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Sep 22nd, 2009 3 Comments
Some 90 acts descended upon Champaign-Urbana, IL this past weekend, performing across 14 venues and four days for the fifth annual Pygmalion Music Festival. We sent photographer John Gitchoff to…   Read Story »
Sep 1st, 2009 4 Comments
Some 30,000 people over two days crammed into the six-block area in San Diego's East Village that hosted the 25th annual Street Scene this past weekend. That's a strong number, albeit down from last…   Read Story »
Aug 4th, 2009 1 Comment
Lucky, a magazine about shopping, is documenting Allie and Becca's tour wardrobe and beauty regimen this week. Find out how they get their hair so shiny!   Read Story »
Aug 3rd, 2009 20 Comments
When APW presented its inaugural festival last year, we weren't alone in taking issue with the experience: lack of food options, a fair but generally recycled undercard which played more like "a…   Read Story »
Jun 22nd, 2009 6 Comments
To recap: Rostam from Vampire Weekend and Wes from Ra Ra Riot joined laptops and R&B predilections, invited their buddies Ezra and Angel for a couple of tracks, and turned out a really fun summer LP.…   Read Story »
Jun 15th, 2009 13 Comments
The VW frontman joins the VW scarfman and Ra Ra Rioter for Discovery's infectious "Carby." Pretend it's VW on an auto-tuned Hot 97 kick at HypeM. Jay-Z?   Read Story »
Jun 10th, 2009 14 Comments
You have a couple of MP3s from the Vampire Weekend/Ra Ra Riot electro-pop side project, and Rostam & Wes have kindly put up two more to stream on their site. Good summer album, and wait until you…   Read Story »
Jun 4th, 2009 5 Comments
Aloha drummer/composer/multi-instrumentalist Cale Parks has successfully stepped out on his own for a couple of full-lengths over the past few years, and this remix of Ra Ra Riot's "Dying Is Fine"…   Read Story »
Apr 30th, 2009 21 Comments
After we premiered each track from Death Cab's new Open Door EP, the band set out on a North American tour that found its way to UC San Diego's RIMAC Arena last night. Photographer Andrew Youssef…   Read Story »
Apr 23rd, 2009 39 Comments
Overlapping waves of hype and backlash behind them, Vampire Weekend have moved on to the business of making new music. Except that they been had making new music since the halcyon Vampire Weekend…   Read Story »
























