Archive: 2014

There have been numerous tributes to the late Jerry Garcia since his death in 1995, but none such as an accurate reflection of the man’s own uniquely Zen approach to life and art. If the tongue-in-cheek opening interval is slightly disconcerting-showing actor Luke Wilson asking directions to the site of the filming at Bob Weir’s […]

Hangout Music Festival organizers have announced the lineup for the fifth annual Hangout Music Fest, featuring The Black Keys, The Killers, Outkast, Jack Johnson, Queens of the Stone Age, Pretty Lights, The Avett Brothers, Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips on the beaches of Gulf Shores, AL on May 16-18, 2014. Also included in the […]

The lineup for the 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest has been revealed and include Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish,  Arcade Fire, and Vampire Weekend. Here’s a look a the full lineup for this year’s event: Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Christina Aguilera, Phish, Arcade […]

This week’s slap-bet installment is a convoluted tale that stalls the forward momentum of the show. But at least it’s entertaining.

This episode, a sort-of tongue-in-cheek half-nod to the road trip as plot device, is loaded with even more signs of how much Hannah and Adam have grown as a couple

For the first time, the full catalog from the original Black Sabbath lineup is now available digitally in the U.S. and has been mastered specifically for iTunes, ensuring the delivery of the music to listeners with increased audio fidelity, more closely replicating what the artists, recording engineers, and producers intended.  Available exclusively on the iTunes […]

Once again the Dave Matthews Band will be touring summer sheds, but the group’s 2014 North American summer tour may be its most surprising yet. “A Very Special Evening with Dave Matthews Band” will feature the group delivering two sets per evening, performing songs from throughout its career. Dave Matthews Band will wind through numerous […]

[rating=6.00] Fun fact: Stephen Malkmus has now released one more album (six total) with his band the Jicks, than he recorded in the entirety of his tenure fronting alt-rock legends, Pavement. For us ‘90’s nostalgics now settling into a more steady and sedate form of adulthood, this only serves to reinforce how fast the time […]

Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what’s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of fucked […]