Well, another year has gone by. 2011 seemed awfully quick and in reflecting back I didn’t feel as though it was as hectic for me, meaning I didn’t shoot as many shows in previous years. That’s not to say that it wasn’t a big year for me personally, I was lucky enough to attend Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, I also receive accreditation for other big festivals such as Lollapalooza in Chicago and Oshega in Montreal, both of which I didn’t end up attending. But, still, it was good to know that I could throw my hat into those big festivals and get some love thrown back at me. So as I do every year, here’s a look at some of my favorite photos that I was lucky enough to catch this year.
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Starting with the photo up top. That’s P-Thugg, if you didn’t know. He’s one half of Chromeo and yes these dudes make it to my list, yet again. They’re live shows are extremely entertaining. On this particular tour they played back to back nights in Vancouver. All of the photographers / media folks covered the first night, their manager told me that he would slot me in for the second night. Turned out that was pretty amazing, I was the only photographer and given zero restrictions on how to photograph them. During a song change I slapped on my fish-eye and took out my Polaroid camera as well, I lined it up right in front of P-Thugg and he pointed right at me. The Polaroid version of this is quite cool as well, but it’s the colors and brief connection here that makes it a favorite of mine.
This shot right here is from the Wavves show when the California punk band rolled through with Best Coast. The venue area (not staff) was sketchy as shit as I would find out when my camera gear got stolen, no worries though I found the girl that did it. The lighting for this show was AB-SO-LUTE shit all night, but I was able to pull of some real dramatic type shots, my favorite being the one above with all the lights and all that damn fog I was amazed that I was able to pull this shot out. Thank god for my 50mm 1.4 lens on this round. Asides from stolen gear all of the photographers also had to worry about being kicked in the head from the mosh pit that was happening right directly behind us. There were some pretty tense moments but in the end I got the shots I wanted and that’s all that mattered.
Here’s the latest video from the Swedish duo, Serenades, which is comprised of Adam Olenius and Markus Krunegård. The group’s EP, Come Home, will be released on November 15 and features the single, “Oceans.” To celebrate the release of Come Home, Serenades announced some tour dates in Europe and North America.
Free download of “Oceans” and tour dates here: http://www.theserenades.com/
A trailer of sorts for an upcoming film by Antoine Wagner on his journeys with the band Phoenix. The band exploded in popularity in 2009 when their latest album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix was released and have been touring extensively from the get go. The trailer starts with the date October 13 flashing and ends with the web url www.fromamesstothemasses.com.
In support of the release of A.A. Bondy‘s forthcoming album, Believers, a handful of tour dates have been announced. Believers is Bondy’s third album and it will be released on September 13 on Fat Possum. I’m telling you from experience that he is amazing live and should not be missed.
Tour Dates
9/28 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
9/30 – Los Angeles, CA – Eagle Rock Centre for the Performing Arts
10/4 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
10/6 – Seattle, WA – The Tractor Tavern
10/7 – Vancouver, BC – The Media Club
I don’t usually post art up on here, but thought this was pretty awesome. Back in February Viktor Hertz released a set of minimalist movie posters that he had done, which turned out to be a crowd pleaser. Well, he’s back, but this time taking on the music world and cleverly incorporating images with song names. My favorite pieces are The Beatles, The Supremes and James Brown. T-shirts and posters of his work can be purchased at his online store, here. He’s also planning on doing more of these music ones according to his Flickr, which is great because these are pretty stellar.
See more after the jump.
The Virgin Mobile FreeFest line-up has been announced and includes some great bands at this years festival, which takes place Saturday, September 10th at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. If you’re not familiar with the festival, tickets to the event are free and in years pass were given out to Virgin Mobile customers, well this year it appears that they’re taking a different approach, starting tomorrow (Friday July 15th) the tickets will be available for free to the public at 10am EST on facebook.com/virginmobilelive. You must “like” the page before you’re eligible to secure free tickets.
For Virgin Mobile customers and past ticket holders, well you get the leg up, as texts were sent out this morning at 10am giving you an advantage to secure your tickets first.
So hope to it kids, get on over to facebook.com/virginmobilelive.
Toro Y Moi has announced his latest EP, Freaking Out, which is currently being scheduled for a September 13th. The EP is said to draw a lot of influence from groups like Gap Band, Mtume, Teddy Riley and he even covers Alexander O’Neill & Cherrell’s “Saturday Love”. A classic song I remember hearing a lot of as a kid. Tracklisting for the EP is listed below and a stream of “Saturday Love” also right underneath.
Toro Y Moi — Saturday Love
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Tracklisting:
1. All Alone
2. Freaking Out
3. Sweet
4. Saturday Love
5. I Can Get Love
***Edit. Fuck it I’m posting the original below, shits so good.
The official trailer for this came out a bit ago, so why are posting this now, you may ask. Well, official release dates for cities and theatres have also now been published via Sony Classics film company. The documentary of course has had a ton of controversy surround it and a lot of back and forth bickering, but it looks like it will soon hit a theatre in your city, that is of course unless you fuckin’ live in Canada. No Canadian dates were actually posted, so let’s hope that changes in a big way. Oh and if you noticed, at the end of the trailer they showed 4 members, that would be Jarobi, so yes originally there were 4 members in the group, it’s not a mistake.
Check the full schedule here.
