Bao Nguyen

Tickets are on sale for Chromeo shows in Philly, Boston and NYC. The NY show is at Webster Hall on October 2nd. Peanut Butter Wolf is opening…

DOWNLOAD: Sharon Jones – 100 days, 100 nights (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Menahan Street Band – Make the Road by Walking (MP3) “Hey, Duffy: This is what soul sounds like: Tribal, earthy, hip-shakin’, swerve-throwin’ Sharon Jones…

DOWNLOAD: CSS – Move (Cut Copy remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: CSS – Left Behind (Midnight Juggernauts remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sunny Day Sets Fire – Wilderness (CSS Remix) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: CSS – Donkey minimix (MP3) The ‘Donkey’ minimix MP3 (releaesd to promote the new album) is kind of lame because instead of actually mixing together every song on their new album ‘Donkey’, it just kind of plays clips of each song one after another…

“Carl Newman is currently mixing his as-yet-untitled long-player – set for a January release – and is especially enthusiastic about the lineup of musicians who contribute to the new tunes…

The only bands I (Showtrotta) wanted to see at All Points West in Jersey City on Friday (8/8) were Underworld and Radiohead. I entered the festival a bit earlier than that though – just in time to get poured on, but luckily it let up pretty quickly…

“Got there early&saw a bit of Andrew Bird and checked out Shudder to Think because we were interested..then went off to get a good spot for She&Him…

OK, maybe I shouldn’t have written as much as I did at 3am, BUT Wilco is one of my favorite bands and I loved last night’s show. I just half-jokingly meant Jeff seemed a little edgy (and he dissed Brooklyn…

“Andrew Bird — Wow, was this guy awful. I wanted to get close to the stage for She & Him so I had to tolerate Bird’s performance. It was horrendous…

“In the three-year history of this festival, no act has ever been late – not even by a few minutes. It always impressed me that the artists maintained enough professionalism to be on time and the organizers insisted on a tight schedule…

Kanye West took a bit of a jab at the festival’s schedule, specifically the choice concertgoers had to make between his performance and one from Nine Inch Nails happening at the same time at the other end of the park (a dilemma faced by fans at Chicago’s Lollapalooza a week earlier)…