All Photos: Sarah Gormley Despite the weather, Clark Newman, Jenn Bress, and I were living the Sweetlife. It was cold, rainy, and grey outside, but that did not deter the revellers at the 2nd Annual Sweetlife Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Dancing, clapping, and fist pumping could be seen under the umbrellas and ponchos that […]
Over here at TVD, Clark Newman, Jenn Bress and I can’t wait for Sweetlife Festival this Sunday! The festival returns this year with a fierce lineup including headliners The Strokes, and over the next two days, TVD will be giving you a little preview of what you’ll be seeing at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Set times were just announced this morning […]
Sweetlife Festival returns this year with an unbelievable lineup, and we have a chance for you to win tickets before you can even buy them. [Ed. note — Update: The exclusive sweetgreen presale for tickets is now SOLD OUT!] Full Details: Sunday, 5/1 The Strokes • Girl Talk • Lupe Fiasco Crystal Castles • Cold War Kids […]
…the one thousand post mark (…AND some serious symptoms of carpel tunnel. Ow.) To celebrate this slightly auspicious milestone, we’ve got six of DC’s hottest bands who’ll be up in NYC next week, gigging and partying at CMJ. We corralled them the same way the folks at CMJ did— through their Sonicbids accounts—and all were […]
St. Louis, MO | Jean Haffner’s Record Exchange Is a Haven for St. Louis Audiophiles: In a building of a former library, bins of records, shelves of CDs and boxes of products tower almost as high as the ceiling. Only the sound of customers peeling through plastic-covered records can be heard over classic rock playing […]
Denver, CO | Vinyl Sales Explode During Pandemic: With live music shut down for more than a year, fans have turned to albums, and vinyl collections have boomed. Leading up to Christmas 2020, for the first time since 1991, the record for most vinyl sales in a week was shattered twice, according to the Recording […]
Minneapolis, MN | When one record store closes, other windows open: Like many during COVID, Minneapolis shop owner Colin Wilkinson has experienced ups and downs. But after closing Dead Media, a hole-in-the-wall record shop stacked with all things analog, this past spring, Wilkinson is starting fresh with two new ventures. Through finishing the journey for […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Gathered together for one unforgettable night in 1988, reggae legends and rock royalty spanning two generations met at historic Fort Charles, Jamaica for a musical event that would reverberate around the world. A Reggae Session, impressively captured by ten cameras, featured Jimmy Cliff, Toots Hibbert, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, […]
Memphis, TN | 15 Memphis albums worth digging for in the record store: While I was having a quick breakfast at French Truck Coffee in Crosstown Concourse, a group of students from the high school just a couple floors up came and asked me a question. “What do you think of when you think of […]
Eivissa, ES | For The Record: The Vinyl Bubble Has Burst: Vinyl was already a labour of love at the beginning of the decade but the great irony of today is that now sales are up, the labour has never been harder. The question of whether to release on vinyl only or not has become […]
It’s not often that you get to talk to a bona fide rock legend—and one of your biggest heroes to boot. So I was thrilled to get the opportunity to speak by phone with Sir (I added that myself; why wait for the Queen to get around to it?) Ian Hunter, of Mott the Hoople […]
NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. MAKING A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. TERM: Black Friday Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) entry period commences at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on November 17, 2011, and ends at 11:59 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on November 22, […]
