Summer Festival Update: Summer Sonic Gets Pavement, Fuji Rock Nabs Thom Yorke

ByPatrick St. Michel

The months just keep passing and the summer draws even closer. Let’s check in with Japan’s premier summer festivals to see what’s up. – The big new update on the Summer Sonic front would be reunited indie-gods Pavement getting a slot. They already dazzled Tokyo and (especially) Osaka once before, so if you missed out…

Baroque Meets Matt & Kim, Remixes “Good Ol’ Fashioned Nightmare”

ByPatrick St. Michel

How do you judge a remix? Do you compare it to the original composition, or detach it completely. Should it sound familiar, or entirely different? It’s an issue that comes up when writing about remixes, and I imagine a lot of music writers bring different standards into play. Baroque, who does a lot of reworks,…