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MusicFest Northwest festival preview Ultimate Fakebook issuing new album after 7 year hiatus; stream & download free PodWreck featuring Kevin Devine; performs ‘Big Bad Man,’ ‘You’re a Mirror I Cannot Avoid’ Sasquatch! Festival: Monday with The Temper Trap, The Mountain Goats, MGMT Bamboozle featuring Something Corporate @ Charter One Pavilion, Chicago IL
 
MusicFest Northwest festival preview

MusicFest Northwest festival preview

We all love a good Columbia River backdrop or acres and acres of open field at our music festivals, but what makes MusicFest Northwest different than most festivals is that it takes places within the city – at all the Portland venues you know and love. It’s not just a celebration of music but also a celebration of Portland in general.

Ultimate Fakebook issuing new album after 7 year hiatus; stream & download free

Ultimate Fakebook issuing new album after 7 year hiatus; stream & download free

After a seven-year hiatus, the power pop group, Ultimate Fakebook, is issuing a new full-length, Daydream Radio Is Smiling Static. The album is a collection of lost recordings from 2000-2003: 16 originals and a Guided By Voices cover.

PodWreck featuring Kevin Devine; performs ‘Big Bad Man,’ ‘You’re a Mirror I Cannot Avoid’

PodWreck featuring Kevin Devine; performs ‘Big Bad Man,’ ‘You’re a Mirror I Cannot Avoid’

Kevin Devine sits down with PodWreck at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City.

Sasquatch! Festival: Monday with The Temper Trap, The Mountain Goats, MGMT

Sasquatch! Festival: Monday with The Temper Trap, The Mountain Goats, MGMT

Help Popwreckoning by Bookmarking us on Delicious I woke up Monday morning to a thin layer of rainwater on top of my tent, hoping that the weather would still go our way that day. What do you know? It did. Determined to see more bands that day than I’d seen Saturday and Sunday, I went and stood in [...]

Bamboozle featuring Something Corporate @ Charter One Pavilion, Chicago IL

Bamboozle featuring Something Corporate @ Charter One Pavilion, Chicago IL

For many, braving the frigid temperatures that were only abetted by a breeze off of lake Michigan was worth reliving a band essential to so many musical palettes. Something Corporate was headlining the third Bamboozle festival, which not only marked the band’s third reunion show since their 2005 hiatus, but also the debut of the [...]

Blood Red Shoes to Tour North America, Play CMJ, and Release ‘Fire Like This’ Album in October

Blood Red Shoes to Tour North America, Play CMJ, and Release ‘Fire Like This’ Album in October

02 September 2010

Brighton, England duo Blood Red Shoes will be touring North America in October. They will also make appearances at CMJ Music Marathon in mid-October. The alt-rock act’s second album Fire Like This will be released stateside on October 5 on V2 Records. Watch the dark promo video for one of the tracks on the [...]

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The Postelles Announce Fall North American Tour

The Postelles Announce Fall North American Tour

02 September 2010

Things are looking up for New York band the Postelles. They wowed crowds at South by Southwest in March. In May, they toured the UK as support for Sunderland, England’s Futureheads and played a headlining gig at famed London venue Koko. They toured with Alberta Cross in June, and then in July, [...]

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Review: The Lonely Forest EP

Review: The Lonely Forest EP

01 September 2010

“Turn off, turn off this song. You can listen to it later, and go outside.” That’s what the Lonely Forest begs of us listeners on the first track on their new EP. You see, I would – but the thing is, it’s so good that I can’t possibly follow their instructions.

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DFA Records Curating NYC DJ Residency Free to the Public

DFA Records Curating NYC DJ Residency Free to the Public

01 September 2010

We at PopWreckoning know your wallet is hurting in these trying financial times. If you live in New York City, have we got a deal for you. DFA Records, the famed independent dance record label co-founded by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy, has joined forces with New York’s upscale Hudson Hotel for a [...]

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Arcade Fire puts you in new music video with HTML5

Arcade Fire puts you in new music video with HTML5

31 August 2010

Just another reason to love the amazing Canadian indie rockers in the Arcade Fire - they're putting you into their new music video.

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Scratch’d Vinyl: Part Deux

Scratch’d Vinyl: Part Deux

31 August 2010

Recent months have seen the acquisition of various records that have been intensely sought after by yours truly for quite some time now. Not merely by referral, but for the sake of re-visiting the previous musical tendencies of these artists and their intentions pertaining to content and musical composition.

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LCD Soundsystem to Tour This Fall, May Record New Material in Future

LCD Soundsystem to Tour This Fall, May Record New Material in Future

27 August 2010

LCD Soundsystem have been on the summer festival touring circuit for a while now, making notable appearances as a headliner of London’s Wireless Festival on July 3 and Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival on July 17. Now they have announced they will be going out on the road back in the U.S. again this September and October. [...]

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LouFest Preview: What to expect

LouFest Preview: What to expect

26 August 2010

St. Louis' debut music festival, LouFest, is this weekend in Central Field at Forest Park. So what can you expect?

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Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers release live album; Fall tour starts Sept. 7

Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers release live album; Fall tour starts Sept. 7

26 August 2010

With over 1,000 shows under their belts, Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers will be hitting the road for the Amazing Fall Tour.

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DD/MM/YYYY re-releasing Black Square with new songs; Touring with Women

DD/MM/YYYY re-releasing Black Square with new songs; Touring with Women

26 August 2010

DD/MM/YYYY is re-releasing their latest album Black Square with additional songs on Invada Records, the label managed by Geoff Barrow of Portishead.

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Concert Calendar

July 31, 2010
Tokyo Police Club @ Record Bar, Kansas City MO

August 2, 2010
The Vans Warped Tour @ Sandstone at Cap Fed, Bonner Springs KS

August 3, 2010
Lady Gaga @ Sprint Center, Kansas City MO

August 3, 2010
Happy Birthday!! @ Replay, Lawrence KS

August 6-8, 2010
Lollapalooza @ Grant Park, Chicago

August 10, 2010
Gogol Bordello @ Uptown, Kansas City MO

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