[Just a heads up: MGD flew me out to California to blog for them at the Filter Yacht Party and Friday of Coachella. They payed me to guest blog for their facebook page. Part of the deal is that they asked when I write about these events on YANP, I have to explain that these [...]

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[Just a heads up: MGD flew me out to California to blog for them at the Filter Yacht Party and Friday of Coachella. They payed me to guest blog for their facebook page. Part of the deal is that they asked when I write about these events on YANP, I have to explain that these [...]

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I knew nothing of Lonely Forest before they took the stage on Sunday. In a way that was a blessing, because I went in with no expectations or prejudices. Lonely Forest are a strong, bombastic pop group that was a fantastic choice to open for Portugal. The Man. I feel like there was a huge [...]

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When I left Lexington for Austin this year I didn’t have a very solid plan for coverage. Sometimes that meant I wound up with little to nothing planned for an evening (Wednesday night) and other times it meant huge surprises. I learned about this Z-Trip party a day and a half prior through his twitter [...]

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Honestly I’m not the biggest Erykah Badu fan. Maybe I missed out on her big moments and now I feel a bit lost at her concerts. She’s a good performer with solid songs, but they just don’t connect with me. I love “The Healer,” which she apparently often opens with, but that’s been the only [...]

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What an incredible show. This was my first time seeing the Roots, but within a minute of them taking the stage I understood why they were often called America’s best live band. I knew probably two or three songs they performed that day, but every one of them had me absolutely hooked. The Roots are [...]

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Even though Blitzen Trapper have kept themselves insanely busy since signing to Sub Pop years ago, I haven’t seen them in concert since Pitchfork 2009. I can’t really say that they’ve gotten any better or worse, but they’ve now got a lot more to choose from when filling out their setlists. Thankfully they played “Black [...]

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Some friends and I got to the Mohawk just as Gary Clark Jr was starting. There was a long line, but the Mohawk’s surprising size easily swallowed up the line to allow us entry. I had never listened to GCJ, but we were constantly selling his EP at the record store — likely because it’s [...]

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I’ve seen Neon Indian once or twice live, but he’s never put on a show even half this good before. I don’t know if it was the new songs, the his hometown Texas air or years of practice, but somewhere along the line he became a great live act. Alan played a lengthy set with [...]

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