Archive for June 16th, 2012
ALO Talk About Improvisation and Sustainable Growth at Bonnaroo
June 16th, 2012
"It started as a rivalry" ALO's keyboardist Zach Gill says of the band's early support from Jack Johnson They all met as students at UC Santa Barbara fiercely competing to be the biggest backyard party band in the freshman dorms In this interview at Bonnaroo ALO talk to Rolling Stone about how...
SOJA Talk About Reggae Roots and Politics at Bonnaroo
June 16th, 2012
Jacob Hemphill and Bob Jefferson of the Virginia-based reggae band SOJA met as first graders and were already performing together in middle-school hip-hop talent shows when they discovered the power of reggae "It seemed like reggage was bigger than music in a way" Hemphill tells Rolling Stone in this interview at...
Ben Folds Five Talk About Their New Album at Bonnaroo
June 16th, 2012
"I think when you're making music you should always come into it with a little sense of naivity and what-the-fuck-are-you-doing-ness" Ben Folds tells Rolling Stone in this interview at Bonnaroo The band talks about keeping in touch during their hiatus getting back together and why they chose to go the crowd-funding route...
Stage Collapses Before Radiohead Show in Toronto
June 16th, 2012
The stage at Downsview Park in Toronto collapsed this afternoon just hours before Radiohead were scheduled to play to a sold-out crowd CBC News reports The band was not onstage at the time but one person was killed and three others were injured in the collapse The concert whose gates were...
Yelawolf Talks Old Influences and New Projects at Bonnaroo
June 16th, 2012
Yelawolf was first introduced to hip-hop as a child in Alabama when Run-DMC paid a visit to his mom's boyfriend and left behind some tapes "It was destiny you know man" he says "It just kind of fell into my world I had no business at all knowing anything about it"...
Kitty Pryde Makes Live NYC Debut
June 16th, 2012
If you only exist online are you real? After releasing her video for "Okay Cupid" last month young Florida rapper Kitty Pryde practically broke the Internet sparking frenzied attention around her unfiltered stream-of-consciousness lyrics and enchantingly flippant flow But after waves of interviews and a new EP haha i'm sorry...
Paul Simon Makes Surprise Appearance at Jerry Douglas’ New York Show
June 16th, 2012
Dobro master Jerry Douglas was midway through his set at New York's tiny BB King Blues Club on Friday night when he stopped to introduce "a very well-known friend of mine I hope he's here" The fellow it turns out was Paul Simon (Douglas has opened for Simon on tour in...
Kaskade Takes Freaks of Nature to Coney Island
June 16th, 2012
There were only three items on Kaskade's Friday agenda according to his Twitter feed "Eat hog dog ride Cyclone smash it" The final item on that to-do-list was ceremoniously checked off at Brooklyn's MCU Park where the Chicago-born DJ and electronic dance musician brought his Freaks of Nature tour to more...
Report: Drake to Be Charged in Club Fight
June 16th, 2012
Update The NYPD tells MTV that they have no current plans to arrest Drake and that the investigation is ongoing Drake could be charged with reckless endangerment over his early Thursday morning fight with Chris Brown at a nightclub the New York Post reports A witness reportedly told the police that Drake...
Of Montreal Lead an Eclectic Lineup at Northside Festival
June 16th, 2012
The performers of the biggest show of the Northside Festival – a multi-venue independent rock sprawl in fashionable Williamsburg Brooklyn – were an unlikely mix The flamboyant freak-folk rockers Of Montreal the winsomely deadpan singer-songwriter Jens Lekman and the bracing yet introspective punks the Thermals played the main stage at...