Category: Features
City Guide: A Weekend in New York with Pueblo
Brooklyn based indie pop duo Pueblo is made up of Jonah P. Smith and Julian P. Smith, childhood friends since grade school days in their hometown of Dallas, Texas. The Smiths, who dropped their debut EP, Boring the Camera, earlier this year, are currently on tour in the US. The two friends may be somewhat new to the…
Arkells Tour Diary: Shaky Knees 2017
[tps_header] We handed a disposable camera (remember those?) to the members of Canadian rock band Arkells and asked them to document their day at Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Music Festival. Take a look at their shenanigans below, and be sure to catch them on tour like, right now. This is not a live performance you want to miss….
Shaky Knees 2017: Rising Above the Rest
Day One Day One of Shaky Knees kicked off bright and early with a set from Cymbals Eat Guitars over at the Ponce de Leon stage. Not a bad way to jump start your day, with front row head-banging right at the crack of noon. The lineup for Friday was overwhelming in the best way,…
Countdown to Shaky Knees 2017
Last weekend we were shakin’ our beats. This weekend we’ll be shakin’ our knees. In its fifth year, Shaky Knees returns to Centennial Park in Atlanta, GA, for three days and nights of the finest indie rock acts around. Topping the lineup are the likes of LCD Soundsystem, The xx, and Phoenix. This year’s stellar…
VM’s Top 5 Favorite Things About Shaky Beats 2017
1. Home State Festival Our roots are deeply grounded in the great state of Georgia. So when there is a festival of this size and quality in the heart of one of our favorite cities, we just have to show our love. Atlanta is known for many things – as of late it may be the collapsing…
Shaky Beats Artist: Little Dragon
Cryptic, hypnotic, Layered hooks and melodies, Dreamy, strong vocals Our “Haiku Review” of Little Dragon’s long-awaited album, Season High, pretty much sums it up. From classic video game sounds to mystical dreamscapes, from upbeat tribal dance grooves to spaced out zones, there is unexpected and unimagined magic within each track. “We want to exist in our own…
Track-By-Track: Welles Talk Debut EP ‘Codeine’
“My hope and my long term plan is to tour extensively and never let my feet touch the ground,” Jehsea Wells tells me of his grit-rock three-piece, Welles, who dropped their debut EP today under C3 Records. I think he’s got pretty good odds. Wells, who recently made the move from Ozark, AR to Nashville, TN,…
Countdown to Shaky Beats 2017
It’s Friday (Yayy!). Which means one week from now we will be returning to Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA, for the second annual Shaky Beats Music Festival. With a line-up boasting the likes of The Chainsmokers, Kaskade, GRiZ, Bonobo, Flosstradamus, Zeds Dead, Galantis, RL Grime, Gramatik, the return of Girl Talk, and many more, this year’s…
Playlist Project: 15 Songs Frontman Joseph King is Listening To Right Now
Joseph King, former frontman of Canvas and Deadbeat Darling, is back and better than ever with his new project. Joseph King and the Mad Crush is a Brooklyn-based pop rock quartet with a penchant for catchily heartbreaking lyrics and delicious, surfy reverb. The band dropped their I Miss Everything EP earlier this year. We asked the Austin, TX native to create a…
50 Bands to See at SXSW 2017
We’ll admit it—scrolling through the list of the year’s SXSW artists is intimidating. But, as we all know, preparation always pays off. You have seven days (March 13-19) to soak in as much music as humanly possible, with a smorgasbord of artists featured at showcases and parties all over downtown Austin. Enter us. We’ve compiled a Spotify playlist…