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[FESTIVAL REVIEW] Hopscotch Music Festival 2011

I arrived in Raleigh for the Hopscotch Music Festival around 10:45pm on Thursday night.  After rushing to pick up my wristband, I headed over to a club named White Collar Crime in time to see polarizing art-rockers Xiu Xiu.  By the time they were finished, I felt like I had a good handle on the [ READ MORE ]

Hopscotch Festival has an insane lineup

Raleigh, NC’s Hopscotch Music Festival just announced its lineup, and this is definitely worth a road trip.  The festival takes place September 8-10, and the lineup is great mix of long-running experimental acts, rising indie bands, and old school indie rock royalty.  It’s a walking festival with a bunch of participating venues, but there are [ READ MORE ]

Future Islands keep getting bigger (w/ Eyedrum 11/17/2010 setlist)

That video above is from Future Islands’ first acoustic show at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore.  In advance of that performance, they recorded a four song acoustic EP featuring “Vireo’s Eye” and 3 of their other songs done in the style seen above.  If you’ve heard the original versions, the differences are fairly dramatic.  They [ READ MORE ]

This week’s shows (11/15/2010-11/21/2010)

  Monday (11/15/2010): Brooklyn’s Liturgy signed to venerable indie label Thrill Jockey last week and stirred up some debate about the increasing overlap between indie rock and metal (specifically black metal, as that’s what Liturgy specializes in).  Is there an actually increasing intersection between the two, or are there just a handful of metal bands [ READ MORE ]

live review: Future Islands @ 529, 7/19/2010 (setlist)

I guess a lot can change in a couple of months. When Future Islands played 529 on a Saturday night back in May, they played to a respectable but far from capacity crowd, many of whom seemed to be there for headliner Balkans. Last night was a different story. Future Islands were the headliner and [ READ MORE ]

Balkans, Future Islands, Lower Dens, #Phonepunk# @ 529, 5/8/10 (pics + FI setlist)

Review, pics, and Future Islands’ setlist after the jump[ READ MORE ]

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