Slacker is heading out to Colorado for one of Country Music fans’ favorite party – Country Jam. The 2013 Major Mortgage Country Jam marks the 22nd anniversary of Colorado’s largest music festival. This event attracts country music enthusiasts from a large region. Based just outside of Grand Junction, CO, this four-day festival includes everything from [...]
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“They Say It’s Your Birthday” Paul MacCartney
Beatles legend Sir Paul MacCartney may be 71 today – but that doesn’t stop him from leaving the crowd at Bonnaroo speechless with a near three hour set this past weekend. It should be no surprise that the iconic musician is still owning the stage, traveling the world on his ‘Out There’ tour, playing sold out [...]
Artist of the Week Sigur Rós Release New Album
This week Iceland’s Sigur Rós released their seventh album of ambient, ethereal post-rock—an album that they describe as “more aggressive” than their previous records. Whereas their previous material was whimsical, optimistic, and even child-like in nature, this new album finds the band doing what they do best—creating cinematic, atmospheric soundscapes—it’s just that these soundscapes are [...]
New Music: We Love Grouplove
There is an early contender for this year’s summer anthem–and it comes to us from Grouplove. After breaking out in 2011 with songs like “Tongue Tied” and ‘Colours”, nabbing a few soundtrack spots in hit TV shows like “Don’t Say Oh Well” in Vampire Diaries, they are back with the first single from their new [...]
New Series “I Am the DJ” Debuts with Counting Crows
There is nothing better than personal music recommendations from people you trust- unless of course that person happens to be a famous musician. Our new series “I Am the DJ” gives a glimpse into the music collection of some of our favorite artists as they showcase their favorite songs, biggest influences and specialized playlists. To debut [...]
The Lonely Island Bring Comedy to Artist of the Week
This week, self-described “frappers” The Lonely Island release their second album of what can best be described as “comedy-rap”. Akiva, Jorma, and Andy have produced an album as crass, taboo, and hilarious as you might imagine- featuring songs like “Diaper Money”, “Spring Break Anthem”, “YOLO”- which was featured as a digital short on SNL, and [...]
