Here’s the thing about Music festivals, as excited as you are about a few of the bands there’s still going to be quite a bit you have no clue about, well with that in mind we’ve decided to some playlist from the fest’s talent pool as a way to better educate you on what you’ll be seeing. Below you’ll find 12 tracks from artist that will be appearing along with a small blurb about the acts, we hope this helps you prepare for the fest.
Someone out there in the Blog world tried label this as “glofi”, while I consider it Star-Gaze, in other words, you’re listening to this in the dark/by a bonfire an losing yourself in the layers of the music.
You do not need us to explain this band to you.
Gayngs isn’t for everyone, but those of us that like to get into the lush stylings of bands like 10cc, and see it meshed with soft rcok/Prince era R&B have found a band that we’ve yet to tire of.
Somewhere between the riot girrl movement, pysch rock, and garage punk lays the San Fransisco trio Grass Widow, who’s three-part harmonies are as captivating as anything currently being produced by bands which much more experience, and much less talented.
We’ll let Jess’ take from back in October handle this one.
This young group from Oxford, MS is so full of frenetic energy it’s hard to compare them to many of their current counterparts, but once the harmonizing begins on the vocals it’s hard not to see them as a much gruffer Local Natives.
So far White Arrows have been one of my favorite things I’ve discovered through the fest as I’m borderline addicted to their many covers and have their strikingly strong EP in constant rotation, this is band you shouldn’t miss.
A festival in Denton wouldn’t be a festival in Denton without some top notch Americana coming into town ,case in point a poorly attended show at Banter the fest’s first year which saw the Texas debut of The Low Anthem, those of us who were there were treated to a rather stunning set, well, all I can say is I hope people don’t make the same mistake with The Civil Wars a band who in 6 months time could be coming through the area and playing in some of the best venues.
I really have nothing to say about this more then faithful cover of a beloved country standard, other then the fact that this rising stars recognize what’s come before them and that’s the one thing you wish every artist would try to do.
As buzz worthy as any band coming to the fest these ethereal treading Brits have manged to engineer a sound that’s equal parts early Kate Bush and pre-Teen Dream Beach House, imagine if Jana Hunter had done a bunch of Bombita and joined up with Nite Jewel…..speaking of Nite Jewel.
disco + dream pop + 80′s synths + MDMA = damn near perfect music.
Experimental noise rock is hard to do well, luckily we have these kids.
