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Photos by: Rick Clifford & Justin Roth – Day two of the inaugural Wayhome Music Festival featured performances by Los Angeles-based rapper Kendrick Lamar, who released his fourth album, To Pimp a Butterfly, on March 23rd, 2015 via Interscope, acclaimed indie rock band Modest Mouse, who released their sixth album, Strangers to Ourselves, on March 17th, 2015 via Epic, which … Continue reading
Photos by: Katie Kuropas – The third and final day of the 2015 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL last night featured performances by Chicago-based rapper Chance The Rapper, who released his second mixtape, Acid Rap, on April 30th, 2013, Hip-hop duo Run The Jewels, who released their second album, Run the Jewels 2, on October 24th, 2014 via Mass Appeal/Sony … Continue reading
Photos by: Mark Horton, Marc DesRosiers, Scott Penner, & Danyca MacDonald – Vancouver-based pop-rock quartet Hedley, who released their fifth album, Wild Life, on November 11th, 2013 via Universal Music Canada/Capitol Records, performed at Ottawa Bluesfest 2015 on July 15th with Hip-hop duo Run The Jewels, who released their second album, Run the Jewels 2, on … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – With gargantuan headliners that cascade into a thoroughly eclectic supporting cast, the 2015 edition of Festival D’été de Quebec (July 9 – 19) looks like one of the summer’s best music festivals. The sheer breadth of the lineup is staggering. Festival D’été de Quebec has stacked their 2015 line-up with summery pop, mellow uke-strummers, hip-hop bangers, pulsing EDM beats and the densest power … Continue reading
Photos by: Joe Gall, Erik Voake, & Pooneh Ghana – Day two of Bonnaroo 2015 on June 11th featured performances by Grammy-nominated DJ Deadmau5, who released his seventh album, while(1<2), on June 17th, 2014 via Virgin EMI, Hip-hop duo Run The Jewels, who released their second album, Run the Jewels 2, on October 24th, 2014 via Mass Appeal/Sony … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – F or several years, Cardiff, UK’s Until the Ribbon Breaks have been a crucial part of expanding on songs by the artists you already know and love. The collective of Peter Lawrie-Winfield, Elliot Wall and James Gordon have created textured, layered re-imaginings of songs like Phantogram’s “Fall in Love”, Tegan and Sara’s … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – On their debut album A Lesson Unlearnt, Cardiff, UK’s Until the Ribbon Breaks—a mélange of dance, pop, hip hop, and R&B sounds—step out of their background role for some of the industry’s budding stars, and into their own spotlight. Lead by vocalist Pete Lawrie Winfield, Until the Ribbon Breaks have spent the years since … Continue reading
For the third year in a row, we are proud to share our year-end list for the best albums of 2014. We invited our team of contributors to share a few sentences about their selections: many identify with their top picks on a personal level where the music is a soundtrack to their year; for … Continue reading
Photos by: Victoria Charko (@victoriacharko) – Hip-hop duo Run The Jewels, who released their second album, Run the Jewels 2, on October 24th, 2014 via Mass Appeal/Sony RED, which features an array of guests including Blink-182’s Travis Barker, Rage Against The Machine’s Zack de la Rocha, Boots, Diane Coffee, and more, performed at The Danforth Music … Continue reading
By: Daniel Gerichter (@ZenDonut) – “Let me tell you motherfuckers what we’ve been through for the last couple of days”, cackled an exhausted El-P. A broken down tour bus, a merchandise trailer literally on fire, a well-documented show in the eye of the Ferguson shit storm and an emergency flight later and Run the Jewels still managed to show … Continue reading
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