Rewards, aka Aaron Pfenning (co-founder of Chairlift) has announced additional dates with We Are Scientists and Warpaint in the Europe and the US.  Rewards will be previewing new tracks from his forthcoming 7-inch and album on these dates., including “Two Cardinals” and “I Used To.”   Here are the dates: Nov 15 – Pyramids – [...]

Rewards, aka Aaron Pfenning (co-founder of Chairlift) will embark on a fall tour spanning Europe and the US with Brandon Flowers (The Killers) and We Are Scientists.  As Rewards, Aaron plays all of the instruments, producing and engineering all of the recordings himself.  The tour kicks off in Amsterdam with Brandon Flowers, and concludes in [...]

The MidPoint Music Festival people down in Cincinnati are putting on a series of free, outdoor Friday night concerts this summer, leading up to the big festival in September. The headliner lineup is below (support slots coming later): June 4 Camera Obscura (Glasgow, Scotland) June 11 Neon Indian (Austin, TX) June 18 Jason Isbell and [...]

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (April 17, 18, 19) announced 130-plus acts for the tenth event at the beautiful Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, the same grounds where the festival debuted in 1999. Tickets for Coachella go on sale Friday, January 30 at 9:00 AM. Here is the full line-up: FRIDAY APRIL 17: [...]

So, I was at the movies this weekend (please don’t ask what I was seeing) and spotted the preview for Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a film based on the novel by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn.  Apparently, the premise is that when Nick O’Leary (Michael Cera) and Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings) see their ex-sweethearts together [...]