If America is the child of England, our other parent is surely France. From Lafayette’s assistance in the Revolutionary War to our own D-Day at Normandy, from New Orleans to Paris, Texas, from French cuisine to French New Wave...
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The success – or at least importance – of Austin’s South-by-Southwest and New York’s CMJ festivals (QRO Festival Guide) have given rise to more industry-type fests in venues across a musical city, but the leader...
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After the Jump is a collection of New York bloggers (currently numbering seventeen, including themusicslut.com and poptartssucktoasted.com) who band together to put on events, featuring some of their favorite undiscovered talent. Most notable are their showcases...
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This fall, between new TV & school season, check out this new music:
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At the end of August '09, Cardiff Wales' Los Campesinos! will finish their latest U.S. tour - and singer/keyboardist Aleks Campesinos! will finish her last tour ever in the band. Before she heads off to medical school, QRO...
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Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival returned for a second year on Saturday, August 8th, this time at The Old American Can Factory in deepest Gowanus (so deep even Jonathan Lethem doesn’t go there…). For a full twelve...
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Now in its sixth year, the FYF Fest has grown without growing up. Starting in 2004 by then eighteen-year-old Sean Carlson, with help from who-knows-how-old Keith Morris (of Black Flag & The Circle Jerks), FYF has previously expanded, to South-by-Southwest...
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The annual Vans Warped Tour rolled into Long Island's massive Nassau Coliseum on Saturday, July 18th, featuring The A.K.A.'s, Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Bayside, Flogging Molly, Less Than Jake, The Maine, Meg & Dia, NOFX, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Senses Fail, Sing It Loud, Jeffree Star, 30H!3 and Underoath, and... -
Another year, another ‘last ever’ Siren Music Festival on Coney Island. After last year’s oh-so-indie line-up (QRO 2008 Siren recap), The Village Voice returned to 2007’s more varied collection of acts (QRO 2007 Siren recap), with Spank Rock, Built To Spill, Monotonix, The Raveonettes,...