This past weekend L.A. hosted the heavily (and according to various reports, perhaps overly) attended Fuck Yeah Festival. Great lineup, though apparently not the most easily navigated festival…   Read Story »

With fall on the horizon, we're escaping a slow summer and shifting into that final, fertile phase of the music year's release cycle. Which makes it a ripe time to get some perspective on the year,…   Read Story »

Bethany Cosentino, the main face from NME's favorite new band of 2010, has put together a mixtape for another UK publication, The Independent. (They should've asked Bobb Bruno to do a metal-themed…   Read Story »

Converse STEPPED IT UP (punstyles) with this year's installment of their commercial/song experiment, bringing a live show component to the campaign. I'm still not entirely clear on how people got in…   Read Story »

When not hanging out in that warm apartment with Kid Cudi and Rostam Batmanglij, Bethany Cosentino (and cohort Bobb Bruno) recorded Crazy For You, a full-length featuring a dozen tracks that work…   Read Story »

When we posted "All Summer," the Converse-funded collaboration between Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, Kid Cudi, and Rostam Batmanglij, it was accompanied by a photo of the trio mugging with…   Read Story »

The Vivian Girls revolving cast of drummers continues. Yesterday, as Sound Of The City noted, the Girls tweeted from the road about a lineup shift: "hey! we have an announcement! we have a new…   Read Story »

Converse just released the next in its series of unlikely collaborations -- last summer it was Santigold, Julian Casablancas and Pharrell doing "My Drive Thru." This year, it's an explicit summer…   Read Story »

Welcome to summer, welcome to free and legally downloadable summer jams. Time to CELEBRATE on ROOFTOPS. But you know, oil spills. And crazy people waiting in lines for phones for hours. And poorly…   Read Story »

As hinted in yesterday's Wavves evaluation, Best Coast's debut full-length Crazy For You could easily be retitled Queen Of The Beach. If you've listened to "Our Deal" (or bonus track "When I'm With…   Read Story »