Set times were announced today for FYF Fest, a festival in Los Angeles that has repeatedly featured impressive lineups over the past few years. Check out the set times here. While you count down the days to the festival, here’s a playlist of lineup artists to tide you over. Continue reading
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Tobias Jesso Jr. releases “True Love” as a single
By Katie Olson Vancouver-born crooner Tobias Jesso Jr. released “True Love” as a proper single today. Jesso has been playing the demo on the road and prefacing it by explaining that label executives didn’t want the track on his debut album. The demo recording of the song has been on YouTube for about a year. … Continue reading
Florence + The Machine release teaser video
Florence + The Machine haven’t released an album since 2011’s Ceremonials. Florence Welch has since dropped a few hints that there will be a new album in the near future, and she has also appeared on a couple festival lineup lists. In this case, she continues to tease us, releasing a new video for something; … Continue reading
Chastity Belt premiere video for “Time to Go Home”
This morning, Chastity Belt premiered their new music video for “Time to Go Home”, the title track from their upcoming album via Gorilla vs. Bear. The video features the band gallivanting through Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and includes soccer boys, gay bars, and Macklemore face masks. Their highly anticipated second album is scheduled for release … Continue reading
What’s so special about Lana Del Rey?
By Katie Olson @nosloka When Lana Del Rey’s music video for “Video Games” started gaining momentum in the summer of 2011, people weren’t sure what to do. There she was, dancing and swaying across the worlds’ computer screens, crooning about adolescent entertainment and beer. Viewers didn’t know if they should hate her, love her, criticize … Continue reading
Coachella: an accidental crossroads for culture and religion
By Katie Olson @nosloka This year’s Coachella Music & Arts festival in Indio, Calif. was one for the books. Regardless of if you were there or not, we learned that Leonardo DiCaprio has some questionable dance moves in his playbook, that Lorde’s stage repertoire appears to mirror mid-2000s Kanye West, and that the Haim sisters … Continue reading
Three bands to listen to this summer
By Katie Olson @nosloka As far as festival season goes, music lovers are preoccupied with running around trying to get to their favorite bands’ shows. What they’re missing are prime acts that very well become their new favorites. So while you were in crowd of 40,000 people watching Arcade Fire play Coachella last weekend, we … Continue reading
Record Store Day 2014
By Katie Olson @nosloka The “unofficial ambassadors” of the first Record Store day in 2008 had no idea that what they were doing would catch on. Six years later, the day is international celebrated on the third Saturday of April. This year’s Record Store Day falls on April 19. The event has grown from having … Continue reading
Bleachers goes to therapy in new music video
By Katie Olson @nosloka Jack Antonoff, the guitarist from the pop group Fun., took what many people (in the entertainment industry and beyond) are thinking and put it into a song. Antonoff’s side project, Bleachers, released a single titled, “I Wanna Get Better” in the middle of February. Today, the band released a music video … Continue reading
Spring Break 2014 Playlist
By Katie Olson @nosloka It’s always summer in California. But if you’re on the east coast or in the midwest, there’s probably still some snow on the ground. In the Pacific Northwest, the sunny days are just starting to compete with the rainy ones. Here’s a 20-track playlist filled with lo-fi, beachy sounds that will … Continue reading
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