While boisterous hip hop (A$AP Rocky) and sleek pop house (Disclosure) dominated the main stage, Todd Terje's silvery disco was the perfect late night antidote to those acts. Though his usual backing musicians were absent, Terje played what very well could be both the smoothest and most subtly brilliant sent the El Chupacabra tent will see all weekend. While there were plenty of peaks and valleys in his mix, as well as some knockout punch tracks ("Delorean Dynamite", "Inspector Norse") that were met with the crowd-wide eruptions that they were built for, Terje and the Olsens' buoyant, athletic set had a commendable amount of balance to it. It may not have been the drop-heavy set that the festival's usual dance contingent is used to, but judging by the crowd, Terje was a hit nonetheless, certainly making his namesake proud.
Peter Michel seems to be living in the breezy midpoint in between lying in bliss and getting lost in the moment, so it's fitting that the Seattle' musician and his comrades in Hibou opened the Bigfoot stage on a day that fell into that same feeling. Most of Hibou's catalog runs at a midtempo pace a…
Brooklyn group Yeasayer are an act that cares about the details. From their pleas to “please watch at the 4k setting” on one of their music video’s to the collage of sounds that was their 2016 release, Amen and Goodbye, the group certainly has a knack for thinking about the little things other band…
