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The line-up is out for the 14th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and there’s a lot of reasons for music fans to be excited, especially those obsessed with early-’90s UK music. Friday night will feature co-headliners Blur and The Stone Roses, two seminal UK acts that have reformed in recent years, much to brit-pop lover’s delight.
Saturday proves it still possible for newer bands to hit massive success, with French indie-poppers Phoenix handling headlining duties, followed by UK phenoms The xx. Sunday offers veteran fare with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, two acts who have been making music since before the average Coachella camper was born.
Other highlights include Resident Advisor’s #1 DJ of 2012, Seth Troxler, the recently reformed LA hip-hop legends Jurassic …
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Directly from our inboxes to your ears, URB is servicing, what we believe to be, one of the catchiest, retro synth-soaked tracks we’ve have heard in months. Performed by Parisian duo TOYS, the single “Noise” is pop composition at its finest and its buoyant, celebratory trajectory is pilfered throughout with clever fills and sustained sequencer blips that make taking in the bliss of the song that much more…well…blissful.
Comprised of a former improvisational instrumentalist (Paul) and a music engineer (Bastien), TOYS are, and we say this with sincerest compliments intended, in a long line of successive French acts who earned their place in the pop pantheon through dedicated session playing, co-writing for other artists, and touring as backing musicians. With that in mind, TOYS is then easily compared to …
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Derived from the tightly knit gang of post-dance, post-punk London-based luminaries like Miike Snow and Florence Welch, Wolf Gang bestowed the polychromatic array of sounds from their 2011 debut “Suego Faults” on eager L.A. audiences last night. While taping segments of their performance for a later broadcast on The Carson Daly Show, the band had the attending audience on their feet for well over an hour. As they ran through their song catalogue, the musical numbers echoed everything from the sounds of hippie disco forefathers MGMT to the out-and-out boldness of power-poppers The Killers (or as some would point out, their own influencers: Big Star). Overall, the set was bold and proved why U.K. sound-makers are having a bigger impact on the whole of musical output today more …
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Part of this year’s epic back-to-back-weekends Coachella line-up, Housse de Racket is also absolutely one of THE bands to look out for on the bill. Sounding much like their French brethren Phoenix and other electric-Yacht geniuses like Zoot Woman and Air, it may not be a surprise to most that Pierre Leroux and Victor Le Masne came up as former session players for both the former and very latter of the aforementioned acts.
Though the Paris-based duo’s freshman LP Forty Love landed them in over 200 locations around the world, as they’d …
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