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Pickathon 2011 Lineup Led By Mavis Staples, The Sadies, Bill Callahan, Many More

Taking place the weekend of Aug. 5-7 at Pendarvis Farm near Portland, Ore., Pickathon Festival showcases the best in indie-roots music. Pickathon prides itself on providing the “best festival experience in the country.” This includes a 100% plastic free environment, workshops and a schedule where every artists plays at least two sets over three days across six unique performance spaces. This includes a stage that must be hiked to through the woods, an intimate open air late night stage, the workshop barn where The Decemberists recorded their recent album, and a large pavilion that is “equal parts art and function.”...  read more

The Soundtrack to Your Resolutions: 20 Songs for Fresh Starts, New Beginnings and Not Screwing Up This Time

New Year's Day - time to revel in the clarity of that hangover, take stock of the year that's just passed and hit the reset button for 2010. Here's a mix to help you do it...  read more

Thirteen Surprisingly Enjoyable Songs About the End of the World

Elvis Perkins in Dearland's "Doomsday" (and last night's fireworks) got us thinking about other surprisingly enjoyable songs about the end of the world.  read more

John Doe & The Sadies: Country Club

X always mixed in a little country with its rockabilly punk, but...  read more

Original X line-up goes on Total Request Live tour

Nevermind the Sadies. Here's X!...  read more

Unofficial SXSW 2009: The Hipsters are Coming

Austin is a massive, wonderful and gorgeous place.  And SXSW is equally as diverse and awesome, unofficially and officially.  And this is not a hipster bashing rant.  But if the only stain Austin has is the big stain of Texas that surrounds it, then the one bad thing about SXSW is hipsters.  Not the polite, nerdy ones, who flood the rapidly gentrifying minority establishments with cash for Lonestar and Shiner Bock so they can survive.  But the assholes that don’t give a damn about who the hell is even playing, bring their own damn beer, throw it all over the...  read more

Black Mountain announces West coast tour with The Sadies

British Columbia-based psychedelics Black Mountain had quite a successful 2008. On top of a guest appearance on Conan O'Brien and a tour with Bon Iver, the band received a hefty critical nod; their Jagjaguwar-released In the Future was shortlisted for Canada's Polaris Prize for the best full-length album based on artistic merit. ...  read more

John Doe and The Sadies join the Country Club

The collaboration between punk rock legend John Doe (X, The Knitters) and The Sadies started out as a typical drunken promise of making music together: One person suggests a musical collaboration. The others agrees. And then everyone forgets about it....  read more

The Sadies: New Season

Cosmic Canadian music veterans tread well-worn path without wearing thin  read more

Sadies new album a family affair

Cue the iTunes visualizers! Canada’s cosmic rockers the Sadies have announced their fifth studio album, New Seasons, will be released October 2 on Yep Roc. Recorded with friend and collaborator Gary Louris (Jayhawks, Golden Smog) in Spain and Toronto, New Seasons promises 13 new tracks of the band’s honed psychedelic country rock sound. Like all Sadies albums, frontmen and brothers Dallas and Travis Good called on family folk to contribute-including momma Margaret Good and their father and uncles, Canadian Country Hall of Famers The Good Brothers. The release also features Louris and Giant Sand's Howe Gelb. Here’s New Seasons' tracklisting...  read more