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Grand Ole Party Tour with Yeah Yeah Yeahs

chris maroulakos — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:03:51 +0000

Since taking the city by storm with their debut release, 2007′s Humanimals, San Diego dance-funk band Grand Ole Party has kept plenty busy. They’ve played back-to-back sold out shows at the Casbah, thrilling audiences with their syncopated sass. Lead singer Kristin Gundred started her own label, Zoo Music, and signed bands like Crocodiles and Dum [...]

Download: Owl and Bear’s Honorable Mention of 2008

owl and bear — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:28:43 +0000

Owl and Bear’s list of albums that almost made the cut in 2008. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Sunday at Devil Dirt (V2/Vagrant) Download: Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Live on BBC FM Okkervil River – The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar) Download: Okkervil River – August 9, 2008 (DVD) Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping [...]

Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (II)

jon — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:00:47 +0000

Note: Photos in this essay depict re-enactments of actual events, not the events themselves. Thursday, July 12 McCaskill picked me up at my folks’ house at 9PM. We weren’t planning to leave Jackson until about 1 or 2AM, but we’d decided to hang out a while and say goodbyes because, naturally, we may never come [...]

Girl Talk – Night Ripper

jon — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:59:35 +0000

2007, Illegal Art I can see Gregg Gillis, late at night, hunched over his laptop, sweat trickling down his brow in the unhealthy LCD glow, as he rips apart other artists’ works, and re-stitches the parts into a hellaciously funky monster that simply demands dance, all night. With tracks made from snippets that reside in [...]

Interview: Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk)

jon — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:00:21 +0000

Owl&Bear: Where did you get the name Girl Talk and what does it signify, if anything? Gregg Gillis: I was trying to pick the most intimidating name possible, something that when people hear it, they just sense insanity. Owl&Bear: How fucking rad is it to be able to party for a living now? Gregg Gillis: [...]

Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (I)

austin — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:00:27 +0000

photo by kirstiecat Let’s get this out of the way: fuck the Chicago Tribune. They messed up a lot of indie fans this past weekend by printing completely wrong directions to the Pitchfork Music Festival. Despite having lived in the Chicago area for nearly eight years and being with two people who attended the festival [...]

Bonnaroo 2007

jon — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:00:29 +0000

When I left Thursday afternoon, I felt like shit with an ungodly case of mono and, apparently, Lyme disease. I thought I might die there, but by Friday, I felt much, much better. It may be stupidly-named, but Bonnaroo apparently cures all ills. Friday morning, the suffocating heat within my tent woke me up, and [...]