Youth Lagoon and Majical Cloudz: Backstage at Brooklyn's Bell House
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April 16, 2013 Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers was our pick for "Best Wizard of Weird" at Coachella 2013 — the Boise-hailing psych-pop prince seemed to possess magical powers of enchantment as he led his band through the glorious goop of his new album Wondrous Bughouse. One of the LP's most spellbinding moments is the song "Mute," a color-shifting masterpiece about squaring reality with the strangeness that fills Powers' mind. …
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April 11, 2013 The Coachella festival is all set to once again turn a stretch of California desert into a three-day explosion of sun, sounds, and maybe even some holograms. …
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April 9, 2013 Who: Trevor Powers never thought that so many people would hear his music. "It was always just for myself," the 24-year-old Boise, Idaho native says of his early recordings under the Youth Lagoon moniker. …
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March 6, 2013 What the hell is up with Trevor Powers? On 2011's The Year of Hibernation, the callow 22-year-old behind Youth Lagoon was singing in a muffled adolescent voice about breaking up with his girlfriend, a special childhood poster (that kitten-on-a-limb "Hang in there!" classic, perhaps?), and forlornly staring at strobing TV sets over thinly produced and heavily reverbed lo-fi guitars and synths. …
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February 26, 2013 It's Tuesday! Grab a pair of headphones and plug into the 10 ready-to-stream albums below.1) Youth Lagoon, Wondrous Bughouse. "[One] of the most arresting headphone records you'll hear this year. …
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February 11, 2013 Trevor Powers has turned outward by turning further inward. "Dropla," the first advance track from Youth Lagoon's sophomore LP Wondrous Bughouse, already suggested the March 5 Fat Possum release would achieve transcendence not by watering down the excellent debut's idiosyncrasies, but by burrowing deeper within them. …
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January 16, 2013 Trevor Powers' first album as Youth Lagoon wasn't really recorded in a bedroom. Still, it was written in one. And there's a candid familiarity to 2011's The Year of Hibernation that would be hard to replicate. …
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January 14, 2013 Boise, Idaho's second annual Treefort Music Fest is set for March 21-24 and Animal Collective, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Youth Lagoon, Dan Deacon, THEESatisfaction, and more have been added to the four-day event's lineup."Conceived as an extension of the current momentum in the Boise music scene and art scene at large," reads the festival's website, "Our vision is that Treefort will provide the opportunity for Boise to play h …
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January 4, 2013 In barely a couple of months, Trevor Powers will release his second album as Youth Lagoon. …
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Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
Lucero, Texas & Tennessee
Purson, The Circle and the Blue Door
Moon King, Obsession II
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