This past weekend, 4Knots Festival 2014 took place in its usual location at the South Street Seaport in NYC. It’s a great festival for a few reasons: The location is incredible; admission is free; it’s only one day so there’s not much of a time commitment; and it always manages to cram in a ton [...]

Musician claims that a conversation with his mum convinced him to go meat-free

Babymetal are a Japanese group who, as their name implies, fuse soaring power-metal to super-cute J-pop “idol” music. They wear matching outfits, put their hair in pigtails, and, by design, don’t include anyone past a certain age. (One girl was kicked out when she graduated junior high.) Pretty good gimmick! You wil...

The deluxe reissue of American Football’s self-titled LP approaches, and today, to stoke your anticipation, we’ve got one of the rare live tracks from the second disc. It’s called “The 7′s,” and according to liner notes from guitarist Steve Holmes, it’s the first song the math...

As if the pigeon shit wasn’t enough, a recent Kings Of Leon show might be the site for another natural calamity: A measles outbreak. The Seattle Times reports that a Whatcom County woman who had a confirmed case of measles traveled all over Western Washington while she was contagious last month. One of those locations [...]