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Benjy Eisen

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Benjy Eisen resides in San Francisco and has written about music for a number of publications including Rolling Stone, Paste and Filter. His writing has also appeared in several anthologies and his work has been nominated for several Jammy Awards.

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STS9 Lead Fans Through Ruins at Mayan Holidaze
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STS9 Lead Fans Through Ruins at Mayan Holidaze

Dave Vann So Friday, 12/21/12, was not the end of the world as some people had interpreted the Mayan calendar as predicting. But it did make for one hell of a great party deep in Mayan territory, on the Yukatan Peninsula, where multiple music festivals brought hundreds of thousands of fans over the weekend to celebrate whatever the date of ...

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'Ticket Masters' Q&A: Greedy Artists, StubHub and How to Fight Back

AP When the book Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped first dropped last year, it dropped more than one bomb on music fans: While Ticketmaster itself may not exactly be a fan-friendly company, they're not the only reason concert tickets are so pricey these days. Despite their frustrating fees and ...

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Phish Petition Metallica in Atlantic City

Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images After taking the week off following their headlining two-set show at Bonnaroo, Phish launched the proper first leg of their summer tour with a three-night stand at Bader Field in Atlantic City, the same site where Metallica will hold their Orion festival on June 23rd and 24th. As for Phish's takeover this past ...

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Les Claypool Looks Back on Primus 'Breakup,' Influence of Coen Brothers

Getty Images Although Primus got their start in the Bay Area music scene, circa 1984, bassist and band leader Les Claypool is, by now, firmly entrenched in Sonom, two counties north of San Francisco. Wine country. In fact, Claypool even runs a boutique winery called Claypool Cellars, with a tasting room in Sebastopol. Many of his lyrics over ...

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Young Man Outgrows 'Boy,' Is More Than That Indie-Covers Kid From YouTube

Taylor Burton As much as the Young Man moniker is, technically, an accurate description of singer-songwriter Colin Caulfield, it is also evident that this young man is, as the saying goes, wise beyond his years. You can substitute any number of other adjectives for "wise" in that statement and you wouldn't be wrong. At just 22-years-old, ...

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LCD's James Murphy and Disco Biscuits Discuss Irish Dance Beats at Camp Bisco

Roger Kisby, Getty Images It took ten different incarnations, but the Disco Biscuits finally had a festival sell-out to the tune of 25,000 at their annual Camp Bisco in upstate New York this past weekend. While they hosted a number of marquee acts -- including Wiz Khalifa, Death From Above 1979, Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, Yeasayer and ...

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Phish Deliver 'Prime' Performance at 'Super Ball 9' Festival in New York

AP Photo One of the biggest rock festivals of the summer took place this past weekend on a racetrack in Watkin's Glen, New York. The same site that, in 1973, hosted Summer Jam. That one-day festival became legendary for having a crowd far larger than Woodstock but for just three bands -- the Band, the Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead. ...

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