Even before their ‘big time’ appearance on Saturday Night Live earlier this month, Vampire Weekend was one of the biggest…
Author: Max Hammer
Discovering and sharing the best DIY/alt/indie/underground music you've never heard. I've been writing about music and other topics since the mid-1990s. We are also music industry professionals - PR; promotion; management; branding; etc.
Lollapalooza’s 2008 Line-up Rumors, Fakes and Speculation
(Above: This is a fake that has been circulating the Internets for the past month; it is not the official…
Grand Ole Party Touring With Rogue Wave Throughout US in April
Riding on the sails of their ‘critically acclaimed’ debut album Humanimals, San Diego’s indie trio Grand Ole Party has announced…
Mark Kozelek and Sun Kil Moon’s New Album, Book and Tour
Pained and yet hauntingly beautiful, Mark Kozelek‘s music as a solo artist and with Red House Painters and Sun Kil…
2008 PLUG Awards Go To Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Iron & Wine and Justice
The above promo video for the 2008 Plug Awards held at Terminal 5 in New York City on Friday night…
Chicago Tribune’s Wishy-Washy Report of ‘Headliners’ for Lollapalooza 2008 Lineup Feeds Rumor Mill
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are reported to be two of the “headliners” at Lollapalooza 2008, according to a wishy-washy…
Ray Davies of The Kinks, Zach Condon, DCFC, The Cure and Angels and Airwaves Coming to SF
Following a successful Noise Pop Festival in which dozens and dozens of indie musicians and groups descended on San Francisco,…
Angels and Airways Help Keep ‘OC-Style’ Pop Rock Alive
They are not necessarily ‘indie’ (whatever that is), because they are signed with Universal, but Angels and Airwaves are starting…
Bonnaroo Organizers Pre-Ticket Sales Rhymes Both Annoy and Entertain
Promoters for major music festivals realize that beating the others to the punch as far as announcing lineup and ticket…
Watch STS9, Gov’t Mule, REM, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill and Others at Langerado Festival
Indie music fans in south Florida are already arriving in south Florida for this weekend’s Langerado Festival. The 2008 Langerado…
Bamboozle Festival 2008 Lineups, Tickets and the U.S. Roadshow
In the chatter and noise about Coachella, Bonnaroo, Lolla and other major festivals, it’s easy for the ‘other fests’ of…
Still No Lineup for Lollapalooza 2008; Wait Game and Rumors Might Kill Ticket Sales
For months now, festival and music lovers, bloggers, musicians and the mainstream media have speculated, floated rumors, predicted and even…