Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.
Luke Winkie caught Chaz Bundick (Toro y Moi) for a quick chat at Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010 in Austin, TX. So how long have [...]
Since when has Bruce Springsteen become an undisputed touchstone for the indie landscape? 2010 has seen a number of up-and-comers (Free Energy, Titus Andronicus) and [...]
The indie slow-jam has been Belle & Sebastian territory for the last 15 years now. Stuart Murdoch and his legion of fidgety, cross-legged, English majoring [...]
It’s been peeling away for a while, but at this point the tense, calculated, economic guitar blasts of Blonde Redhead have completely disappeared — as [...]
The world may not recognize it now, but I think it’s only a matter of time before Chuck D is recognized as hip-hop’s official chairperson. [...]
Rooms are pretty difficult to get excited about. They’re yet another entry in a disconcertingly long list of post-punk upstarts who (probably after seeing the [...]
Sometimes a record comes along that’s so divergent (and so weird) that you can’t help but adore it. These albums usually aren’t the critical bombshells, [...]
“This place is beautiful” said Matt Berninger, right after his band sauntered through Boxer (2007) favorite “Start a War,” and he was right. Spreckels Theatre has always been one of San Diego’s primary classical establishments; in fact, the baroque embellishments and marble statues give it a flat-out regal feel — which is not exactly the type of ambiance rock bands are equipped to embrace, but The National’s melancholy, yuppie-blind stigma really brings out the white-collarness of it al
Cymbals Eat Guitars are probably the only New York-based guitar-rock quartet to quote Nas on their Myspace page. Right next to their “influences” lays a [...]
The album cover of Blue Sky, Raging Sun looks like something you’d pass over in the five-dollar ‘80s bin at your local record store. It’s [...]
I don’t really want to turn this feature into a rant, but I think this needs to be said…so bear with me for a second. [...]
Adam Green is known more for his sad-bastard folk than his rippling, gaped-mouth avant-prog, but that hasn’t stopped him from scoring an upcoming theater adaptation [...]
Brattleboro, Vermont’s Happy Birthday are really easy to love — they make indie rock as unpretentious as it comes, heavy on the hooks and light [...]
Maybe it’s their jeans, maybe it’s their pastel-bloomed album art, but Avi Buffalo seem like a band you’d be listening to in the middle of [...]
