Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis (photo via @soundbitesnyc) There was a while there where The Fresh & Onlys were competing with Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall and Bob Pollard for the title of Mos... more info
Stereogum — It’s hard to imagine a better venue than a church for Mark Kozelek’s sparse, meditative songs. The Sun Kil Moon singer took the second-to-last slot of the night at Pi... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Andrew Sacher Angel Olsen / Warpaint / EMA @ SXSW 3/14/2014 After our Friday BV-SXSW day party at Red 7, Amanda and I headed to Austin... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield; words by Bill Pearis Wye Oak @ BVSXSW 3/15/2014 Wye Oak have released a second song from their soon-to-be-released album, Shriek. "Glory" shows... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Steven Noreyko, words by Bill Pearis Julian Casablancas & The Voidz @ Chevrolet Courtyard, SXSW 3/14/2014 The Strokes' Julian Casablancas debuted new material a... more info
Stereogum — The effortlessly cool Charli XCX and Iggy Azalea performed their endearingly goofy collab “Fancy” live for the first time at MTVu’s Woodie Awards, which were held o... more info
Stereogum — Future Islands are ready to take over the world. At SXSW, the Baltimore synthpop weirdos were this year’s Odd Future — the one live show that nobody could stop talkin... more info
Stereogum — I didn’t write about Against Me!’s set at the SPIN party at Stubb’s — because obviously Against Me! are great live, duh — but it was the best set I saw during a... more info