“Dark of the Matinee” – Franz Ferdinand Originally posted at the Horn Publication. As the deluge began outside that would ultimately cancel Sunday’s outdoor festivities, three of Indie rock’s most exciting bands took the stage indoors at Emo’s, each giving a memorable performance leading up to Franz Ferdinand’s dance-fueled finale. Frankie Rose, a Brooklyn garage-rock…
Nobody quite sparks the imagination like Alice Glass and Ethan Kath. The members of the electro-noise group Crystal Castles have deftly created a shroud of macabre mystery to surround their dark and diabolical personas. Through gothic imagery, epic seizure-inducing light shows, and Alice’s banshee-like stage antics, Crystal Castles has gathered a following that is as…
Two days of recovery from the first round of ACL was all but lost after the marathon dance party that took place at the Emo’s on Wednesday night. “Chill wave” connoisseur, Chaz Bundick of Toro y Moi, and L.A. pop electro savants, Classixx, came together in a showcase that was as danceable and funky…
On Friday night Lee Ackerley caught two young punk bands, FIDLAR and The Orwells, at their sold out ACL after show at Holy Mountain. There are a small but growing contingent of punk bands that are carrying the torch for the music genre that supposedly died in September 1983, when Joe Strummer kicked Mick Jones…