Enigmatic Canadian R&B act The Weeknd have announced their first American show date. On September 15, band leader Abel Tesfaye & co will play Vice‘s Upfront Extravaganza at New York’s Skylight One Hanson. The Weeknd will be joined by A-Track, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Black Lips, the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Nick Zinner and others. While the Weeknd joined […]
Indie-pop duo Mates of State will release their seventh full-length LP Mountaintops on September 13th via Barsuk. But the band is now streaming the album on Rolling Stone. Cruise on over right here to give the album a listen. Additionally, check out the tour dates for the band’s North American tour dates below. Mates of State […]
Musicfest NW 2011 Line-Up Announced MusicFest NW takes over the streets of Portland beginning today and running through Sunday. You can check out the full line-up right here and a day-by-day schedule right here. In the meantime, here’s a preview playlist of just a handful of the dozens upon dozens of incredible artists heading to […]
The Antlers dropped one of the best albums of the 2011 with Burst Apart and we’ll be catching them at Portland’s MusicFest NW this weekend. But they recently played Jimmy Fallon and there’s a video to prove it. Check out their performance of “I Don’t Want Love”.
Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed and rock gods Metallica have announced a collaborative album called Lulu as well as its tracklist. The album will be released in the US on Warner Bros on November 1. While no tracks have been released thus far, apparently the album closes with a 19 minute track called “Junior Dad”. Tracklist […]