We head to New York City for CMJ. We catch up with the Aussies at The Aussie BBQ and at the College Day festivities. We also catch up with DAMNDOGS, Gotye, Cassette Kids, the UK's Cosmo Jarvis, who had just left Australia, and more!

In my fourth day of CMJ, I made tracks to catch up with 1,2,3, a band from Pittsburgh who were heading into James Iha's recording studio (complete with Smashing Pumpkins memorabilia), Stratosphere Sound, to lay down a few live tracks as part of the Fred Perry Artists Lounge sessions. They were quite the tight band... playing some classy rock n' roll. They listened to plenty of Beatles growing up, I'll tell you that much! Stay tuned for our chat with them!

My third night at Culture Collide was a rather brief affair due to other engagements, but I got to catch some fantastic performances from a couple of bands I know very well, and a couple others I didn't know much about at all...

Friday started off well enough, though grey clouds hung ominously above the Somerset farm. Even without the rain, navigating the festival grounds was becoming more and more of a challenge as the mud began to slowly take over the site.

Day two started off ominously enough with an early morning shower, however with it soon easing off, the threat of a potential washout was averted for another day. Being only Thursday, the main stages of the festival were still not open - the festival officially runs across the weekend Friday to Sunday. But there's more than enough going on the smaller stages to keep you from getting bored.

It's that time of the year again! "Summer" has hit the Northern Hemisphere and the UK's largest and most famous music festival is back for another year. Anyone expecting a repeat of last year's scorching sunny weather,had such hopes dashed immediately on arrival; though the rain failed to dampen the spirits of the thousands of punters who descend on the Somerset farm.

It was with a decent amount of disbelief that we approached the final day of Sasquatch! 2011. The past three days had gone all too fast; a whirlwind of good people and great music, but with more to go, we weren’t about to rest on our laurels.