LIVE REVIEW: Escape 2 New York – Lessons from a First Time Fest
The Owl Mag went to the Hamptons for the Escape 2 NY Festival where we picked up a few lessons, scrapes and some bruised hearts all in the name of rock n’ roll.
LIVE REVIEW: Vans House Party @ House of Vans, Brooklyn 7/29/11
Van’s House Party with Pissed Jeans, Screaming Females, Fucked Up, & Cro Mags left us with bruises that were extremely, outrageously, probably-shouldn’t-go-into-work-with-this-kind-of-wound EPIC.
NXNE Recap: Stranger in a Strange Land (Part 2)
This is the story of NXNE told through the perspective of its softer moments, of the things that were there before and will remain to stay long after the last hashtag.
NXNE Recap, Part 1: Stranger in a Strange Land
For a little over a decade, the city of Toronto has thrown their hat into the music festival ring, presenting North by Northeast, an answer to the over-saturated festival landscape of their fatter friends to the South.
LIVE REVIEW: Bird of Youth @ The Rock Shop, 6/9/11
Bird of Youth’s Beth Wawerna has been involved in New York’s music scene for over a decade, but it took her years to get up on stage and reveal her considerable songwriting talents. We caught the band’s CD release show for their excellent debut album, Defender, at Brooklyn’s Rock Shop.
PREVIEW: Toronto’s North by Northeast Festival Playlist
Basically, refer to this list if you want to know every cool, new band that’s out – well, not every, but most of them.
PICTURE THIS: B.O.M.B. Fest ’11
We trekked through Connecticut and all we brought back was this explosion of photographs from B.O.M.B. Fest 2011.
LIVE REVIEW: B.O.M.B. Fest 2011
Hartford, Connecticut exploded with talent for the third annual B.O.M.B. Festival which not only brings music to the east coast masses but also supports many worthy causes.