So if you trust the Brits, this one-part adult-contemporary rising star, one-part hippie is a don't miss this weekend. The dynamically voiced singer/songwriter also recently released his debut album, Hand Built by Robots, which hit number one on the UK charts. Newton Faulkner is an acoustic-guitar virtuoso and the man with the most impressive dreads you'll see all weekend. While her older material is a little too Sheryl Crow at times, the new album, Asking for Flowers, summons a little more feminine delicacy. Kathleen Edwards's set is the place to be if you miss Lilith Fair and if you're partial to pretty-voiced pretty ladies singing country-flavored songs about love and longing. Will he buy merch? Hide backstage? Sob about Destroyer's inevitably smaller crowd? Follow carefully and find out! Wookie Stage 4:45 pm But the better show might be tailing Bejar between this and his New Pornos set. Main Stage 12:55 pmĭan Bejar's psych-tinged love affair with both Dylan and Bowie has resulted in two genius Destroyer records in two years, and this show will bask in his grand songwriting catalog.
Seven years later, they're still going strong, with three albums to their name and a growing following of listeners who've taken to their surf-laced, reverb-soaked, Khmer-tongued songs. sextet Dengue Fever formed in 2001 with the intent of covering some old Cambodian rock songs and maybe doing a few shows. In the song "Goner," singer Hardy Morris growls, "I could be gone, you would never know" again and again with the tinge of an angry Cobain. Their guitar-driven, dramatic songs are deeper and darker than psych-influenced Southern rock, and their lyrics are just as eerie, too, which only adds to the spooky, cinematic quality of the music. Wookie Stage 6 pmįor good reason, some critics have tagged Georgia's Dead Confederate as Southern rock, but there's really more to them. Together, they're Crudo, and it's anyone's guess what their new project will present this weekend, but it's bound to be fascinating. Octagon project with Kool Keith and also part of Gorillaz. Dan the Automator is an innovative hiphop producer who was part of the Dr.
Bungle, Fantômas, the Dillinger Escape Plan, and Peeping Tom. Mike Patton spent 10 years of his life as the singer for Faith No More.