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What is the Best Portable PA System For Your Band?
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All Good 2012: Top Picks
All Good 2012 Photo Gallery: 131 Images All Good has always been my favorite festival to attend as a patron. This year I was a little anxious, given the new location and the fact that the festival...
Camp Bisco 11: Top Picks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=363raHpDzl4 Note: Every music festival gets a little crazy. It's part of the experience, really. Camp Bisco is full of some of the most exciting visual and sonic...
Lucinda Williams at the Bowery
WHEN: August 6-7, 2012 HIGHLIGHT: Bringing the Bowery to its knees with two completely different, jaw-dropping sets A few songs into Lucinda Williams’ first of two nights at the Bowery Ballroom, I...
The Tallest Man on Earth
“An American South journey with the literate, finger-picking Scandinavian Sherpa." There’s No Leaving Now Dalama, Sweden (Dead Oceans Records) Seven hundred and thirty days - that’s how long the...
Sun Kil Moon
"Boldly stark, yet surprisingly upbeat sad bastard musings” Among the Leaves San Francisco, CA (Caldo Verde Records) Releasing albums since ’89, San Francisco transplant Mark Kozelek has one of the...
Soul Asylum
“Wittiness, familiarity and change keep runaway train Dave Pirner on track” Delayed Reaction Minneapolis, MN (429) Soul Asylum’s original members Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy have retained Tommy...
Shout Out Out Out Out
“Dark, melodic ‘vocoder pop’ from the Great White North” Spanish Moss and Total Loss Edmonton, AB (Normals Welcome Records) Edmonton, AB-based dance punk/electro poppers Shout Out Out Out Out have...
Sean Rowe
“An introspective, timeless showcase of a deep-voiced singer/songwriter's gift” The Salesman and the Shark New York, NY (ANTI-) It is difficult to characterize the hefty-voiced singer/songwriter...
Poor Moon
“Woodsy bearded baroque-folk” Poor Moon Seattle, WA (Sub Pop) Although this is the first full-length album under the Poor Moon moniker, the musicians who make up the group are anything but strangers...
Niki & The Dove
“Scandinavian electronic pop-noire” Instinct Stockholm, Sweden (Sub Pop) In the Swedish tradition of perfect pop music, Niki & The Dove have produced a chart-worthy album of tenderhearted...