What is the Best Full-length of the Year?

KEXP has a rad blog, and it provides a great spring board into a great question.  What was your album of the year, 2006?  In this article Chilly has released a solid list of this years best Full-length...

24-hour daylight at Norway's Arctic rock festival

" If you were looking for the perfect blend of art and nature, then you couldn't do much better than the Bukta rock festival in Tromsø, northern Norway. Now in its third year, Bukta makes a good claim to be the...

Pitchfork Music Festival 2006, Chicago

"Whew! After spending more than 18 hours at the Pitchfork Music Festival 2006, we’re exhausted. But it’s a happy kind of exhausted that comes from knowing you spent all that time seeing great live music in the...

NYC's Siren Festival 2006

"Siren is always a half-empty/half-full type situation. On one hand, you're getting top tier indie bands playing in New York City for free. On the other, you know going into it the sound will be lousy, the crowds...