As it does every year, the Coachella Music Festival is about to descend upon Indio, California. From April 16 – 18, the one-horse town will be transformed into an indie music mecca, with hipsters converging from far and wide to soak up the tunes and 115-degree heat.
Coachella can be a terrific time but also a taxing one, so you’ll want to get your mandatory three-day ticket’s worth. To help ensure that you don’t risk all that dehydration and sunstroke for nothing, your friendly neighborhood Owl and Bear have compiled a list of this year’s must-see bands. (more…)
Apr 15, 2010 | Categories: shows | Tags: Atoms For Peace, avett brothers, Camera Obscura, coachella, Dirty Projectors, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Faith No More, frightened rabbit, John Waters, local natives, Matt & Kim, Mike Patton, pavement, phoenix, radiohead, spoon, Talking Heads, Them Crooked Vultures, thom yorke, vampire weekend, yeasayer | Leave A Comment »
Owl and Bear writers’ favorite albums of 2009. (more…)
Jan 01, 2010 | Categories: downloads, lists, poetic memory, reviews | Tags: ac newman, animal collective, avett brothers, best of year, black heart procession, black moth super rainbow, Bowerbirds, califone, Camera Obscura, carl newman, dan bejar, Dirty Projectors, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Fanfarlo, fruit bats, Girls, Grizzly Bear, Immaculate Machine, Jason Lytle, Lady Gaga, marissa nadler, mayer hawthorne, Mew, neko case, new pornographers, phoenix, smith westerns, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, the gentlemen losers, tortoise, vic chesnutt, woods | 1 Comment »
