photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Yeezus / Bloc Party / fans chillin' in a kiddie pool

Governors Ball concluded on Sunday (6/9). We've already posted one set of pictures from that day, in addition to pictures of The xx, Deerhunter, and Portugal. The Man. We also posted videos, the setlist, and talked a bit about Kanye West's set. Now we've got pictures of Yeezus, in addition to Bloc Party, Beirut, Foals, Freddie Gibbs, and more in this post.

If you haven't been keeping up with our Governors Ball coverage, pictures of day 1 are HERE and HERE, and pictures of day 2 are HERE and HERE. More day 3 pictures below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball day 3 in pics (part 2): Kanye West, Bloc Party, Beirut, Foals, Freddie Gibbs & more"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Portugal. The Man @ Governors Ball - 6/9/13

As mentioned, Portugal. The Man have a new Danger Mouse-produced LP out this year, and they've been on a tour in support of it which already hit NYC twice. First for an Irving Plaza show back in May, and then for the Governors Ball festival, which they played on Sunday (6/9). Pictures of their set at Govs Ball are in this post.

Like many other bands who just played that festival, Portugal. The Man have now added a headlining NYC show to their tour. That show happens on September 27 at Terminal 5. Tickets show go on AmEx presale Wednesday (6/19) at noon, with a general on-sale beginning Friday (6/21) at noon.

Updated dates are listed, along with some videos, a stream of their new album, and more pictures from Governors Ball, below...

Continue reading "Portugal. The Man played Governors Ball, announced second leg of tour (dates & pics)"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin, words by Andrew Sacher

Deerhunter @ Governors Ball - 6/9/13

One of the bigger complaints about music festivals is that it's harder to really get into a band's set than when you see them in a dark venue with a light show, but if there's one band who truly overcame that and this past weekend's NYC festival Governors Ball, it would be Deerhunter. They're the one band I saw that really allowed you to zone out to their set despite everything else going on around them at the fest. Plus, Bradford Cox had some choice quotes between songs, like when he told the crowd that oil is made from our dead ancestors, hence, our dead ancestors were powering Deerhunter's set. And even if you're at all iffy on their new album, Monomania, it's really worth seeing them play those new songs live. Pictures of Deerhunter's set at Governors Ball are in this post.

Despite everything I just said about Deerhunter overcoming the festival atmosphere, they still usually have a killer light show that couldn't be present for their 3:45 PM set, and you'll get a chance to see them indoors in NYC soon, because they've just joined the many bands who played Governors Ball and then announced a NYC show. Theirs happens at Webster Hall on September 18, and this show is especially exciting because it's their first club date in NYC since the release of Monomania. Support at the show comes from Crystal Stilts, who, though they've been pretty under the radar lately, are still kicking, and apparently have a new album on the way.

Tickets for the Webster Hall show go on sale Friday (6/14) at noon with an AmEx presale starting Wednesday (6/12) at noon.

All dates are listed, along with more pictures from Governors Ball, and a video of them playing "Monomania" at Austin Psych Fest, below...

Continue reading "Deerhunter played Governors Ball, expand tour (dates & pics)"

photos by Amanda Hatfield

Twin Shadow / Grizzly Bear / crowd

Governors Ball wrapped up on Sunday (6/9) after a very soggy start. Despite the rain on Friday and the treks through the mud that followed for the next two days, it was still a weekend filled with tons of great music, and day 3 was no exception. We already talked a bit about the epic Kanye West set, and just posted pictures of The xx, who also played that day. More pictures of day 3, including sets of Grizzly Bear, Twin Shadow, Yeasayer, Haim, The Avett Brothers, and more, are in this post.

If you haven't been keeping up with our Governors Ball coverage, pictures of day 1 are HERE and HERE, and pictures of day 2 are HERE and HERE. Day 3 pictures (more of which are on the way) continue below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball day 3 in pics: Grizzly Bear, Twin Shadow, Yeasayer, Haim, Avett Brothers & more"

photos by Amanda Hatfield

The xx at Governors Ball - 6/9/13

Speaking of bands that just played Governors Ball that have since announced NYC shows, here's two that will be playing together: The xx, who played the Ball on Sunday (6/9), plan to make their way back around these parts for a show at Radio City Music Hall on September 23 and support comes from Polica. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (6/14) at 10 AM.

Polica's two drummers (UPDATE: and Channy) will also be in NYC tonight to back Marijuana Deathsquads at their Mercury Lounge show (tickets).

Pictures of The xx's Governors Ball set are in this post. Check out more of those, along with The xx's newish video for "Fiction", Polica's newish Justin Vernon-featuring song, "Tiff," and all lists of tour dates, below...

Continue reading "The xx played Governors Ball (pics), announce Radio City show w/ Polica (dates)"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin, words by Andrew Sacher

Fucked Up / Guns N Roses / Azealia Banks

We just posted pictures of day 2 (6/8) of NYC festival Governors Ball, which went down on Randall's Island this weekend, and here's more in this post. This time, we've got shots of Guns N' Roses, Animal Collective (who rival Kanye West for best light show of the festival), Cut Copy, Fucked Up and more.

Fucked Up's set was one of the craziest at the festival. Damien performed in the crowd and on the barrier as usual, but due to Friday's weather, this was by far the messiest I've ever seen it get. He was covered in mud, sweat, and beer by song 2 and so was a huge chunk of the crowd, who didn't let the swampy ground stop them from breaking out into a mosh pit. The set included the usual live favorites, "Son The Father," "Turn The Season, "I Hate Summer," etc, a rant about marijuana, and a tons of comments about how grateful they were for their fans. One of the best Fucked Up shows I've seen yet.

Cut Copy debuted a new song, "Explorers," earlier this week on tour (via Consequence of Sound). You can watch a video of that below.

Pictures of day 1 are HERE and HERE. More day 2 pictures are HERE. Videos and setlist of Kanye's day 3 set are HERE, and still more coverage is on the way. Even more pictures of day 2 below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball day 2 in pics (part 2): Guns N' Roses, Animal Collective, Cut Copy, Fucked Up & more"

photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Andrew Sacher

Nas / Kendrick Lamar / people in mud

Governors Ball continued on Saturday (6/8) for its second of three days. The weather was much better than day 1, but Friday's storm kept the entire place a mud swamp. Of course, that made for some interesting things like the muddy mosh pit during Fucked Up's set, but it also made walking from stage to stage kind of a drag. That said, it really wasn't that bad, and it was a whole lot more enjoyable to watch the music in the sun than in Friday's rain.

I got there just as Japandroids were going on (or, as they jokingly referred to themselves throughout their entire set, Guns N' Roses). They're an excellent festival band and were a great start to my day, though it was hard to get their usual crowd energy going on the large Governors Ball main stage. I'm sure that wasn't a problem at their afterparty at MHOW though, which I sadly missed. Did anyone catch that?

Maybe the most surprising thing I saw on Saturday was the size of Alt-J's crowd. I knew they were getting bigger, but I must not have fully realized to what extent. It was one of the largest crowds for a non-headliner I saw that day, and pretty impossible to move through it too. And it wasn't even people trying to get a good spot for Kendrick Lamar, who was on next, because a lot of them cleared out after Alt-J. Of course, Kendrick did bring his own huge crowd, and if I had to say, Kendrick worked a festival crowd better than any other act I saw this weekend.

For the Saturday night headliner, it was between Guns N' Roses on the Governors Ball Stage and Nas on the Honda Stage. I chose Nas. It was an excellent set from the legendary rapper, which included a good amount of Illmatic, some highlights of his new album (like "Daughters"), and backing by a killer live band. If you chose GNR, how were they?

Pictures of day 1 are HERE and HERE. Videos and setlist of Kanye's day 3 set are HERE, and more coverage is still on the way. More pictures of day 2 below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball day 2 in pics: Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Japandroids, Alt-J, Dirty Projectors, Azealia Banks & more"

photo by Dana (distortion) Yavin, words by Andrew Sacher

Kanye West at Governors Ball - 6/9/13

Kanye West wrapped up this year's muddy, yet successful, Governors Ball on Randall's Island with an epic headlining set on the main stage (6/9). If you weren't close to the stage, it was hard to see him, but that didn't even matter because his elaborate light/visual show was a huge spectacle on his own. He had multiple layers of lights across the back end of the stage, and the screens were back and forth between showing ominous images and distorted shots of Kanye performing on stage. He didn't get as crazy as he has in the past with a rant, but he did go on a short one in the middle of "Clique" about how he doesn't care about radio or trying to sell a million records anymore, he just cares about music.

In addition to playing the hits, Kanye also played material off of his upcoming new album, Yeezus, including "Black Skinhead" and "New Slaves," which he did on SNL, and three others, one possibly named "On Site" and another possibly named "I Am A God." Check out videos of him playing all five new songs, along with his full Governors Ball setlist, below. More pictures (like the one above) coming soon.

Continue reading "Kanye West played more new 'Yeezus' songs at Governors Ball (videos/setlist)"

note: these pictures were posted for about a minute yesterday, but due to a website malfunction, they disappeared. so here they are...

photos by Amanda Hatfield

Polica / Beach House / more muddy people

You've already seen pictures of the rainy, muddy, first day of Governors Ball, and here's more in this post. They continue below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball day 1 in pics (part 2): Beach House, Polica, Holy Ghost!, Bear Mountain & more"

note: these pictures were posted for about a minute yesterday, but due to a website malfunction, they disappeared. so here they are...

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin, words by Andrew Sacher

Dinosaur Jr. / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / muddy people

Thanks to the storm that hit us on Friday (6/7), day 1 of Governors Ball got off to a pretty messy start. It wasn't so bad at first, and early sets from Polica and Dinosaur Jr. (who had a bunch of fans there in J.Mascis-style grey wigs) were still enjoyable despite the weather, but later in the day, the rain severely picked up and Feist's set was shut down after one song. Other artists, like Beach House, were cut off early too, and some, like Pretty Lights and Kings of Leon (who ended up playing Saturday instead), had to cancel completely. Still, before then there was much to enjoy, and the Skyy Vodka Tent made for a great place to take shelter and dry off. Plus huge afternoon dance parties from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Crystal Castles didn't hurt either.

Stay tuned for our continued coverage of Governors Ball, and follow BrooklynVegan on twitter and instagram for live updates (as much as cell phone service permits at least, it gets pretty rough around mid-day). More pictures of day 1 below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball day 1 in pics: rain, mud, Dinosaur Jr, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Local Natives & more"

photos by Dana (distortion) Yavin

Fiest in the rain / casualty of storm / making the best of it @ Governors Ball on Friday

Yesterday's unrelenting rain made for a cold, soggy start to Governors Ball. Feist gave up after one song, saying "I think they think we're going to get electrocuted." Festival organizers then pulled the plug on the night:

Due to the high winds and unsafe stage conditions, Governors Ball has been suspended Friday night. The Current wind speeds have made it a safety issue to operate the stages. While Governors Ball and the acts would like for nothing more than the show to go on, the safety of our patrons, performers, and staff must always come first. Governors Ball will continue as scheduled Saturday morning. We anticipate gates to open on schedule. We are looking forward to great music and good times for the rest of the weekend.

UPDATE: Pictures of Friday are posted HERE and HERE.

In other news, Kings of Leon just announced their new album, Mechanical Bull, will be out September 24.

**** Hey What's Going On readers! We have a special announcement to make and that is the new addition of a proper NYC show calendar on BrooklynVegan . Currently linked from the "NYC Shows" button up above in the main site menu, you can now easily view our top show picks, all shows, metal shows, comedy shows, free shows and more for any upcoming day. "What's Going On?" will still be a daily post but with more highlights and less of a towering list of links. Meanwhile though, we still have a towering list... ****

Beach House @ Summerstarge 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Mudslides at Governors Ball today (via @BrooklynVegan instagram)

today in NYC
* Ellis Paul @ Joe's Pub
* Spanglish Fly @ Barbes
* Opera On Tap @ Barbes
* Rob Delaney @ Caroline's
* The Knocks (DJ) @ Lil Charlie's
* Ben Greenberg (of Zs) @ Roulette
* Polica, Solid Gold @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Sylvie Courvoisier Trio @ The Stone
* Willie Nelson @ Theatre at Westbury
* Dinosaur Jr., Reignwolf @ Irving Plaza
* Bruce Levingston @ Open Road Rooftop
* MNDSGN, ELOS, Ahnu, VHVL @ 285 Kent
* DJ Britt Daniel (of Spoon) @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Oblivians, Ex-Cult @ Beekman Beer Garden
* The Remains, The A-Bones @ The Bell House
* Half Moon Run, Young Unknowns @ Glasslands
* Pure Bathing Culture, Monogold @ Mercury Lounge
* Terrence Parker, Free Magic, Faso @ Cameo Gallery
* Attic Ends, Camden, Bedroom Eyes @ Cameo Gallery
* Japandroids, Crocodiles @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Queens of the Stone Age @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
* Hey Champ, Gemini Club, Friendly Greg @ Glasslands
* Dead Stars, Radical Dads, Heaven @ The Grand Victory
* Old Crow Medicine Show, Jonny Fritz @ Capitol Theatre
* The Olms (Pete Yorn & J.D. King) @ Housing Works Cafe
* Lovely Bad Things, Wyatt Blair, Primes @ Death By Audio
* Windhand, Kings Destroy, Clamfight, Belus @ Saint Vitus Bar
* Doveman, Paul Noonan, Trixie Whitley @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Porches, Summer People, Lost Boy?, Heeney @ Shea Stadium
* Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Kidnap Kid @ Webster Hall
* NatNaiel, Julius Myth, All Natural, Kassa, Rav P. @ Mercury Lounge
* Tiger Dare, Ann Pragg, Chains of Love, Such Hounds @ Cake Shop
* Q-Tip (DJ), Nickodemus (DJ), DJ Eleven @ Museum of Natural History
* Oh No! and the Tiger Pit, Morningbell, Olivia Mancini, 56 K @ Union Hall
* Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band @ Summersplash Concert Cruise
* LODRO, Life Size Maps, The Vandelles, Young Boys, Spires @ Secret Loft
* Janeane Garofalo, Todd Barry, Christian Finnegan @ Eastville Comedy Club
* Rain Machine, Christy & Emily, Kate Eastburn, David First @ Bowery Electric
* Spirit Family Reunion, The National Reserve, Last Good Tooth @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Liah Alonso, Luke Rathborne, Coon Doggin Outlaws, Adam Karol, Bonaparte, Surf Wax America, Wolff and Tuba @ Pianos
* Governors Island w Kings of Leon, Pretty Lights, Beach House, Feist, Local Natives, Of Monsters and Men, Young The Giant, Erykah Badu, Crystal Castles, Best Coast, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Jr., Holy Ghost!, Polica, St. Lucia, The Knocks, MS MR, Solid Gold, Reignwolf, Bear Mountain, Pacific Air, Swear and Shake @ Randall's Island

What may end up being a very major NYC music festival, Governors Ball, begins today with sets from Beach House, Feist, Dinosaur Jr., Polica and more. It's looking like rain all day, but the fest is 100% rain or shine so bring a poncho. If you're going today, how are you getting there?

Governors Ball also has a number of official afterparties. There's some great ones tonight, including Japandroids/Crocodiles, Dinosaur Jr., and Polica.

Even without Governors Ball and its afterparties, there are lots of show options. Kyp Malone's solo project, Rain Machine (very appropriate today), plays The Bowery Electric tonight with Christy & Emily, Katie Eastburn, and David First. Advance tickets are still available.

After saying hi to David Letterman and going crate-digging, Queens of the Stone Age will play a sold-out Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Did you manage to snag tickets?

It may be cold and rainy, but the glowing tubes in the amps at Saint Vitus tonight will be warm. New Relapse signees Windhand team with Kings Destroy (their record release party), Clamfight and Belus as part of an InvisibleOranges event and a larger Windhand tour. Tickets are still available.

If you're looking for something to do after work, there's a Memphis punk double-threat happening at the the Seaport Music Festival with legends The Oblivians and upstarts Ex Cult. The rain moved the event down the street to the Beekman Beer Garden (under their giant tented area). Still free but Beekman is 18+. Sorry, minors!

Fans of '90s style indie rock? Grand Victory in Williamsburg has a pretty killer local line-up of Dead Stars, Radical Dads and Heaven.

Looking to catch potential Next Big Things? LODRO, Spires, Life Size Maps, The Vandelles and Young Boys. are playing at 247 N. 10th St (at Frost). That's a pretty good line-up.

While Of Monsters and Men cause the Governors Ball masses to sway in the rain, their tourmates, Montreal's talented Half Moon Run, will be performing at Glasslands.

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Broken Social Scene are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their landmark LP, You Forgot it in People, and snuck down to NYC to play Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with their sometimes vocalist Feist (who plays Governors Ball) in tow. They did "Almost Crimes" on the show and then did "7/4 Shoreline" as a web exclusive. Watch them both below.

Meanwhile, Park & Recreation costars Adam Scott and Amy Pohler collaborated on "The Greatest Event in Television History": a shot-for-shot recreation of the opening credits of '80s mystery-adventure series, Hart to Hart. And you can watch that (and a making-of doc) below too.

Check out our new NYC shows calendar.

What else?

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photos by PSquared Photography

Guns N' Roses @ Brooklyn Bowl, 6/6/2013

Axl Rose's current version of Guns N' Roses  did indeed play Brooklyn Bowl last night (6/7), an impossibly small venue for the band who will headline Governors Ball on Saturday (6/8). Taking the stage fairly close to their scheduled set time (they went on at 11:20 PM), the band (which still includes former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson) opened with two Appetite for Destruction numbers, "You're Crazy" and "Welcome to the Jungle."

According to a poster in MyGnRForum.com, the set was cut a bit short due to Axl having some tummy trouble and "he apologized for not giving a lot of energy and said that he was doing his best not to throw up." Despite that, GnR still played a 20 song set, wrapping it up with "Paradise City." Did you go last night? Was it worth the $150 ticket?

You can check out video of "Paradise City" and a couple other songs, plus the set list and lots more photos from Brooklyn Bowl, below.

Continue reading "Guns N' Roses played Brooklyn Bowl (pics, setlist, video)"

Governors Ball 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

It's rare that a NYC music festival pulls it off, but Governors Ball may do just that this weekend (6/7-9) on Randall's Island (NOT Governors Island). The fest, already basically sold out (I say "basically" because it went back on sale last minute), will feature headlining sets from Kings of Leon, Guns N Roses (who also play Brooklyn Bowl first), and Kanye West, and the rest of the lineup is pretty impressive too (check out our Spotify playlist.) The weather for this weekend isn't looking so hot, but what I'm more concerned about is what is the best way to actually get there.

Events that take place on foreign lands like Governors Island and Randall's Island (this one is on Randall's Island, but is named after Governors Island, where it took place its first year) always present a challenge in terms of transportation. Driving wouldn't be such a bad idea (three-day parking passes are sold out, but single day passes are still available), but it'd be nice to take a more environmentally friendly route (and I don't have a car). So as a New Yorker who loves convenience, and loves to complain, I'm trying to figure out which mode of public transportation is going to cause the least amount of headaches.

Obviously the most environmentally friendly way is walking/bicycling, which you can do across the 103rd St. Footbridge, which re-opened in June 2012. You can easily get there from the 4/6 trains or the M15 bus, and it's about a 20 minute walk across (857 feet). You can also walk across the RFK bridge from Manhattan, the Bronx, or Queens. More info on both of those routes is at Randall's Island's website.

On a normal day, going to Randall's Island is probably pretty easy by taking the M35 bus which runs there from the NW corner of 125th St. and Lexington Ave. Though for this weekend, being that it's Governors Ball, you would instead take the X80 Special Events bus, which leaves from the same location and has an increased fare of $10. Transfer is available from the Lexington Avenue 4, 5, or 6 trains at 125th Street. But that might end up getting really crowded during a music festival - not to mention it's out of the way for many, which is why Governors Ball is also providing other (more expensive) ways of transportation for festival-goers.

One option they provide is taking the Manhattan Ferry, which departs from and returns to 34th St. and FDR Drive. The ferries run continuously throughout the day. If you're not walking distance, your best bet might be to get to the ferry terminal by bus. 3-day passes ($50) and single-day passes ($20) for roundtrip ferry tickets are available.

UPDATE: Maybe not that surprisingly,reports from rainy day one say the ferry and shuttle were long line disasters.

Another, slightly more expensive (but maybe more convenient?) option is the Brooklyn Shuttle, which leaves from Williamsburg venue Brooklyn Bowl. The best way to get Brooklyn Bowl if you don't live close enough to walk is probably the L or G trains. 3-day passes ($60) and single-day passes ($25) for the the shuttle are also available.

What do you think works the best? What's worked best for you in the past? Let's discuss.

Dinosaur Jr at Terminal 5, 2011 (more by Tamara Porras)

Prepare for a triple dose of J. Mascis this weekend. First up, Dinosaur Jr. play twice on Friday (6/7): first at Governors Ball and then one of the fest's official afterparties happening at  Irving Plaza that night. Blown-out bluesman Reignwolf opens the show (and also plays Govs Ball) and you can check him out in a video below. Tickets are still available for Dinosaur Jr., but you can try your hand at winning some, we've got three pair to give away. Details are below. Good luck!

Then on Saturday afternoon (6/8) at Union Pool, Mascis plays again with one of his other bands, the instrumental, psychedelic blues-jamming Heavy Blanket. You can find out just how heavy a blanket can be by streaming a couple tracks below.

The show is part of the BrooklynVegan-presented edition of the venue's free Summer Thunder series (that kicked off last week) and the show also features Love As Laughter. The fun starts at 2 PM and, again, it's free.

Invisible Oranges is also proud to sponsor a Summer Thunder event on June 15th with Inter Arma and Pyrrhon.

Song stream, videos and contest details below...

Continue reading "J. Mascis' Heavy Blanket plays free Summer Thunder show at Union Pool on Saturday; win tix to Dinosaur Jr. at Irving Plaza"

Grizzly Bear in Austin in April (more by Tim Griffin)

As we realized/mentioned today in our Cut Copy post and our Feist post, single day tickets for Governors Ball are back on sale.

The festival goes down on Randall's Island this weekend (6/7-9). We also just made a Spotify playlist of many of the artists we're excited to see this weekend. Listen to that below or on Spotify. Full Governors Ball schedule is also below...

Continue reading "Governors Ball single day tickets back on sale; we made a Spotify playlist"

by Bill Pearis

As mentioned, Australia's World's End Press are over in North America with Cut Copy for a few dates and will headline a NYC show at Mercury Lounge on Wednesday (6/5) with Selebrities. Tickets to that show are still available. The band have just released a new single, "To Send Our Love," which should be on their forthcoming, Tim Goldsworthy-produced debut album. It's a slow build but by the midpoint the track enters full widescreen dance mode with a decidedly DFA backend. We've got the premiere of the track's video below.

Cut Copy, meanwhile, play NYC festival Governors Ball on Randall's Island this weekend. They play on the Saturday (6/8). Single day tickets are still available.

World's End Press also have a headlining date in Los Angeles after their dates with CC and all are listed below...

Continue reading "watch World's End Press' new video, "To Send Our Love""

Broken Social Scene at Williamsburg Waterfront in 2011 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Broken Social Scene will be coming to NYC this week to perform on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (6/6), and they'll be performing with collaborator/sometimes BSS member Feist. They'll be playing the song "Almost Crimes" from You Forgot It In People, which Feist sings on.

After that, Feist will hang around NYC to play Governors Ball, which goes down on Randall's Island 6/7-9) this weekend (she plays on the Friday at 6:45 PM). Single day tickets for Governors Ball are still available.

Meanwhile, Broken Social Scene will be heading back to Toronto (and after Governors Ball, Feist will too) for FIeld Trip Music & Arts Festival, which happens on Saturday (6/8), and is in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Arts & Crafts, the label BSS is signed to and which was co-founded by BSS member Kevin Drew. In addition to being the tenth anniversary of Arts & Crafts, it's also the tenth anniversary of Broken Social Scene's breakthrough record, You Forgot It In People and it's been announced that the band will be performing the album in full at Field Trip. A short note from Kevin Drew about playing the album was posted to Field Trip's site. Tickets for the festival are still available.

Two days later, Toronto will be taken over by the SXSW/CMJ-like festival, NXNE. Tickets for NXNE are still available, and a limited amount of NXNE wristbands will be accepted at Field Trip.

Gold & Youth

Vancouver electropop band Gold & Youth, who also play Field Trip, will kick off a North American tour after the festival. That tour brings Gold & Youth to NYC for a show on June 22 at Cameo with Superhumanoids and Gossamer. Tickets for that show are on sale now. All tour dates are listed below.

Gold & Youth released their hook-filled debut album, Beyond Wilderness, this past May. It was produced by Colin Stewart (New Pornographers, Pretty girls Make Graves) and should appeal to fans of fellow Canadians Austra, Diamond Rings and TRUST. You can stream the album in its entirety, album with the video for its single, "Jewel," below.

Continue reading "Broken Social Scene playing Fallon w/ Feist, performing 'You Forgot It In People' at Field Trip; Gold & Youth touring"

Kanye West in Sweden in 2011 (more)

NYC festival Governors Ball is totally sold out of regular tickets, but if you weren't able to get yours and still want to go, there are still a few options. From now until Monday (5/27) at 11:59 PM, you can enter the Governors Ball Ticket Lottery. Entering the lottery gives you a chance to be selected to purchase either a 3-day pass or a single day ticket. More details on how the lottery works below.

DoNYC is also giving away VIP passes and tickets to every after party, so you can also head to their site to enter that contest too.

Ticket lottery details and festival set times below...

Continue reading "sold-out Governors Ball offers last chance on tickets via lottery"

Crocodiles at 4 Knotts 2012 (more by Chris La Putt)

Crocodiles will spend the bulk of next month on tour with Japandroids and that will include their sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 7, which is one of the Governors Ball afterparties. If you'd like to catch them somewhere smaller, Crocodiles will headline their own show at Union Pool the next night (6/8). Opening is drag show Chez Deep and tickets are on sale now.

Crocodiles most recent album is 2012's Endless Flowers and you can watch the video for the title track below. All Japandroids tour dates are listed below as well.

Continue reading "Crocodiles touring with Japandroids, playing Union Pool"

Holy Ghost!, who are playing the Governors Ball next month and touring with New Order this summer, are working on their new album, Dynamics. The record doesn't have a release date yet, but the first single just dropped. The 10-minute whopper is called "Dumb Disco Ideas" and is fueled by a very DFA rhythm section and funky clavinet. You can stream it below via its video that uses time-lapse photography to good effect. You can buy it digitally now and a 200-run vinyl pressing is due out soon.

The band are about to start a West Coast tour, which will make them one of the few active artists on DFA's roster to not play the label's big, sold-out 12th anniversary party at Grand Prospect Hall on 5/25 which is part of the Red Bull Music Academy NYC takeover. They play Governors Ball on June 7 (only VIP tickets left) but tickets are still available for their July 24 show at Williamsburg Park opening for New Order.

All tour dates are listed, along with the new video, below.

Continue reading "Holy Ghost! released new single, playing shows including Governors Ball and New Order tour (dates, video)"

Deerhunter at Austin Psych Fest 2013 (more by Tim Griffin)

Governors Ball is less than a month away, and the fest has now released the daily schedule. They've done a pretty good job with not too many giant conflicts -- though there's a few like Grizzly Bear vs Beirut, Bloc Party vs The xx, Erykah Badu vs Beach House, and Nas vs Guns N Roses. Check out the daily line-ups across their four stages below.

Continue reading "Governors Ball announces set times"

The picture above (via Governors Ball's Twitter) pretty much says it all. Death From Above 1979 have cancelled their appearance at this year's Governors Ball, which is especially unfortunate considering they were one of the ten bands we're excited to see. Apparently they're in the throes of finishing their new album and can't make it.

DFA1979 were also supposed to play Governors Ball afterparty with Fucked Up on Friday, June 7 at Irving Plaza, and that has been cancelled too. Refunds are available at point of purchase.

Taking their place at the actual festival is Foals, who just brought their tour to Terminal 5 last Friday (5/3) for a fairly insane, hyper-energetic shows. The crowd was pretty much going bananas the whole time (as was singer Yannis Philippakis who spent as much time in the crowd as onstage) so this seems like a good addition to Governors Ball, even though DFA1979 will be missed.

Regular Governors Ball tickets are totally sold out, but you can still get VIP Passes for Friday or all three days.

by Bill Pearis

Wild Nothing have a new EP, Empty Estate, on the way, which will be out May 14 on Captured Tracks. That's the cover art above. Recorded in NYC back in January, the record is pretty different than anything Jack Tatum has done before, with a warbly postpunk/synthpop vibe, like what might have been released by Ze Records in 1979. Here's what Tatum says about it:

This is a record that happened very fast for me. We had just gotten back from a particularly long European tour last November, our first supporting Nocturne, and I was feeling a lot of things. I found myself struggling with what it meant to be a musician, with what music in general meant to me and what part I could possibly play in it. Playing the same songs every night for months left me bored with myself. But when I got home, for the first time in awhile it suddenly seemed that the pressure was off. We didn't have any tours planned for several months and I started to remember again why I love music in the first place. I listened to Brian Eno and David Bowie for weeks on end and felt like I was hearing them for the first time. I took a trip to Miami with my girlfriend. I visited my family. I felt free to try things musically that I would have stifled before. The songs on this EP were recorded over a 10 day period and are a reflection of this time. Of all the frustrations and successes and moments of peace in between.

Look for Wild Nothing on tour later this year, including NYC shows at Governors Ball in June and opening for Father John Misty at Terminal 5 on July 24. Tickets for that T5 show go on AmEx presale on Wednesday (4/26) at noon with the regular on-sale happening Friday (4/26) at noon. All Wild Nothing tour dates are below.

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DFA1979 @ Treasure Island Fest 2011 (more by Autumn Andell)

We already knew Japandroids would be playing a Governors Ball afterparty at Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 7. That one is sold-out, but they are far from the only ones in on the afterparty action. There are a bunch happening over the course of the festival (June 7 - 9), which were all announced today.

Friday (6/7) has the most. In addition to Japandroids, there'll be more Canadians afoot with Death From Above 1979 and Fucked Up at Irving Plaza. Tickets to that show go on sale Friday (4/26) at 10 AM with a Governors Ball presale starting Wednesday (4/24) at 10 AM, and LiveNation and Music Geeks presales on Thursday at 10 AM.

Also on Friday night, Polica and Solid Gold play Brooklyn Bowl and tickets go on sale Friday (4/26) at noon.

For those inclined to dance, Friday night also has Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs DJing at Webster Hall. Those tickets are on sale now.

And one last Friday afterparty: The Revivalists, Roadkill Ghost Choir and Swear & Shake play Bowery Ballroom. Tickets to that go on sale Friday (4/26) with an AmEx presale starting Wednesday at noon.

On Saturday (6/8), Haim and Kate Boy will play Brooklyn Bowl. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (4/26) at noon.

Also on Saturday, over at Gramercy Theatre it's Griz, and Cherub. Tickets go on sale Friday (4/26) at 10 AM with a Governors Ball presale starting Wednesday (4/24) at 10 AM, and LiveNation and Music Geeks presales on Thursday at 10 AM.

Only one afterparty on Sunday (6/9) and it's at Brooklyn Bowl with Sister Sparrow, Hollis Brown, and Shakey Graves at Brooklyn Bowl.

And for those who like to pre-party, Governors Ball is doing that too. Kate Boy, Hey Champ, and Gemini Club will play Santos Party House on Thursday, June 6. Tickets to that show are on sale now.

Flyer for the Governors Ball afterparties is below.

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