Year: 2016

Social Culture

Be #LouisianaStrong: Donations receive exclusive music compilation + Voodoo Festival + Saturday Night Live perks

Louisiana Strong: The Fight Goes On Though it’s been nearly three months since catastrophic floods hit the region of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, it seems as though it were just yesterday that the news hit communities across the nation like a bomb. Through relief efforts such as Louisiana Strong, there have been countless ways for fellow […]

Oct 18, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Russ Liquid, SunSquabi, Michal Menert & Pretty Fantastics and the Floozies at Red Rocks Amphitheater October 8th, 2016 [Show Review]

As one of the last Red Rocks shows of the season, it was with mixed emotions that I showed up to what’s become my favorite venue last Saturday. Bittersweet, heavy-hearted yet ready to boogy my ass off – these are the trail mix of feels I was experiencing if you’d like to get in my […]

Oct 17, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Templo delivers 7th EP of the last three months: Icarus | October 13th, 2016 [Album Review]

Templo, one of the hardest working musicians in the industry just dropped his seventh EP within the last three months titled Icarus. In the spirit of the Greek myth from which the album derives its name Templo immerses you deeply into a labyrinth of meaning and mythology. Somehow, having put out as many songs as […]

Oct 16, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Dirtybird Campout 2016 – “This is NOT a Transformative Festival” [Festival Review]

  The term “transformative festival” has been used and abused for far too long. “Transformative festival” has basically become a calling card for hippies, crystals, psytrance, etc. Now, I’m a big fan of all of these things – except psytrance – but at the end of the day, for a majority of festival goers a […]

Oct 14, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Beats Antique Rings in 10 years with ‘Shadowbox’ [Artist Interview & Album Review]

            Beats Antique is back with an album that spanned the Earth in search of the sound for its creation, an album built upon the sound that they have spent forming together and then explored in a way that can only come after ten years of production and mastery. The name of the album is Shadowbox, and in […]

Oct 13, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Lou Phelps, Cashmere Cat and Kaytranada at Ogden Theater in Denver, CO | October 7th, 2016 [Show Review]

I’d been waiting all month for last Friday night, and once it had finally arrived, I knew I wasn’t alone in my anticipation. Arriving to the Ogden Theater just before 10pm, there was already a long line of anxious patrons lining the block, and despite the cold, smiles were plastered on every face. The lineup […]

Oct 10, 2016 Read →

Midwest

Sloth Steady Celebrates Flagship Store Grand Opening in Chicago’s Wicker Park

  After years of hustling pins and good vibes at shows, lots, and festivals across the country, Sloth Steady celebrated the Grand Opening of its flagship storefront in Chicago’s vibrant Wicker Park neighborhood on Saturday. Lines winded through the store alongside walls dripping with top quality pins in every size and shape and clothing slathered […]

Oct 10, 2016 Read →

East Coast

Our Most Anticipated Supergroup Performances for this years’ Brooklyn Comes Alive 2016! | October 22nd, 2016 in New York

Brooklyn Comes Alive returns Oct. 22, for another ‘Day of Musical Collaboration Across Williamsburg’. The jam packed lineup features super-group formations from members of Lettuce, Dead & Co., Primus, Break Science, The String Cheese Incident, The Disco Biscuits, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Snarky Puppy and many many more. If you have never heard of this […]

Oct 10, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Symbiosis 2016 Family Tree ~ Coming Together to Collaborate and Co-Create [Festival Review]

~~Note: For this article Dino Durkin and Santiago Burelli have come together to give two very different yet very awesome, authentic accounts of what they both experienced at Symbiosis~~ It’s all too often that I go to festivals and find a few people having an amazing time and a lot of people standing around waiting […]

Oct 7, 2016 Read →

Electronic

Capyac: A Speed Date With The Speedracers [Artist Interview]

Capyac are hot off the stage from Texas’s Utopiafest! A few weeks ago they sat down to talk with me about their mythos, touring through Europe, giant demon puppets, and the people behind WAX – their smash fashion show. Potion and Big Sugz talk about their musical evolution from a genre they call Balloon-Wave to […]

Oct 5, 2016 Read →