Way Out West

Julien Baker was scheduled to spent August playing some European festival dates, but she's unfortunately had to cancel them because of medical issues.

Do you love music festivals, have lots of free time and disposable income? Then Live Nation's new Festival Passport may be of interest. For $799 it gets you general admission access to over 90 festivals...

Deke Richards, a producer and songwriter who was part of the team responsible for Motown hits like "I Want You Back" and "Maybe Tomorrow," died Sunday at age 68, according to a press release from Universal Music...

Other Lives @ Rock Werchter 2012 (more by Tim Griffin) Sky Ferreira @ BVCMJ 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) today in NYC * Build @ The Stone * Big Terrific @ Cameo * Eyehategod @ Saint Vitus * Camp Lo @ Knitting Factory * Dear Comrade, Hints @ Cameo * Aaron Neville @ Brooklyn Bowl * Mount Eerie @ Le Poisson Rouge * Cypress Hill @ Best Buy Theatre * Curtis MacDonald Group @ Barbes * Other Lives, Indians @ Bowery Ballroom * Justin Bieber @ Madison Square Garden * Jack Ingram & Radney Foster @ Joe's Pub * Harry Fraud, DJ Getlive @ Public Assembly * Sky Ferreira, Acrylics, Rumors @ Glasslands * Future Shuttle, Holy God, Long Vera @ Zebulon * Pegasus Warning, Vernous @ The Bowery Electric * The Moog, Oh Halo, EUSH, Madison Cano @ Pianos * American Darlings, Robin Electric, Giftshop @ Cake Shop * Cannibal Corpse, Misery Index @ Rocks Off Concert Cruise * Youth Group, Nick Zinner (DJ), MNDR (DJ), Musa (DJ) @ Le Bain * Benzos, Happy People, Dinowalrus, Inky Jack @ Mercury Lounge * The Gaslight Anthem, Matthew Ryan, Laura Stevenson & The Cans @ Terminal 5 * School of Seven Bells, Twin Sister, Moon King @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Big Ups, Youth & The Drug Explosion, The Black Black, Fuck 666, Stryk9 @ Party XPO * Ancient Ocean, Afterlife, Long Distance Poison, Hex Breaker Quartet @ Death By Audio * EMEFE, Swift Technique, Mokaad, The Bailen Brothers Band, Jake Pinto & the Yeahtones @ Paper Box Neil Young, who played MSG last night, is on the Daily Show tonight. Follow @Broo...

Bon Iver at Bonnaroo 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Bon Iver recorded an iTunes session at East West studios which is available exclusively from iTunes starting today...

As we were just saying, Off! were putting the finishing touches on their new album. This new press release from Vice Records has even more info:In a creative pace to match the breathless vehemence of their music, punk/hardcore luminaries OFF...

Swedish electronic art, music & multimedia project iamamiwhoami, who has been accused of being Karin Dreijer Andersson of the Knife (who iamamiwhoami now shares a manager with), has been pretty quiet lately...

The Coachella 2012 lineup was supposed to be announced in full by now (update: ANNOUNCED), so that may explain why Pulp just announced that they will in fact be playing the festival on both of its weekends: April 13 & 20...

Robyn was one of the highlights of the Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden over the summer. I took a whole bunch of pictures of her performance in her home country, but never got to post them, so here they are along with videos of her performance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend (Katy Perry who she opened some shows for in the past was the host)...

DOWNLOAD: SBTRKT - "Wildfire" (Drumma Boy remix ft. Shabazz Palaces) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: SBTRKT - "Wildfire" (Feat. Little Dragon) (MP3) Watching SBTRKT with vocalist Sampha, an inch from the small stage at Nefertiti Jazz Club in Gothenburg, Sweden back in August was a highlight of my trip over there for the Way Out West festival...