Taylor’s Top 10 Albums of 2011
1. Wild Flag, Wild Flag In a difficult era for unconceited, forthright rock, Wild Flag has seized an opportunity to act as a bantam foil to the wealth of snobbery that permeates almost every facet of modern alternative culture. In doing so, this infant group of alternative rock and riot grrrl veterans has also created [...]
Matt’s Top 10 Albums of 2011
1. Wild Flag, Wild Flag Not since 2010′s Stuck On Nothing, the high-octane debut from Philadelphia power-pop quintet Free Energy, has an album rung out with the unbridled urgency and tenacity of Wild Flag‘s 2011 inaugural offering. While it is practically every kind of rad and awesome and badass, there is almost nothing overtly retro-facing [...]
Photoset // Voodoo Music Experience, Day 3: 10.30.2011
MyNameIsJohnMichael + The Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ The Del McCoury Band + Dr. John and the Lower 911 + Morning 40 Federation + Odd Future + Portugal. The Man + TV On The Radio + The Meters + The Raconteurs + Fatboy Slim performing at City Park on October 30, 2011 for the Voodoo [...]
Voodoo Music Experience, Day 3: 10.30.2011
By now, all music blogs and culture magazines are abuzz about Los Angeles-based rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, whose set at the Le Ritual Voodoo main stage on the final day of Voodoo was at once electrifying and unnerving. After the group showered photographers with water and unloaded a slew of [...]
Preview // Voodoo Music Experience, Day 3: 10.30.2011
There’s undoubtedly too much happening on any given day of Voodoo to talk about everything. Nevertheless, we figured it couldn’t hurt to tell you what performances we’re excited about. Here’s a few thoughts on a national and a local act that we are looking forward to on Sunday. Portugal. The Man: Le Carnival Bingo! Parlor, [...]
Thoughts on Voodoo And The Current And Future State Of Music
That the 2011 Voodoo Music Experience dispatched the second Le Ritual Stage to expand the electro-focused Le Plur area and add an additional DJ venue should come as no surprise to anyone who made it out to City Park last Halloween or attended literally any other weekend music festival in the last 12-18 months. Last [...]
Portugal. The Man: In The Mountain In The Cloud
After breaking into the national collective musical consciousness with 2009′s epic masterpiece The Satanic Satanist, Portugal. The Man‘s 2010′s follow-up, American Ghetto, seemed – dare I say – polite. It was soulful and groovy and, above all, remarkably consistent given the band’s recording prolificness, but it felt restrained and disjointed in the wake of the [...]
Photoset // Hangout Music Festival, Day 3: 05.23.2011
Portugal. The Man + Old Crow Medicine Show + Matisyahu + Drive-By Truckers + Ween + Girl Talk + The Black Keys performing at The Hangout Music Festival on May 22, 2011
Hangout Music Festival, Day 3: 05.22.2011
Putting a cherry of excellence atop an already stellar weekend, Sunday’s lineup included such heavy hitters as Portugal. The Man, Drive-By Truckers, Ween and The Black Keys. Native Alabamians the Truckers enjoyed a homecoming of sorts, playing selections from their recent albums The Big To Do and Go Go Boots, as well as some old [...]
