-Jef Otte
Plume Varia's beautiful, ambient, dramatic, ethereal sound juxtaposed with Stoney's ready-to-party atmosphere. The dark and the light, together.
The Dirty Femmes delivered a rowdy set of material that included Violent Femmes songs, a Creedence tune with special guests.
-Jon Solomon
Packed room, new band members, old songs,
-BD
Church Fire exposed EDMers to the other side of electronic music. Also, girls hula hooping as Shannon Webber screamed over beats.
-BD
Even with a
-Mary Willson
Natalie Tate's incandescent melodies, light-hearted banter, evocative, smoky vocals and smooth textures suggested a secret cabaret to soothe the soul.
-Tom Murphy
Eros and the Eschaton’s noisy, edgy dream pop recalled the music of Medicine — jaggedly beautiful songs of striking originality.
-TM
From mohawks to collared shirts, an eclectic crowd showed up to hear Reno Divorce's high energy tattoo-shop sound.
-Alison
Bringing a badass, confident demeanor mixed with intricate and evolving lyrics, Koo-Qua is a leader on and off the stage.
-MW
Joy Subtraction tore the stage up, bringing wild and irreverent humor to new fans — what a festival is all about.
-BD
Cory Kendrix woke up the hot, stoned patio of Vinyl. "Wanna Be" was absolutely lit.
-Lindsey Bartlett
Future Single Mom was bigger than the room. Not enough people know how fucking awesome this band is...yet.
-BD
Mane Rok of Stay Tuned took his mic into the crowd for an amazing set hidden in the City Hall rafters.
-BD
Kalyn Heffernan offered to buy the crowd cocaine with her freshly awarded MasterMind money. Then Wheelchair Sports Camp blew their minds.
-BD
Sam Warren: Come for the siren-like, melodic thumping, stay for the air conditioning.
-LB
I Sank Molly Brown displayed masterfully refined math-rock with bursts of emotional intensity punctuating passages of tender, delicate melody.
-TM
I Sank Molly Brown’s tight set coiled around flicker-quick changes like a nerdy python. And they courteously offered everyone earplugs.
-JO
This four-piece edition of Sound of Ceres took already enchantingly otherworldly pop music and breathed a bit more life into it.
-TM
The Raven and the Writing Desk's formerly ethereal,
-TM
Even spitting machine-gun-quick nursery rhymes beneath a foot-tall
-JO
Wiredogs lets slip a slew of charismatic, SG-driven metal with all the earnestness of a door-to-door Mormon on a tirade.
-JO
Snake
-JO
With jams that should never end, the personality of old friends and energy that is contagious,
-MW
Even the flinging beach balls seemed to slow in the Black Angels’ thick, methodic sludge, incanted like a wizard’s spells.
-JO
Wave Racer brought heavy bass mixed with jazzy, shiny, synthetic brass sounds. I got hit in the head with a beach ball.
-AU
Chamber music for maladapted: Only Ian Cooke’s banter between the songs of his haunting solo set could stop the weeping.
-JOMisterWives: Best. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" cover. Ever.
-AU
While the first half of the Black Angels’ set was as heavy as it was spacious, the second half packed more vigor.
-JS
MisterWives: Neon. Saxophone. Had a chorus of "Woah,
-Isa Jones
With drums, bass and facepaint, Robert Delong used his joystick and Wii remote to show the future of EDM.
-LBTo the person watching the sweaty crowd for Flume from the fifth floor of the Art Apartments: You know too much.
-LB
Lots of drunk people make me feel claustrophobic, but their graphics
-MW
Flume brought edible visuals, sparkly sound, triangles and tons of high schoolers. Would see again.
-AU
