Independent Venue Week doc premiering alongside Q&A with Radiohead & Portishead members
The new documentary features Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Fatboy Slim, Nadine Shah, IDLES, Gaz Coombes, Adrian Utley (Portishead), Richard Hawley, and more.
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SXSW announces 250 more 2019 artists (Deerhunter, Stealing Sheep, more)
The music portion of SXSW 2019 runs March 11-19 in Austin, TX and other just-announced artists include The Dirty Nil, Versus, Waco Brothers, Combo Chimbita, Public Practice, Sloppy Jane, and more.
Mercury Prize 2018 nominees (Arctic Monkeys, Florence, King Krule, more)
Other nominees include Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Sons of Kemet, Jorja Smith, and more.
Palisades is featured on the cover of The New Yorker’s “Entertainment Issue”
Small Brooklyn music venues everywhere can be proud today as one of their own finally made it big. Bushwick venue Palisades (and it's infamous view-impeding support pole) is featured on the cover of the just-out "Entertainment Issue" of The New Yorker magazine The co…
BBC Music Sound of 2015 longlist announced
The BBC have released the list of artists they and their panel think "highlights 15 of the best and brightest new acts for the coming year...
Mumdance releasing stuff, touring, playing Lit City Trax RBMA, Warm Up & more; DJ Marfox t…
Drawing upon the UK electronic music of his youth, Mumdance (along with collaborators Logos and Mao) was inspired by grime, hardcore, and shoegaze but never beholden to it...
Foie Gras is for the Uninformed (aka Gothamist)
I'm not much of an activist, but Foie Gras is disgusting, uber-cruel, & pointless, and Gothamist writing something positive about it ("our favorite foie gras dish in the city was blah blah blah") has me wondering if I'll submit a post next week...