Surfer Blood

& Tim Griffin SXSW started out for us this year on two stages with fifteen bands at Emo’s for a free six hour BrooklynVegan day party presented kicked things off right at noon with a high energy, 8-bit pop rock set to a dedicated crowd who showed up early to catch them…

DOWNLOAD: True Widow – “NH” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: True Widow – “Skull Eyes” (MP3) Reverb-drenched shoegaze, 70s-riffery and the slow-burn of Low converge on the latest True Widow, a Dallas band whose new LP As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth, via Kemado…

BrooklynVegan Week in Austin begins once again at Emo’s where we’ll kick off a six hour day party presented at noon on Wednesday, March 16th…

“Over the weekend, I see many other compelling images: Black Lips bassist Jared Swilley launching his instrument into the sea while shooting a music video…

TV on The Radio at Roots Picnic 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) Tickets are still available for TV On The Radio‘s date with Radio City Music Hall on 4/13, and since we last spoke the band announce many more tour dates…

words & If you’re just joining us, start with PART ONE before continuing on…. Saturday morning we all woke up in the Bahamas, hit the buffet and the pool before the next show, fueling up for a day on the beach and a night at Senor Frogs…

words & You are all going to hate us. I fully expect the comments section to light up like the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center with all kinds of vitriolic bile and hummus inflected hatred, but you know what, we won’t care because we had fun…

The Drums were recently announced as part of the lineups of Coachella, Bonnaroo and Sasquatch. The Drums recently played an intimate NYC show at The Studio at Webster Hall…

Big names and regulars aside, there are a few bands I want to highlight on the just-announced Sasquatch lineup: Wolf Parade (“indefinite hiatus” rumors be damned), The Flaming Lips (performing “The Soft Bulletin”), Death From Above 1979 (now three reunion shows total), Guided By Voices (they’re not done yet), and…

Trail of Dead at APW 2009 (more by Chris La Putt & Tim Griffin) …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead will team up with Surfer Blood for a North American tour in late April/early May…