Coachella 2011

And it all starts with Coachella; the first major festival of the summer released their lineup today, and it includes a few names you might recognize-- Arcade Fire, Duran Duran, Kanye West, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, just to name a few. The festival, nestled in Indio, California, has become home to one of the more elegant summer festivals that continues to prove itself a benchmark against all others.

Below is a video from the 2010 festival that shows a glimpse of the scenery you can expect to see if you are able to head over to Coachella this April the 15-17. For pricing and other information and a complete list of artists, head over to--

coachella.com



You can expect further coverage on Coachella and other festivals as the summer season draws nearer.

Happy festival season everybody!

Introducing Our New Assiociate Editor of Art and Design!

I mentioned in an earlier post, "A Year In Review", that 2011 is going to big bring changes to the site. One that I'm most excited to share is the addition of Danielle Hill to the Ebbz and Flowzzzz team. She's an artist who is well versed in web design and other mediums, a college soccer player, and has some solid musical chops to boot. I'm really excited to see how she can can help take this site further. She'll be influential both in the design of the site and in the music department


Here is a little bit about her in her own words--

Considering this is my blog debut, I figure I’ll introduce myself. I’m a Visual Communications major and plan on graduating this May. I’m hoping to bring some of my own brand of artistic flare, both visually and musically to the site. I’ve been a music junkie for as long as I can remember. I played a few instruments here and there growing up, including piano, then graduated to percussion and a drums in middle school. But the man got me down as a musician (I can’t stand being graded in performance, though I guess the whole art major thing may be a tad contradictory) so I settled as a fan. I was a manager/marketer for my high school class’ popular garage band, which was fun while it lasted, but even that took some of the magic away from the purity of the final product: a quality song. So I’m excited to try this new endeavor in music critique. I figure I can plug in some new tunes and share the love with all you other music fans out there since I critique new music every day. No more greedy music hoarding from me! Music to the people!

Current fixes--

Yeasayer
The Black Keys
Maximum Balloon
White Denim
Local Natives
Stateless

All time favorites--

Led Zeppelin
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Black Keys
Yeasayer

Cluster 1

So the big Consequence of Sound news is... Cluster1! Basically, an interactive visual arts and music hub. To me, it seems reminiscent of Pitchfork TV with a few slight differences, check it out at--

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Cluster 1 does differentiate itself from Pitchfork TV by focusing not just on music but also the visual arts.

Let me know what you guys think.

1.11.11

Apparently, "It's all happening" tomorrow 1.11.2011. A mysterious post popped up on Consequence of Sound a few days ago concerning the day in question. No idea what it means or what exactly will happen tomorrow, but the post is worth looking at. Check it out over at Consequence of Sound.

The news has been contained to CoS to this point, and I couldn't even begin to guess what 1.11.2011 will bring us. There are some pretty interesting comments and theories from followers at the bottom of the page that are almost as interesting as the post itself. Let's hope 1.11.2011 brings us something special (Radiohead please).

A Year In Review

2010 was a great year to jump into the blog world; The music trumped 2009, something I didn't think would be possible, independent music has been killing it-- a couple of number one albums, a few Madison Square Garden performances, Daft Punk made new music (even if it was a soundtrack), altogether... a good year.

For Ebbz and Flowzzzz, 2010 was experimental; I created this site for a job application, and didn't have many plans of expansion. Soon however, the idea of the site started becoming more clear to me, and the site started to form a mind of its own. Unfortunately, however, some of the ideas I was envisioning never quite got put down on paper. Some promises were made and broken, but bear with me in 2011, I do plan on expanding.

Apologies aside, I've had the chance to listen to some fantastic music this year and hope you have too. This post will be followed by my favorite albums of the year-- check them out, critique them,comment, buy them, and hopefully discover a new favorite album or artist.

Thanks for looking in and check back as 2011 is sure to be a great year in music (new albums from the Decemberists, Iron and Wine, the Strokes, and Cut Copy!!!!). It also should be a good year for Ebbz and Flowzzzz, I've got a lot of good ideas-- and a few new helpers. See you soon.

Top 50 Albums of 2010

A Year In Review: Top 50 Albums


Honorable Mention

Girl Talk- All Day
Yeasayer- Odd Blood
Devo- Something for Everybody


Ebbz and Flowzzzz Top 50 Albums of 2010

50)Chromeo- Business Casual
49)Best Coast- Crazy for You
48)Emeralds- Does It Look Like I'm Here?
47)Los Campesinos!- Romance Is Boring
46)Owen Pallett- Heartland
45)Band of Horses- Infinite Arms
44)Avey Tare- Down There
43)Twin Shadow- Forget
42)Wild Nothing- Gemini
41)Wavves- King of the Beach
40)Tame Impala- Innerspeaker
39)Robyn- Body Talk
38)Baths- Cerulean
37)Titus Andronicus- The Monitor
36)Delorean- Subiza
35)Charlotte Gainsbourg- IRM
34)Four Tet- There Is Love In You
33)Sufjan Stevens- All Delighted People EP
32)Warpaint- The Fool
31)Wolf Parade- Expo 86
30)Interpol- Interpol
29)The Tallest Man on Earth- The Wild Hunt
28)Perfume Genius- Learning
27)Surfer Blood- Astrocoast
26)The Radio Dept.- Clinging to a Scheme
25)Caribou- Swim
24)Broken Bells- Broken Bells
23)Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti- Before Today
22)Local Natives- Gorilla Manor
21)The Black Keys- Brothers
20)of Montreal- False Priest
19)Sufjan Stevens- Age of Adz
18)Hot Chip- One Life Stand
17)Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma
16)James Blake- The Bells Sketch EP / CMYK EP / Klavierwerke EP
15)Sleigh Bells- Treats
14)Janelle Monae- The ArchAndroid
13)Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
12)Girls- Broken Dreams Club EP
11)The Morning Benders- Big Echo
10)Joanna Newsom- Have One On Me
9)The National- High Violet
8)Big Boi- Sir Lucious Left Foot the Son of Chico Dusty
7)Beach House- Teen Dream
6)Deerhunter-Halcyon Digest
5)Vampire Weekend- Contra
4)Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3)Gorillaz- Plastic Beach
2)Spoon- Transference
1)LCD Soundsystem- This Is Happening

Please feel free to comment, I'd like to hear about some of your favorite albums of 2010.

New Gorillaz Album? iPad? Really.

Good stuff coming our way. Damon Albarn and the rest of the toon squad have put up an advent calendar filled with gifts, great right? Best part about it is that on the 25th day they are posting a download to their new album free of charge. What new album, didn't they already put out a bomb earlier this year???? Well, Gorillaz have been on the road touring hard behind Plastic Beach, but somehow Albarn has found plenty of time to make a new album with his iPad? Really.

You may get a bunch of interesting/cool/relevant things for Christmas, or not, but it looks like the best gift any of us will get this year will come from Damon Albarn's iPad.

Season's greetings.