I had buckets of fun at the first Brainwaves festival in 2006, and Brainwashed is turning it up to 11 for the second festival on November 21-23..  Big name acts you may have heard of like Meat Beat Manifesto, Matmos, and Stars of the Lid, but the real cream of the crop may be the bands you may not have heard of yet (unless you read Brainwashed ( Read more... )

This weekend was the Brainwaves Festival over in Arlington, which was a ton of fun. Jon really did a great job pulling the whole thing together, and while I wasn't in to every artist, it was great seeing so many different bands. The highlight for me was The Dresden Dolls turning out a great set (even if they seemed out of place in the midst of ( Read more... )

The Phoenix has a great write up on the 3-day Brainwaves Festival (The 10th Anniversary Celebration of Brainwashed.com), which begins tomorrow.

Update: Weekly Dig also has an article.

Here's some music-related updates:

• The first CD from Mike Patton's new project, Peeping Tom, his the streets this Tuesday. I got my hands on the CD a little early and it is awesome... The first really accessible-by-the-masses album from him in a long time. It's probably about as close as you'll see him get to pop... Anyway, the band (featuring ( Read more... )