still involved. I found this press release that was issued in February:

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Wolf Parade, Crystal Castles & Local Natives tickets

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:57:07 +0000

Tickets go on AmEx presale @ 11am for the Wolf Parade show at Terminal 5.

Tickets go on AmEx presale @ 11am for the Crystal Castles show at Terminal 5.

Tickets go on AmEx presale @ 11am for the Local Natives show at Governors Island.

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Local Natives selling out shows, add Governors Island show ++ more pics from Austin, an MP3

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:15:42 +0000

photos by Bryan Bruchman

DOWNLOAD: Local Natives - Sun Hands (MP3)

""Sometimes - like tonight, this place is sold-out - I get in awe," Kelcey admits. Yet it's only when you delve into Local Natives' background, particularly their astonishing emergence over the last 12 months, that you can fully appreciate why they seem so unfamiliar with and bewildered by the overwhelming support they've encountered so far on the tour. "Last year we did a national tour [in the U.S.] with two other LA bands. We did shitty venues, drawing in 10-30 people a night."
It's no surprise then that the thought of a headline tour would have been originally daunting to them, let alone a headline tour on this side of the Atlantic (they've only visited the UK on one other occasion). This feeling still lingers, Andy declares ominously: "We don't know the venues. We don't know the cities. We don't even know if people are going to show up. I'm still really nervous about that." But their label and tour manager will tell them not to be: across the 12 cities they'll visit, sold-out crowds are set to become the norm for Local Natives." [LeedsMusicScene]

Local Natives already have two NYC shows at Bowery Ballroom set for May 6th and 7th. Both of those shows, part of their tour with Suckers, are sold out. The good news is they added another NYC show. The bad news is it's not at Bowery Ballroom and not in May. Like Passion Pit & Tokyo Police Club, Local Natives will play a show at The Beach @ Governors Island this summer. Tickets for the Saturday, August 7th show go on AmEx presale at 11am. General sale starts Friday (4/9) at noon.

In Austin for SXSW, one of Local Natives' shows was BrooklynVegan/M For Montreal day party at the Galaxy Room on Saturday, March 20th. A second set of pictures (first ones are here), and a video from that show, continue below...

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RCRD OF THE DAY: Local Natives - World News

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:30:34 +0000

(Photo: Tom Oxley)

Indie-band-to-watch Local Natives provide yet another swoon-worthy arrangement in "World News," an achingly beautiful folk tune. This is the latest offering from the inimitable L.A. quintet's debut, which swells with Afro-pop, wide-eyed lyricism and sun-spun chants. Gorilla Manor can be snapped up through Frenchkiss now, and the band will soon be embarking on an epic spring tour starting in Coachella and somehow ending in London. Catch 'em if you can.

Local Natives - World News

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AROUND THE WEB: 04/06/2010

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:46:06 +0000

(Photo: Bryan Bush)

Toro Y Moi hit the bar with The FADER.

Drowned In Sound met High Places.

self-titled solicited an exclusive mix from The Sight Below.

The Tripwire mulled the implausibility of the new Whigs video.

Local Natives stripped it down for Pitchfork's Tunnelvision series.

FACT rang up Sleigh Bells.

No Age scored a new film, played it live, then posted an MP3 of the performance on their blog.

And Record Makers (home to Sebstien Tellier, Acid Washed, Turzi, and many others) are celebrating their tenth birthday with a new iPhone app and a contest to win a week's vacation in Paris.

Stream: Local Natives Live on KCRW

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:27:40 +0000

After returning from SXSW, people ask you, “What did you love?” You’ve seen so many bands and now it was two weeks ago and you go, “I saw Scott Weiland wearing a scarf on a really hot day. That was awesome,” until the back of your brain pushes up a memory from some midday show [...]

Disgraced former Glasgow council leader Stephen Purcell admits cocaine use and fear of blackmail plot

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:02:42 +0000

One of Labour's brightest stars in Scotland reveals alcohol abuse and thoughts of suicide

The disgraced former leader of Glasgow council has admitted using cocaine and said fear of a blackmail plot helped push him into an emotional breakdown, thoughts of suicide and alcohol abuse.

Stephen Purcell, seen as one of Labour's brightest political stars and a future leader for the Scottish parliament, shocked Glasgow and his party by resigning suddenly as council leader earlier this month.

An admitted workaholic who oversaw substantial internal reforms at the council, Purcell checked himself briefly into a rehabilitation clinic, citing stress and exhaustion, before resigning as a Labour councillor as well.

His departure sparked a surge of allegations about his links to wealthy party backers and their lucrative civic contracts, and claims of a cover-up of his drugs misuse, seriously undermining Labour's pre-general election planning and its attempts to retake the Glasgow East Westminster seat from the Scottish National party.

As the SNP confirmed it will demand a formal inquiry by Glasgow council later this week, Gordon Brown publicly praised Purcell in an attempt to kill off the controversy.

The prime minister told the Herald that Purcell's resignation was "a personal sadness, a tragedy" and urged voters to focus on the city's future and its successful regeneration.

In an interview with the Sun, Purcell, 37, admitted using cocaine "no more than half a dozen times" after being given it at a party. He confirmed that two detectives from the Scottish serious crime and drug enforcement agency visited him privately to warn him he was at risk of blackmail after a video of him taking the drug came to light.

Purcell said this revelation added to his sense of loneliness and pressure, and his increasing dependency on alcohol. He often drank alone. That added to his deep depressions. "My head was literally bursting with the pressure," he said.

"For the past 12 months I have had increasing feelings of loneliness. These were particularly heightened if I had too much time on my hands, such as during holidays, Christmas and new year."

By late February, he was unable to "shake it off". That weekend, his depression was so intense he considered suicide and decided to resign, checking himself into a clinic in Peeblesshire and volunteering to take depression and alcohol-substitute medication.

After his resignation on Tuesday 2 March, Purcell went to Australia and then to Ireland to escape a significant controversy that erupted in Glasgow over his private life, the council's own handling of the affair and Labour's links to powerful businessmen in the city.

"The problem was inside my head," he said. "I had utterly convinced myself I had a drink problem and that I could not cope with the embarrassment of it coming out that I had used cocaine. I was letting down my family, my constituents; [the] personal guilt was immense. I told my family about my drinking. [I] was basically having an emotional breakdown."

Purcell denied showing any favouritism to Labour funders in awarding council contracts, with particular reference to Willie Haughey, an influential businessman and council contractor. "I make absolutely no apology for our reputation as an administration that is business friendly," he said. "I have never once seen a hint of corruption. Regulations are tougher than people think. Everything is audited and legalled."

The SNP group leader in Glasgow, James Dornan, and the MP for Glasgow East, John Mason, said Purcell's disclosures that he told council colleagues of his cocaine use had to be investigated. Dornan will table a council motion calling for an inquiry later this week.

Strathclyde police and the Scottish public spending authority Audit Scotland last week rejected SNP demands for an inquiry into Purcell's conduct and council contracts, but Mason insisted the police think again.

"This interview confirms not simply that he used cocaine but had a very real fear that gangsters had a video of him and could blackmail him," Mason said. "This goes beyond the individual and brings in questions of propriety in the council that are of genuine concern to my constituents.

"Continuing concerns in the newspapers over council contracts, connections to city businessmen and now gangsters are legitimate points that should be investigated."

Dornan added: "Councillor Purcell's resignation has simply exposed the cracks in Labour's façade. "The questions facing the Labour administration go well beyond Steven Purcell's personal situation."

Severin Carrell

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Roky Erickson/Okkervil River, Local Natives, Think About Life, Duchess Says, others @ Galaxy Room (BV/MfM day party) - pics

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:00:45 +0000

words by Bill Pearis & (most of the) photos by Tim Griffin

Will Sheff & Roky Erickson

"Welcome to Montreal -- how do you like the Weather?" - Martin Cesar, Think About Life.

After three lovely days of sunny, mild weather, the skies went grey and cold for the last day of SXSW, Saturday, March 20th, with temperatures dropping to around 45 degrees. Almost no one seemed prepared for it, judging by the throngs of under-dressed shivering all over town. With a lot of the Austin venues being outdoor, it especially hurt. Our final party of a very busy week of parties was a free badge-less official SXSW event that we did with the M for Montreal folks, at the two-stage Galaxy Room (formerly Radio Room & Bourbon Rocks). The main stage was outside -- under a tent, which helped just a little -- and while temperatures were low, spirits were high and it was maybe the most fun I had all week.

My favorite set of the day came early. Think About Life are so much fun live, so much genuine positivity, it's hard to be in a bad mood with them on stage. An instant hangover cure. I think this was the first time a lot of the audience had ever seen them play, if the number of people who asked me who they were was any indication. At one point singer Martin Cesar left the stage as if their set was over, only to appear in the middle of the crowd dancing, hyping people up. That they didn't do "Johanna" is my only complaint. NYers can see them on April 27 when Think About Life play Mercury Lounge. It's part of a fairly extensive U.S. tour, do go see them.

I was also super-pumped to see The Besnard Lakes whose new album The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night is pretty fantastic. Specifically, I wanted to hear its epic opener, "Like the Ocean, Like the Innocent," and have it knock me back. Like a lot of Montreal bands, The Besnard Lakes' line-up ebbs and flows. Theirs does so around the core of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. I've seen them seven strong before, but here they were a lean mean quartet and did not disappoint. They're on tour in May, including a 5/28 show at Bowery Ballroom.

Duchess Says

Another set I knew would be fun was Montreal's Duchess Says who played one of our CMJ day parties last year. While their more aggressive take on Devo-style protopunk is fun, it's all about singer Annie Claude who looks very cute and innocent... until the music starts. She shrieks, jumps in the audience, tackles people, pulls them to the floor, and causes general mayhem. It's more mischief than menace though. There are lots of other singers who do similar things, but never anything quite like her. After you've seen them once, part of the fun is watching other people experience them for the first time. The inside room was packed to the gills (it was warmer there). My favorite part of the show had her sitting down in the middle of the audience, methodically pulling people down with her, draping their arms over her into a giant pile of people. There's video at the bottom of this post.

The other major highlight for me was Roky Erickson with Okkervill River. I'd never seen him before and this was certainly a great live introduction to someone whose music I've loved for a long time. Will Sheff produced Roky's new album (first in 14 years) and Okkervill was his backing band on it, so the set was tight, rocking and just sounded fantastic. Roky was in great form too, and we got a few 13th Floor Elevators nuggets in there, as well as "Starry Eyes," one of my favorites of his solo material. They tour in May including a show at Webster Hall.

And there was lots more: the great Wye Oak kicked off the party with a lovely set despite cold fingers; Jason Collett was a class act with superbly-crafted country-pop (see video of his set below); Crystal Antlers filled in for BEAST who couldn't make it; Andrew WK was in full Meatloaf mode with a set of piano ballads; Plants and Animals were lush and harmony-laden; metal legends Voivod showed they've still got it; and a percussion-heavy set from L.A.'s Local Natives was probably the biggest draw of the day -- they were excellent.

Local Natives

Somehow I entirely missed sets by Holy Fuck (who I heard were great) and Suckers (who I've seen before many times here in NYC). A last minute addition, Nardwuar was there too, providing funny, heavily-researched band introductions as only he can. It was a great, if cold, day. Stay tuned for his video interview of Will and Roky.

Thanks to everyone who helped put this all together, and to our sponsors. More pictures and videos from the whole day below...

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Marina & The Diamonds, Local Natives and Q-Tip added to Øya Festival line-up

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:53:12 +0000

Acts to join Pavement and Iggy And The Stooges at the Norwegian event

Premiere: Suckers: "Black Sheep"

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0000

MP3:> Suckers: "Black Sheep"

The new single from hotly tipped Modest Mouse devotees Suckers is called "Black Sheep". Feel free to stream or download it above. The track is featured on the Brooklyn band's forthcoming debut LP, Wild Smile, due out on Frenchkiss June 8. Suckers are heading out on a massive North American tour with label mates Local Natives soon; check here for dates. And if you like "Black Sheep", you can support it financially when it goes up on iTunes March 30.

PHOTOS: Levi's/FADER Fort 2010

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:18:05 +0000

(The Drums / Photo: Loren Wohl)

The Levi's/FADER Fort was one of our favorite spots in Austin this year, and here are some snaps highlighting the great music we saw there. Hit up my blog for more photos.

Gallery: Levi's/FADER Fort 2010

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Daytrotter Launches Record Barn Store

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0000

As many folks know, the website Daytrotter is a go-to destination for live recordings from favorite bands. Daytrotter tapes live sessions at their studios in Rock Island, Illinois and posts the results for free download and streaming online. But now, they're getting into the business of selling music, offering better-sounding versions of Daytrotter Sessions for purchase.

At Daytrotter's Record Barn, you can buy lossless files of various Daytrotter Sessions for $4 a pop. And yes, you can still download the 128 kbps MP3s for free. Some of those bands have also opted to sell their catalog releases as digital downloads on Daytrotter. Artists participating in the Record Barn include Of Montreal, the Antlers, the Walkmen, the Dodos, Here We Go Magic, Local Natives, Japandroids, My Brightest Diamond, and many more.

Click over here for all the details.

The Antlers Head Up Frenchkiss Showcase at SXSW

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:01:06 +0000

Filed under: Concerts and Tours, News

To say that Frenchkiss Records has had a good year would be an understatement. While Passion Pit's debut LP 'Manners' might have been the label's biggest mainstream hit, the heart of this year's success undoubtedly comes from the Antlers. Their album 'Hospice,' a concept record about a hospice nurse's relationship with a patient, was one of 2009's most musically and emotionally powerful releases, and Friday night's Frenchkiss/mom + pop SXSW showcase in the backyard of the Galaxy Room was a fitting celebration.

Following sets from Frenchkiss labelmates Local Natives and Suckers, as well as mom + pop Tegan and Sara protégés An Horse, the Antlers took the stage at midnight, although the time was quickly forgotten once they started.

Photos: Pitchfork/Windish Austin Bash

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:55:00 +0000

Photos by Erez Avissar and Sanchez and Kitahara; Above: Surfer Blood by Erez Avissar

Now something of a SXSW tradition, we've once again teamed up with our friends at the Windish Agency to present the fifth annual Pitchfork/Windish Austin Party.

The party went down yesterday afternoon at Emo's (603 Red River St.), and featured 12 bands on both the outdoor stage and the Emo's Jr. indoor stage: Neon Indian, Japandroids, Real Estate, Memory Tapes, Surfer Blood, Local Natives, Best Coast, Dâm-Funk, Washed Out, Free Energy, Javelin, and Warpaint. Oh yeah, and GWAR showed up.

Below the jump, check out a selection of our many photos from the bash, and follow the link to check out all the full-size shots in our photo book.

Japandroids by Sanchez and Kitahara

Dâm-Funk by Erez Avissar

Free Energy by Sanchez and Kitahara

Surfer Blood by Erez Avissar

The Crowd by Erez Avissar

GWAR by Erez Avissar

Austin, TX Panorama by Sanchez and Kitahara

Emo's

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She And Him, Local Natives perform at day two of SXSW

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:48:45 +0000

Superchunk perform as 'surprise guests'

Click to download: Austin powers

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:10:01 +0000

Chris Salmon helps you find the best of the SXSW festival

It's that time of year when a large chunk of the UK music industry decamps to Austin, Texas for the South by South West (SXSW) festival. Most are drawn to the event, which began on Wednesday, in the hope of either seeing or being the next big thing. But those of us left back in Blighty can keep our fingers quite firmly on the festival's pulse by following it online.

The best place to start is the official site, sxsw.com/music. They've abandoned their previous policy of giving away free MP3s from hundreds of the acts performing the event, but that has been replaced by a Music Player, which vaguely recreates the feel of stumbling between Austin's multiple venues by delivering a random, continuous steam of tracks from participating acts. That should help provide you with the all-important SXSW discovery that nobody else has heard of. For the record, mine is spirited Colombian singer Sol Okarina.

Of course, you'll also need to have a strong opinion on the acts everyone's talking about. To give you a head start, Musicmetric, a London-based company which provides music web analysis, has put together a list of the 20 acts with the most "online buzz and fan activity" ahead of the event, complete with links to hear them online, at bit.ly/mumesxsw. The Temper Trap, who top the list, were actually one of 2009's big SXSW breakthroughs, but it does also spotlight several less widely known acts, including punchy LA funk/soul collective Orgone and pleasingly dreamy Icelanders Seabear.

Other acts likely to crop up in SXSW dispatches include Noush Kaugen, a London-based indie-rocker who has managed to become Twitter's most popular unsigned act, with 1.2 million followers. Last week she was invited to Twitter's San Francisco HQ to play to staff. You can watch a video of her performance at noushskaugen.com.

Also likely to attract scrutiny at the festival is Swedish singer-songwriter Jonna Lee. She has replaced Christina Aguilera as the artist most likely to be behind the brilliantly creepy viral videos which continue to appear at youtube.com/iamamiwhoami. The latest has provided some crucial clues, including the apparent appearance of Lee's organ and backing band, as explained by an amateur sleuth in a video at bit.ly/iamjonna. SXSW might just provide the stage for her big reveal.

There is also plenty of live online coverage of the festival itself. The excellent National Public Radio is streaming full shows from bands including Spoon, Local Natives and the Walkmen via npr.org/music, while local station KUT is broadcasting news and music throughout the festival at sxsw.kut.org. You can even watch some excellent videos of acts performing acoustically around Austin, at IFC.com/sxsw.

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SXSW 2010: Local Natives, Live In Concert

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:44:00 +0000

The Los Angeles band's sound synthesizes vocal harmonies influenced by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (or the more contemporary Fleet Foxes) with the reverberant rhythms of Afrobeat, indie rock and chamber pop. Local Natives performed at NPR Music's daytime party in Austin, Texas, on March 18.

Local Natives: Lost Love In A Lighthearted Romp

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000

Local Natives' "Airplanes" takes about four seconds to announce itself as the lighthearted romp it is; that's about how long it takes for the band to start booing its own piano player. As if reminding itself to perk up, "Airplanes" quickly self-corrects into a jaunty wonder, as its pleading chorus ("I want you back") hurtles along with something resembling school spirit.

The Pitchfork Guide to SXSW 2010

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:55:00 +0000

It seems like only yesterday we were enjoying the Austin sun while taking in too much BBQ and trying to catch dozens (hundreds?) of the world's finest and/or most breathlessly hyped new bands. But that was an entire year ago. Which can only mean one thing: SXSW 2010 is upon us.

Because the endless list of artists, showcases, movies, panels, and unofficial parties can be harrowing even for war-torn vets, we've compiled our annual Pitchfork SXSW Guide to help you skip the duds and make your Austin experience nothing short of spectacular. Below you'll find a bunch of P4k-approved goings-on, including big gigs with Spoon and Broken Social Scene, an interview with Lemmy, and a house show with Real Estate. SXSW is weird like that.

And don't forget about Pitchfork's own events in Austin. On Friday afternoon at Emo's (603 Red River St.), we've teamed up with our friends at the Windish Agency for the fifth annual Pitchfork/Windish Austin Party, featuring set from Neon Indian, Surfer Blood, Japandroids, Memory Tapes, Local Natives, and more. On Saturday night, our official SXSW showcase at the Scoot Inn (1308 East 4th St.) features Sleigh Bells, Titus Andronicus, the Very Best, Here We Go Magic, and more.

The Pitchfork news staff is headed down to Austin as you read this, so our regular news coverage will be reduced until Monday, March 22. Watch this space for pictures and reviews of the very best acts (we hope) at this year's SXSW throughout the rest of the week. And stay tuned to the Pitchfork Twitter for more.

SXSW guide below:

Wednesday, March 17

Films

This Movie Is Broken: Narrative film featuring Broken Social Scene - Paramount (2 p.m.)
The Weird World of Blowfly - G-Tech (4:30 p.m.)

Panels

** SXSW Interview: Lemmy - Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC

Showcases

** NPR: The Walkmen, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Broken Bells, Spoon - Stubb's
** Warp: Nice Nice, Born Ruffians, Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus - Phoenix
** Time Out New York: Keepaway, Javelin, Andrew W.K. - Buffalo Billiards
** Rough Trade: The Strange Boys, Basia Bulat, Warpaint, the Morning Benders - Emo's Jr.
** BrooklynVegan: Here We Go Magic, Bowerbirds, Califone, Serena-Maneesh - Club de Ville
** Stones Throw: Dam-Funk, J Rocc, Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf - Speakeasy Kabaret

Unofficial Shows

** BrooklynVegan: The Rural Alberta Advantage, the Morning Benders, Japandroids, Titus Andronicus, the Black Angels, GZA, Fucked Up - Emo's
** IFC: The Walkmen, Drive-By Truckers, Neon Indian - IFC Crossroads House
** IAMSOUND: Suckers, Fool's Gold, Men, jj, Sleigh Bells, SALEM - Malverde
** Terrorbird/Force Field: Inlets, Beach Fossils, Neon Indian, Those Darlins, Real Estate, the Rural Alberta Advantage - Red 7

Thursday, March 18

Film

This Movie Is Broken: Narrative film featuring Broken Social Scene - G-Tech (4:45 p.m.)
Rise, Ride, Roar: David Byrne concert film - Paramount (12 p.m.)

Panels

** Merge Makes Noise: Michael Azerrad, Mac McCaughan, Laura Ballance - Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC
** SXSW Keynote: Smokey Robinson: Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC
** Does Rock and Roll Belong in a Museum?: Lenny Kaye, Ann Powers - Austin Convention Center, Room 15
** Why Hasn't the Record Industry Sued Girl Talk? - Austin Convention Center, Room 13A

Showcases

** The Besnard Lakes, the Soft Pack, Drive-By Truckers, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene - Stubb's
** Young Turks: First Aid Kit, SALEM, jj, Holy Fuck, GZA, the xx - Mohawk Patio
** Sub Pop/Hardly Art: Jaill, Happy Birthday, Male Bonding, Avi Buffalo, Dum Dum Girls, the Ruby Suns - Galaxy Room Backyard
** Merge: Let's Wrestle, Radar Bros, She & Him, Wye Oak, Lou Barlow, the Love Language - Cedar Street Courtyard
** Hometapes: Collections of Colonies of Bees, Pattern Is Movement, Bear in Heaven - Mohawk

Unofficial Shows

** Jay Reatard Tribute: Mickey, Shannon & the Clams, Hunx & His Punx, Wizzard Sleeve, Digital Leather, River City Tanlines, Cheap Time - Beerland
** House Show: Pocahaunted, Beach Fossils, Real Estate, Woods - 2908 Cole Street
** Insound: Delorean, Surfer Blood, Small Black, Vivian Girls, Liars - Club de Ville
** Fader: Best Coast, Neon Indian, Local Natives, Chew Lips, the Morning Benders, Fucked Up - Fader Fort
** True Panther Sounds: Rainbow Bridge, Tamaryn, Teengirl Fantasy, Hunx & His Punx, the Morning Benders, the Magic Kids, Tanlines, Lemonade, Delorean, Shannon & the Clams - Ms. Bea's
** Rocksteady/Death + Taxes: Eternal Summers, Best Coast, Japandroids, No Age - Red Fez
** Consequence of Sound/Sled Island: The Rural Alberta Advantage, Surfer Blood, Titus Andronicus - The Compound Republic Live
** Other Music: Califone, the Antlers, Real Estate, Dum Dum Girls, the xx, Sharon Ban Etten, Julianna Barwick, Holly Miranda, Zola Jesus - The French Legation Museum
** Urban Outfitters: Toro y Moi, Warpaint, the Golden Filter, Free Energy, Memory Tapes, Washed Out - Urban Outfitters

Friday, March 19

Films

Some Days Are Better Than Others: Narrative film starring Carrie Brownstein and James Mercer - G-Tech (7:15 p.m.)
The Weird World of Blowfly - G-Tech (9 p.m.)
Lemmy - Paramount (9:15 p.m.)

Panels

** CBGB Stories: Clem Burke (Blondie), Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) - Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC
** What Becomes a Legend Most?: Lenny Kaye, Andrew W.K. - Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC
** Women Write Women's Experiences in Music: Featuring Pitchfork contributor Amanda Petrusich - Austin Convention Center, Room 15

Showcases

** Band of Horses, jj, Holly Miranda, the xx - Central Presbyterian Church
** Frenchkiss/Mom + Pop: Local Natives, Suckers, the Antlers, Les Savy Fav - Galaxy Room Backyard
** The Billions Corporation: Plants and Animals, Quasi, Shearwater, Liars - Antone's
** Mexican Summer/Gorilla vs Bear: The Young, Weekend, Pearl Harbor, Tamaryn, Real Estate, Memory Tapes, Washed Out - Klub Krucial
** Cake Shop/Slumberland: Reading Rainbow, Summer Cats, Grass Widow, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Mohawk
** WFMU/Aquarius: Liturgy, Moon Duo, Dengue Fever - Encore Patio
** Ecstatic Peace: Thurston Moore, Viv Albertine, Talk Normal - Red 7
** The Windish Agency: The Golden Filter, Bachelorette, Delorean, Flosstradamus, Matias Aguayo, Fool's Gold, the Very Best - Emo's
** Panache Booking: Signals, Videohippos, So Cow, the Coathangers, Golden Triangle, Julianna Barwick, Aa - Beauty Bar
** PPL/NME: Active Child, Smith Westerns, the Drums - Latitude 30
** Green Label Sound: Classixx, Tanlines, Neon Indian, Theophilus London, Ra Ra Riot - Club de Ville
** Anticon.: Dosh, Tobacco, Themselves - Barbarella

Unofficial Shows

** Pitchfork/Windish: Warpaint, Local Natives, Javelin, Free Energy, Real Estate, Washed Out, Dam Funk, Best Coast, Memory Tapes, Surfer Blood, Neon Indian, Japandroids - Emo's
** IFC: Broken Social Scene - IFC Crossroads House
** Mexican Summer/Gorilla vs Bear: Mountain Man, the Sandwitches, the Bitters, Dum Dum Girls, the Golden Filter, Best Coast - Klub Krucial
** Village Voice: Surfer Blood, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the xx, Superchunk - La Zona Rosa
** Fader: Harlem, Japandroids, the Drums, the Very Best, Marina & the Diamonds, Fool's Gold - Fader Fort
** Woodsist: Sun Araw, Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, Happy Birthday, Nodzzz, Woods, Vivian Girls, Lovvers, Pocahaunted, Pearl Harbor, Abe Vigoda - Ms. Bea's
** Other Music: First Aid Kit, Toro y Moi, Woods, Talk Normal, Memory Tapes, Mayer Hawthorne, Dam Funk, Thurston Moore - The French Legation Museum
** I Guess I'm Floating: Tanlines, Washed Out, Lemonade, Toro y Moi, Small Black, Javelin, Ruby Suns, Le Loup, Beach Fossils, Oh No! Oh My!, Holiday Shores - Lovejoy's

Saturday, March 20

Films

Rise, Ride, Roar: David Byrne concert film - G-Tech (5 p.m.)

Panels

** I Never Travel Far Without a Little Big Star: Andy Hummel (Big Star), Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow - Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABC
** Labels of Love: Gerard Cosloy (Matador), Dean Spunt (No Age, PPM), Slim Moon (Kill Rock Stars), Kris Gillespie (Domino) - Austin Convention Center, Room 16B

Showcases

** Pitchfork: Sleigh Bells, Titus Andronicus, the Smith Westerns, Here We Go Magic, Pictureplane, the Very Best, Bear in Heaven, Freddie Gibbs - Scoot Inn
** Woodsist: The Bitters, Fergus & Geronimo, Moon Duo, Woods, Real Estate, the Fresh & Onlys - Red 7
** Fucked Up and Friends: Katie Stelmanis, Crystal Antlers, Titus Andronicus, J Mascis, Fucked Up - Red 7 Patio
** Rhapsody Rocks SXSW: Free Energy, Memory Tapes, YACHT, Major Lazer - Cedar Street Courtyard
** Stampede Management/Cashmere Agency Present Respect The West: Kurupt, Murs, DJ Quik - Club de Ville
** Agency Group/Rhymesayers: Yelawolf, Fashawn, Wiz Khalifa, Freeway and Jake One
** Panache Booking: Small Black, Turbo Fruits, Thee Oh Sees, Surfer Blood, Dam-Funk, YellowFever, the Sandwitches, Lovvers - Mohawk Patio
** PPM: Best Coast, Abe Vigoda, No Age - Barbarella

Unofficial Shows

** Fader: Memory Tapes, Tamaryn, Dam-Funk, SALEM, Dum Dum Girls, Washed Out, Real Estate, Yelawolf, Sleigh Bells, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Fader Fort
** BrooklynVegan: Wye Oak, Jason Collett, the Besnard Lakes, Think About Life, Holy Fuck, Suckers, Plants and Animals, Andrew W.K., Local Natives, Roky Erickson and Okkervil River - Galaxy Room
** MOG: Javelin, Free Energy, Dum Dum Girls, Freelance Whales, Rye Rye, Real Estate, the Antlers, Broken Bells, Demolished Thoughts (Thurston Moore, J Mascis, Andrew W.K.), the Black Keys - Mohawk
** Todd P: So Cow, Vivian Girls, Moon Duo, Toro y Moi, Small Black, Thee Oh Sees, Surfer Blood, Dam Funk - Mohawk
** Press Here/Domino: Karen Elson, Sweet Apple, Yacht, Frightened Rabbit - The French Legation Museum
** MWTX: Let's Wrestle, We Were Promised Jetpacks, the Smith Westerns, Avi Buffalo, the Soft Pack, Adam Green, the Dutchess & the Duke, Japanther, Fool's Gold, Holy Fuck, Dam Funk, Japandroids, Neon Indian, Crystal Antlers, Fucked Up, Andrew W.K., Gwar - Mess With Texas Lot
** Urban Outfitters: Acrylics, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Local Natives, Japandroids, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Surfer Blood - Urban Outfitters

Pitchfork Invades Austin!

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:30:00 +0000

For a large version of this poster, click here. Graphic by Delicious Design League

Pitchfork is throwing two big parties in Austin, Texas on March 19 and 20. Come hang with us!

We've once again teamed up with our friends at the Windish Agency to present the fifth annual Pitchfork/Windish Austin Party. The party will go down at Emo's (603 Red River St.) on Friday March 19 from 12 - 6 p.m. It features 12 bands on both the outdoor stage and the Emo's Jr. indoor stage. The party is free and open to the public, but be warned: Lines get long if you don't show up early. Thanks to our friends at Ticketweb for helping out.

Bands playing the Pitchfork/Windish Austin Bash include Neon Indian, Japandroids, Real Estate, Memory Tapes, Surfer Blood, Local Natives, Best Coast, and more.

On Saturday, March 20, from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m., we'll kick off the first ever official Pitchfork SXSW Showcase at the Scoot Inn (1308 East 4th St.). This is a full-on SXSW show, so badges and wristbands will be free, with a very limited number of tickets possibly available at the door. (Stay tuned to SXSW.com for more info.) The showcase lineup features Titus Andronicus, Sleigh Bells, the Very Best, Bear in Heaven, and more.

Check out the lineups and set times for both shows below. See you in Austin!

The Pitchfork/Windish Austin Bash (Emo's, March 19):

12:00 - Warpaint (Emo's Jr.)
12:30 - Local Natives (Emo's)
1:00 - Javelin (Emo's Jr.)
1:30 - Free Energy (Emo's)
2:00 - Real Estate (Emo's Jr.)
2:30 - Washed Out (Emo's)
3:00 - Dâm-Funk (Emo's Jr.)
3:30 - Best Coast (Emo's)
4:00 - Memory Tapes (Emo's Jr.)
4:30 - Surfer Blood (Emo's)
5:00 - Neon Indian (Emo's Jr.)
5:30 - Japandroids (Emo's)

The Pitchfork SXSW Showcase (The Scoot Inn, March 20):

7:30 - Titus Andronicus
8:15 - The Smith Westerns
9:00 - Here We Go Magic
9:45 - Pictureplane
10:30 - The Very Best
11:15 - Bear in Heaven
12:00 - Freddie Gibbs
12:45 - Sleigh Bells

For a large version of this poster, click here. Graphics by Erez Avissar

Suckers kicking off tour to SXSW, announce Frenchkiss signing, added to Local Natives spring tour (dates)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:11:10 +0000

Brooklyn four-piece SUCKERS will be releasing their debut full-length, Wild Smile, on June 8 through NYC tastemaker label Frenchkiss Records (Les Savy Fav, The Dodos, Local Natives, The Antlers and more). The album was recorded, produced and mixed in NYC by Chris Zane (Passion Pit/Walkmen), except for "It Gets Your Body Movin'" (produced by Anand Wilder and Chris Moore) and "Save Your Love For Me" (Chris Moore), and was mastered by Joe Laporta (Vampire Weekend). SUCKERS will also be joining labelmates Local Natives for tour dates in May - scroll down for dates.
The first single from the album, yet to be announced, will be released in April. In the meantime, check out the SUCKERS' cover of The Raveonettes track "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)" from their album In and Out of Control (out now on VICE Music).

Coincidentally, Suckers will also share a bill with Local Natives at the BrooklynVegan/M For Montreal SXSW day party (3/20 @ Galaxy Room). Not coincidentally, they'll share a bill with Local Natives at the Frenckiss showcase happening at the same venue the night before.

Suckers' pre-SXSW tour with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers kicks off at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on March 10th. Tickets are still on sale. Suckers' tour with Local Natives kicks off April 22nd and hits NYC for two now-SOLD OUT shows at Bowery Ballroom. New album tracklist and all dates below...

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Suckers Announce Debut Album

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:35:00 +0000

Photo by Sam Fleischner

Since we saw Brooklyn indie rockers Suckers play an impressive set at last year's SXSW, they've gone onto take an increasingly familiar path-- release an EP with at least one great song, play shows with MGMT, do a Daytrotter session, sign to Frenchkiss.

Finally, their debut full-length is ready: Wild Smile comes out June 8. Most of the record was produced by Chris Zane (Passion Pit, Walkmen, Tokyo Police Club), and it features EP highlight "It Gets Your Body Movin'" along with recent single "Save Your Love for Me", which you can listen to here.

As a little bonus, the guys are offering a non-album cover of the Raveonettes' anti-rape song "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)", which you can download or stream below. Tracklist and a whole bunch of upcoming tour dates are after the jump, too:

Wild Smile:

01 Save Your Love for Me
02 Black Sheep
03 Before Your Birthday Ends
04 You Can Keep Me Runnin' Around
05 A Mind I Knew
06 Roman Candles
07 It Gets Your Body Movin'
08 Martha
09 King of Snakes
10 2 Eyes 2 C
11 Loose Change

MP3:> Suckers: "Boys Who Rape (Should All Be Destroyed)" (Raveonettes cover)

Suckers:

03-10 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *
03-11 Philadelphia, PA - M Room *
03-12 Washington, DC - Black Cat *
03-13 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *
03-14 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
03-15 Nashville, TN - Matty's Alley *
03-17-20 Austin, TX - SXSW
03-21 Denton, TX - Hailey's *
03-22 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingers *
03-23 St. Louis, MO - Firebird *
03-24 Columbus, OH - The Summit *
03-25 Akron, OH - Musica *
03-26 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA - Corner *
03-27 Buffalo, NY - Soundlab *
04-22 Dallas, TX - The Cavern #
04-23 Austin, TX - Emo's Inside #
04-24 Houston, TX - Mango's #
04-26 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz #
04-27 Hattiesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo #
04-29 Augustine, FL - Cafe Eleven #
04-30 Nashville, TN - The Basement #
05-01 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade Hell Stage
05-04 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 #
05-05 Washington, D.C. - Rock N' Roll Hotel #
05-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
05-07 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom #
05-08 Alston, MA - Great Scott #
05-10 Ann Arbor, MI - Blind Pig #
05-11 Cleveland Heights, OH - Beachland Tavern #
05-12 Columbus, OH - The Basement #
05-14 Chicago, IL - Schubas (Two Shows) #
05-15 Rock Island, IL - Rock Island Brewing Company #
05-17 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar #
05-18 Iowa City, IA - The Mill #
05-19 Columbia, MO - Mojo's #
05-21 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge #
05-22 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court #
05-25 Spokane, WA - Empyrean Coffee House #
05-26 Boise, ID - Neurolux #
05-27 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios #
05-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club #
06-03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill #

* with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers
# with Local Natives

Broken Social Scene, Massive Attack, Public Image Ltd, OK Go, Melvins, Morning Benders, Middle East & other tix

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:49:56 +0000

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Broken Social Scene show coming to Rumsey Playfield aka Central Park Summerstage. You can also catch them at the Pitchfork Festival this summer.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two Massive Attack shows at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Public Image Ltd show at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the just-added (2nd) Morning Benders show at Mercury Lounge.

OK Go are playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 30th. Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

Corinne Bailey Rae is playing Music Hall of Williamsburg on May 4th (one night after she plays Webster Hall). Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Mumford & Sons / Middle East show at Webster Hall. Coming to SXSW? Catch The Middle East at the BrooklynVegan showcase and other shows.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Melvins / Isis show at Webster Hall. Also a Music Hall of Williamsburg show is on their schedule, but it's not on sale yet.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Best Coast show at Mercury Lounge.

Regina Spektor, Local Natives & Jamie Lidell tickets are also on sale.

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BrooklynVegan & M for Montreal free SXSW day party lineup (Roky Erickson, Andrew WK, Voivod, Holy Fuck, Local Natives, other bands, free food & more)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:14:34 +0000

I've been announcing individual bands on this party before now. Finally we have the full exciting lineup!

You know M For Montreal as the Canadian festival we've visited for two years in a row. Their yearly festival showcases bands from their home city in their home city, and they take that show on the road each year to both CMJ in NYC and SXSW in Austin (we already announced their official 2010 night showcase).

Being that we are such huge fans of so many Montreal bands, I thought it would be a great idea see if they wanted do a party together... and here we are. The lineup mixes some of our favorite Montreal bands with some or our other favorite Canadian (like Jason Collett of Broken Social Scene) and non-Canadian bands (like Andrew WK).

We have 13 bands total, a DJ set by another band, free ice cream from the Ice Cream Man (some of which is vegan), free vegan food courtesy of Austin's own Daily Juice and other surprises (drink specials on this particular party are pending). We're also proud to announce that KEXP is the official radio sponsor of all BV day parties this year. You'll find them, video cameras in hand, at many of our day parties throughout the week including this one. Those in attendance at this show will also have a chance to check out and win a pair of Nudie Jeans (another one of our kind sponsors).

Also unlike any other BV day party, this one is officially part of SXSW. That does NOT mean you need a badge. NO BADGES REQUIRED for this free show, but you will find the party listed on SXSW.com (and you can add it to your schedule on there). Full lineup with set times below...

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Jon Spencer, Mumford & Sons, The Middle East, Melvins, Isis, Harlem, JBM & other tickets

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:22:18 +0000

Jon Spencer @ South Street Seaport in 2009 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is playing Brooklyn Bowl on April 16th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on AmEx presale for the Mumford & Sons / Middle East show at Webster Hall. Coming to SXSW? Catch The Middle East at the BrooklynVegan showcase and other shows.

Tickets are on AmEx presale for the Melvins / Isis show at Webster Hall. Yes, in case you missed our update to the earlier post, many of the Melvins dates are with Isis. Also a Music Hall of Williamsburg show is on their schedule.

Tickets are on AmEx presale for the Best Coast show at Mercury Lounge.

Regina Spektor, Local Natives & Jamie Lidell tickets are also on sale.

Sean Bones is playing Mercury Lounge on April 7th. Tickets are on sale.

JBM is opening for Rogue Wave and Avi Buffalo tonight (and he did last night). He also has his own show coming up at Mercury Lounge on April 12th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the show Harlem is playing at Mercury Lounge. It's one of a few NYC-area shows they play that week.

Broken Social Scene, Massive Attack, Public Image Ltd & Specials tickets are on sale too.

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Regina Spektor, Local Natives & Jamie Lidell tickets

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:01:48 +0000

Tickets are now actually on sale (@10am) for the Regina Spektor benefit show at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are on sale for the 2nd Local Natives show at Bowery Balloom.

Tickets are on sale for the Jamie Lidell show at Bowery Balloom.

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The Fall, Local Natives, Tinchy Stryder and more for Summer Sundae

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:14:37 +0000

The first wave of acts of this year's Leicestival that is the Summer Sundae Weekender have just been confirmed, along with the return of a Drowned in Sound stage once again!

Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

Mumford And Sons, Tinchy Stryder for Leicester's Summer Sundae festival

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:53:59 +0000

The Go! Team, Local Natives, The Fall also set for the event

Local Natives, Dog Is Dead at The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Thu 25 Feb

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:44:34 +0000

Having enjoyed something of a resurgence in recent years thanks to the likes of Autolux and The Airborne Toxic Event, the LA suburb of Silver Lake's latest exports Local Natives just might be the most successful of the bunch...

Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com

Freelance Whales playing the Bedford stop (like they've done before) during rush hour today (and other tour dates)

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:22:19 +0000

Freelance Whales @ Bowery Ballroom - Feb. 18th (more by Sarahana)

Freelance Whales played last night at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Shout Out Louds. Pictures from that are on the way. Tonight (3/2) you can catch the Whales busking on the Bedford Avenue L train platform, where they plan to go on at 6pm.

Freelance Whales also have plenty of tour dates coming up, including SXSW, where one of their shows will be the Mom+Pop/Frenchkiss Records showcase (with Local Natives, Antlers and others) at Galaxy Room on Friday, March 19th.

They come back from the road for an April 13th show at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets to that are still on sale.

A bit of their busking at Bedford Ave, recorded in 2009, is posted below...

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NPR Music Presents: SXSW 2010 Schedule

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:38:00 +0000

See the schedule for both our opening-night showcase at Stubb's, featuring Spoon, Broken Bells, Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, The Walkmen and Visqueen, and our day party on Thursday at the Parish, featuring Sleigh Bells, Surfer Blood, G-Side, Local Natives, Brooklyn Rider and Smith Westerns.

Local Natives announce North American tour details

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:13:12 +0000

Los Angeles group begin the gig-run in April

Local Natives add a 2nd NYC show, a free Philly show & a free BV SXSW day party - updated 2010 tour dates

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:44:22 +0000

DOWNLOAD: Local Natives - Sun Hands (MP3)

Local Natives (photo by: Gareth Jackson)

L.A.'s Local Natives, whose new album "Gorilla Manor" is out in the US now (via Frenchkiss), have sold out to their May 6th headlining show at Bowery Ballroom so they added a second NYC show for the next night, May 7th, at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets go on sale Tuesday at noon.

Those dates are part of a larger tour across North America for the band. To schedule that extra show though, they had to cancel their previously planned Philly show, BUT they'll still play a free afternoon show in Philly on the same day (5/7) (and just as many people can fit).

Even sooner, Local Natives will be at this year's SXSW in Austin. Two of their shows will be with Suckers at Galaxy Room: the showcase for their label Frenchkiss/Mom+Pop Records on March 19th (with Les Savy Fav, Antlers, Freelance Whales & more), and the free BrooklynVegan/M For Montreal Saturday day show on March 20th (where they'll also play with Roky Erickson backed by Okkervil River, Andrew WK & more TBA).

All tour dates and some videos are below...

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Suckers Sign to Frenchkiss

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Photo by Sam Fleischner

Last year, Rising Brooklyn indie crew Suckers released their self-titled debut EP. And now, as they get ready to drop their first full-length, they've joined fellow Rising bands the Antlers and Local Natives over on the Brooklyn label Frenchkiss, which is quickly amassing one of the most loaded rosters in all of indiedom.

At the moment, Suckers are mastering their debut album. In March, they'll head out on the road with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers. The trek will take the band deep into the U.S. and include a whole mess of sets at SXSW. We've got their schedule after the jump.

Suckers:

* with Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Suckers & Shilpa Ray - 2010 Tour Dates (NYC, SXSW, more)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:39:23 +0000

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's March 10th show at (Le) Poisson Rouge with Suckers and Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers is part of a larger tour for the bands that includes a trip to Austin for SXSW. At the fest, MBAR will be playing the Saddle Creek Showcase on Thursday, March 18th at Maggie Mae's with Common Loon, Unwed Sailor, Pomegranates, The Mynabirds, UUVVWWZ and The Rural Alberta Advantage.

Shilpa Ray will also be at SXSW - her schedule is below. And she plays at the Cameo this Sunday with Bizi Gara and Asa Ransom.

In Austin, Suckers play the French Kiss/Mom+Pop show on Friday, March 19th with Freelance Whales, Local Natives, An Horse Galaxy, The Antlers and Les Savy Fav. Suckers will also play the free BrooklynVegan & M For Montreal show at Galaxy Room on Saturday, March 20th (noon-5:30pm). Other announced bands on that bill so far are Roky Erickson (backed by Okkervil River) and Andrew WK. Full lineup TBA shortly.

Suckers are playing this...

Shilpa Ray actually played the official BV SXSW show in 2009, and Miles Benjamin played one of our CMJ parties the same year. All upcoming dates and MBAR live videos are below...

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The Antlers played Terminal 5 w/ Editors (pics, setlist), playing BV SXSW, touring w/ Phantogram, National (dates)

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:32:57 +0000

photos by Dominick Mastrangelo

Antlers / Editors

"People don't mean any harm,'' the Antlers singer said from Brooklyn in a recent phone interview. "But they'll ask, 'Is the song 'Bear' about abortion?' before they even say hello. Whoa, what? It's like going up to a stranger and asking how their mom died. I don't know how I feel about it.''
But you can't blame fans for feeling close enough to the heartbroken narrator of the band's breakout record, "Hospice,'' to ask for details. The lo-fi concept album, centered on a terminally ill patient and her caregiver, is intimate and haunting. The 10 tracks deal with loss, death, guilt, and even Sylvia Plath ("Sylvia, get your head out of the oven / Go back to screaming and cursing, remind me again how everyone betrayed you.'') The stuff of nightmares, really.

"Hospice,'' self-released by Silberman last March, garnered serious buzz and ended up on several best-of-2009 lists. Venerable indie label Frenchkiss Records re-released the album in August. The Antlers headlined a sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom in December and are on a tour with Editors.... [Boston Globe]

That tour brought the two bands to Terminal 5 on Friday night (2/19). Pictures and setlists from that show are in this post. Editors were supporting their new album, out now in the U.S. on the Fader label. The tour ended last night (2/21) at 9:30 Club in DC. The tour started right after The Antlers played BAM with Ra Ra Riot which wasn't long after the Antlers played a Haiti benefit at City Winery with Patti Smith.

Coming up for The Antlers: a tour of Europe, a headlining tour with Phantogram, an opening slot on The National's upcoming dates (including Radio City Music Hall, but not Prospect Park), and... the BrooklynVegan day show at Club DeVille in Austin on Friday, March 19th with Lucero and more bands TBA. They then play the Frenchkiss & Mom+Pop official SXSW showcase at Galaxy Room (formerly Radio Room & Borboun Rocks) that same night (with Freelance Whales, Local Natives, An Horse, Suckers, and Les Savy Fav).

All dates and more pictures below...

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Holly Miranda, Caetano Veloso, BRMC, Crystal Castles, Thee Silver Mt Zion & other tickets on sale

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:37:28 +0000

Holly Miranda @ Other Music (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

Holly Miranda will headline Bowery Ballroom on May 26th. Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are on sale for the CAETANO VELOSO show at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale for the 2nd BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB show at Webster Hall.

Tickets are on sale for the DOSH show at Mercury Lounge, and for the show at Union Hall.

Tickets are on sale for the two Adam Green shows at Bowery Ballroom.

Tickets are on sale for the two Crystal Castles shows at Irving Plaza.

Tickets are on sale for the THEE SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA shows at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Wellmont Theatre has added shows by Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck - both now on sale.

Tickets are also on sale for The Flaming Lips, The Specials, Local Natives and some other shows, in addition to Julian Casablancas at Starland Ballroom.

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Flaming Lips, Specials, Local Natives & other tickets on sale

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:54:51 +0000

Local Natives will headline Bowery Ballroom on May 6th. Tickets are on sale at noon.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the 2nd Specials show at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Flaming Lips show at Central Park Summerstage.

Tickets are still on sale for the Converge show at Santos Party House.

The Temper Trap are playing MHOW on April 5th. Tickets are now on sale (@ noon). They play Webster Hall three days earlier.

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Local Natives Hit the Road

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Earlier this week, the Rising Californian indie synthesists Local Natives scored a BNM for Gorilla Manor, their first album. At the moment, the band is in France, finishing up a European tour. Once that gets done, they'll return to the U.S. in time for SXSW. They'll also play Coachella in April, and then follow that up with a tour that'll take them from coast to coast and then back again, all the way through to Bonnaroo in June.

We've got all their dates below.

Local Natives:

02-17 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie
02-18 Tourcoing, France - Le Grand Mix
02-19 Saint-Lo, France - Le Normandy
02-20 Saint-Malo, France - Route du Rock Winter Festival
02-24 Bristol, England - Thekla
02-25 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms
02-26 Brighton, England - Concorde II
02-27 Leeds, England - Brudenell
02-28 Norwich, England - Arts Centre
03-02 London, England - Heaven
03-03 Birmingham, England - O2 Academy 3
03-04 Manchester, England - Club Academy
03-05 Glasgow, Scotland - King Tut's
03-06 Newcastle, England - O2 Academy 2
03-10 Dublin, Ireland - Academy 2
03-11 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Limelight
03-18-20 Austin, Texas - SXSW
04-18 Indio, California - Coachella
04-20 Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
04-22 Dallas, TX - The Cavern
04-23 Austin, TX - Emo's Inside
04-24 Houston, TX - Mango's
04-26 Little Rock, AR - Sticky Fingerz Chicken Shack
04-27 Haittesburg, MS - Thirsty Hippo
04-29 St. Augustine, FL - Cafe 11
04-30 Nashville, TN - The Basement
05-01 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
05-04 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506
05-05 Washington, DC - DC 9
05-06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
05-07 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
05-08 Allston, MA - Great Scott
05-11 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
05-12 Columbus, OH - The Basement
05-14 Chicago, IL - Schubas
05-15 Rock Island, IL - Rock Island Brewing Company
05-17 Minneapolis, MN - 400 Bar
05-18 Iowa City, IA - The Mill
05-19 Columbia, MO - Mojo's
05-21 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
05-22 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
05-25 Spokane, WI - Empyrean
05-26 Boise, ID - Neurolux
05-27 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
05-28 Vancouver, British Columbia - Media Club
05-30 Seattle, WA - Sasquatch
06-03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
06-10 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
06-15 London, England - Shepherd's Bush Green

Local Natives announce one-off London show

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:54:13 +0000

Los Angeles group to play Shepherds Bush Empire on June 15

Local Natives, Crystal Stilts, Phosphorescent, Vivian Girls, Best Coast, Titus Andronicus, Harlem, Love is All, other tix

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:49:59 +0000

Harlem @ Union Pool over the weekend (more by Andrew Frisicano)

Local Natives will headline Bowery Ballroom on May 6th. Tickets go on AmEx presale at noon.

Best Coast & Midnight Masses were added as openers to the April 1st Japandroids show at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are still on sale.

Midnight Masses continue a February residency at Union Pool tonight (2/17).

Japandroids are also playing Sasquatch.

Crystal Stilts have been added to the March 27th Love is All bill at Maxwell's in Hoboken. Tickets are on sale.

Catch Crystal Stilts much sooner at Music Hall of Williamsburg with The Beets / Christmas Island / Beach Fossils / The German Measles on February 20th. Tickets are still on sale.

Beach Fossils and The Beets will open for Love is All at Knitting Factory on March 28th. Tickets are on sale.

Phosphorescent will play Maxwell's for the first time on April 2nd. Tickets are on sale.

MusicSnobbery celebrates his 5th birthday with a show featuring the Vivian Girls at Maxwell's on April 23rd. Tickets are on sale.

Titus Andronicus and Harlem play the NJ club the very next night (4/24). Tickets are on sale.

Tickets are also still on sale for Titus's headlining show at Bowery Ballroom on March 6th.

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Local Natives: Gorilla Manor (Reviews)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:00:05 +0000

After spending 2009 amassing buzz and goodwill, the LA quintet’s impressive debut is finally being released in the US.

The US release of Gorilla Manor, the debut LP from the LA quintet Local Natives, has been a long time coming. The album itself was recorded over a year ago and the band spent much of 2009 building word-of-mouth buzz and working to secure a record deal the old-fashioned way: by being a stellar live band. Rough Trade actually released Gorilla Manor in the UK three months ago, which has allowed the album to circulate…

Sasquatch! Lineup 2010

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:55:17 +0000

Well before the lineup trickled its way out, the Sasquatch! site's streaming player hosted a playlist stocked with tons of Pavement. So you're not surprised that the band with the fat pockets will headline a night at the beautiful Gorge Amphitheatre this year -- which puts Pavement's festival confirmation status at pretty much every one but Bonnaroo at this point -- along with Massive Attack and My Morning Jacket. The three-day festival runs over Memorial Day as always (Saturday 5/29 to Monday 5/31), and is bringing a ton of bands you might enjoy seeing, including: LCD Soundsystem, Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, MGMT, the xx, the Very Best, Ween, No Age, Tegan & Sara, tUnE-yArDs, Girls, WHY?, Neon Indian, the New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Local Natives, Midlake, Nada Surf, the Hold Steady, Band Of Horses, Freelance Whales, Japandroids, She & Him, and Phantogram. Good showing, here's an up to date lineup via press release:

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Sasquatch! Festival Announces Lineup

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000

The Sasquatch! Festival will once again come to the Gorge in Quincy, Washington May 29-31 (Memorial Day weekend). Pavement has already announced that they'll headline one day of the fest. Well, now we know the other two headliners, as well as the rest of the bill, and there's a whole lot to like here. Pavement will share headlining duties with My Morning Jacket and Massive Attack, but the whole bill, top to bottom, is pretty stacked.

The list of bands taking the stage on Memorial Day Weekend includes Vampire Weekend, MGMT, the National, LCD Soundsystem, Band of Horses, Ween, Tegan and Sara, Broken Social Scene, Passion Pit, Public Enemy, She & Him, the New Pornographers, the Hold Steady, the xx, Dirty Projectors, No Age, Drive-By Truckers, Kid Cudi, the Mountain Goats, Quasi, Camera Obscura, Midlake, Caribou, Girls, WHY?, Japandroids, Wale, YACHT, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Very Best, Neon Indian, tUnE-YarDs, Local Natives, the Tallest Man on Earth, Fool's Gold, A-Trak, and a whole mess of others.

Head on over to the Sasquatch! site for all the details.

Stream Local Natives Gorilla Manor

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:43:40 +0000

Their album's out in the UK already, but it won't be Stateside until 2/16. Listen early at NPR.

The Middle East (No 724)

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:51:08 +0000

The name suggests drama, conflict and controversy. The music? Well, they sound a bit like Fleet Foxes

Hometown: Queensland, Australia.

The lineup: Various Australians, not all of them bearded, on shared harmony vocals and, individually, on electric and acoustic guitar, drums, hand percussion, piano, glockenspiel and trumpet.

The background: There was something so definitive – ultimate, even – about Fleet Foxes, they seemed to virtually render all other nouveau folk-pop groups redundant overnight. And yet here are the Middle East, a seven-piece based in Townsville, Australia, offering mostly spare but sometimes lightly orchestrated acoustic ballads featuring close harmonies courtesy of men in the guise of choirboys tormented by the onset of maturity, and possessed of enough beauty to make you submit and say, "Oh, OK then, one more."

Of course, there is nothing incendiary about this Middle East, nothing designed to provoke or inflame – except for the name. We're not sure why they adopted it, but then, we still have no idea why Beirut called themselves Beirut. It could just be juvenile attention-seeking a la Black Kids or the Negro Problem, in which case, fine, it worked, we noticed.

Whereas Fleet Foxes seemed like an ancient Appalachian troupe unearthed after years in the wilderness, the Middle East seem more rooted in the present day. If they're less "traditional" than FF, they're also less experimental than, say, Band of Horses or Grizzly Bear (whom they have supported in Australia). It could be argued, in fact, that they provide a bridge between FF and GB. Their Wikipedia site claims you can hear traces of folk, post-rock, country and ambience in their music, and although that site has its detractors, that's quite true. We can also detect traces of chamber pop in the tracks on their EP, the Recordings of the Middle East, which is good, because we love our pop baroque.

Let's make like Chris Rock and break it down, shall we? The Darkest Side is based around delicately plucked acoustic guitar with soft, Sufjan-esque whispery vocals on top. A high female voice comes in halfway through, and the effect is simultaneously invasive and reassuring. Lonely features electric guitar and is more shimmery and spectral, with textures and atmosphere more in common with indie or post-rock. The single, Blood, starts off quietly then builds and builds, instruments – including piano and xylophone – added as it reaches a noisy peak then returns to its initial softness. Fools Gold is Simon & Garfunkel-esque with what sounds like a girl or child chorister soaring in the background. Finally, Beleriand is a relatively straight alt rocker with shoe/nugazey guitars against which the drums crash and break like waves, although this track, too, becomes gentler and ghostlier halfway through – it's like the opposite of that old Pixies-style quiet-loud dynamic. They might not cause a conflagration throughout the eponymous region anytime soon, but fully expect them to blaze a trail at this year's SXSW festival.

The buzz: "Sufjan-esque heart-rending folk with alt rock atmospherics."

The truth: They are less strikingly original than Fleet Foxes but create moments that are almost as beautiful.

Most likely to: Cause havoc at passport control.

Least likely to: Do anything substantive to encourage peace talks.

What to buy: The single Blood, from the Recordings of the Middle East EP, is released by Chess Club on 8 March, 2010

File next to: Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Grizzly Bear, Local Natives.

Links: myspace.com/visitthemiddleeast

Tomorrow's new band: Lissie.

Paul Lester

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the complete 2010 Bonnaroo lineup (Stevie Wonder, The Melvins, Kings of Leon, Isis, Local Natives & many more)

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:29:12 +0000

After a hectic day of updating the constantly updating Bonnaroo lineup page, the entire thing has been announced. Gwar, Norah Jones, and the rest of the lineup below...

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Bonnaroo Lineup Announced

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:55:00 +0000

This year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival takes place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee. Many bands will play this festival. But instead of just putting them all on a handy .jpg and letting it ride, the folks at Bonnaroo are turning the unveiling into an all-day online event.

Head over to the Bonnaroo website and MySpace, where they're announcing the line-up from noon to 9 p.m. Eastern time today. Or you could just wait until tonight, when they'll (presumably) throw up a handy .jpg and let it ride.

Here are some bands that are already confirmed: the Flaming Lips playing Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Weezer, Phoenix, Baroness, John Fogerty, the Black Keys, Wale, Neon Indian, and the Avett Brothers.

UPDATE: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, the National, Stevie Wonder, the xx, She & Him, the Dead Weather, Blitzen Trapper, Japandroids, Kid Cudi, Local Natives, Regina Spektor, Dan Deacon, Kings of Leon, Damian Marley and Nas, Chromeo with Daryl Hall (!), the Melvins, Isis, Calexico, the Dodos, Tokyo Police Club, Here We Go Magic, and Mayer Hawthorne and the County have been added. Not to mention motherfuckin' GWAR!

2010 Bonnaroo lineup revealing itself today (keep track of who's playing here) ++ tickets on sale at noon

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:26:47 +0000

The lineup to the 2010 Bonnaroo Festival is being announced today, but not all at once. Bands playing the the festival will each be announcing themselves one by one... making it like a big game for people to figure out, and...

For the first time ever, tickets will go back on sale the same day as the announcement. The top two tiers of tickets sold out quickly during our Holiday pre-sale in December, so make sure to act fast. Payment plans will once again be offered for both GA and VIP tickets.
The festival will be held from June 10-13, 2010 on our beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee. Get ready for an amazing four-day weekend with more than 150 of your favorite bands, top comedians, art, activities, workshops, vendors and much more.

So far Weezer, Phoenix, Dave Matthews Band, Baroness (who just announced a tour with Mastodon), and OK Go have confirmed themselves on the lineup. Let's keep track of who else in the comments. I'll also keep updating this post...

UPDATES: Jeff Beck, John Fogerty, Medeski Martin & Wood, Punch Brothers, Isis, Chromeo w/ guest Daryl Hall, The Avett Brothers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Carolina Chocolate Drops (video below), Big Sam's Funky Nation, Neon Indian, The Black Keys, Monte Montgomery, Bassnectar, The Constellations, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Ingrid Michaelson, Blues Traveler, 311, The xx, Mayer Hawthorne and the County, Regina Spektor, Wale, Norah Jones, Jay-Z, Thievery Corporation, GWAR, She & Him, Jimmy Cliff, Tokyo Police Club, Kid Cudi, Japandroids, Dr. Dog, Baaba Maal, Zac Brown Band, The National, John Prine, Dave Rawlings Machine, Manchester Orchestra, Local Natives, Dropkick Murphys, Jay Electronica, The Postelles, Reblution, Damien Marley & Nas, NeedtoBreathe, Tenacious D, Jamey Johnson, They Might Be Giants, Lotus, The Entrance Band, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Clutch, Tori Amos, The Melvins, The Dodos, Kings of Leon, The Dead Weather, Deadmau5, Martin Sexton, Blitzen Trapper, The Gaslight Anthem, Mumford & Sons, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave, Tinariwen, Here We Go Magic, Julia Nunes, Disco Biscuits, Rise Against and reportedly the Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs covering Dark Side of the Moon (still not confirmed by the band). Paul Simon is also rumored.

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Full Bonnaroo 2010 Lineup Includes Jay-Z, Kings Of Leon, More

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:04:00 +0000

Festival roster includes more than 90 acts spanning many genres.
By James Montgomery

Jay-Z
Photo: Dave M. Benett/ Getty Images

Well, it took all day, but finally, on Tuesday night (February 9), organizers revealed the full lineup for the 2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, scheduled for June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee.

Jay-Z, Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon, Stevie Wonder, Weezer and Flaming Lips top the bill for this year's 'Roo, a list of more than 90 acts spanning genres and eras.

There are genuine legends (Jimmy Cliff, John Fogerty), established rock acts (the Dead Weather), hip-hop talent (Wale, Nas, Kid Cudi), electro heavyweights (LCD Soundsystem, Thievery Corporation) and bands that hearken back to the festival's earlier, decidedly jammy routes (Medeski, Martin and Wood, the Disco Biscuits), not to mention the annual WTFs (Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, Darryl Hall with Chromeo). All in all, it's a rather jam-packed four days of music.

Rather than announce the full lineup, organizers broke from tradition and revealed each performer individually on the Bonnaroo MySpace page, a decision that was as time-consuming as it was brilliant.

According to a spokesperson for the festival, the full lineup will swell to some 125 acts and over 20 comedians, performing on 13 different stages. Tickets for the 2010 edition of Bonnaroo are already on sale at the fest's Web site, with a four-day pass costing $234.50. There are also RV passes available, and a super-deluxe "Total Access" package, which offers 24-concierge service, onstage viewing for all performances and complimentary food. As in previous years, organizers are also giving attendees the option to purchase tickets on an installment plan.

The full list of confirmed artists for the 2010 Bonnaroo festival:

» Dave Matthews Band
» Kings of Leon
» Stevie Wonder
» Jay-Z
» Tenacious D
» Weezer
» The Flaming Lips with Stardeath and White Dwarfs perform Dark Side of the Moon
» The Dead Weather
» Damian Marley and Nas
» Phoenix
» Norah Jones
» Michael Franti & Spearhead
» John Fogerty
» Regina Spektor
» Jimmy Cliff
» LCD Soundsystem
» The Avett Brothers
» Thievery Corporation
» Rise Against
» Tori Amos
» The National
» Zac Brown Band
» Les Claypool
» John Prine
» The Black Keys
» Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers
» Jeff Beck
» Dropkick Murphys
» She & Him
» Against Me!
» The Disco Biscuits
» Daryl Hall and Chromeo
» Jamey Johnson
» Clutch
» Bassnectar
» Kid Cudi
» Baaba Maal
» Kris Kristofferson
» Medeski Martin & Wood
» The XX
» Gwar
» Dan Deacon Ensemble
» Tinariwen
» Wale
» Deadmau5
» The Melvins
» Gaslight Anthem
» Miike Snow
» Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
» Dr. Dog
» They Might Be Giants
» Punch Brothers
» Isis
» Blitzen Trapper
» Blues Traveler
» Miranda Lambert
» Calexico
» OK Go
» Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
» Martin Sexton
» Lotus
» Baroness
» Dave Rawlings Machine
» Mayer Hawthorne and the County
» Japandroids
» Jay Electronica
» Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
» Ingrid Michaelson
» The Dodos
» Manchester Orchestra
» The Temper Trap
» Cross Canadian Ragweed
» Carolina Chocolate Drops
» Tokyo Police Club
» The Entrance Band
» Local Natives
» Brandi Carlile
» Mumford & Sons
» Rebelution
» Diane Birch
» Monte Montgomery
» Julia Nunes
» The Postelles
» Lucero
» Here We Go Magic
» Hot Rize
» Neon Indian
» B.o.B
» Needtobreathe

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Exclusive First Listen: Local Natives

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Right from the start, it's clear that Gorilla Manor is a special album. The harmonies grab hold immediately, but there's also a gentleness to the singing. These aren't knockout vocals, but they're sweet, and they serve Local Natives' swaying, graceful songs just right. Hear Gorilla Manor in its entirety for the week leading up to its release.

Dead Man's Bones, Local Natives, Fool's Gold Do IAMSOUND Singles Series

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The L.A. indie label IAMSOUND puts on for its city. The label is teaming up with the British record store Pure Groove to launch the L.A. Collection, a series of split 7" singles featuring local bands like Fool's Gold, Local Natives, Dead Man's Bones, Rainbow Arabia, Nosaj Thing, Pocahaunted, and Signals (ex-Mae Shi). Each 7" will include exclusive material (except for Local Natives' contribution), and the label will release one single every month through August.

The first single, out on February 16, is by We Are the World (it's not a split.) It will be followed by the March release, a split between Moonrats and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes. The singles will be available from IAMSOUND's website, as well as at L.A. record stores and at Pure Groove in the UK. Each single will include art by locals Ingrid Allen and Elisa Saether and typesetting by designer Aaron Rose.

Band of the Week: Local Natives

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:22 +0000

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With his floppy, Morrissey-esque quiff, graphic tee and over-sized cardie, bassist Andy Hamm is more architecture student than thundering axe god, but -- channelled through the Amsterdam Paradiso's beefed up sound system -- the vibrations from his playing send his pedal setup skittering across the stage. Restless, twitchy percussion becomes pounding and martial, twinkling close harmonies turn to ragged-throated yelps: Los Angeles' Local Natives make quite a racket live.

Not as much of a racket as Dutch techno-punk duo Aux Raus, though, tonight's main stage headliners whose relentless beats are shaking the band's downstairs dressing room to its very foundations.

It makes post-performance activities -- introspective self-criticising (Hamm: "Fourth or fifth song, I think I accidentally hit my bass on a cymbal and the G-string went out of tune. I re-tuned it, but that kind of sucked. I walked away saying, 'oh, I had a horrible show'"), testing out the frisbee-like qualities of rock-hard rider pita bread, teasing handsome, moustachioed singer-guitarist Taylor Rice about his baggy "boyfriend shirt" -- a little difficult.

Music Weekly: Hot Chip

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:34:44 +0000

Your latest instalment of Music Weekly brings you hot chat with a Hot Chip. Yes, Rosie Swash caught up with beats'n'bleeps technician Joe Goddard, to talk about the band's fourth album, One Life Stand, and wax lyrical about his love of 2-Step and UK Funky.

The upbeat mood continues through Singles Club, in which Alexis Petridis, Emma Warren and Rosie discuss the merits of College's A Real Hero, DVA's Ganja and Kelis's Acapella (produced by, er, David Guetta). Plus, there's live music from Californian noise-poppers Local Natives. They caught eyes and ears with a series of outdoor performances at last year's SXSW (including one that involved some precarious roof-balancing). Here, they discuss their album, Gorilla Manor, and play us a special snippet.

And that's your lot for this week! Hope you enjoy the show, and let us know what you think of our guests, song choices and chat. You can subscribe on iTunes, befriend us on Facebook and even follow us on Twitter. See you next week!

Watch: Local Natives - 'Airplanes'

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:13:19 +0000

Watch the new video for Local Natives' 'Airplanes', released on March 1.

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Tinariwen touring, playing NYC w/ Fool's Gold, Summerstage

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:07:50 +0000

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Tinariwen will be playing a series of North American dates this February and March. That includes the previously mentioned NYC shows at Highline Ballroom on February 18th and the Bell House on February 19th. Tickets are still on sale for both. Opening those two shows will be L.A. afro-pop band and all around good time, Fool's Gold.

Fool's Gold were last here when they toured with Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Local Natives in November (a pair of NYC shows), and it was CMJ the month before that when I think they made their NYC debut.

It's freezing outside right now, but this next announcement reminds me that summer is not that far away. Tinariwen have also announced that they'll play a June 26th show at Central Park Summerstage. That's the second official announcement for the outdoor venue's 2010 season. The first was the long--in-advance notice of the upcoming post-summer Pavement shows.

In somewhat related news, Passion Pit and Tokyo Police Club are playing the Prospect Park Bandshell on Tuesday, June 29th. Tickets are on presale now (with general sale starting on Saturday). Allen Toussaint may also be another artist appearing in Prospect Park this summer (6/12).

All Tinariwen and Fool's Gold tour dates and videos for both are below...

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VIDEO: Local Natives - Airplanes

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:03:34 +0000

Los Angeles quintet Local Natives released their fantastic début album 'Gorilla Manor' late last year - which we thoroughly enjoyed - and are following that up with a new video for track two off of the LP by the name of 'Airplanes'.

New Local Natives Video - "Airplanes"

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:22:37 +0000

Our post of Local Natives' pleasantly drummed "Sun Hands" came with a reference to Yeasayer because of its dusky, shimmering All Hour Cymbals-esque harmonies. You can hear another Gorilla Manor track by entering the dusty ragtag mansion of this Mark Waring-directed stop-motion/real-time video where the band members' portraits rotate into skeletons, we get a meaningful pan of a collection of Shakespeare's Tragedies (as well as Solzhenitsyn's), and then a bunch of still lifes decide to start moving.

Continue reading New Local Natives Video - "Airplanes"...

Local Natives Say 'Wide Eyes' Looks to the Future

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:00:49 +0000

Filed under: News, UK

Local Natives' first album is yet to even be released in the band's, um, native United States, but that hasn't stopped the Los Angeles-based quintet keeping half an eye on changing things up for their follow-up effort. "We're focused on evolving, at least I would like to think so," singer-guitarist Taylor Rice tells Spinner in an exclusive chat following the group's sold out show at Amsterdam's famous Paradiso club on Thursday night (Jan. 21).

In fact, according to the band, 'Gorilla Manor' -- which was released in the UK back in November and will finally hit stores Stateside in February via Les Savy Fav's Frenchkiss Records -- already offers fans a hint of future Local Natives sounds, having been recorded in two stages. Of the more recent tracks, apparently disc opener 'Wide Eyes' gives the best indication of the way forward for the group.

Coachella 2010 Lineup Features Jay-Z, Gorillaz, Muse

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:21:00 +0000

Pavement, Faith No More, Thom Yorke, Vampire Weekend also on the bill.
By James Montgomery

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Photo: Raymond Boyd/ Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images

Coachella has always been seen as the least traditional of the big U.S. music festivals, and in 2010, they're definitely staying with that sentiment. On Tuesday (January 19), organizers revealed the lineup for this year's Coachella fest — set for April 15-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California — and the bill is topped by three acts you wouldn't necessarily see headlining fests here in the states (except when the Beastie Boys drop out at the last minute): Jay-Z, Muse and Gorillaz.




	Coachella 2010 Lineup

Joining them are the usual assortment of 'Chella acts, including the prerequisite reunited acts (Pavement, Faith No More), the icons (Thom Yorke, Devo, Sly and the Family Stone), the indie stalwarts (Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, Spoon, MGMT), the hotly tipped buzz acts (Yeasayer, the xx, La Roux,) and electro mainstays (Orbital, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem.)

Other acts on the bill — which features more than 130 acts — include Them Crooked Vultures, Grizzly Bear, She & Him, Coheed and Cambria, De La Soul, Sunny Day Real Estate and the Raveonettes.

Jay-Z will close out the fest's Friday night (with LCD on the undercard), Muse draw the Saturday headlining slot (with Faith No More before them), and the Gorillaz — set to return this year with their Plastic Beach album — will wrap up the whole shebang with their Sunday night spot (Pavement are the secondary headliners).

Tickets for the 2010 edition of Coachella go on sale Friday (January 22) at 10 a.m. through the fest's official site, with a three-day pass costing $269.

The full lineup for the 2010 Coachella festival, according to concert promoter Goldenvoice:

Friday, April 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, the Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, the Avett Brothers, Calle 13, the Whitest Boy Alive, the Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

Saturday, April 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, the Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ's, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, the xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, the Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopelados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, the Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, the Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

Sunday, April 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, the Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, the Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, the Middle East, Hadouken!, the Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

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Local Natives: Dreamy Pop From Gorilla Manor

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:10:00 +0000

The California band Local Natives got to make its first impression in the U.K., where it released its debut album last fall. Titled Gorilla Manor in honor of the group's shared abode in Orange County, the disc is emotionally expressive but unfailingly cheerful. It comes out here in February.

Tiesto, 'Surrounded by Light' -- MP3 of the Day

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:00:23 +0000

Filed under: Electronic, Free MP3 Download of the Day

Artist: Tiesto
Song: 'Surrounded by Light'
Album: 'Kaleidoscope' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Underworld, Sasha

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Local Natives, 'Sun Hands' -- Free MP3 of the Day

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:01:05 +0000

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Artist: Local Natives
Song: 'Sun Hands'
Album: 'Gorilla Manor' [iTunes]
Sounds Like: Band of Horses, Rogue Wave

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The P4k Guide to Upcoming Releases: Winter 2010

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! Four times a year, we round up a big ol' list of albums, singles, EPs, and DVDs set to be unleashed over the coming months, hoping to get you pumped about going out and buying records. (You do still do that, right? RIGHT?) This installment covers winter 2010.

Compiling such a list isn't easy in this day and age, with different release dates for digital and physical versions of albums, as well as different release dates for different countries. So we tried to stick with North American physical release dates as much as possible, with exceptions as noted. When an album's North American release date differs from its overseas one, we also made a note of that. Keep in mind that release dates can be as unpredictable as Lady Gaga's fashion choices, and any one of these is subject to change at any moment.

January

01-05

Joker: "City Hopper" b/w "Output 1-2" [Tectonic]
Kanye West: Storytellers [CD/DVD]

01-12

Ben Kweller: "Sawdust Man" b/w "Send Me Down the Road" [Bloodshot]
Owen Pallett: Heartland [Domino]
Jason Boesel: Hustler's Son [Team Love]
Jukebox the Ghost: Let Live and Let Ghosts [Rebel Group]
Kría Brekkan: Uterus Water 7" [Paw Tracks]
Laura Veirs: July Flame [Raven Marching Band]
OK Go: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky [Capitol]
Omarion: Ollusion [Starworld Entertainment/EMI]
Polysics: Absolute Polysics [Myspace]
Ringo Starr: Y Not [Hip-O]
Vampire Weekend: Contra [XL]
Woodpigeon: Die Stadt Muzikanten [Boompa]

01-18

Blockhead: The Music Scene [Ninja Tune] [physical release, out now digitally]
Fyfe Dangerfield: Fly Yellow Moon [Geffen] [UK Release]
Spoon: Transference [Anti-] [UK release]
These New Puritans: Hidden [Angular/Domino] [UK Release]
Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2010 [Kompakt]

01-19

Cold War Kids: Behave Yourself EP [Downtown]
Dinowalrus: % [Kanine]
Editors: In this Light and On This Evening [Fader] [U.S. release]
Eels: End Times [Vagrant]
The Hot Rats: Turn Ons [Fat Possum]
Josephine Foster: Graphic as a Star [Fire] [U.S. release]
Lindstrøm & Christabelle: Real Life Is No Cool [Smalltown Supersound]
Major Stars: Return to Form [Drag City]
Red Krayola with Art & Language: Five American Portraits [Drag City]
RJD2: The Colossus [RJ's Electrical Connections]
Scout Niblett: The Calcination of Scout Niblett [Drag City]
Spoon: Transference [Merge] [U.S. release]
Surfer Blood: Astro Coast [Kanine]
Susu: R and R and R [self-released]
Virulence: If This Isn't a Dream... 1985-1989 [Southern Lord]
Wetdog: Frauhaus! [Captured Tracks] [U.S. release]

01-25

The Shining: Blackjazz [Indie Recordings]
Yeti Lane: Yeti Lane [Sonic Cathedral]

01-26

AFCGT: AFCGT [Sub Pop]
Animal Collective: Campfire Songs [Paw Tracks] [reissue]
Basia Bulat: Heart of My Own [Rough Trade]
Beach House: Teen Dream [Sub Pop]
Bei Bei & Shawn Lee: Into the Wind [Ubiquity]
Citay: Dream Get Together [Dead Oceans]
Clipd Beaks: To Realize [Lovepump United]
David Bowie: A Reality Tour [ISO/Columbia/Legacy]
Four Tet: There Is Love in You [Domino]
Fredrik: Trilogi [The Kora]
Fucked Up: Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2008 [Matador]
Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM [Because Music/Atlantic]
Gigi: Maintenant [Tomlab]
Harvey Milk: Harvey Milk [Hydra Head]
Home: Seventeen [Jagjaguwar]
Infinite Body: Carve Out the Face of My God [Post Present Medium]
Interference: Viva La Interference [The Social Registry]
J Tillman: "Wild Honey" b/w "Black Barge" 7" [Western Vinyl]
Jaga Jazzist: One-Armed Bandit [Ninja Tune]
Jailbreak: The Rocker [Family Vineyard]
John Vanderslice: D.I.A.L.O. 7" [Dead Oceans]
Kevin Barker: You and Me [Gnomonsong]
KRS-One: Playlist: The Very Best of KRS-One [Jive/Legacy]
Locksley: Be in Love [Wicked Cool]
Loren Connors & Darin Gray: The Lost Mariner reissue [Family Vineyard]
Los Campesinos!: Romance Is Boring [Arts & Crafts]
The Magnetic Fields: Realism [Nonesuch]
Max Richter: Memoryhouse reissue [FatCat]
Moonface: Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums [Jagjaguwar] [physical release, out now digitally]
My Brightest Diamond: Shark Remixes [Asthmatic Kitty]
Oh No Ono: Eggs [Friendly Fire]
Patty Griffin: Downtown Church [Credential]
Pit Er Pat: The Flexible Entertainer [Thrill Jockey]
Quail Lungs: Dumb DaDaDum 7" [Post Present Medium]
Retribution Gospel Choir: 2 [Sub Pop]
Robert A. A. Lowe & Rose Lazar: Eclipses [Thrill Jockey]
The Silent League: ...but you've always been the caretaker [Something in Construction]
Slow Six: Tomorrow Becomes You [Western Vinyl]
Small Black / Washed Out: Split 7" [Lovepump United]
Tape & Bill Wells: Fugue [Immune]
Thavius Beck: Dialogue [Mush]
Three 6 Mafia: Laws of Power [Hypnotize Minds/Columbia]
Various Artists: Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 [Matador]
Various Artists: Good God! Born Again Funk [Numero Group]
Various Artists: The Minimal Wave Tapes [Stones Throw]

February

02-02

The Album Leaf: A Chorus of Storytellers [Sub Pop]
Alexander Tucker: Grey Onion [Latitudes]
Blind Man's Colour: Wooden Blankets [Kanine]
The Brunettes: Paper Dolls [Lil' Chief]
FM Belfast: How to Make Friends [Kimi]
Malakai: Ugly Side of Love [Domino]
Mavis: Mavis [!K7]
Midlake: The Courage of Others [Bella Union]
Mount Eerie: Black Wooden [Latitudes]
Pierced Arrows: Descending Shadows [Vice]
Priestess: Prior to the Fire [Tee Pee]
Skullflower: Strange Keys to Untune Gods [Neurot]
The Smith Westerns/Magic Kids: Split 7" [Fat Possum]
The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack [Kemado]
Toro Y Moi: Causers of This [Carpark]
U.S. Girls: Go Grey [Siltbreeze]
Various Artists: Bob Blank: The Blank Generation: Blank Tapes 1975-1985 [Strut]
We Are Wolves: Invisible Violence [Dare to Care]

02-09

Angelo Spencer: Et Les Hauts Sommets [K Records]
Ben+Vesper: LuvInIdleness [Sounds Familyre]
The Besnard Lakes: "Albatross" b/w "Four Long Lines" 12" [Jagjaguwar]
Best Coast: "Something in the Way" 7" [Post Present Medium]
David Bowie: David Bowie: Deluxe Edition [Decca/Universal]
Galactic: Ya-Ka-May [Anti-]
Georgia Anne Muldrow: King's Ballad [Ubiquity]
Hanoi Janes: Summer of Panic [Captured Tracks
Hot Chip: One Life Stand [Astralwerks]
Hunx and His Punx: Gay Singles [True Panther]
Kath Bloom: Thin Thin Line [Caldo Verde]
Laura Gibson & Ethan Rose: Bridge Carols [Holocene Music]
Massive Attack: Heligoland [Virgin]
Pantha du Prince: Black Noise [Rough Trade]
Phantogram: Eyelid Movies [Barsuk]
Redman: Reggie Noble 9 1/2 [Def Jam]
Title Tracks: It Was Easy [Ernest Jenning]
The Watson Twins: Talking to You, Talking to Me [Vanguard]
Yeasayer: Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]

02-15

Errors: Come Down With Me [Rock Action]
Ewan Pearson: We Are Proud of Our Choices [Kompakt]
Peter Gabriel: Scratch My Back [Virgin]

02-16

Adam Green: Minor Love [Fat Possum]
Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore: Dear Companion [Sub Pop]
Dum Dum Girls: "Jail La La" 7" [Sub Pop]
Everybody Was in the French Resistance...Now!: Fixin' the Charts, Volume One [Cooking Vinyl]
Excepter: Presidence [Paw Tracks]
Field Music: Measure [Memphis Industries]
Freeway & Jake One: The Stimulus Package [Rhymesayers]
The Game: The R.E.D. Album [Interscope]
Gentle Friendly: Ride Slow [Upset! The Rhythm]
Jason Falkner: I'm OK, You're OK [Cobraside]
Juliana Hatfield: Peace and Love [Ye Olde Records]
Lightspeed Champion: Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You [Domino]
Local Natives: Gorilla Manor [Frenchkiss] [U.S. release]
Moon Duo: Escape [Woodsist]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Preservation [RED]
Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army [GVB Inc]
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Kollaps Tradixionales [Constellation]
Tindersticks: Falling Down a Mountain [Constellation]

02-22

Lonelady: Nerve Up [Warp]
Various Artists: Cold Waves and Minimal Electronics Vol. 1 [Angular]

02-23

Airbourne: No Guts, No Glory [Roadrunner]
Balmorhea: Constellations [Western Vinyl]
Clem Snide: The Meat of Life [429]
Daniel Merriweather: Love & War [J/Allido]
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love [Todomundo/Nonesuch]
Dignan Porch: Tendrils [Captured Tracks]
Efterklang: Magic Chairs [4AD]
Eluvium: Similes [Temporary Residence, Ltd.]
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh [Universal Motown]
Free Energy: Stuck on Nothing [DFA/Astralwerks]
Fyfe Dangerfield: Fly Yellow Moon [Geffen] [US Release]
Groove Armada: Black Light [Cooking Vinyl]
High on Fire: Snakes for the Divine [E1 Music]
Holly Miranda: The Magician's Private Library [XL]
Martyn: Fabric 50 [Fabric]
Past Lives: Tapestry of Webs [Suicide Squeeze]
Quasi: American Gong [Kill Rock Stars]
Rocky Votolato: True Devotion [Barsuk]
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago [Matador]
Shout Out Louds: Work [Merge]
The Strange Boys: Be Brave [In the Red]
Various Artists: Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox [Merge] [U.S. physical release]
White Hills: White Hills [Thrill Jockey]
Wolf People: Tidings [Jagjaguwar]
Xasthur: 2005 Demo [Hydra Head]
Xiu Xiu: Dear God, I Hate Myself [Kill Rock Stars]
Zeus: Say Us [Arts & Crafts]

March

03-01

cliffordandcalix: lost foundling [Aperture]
New Young Pony Club: The Optimist [The Numbers]
Sam Amidon: I See the Sign [Bedroom Community]
Tunng: And Then We Saw Land [Full Time Hobby]

03-02

Golden Triangle: Double Jointer [Hardly Art]
Groove Armada: Black Light [Om]
Jaguar Love: TBD [Fat Possum]
Natalie Merchant: Leave Your Sleep [Nonesuch]
Rogue Wave: Permalight [Brushfire]
The Ruby Suns: Fight Softly [Sub Pop]
Shy Child: Liquid Love [Wall of Sound]
Usher: Raymond v. Raymond [Jive]
These New Puritans: Hidden [Domino] [U.S. Release]
The Whigs: In the Dark [ATO]

03-09

Alberta Cross: Broken Side of Time [Ark Recordings/ATO]
Aloha: Home Acres [Polyvinyl]
The Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night [Jagjaguwar]
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat the Devil's Tattoo [Abstract Dragon/Vagrant]
Broken Bells: Broken Bells [Columbia]
The Bundles: The Bundles [K]
Frightened Rabbit: The Winter of Mixed Drinks [Fat Cat]
Jason Collett: Rat a Tat Tat [Arts & Crafts]
jj: jj no 3 [Sincerely Yours/Secretly Canadian]
Liars: Sisterworld [Mute]
Miles Kurosky: The Desert of Shallow Effects [Majordomo/Shout! Factory]
Morning Benders: Big Echo [Rough Trade]
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: The Brutalist Bricks [Matador]
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor [XL]

03-16

Chamillionaire: Venom [Chamilitary/ Universal Republic]
Drive-By Truckers: The Big To-Do [ATO]
Freelance Whales: Weathervanes [Frenchkiss/Mom + Pop]
Gin Wigmore and the Cardinals: Holy Smoke [Universal Motown]
Happy Birthday: Happy Birthday [Sub Pop]
Seasick Steve: Man From Another Time [Ryko]
White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights CD/DVD [Third Man]

03-22

Black Tambourine: Complete Recordings - Deluxe Edition [Slumberland] [reissue]
Galaxie 500: On Fire/Peel Sessions [Domino] [reissue] [UK release]
Galaxie 500: Today/Uncollected [Domino] [reissue] [UK release]
Galaxie 500: This Is Our Music/Copenhagen [Domino] [reissue] [UK release]

03-23

Bettie Serveert: Pharmacy of Love [Second Motion]
Dillinger Escape Plan: Option Paralysis [Party Smasher Inc/Season of Mist]
Goldfrapp: Head First [Mute]
Jónsi Birgisson: Go [XL]
Serena-Maneesh: S-M 2: Abyss in B Minor [4AD]
She & Him: Volume Two [Merge]
Various Artists: The T.A.M.I. Show: Collector's Edition [DVD] [Shout! Factory]

03-30

Dum Dum Girls: I Will Be [Sub Pop]
The Living Sisters: Love to Live [Vanguard]
Sweet Apple: Love and Desperation [Tee Pee]

April

04-05

Black Francis: Nonstoperotik [TBA]

04-06

Harlem: Hippies [Matador]
Monster Movie: Everyone Is a Ghost [Graveface]

04-20

Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma [Warp]

Other April releases

Blunt Mechanic: World Record [Barsuk]
Jóhann Jóhansson: And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees [Type]
Disappears: Lux [Kranky]

Other releases expected in the first quarter of 2010

Battles: TBA [Warp]
!!!: TBA [Warp]
The Drums: TBA [TBA]
Gorillaz: Plastic Beach [Virgin]
Here We Go Magic: TBA [Secretly Canadian]
Interpol: TBA [Capitol]
Jaill: TBA [Sub Pop]
Javelin: TBA [Luaka Bop]
Josiah Wolf: Jet Lag [Anticon]
LCD Soundsystem: TBA [DFA]
Lil Wayne: Rebirth [Cash Money/Young Money Entertainment/Universal]
MGMT: Congratulations [Columbia]
Sally Seltmann: Heart That's Pounding [Arts&Crafts]

DOWNLOAD: Local Natives - Sun Hands

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:16:21 +0000

(Photo: Tom Oxley)

Some other folks have blown the payoff in "Sun Hands" song when writing about it, which is fine, but if you fall into its botanical, vinelike polyrhythms–think Fleet Foxes by way of Burning Man–with no idea what's coming in the bridge, then the song's effect is truly realized. So just be aware there's an amplifying diversion within, and remember Local Natives' Gorilla Manor drops on February 16th via Frenchkiss.

Local Natives - Sun Hands

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New Local Natives - "Sun Hands"

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:56:08 +0000

If you're not into everything Odd Blood -- aka the album that finds Yeasayer finding Ween (really, listen to "The Children" again and then flashback to God Ween Satan) -- no worries: Los Angeles Frenchkiss signees Local Natives offer up dusky, shimmering "old-school" Yeasayer-ish harmonies in "Sun Hands." Not to be confused with "Sunrise." You think I'm a Naysayer? Check back after the 2:57 mark. Still, it is a pleasant song -- especially the spry guitar lines, busy drums, and skeletal build -- that's bound go over well with sundry folks.

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Listen: Local Natives: "Sun Hands"

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Here's a taste of things to come in 2010. "Sun Hands", the forthcoming single from the Rising L.A. band Local Natives, starts out quietly: a delicately florid guitar, a subtly Fugazi-esque bassline, a few celestial touches of harmony. The song takes its time, building momentum and atmosphere. Then, about two-thirds of the way through, it explodes into jagged postpunk riffage, and the chaos feels earned.

Frenchkiss, Local Natives' U.S. label, will release "Sun Hands" as a digital single on January 5; that's the cover art above. Gorilla Manor, the band's debut album, will get its U.S. release on February 16; it's already out in the UK. Stream and download "Sun Hands" below.

MP3:> Local Natives: "Sun Hands"

This week on NME Radio: December 14-18

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:30:00 +0000

Richard Hawley and Local Natives live in the studio

Rising: Local Natives

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:00:00 +0000

The sound of L.A. five-piece Local Natives seems to take bits and pieces from several big indie bands: celestial harmonies and down-home charm from Fleet Foxes, sophisticated arrangements from Grizzly Bear, frenetic guitar work from Vampire Weekend, a general sense of warm communal bro-down from Animal Collective. They're a bunch of young dudes who have internalized ideas from indie contemporaries and art-pop forebears and used them to create their own joyous clatter.

Gorilla Manor, the band's debut album, is out now in the UK, and Frenchkiss will release it in the U.S. on February 16. Pitchfork recently caught up with singer/guitarist Taylor Rice and drummer Matt Frazier; our interview is below.

Pitchfork: How long have you been together as a band?

Taylor Rice: We started Local Natives a little over a year ago. There's three of us that sing all the time, and I've been buddies with those other two guys, Ryan [Hahn] and Kelcey [Ayer], since high school. So we've been together for a really long time. Our bass player and drummer both joined the band about three years ago. So as a group we've been together for a while. There came a point, maybe two years ago, where I graduated college and we decided to really go for it. We all moved in together and wrote a record, and then made the record. That's when we started the name Local Natives.

Pitchfork: Where does the name come from?

TR: Andy [Hamm], our bass player, came up with Local Natives. I feel that it conjures a type of image that fits the sound of our band. Our writing process is very collaborative, and as a live thing it just feels like a very communal type of musical endeavor. We just thought that it felt the vibe of the sound, that it finally coalesced for us.

Pitchfork: The album, Gorilla Manor, is named after the house where you guys all used to live. That's a pretty great name for a house.

TR: [Laughs] Yeah, we just felt like Gorilla Manor was a weird juxtaposition of words that really embodied the goings-on within the house, so it just felt right.

Pitchfork: Were there gorillas in the house?

TR: Almost, but not quite. We did the artwork for the album, and Matt [Frazier, drummer] made this poster of this insane food fight that we had at the house. The photo is just crazy. It's Matt slipping on water and peanut butter and sugar and flour. And he just Photoshopped it and messed around with it. We had this night of chaos that the house literally never recovered from. Everything in it was completely ruined.

Pitchfork: Did you get your security deposit back?

TR: We actually did not. [Laughs]

Matt Frazier: I think we ended up owing money at the end of it. The landlady was super, super nice about it. I mean, way nicer than she should have been. We tried. We paid a professional cleaning service to come in, but it was literally just ruined.

Pitchfork: You cover the Talking Heads' "Warning Sign" on the album. Are you big fans?

TR: Definitely. Our rule on tour is that the driver gets to pick the music, but it's in there a good amount. When we originally started playing the song, we had no intention of actually recording it. We just wanted to play a cover song in our live set. Andy had been listening to More Songs About Buildings and Food a lot last summer, and he brought that song to the table. We started working on the harmonies and worked on the rhythm and kind of came up with this cool take on the song. We flipped it on its head, and it kind of became its own thing. It became such an integral part of our set that we ended up re-recording it and adding it to the album, and it's just stuck ever since.

Pitchfork: Any other big influences?

TR: With how collaborative our writing process is, you have to talk to everyone about their specific influences. As far as common threads, we've latched onto harmony and melody. We've all got some influence from 60s harmony bands that just have classic, amazing harmonies, like the Zombies or Crosby, Stills and Nash. There's also this rhythm element that we've all latched onto. Our keyboard player was a drummer first, and he does all of these integrated beats with Matt. We're all drawn to Animal Collective or Broken Social Scene; those might be some common threads.

Pitchfork: A couple of you have some pretty impressive mustaches. That's a bold decision.

TR: It's weird. I was always kind of told, "Dude, you should grow a mustache," but I'd never do it because I always thought they looked super awful. We did our first self-booked tour in January, a big month-long tour. A couple of us did this thing where we didn't shave for the tour. I didn't shave all tour, and then after a month, we were in Las Vegas. I said, "I'm going to shave off everything except for my mustache." I did it with no intention of keeping it, and some people were like, "Dude, you should rock the mustache." I haven't really looked back; I've kind of just gone with it.

MP3:> Local Natives: "Camera Talk"

the label connections of Slayer-->Passion Pit-->the Antlers--> Local Natives --> Freelance Whales --> Tokyo Police Club

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:15:27 +0000

Local Natives @ BV loft - CMJ 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)

Frenchkiss Records is celebrating its 10th year in existence. Started by Les Savy Fav's Syd Butler in 1999 as a way for his band to release their second album, the label has grown to include over 25 bands with over 40 releases. Most recently they've found success with The Dodos, The Antlers, and of course, Passion Pit who are definitely now pretty "huge". Though still on Frenchkiss, Passion Pit are also shared with Columbia Records (home of Mew, MGMT, The Ting Tings, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, and... Slayer).

And it continues. Frenchkiss announced this week that they signed not one, but two CMJ 2009 buzz bands - both with fine new albums and impressive live shows to match. The NYC label will release California band Local Natives' Gorilla Manor (already out in Europe) on February 26, 2010. They also just signed NYC's Freelance Whales, though like with Passion Pit, that deal is shared with someone else - Mom+Pop Records to be exact, aka. the label that also just snagged Tokyo Police Club (who share a manager with Passion Pit).

The Antlers headline Bowery Ballroom on December 15th. Get tickets before they sell out. Uninhabitable Mansions and Sharon Van Etten (who is sure to sing with the headliners too) open the show. Their only other scheduled show at the moment is March 3rd at Union Chapel in London.

Local Natives are still on tour with Fool's Gold and Edward Sharpe. They visited NYC in November which wasn't long after CMJ when the band played two BV parties - one at Pianos and the one in a loft. Updated dates below.

Freelance Whales are currently on tour with Fanfarlo. That tour ends in NYC on December 18th at Webster Hall. Tickets are still on sale. Freelance Whales also played a BV CMJ show @ Pianos.

Tim Harrington, when not belting out rock songs and climbing over the crowd on a ladder in his underwear as the frontman of Les Savy Fav, makes a "line of patterned products" called Deadly Squire. This Sunday (TODAY), December 6th, Deadly Squire is having a huge sale at Bird in Williamsburg (Brooklyn). Flyer below.

Slayer is going on tour with Megadeth and Testament in January. A "Raining Blood" video with all the other stuff below...

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Frenchkiss Records Add Local Natives To Roster

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:03:06 +0000

Los-Angeles collective Local Natives have officially signed to 'Frenchkiss Records' and will subsequently release their début album through the imprint next year in the North America (lucky for us, it's already out here in the UK). The independent New York-based label was founded by Syd Butler, bassist for Les Savy Fav (who now release all records through the label) and currently house Passion Pit, The Antlers and The Dodos amongst others.

Local Natives set to release debut album in the US

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:16:54 +0000

LA band to release 'Gorilla Manor' on February 16

Local Natives Sign to Frenchkiss

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Founded by members of Les Savy Fav, and with a roster that includes Passion Pit and the Dodos, Frenchkiss Records know a few things about twitchy, energetic, restless indie rock. Which makes the New York indie label the perfect home for the L.A. quintet Local Natives, who pair glimmering Afropop-influenced guitars with hyperactive drumming and hooky three-part harmonies.

On February 16, Local Natives will release Gorilla Manor, their debut album, on Frenchkiss in the U.S. (It's out now in the UK.) The album, which the band produced alongside Raymond Richards, is named after the Orange County house where all five members lived together.

Check out the band's Aquarium Drunkard session right here, or hear album track "Camera Talk" here.

Local Natives announce 2010 national tour and ticket details

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:39:38 +0000

NME Radar tour veterans begin the tour in February