Sam O’ Grady was introduced to me as “knowing ‘Capital Punishment’ by heart, the only girl I know into MOP, and a damn fine writer.” That is something worth inscribing on a tombstone. This is her dispatch from a Canadian music festival that is apparently a very big deal in Canadia. Osheaga is like a… Continue reading »
Aaron Frank is not pictured in this photo. Or is he? Enter No Age, on a broiling Saturday afternoon, rocking the Red Stage with supreme LA skate-punk thrash. They were awesome, but you already knew I was going to say that. Or maybe you watched the streaming performance online where the crowd went Flocka for… Continue reading »
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Aaron Frank did not receive free Chipotle. Otherwise, things are going swimmingly. More Photos available here. With six years of facial hair growth, the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago has garnered a lofty rep for curating one of the more singular Summer festivals. They veer towards eclectic bands on the ascent or they revisit their rise… Continue reading »
Aaron Matthews doesn’t recommend the Texas-Style BBQ in Toronto. Now in its 17th year, NXNE is the closest thing Canada ever gets to SXSW; 5 days of live shows sprawled across over 20 venues in downtown Toronto. The city has to close off Yonge Street, the main thoroughfare, just to accommodate the number of pedestrians… Continue reading »
Aaron Matthews’ favorite DJ is Toni Kukoc. For 3 glorious days in July, the peaceful fishing village of Petrcane, Croatia finds itself to subject to a British invasion the likes of which haven’t been witnessed since the days of colonization, or possibly the Beatles. Their destination: the second annual Soundwave Festival, A strict anti-drug policy… Continue reading »
Sach O likes Brooklyn band! Alert the Press! Are Chin Chin the best contemporary funk band on the circuit today? In a scene so amorphous as to run from indie darlings Hercules and Love Affair to Meters revivalists Baby Charles to Wu-Tang disciples the El Michels Affair, it’s hard to make a definitive claim, but… Continue reading »
Now in its 30th year, the Montreal Jazz Fest is only tangentially about Jazz or even music. As the city’s biggest annual event, the amount of tourist dollars riding on the event is enough to record Blue Note sides from now until infinity and the lineup is accordingly focus grouped and carefully weighed so as… Continue reading »
Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart–if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious spending money for wine, water, and whiskey, plus… Continue reading »
As I wriggled out of the teeming crowd that clotted for M.I.A, I eavesdropped on the Spalding basketball-bronzed sorority sisters speaking behind me: “If I was like a dude, I would totally want to do M.I.A.” Personally, M.I.A. doesn’t really do it for me, but I get where they’re coming from. After all, I’ve long… Continue reading »
Bret Easton Ellis once pointed out that the inhabitants of Los Angeles never stop babbling about the freeways. Then again, he penned, Less than Zero during the comparatively halcyon Tom Bradley days, prior to the total arteriosclerosis of the 405 and 101. Nowadays, surviving requires a serenity towards the iron inferno of rush hour. Consider… Continue reading »
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