Wilco, Death Cab, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips Lead 2011 Sasquatch Lineup
Late last night, Sasquatch Music Festival revealed their 2011 lineup, with the Foo Fighters, Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse and Wilco confirmed as main acts for the West Coast festival. The Flaming Lips will also headline the festival, performing their acclaim record, The Soft Bulletin, in its entirety.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsWatch Ben Gibbard Perform With Zooey Deschanel at Teen Feed Benefit
Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard: could there be a cuter, more multitalented couple out there?... read more
Found in: Concerts, NewsWatch Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel Sing at a Baseball Game
Yesterday, the Philadelphia Phillies took on the San Francisco Giants in Game 3 of the NLCS, and adorable musical husband and wife duo Ben Gibbard and Zooey Deschanel were there to serenade the Giants to victory.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsOur Favorite Daytrotter Portraits
If you, like us, are a big fan of Daytrotter... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesTen Bands That Could Double as Motorcycle Gangs
What’s in a name? In the case of the bands below, it’s a combination of threatening and rocking. Please enjoy a few of our favorite groups that sound like motorcycle gangs, each with a visual aid to boot:... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayFourteen Furniture Songs: A Playlist For Movers
I just moved into a new apartment last week, and finding cheapish furniture has been a chore. Chairs, tables, beds, lamps: There are a lot of things that need go into a house before it stops looking like a hermitage. Since I’ve got domestic wares on the mind, here is a playlist all about the things I’d like to have. The problem? All these silly musicians sing about are “Broken Chairs” and “Torn Blue Foam Couches”—damaged things, I suppose as some kind of metaphor for the fleeting nature of material goods. But I’d like a nice set of Ikea bar... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayDeath Cab for Cutie, Exene Cervenka, Todd Snider, 23 More Musicians Respond to Health Care Reform Bill
Last Sunday, after more than a year... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWilco, Death Cab, Decemberists, Pearl Jam Featured on Free Bonnaroo Compilation for Climate Change
Free music for a good cause is the right kind of free music. Bonnaroo seems to agree. Beginning today, the mammoth Tennessee festival, in partnership with HeadCount.org and the NRDC Action Fund, is offering up Best of Bonnaroo, a compilation of 17 festival performances from Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists and more environmentally-minded artists.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsIs Indie Dead?
Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a business model, a demographic and a marketing tool... read more
Found in: Culture, FeaturesTen Songs We Wish Johnny Cash Had Lived to Cover
There are countless songs floating around out there that Cash might've put his indelible stamp on... read more
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