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Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale, NY, 7/25/08 More pics after the jump.

I got back to the city around 4p this afternoon, just enough time to catch the McCarren Pool party, with Pittsburgh psychadelicists Black Moth Super Rainbow and Brooklyn’s own MGMT.

"I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing (than rock.) The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more

As if I hadn't yet had enough, my friend Elena and I made our way over to a packed Music Hall of Williamsburg after the Pool on Sunday for the

 McCarren Pool, 7/20/08 Fuck Buttons (Bristol, UK) Liars (Brooklyn, NY) More pics here.

8th Annual Village Voice Siren Fesitval, 7/19/08 Parts & Labor (Brooklyn, NY) Film School (Los Angeles, CA) The Dodos (San Francisco, CA) Times New Viking (Columbus, OH) Beach House (Baltimore, MD) Islands

You wouldn’t think that two guys from Bristol, England with a couple of synths, an iMac and garbled lyrics sung through a Fisher-Price amplifier would put on the most ecstatic,

During soundcheck for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, who close this year’s Siren Festival, my friend Pete asked me, “Why do they need to tune Malkmus’ guitar?” I assume he’s

This year marks the last summer of Coney Island as we know it: the boardwalk land of freaks, carnies and rides like the Wonder Wheel and “Bump Your Ass Off.”