Coachella 2012: 10 Can't-Miss Acts

Gary Clark Jr., Azealia Banks and Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag.Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images; Samir Hussein/Getty Images; Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns

It's never just been about the headliners at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In fact, many of the 100,000-plus fans who bought tickets to this year's two consecutive Coachella weekends (April 13th-15th and 20th-22nd) signed up before the lineup was even announced. Most knew that the biggest names would be part of a much longer list of exciting rock, dance, hip-hop and more gathered for the desert fest in Indio, California. Here are just 10 of the acts further down the bill not to be missed.

Listen to our Spotify playlist of 10 Coachella Can't-Miss Acts:

Wild Flag
They've existed barely a year, but are already Wild Flag are one of the most anticipated bands playing at Coachella. Led by Helium singer Mary Timony, the band is a kind of all-female supergroup of uncompromising indie rockers, a two-guitar assault powered by former members of Sleater-Kinney and the Minders. The playing is loose and loud, rolling along tumbling beats and constant motion. You can hear a bit of Sleater-Kinney and their other former bands in the songs, but Wild Flag is a band looking forward, not back. 

Key track: "Future Crimes"

Pulp
Oasis and Blur got more headlines and chart action on both sides of the Atlantic, but Pulp and its wiry lead singer Jarvis Cocker were essential figures from the mid-Nineties Britpop movement. After years of struggle, the band released Different Class in 1995 and delivered a singular blend of danceable post-punk pop and the occasional sour lyric, sung by Cocker with smirk, melancholy and razzamatazz. Pulp broke apart just three years later. Cocker now leads the reunited band he first started as a teenager in Sheffield, England, bringing the classic lineup to the appropriately epic landscape of Coachella. The band's website asks, "Can we make the desert bloom?"

Key track:  "Common People"

Azealia Banks
With last year's streetwise and sexually charged "212," 20-year-old Azaelia Banks stepped out from her Harlem neighborhood with edgy wordplay and rapid-fire rhymes (and a relentless beat from Lazy Jay). Then came the post-modern R&B of "NEEDSUMLUV," matching anxious beats with a slow-jam groove. She was soon being compared to Nicki Minaj (another "Fame" school alum), but Banks keeps her words and beats at street level. She's worked with Diplo and co-wrote the Scissor Sisters' "Shady Love," and has lately been tweeting about upcoming collaborations with Kanye West and Lana Del Rey. Banks makes her Coachella debut on Saturday, days ahead of her EP release 1991, with a debut album coming later this year. 

Key track:  "212"

Martin Solveig
Recruited by Madonna for her MDNA, this fast-rising house DJ and producer is in high demand to help craft hits for other acts while landing some of his own across Europe with his Smash album, released last year. He has weakness for polo shirts and ecstatic beats, as tracks bounce with pop hooks, wild club energy and a playful state of mind. (See his sketch comedy videos for Smash.) It's a party of colliding beats, electro-pop and inspired guests vocalists, including Dragonette on "Hello."   

Key track:"Hello"

Atari Teenage Riot
Few bands this year will ignite mosh pits across Coachella's desert dancefloor with quite the intensity of Atari Teenage Riot. The German anarchist band reunited in 2010 and last year released Is This Hyperreal?, with songs of hackers, protest and human trafficking. Frontman Alec Empire call's the band's apocalyptic punk/electronic blend "digital hardcore," and it lands right at the sweet spot between Coachella's rock and dance constituencies.  

Key track: "Revolution Action"

Le Bucherettes Le Butcherettes
This explosive indie/punk-rock trio is led by Guadalajara singer-guitarist Teri Gender Bender, whose sound and fury land somewhere in the Jack White/PJ Harvey tradition. Songs from last year's Sin Sin Sin are all hooks and sharp edges, and Gender Bender's known to act out onstage – climbing scaffolds, stage-diving and even suddenly clipping at her hair. They're at work on a new album produced by Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriquez-Lopez, now officially the Le Butcherettes' bassist. He'll be pulling double duty at this year's Coachella, shredding guitar with the reunited At the Drive-In and laying down a driving rhythm for Gender Bender's wild and crazy rock.

Key track: "Bang!"

Gary Clark Jr.
The Austin, Texas, guitar phenom and singer is as comfortable wailing on straight blues as he is with simmering soul, shifting easily from funk to a fine Stones-y grind on his electric and acoustic guitars. He's collaborated with Alicia Keys and Nas and was part of the blues contingent that performed at the White House in February, and he'll be at festivals across the U.S. this year. But don't miss him at Coachella. Reason enough is the fiery rock and blues on 2011's The Bright Lights EP, to be followed by a full album due in the fall, bringing loud guitars and soul to a new generation of listeners with the blues.

Key track: "Bright Lights"

Laura Marling
This prolific English singer-songwriter comes from the same folk scene that birthed Mumford & Sons, but she shares little of that band's brotherly foot-stomping euphoria. Her songs are seething meditations on human entanglements, at times stark and delicate or layered with evocative sounds and feeling. At 22, Marling has already released three albums, and on her latest, A Creature I Don't Know, she's commanding and confident enough to put her securely in a tradition that stretches from Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell to Ani DiFranco.

Key track: "Night After Night"

Mazzy Star
After nearly a dozen years of silence (but no official breakup), Mazzy Star are reuniting this yearwith the duo's first new album of spectral rock and honky-tonk since 1996, plus two rare performances at Coachella. It's long overdue, but two songs released online last year ("Common Burn" and "Lay Myself Down") show a band reconnecting with the ethereal twang that once represented Mazzy Star's private, smoky corner of the Nineties alternative boom. Singer Hope Sandoval's vocals remain distant and sultry, wounded and wistful amid layers of haunted guitar and gently psychedelic atmosphere from musical partner David Roback.   

Key track: "Be My Angel"

The Refused
The most unexpected reunion at this year's Coachella just might be the Refused, the aggressively anti-capitalist Nineties hardcore band from Sweden. The quartet put out three albums of intense grind and wail that decade, and they came apart on the road soon after the 1998 release of The Shape of Punk to Come, widely regarded as their most accomplished recording. As before, that album kept lucrative hardcore formulas at arm's length, choosing to experiment with tempo, bits of techno and even violin amid bonebreak beats. Musicianship gave clarity to the chaos that the band itself has called "incredibly violent rock music." Coachella brought them back together to tour "one last time." Another chance to see this influential act may never come again.

Key track: "The Shape of Punk to Come"

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Coachella 2012: 10 Can't-Miss Acts

Gary Clark Jr., Azealia Banks and Carrie Brownstein of Wild Flag.Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images; Samir Hussein/Getty Images; Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns

It's never just been about the headliners at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In fact, many of the 100,000-plus fans who bought tickets to this year's two consecutive Coachella weekends (April 13th-15th and 20th-22nd) signed up before the lineup was even announced. Most knew that the biggest names would be part of a much longer list of exciting rock, dance, hip-hop and more gathered for the desert fest in Indio, California. Here are just 10 of the acts further down the bill not to be missed.

Listen to our Spotify playlist of 10 Coachella Can't-Miss Acts:

Wild Flag
They've existed barely a year, but are already Wild Flag are one of the most anticipated bands playing at Coachella. Led by Helium singer Mary Timony, the band is a kind of all-female supergroup of uncompromising indie rockers, a two-guitar assault powered by former members of Sleater-Kinney and the Minders. The playing is loose and loud, rolling along tumbling beats and constant motion. You can hear a bit of Sleater-Kinney and their other former bands in the songs, but Wild Flag is a band looking forward, not back. 

Key track: "Future Crimes"

Pulp
Oasis and Blur got more headlines and chart action on both sides of the Atlantic, but Pulp and its wiry lead singer Jarvis Cocker were essential figures from the mid-Nineties Britpop movement. After years of struggle, the band released Different Class in 1995 and delivered a singular blend of danceable post-punk pop and the occasional sour lyric, sung by Cocker with smirk, melancholy and razzamatazz. Pulp broke apart just three years later. Cocker now leads the reunited band he first started as a teenager in Sheffield, England, bringing the classic lineup to the appropriately epic landscape of Coachella. The band's website asks, "Can we make the desert bloom?"

Key track:  "Common People"

Azealia Banks
With last year's streetwise and sexually charged "212," 20-year-old Azaelia Banks stepped out from her Harlem neighborhood with edgy wordplay and rapid-fire rhymes (and a relentless beat from Lazy Jay). Then came the post-modern R&B of "NEEDSUMLUV," matching anxious beats with a slow-jam groove. She was soon being compared to Nicki Minaj (another "Fame" school alum), but Banks keeps her words and beats at street level. She's worked with Diplo and co-wrote the Scissor Sisters' "Shady Love," and has lately been tweeting about upcoming collaborations with Kanye West and Lana Del Rey. Banks makes her Coachella debut on Saturday, days ahead of her EP release 1991, with a debut album coming later this year. 

Key track:  "212"

Martin Solveig
Recruited by Madonna for her MDNA, this fast-rising house DJ and producer is in high demand to help craft hits for other acts while landing some of his own across Europe with his Smash album, released last year. He has weakness for polo shirts and ecstatic beats, as tracks bounce with pop hooks, wild club energy and a playful state of mind. (See his sketch comedy videos for Smash.) It's a party of colliding beats, electro-pop and inspired guests vocalists, including Dragonette on "Hello."   

Key track:"Hello"

Atari Teenage Riot
Few bands this year will ignite mosh pits across Coachella's desert dancefloor with quite the intensity of Atari Teenage Riot. The German anarchist band reunited in 2010 and last year released Is This Hyperreal?, with songs of hackers, protest and human trafficking. Frontman Alec Empire call's the band's apocalyptic punk/electronic blend "digital hardcore," and it lands right at the sweet spot between Coachella's rock and dance constituencies.  

Key track: "Revolution Action"

Le Bucherettes Le Butcherettes
This explosive indie/punk-rock trio is led by Guadalajara singer-guitarist Teri Gender Bender, whose sound and fury land somewhere in the Jack White/PJ Harvey tradition. Songs from last year's Sin Sin Sin are all hooks and sharp edges, and Gender Bender's known to act out onstage – climbing scaffolds, stage-diving and even suddenly clipping at her hair. They're at work on a new album produced by Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriquez-Lopez, now officially the Le Butcherettes' bassist. He'll be pulling double duty at this year's Coachella, shredding guitar with the reunited At the Drive-In and laying down a driving rhythm for Gender Bender's wild and crazy rock.

Key track: "Bang!"

Gary Clark Jr.
The Austin, Texas, guitar phenom and singer is as comfortable wailing on straight blues as he is with simmering soul, shifting easily from funk to a fine Stones-y grind on his electric and acoustic guitars. He's collaborated with Alicia Keys and Nas and was part of the blues contingent that performed at the White House in February, and he'll be at festivals across the U.S. this year. But don't miss him at Coachella. Reason enough is the fiery rock and blues on 2011's The Bright Lights EP, to be followed by a full album due in the fall, bringing loud guitars and soul to a new generation of listeners with the blues.

Key track: "Bright Lights"

Laura Marling
This prolific English singer-songwriter comes from the same folk scene that birthed Mumford & Sons, but she shares little of that band's brotherly foot-stomping euphoria. Her songs are seething meditations on human entanglements, at times stark and delicate or layered with evocative sounds and feeling. At 22, Marling has already released three albums, and on her latest, A Creature I Don't Know, she's commanding and confident enough to put her securely in a tradition that stretches from Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell to Ani DiFranco.

Key track: "Night After Night"

Mazzy Star
After nearly a dozen years of silence (but no official breakup), Mazzy Star are reuniting this yearwith the duo's first new album of spectral rock and honky-tonk since 1996, plus two rare performances at Coachella. It's long overdue, but two songs released online last year ("Common Burn" and "Lay Myself Down") show a band reconnecting with the ethereal twang that once represented Mazzy Star's private, smoky corner of the Nineties alternative boom. Singer Hope Sandoval's vocals remain distant and sultry, wounded and wistful amid layers of haunted guitar and gently psychedelic atmosphere from musical partner David Roback.   

Key track: "Be My Angel"

The Refused
The most unexpected reunion at this year's Coachella just might be the Refused, the aggressively anti-capitalist Nineties hardcore band from Sweden. The quartet put out three albums of intense grind and wail that decade, and they came apart on the road soon after the 1998 release of The Shape of Punk to Come, widely regarded as their most accomplished recording. As before, that album kept lucrative hardcore formulas at arm's length, choosing to experiment with tempo, bits of techno and even violin amid bonebreak beats. Musicianship gave clarity to the chaos that the band itself has called "incredibly violent rock music." Coachella brought them back together to tour "one last time." Another chance to see this influential act may never come again.

Key track: "The Shape of Punk to Come"

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SXSW 2012: 25 Can't-Miss Acts

Tennis, Miike Snow, Fanfarlo and Tom Morello are among the 'can't miss' performances of SXSW.Timothy Hiatt/Andy Kropa/Gus Stewart/Taylor Hill/Getty Images

SXSW can be overwhelming, to say the least. Bands set up camp in just about every building in downtown Austin. Bars and clubs are booked solid, but so are churches, pool halls, parking lots and everything in between. Choosing your SXSW schedule in this chaos can be challenging, but with most musicians playing multiple shows, you can catch what you want to see if you plan ahead. There are major artists you already love (see: Bruce Springsteen), bands you know and bands you've never heard of. The best SXSW schedule includes all of these, as well as the little surprises you just can't plan for. We've earmarked 25 acts that are worth the effort.

And, it goes without saying that all of the bands we've invited to our Rock Room day parties on March 16th and 17th are not to be missed. See the full schedule – including Keane, Gary Clark Jr., Hot Water Music and lots more – here.

Bruce Springsteen
This selection comes with an asterisk and a disclaimer. Springsteen’s SXSW showcase is not to be missed – but most SXSW attendees will have no option but to do just that. He’s scheduled to perform at an intimate secret location on Thursday, March 15th and tickets are only available to SXSW badge holders by raffle. One sure bet, raffle or not: Springsteen's SXSW keynote address, beginning at noon on March 15th at the Austin Convention Center. You can tune in from anywhere, as NPR is both broadcasting his address and streaming it online.

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
After winning accolades as the fiery guitar slinger for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Tom Morello surprised audiences when he unveiled his folksinger alter-ego the Nightwatchman. That his songs were protest songs was no surprise. Morello has performed in support of the Occupy movement in encampments both on Wall Street and in Los Angeles. He plays Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party at La Zona Rosa on March 17th.

The Barr Brothers
Brothers Brad and Andrew Barr – guitar and drums, respectively – have played together their entire career, dating back to the Nineties with New England jazz-rock trio the Slip. That band morphed into an indie five-piece called Surprise Me Mr. Davis. When the brothers relocated to Montreal in 2005, they formed a side project with their neighbor, harpist Sarah Paige. What was a band of happenstance turned into a serious pursuit under the name the Barr Brothers. Don't miss their sacred-sounding and emotionally moving songs when they perform in St. David's Historic Sanctuary on March 15th.

We Were Promised Jetpacks
Part of the same Glasglow scene that produced the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks offer an anthemic take on the marriage between post-punk and indie pop. The band is set to appear at a multitude of SXSW showcases before embarking on an extensive U.S. tour, including a stop at Coachella. Catch them at Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party on March 16th at La Zona Rosa.

Kimbra
New Zealand's Kimbra was already on the rise before the runaway success of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring her vocals, propelled her into the spotlight. The video, in which she appears, has racked up over 100 million views. Following SXSW, the 21-year-old will head out on tour with Gotye and later Foster the People, so catch her in bars around Austin while you still can.

Devin
Although he may not quite be a rags-to-riches story just yet, Devin wrote all of the songs from his 2011 EP, You're Mine, while working at a shipping warehouse and living with a roommate in a windowless apartment in Brooklyn. Now signed to Frenchkiss Records – with his first full-length, Romancing, set to drop in April – Devin was able to quit his day job and work on the music thing full-time. His amped-up garage rock nods as much towards Jack White as it does the New York Dolls. See him at Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party on March 17th.

Delta Spirit
San Diego's Delta Spirit aren't new at this, having first created a buzz around their 2006 tours with Cold War Kids and Dr. Dog. Delta Spirit will surely use their SXSW showcases to present songs from their brand new album, Delta Spirit, released the week of the conference. Think of SXSW as their week-long album release party.

The Sheepdogs
Canadian boogie rock band the Sheepdogs earned the distinction of being the first unsigned band to grace the cover of Rolling Stone last August when they battled 15 bands in the our “Choose the Cover” contest. The band signed to Atlantic Records following their win and a victorious performance at Bonnaroo. Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney is producing the band's full-length, due in late spring.

Killer Mike
Atlanta's Killer Mike recently told Rolling Stone that he just fully discovered himself as an artist through his work with producer El-P. The resulting album, entitled R.A.P. Music, will be released in May. With it, Mike says, he "set a new bar for rap." He'll aim to back up that claim when he unveils new material at SXSW. "I’m not trying to redo Public Enemy. I’m not trying to reinvent Ice Cube," he says. "I'm trying to progress what that music made me."

Jonny Corndawg
Jonny Corndawg's official bio states that he is a "country singer, not a singer-songwriter" and the distinction punctuates his anti-hero tendencies. Corndawg does write and sing his own songs, and while they may be a little bit country, they're not exactly the stuff they're playing down in Nashville. During his SXSW showcases, check out his merch – it just might include his own leatherwork and other homemade souvenirs.

Alabama Shakes
Taking a week off from their international tour to strut their stuff at SXSW, roots-rockers Alabama Shakes hail from, yeah, you guessed it. The Alabama-centric band doesn't even have a full-length album under their Bible belt, but their four-song EP and raw early appearances were enough to land them an opening slot with the Drive-By Truckers. SXSW will be their chance to show off material from their upcoming debut, Boys & Girls. Catch them now before everyone "discovers" them on the festival circuit this summer.

Dry the River
Coming to SXSW from London by way of Norway, Dry the River's Peter Liddle brings a post-punk background and emo sensibility to music that is neither: the band performs indie folk that's been compared to Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes. Truth be told, they don't really sound like either. Last year at SXSW, visa issues prevented Dry the River from performing with their drummer. This time, the five-piece will all be present and accounted for. Look for them to drop the beat in their folky freak-outs.

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SXSW 2012: 25 Can't-Miss Acts

Tennis, Miike Snow, Fanfarlo and Tom Morello are among the 'can't miss' performances of SXSW.Timothy Hiatt/Andy Kropa/Gus Stewart/Taylor Hill/Getty Images

SXSW can be overwhelming, to say the least. Bands set up camp in just about every building in downtown Austin. Bars and clubs are booked solid, but so are churches, pool halls, parking lots and everything in between. Choosing your SXSW schedule in this chaos can be challenging, but with most musicians playing multiple shows, you can catch what you want to see if you plan ahead. There are major artists you already love (see: Bruce Springsteen), bands you know and bands you've never heard of. The best SXSW schedule includes all of these, as well as the little surprises you just can't plan for. We've earmarked 25 acts that are worth the effort.

And, it goes without saying that all of the bands we've invited to our Rock Room day parties on March 16th and 17th are not to be missed. See the full schedule – including Keane, Gary Clark Jr., Hot Water Music and lots more – here.

Bruce Springsteen
This selection comes with an asterisk and a disclaimer. Springsteen’s SXSW showcase is not to be missed – but most SXSW attendees will have no option but to do just that. He’s scheduled to perform at an intimate secret location on Thursday, March 15th and tickets are only available to SXSW badge holders by raffle. One sure bet, raffle or not: Springsteen's SXSW keynote address, beginning at noon on March 15th at the Austin Convention Center. You can tune in from anywhere, as NPR is both broadcasting his address and streaming it online.

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
After winning accolades as the fiery guitar slinger for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Tom Morello surprised audiences when he unveiled his folksinger alter-ego the Nightwatchman. That his songs were protest songs was no surprise. Morello has performed in support of the Occupy movement in encampments both on Wall Street and in Los Angeles. He plays Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party at La Zona Rosa on March 17th.

The Barr Brothers
Brothers Brad and Andrew Barr – guitar and drums, respectively – have played together their entire career, dating back to the Nineties with New England jazz-rock trio the Slip. That band morphed into an indie five-piece called Surprise Me Mr. Davis. When the brothers relocated to Montreal in 2005, they formed a side project with their neighbor, harpist Sarah Paige. What was a band of happenstance turned into a serious pursuit under the name the Barr Brothers. Don't miss their sacred-sounding and emotionally moving songs when they perform in St. David's Historic Sanctuary on March 15th.

We Were Promised Jetpacks
Part of the same Glasglow scene that produced the Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit, We Were Promised Jetpacks offer an anthemic take on the marriage between post-punk and indie pop. The band is set to appear at a multitude of SXSW showcases before embarking on an extensive U.S. tour, including a stop at Coachella. Catch them at Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party on March 16th at La Zona Rosa.

Kimbra
New Zealand's Kimbra was already on the rise before the runaway success of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," featuring her vocals, propelled her into the spotlight. The video, in which she appears, has racked up over 100 million views. Following SXSW, the 21-year-old will head out on tour with Gotye and later Foster the People, so catch her in bars around Austin while you still can.

Devin
Although he may not quite be a rags-to-riches story just yet, Devin wrote all of the songs from his 2011 EP, You're Mine, while working at a shipping warehouse and living with a roommate in a windowless apartment in Brooklyn. Now signed to Frenchkiss Records – with his first full-length, Romancing, set to drop in April – Devin was able to quit his day job and work on the music thing full-time. His amped-up garage rock nods as much towards Jack White as it does the New York Dolls. See him at Rolling Stone's Rock Room day party on March 17th.

Delta Spirit
San Diego's Delta Spirit aren't new at this, having first created a buzz around their 2006 tours with Cold War Kids and Dr. Dog. Delta Spirit will surely use their SXSW showcases to present songs from their brand new album, Delta Spirit, released the week of the conference. Think of SXSW as their week-long album release party.

The Sheepdogs
Canadian boogie rock band the Sheepdogs earned the distinction of being the first unsigned band to grace the cover of Rolling Stone last August when they battled 15 bands in the our “Choose the Cover” contest. The band signed to Atlantic Records following their win and a victorious performance at Bonnaroo. Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney is producing the band's full-length, due in late spring.

Killer Mike
Atlanta's Killer Mike recently told Rolling Stone that he just fully discovered himself as an artist through his work with producer El-P. The resulting album, entitled R.A.P. Music, will be released in May. With it, Mike says, he "set a new bar for rap." He'll aim to back up that claim when he unveils new material at SXSW. "I’m not trying to redo Public Enemy. I’m not trying to reinvent Ice Cube," he says. "I'm trying to progress what that music made me."

Jonny Corndawg
Jonny Corndawg's official bio states that he is a "country singer, not a singer-songwriter" and the distinction punctuates his anti-hero tendencies. Corndawg does write and sing his own songs, and while they may be a little bit country, they're not exactly the stuff they're playing down in Nashville. During his SXSW showcases, check out his merch – it just might include his own leatherwork and other homemade souvenirs.

Alabama Shakes
Taking a week off from their international tour to strut their stuff at SXSW, roots-rockers Alabama Shakes hail from, yeah, you guessed it. The Alabama-centric band doesn't even have a full-length album under their Bible belt, but their four-song EP and raw early appearances were enough to land them an opening slot with the Drive-By Truckers. SXSW will be their chance to show off material from their upcoming debut, Boys & Girls. Catch them now before everyone "discovers" them on the festival circuit this summer.

Dry the River
Coming to SXSW from London by way of Norway, Dry the River's Peter Liddle brings a post-punk background and emo sensibility to music that is neither: the band performs indie folk that's been compared to Mumford & Sons and Fleet Foxes. Truth be told, they don't really sound like either. Last year at SXSW, visa issues prevented Dry the River from performing with their drummer. This time, the five-piece will all be present and accounted for. Look for them to drop the beat in their folky freak-outs.

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