Festivals
I Did Not Have Fun: Lollapalooza 2011
Deadmau5 was doing whatever Deadmau5 does. I had stopped looking at the stage and was instead fixated on a blotch...
Aug 19, 2011
Records
Main Attrakionz: 808s & Dark Grapes II
Green Ova Undergrounds are a Bay Area collective of college-aged high school dropouts who make music that sounds like an...
Aug 19, 2011
Records
Beirut: The Rip Tide
The elements of exposure have been against Beirut. Six years of not being able to walk into secondhand bookshops and...
Aug 19, 2011
Records
Autre Ne Veut: Body EP
The first time I heard Autre Ne Veut’s self-titled debut album last year, I was startled and confounded. Like few...
Aug 19, 2011
Records
Tom Vek: Leisure Seizure
Tom Vek, not unlike the Juan MacLean or LCD Soundsystem, goes about making dance music in a way that...
Aug 19, 2011
Tracks
Jens Lekman: "An Argument with Myself"
After a lengthy hiatus following 2007’s Night Falls Over Kortedala, Jens Lekman is back this fall with a new EP,...
Aug 18, 2011
Tracks
Jess Mills: "End Credits"
Given how last week in London looked so much like act three of Harry Brown, it’s only fair someone should...
Aug 17, 2011
Records
Deadbeat: Drawn and Quartered
“Same-y” and “formulaic” are generally not the most accommodating reference points for anyone with a proclivity for reggae. Reggae has...
Aug 17, 2011
Records
Apache Dropout: Apache Dropout
Apache Dropout is fast and to the point; the totally bitching self-titled, debut album by this garage/art trio from Bloomington,...
Aug 17, 2011