If you weren’t willing to eat your vacation days to make the trek down to Hangout Festival 2013 in Alabama, we’ve got you covered.

Bad band names: we hear them all the time. But sometimes—just sometimes—the music makes up for it. Here, we look at 10 such cases.

Delta Spirit have a sound for about every occasion. Taking a wistful walk through Brooklyn? They’ve got you. Having a barbecue? Throw on “Strange Vine.”

Organizers announced via Facebook the partial Global Dance Festival 2013 lineup, which includes sets from Beats Antique, Savoy and EOTO.

Surfer Blood sat down with Reverb before their set at the 2013 SnowBall music festival to talk SXSW, Colorado, the new album and meeting Justin Timberlake.

Photos of the final day of SnowBall Music Festival 2013 with performances by Tennis, Flying Lotus and STS9.

An early morning snow and a blast of cold turned most of the soft slush of Friday’s SnowBall Music Festival 2013 into a skating rink by Saturday night.

From the moment you step into the festival grounds at Winter Park, SnowBall Music Festival is an immediately memorable and novel experience.

In lieu of the grass and dirt that the seasoned festival goer would expect is a vast plot of slush (if you’re lucky) and ice, an added obstacle for the already impaired masses that would claim more than a few asses over the weekend. Then there’s the sea of beanies, bobbing along to a night of music ostensibly on the theme of “body moving,” or maybe “body heating,” although the temperature didn’t dip too far below freezing on Friday night.

Here are the best Denver shows this week (March 8-14), including Churchill, SnowBall and Alabama Shakes.

Check out Reverb’s five bands to watch for at SnowBall Music Festival 2013.