This week’s “GET PSYCHED” post spotlights some of the unconventional but brilliant songwriters performing at the Coachella Festival in 2012. All five of them hail from a long tradition of great North American singer-songwriters (your Bob Dylans, your Leonard Cohens, your Victoria Williamses) — but all have put a distinctively modern twist on the craft. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘alternative music’
Coachella 2012: GET PSYCHED (Part 2)
Posted: February 17, 2012 by Sean Flinn in MusicTags: alternative music, coachella, feist, girls, jeff mangum, m. ward, st. vincent
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Burlesque Breakthrough: An Interview with Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls
Posted: June 22, 2004 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: alternative music, Amanda Palmer, Dresden Dolls
Choler catches up with Dresden Dolls frontwoman / piano torturer Amanda Palmer to ponder the band’s imminent voyage from play time to big time. Let’s face it: if you’re a rock band based in Beantown, you’ve got more than one pair of skin-tight leather trousers to fill. If the bar band-turned-stadium-filling paleontology exhibit on wheels [...]
Back In The Pink: An Interview with Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs
Posted: August 2, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: alternative music, Psychedelic Furs
“God, it sounds like a venereal disease when you say it like that!” Richard Butler, vocalist and chief songwriter for ’80s mainstays the Psychedelic Furs is cracking wise in response to my poorly phrased question, “Has Love Spit Love (Butler’s post-Furs project) gone away?” “Yes. It’s gone into remission,” he continues, laughing. It’s a pop-culture [...]
Concert Review: Stereolab Emerges from the Metronomic Underground
Posted: December 1, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Concert Reviews, MusicTags: alternative music, belly up tavern, duophonic, indie rock, stereolab
A concert review of Stereolab live at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, Calif. The ease with which Stereolab consistently sells out its shows is a testament to the impotence and poor taste of commercial radio. The ‘Lab have been packing venues with fans for years now, without any support beyond the tier of [...]
Concert Review: Coachella 1999 — If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get Out of the Desert
Posted: October 15, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Concert Reviews, MusicTags: alternative music, coachella, DJ Shadow, Electronic Music, moby, qbert, rahzel, ritchie hawtin, underworld
The 1999 Coachella Valley Festival of Music and Arts proved that you don’t need a radio-friendly super-trendy lineup of bands to give hordes of people a great time. Oh, yeah — and that rock as you may know it is dead. The highly anticipated Coachella Festival promised, at the very least, a spectacle worthy of [...]
