San Francisco’s Thao Nguyen and Mirah are each gifted singer-songwriters in their own right, but together they form like Voltron to create an indie-folk powerhouse.

Thao’s raspy and often jarring voice combined with Mirah’s delicate vocals creates a beautiful juxtaposition of ying and yang.

After a successful stint at April’s Noise Pop Festival, the two will join forces, along with their respective band members, to create one great big superband this summer.

Torontonians can catch them at the Horseshoe when they play on June 26th.

Here’s an intimate look at the two performing Thao’s “How Dare You”, courtesty of Yours Truly.

New York’s L Magazine is set to throw its second annual Northside Festival, a music and arts festival held June 24-27 in over 30 venues and dozens of galleries in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighbourhoods. In organizing the festival, L Magazine has “handed over curatorial control to some of the most tasteful, talented and dedicated folks in New York’s independent music scene — record labels, bloggers, promoters and more — allowing them to showcase the bands they think you need to hear.” Here’s the list of confirmed bands playing so far, with more to be announced in the coming weeks: The Albertans, Anamanaguchi, Apse, Au Revoir Simone, CALLmeKAT, Chica Vas, Cloud Nothings, Cults, Darlings, Dinosaur Bones, The Doctors Fox, Dom, Eternal Summers, Eula, The Fiery Furnaces, The Fresh & Onlys, Fucked Up, Golden Girls, Grails, Grandchildren, The Grates, Gray Young, The Great, Unwashed, Grooms, The Gypsy West, High Places, The Hundred in the Hands, Islands, Les Savy Fav, Les Vinyl, Liars, Marie Stella, Memory Tapes, Men, Milagres (ex-The Secret Life of Sofia), MiniBoone, Mon Khmer, Moon Duo, Parenthetical Girls, Polvo, The Rabbits, Real Estate, Red Rooster, The Senors of Marseille, Shark?, Shoney Lamar, Sic Alps, The Smoking Popes, The Sundelles, Thao and Mirah with the Most of All (Thao Nguyen with Mirah), That Fleeting World, Titus Andronicus, True Womanhood, Twin Sister, Viernes, The Wave Pictures, Wavves, We Are Country Mice, Woods, WOOM (ex-Flying), and ZAZA. And just in case you’re not into any of the bands performing (seriously?), The Williamsburg Gallery Association will have on display “special exhibitions and other events at over 25 art galleries in the neighborhood,” while some of the “biggest aficionados of independent film [will] curate four nights of New York-made movies at Brooklyn’s new, as-yet-unopened film house-music club-restaurant-bar, indieScreen.” And all this for a $50 badge. Not too shabby. Looking forward to sets by Au Revoir Simone, The Fiery Furnances, Les Savy Fav, Liars, Memory Tapes, Real Estate, Thao Nguyen with Mirah, Twin Sister, Wavves, and Woods. We’ll be there and hopefully you will too.

New York’s L Magazine is set to throw its second annual Northside Festival, a music and arts festival held June 24-27 in over 30 venues and dozens of galleries in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighbourhoods.

In organizing the festival, L Magazine has “handed over curatorial control to some of the most tasteful, talented and dedicated folks in New York’s independent music scene — record labels, bloggers, promoters and more — allowing them to showcase the bands they think you need to hear.”

Here’s the list of confirmed bands playing so far, with more to be announced in the coming weeks:

The Albertans, Anamanaguchi, Apse, Au Revoir Simone, CALLmeKAT, Chica Vas, Cloud Nothings, Cults, Darlings, Dinosaur Bones, The Doctors Fox, Dom, Eternal Summers, Eula, The Fiery Furnaces, The Fresh & Onlys, Fucked Up, Golden Girls, Grails, Grandchildren, The Grates, Gray Young, The Great, Unwashed, Grooms, The Gypsy West, High Places, The Hundred in the Hands, Islands, Les Savy Fav, Les Vinyl, Liars, Marie Stella, Memory Tapes, Men, Milagres (ex-The Secret Life of Sofia), MiniBoone, Mon Khmer, Moon Duo, Parenthetical Girls, Polvo, The Rabbits, Real Estate, Red Rooster, The Senors of Marseille, Shark?, Shoney Lamar, Sic Alps, The Smoking Popes, The Sundelles, Thao and Mirah with the Most of All (Thao Nguyen with Mirah), That Fleeting World, Titus Andronicus, True Womanhood, Twin Sister, Viernes, The Wave Pictures, Wavves, We Are Country Mice, Woods, WOOM (ex-Flying), and ZAZA.

And just in case you’re not into any of the bands performing (seriously?), The Williamsburg Gallery Association will have on display “special exhibitions and other events at over 25 art galleries in the neighborhood,” while some of the “biggest aficionados of independent film [will] curate four nights of New York-made movies at Brooklyn’s new, as-yet-unopened film house-music club-restaurant-bar, indieScreen.”

And all this for a $50 badge. Not too shabby. Looking forward to sets by Au Revoir Simone, The Fiery Furnances, Les Savy Fav, Liars, Memory Tapes, Real Estate, Thao Nguyen with Mirah, Twin Sister, Wavves, and Woods. We’ll be there and hopefully you will too.