TAG: Robyn

Aug02

MELT Festival 2011 Review/Gallery

When it comes to music festivals, the experience is as much defined by the location as the artists booked to play. Would Coachella be Coachella were it not in the surreal landscape of the California desert? Or how would Sónar

go off were it not for the vitalic Barcelona audience that fills the Center of Contemporay Culture? MELT Festival—located a quick 90 minute train ride from the European party epicenter of Berlin again gains much of it’s stature from it’s amazing venue, Ferropoilis, an outdoor museum of massive modern industrial machines located at the site of an old strip mine. It is within the gigantic arms of these Transformer-esque monsters that the mid-sized fest (about 20,000 attendees) gains it’s magic. …MORE

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Apr18

11 Faves (and Fails) of Coachella 2011

Coachella 2011 is now history, and once again America’s grassiest (and classiest) festival left a lot of impressions—most good, but always with room for improvement. Here’s URB’s faves and fails from the year:

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Apr12

Coachella 2011 Top 10 URB Picks

Here at URB HQ, if there’s one thing we know about, it’s Coachella. Having the ultimate music festival in our own backyard means we’ve had a front row seat to watch it grow from an ambitious gathering in the desert to a record-breaking sellout destination for music fans worldwide. People even still ask who’s playing the “URB Tent” this year, which is funny since there hasn’t been one of those since the early ’00s. But if there was an URB stage at Coachella 2011, here’s some of the acts we’d want to claim as our own. …MORE

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Mar28

Meet The Amazing Diamond Rings (@Stayfierce) (Video)

John O’Regan is the gem of a musician behind Diamond Rings, a project that infuses O’Regan’s haunting vocals (think Tears For Fears with the subtlety of Justin Warfield from She Wants Revenge) with brightly-tinged visuals that often include dance numbers and basketball scrimmages. I got a chance to talk with the canadian up-and-comer before he opened for electro-queen Robyn at Radio City Music Hall. Check it out!

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Feb21

Robyn Live @ ACL (Review)

word: Katherine Deming / photos: Chris Carrasquillo

Robyn, the quintessential Swedish dance-machine and Comeback Queen (or as they say in Sweden “Drottning”), made her Austin City Limits debut at The Moody Theater on Thursday night. The state-of-the-art venue is the new home to KLRU-TV produced PBS program Austin City Limits – the longest running music series in American television history. The Moody Theater feels surprisingly intimate for a 3-level 2,700 capacity venue. Located on Willie Nelson Blvd. in downtown Austin, the Moody Theater is a wet dream for sound tech and lighting geeks (do those exist?). Bottom line – the new ACL studio maintains the intimacy of the old studio with some schnazzy …

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