I hate to think that music by itself has become so worthless that giving it away for free is the only way to get it into the hands of fans. Sure, the first few experiments worked well, but Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are hardly one-hit wonders or bottom-tiered acts.I've seen many no-name (at least to my knowledge) bands try similar endeavors (mainly as free downloads), and of course I downloa...
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Golden Gate Park hosts the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival again this year, and the experience seems to be much better this time around for the now two-year event.What would make Saturday a more enjoyable experience is any decrease in temperature. What Mother Nature brought was about as close to a perfect day as a San Francisco visitor could ask for. A warm day, a cool breeze, and cold beer ar
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Golden Gate Park hosts the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival again this year, and the experience seems to be much better this time around for the now two-year event.Being green is a very big theme for Outside Lands, with public transportation and zero waste being stressed for all of its festival-goers. Getting to the park is never so hard, it's getting to the festival entrances that is always st
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It's hard to imagine that Matisyahu -- the Hasidic Jewish musician from Pennsylvania -- is only thirty years. It feels like ages ago that he burst onto the music scene in 2004 with his debut album Shake Off the Dust... Arise.It seemed like a joke -- a Hasidic Jew fusing reggae, hip-hop, and rock into something substantial. Was it just a gimmick? Well, all assumptions were dropped when Mati
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Despite a runtime of almost 36-minutes, Digital Shades is anything but brisk. Gonzalez perfectly juxtaposes each track so that the album blends just the right way. Often times, you'd swear you were listening to a single 36-minute song.That's both positive and negative. As a whole, the album shouldn't have so many different parts that it would feel choppy and uneven. On the other hand, some trac...
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The Antibes-native duo M83 debuted their self-titled LP later that year, which finally saw its United States official release in 2005. M83 is surprisingly polished for a first-time record as compared with other electronic groups. I'm not talking production but more musical focus, at least in M83 terms.The band does branch out a little in experimenting, as with their brief dabs in noise pop (an ode
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