Baltimore: 2011 NOVO Festival Announced

The 2nd Annual NOVO Festival has been announced for March 1st – 5th at Baltimore’s Windup Space.  The festival, which features bands that focus on music sans Vocals (thus the title), is being organized by Windup Space along with Mobtown Studios.  Sounds pretty cool.

details of the bands playing and cost are after the jump.

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January 31st, 2011 | by ryan97ou

Stream Bright Eyes’ The People’s Key Album

NPR is streaming Bright Eyes’ upcoming album The People’s Key in it’s entirety, and decribes it as follows:

I won’t mince words: This is the best record Bright Eyes has ever made. In fact, it’s the best record the band’s frontman, Conor Oberst, has ever been a part of. Publicists like to say as much any time an artist releases a new album, but in this case, it’s actually true. The People’s Key is a career-defining work of art.

Whoa.  That’s some high praise.  I haven’t listened yet, but lets see if it lives up to the above description. (also, does the cover art remind anyone else of the last MGMT album cover, stylistically?)

Stream The People’s Key HERE.

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January 31st, 2011 | by ryan97ou

New Fleet Foxes: “Helplessness Blues”

So this just exploded onto the interwebs today.  Enjoy (from Fleet Foxes upcoming album of the same name, out 5/3)

Did i mentioned how fox-erific it is? Wait ’til the breakdown around the 3 minute mark, great stuff. (via pitchfork)

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (MP3)

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January 31st, 2011 | by ryan97ou

Stream Cut Copy’s Zonoscope

Head over to Cut Copy’s webpage and you can stream their entire new album Zonoscope (2/8) if you tweet about said album stream.  I’ve been listening to it the past week or so and it’s definitely worth checking out.

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January 31st, 2011 | by ryan97ou

ATP NY Announced: Portishead, Jeff Mangum

ATP has just announced their next USA festival: saturday and sunday will be curated (and performed) by Portishead, while friday is curated by ATP and will include a performance by the ellusive Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel). The festival will take place Sept. 30th – Oct. 2nd at NY’s Asbury Park.

This festival is called a I’ll Be Your Mirror event, which they explain “is a new series of artist curated music, film and art events. Acting as sister events to the ATP Festivals, which take place in holiday resorts, I’ll Be Your Mirror retains the curatorial and multiple band and film concept, but will take place in cities worldwide. The events are named after the b-side to The Velvet Underground’s original All Tomorrow’s Parties 7″ single, released in 1966.”

More details after the jump:

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January 26th, 2011 | by ryan97ou

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