Lightouts
Critical Praise for Lightouts:
"'The Eloise Suite' is a three-minute 120 Minutes jammer owing to some Berlin-era Bowie chime-rock—and it now comes with a music video that can be best described as 'Kubri...
Allah-Las
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512
10:40PM -11:15PM
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Greil Marcus liked to refer back to “The Old, Weird America” when discussing a certain famous set of recordings that emanated from a Woodstock cabin basement. ALLAH-LAS sound like the Old, Weird Los Angeles: Strains ...
Beyond the real deal is the unreal deal, and therein lies Feeding People, a band of teenagers making some of the heaviest psychedelic around decades after the 13th Floor Elevators declared their hallucinatory sense of pu...
It’s 12:40 a.m. on a Saturday night, drinks are being poured and your living room is starting to look like Studio 54. Better hope you’ve got Zak Waters’ on the stereo.
Oozing with confidence, sex appeal, and a J...
Exit was born in the mid-1990s out of Austin, Texas' Ben Londa's love of electronic music, particularly the ambient soundscapes of Global Communication and early Projekt Records releases. Meshing electronics with guitars...
After last years' run of critically acclaimed singles ("Knuckle Sandwich", "Knick Knack", "Scarred for Life", "Learn the Language"), Brooklyn's Mr. Dream presents its debut album TRASH HIT. It's an ambitious rock record...
“One hundred days” was the commitment made after four twenty-somethings met in the San Francisco in 2005. And, for 100 days the four young musicians - that would later name their band by the same name - spent night a...
Future Unlimited are a duo from Nashville for whom the particulars of their unusual bond have led them to create a thoroughly studied modern futurist bent on the music they love. For Future Unlimited, the 80’s is not ...
Molly Rankin is the girl next door. But she’s smoking in the basement, writing gruff pop songs with irresistible hooks.
At 22, the youngest member of one of Canada’s most famous musical families, a songwriter with...
Albums that are determined to become legendary milestones seem to be appearing less frequently during the 21st century. With the immediacy of the Internet, as listeners, we consume a bigger number of projects than we did...
Formed in Victoria BC, Canada, in 2009 and now settled in Vancouver, Gold & Youth (formerly known as The Racoons) have developed their craft on a considerable number of stages. Musically, Gold & Youth blend synthetic and...
The experimental, electronic, no wave, hip-hop duo Deadly Cradle Death is formed by He Fan (also member of Carsick Cars and Birdstriking) and Liu Xinyu (from Chui Wan). The pair met in a experimental guitar show back in...
Nova Heart
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512
9:00PM - 9:40PM
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"Highly anticipated" – Telonius, co-owner of Gomma Records
"Dark, sexy and beautiful - Music Karl Lagerfeld would be proud of" - Alex Chow, Creative Director, Vogue China
“In a scene where a lot of rockstars t...
Rustic
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512
10:00PM -10:40PM
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Rustic was formed in provincial Hebei in February 2006 by three teenagers. That year they played frequently around Hebei province, mostly in dirty little clubs in remote towns, and yet they thrived. With Johnny Thunder...
Duck Fight Goose are a Shanghai-based supergroup, formed in 2009 out of the legendary Miniless collective. With their first EP, "FLOW", they created layers upon layers of sound, combining modern ambient post-rock with dr...
Snapline
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512
12:00AM -12:40AM
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In the wonder years of 2006-2008, Snapline became, almost overnight it seemed, perhaps Beijing’s fastest rising band. At the very beginning, the band consisted of Li Qing on guitar and keyboards and Li Weisi on bass, ...
Carsick Cars
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512
1:00AM - 1:50AM
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Carsick Cars originally consisted of Shouwang on vocals, guitar, and loops, Li Qing on percussion, and Li Weisi on bass guitar. The band was formed in March, 2005, when Shouwang, a student at the Beijing Institute of Te...
