Japandroids

Tonight marks the start of the 51st annual NY Film Festival at Lincoln Center. As with every year, the collection of films and events presented are varied and eclectic and surprisingly this time includes a number of comedies, something rare for this festival…

the real Vampire Weekend at Barclays Center this week (more by Dylan Johnson) Last year around the holidays, Adam Horne of Brooklyn’s Bear Ceuse (who released an album this year) and Animal New York uploaded an album to Soundcloud called Merry Indie X-Mas, which featured hilarious parodies of what it would sound like if famous indie bands did Christmas covers in their own …

Last month (on 6/11), Japandroids and Crocodiles brought their North American tour through Chicago for a sold-out performance at Metro. The night consisted of the typical-though-always-fun Japandroids shenanigans: pushpits and singshout-alongs…

Despite a few mishaps, Bonnaroo successfully kicked off in Tennessee yesterday (6/13) with sets from Japandroids, Father John Misty, Alt-J, Killer Mike, Django Django, Haim, The Vaccines, and more…

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 p…

The day before Japandroids‘ set at Governors Ball on the big main stage, they played a much smaller, sweatier and packed NYC show at their Govs Ball after party at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Crocodiles (whose new album is out in August)…

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…

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 s…

Treasure Island Music Festival is returning in 2013 to The San Francisco Bay on October 19-20. This year’s lineup includes Thom Yorke’s Atoms For Peace project, Beck, Animal Collective, James Blake, Japandroids, Disclosure, Tricky, Little Dragon, Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, Holy Ghost…

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 opti…