For this edition of Five on Five, five of us chose our five favorite concerts from the “aughts” and below are the results. We have everything from Ricky Martin to Paul McCartney for answers. Radiohead made the list three times, and almost a fourth time. We like what Dan had to say about this best: [...]
Photos pulled from band’s MySpace. Hailing from Athens, Georgia, Nana Grizol’s lineup is sprawing, a veritable who’s-who of the city’s indie scene. Lead singer Theo Hilton’s sizeable ensemble features a nice, full horn section, which notably includes Laura Carter and Robbie Cucchiaro, both of whom played in some other Athens band called Neutral Milk Hotel. [...]
Good god, another year has zipped by already. Well, we’ve been really busy around Randomville, obvisously, since it took me until January 5th, 2010 to publish the 2009 Year in Review! This time last year we were just getting used to our new skin as we had then recently re-designed the website. Well, we learned how [...]
Each month we feature a new charity to share with our readers in hopes that they might donate or at least spread the word to others for awareness. The Yellow Bird Project was founded in 2006 by two then-recent university graduates, Matt Stotland and Casey Cohen. Based in Montreal, the foundation’s premise is simple: [...]
Simon Joyner Simon Joyner has drawn a surprisingly little amount of attention to himself, especially when you consider how impressive the man’s CV must look: his style is one that has been developing for nearly twenty years, and one that is directly responsible for the musical output of Smog, Will “Bright Eyes” Oldham, and Dinosaur Jr.’s Lou [...]
All photos are thanks to Gil Raitses, unless otherwise noted. Day One: June 2nd The campsite scene. On this first night of Rothbury, there wasn’t much reason to leave the secondary stage once arriving: there was no competition at all as far as choosing between acts on the first night – Future Rock and 2020 [...]
Not too far inland from Lake Michigan (if your left hand is the mitten that is the state, it’s roughly where the lower knuckle of your pinky is), the jamband-centric Rothbury Festival is beins tomorrow. For four days the Double JJ Ranch will become a point of convergence for tens of thousands of fans with [...]
Musically, Acid Mothers Temple aren’t easy to define. Sure, you could chalk it up as “psychedelic” music and leave it at that, and ostensibly you would be right: their songs regularly break twenty minutes in length, the band droning on a groove, breaking it up occasionally for some shouting or feedback attack. Or, alternatively, they’ll [...]
There’s been some buzz floating around about an upcoming stage production based on Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea”. Amanda Palmer has signed on with her (and my) former high school in Lexington, MA, and will be aiding largely in the composition of the music itself, and might have a part in [...]
Coraline is one of those kids’ flicks that’s really enjoyable to everyone. It’s got imagination in spades, an oh-so-affable protagonist, and is a fairly unique take on the whole fairy tale thing. I liked that it was dark enough that even my “grown-up” friends and I were creeped out by parts of the film. (“What [...]
