In honor of one of our favorite holidays, we’ve put together a Halloween playlist that’s sure to scare you into the spirit. Costumes and candy are a good start, but nothing puts the fright into Halloween like a creepy playlist. With both tricks and treats included, these scary songs will make the perfect haunted soundtrack [...]

Photos by Jay and Laura; words by Anna.
Outside Lands 2009 could have been a lot of things: a failure, a disappointment, a misplaced attempt to draw a wider range of music fans. The slightly off-kilter lineup largely paid tribute to the ’90s (Pearl Jam, Incubus, Dave Matthews Band, Q-Tip and The Beastie Boys — before [...]

I have a feeling that September is going to be a good month for music. Atlas Sound, Yo La Tengo, Monsters of Folk, Volcano Choir and Rain Machine all have albums designed to make your transition to Fall a little easier.
The most recent single making a splash on the web is “Smiling Black Faces” from [...]

With so many bands (over 90 at last count) ready to diverge on San Francisco for the second annual Outside Lands Festival this weekend, we thought it’d be helpful to provide some playlists so you know what to look forward to.
Yesterday we gave you a playlist for Friday’s bands and, as promised, here are samples [...]

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 [...]

Initial announcements regarding the lineup at this year’s Outside Lands Festival may have received a more varied reaction, seeing as it branches pretty far beyond the more indie-centric lineup of 2008. Perhaps this announcement of the OSL daily schedule will help sway those teetering on the “not-sure-how-I-feel-about-the-Black-Eyed-Peas” fence.
Single-day tickets go on sale here on June [...]

The organizers of Outside Lands announced the initial lineup for the festival’s second year. The three headliners are Pearl Jam, Beastie Boys and Dave Matthews Band. Bay Area acts include The Dodos, John Vanderslice and The Morning Benders. Here’s the full lineup:

TV on the Radio dropped by the Colbert Report last night, answering a few questions and performing “Dancing Choose” from last year’s Dear Science (one of our top albums of 2008).

After what seemed like a series of odd delays and false starts, the lineup finally got released today for this year’s Coachella Music Festival. It’s a good one. Really good. Headlining each day are Paul McCartney on Friday, The Killers on Saturday and The Cure on Sunday (before you scoff at Friday’s closer, Uncle Corey’s [...]

Call me a scrooge, but I generally consider Christmas parties to be an obligatory affair. Sure, it’s great to catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while, but I’m not that person who jumps with excitement when the group caroling begins. However, this year I have to give some major props to my [...]