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Sweetlife Festival 2012 – The Recap

The Shins!

The Sweetlife Festival was a memorable day of great music and great grilled cheese. And, when it comes down to it, aren’t those two things what life is really all about?

I’m going to break this recap down into two parts, first reviewing the performances at the Treehouse Stage, and then talking about the headliners at the Main Stage.

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Lee

Monday is Memorial Day mix (Part 2)

This is the second installment of my Memorial Day mix, which will happen every, um, Memorial Day. Take a look back at last year’s mix here (sorry, the mp3s no longer work…can’t just leave them up forever!). We Knox Roadians hope you’re all having fantastic Memorial Day weekends. Last year I started off […]

Lee

Explosions In The Sky performing at Central Park Summerstage June 30

Yeah. That’s tomorrow. At the Central Park Summerstage. Meaning outside in New York City. How often do you get to see one of the best-known live acts perform at such an incredible outdoors venue?? Just get there early; you’ll be facing quite the line. Don’t wanna drown in that old man’s B.O. in […]

Jon

Tunturia is one of the best post-rock bands you’ve never heard of

On a warm, quiet night last summer, I was driving to a friend’s house with three others in my car. The air conditioning was off and the windows were barely cracked open. We began to head over a causeway, and besides the near-silent lapping of the water next to us, everything was quiet […]

Lee

The Calm Blue Sea: Trying to be Explosions In The Sky?

Now, I don’t think this is a bad thing for audiences, because they actually pull it off fairly well (SO, let me preface all this by saying I like The Calm Blue Sea’s music. A lot). But come on: the music sounds identical in that experimental way and even their name […]

Bob

In the cold, cold winter.

I have a friend who thinks about music in terms of what season it falls in. This person has some albums and bands that he correlates with “summer.” Since this is turning out to be a cold winter season, I began to think about what music reminds me of winter.

I start with one […]

Lee

So. Cold.

It is freezing right now in New York. I don’t care if I’m from Boston, don’t tell me I should be able to suck it up. Cold is cold no matter where you’re from. Free mp3 for whoever buys me some footsie pajamas! (Fair trade, no?)

Aw, what the hell, everyone’s […]

Bob

South by Southwest is the greatest.

So I was looking for some music festivals that are coming up in the new year, and I stumbled upon the line-up for the 2009 South By Southwest Music Festival….these are just some of the artists there…

Ben Kweller, The Crystal Method, Dead Prez, Explosions in the Sky, Killer Mike, Mika Miko, Peter […]