2011 Virgin Mobile Free Fest Lineup Announced

TV On The Radio at SXSW 2011 Photo: Jon Klemm The 2011 VFF lineup dropped a little early this year, check out the initial list of artists below: 2011 Virgin Mobile Free Fest (Sep 10, 2011) TV On The Radio Deadmau5 The Black Keys Cee Lo Green James Murphy (Solo) Cut Copy Big Sean Okkervil…

Drake’s Take: New Releases 09.09.08

Though I’m still a little undecided about the new one from Calgary’s Chad VanGaalen, Okkervil River‘s The Stand Ins (which was mostly admired by Drake) and Calexico‘s Carried To Dust (which was curiously unreviewed by Drake) both get the ‘shine nod of approval from me. Anyway, as he correctly pointed out in last week’s comments,…

Jonathan Meiburg Leaves Okkervil River

Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater (05/05/08) Jonathan Meiburg, frontman for Shearwater, has announced that he is leaving Okkervil River to focus exclusively on Shearwater. Meiburg says the split is “completely amicable”, and that Shearwater has grown to the point that it excludes his further participation in Okkervil. “This is just a logical extension of the way…