Category Archives: Music

Grizzly Bear is back from hibernation.

In 1999, jazz musician Aram Shelton drove from Florida to Illinois in his brother’s orange Trans-Am, a bird with blazing wings adorning the hood. He came with a singular purpose: to seek jazz.

While discussing the xx’s upcoming sound in a December 2011 interview with Digital Spy, producer Jamie Smith said that club music had a major influence on their next album.

Sneakers, sunshine, bratwurst and beer. It’s a seemingly impossible wish list for curious college students looking for a classical concert to attend. Add not having to worry about applauding in the wrong spot to the list and you’re practically looking at a distant dream for most.

Since its inception in 2004, FYF Fest has made quite a change. The brainchild of then 18-year-old L.A. native Sean Carlson, FYF Fest has gone from an Echo Park, local-band music party to a full-on, two-day event whose roster reaches well beyond the borders of Los Angeles to include the likes of seminal Swedish hardcore band Refused and the U.K.’s electronic prodigy James Blake.

It may seem extreme to compare Animal Collective to The Beatles, but in many ways their music has similar attributes.

Chan Marshall, who performs and records under the moniker Cat Power, has been glaringly absent from the music scene.