Articles by Melody Lau

FKA twigs

Blue Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 19

PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2014

As the headlining act of the blue stage, British artist FKA twigs has amassed quite the buzz throughout this past year, all without even re...

Wild Beasts

Green Stage, Union Park, Chicago IL, July 19

PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2014

British art-rockers Wild Beasts know how to keep their cool, both musically and literally. Taking an early slot at the Pitchfork Music Fest...

Banks Talks 'Goddess' and Growing Up on the Road with the Weeknd

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2014

Jillian Banks is a quick learner. The Los Angeles-based artist, better known as Banks, has been polishing her songwriting skills since the...

Phox

Phox

PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2014

It's not tough to imagine the six members of Madison, Wisconsin folk band Phox living together under one roof. The recordings on their debu...

Field Trip Day Two with Broken Social Scene, Constantines, Hydra

Fort York, Toronto ON, June 8

PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2014

Day one of Toronto's Field Trip got off to a slow start, but the momentum that day built by substantial performances from Austra, the Kills...

Field Trip Day One with Interpol, A Tribe Called Red and Shad

Fort York, Toronto ON, June 7

PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2014

Last year, Toronto's Arts & Crafts hosted a 10-year anniversary bash unlike any of their peers. Whereas similar labels have put on small cl...

Sharon Van Etten

Present Tense

PUBLISHED May 26, 2014

"It kept coming back to the National and everyone who played on the record," Sharon Van Etten sighs. She's referring to 2012's Tramp, her t...

Sharon Van Etten

Are We There

PUBLISHED May 23, 2014

Anguish anchors Sharon Van Etten's music; it's a focal point that has made for a ravishing core on her past three albums, and it transforms...