The Best of Virgin Mobile Freefest
SPIN editors review the Maryland shindig, from Blink-182 and Weezer to Franz Ferdinand and Taking Back Sunday!
By WILLIAM GOODMAN & PETER GASTON 08.31.09 10:30 AM
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Best & Worst of All Points West: Day 1
Jay-Z gives props to the Beasties, the National commune with rain-soaked fans, and Seasick Steve stomps the blues.
By Charles Aaron 08.01.09 9:16 AM
MOST HEAVILY QUESTIONED GENRE: HIP HOP
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Blink-182, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand Play Free Festival!
Public Enemy, the National, Girl Talk, and many more will also perform at Virgin Mobile's "FreeFest." Click here for details!
By Larry Fitzmaurice 06.24.09 11:05 AM
Good news for penny pinchers: this year's installment of the Virgin Mobile Festival is completely free -- and the lineup kicks ass!
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David Byrne, Sharon Jones, Feist Rock for Charity
Bon Iver, the National, Dirty Projectors and more play Radio City's Dark Was the Night show. Click here for photos and a review!
By Abigail Everdell 05.04.09 10:09 AM
David Byrne, the National, Feist, Bon Iver, and Sharon Jones, among others, performed at New York's Radio City Music Hall Sunday night for Dark Was the Night Live, a celebration of AIDS/HIV awareness organization Red Hot's compilation of the same name.
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Vampire Weekend, Patti Smith Rock for Tibet
Plus: The National, Antibalas, and Keb' Mo' perform New York's Tibet House Benefit. Click here for photos and a review!
By John S.W. MacDonald 02.04.09 2:59 PM
The idea behind the annual Tibet House Benefit Concert is really quite simple: "You get as many talented people in the room and then you get out of the way!" Or so explained composer Philip Glass as Vampire Weekend prepared to take the stage last night at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the 19th Annual event, which raises funds to help preserve Tibetan culture
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Album News: Depeche Mode, the National, and More
Naughty or nice this holiday season? We catch up on the progress of five anticipated releases.
By MELISSA GODLSTEIN 12.19.08 10:28 AM
You know how it gets right before Christmas break. It's hard to get any work done. Still, there are some artists on our radar that we've been expecting new albums from. So here we check in to find out which bands have been naughty this holiday season -- and which have been nice:
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