Wye Oak – “I Hope You Die”
Wye Oak released their EP My Neighbor/My Creator last week via Merge. The husband-and-wife duo is yet anther band to come out of Baltimore’s luscious indie scene that rose to national prominence with bands like Beach House, Animal Collective and Dan Deacon. If you’re like me, then this EP [...]

Beck’s Record Club is nothing new at this point. Previous guests have included MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Nigel Goodrich, Jamie Lidell and many others. For the club’s latest effort, Beck brings together Wilco and Feist to cover Skip Spence’s album, Oar. Check out the video of “Little Hands” below.

All photos by Brittany Nelson & Christine Campbell
I sure hope that any dance-hating Bay Area citizens were far away from Treasure Island last Saturday, because the first day of the festival was a 12-hour ass-shaking, arm-waving, beat-dropping, jump-up-and-down, pump-your-fist-in-the-air-like-you-mean-it kind of day.

A cult, psychedelic television show for kids (and hipsters) gets MGMT to rock out with a song called “Art is Everywhere!?” Yes, it is true and it is AWESOME. And what’s more, Yo Gabba Gabba plans on releasing a compilation album featuring The Shins, Of Montreal, The Roots and others on October 20 (unfortunately MGMT’s [...]

Welcome back to Video Round-Up, where the SD crew picks through the flurry of videos circulating this particular week and posts the highlights.
This week, there’s lots of action on the “live” front, including some notable live performances by Paul McCartney, Weezer, Grizzly Bear, Wilco and Feist, Japandroids, Spoon, and Cymbals Eat Guitars. After that, enjoy [...]

We told you about the rumors a few months ago, and now we’ve got a confirmed lineup for the 2009 Treasure Island Festival (with most of the rumors turning out to be true).
The two-day festival will be headlined by MGMT and the Flaming Lips. As with the past two years, the folks at Another Planet [...]

I really like where Beck’s new project, Record Club, is headed. The premise: Beck will lead a group of musicians to cover an entire album of their choosing in one day. The tracks are recorded and then released once a week on his website for fans to enjoy.
Wired reports:
“An album will be chosen to be [...]

Well, it’s two weeks after the fact and I’m finally able to wrap my head around the musical smorgasbord that was Bonnaroo 2009. 75,000 people descended on Manchester, TN, (population: roughly 9,500 for 361 days of the year), for the festival’s eighth year.
The musical equivalent of Willy Wonka’s world of pure imagination, Bonnaroo once again [...]

The dates come first, then we usually wait for a good long while before the official lineup announcement breaks the interwebs. However, in an unexpected turn of events (or perhaps expected – the internet is a wacky creature), there are now rumblings about the initial lineup for the 2009 Treasure Island Music Festival. As Consequence [...]

The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control is engaging in a legal battle with some of our city’s finest all-ages music venues.
Local venues like Bottom of the Hill, Great American Music Hall, Slim’s and Café du Nord may be forced to shut down unless they can meet the ABC’s [...]