Summerfest, a.k.a. America’s largest music festival, is set to return to Milwaukee’s Henry Maier Festival Park this coming summer, and earlier today, “The Big Gig” unveiled a monster lineup that features over 90 diverse headlining acts. Though more artists will likely be added to the bill, presently it seems that Kendrick Lamar, Kings of Leon, Zac […]
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BBC Radio 1 Is Rescoring ‘Drive’ With Chvrches, Jon Hopkins, The 1975, SBTRKT, More
Remember how cool the soundtrack for Drive was? It was almost as cool as Driver’s jacket, all ’80s-chic electric goodness, and it was one of the biggest reasons audiences fell in love with the film. That CD is still in my car as I type this. Now, BBC Radio is giving something that was already great another […]
Wild Cub Release New Music Video For “Colour,” Remix For Bastille’s “Oblivion”
Wild Cub have released a new music for their bright track, “Colour,” as well as a remix for Bastille’s track, “Oblivion.” Wild Cub’s Youth came out last January via Mom+Pop Records, and since then the band has performed on Conan, as well as extensively touring. The band plans to release a limited edition Colour 10-inch […]
Bastille Keep Things Melancholy With The Debut Of “Bad News”
Bastille have had a banner year. In less than eighteen months this import pop rock outfit have quickly become one of the most played groups at radio, and along the way they’ve score a number of top 10 singles. Today, while still riding high off the success of their debut album, the members of Bastille […]
Brand New, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse Headlining Boston Calling
Last year Boston threw its first big music festival in quite some time — and they saw it pay off. Boston Calling Music Festival put on a two-day festival in May and September, both of which sold out, allowing them to bump their third installment (May 23 – 25, 2014) to three days. Tonight they hid […]
STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Coheed and Cambria Covers Bastille’s “Pompeii”
Oh. My. Lord. It has happened. This is the most fantastic thing to happen this year. Coheed and Cambria has covered Bastille. As a life-long fan of the band who has Bastille’s Bad Blood as a fore-runner for my album of the year (right up there with The Afterman: Descension), this is pretty much the […]
Bastille Covers Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop” With An 8 Mile Twist
Today I shopped for groceries. I normally hate doing this, but today it was ok. I think Bastille had something to do with that. For the majority of the morning and afternoon, I had Bad Blood on repeat. This is simply one of the best albums this year. It’s stunning. Listening to this while pushing […]