Not sure how often we’re going to get to spin the wheel or buy a vowel, but there’s a Wheel of Fortune-esque puzzle up with the 2010 Lollapalooza lineup. After a quick glance, it looks like we could get the Strokes, Lady Gaga and Spoon — but I’m sure you guys can figure out a [...]

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Whoa! Louisville’s Forecastle Festival really stepped it up this year by booking the Flaming Lips to headline this year’s event. Looks like our summer just got a little bit brighter. [via BSSB] Forecastle 2010 Lineup Flaming Lips Widespread Panic Drive-By Truckers Spoon Bassnectar Heavyweight Dub Champion Break Science Dar Williams Cap’n Jazz Two Fresh Mimosa [...]

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Yesterday I knew nothing about the existence of Iretsu. Today I’m anxiously awaiting May 27, when I can hear the rest of their new album. MP3: Iretsu – Humbuzzer This track reminds me of how music used to sound when I was 18 and everything was new to me. It’s not just that I can’t [...]

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MP3: The Happy Hollows – Big Bad Wolf I just got passed along this video and MP3 for the Happy Hollows’ track “Big Bad Wolf.” It’s not from their record Spells (which I’ve recently fallen in love with), but comes from their “Imaginary” EP from 2008. But hey, with a video this good, I think [...]

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Is it wrong that the band I was most looking forward to seeing during the week of SXSW wasn’t playing SXSW at all? No, even with the thousands of bands playing that week in Austin, I was most looking forward to getting home, jumping in a car and driving to Cincinnati to see Portugal. The [...]

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The Black Keys played only one show at SXSW 2010, so the pressure was on. Everyone in the audience had already passed their test: somehow make it through the long line, into the venue, secure a good spot and hold it through the uncharacteristically frigid weather we were forced to endure. Now the question was, [...]

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I kind of feel like I owe an apology to Broken Bells. I was kind of harsh on “the High Road” when we first got to hear it and only recently have come around. It took me a few spins of the record (and the realization that “the Ghost Inside” is one of my favorite [...]

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Thurston Moore’s set at the Mohawk was admittedly fun, but it was another case where I couldn’t shake the feeling that there were literally thousands of people who should have been there rather than me. I was having fun and enjoying the show, but a set pairing Thurston Moore and J Mascis with a few [...]

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Given it was my third time seeing Local Natives in three days, you might think that my excitement would have waned noticeably before their show Saturday at Stubb’s. Not so. No, I knew I had to soak in all the good music I could at SXSW and sometimes that means seeing one of your favorite [...]

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