The lineup for Coachella 2012 has been posted! This year’s festival will be bringing headliners The Black Keys, Radiohead, and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg to the two-weekend affair down in Indio, CA. Other LMB favorites on the lineup are Refused, M83, Flying Lotus, SBTRKT, Bon Iver, Girl Talk, DJ Shadow, and the newly-announced reunion by At The Drive-In.
Epic.
Over the weekend, while taking a walk in the Santa Monica neighborhood I passed by @McCabesGuitar shop, and as I normally do, stopped to check out their “Upcoming Shows Wall.” One of the posters that caught my eye was the simply titled MEGAFAUN. It rang a bell. At some point I had heard or seen their name somewhere else, yet couldn’t place it. Once I got home I searched the cobwebs in my brain and had a quick chat with @jasonspang. We traced it back to the connection with Bon Iver and Justin Vernon. Did they open up for Bon Iver this year? More googling brought me to the handy site Aquarium Drunkard and their archive of Megafaun articles and samples. Discovering a new band after having only seen a poster in a window was about the closest thing to an organic new find as you’ll get these days. Thumbs up! READ MORE
Cut Copy @ Pitchfork Music Festival 2011
NYC’s live music scene continues to bang on through the heat & humidity with an interesting mix of shows this week. We’ve got some well-known, genre-crossing singer-songwriters like Bon Iver and Bob Dylan…you may have heard of him. If you’re more into dreamy synth-based rock that harkens back to 80s, there’s Cut Copy at Prospect Park or Small Black’s more intimate (and FREE) gig at Mercury Lounge. For something a little jammy, Zach Deputy’s doing his loop pedal thing at Southpaw and we’ve got two nights of instrumental Zeppelin madness with Bustle in Your Hedgerow at Brooklyn Bowl. On the indie, proggy, experimental side, there’s Woods w/ Ducktails at the Bowery as well as the bigger indie rock darlings like Sonic Youth and Kurt Vile at the Williamsburg Waterfront. But the sleeper show of the week (technically, next week) is a band called Music for Money who’s kicking off four nights in NYC with a show at the Charleston in Brooklyn. If you dig the eclectic, experimental styles of Tortoise or Battles, you’ll want to check them out.
Interesting shows from this week’s NYC concert calendar: READ MORE
Bon Iver is the next live concert webcast over at NPR Music. Tune in tomorrow at 9:30pm EST for the show live from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club (like usual).
Join us this Tuesday, Aug. 2 for a special surprise live concert webcast by Bon Iver. Hear the band’s full performance from Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club online, beginning at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET. Listen on-the-go with the NPR Music iPhone app. Bon Iver is currently on tour for its latest album, Bon Iver.
