Your Top 10 Must See Bands of 2013

[goldsoundz]

There are a few songs from Sigur Ros that bring me close to tears

[zemusicfan]

Youth Lagoon's new single 'mute' has me super excited about them

[someguyinmt]

Hard whittling it down to just ten, but I'll go: Akron/Family, Menomena, Japandroids, Baths, Toro Y Moi, Youth Lagoon, DIIV, the xx, Divine Fits, El-P...in some order.

[kymess_jr]

1. PRIMUS 3D!!!!!!
2. Cake
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Azealia Banks
5. Grimes
6. Vampire Weekend
7. Devendra Banhart
8. Alt-J
9. Divine Fits
10. Menomena


I haven't done my due diligence with line-up research yet -- which includes listening to Sigur Ros, who I've never actually listened to before -- so this may change drastically by the time the fest rolls 'round. Except for #1 'cause PRIMUS 3D!!!

[kymess_jr]

Feb 15, 2013 21:25:30 GMT -5 kymess_jr said:

which includes listening to Sigur Ros, who I've never actually listened to before

And, before anyone else gets it in, I know -- BOARD SUICIDE.

[emptyfox]

I'm right there with ya. Dual suicide.

[LumpSquatch]

If I were going, of course.

1. Built to Spill
2. Primus
3. Akron/Family
4. Dirty Projectors
5. Death Grips
6. Danny Brown
7. Sigur Rós
8. Jon Daly
9. Toro Y Moi (shout out to mah boiz)
10. Shovels & Rope (shout out to mah boi/grl)

[addicts]

Artists I have not yet had the pleasure of seeing:
1. Azealia Banks
2. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
3. Sigur Ros
4. The xx
5. Empire of the Sun
6. Toro Y Moi
7. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
8. DIIV
9. Bloc Party
10. EARL

Repeat offenders:
1. Japandroids
2. Grimes
3. Tame Impala
4. Vampire Weekend
5. Built to Spill

[scough]

Feb 17, 2013 23:55:53 GMT -5 addicts said:

4. The xx

Coming from someone that has seen The xx I'd advise you skip their set unless you don't mind falling asleep. Maybe they've somehow put a pulse into their live shows since they were at Sasquatch 2010 but I wouldn't count on it. Probably the most boring live band I've ever seen.

[Geno]

Feb 18, 2013 15:22:36 GMT -5 scough said:

Feb 17, 2013 23:55:53 GMT -5 addicts said:

4. The xx

Coming from someone that has seen The xx I'd advise you skip their set unless you don't mind falling asleep. Maybe they've somehow put a pulse into their live shows since they were at Sasquatch 2010 but I wouldn't count on it. Probably the most boring live band I've ever seen.

Agreed. I liked their first album, but I saw them recently and it was just so... dull.

[nick]

I saw them at SoDo and they were fine, but I'm kinda doubtful about their festival presence. They are a band that needs to be seen in a club, when you're feeling moody.

[Pea]

I saw a live stream of them playing in an old church cathedral a couple of years ago and it looked and sounded really gorgeous. Their Bigfoot stage set later that Spring was pretty much the opposite of experience of that in every way.

[scough]

Feb 18, 2013 15:30:38 GMT -5 nick said:

I saw them at SoDo and they were fine, but I'm kinda doubtful about their festival presence. They are a band that needs to be seen in a club, when you're feeling moody.

Exactly. A dark club is their environment, not outside during daylight hours. They're higher up the bill this time so maybe they'll play after dark headlining Bigfoot or something, but I think the daylight was the only thing that kept me from dozing off during that 2010 Bigfoot set.

edit: I see they're billed 6th on the lineup which probably means they're sub-headlining on the Sasquatch stage, I bet they'll be opening for Sigur Ros. They might be a decent sunset band, but I still don't think I'd see them again.

[nick]

They're gonna open for Primus

[addicts]

oh shit, I just realised that I saw them in 2010... And probably feel asleep.