alt-J | ALL PHOTOS BY LOUIS KWOK alt-J, Matt & Kim, Walk the Moon, Catfish & the Bottlemen, and San Fermin performed at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre this past Friday. Please enjoy these photos by Louis Kwok. MATT & KIM WALK THE MOON CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN SAN FERMIN
Much like the annual running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain — The Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh brings a frenzied crowd of running people to downtown streets. Hopscotch, however, sees tight-jeaned hipsters running between bars to catch up-and-coming acts instead of crazed Spaniards running for their lives while sex-starved … Read more
Well, it’s September, folks, and the SIC gang here in North Carolina have been busy preparing ourselves to traverse the annual Hopscotch Music Festival, which amazingly, is now in it’s fourth year of existence! We’ve been consecutively staying up 30 minutes later each week for a month now, to get our bodies used to the … Read more
Photo | Agatha Donkar Well folks – another Hopscotch Music Festival has come and gone, and like always, it’s taken us a week to recover from the madness. In short – it was awesome. Unplanned day shows, followed by a meticulous schedule we derived after months of research for our evenings. Below, check out what … Read more
The Hopscotch Music Festival can be a bit hectic, and honestly, after drinking beers all day and dining on chicken soaked in honey, it’s hard to sit down with an artist, who’s scrambling to load-in gear after driving all day to get to a city that is impossible to traverse due to wobbly hipsters and … Read more
San Fermin is one of those almost impossible albums to review. I could talk about it for hours, but I’ve now begun the writing process for this review five times, pleading to *insert your god here* for divine intervention or, in the least, a muse-ish jolt of creativity to perfectly encapsulate my feelings for this … Read more
Well, another trip around the sun. And here we are. Again, we haven’t listened to every release. We haven’t listened to every genre. And we know many of you are probably tired of lists. But, like we mentioned last year, this is all about discovery. And again like last year, with discovery being the reason … Read more
Delta Spirit backstage at LouFest | Photo by Rachel Waters “I don’t have anything to do tomorrow,” Samuel T. Herring exclaimed early on in Future Islands’ afternoon set at LouFest on Saturday. The same can’t be said for the 17,000 who attended day one of St. Louis’ premeire music festival, now in its fifth year. … Read more
Lollapalooza 2013 | Photo by Jason Gonulsen We’ll be in Chicago all weekend for Lollapalooza, the three-day music extravaganza held at Grant Park. It’s one of our favorite music festivals for two reasons: the setting — Chicago’s skyline is overlooking the park — is breathtaking, and every second on every stage is a chance for … Read more