Modest Moust, Death Cab For Cutie, Jack Johnson Lead 2014 Boston Calling Festival
Boston Calling Music Festival announces its May 2014 lineup today; presale tickets will go on sale tomorrow, January 29, 2014. As in 2013, 2014’s lineup was curated by Aaron Dessner of The National in collaboration with Crash Line Productions and Bowery Boston. Boston Calling is produced by Crash Line Productions and is Boston’s first multi-day […]
Jack Johnson Announces Summer Shed Tour
Jack Johnson has announced a summer headline tour in support of his sixth studio album, From Here To Now To You. Support during the tour includes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (May 24- 31), Amos Lee (June 1 – June 7), Michael Kiwanuka (August 18 – September 1) and Brushfire labelmates, ALO (May 20-May 21) […]
‘Girls’ Breakdown: ‘Dead Inside’
This week’s episode deals with a variety of deaths, both literal and metaphorical.
Amy Stroup
Amy Stroup is the perfect example of Nashville being represented from not country music but the eclectic nature of a festival that is 60 or so miles south in I-24 – Bonnaroo. With shades of Lucindia Williams, Phantogram and Regina Spektor, Stroup’s solo debut Tunnel dabbles in tasteful tracks of perceptive lyrics, lush arrangements and […]
Riffing It Up With Jake E. Lee (INTERVIEW)
It’s a quiet night in mid-December and Jake E Lee has been talking a long time. You can hear it in his voice. The vocal chords are becoming just a little tired but the enthusiasm shows no sign of wavering. Jake E Lee is back and every guitar hero worshiper in the modern world is […]
Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Join Forces at The Both
Aimee Mann and Ted Leo have joined forces for a collaborative project they call The Both. The duo’s self-titled debut will be released April 15 via SuperEgo Records. Building on a friendship forged while they were on tour together last year, it was Leo’s solo sets that piqued Mann’s interest in getting on stage with […]
An Open-Letter to Arcade Fire About Their INXS Cover and Other Stuff
People still do these, right?
‘Community’ Breakdown: ‘Geothermal Escapism’
With Troy’s departure, ‘Community’ goes for broke with a school-wide lava game competition.
The Hold Steady Release New Track “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You”
The Hold Steady has released the first song, “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” from their new album Teeth Dreams, out March 25. Teeth Dreams is the New York band’s sixth album and first on its own Positive Jams imprint via new label Washington Square, itself a newly established imprint formed by Razor […]
Built To Spill, Deer Tick, Aaron Freeman, Marco Benevento Cover 80’s Bob Dylan
ATO Records is excited to announce the release of Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One on March 25. The brainchild of producers Jesse Lauter (Elvis Perkins, The Low Anthem) and Sean O’Brien (Dawes, PAPA), the mission of Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One is to shed new light on a large cache of […]