Archive: 2015

Firefly Music Festival is returning to The Woodlands for the fifth year on June 16-19, 2016. Along with headliners Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon, Florence & The Machine, and Deadmau5, the lineup also includes Ellie Goulding, Disclosure, Blink-182, Death Cab for Cutie, M83, Tame Impala, The 1975, A$AP Rocky, Of Monsters and Men, Major […]

Koncept & J57 were weaned on crate digging and local deep cuts, but have always kept one foot in the mainstream. It was this deep immersion into NYC’s hip-hop scene that brought the two together. Lyrically, Koncept delivers intimately biographical rhymes that explore where he’s at now by dissecting his past. His friend and cohort J57 […]

We’ve probably all had this fantasy before, that one where we’ve commandeered a badass ship stocked to the gills with delicious craft beer and nothing to do except watch rock and roll bands play while drinking said beer. This is the essentially the idea behind the first ever Lebrewski Cruise, which takes place March 1-5, […]

Songwriter Patty Griffin is teaming with fellow artists Sara Watkins and Anaïs Mitchell for a major U.S. tour and voter engagement drive in conjunction with the League of Women Voters. The “Use Your Voice Tour 2016,” produced by Columbia Artists Management LLC, gets underway February 12 at St. Petersburg, FL’s Mahaffey Theatre and then visits 37 more […]

[rating=9.00] Considered by most Dylantologists to be the definitive period in Bob Dylan’s nascent development, the mid ‘60s found him moving at stratospheric speed in an evolution that took him from starry-eyed folk troubadour and populist hero to an influential and revolutionary rocker. The three albums produced during that narrow span of time — Bringing […]

The inclusion of elements from various phases of Pat Metheny’s career gives deeper meaning to the title of this DVD. The Missouri-born guitarist/composer has made himself an icon of contemporary jazz by effectively playing off the Grammy-award winning accessibility of ‘The Pat Metheny Group’ with more challenging projects such as recordings and tours with various trios, […]

In a lineup mostly dominated by mainstream/pop artists like The Weeknd, Calvin Harris, Florence and the Machine, and Ellie Goulding- the 2016 Hangout Music Festival lineup has been revealed.Other featured acts include Lenny Kravitz, Flume, Haim, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnet, Cage the Elephant, Panic at the Disco, Grimes, the Chainsmokers, Jason Isbell, Miike Snow, Lee […]

This morning the organizers of the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference announced a massive round of acts slated to perform at the event, which takes place March 11-20 in Austin, Texas. Check out the huge roster of performers below: Ben Abraham (Melbourne AUSTRALIA) The Accidentals (Traverse City MI) Afriquoi (London UK-ENGLAND) Alexander Jean […]

Following their one off Halloween show in Tempe, AZ last month (video below), following quotes taken out of context  by the press that James Maynard Kennan has been keeping Tool low on the priority scale, the band is back for a much needed tour.  Eight shows along the southern half of the continent will take […]