Archive: 2012

Death Cab For Cutie made news last year recording the music video for You Are A Tourist in one take and letting everyone watch the live recording on USTREAM to prove it. The Shepard Fairey street-art take on Home Is a Fire was pretty damn cool too. The new video for Underneath The Sycamore is […]

Last Spring, LCD Soundsystem decided to call it quits, going out in style by with a series of instantly sold out hometown farewell concerts at New York’s Terminal 5, with their swan song gig taking place at Madison Square Garden. Yesterday the indie-dance-rock act posted a status update on their Facebook page informing fans that […]

The 2012 incarnation (and 20th Anniversary) of San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival is shaping up to be one of its best. Today, the festival announced two major headlining acts, as well as a fantastic group of supporting acts. The Flaming Lips will grace the Bimbo’s 365 stage on 2/21 to perform their seminal album The […]

2011 saw the release of Björk’s latest studio record, Biophilia, but the ten songs comprising the record were in many ways just the tip of the iceberg for the Biophilia project.

Given the names involved, it stands to reason this is a hard-hitting session

Glide Magazine’s Jeff DeMars recently spoke with drummer Janet Weiss, touching on her background with Brownstein in Sleater-Kinney, her own role as a musician before coming to Wild Flag, the group’s future sights and why she would love to add the title “Janitor” to her business card.

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. The Summit seeks to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to deal-making environment. Now just […]

The Decemberists have announced the March 13 release of We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11), a 20-track live double-album (and triple-vinyl set) culled from the band’s 2011 tour supporting their chart-topping, Grammy-nominated album The King Is Dead. With songs spanning their entire first decade as a band—from their debut EP […]

Aaron Freeman, better known as Gene Ween of Ween, has stepped out from behind his pseudonym to record his first-ever solo record, ‘Marvelous Clouds’ (Partisan Records). Out April 10, the album features 13 heartfelt interpretations of songs written by 20th century poet/songwriter, Rod McKuen. ‘Marvelous Clouds’ reunites Freeman with Ben Vaughn, who produced Ween’s classic […]

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks will be hitting the road again next month in support of their latest album Mirror Traffic. Most of the tickets on sale this weekend.   Tour Dates  Mon Feb 13, 2012 Salt Lake City, UT | Urban Lounge Wed Feb 15, 2012 Boulder, CO | Fox Theater Fri Feb 17, […]