So what all did the fellows of Cut Copy get up to before the dinner-time shindig and headline show? Well, not record shopping, that’s for sure. The day before, the boys burned out on perusing aisles of albums at Aomeba Records in San Francisco where they did a DJ set [...]

Along with the new Santogold album that was released yesterday, The Roots dropped ‘Rising Down’ and it is pretty awesome. Much harder, tighter and stripped down than previous albums ‘Rising Down’ has the band delivering some angry and scorching lyrics - everyone in this camp is pissed apparently…
Watch the Ric Cordero directed video of 75 [...]

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Nilina Mason-Campbell hits up the opening night of Situation:
And he’s back! Back from tour and back into the party-starting swing of things. Yes, Wednesday marked the debut of the Gossip’s Brace Paine’s new club night Situations at Dunes. Whether it’s throwing impromptu MSTRKRFT and Spank Rock after-parties or his esteemed line of long-running dance [...]

A review from Nilina Mason-Campbell.
Operating sans set-list, The Raconteurs returned to Portland via the Wonder Ballroom last night with a set full of enough guitar solos and duels in an hour and a half to out-do a Stephen Malkmus set three times as long. The Raconteurs co-frontman Brendan Benson handled the bulk of mic duties [...]