A handful of KCRW favorites – Gary Clark Jr., Booker T Jones, The Roots, Thundercat–will be making their way to the Intramural Field at UCLA this weekend for the 26th annual Jazz and Reggae Festival and two of our own– Music Director Jason Bentley and Anthony Valadez – will be hosting the festivities and spinning sets of music.  Check out the full lineup below! If you want to go get your groove on this Sunday, May 27 (Jam Day) and Monday, May 28 (Reggae Day) tickets are still available here OR ...

Tegan And Sara, Weezer, Metric, and a slew of other bands will be playing the 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival that will be taking place from October 12th through October 14th. Check out the full lineup below by clicking  ”Read More.” Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Black Keys Jack White, Florence + The Machine, The Avett Brothers, Iggy & The Stooges, AVICII, BASSNECTAR, The Roots, The Shins, Weezer, Gotye, The Civil Wars, M83, Tegan and Sara, Childish Gambino Two Door Cinema Club, Thievery Corporation, The Afghan Whigs, Crystal Castles, Andrew Bird, Gary Clark Jr., Metric, Band ...

Austin City Limits takes place October 12–14. Red Hot Chili Peppers Neil Young and Crazy Horse The Black Keys Jack White Florence + The Machine The Avett Brothers Iggy & The Stooges AVICII BASSNECTAR The Roots The Shins Weezer Gotye The Civil Wars M83 Tegan and Sara Childish Gambino Two Door Cinema Club Thievery Corporation The Afghan Whigs Crystal Castles Andrew Bird Gary Clark Jr. Metric Band of Skulls Esperanza Spalding Alabama Shakes Delta Spirit M. Ward Randy Rogers Band Die Antwoord Rufus Wainwright NEEDTOBREATHE Big Gigantic Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra Steve Earle War On Drugs">The War On Drugs Umphrey’s ...

The initial lineup for the 2012 Austin City Limits Music Festival has been revealed and features headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Black Keys and Jack White. There are plenty of HT faves on the bill such as The Avett Brothers, The Roots, The Civil Wars, Andrew Bird, Alabama Shakes, War On Drugs">The War On Drugs, Umphrey’s McGee and Punch Brothers. ACL 2012 will be held in Austin’s Zilker Park from October 12 – 14. All in all, the festival will see over 130 play its eight stages. Here’s a look ...

UCLA's *JazzReggae Festival*, the largest student run music festival in the United States, hits this coming Memorial Day Weekend in Los Angeles. The 2 day event features The Roots, Booker T. Jones, Thundercat, Gary Clark Jr., and more on Jam Day and Collie Buddz, Shaggy, and others on Reggae...

Now in its eighth year and now only a month away, this year's GLADE takes place in the luscious, sandy-soiled grounds of Norfolk's Houghton Hall for a second consecutive time. Sparked into existence down some remote nook of Glastonbury , over its comparatively concise history thus far it has become a standalone event in its own right; the sort to leave you legless and longing for another interminable break of a techno throb come the yolk-like crack of sunrise. Electroclash magnate Pascal Arbez brings his notoriously hefty Vitalic  live show to the East of England this year, where he ...

The 26th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA goes down on Memorial Day weekend and the dopehouse has a pair of tickets to give away. Due to the split days, we’re thinking the Jazz portion (The Roots, Thundercat, Booker T. Jones, etc) will be more suited for our visitors. So if you’d like to attend, hit [...]

Hot ( Maya Jane Coles ) and heavy ( deadmau5 ), as ever this year's Sónar looks to be a heady mélange of all things musical and multimedial. Hacked into what are effectively two festivals (Sónar de Día amid the grandiose surrounds of the Ciutat Vella and the post-apocalyptic stylings of Sónar de Noche out in the conference centre hub-cum-hedonistic haven of L'Hospitalet), both better most things you could even envisage frequenting throughout the coming summer months. More pertinently however, it also happens to be the latest stop on our trawl through a selection of the finer festival happenings of this imminent ...

Watch Stephen Bruner aka Thundercat perform the track taken from Flying Lotus' 2010 album Cosmogramma .

Dank Radio : Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud | Mixcloud Mayday Mayday feat. Monkey Wrench [UK] (Live Broadcast 05.05.12) by Dank Radio on Mixcloud Big ups and many thanks to the boys in Bristol, Monkey Wrench [ Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud ] for providing us with an extremely sexxxi 420 Special [Shouts to Dismantle for putting me onto their music]. Salamat and gracias to all the callers and supporters. Even to the ones looking for our Aziatik Rhythmz brethren Radiobomb , we threw in a couple dubstep tunes for your hungry ears. Shout out to Jakwob who just released his latest mixtape for FREE [Download here ...

Thundercat, Mixology e soprattutto Theo Parrish in back to back con Marcellus Pittman a… MIT: anche Theo Parrish pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Con Thundercat si completa la line-up del Meet In Town 2012 (8/9 giugno @… M.I.T.: line up e biglietti pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Ahead of Ninja Tune's gig with Slugabed , Thundercat , Floating Points and Offshore on the 16th May at Fabric, Slugabed has gone trawling through Ninja Tune's rich history to create a rather impressive sounding mixtape. Listen below, track listing is underneath. TRACKLIST: 01. Dwight Trible And The Life Force Trio – ‘Life Force (Instrumental)’ 02. Slugabed – ‘New Worlds’ 03. Jeremiah Jae – ‘Money and Food (Remix)’ 04. The Death Set – ‘Impossible (Shuttle Remix)’ 05. Daedelus – ‘LA Nocturne’ 06. Slugabed – ‘On My Way Home’ 07. Martyn – ‘Bauplan (Bok Bok & L-Vis 1990 Remix)’ 08. Slugabed – ‘Dragon Drums’ 09. Zomby – ‘The Forest’ 10. Hot ...

We couldn't blame you if your automatic thought is anything associated with Brainfeeder has to be "pretty damn good." That's what happens when your roster includes TOKiMONSTA, Thundercat, Flying Lotus and Lapalux. The latter is known for striking that fine balance between ambient-heavy tracks and mind-altering bootleg remixes -- fans...

We couldn't blame you if your automatic thought is anything associated with Brainfeeder has to be "pretty damn good." That's what happens when your roster includes TOKiMONSTA, Thundercat, Flying Lotus and Lapalux. The latter is known for striking that fine balance between ambient-heavy tracks and mind-altering bootleg remixes -- fans...