NPR Music's live From The Parish 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 17 YouTube is supporting NPR’s showcase event, which is headlined by Brooklyn “nightmare shoegaze” act
The Antlers, a group who won attention for its 2009 cycle of absorbing and intensely felt songs. Also on the bill are Welsh indie band
The Joy Formidable and indie supergroup
Wild Flag, which includes members of Sleater Kinney among many others. Mali’s diva
Khaira Arby is a live singer of stunning power who recently collaborated with Brooklyn group
The Sway Machinery; watch out for an incantatory set. Oakland’s brilliant sonic tinkerer
tUnE-yArDs will make an appearance, and get there early to see
Colin Stetson, the Arcade Fire saxophonist whose new solo album is a remarkable piece of avant-garde composition. (Rarely has a sax sounded so little like a sax!) The show is free and open to the 21+ public.
Other Music/Dig for Fire’s lawn party
1 p.m. - 6 p.m. Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18When the iconic, taste-making New York record store Other Music and video-making wunderkinds Dig for Fire join forces to produce a two-day event with four sets, watch out. You could be entering music heaven in the form of a
lawn party. Headliners include dance-punk darlings
!!!, buzzworthy indie rocker
Ted Leo, Scotland’s guitar-pop guru
Edwyn Collins and the afore-mentioned tUnE-yArDs. Our money’s on
James Blake’s 5 p.m. Friday set to bring down the, uh, lawn with his soulful, minimalist meditations -- and there are a slew of other wonderful musicians rocking the two stages both days.
Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched “Best Coast - Noise Pop 2011.”
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