While This is for the White in Your Eyes, may have its weak points, it still deserves a high place amongst the growing canon of sincere Scandinavian pop.

As Monday’s sold out Dead Weather show progressed it became quite clear that the band is much more Alison Mosshart’s “side project” than Jack White’s, as she owned the stage and the songs while White was content to mostly stay in the shadows.

Canadian Hip Hop artist Shadrach Kabango, better known as Shad, will be rolling into Minneapolis on the second of August as part of this year’s Warped Tour. Culture Bully’s Jon Behm recently caught up with Shad in order to gain some insight as to what the emcee is doing, what his future plans are, and what’s going on with Canadian Hip Hop.

Four takes on the Flaming Lips’ performance at the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL (07/19/2009).

My only complaint of the Walkmen’s performance is one that I have of its albums; through all its ebbs and flows the band makes great use of its talent, but terrible lack of momentum.

M83’s set was relatively the same as others I’ve seen before, but the surroundings and the timing just seemed to make it marvelous.

I’m not sure if anyone was expecting to walk away from the performance praising DOOM for his professionalism, but surprisingly, I now find myself doing exactly that.

The explosive Vancouver-based duo, whom I had never seen before, ended up playing my favorite set of Pitchfork that didn’t include streamers, giant balloons and confetti.

…I fought my way through all of the people streaming out of the festival’s Balance Stage area and prepared for the bombast of the flamboyant Danish band, which was playing as a five piece this evening.

While there was no shortage of über-serious sets this weekend, the Thermals played a bouncing and lively show under a (rare) sunny blue sky Sunday afternoon.

Women is a young band which will hopefully grow into a group that will continually deliver on the promise of its fantastic debut record. But…

From start to finish, Fucked Up’s set was a blur of sparkling eloquence. Psych.