Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Akron Engine, Davis Jones, Hotel Utah, Royal Jelly, Viracocha
Honest, soulful, and intimate. Three reasons why you should be listening to Davis Jones.
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Posted on 03 February 2012. Tags: Alabama Shakes, Apparat, Beats Antique, Beck, Blind Pilot, Bon Iver, BSTRKT, Explosions in the Sky, Feist, Girl Talk, Jack White, lineup, Lw Fuel, M. Ward, metric, Mogwai, Portlandia, Pretty Lights, Sasquatch 2012, Seattle, Shabaazz Palaces, Silversun Pickups, st. vincent, Tenacious D, The Civil Wars, The Gorge, the roots, The Walkmen, TuneYards
The Pacific Northwest Festival we've all been waiting for has just announced a killer lineup! Sasquatch takes place at the Gorge on May 25th - 28th.
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Posted on 02 February 2012. Tags: David Bowie, Lauren Hill, Nine Inch Nails, Presidents of the United States of America, Queen, Weezer
Being a misfit within the misfits, Owl Mag writer, Bernadette Harris, wriggled between '90s country and classic rock.
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Posted on 01 February 2012. Tags: folktronica, Glacial Pace, Noise Pop 2012, Ruins, Talkdemonic
Simultaneously soothing, danceable, and thrash-worthy, Talkdemonic tosses several genres into a blender and produces refreshing results.
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Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: Don't Worry You'll Be Here Forever, NO, The Editors, The National, U2
NO brings good old rock 'n roll standards without resorting to nostalgia or retro genre reruns.
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Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: Electro-pop, GAYNGS, Give You the Ghost, Minneapolis music, Poliça
Gayngs’ new project, Poliça, is full of dark, luscious goodness.
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Posted on 30 January 2012. Tags: Afrojack, Amon Tobin, Arctic Monkeys, Atari Teenage Riot, Breakbot, Cat Power, Coachella 2012, Datsick, Dawes, Death Grips, Explosions in the Sky, Feed Me, Frank Ocean, Girls, givers, James Alesso, Jimmy Cliff and Tim Armstrong, M. Ward, M83, Madeon, Madness, Mazzy Star, Neon Indian, Otherlives, Pulp, Refused, SebastiAn, swedish house mafia, The Black Angels, The Black Keys, The Horrors, The Rapture, Yuck
This April nearly 80,000 people will land near Indio, California once again for a sold out Coachella. To get you prepared and pumped we've made this playlist.
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Posted on 27 January 2012. Tags: Canvas Media, First Rate People, It’s Never Not Happening, Someone Else Can Make A Work of Art
Fighting with your spouse/friend/kid about what music to play in the car? First Rate People is your solution.
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Posted on 27 January 2012. Tags: Damien Jurado, David Bazan, Maraqopa, Museum of Flight, Pedro the Lion, Rocky Votalato
Set to release his 12th album Maraqopa on February 12th, Damien Jurado is one of those lasting songwriters that just won't stop making great records.
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Posted on 26 January 2012. Tags: Beethoven, DEFTONES, Far, Nine Inch Nails, Portishead, Tool
Radiohead and Portishead define this musichead's high school experience. The Owl Mag photographer, Wolfgangg Sauer, takes us on a trip.
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Posted on 26 January 2012. Tags: Angelic Swells, Bootleg Theatre, Neverever, Shake-a-baby, slumberland records
Where did this band come from? What did you they say their influences are again? Let Neverever whisk you away from all these silly worries.
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Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: Chicago, Greg Newton, Jimmy Shenk, Save the Clocktower, Sean Paras
The trio from Chicago known as Save the Clocktower are master mixers and will have you loosened up and calmed down in seconds.
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Posted on 23 January 2012. Tags: Ashtar Command, Planetary, Priscilla Ahn, Rachel Yamagata, smashing pumpkins
Ashtar Command is achieving genre bending success, Captain. Full speed ahead for brilliant music then, Number One.
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Posted on 20 January 2012. Tags: Coldplay, Ian S. Port, Sasha Frere-Jones, SF Weekly, The New Yorker
People spend so much time and energy disliking something because it's popular.
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Posted on 19 January 2012. Tags: Bjork, Kyuss, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Public Enemy, Tool
Flannel, Marlboros, and family "complications" may have played a role in musically shaping Owl Magger, Johnny Firecloud.
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