Category: Features
Tasting Notes – Fall Heat Wave
Welcome to my new column here at Vinyl Mag: Tasting Notes! I have had this idea bouncing inside my head for a little while now yet for some reason haven’t gotten around to writing it. Each edition of Tasting Notes will feature a themed menu with a few projects that deserve your time. This week’s…
Hiding Places, Out of Hiding: “Homework”
Hiding Places are one of many bands emerging through the bustling post-pandemic creative scene, escaping from an isolation that long limited the ignition of projects in-the-making. Though most of us spent apocalypse-times contemplating survival, it’s quite refreshing to remember how isolation drove many to cultivate time and energy towards their art. I saw this vitality…
20 Years of Pickathon: A Legacy of Diversity
It’s good to be home. Portland may no longer be the country’s best kept secret, but it is without doubt still in possession of the next best thing: Pickathon; a paragon of a small-scale festival accurately coined “the best American music festival period” by unofficial mascot and veteran, Ty Segall. Nestled in the scenic rural-suburban…
Wolf Parade Tour Diary: Sasquatch 2018
[tps_header] We handed a disposable camera to Canada’s iconic indie rock quartet Wolf Parade to document their Sasquatch Music Festival adventures at the magical Gorge Amphitheatre. Click through to check out the tour diary of bandmates Spencer Krug, Dan Boeckner, Arlen Thompson, and Dante DeCaro, plus a can of La Croix, the back of a van, and some backstage…
Post Animal Tour Diary: Shaky Knees 2018
[tps_header] Psych rock six-piece Post Animal snagged a disposable camera from us to document their adventures at this year’s Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out their photos below. [/tps_header] Low key in the shadows.
Bonnaroo 2018: The Best and the Worst
We came, we saw, we roo’d. Over the Bonnaroo weekend we witnessed, listened, and tasted everything from the magical and amazing to the “could have been better,” to the just plain no. We’ve compiled a list of what we found to be some of the best and worst of Roo this year. First up, our…
White Reaper Tour Diary: Sasquatch 2018
[tps_header] Self-proclaimed World’s Best American Band White Reaper took Sasquatch Music Festival by storm this year with their arena-worthy sound and stage presence. The Louisville, KY garage punk quartet—made up of Tony Esposito, Ryan Hater, Nick Wilkerson, Hunter Thompson, and Sam Wilkerson—borrowed a disposable camera from us to document their weekend at the George, WA-based fest. …
Artists to Watch: Bonnaroo 2019
It’s that time of year again. The time when Bonnaroovians return to The Farm that many call home for 3 or 4 or even 5 nights of Bonnaroo magic. Whether you’re split on the arguments that Bonnaroo died and lost all that magic years ago, or it will never be the same, or that the festival…
Sasquatch! Music Festival 2018: A Triumphant Return to Form
Emerging from hibernation annually each Memorial Day Weekend, Sasquatch! Music Festival opens the gates of The Gorge Amphitheater in George, WA and welcomes festival-goers to a scenic splendor that no possible combination of words could ever do justice. It is indisputable that Sasquatch! has an unfair advantage against competing festivals due to the fact that…
Shaky Beats 2018: Filling the Void
In its third edition, Shaky Beats earns its place as one of this year’s EDM destinations. Over three days, the festival shook up Atlanta’s Central Park with artists including Kygo, Marshmello, Zedd, Excision, Dillion Francis, Seven Lions, and hometown favorite Ludacris. The move to Central Park took the festival out of concrete midtown Atlanta and…