The 2013 ACL Festival happens in Austin, TX on two consecutive weekends: October 4 - 6 and October 11 - 13. Weekend passes are on sale now and the full line-up is below...

Continue reading "2013 ACL Music Fest lineup announced (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Atoms for Peace, The National, Vampire Weekend + more)"

Outside Lands Fest 2012 (more byAmoreena Lucero)

The 2013 edition of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival with happen at Golden Gate Park on August 9 - 11. This year's line-up includes Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, D'Angelo, Willie Nelson, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Hall & Oates, Foals, A-Track, Jurassic 5, Kurt Vile and many more. Tickets go on sale Thursday (4/18) at noon PDT.

This is the sixth edition of Outside Lands, and the full announced line-up is below.

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Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV)

After it was already confirmed that Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, The Postal Service, The National, The Killers, and Mumford and Sons were playing Lollapalooza 2013, a pretty promising leak came which appeared to potentially reveal the rest of the lineup, and it turns out that leak was real.

In addition to the previously mentioned artists, Lollapalooza will include Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Grizzly Bear, The Cure, New Order, Baroness, Beach House, Cat Power, Death Grips, Jessie Ware, Father John Misty, DIIV, Wavves, Alt-J, Hot Chip, Disclosure, Baauer, Palma Violets, Angel Haze, Band of Horses, Crystal Castles and many others.

Lollapalooza goes down in Chicago from August 2 - 4 in Grant Park. Single day passes go on sale Wednesday (4/3) at 10 AM.

Full day-by-day lineup below...

Continue reading "Lollapalooza 2013 lineup announced (Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Postal Service, Cure, New Order, Kendrick Lamar & more)"

Osheaga Festival is returning to Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 2-4. This year's lineup includes The Cure, Mumford and Sons, Phoenix, New Order, Vampire Weekend, Kendrick Lamar, Hot Chip, Alt-J, Beach House, Explosions in the Sky, Big Boi, Baauer, Father John Misty, Disclosure, Frightened Rabbit, Angel Haze, Jessie Ware, DIIV, Guards, and many more.

3-Day passes go on sale Friday (3/15) at noon. There are still over 20 artists TBA, but you can browse the complete initial lineup below...

Continue reading "Osheaga Festival 2013 lineup & tickets (The Cure, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Kendrick Lamar, New Order and more)"

Firefly Music Festival 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

Dover, DE festival Firefly Music Festival had a great first year in July of 2012, and afterwards immediately announced it'd return in 2013. The 2013 festival happens from June 21 - 23 at the Dover International Speedway, and the lineup was just announced. It includes Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, MGMT, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, The Walkmen, Django Django, Public Enemy, CHVRCHES, Amanda Palmer, Foxygen, Alabama Shakes, Toro y Moi, Dan Deacon, Action Bronson, The Avett Brothers, and more; and the headliners are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Vampire Weekend, and Foster the People. The full lineup is below and you can watch the announcement video at their website. TIckets go on general sale Thursday (2/21).

Firefly happens a couple weeks after NYC festival Governors Ball, which has some lineup similarities (Kendrick Lamar, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, Avett Brothers, etc). That one goes down on Randall's Island from June 7 - 9 and tickets are still available.

Firefly lineup below...

Continue reading "Firefly Music Festival announces 2013 lineup (Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit, Kendrick Lamar, MGMT, Grizzly Bear, Japandroids, Tom Petty, RHCP & more)"

photos by Jonathon Bernstein

The strong "Anything in Return" (Carpark), Mr. Bundick's recently released third full-length album, can't help but feel like a response to the womb he was born of. It's by far the most muscular of his work, even if his version of muscle is a thin sinew, only lightly flexed. Still, it's not chill. Not totally, at least.

His show at Webster Hall on Wednesday night highlighted the difficulties of shaking loose of the calm and moving toward squall.

Even at its most raging, Toro y Moi's music is an insular proposition, which in a room the size of this one, has its limitations.

At times, the mood was shamanistic -- there was smoke in the air, and the light show was throbbingly vivid. When Mr. Bundick went into psychedelic-soul freakout mode, it had moments of transporting power. - [NY Times]

Chillwave survivor Toro Y Moi rolled through NYC this week on his current tour with Wild Belle and Dog Bite, playing Webster Hall on Wednesday (2/13, as reviewed by the Times, above) and Music Hall of Williamsburg last night (2/15). Backed some sleek, '80s-inspired lighting, Chaz and his band tore through a good chunk of his brand new Anything in Return and select cuts from his two previous LPs.

More pictures from last night's MHOW show below...

Continue reading "Toro Y Moi, Wild Belle & Dog Bite played Music Hall of Williamsburg after Webster Hall (pics)"

Says the PR

On the heels of a highly successful, critically acclaimed sold-out 2012 festival, the Sasquatch! Music Festival unveils its 2013 lineup, which once again features 4 days of music. The festival, hailed as "a model of well-paced programming...in a four-day schedule as efficient and natural feeling as an expertly built algorithm" by NPR Music while Wired notes, "leave the landscape out of it and Sasquatch! has a lineup to kill for," runs May 24-27 (Memorial Day Weekend) at The
Gorge, the internationally acclaimed concert venue carved in the basalt cliffs high above the Columbia River Gorge in Quincy, WA.

Continue reading "Sasquatch! Music Festival 2013 lineup is here"

Frightened Rabbit @ T5, Nov. 2010 (more by Lionel Bergeron)

SXSW has just announced another round of bands for the 2013 edition of the annual music festival that will happen March 12 - 17. This brings the total current number of acts to around 1300. Someome of the highlights include Vampire Weekend, Frightened Rabbit, The Thermals, Black Lips, Camera Obscura, Merchandise, Bleached, Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire, Eagles of Death Metal, Parenthetical Girls, Indians, Night Beds, IO Echo, KEN Mode, Prince Paul, Pure Bathing Culture, Sepalcure, UK motorik post-punks TOY, Finnish instrumentalists K-X-P, Toronto's Moon King, UK indie rockers Splashh (not Brooklyn Splash with one "h") and loads more. Head to BV Austin for the whole Round 3 list.

Toro y Moi at Afro Punk Fest 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

As mentioned, Toro y Moi is releasing his new album, Anything in Return, on January 22 via Carpark and will be going on a tour in support of it which hits NYC on February 13 at Webster Hall. Tickets for that show are still available but if you'd rather catch them in a slightly more intimate environment, you're in luck because Toro y Moi just added another NYC show happening at Music Hall of Williamsburg on February 14. Like the Webster Hall show and many others on the tour, Wild Belle and Dog Bite will open the MHOW show. TIckets for that show go on sale Friday (1/11) at noon.

An updated list of dates and the videos for "So Many Details" and "Say That" off of Toro y Moi's new album, are below...

Continue reading "Toro y Moi adds 2nd NYC show w/ Wild Belle (updated dates)"

Autre Ne Veut @ 285 Kent - January 2011 (more by Erez Avissar)

King Dude at WIERD, 4/11/2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)

today in NYC
* Vows @ Party XPO
* Daniel Higgs @ Zebulon
* Owen @ The Mercury Theatre
* Real Estate @ Crest Hardware
* Way Yes @ Etsy Holiday Shop
* Gem Club @ Etsy Holiday Shop
* Ingrid Michaelson @ Webster Hall
* Sun Airway, Historics @ Glasslands
* Nels Cline and Julian Lage @ The Stone
* K-Holes, Habibi, Yellow Dogs @ Union Pool
* Trust (DJ Set), Black Marble @ Glasslands
* Toots and the Maytals @ The Capitol Theatre
* Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert @ The Wellmont
* The Faint, Trust, Icky Blossoms @ Terminal 5
* Marina & The Diamonds, Icona Pop @ The Paramount
* The Pharmacy, Sleepies, Lost Boy? @ Shea Stadium
* Sinden, Cobra Krames, Mess Kid @ Santos Party House
* Tinsel Teeth, Lushes, Necking, Psychic Blood @ Death by Audio
* New Found Glory, The Story So Far, Candy Hearts @ Irving Plaza
* Autre Ne Veut, Mykki Blanco, Oneohtrix Point Never @ 285 Kent
* Video Daughters, Alien Father, In Buenos Aires @ Muchmore's
* The Dearloves, Slutever, Mannequin Pussy, Turnip King @ Big Snow
* High Highs, Last Bison, Kris Orlowski, Vassals @ Knitting Factory
* People Under the Stairs, Fat Tony, Bryant Dope @ Gramercy Theatre
* Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, Communist Daughter @ Bowery Ballroom
* Sightings, Martin Bisi, Gnaw, Heldin, Pants Exploder @ Littlefield
* Xylos, Cultfever, Modern Rivals, I Am Lightyear @ The Mercury Lounge
* Emily Wells, Devin, Swear and Shake, Live Footage @ Brooklyn Night Bazaar
* 8mm, The Middle Eight, Sophie Et La Femme, Emily & The Complexes @ Pianos
* Psychic TV, Bryin Dall (performing Deconstructing Hank), King Dude @ Europa
* These Animals, Alex Vans, Stone Cold Fox, At The Moment @ The Bowery Electric
* Subsonics, The Living Kills, Loose Pistons, The Insomniacs @ The Grand Victory
* Man In A Crowd, The Ugly Club, Joanna Erdos & The Midnight Show, Barkhouse @ Cake Shop
* Tom Scharpling, Ted Leo + Pharmacists, Chris Elliot, John Hodgman, Jon Benjamin, Julie Klausner, Andrew W.K. @ The Bell House
* Stephin Merritt, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Ames, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, Eugene Mirman, Sarah Vowell, Gail Collins @ Sypmphony Space

They've announced the location of that free Real Estate show in Williamsburg. The band will play Crest Hardware at 5:30 PM. You can RSVP here but only the first 100 will get in. Good luck.

Mark Sultan has cancelled his Union Pool appearance tonight (that was to also feature Ex Humans and Pampers). The bill tonight is now K-Holes, Habibi and Yellow Dogs.

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Wild Belle performed on Conan at the end of last month, Check out the video below...

What else?

Continue reading "What's going on Friday?"

photos by Amanda Hatfield and Dominick Mastrangelo

Ratking at Public Assembly - 10/20/12

Sinkane at Public Assembly - 10/20/12

NYC rap crew Ratking and funky synth pop project Sinkane both played a number of CMJ shows last week, including the BrooklynVegan day party on Saturday (10/20) which they were both on. Pictures of Ratking's and Sinkane's set from that party are in this post.

The two groups will team up again in NYC this week for an in-store at the Puma Store (521 Broadway) on Thursday (10/25) with DJ Physical Therapy. The show is 21+, runs from 7 PM to 10 PM, and you can RSVP to rsvp@joaonewyork.com. The flier for this show is below.

Ratking, as mentioned, also recently dropped a remix of King Krule's "Octopus" which you can stream below.

Sinkane, who since played a record release show at Brooklyn Bowl last night (10/23), has other upcoming shows in NYC, including one with !!! at Music Hall of Williamsburg (12/13) and one with ESG at Bowery Electric (11/1). They'll also be supporting Yeasayer (who main member Ahmed Gallab once drummed for) on their upcoming tour which hits the NYC area on November 13 at the Capitol Theatre (tickets). They'll also support Toro y Moi on their recently announced tour but won't be at the Webster Hall show (2/13) (Wild Belle and Dog Bite will).

A list of all Sinkane dates, a stream of Ratking's King Krule remix, and more pictures of Ratking and Sinkane from the BV day party (sponsored by Sailor Jerry, PBR, Mercy, and Raw Revolution), below...

Continue reading "Ratking & Sinkane played the BV Saturday day party (pics), playing Puma Store this week & other dates"

Wild Belle at AV Fest/Hideout Block Party in Chicago in Sept (more by Sara Pieper)

Wild Belle is currently on a tour with Tennis which hit the NYC area twice this week for shows at Maxwell's (10/2) and Bowery Ballroom (10/3). They have some time off this weekend and will resume the tour on Monday (10/8) in DC, but until then, Wild Belle will be playing a couple of their own shows. They'll do a hometown show in Brooklyn TONIGHT (10/5) at Zebulon with Delicate Steve (who also have some CMJ shows scheduled) and Justin Walter, and are playing Albany on Saturday (10/6). Tonight's show, a rare cover charge show at Zebulon, starts at 9 PM and $10 at the door gets you in.

Wild Belle recently made a video for "It's Too Late." You can watch that and check out a list of all remaining tour dates below.

Continue reading "Wild Belle playing NYC tonight before resuming tour w/ Tennis"

Tonight (9/6), the stylish and the lovers of free booze and music will be out in force on the streets of Soho, the Meatpacking District and other parts of NYC for Fashion's Night Out.

We posted a giant list of FNO music happenings yesterday and turns out there's way more including: Yoko Ono reveals her new collection at Swarovski Crystallized; A$AP Rocky at Adidas Originals SoHo Store (see below); St. Vincent performing at at a speakeasy themed (and Boardwalk Empire-sponsored) party at Rag & Bone; Sonlange Knowles and Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear at The Ace Hotel; Theophilus London will be at The Rose Bar; Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. performs at Bloomingdale's Soho; Wild Belle at Mulberry (update: this is a DJ set); Frankie Rose and Alex Winston at Theory and more.

Basic info on these additional FNO performances/parties is below. Our previous post is here. All events are free and open-to-the-public unless otherwise noted. You can check the FNO website for more info. Some flyers below too.

What else?

Continue reading "more Fashion's Night Out free shows happening today all over NYC (St. Vincent, Alex Winston & more)"

West Coast janglers Craft Spells are heading East next month to play Cincinatti's Midpoint Music Festival (September 27 - 29) which also features the likes of Grizzly Bear, The Walkmen, Dirty Projectors, Sleigh Bells and many more. Tickets for the fest are still available and the whole line-up is at the bottom of this post.

Before the festival, Craft Spells will be in NYC for a show at Glasslands on September 24 with new new romantics Ice Choir. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

You can stream Craft Spells' new-ish EP, Gallery, plus check out the whole Midpoint Music Fest line-up, below.

Continue reading "Craft Spells playing NYC before Midpoint Music Festival (2012 line-up)"

The Treasure Island Music Festival returns to San Francisco on October 13 and 14, featuring an impressive line-up including The xx, M83, Joanna Newsom, Grimes, Public Enemy, SBTRKT, Divine Fits (who just played their first-ever show last night), Ty Segall, The War on Drugs, Youth Lagoon Toro y Moi, Best Coast and more. Tickets are on sale now in both individual day or 2-day packages.

The full Treasure Island Fest line-up is below.

Continue reading "Treasure Island Music Festival 2012 line-up (M83, The xx, Joanna Newsom, SBTRKT, Divine Fits, Public Enemy & more)"

Tennis at BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Tennis are teaming up this fall for a tour with Wild Belle, which comes to the NYC area for shows on October 2 at Maxwell's and October 3 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for the Maxwell's show and the Bowery Ballroom show go on sale Friday (7/20) at noon with an AmEx presale for the Bowery Ballroom show starting Wednesday (7/18) at noon.

A list of all dates and videos of both bands are below.

Continue reading "Tennis and Wild Belle going on fall tour together (dates)"

Wild Belle at Internet Week 2012 (more by Ryan Muir)

Wild Belle, who recently moved from Chicago to Brooklyn were added as an opener to The Maccabees' show at Webster Hall on June 13. Tickets for that show are still available and we're also giving away a pair. Contest details are below.

The Webster Hall show is currently one of two shows scheduled for Wild Belle, the other being in their previous hometown at Millenium Park. You can stream "Keep You" -- the Wild Belle track that's been floating around the internet for a few months -- at the bottom of this post. The band also recently recorded a live session at BBC's Maida Vale studios which will broadcast on Huw Stephens' show on June 13 at 7 PM EST.

Speaking of The Maccabees, they've also got upcoming dates opening for Florence & the Machine this summer.

A list of all Wild Belle dates, contest details, and song stream below...

Continue reading "Wild Belle opening for Maccabees at Webster Hall (win tix!)"

photos by Ryan Muir

Wild Belle @ Internet Week

I thought it was a little weird that Chicago band Wild Belle was playing a random NYC show, aka the Internet Week party that happened at "IWNY HQ" on Mercer St. Monday night with MNDR, but then I just read this:

EMI Music Publishing has signed a global songwriting deal with hotly tipped American duo Wild Belle.

The agreement, which is effective immediately, was sealed by EMI Music Publishing UK's Guy Moot, president UK and European A&R, and Dan Lloyd-Jones, VP A&R, with EMI Music Publishing North America's Jon Platt, president of North American Creative.

Originally from Chicago and now hailing from Brooklyn, New York, the sibling duo of Natalie Bergman and Elliot Bergman started gathering a fan base after posting their first track to their Bandcamp page, 'Keep You', earlier this year.

Roger Faxon, EMI Group CEO, said: "EMI is the perfect home for Wild Belle and I'm thrilled that Natalie and Elliot have chosen to join us.

Continue reading "Wild Belle live in Brooklyn now, played 'Internet Week' with MNDR (pics) "

Just like in 2010 and 2011, Internet Week NY HQ will be home to stages, a classroom, lounges curated by Design Within Reach, installations from Ivan Toth Depeña in collaboration with Jared Schiffman's "Spatial Media" class at NYU's ITP, and more. With 20,000 more square feet of Digital Playground as well as Conference Theater--Internet Week HQ at 82 Mercer is poised to be the best yet.

Open from May 14-17, attendees can expect to be a part of the ever-changing digital landscape in New York--hearing from industry luminaries and innovators across two stages and a classroom on the second floor of 82 Mercer. On the ground floor, Internet Week NY will host large-scale ticketed conferences with partners like App Nation.

A full schedule of all Internet Week goings on is available at their site but the musical portion of the conference kicks off tonight with an invite-only party at IWNY HQ (82 Mercer, 8-11pm) featuring Wild Belle and MNDR before moving to an after-party at Tribeca Grand later on for a performance from Rye Rye with DJ sets from Blaqstarr, Blu Jemz, Night People, and Kaviar Disco Club. Saturday (5/19) will feature a performances from Vacationer, Magic Wands and Body Language (who will also DJ) at Santos Party House.

Passes for the week are still available in varying levels but we're also giving away TWO Insider Passes, which gets you into all of the above and much more. Details on how to win these passes are below.

That kickoff party tonight will be the first NYC performance of Chicago's Wild Belle, who we profiled earlier this year on BV Chicago. The band also recently did their first BBC session last week, which will air in June. Stream their Keep You 12" below.

Internet Week 2012 closes with the Webby Awards which will be streamable in full. Patton Oswalt will host the evening.

A Wild Belle stream and details on how you can win and insider pass is below.

Continue reading "It's Internet Week - win passes, Wild Belle's NY debut included"