[This weekly feature is a snapshot of what the Stranger Dance staff can't get out of our collective head each week. On any given week, we might be digging a new local act, French electro remix, old jazz chestnut, the newest Japanese electro-folk or whatever else we've got on the turntable/iPod that week.]
Our picks typically [...]

I’m not sure if I’ve been under a rock on this one, but I’ve never heard of N.A.S.A. (the DJ duo, not the space agency). Luckily for them, they were obviously on the radars of more important people – their debut album, The Spirit of Apollo, features a veritable who’s who of indie-rock, rap and [...]

[Update: Looking for playlists for the 2009 festival? We've got you covered: Friday, Saturday & Sunday]
Here’s the third and final installment of our Outside Lands Festival preview. Today, we bring you songs by all of the artists appearing on Sunday of Outside Lands.
You can find the two previous installments here: Friday & Saturday
With our fancy [...]

[This weekly feature is a snapshot of what the Stranger Dance staff can't get out of our collective head each week. On any given week, we might be digging a new local act, an old jazz chestnut, the newest Japanese electro-folk or whatever else we've got on the turntable/iPod that week.]
This week’s picks are heavier [...]

Oh, hello there! Nice of you to drop by … actually nice of me to drop by. Uncle Corey has been a bit, umm … absent lately. Having been a professional writer for 10 years, the urge to turn words into clever bot mots (it’s French – suck it) sometimes completely abandons me. Hunter S. [...]

So, um, Rock the Bells released the roster of artists for the summer ‘08 tour and, ah, it’s fucking phenomenal. At least for an aging hip-hop head like myself. …
The tour is really a back to the future show with an all-star lineup of acts from the “Mid-Nineties Revolution” – A Tribe Called Quest, The [...]

It’s a bit odd to have a best-of-the-year list not even four months into said year, but we’ll give Rolling Stone a pass, because, hey, I flipped through all 44 pages of Rolling Stone’s “Best of Rock 2008” this morning. It’s cool to hate it, but I’ve always liked Rolling Stone – I’ve had a [...]

While the folks at APE Concerts haven’t announced the schedule for the Outside Lands Festival [Update: full schedule now available here], most of the bands involved have which night they’re playing on their respective sites. So we did a little investigative journalism to cobble together a schedule.
According to their site, Radiohead is scheduled to headline [...]

The lineup for Lollapolooza has been confirmed, and it looks like Perry Ferrel & Co. have thrown down the gauntlet, basically taking the Outside Lands Festival lineup, trimming some of the MoR-friendly fat, and mixing in more talent.
Word that Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, The Raconteurs, Wilco and Kanye West would headline [...]