Sasquatch 2012

The folks behind the Sasquatch Music Festival released the 2012 lineup a few days back, and I must say, this might be the most impressive festival lineup so far this season.

This year’s lineup includes: Jack White, Beck, Bon Iver, Tenacious D, The Shins, Beirut, Girl Talk, Feist, Metric, The Head & The Heart, M. Ward, Childish Gambino, The Civil War, The Joy Formidable, The Roots, Explosions In The Sky, St. Vincent, Little Dragon, tUnE-yArDs, Spiritualized, fun., Dum Dum Girls, Alabama Shakes, Beats Antique, SBTRKT, Star Slinger, Com Truise, Purity Ring, Star Fucker, Zola Jesus, Shearwater, Active Child, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Yellow Ostrich, We Are Augustines, Said The Whale, and many more.

The 2012 Sasquatch Music Festival is set for May 25-28 at The Gorge, WA.  For more festival information, including tickets and full lineup, be sure to check out sasquatchfestival.com.

[watch] The Raid

Making a huge splash at this years Sundance Film Festival, the Indonesian film, The Raid is becoming one of the most talked about action films in quite some time. Several clips have been released and the red band trailer will make you squirm. Here is an exclusive clip from Mike Shinoda’s blog. Shinoda scored the film and is the only good thing to come out of Linkin Park in my opinion. The score has a dubstep/electronic tempo set against high paced gritty action. I can’t wait for this film, due out in March. It caused a bit of a bidding war at Sundance and XYZ Films is handling the transaction. I first heard of The Raid over the summer when a friend who works with XYZ told me about his hopes to get this film to the states…looks like he did his job well. Also look for the American remake coming soon, Warner Bros. bought the rights. Enjoy

Here is the trailer:

And the exclusive clip from Shinoda
http://youtu.be/EZwDgkHjlzo

[hot off the press] Diamond Doves//Eat Your Heart Out

Diamond Doves was formed in 2010 by longtime friends and musical collaborators Nick Kinsey, Brigham Brough and Wyndham Garnett. The sound of Diamond Doves is the meeting of their three distinct vocal, instrumental and compositional personalities. With a seemingly endless instrumental palette and a penchant for genre-hopping, Diamond Doves draw from a wide range of influences both foreign and domestic, new and old. Their sound at times recalls the mass and drive of Funkadelic, the studio experimentation of Os Mutantes and the democratic ethos of The Band, yet it clearly owes a lot to the pop-craft of contemporaries like Animal Collective, The Walkmen and Kanye West…[more]

While you wait for Diamond Doves’ debut LP (due out this Spring), i’m pleased to share with the brand new track “Eat Your Heart Out”.

♪  Diamond Doves – Eat Your Heart Out

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