I heard a lot of rumblings this week about a new LCD Soundsystem album, but DiS and Mojo were able to summarize everything pretty well. It seems that all signs are pointing to a spring release of a stellar record. And even if the album’s a dud (why would it be?), we can still all [...]

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One thing I miss about the years it’s been since I started You Ain’t No Picasso is that I don’t really get as fanatically devoted to groups as I used to. Five years ago it’d be nothing for me to spend an hour on the internet looking for new songs by groups that I don’t [...]

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I only knew a handful of Neon Indian songs going in to their show at Monolith (pretty much just whatever GvB had posted), but I knew that I had to see their show. In what is completely unusual for me (what with living in Lexington and all) I got to catch a rising act during [...]

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A few hours before the Dirty Projectors played their new song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, ?uestlove posted a video of them playing their new song in a dressing room. Apparently someone had asked if they were doing the vocal work live or sampling and they decided just to show them. That got my [...]

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While at Monolith I bumped into Caitlin Rose in the media area. We chatted for a minute thanks to mutual friends before I realized that she was the same Caitlin that I’d been getting press emails about and meaning to listen to. She handed me a copy of her album, told me she sang much [...]

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For a lot of people, one of the bigger attractions at Lexington’s Boomslang festival is Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound. He’ll be pairing up with Casino vs Japan (my co-worker, Erik) to play an afterparty on the Friday of Boomslang. After you’re done rocking out to Faust and Mission of Burma, your [...]

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While I was waiting for the Features (who I wound up skipping so that I didn’t have to make a trip down and up the soul-shatteringly high stairs of Red Rocks) I chatted for a bit with some people in the media tent and ate a breakfast of celery and ranch. These United States’ publicist [...]

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For some reason the Grates’ show at Monolith wasn’t as fantastic as when I caught them at SXSW. They were on a higher, more removed platform which could have been part of the problem. At SXSW, Patience jumped down into the crowd, swirled her ribbon and even shared her microphone with the audience. But at [...]

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This makes twice now that I’ve only sen the Yeah Yeah Yeah for four to five songs. The first time was at Bonnaroo when I had to leave and photograph other bands; now Monolith gets added in because I finally got so cold and wet in the rain that I had to head indoors to [...]

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