Archive: 2016

The 5th annual Peach Festival scheduled to take place August 11-14, 2016 at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA has revealed their lineup. This years headliners include String Cheese Incident, Trey Anastasio and Gregg Allman. Whats most exciting about the festival is the collaborative acts on the bill including the Gregg Allman Incident featuring Allman and […]

Less can certainly be more, and that is definitely the case with two-piece rock band, The London Souls, at BSP Kingston in Kingston, NY on 1/30/16 whose minimalist approach yields big results. Tash Neal, guitar/vocals, and Chris St. Hilaire, drums/vocals, both rely on technique rather then technology. Neal’s hollow body guitar is run through only a few […]

New Order have announced U.S. tour dates in support of their latest record Music Complete. Check out the dates below. To accompany the announcement, they’ve shared an extended mix of forthcoming single “Singularity,” which you can hear below.  The tour kicks off March 10th with a performance at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Philadelphia, […]

[rating=8.00] For those who have never experienced the joys of the seagoing music festival that is called Cayamo, suffice it to say it ought not be missed. Boasting a veritable who’s who of Americana icons — John Prine, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, and Lucinda Williams being but a fraction of the major names involved — […]

[rating=10.00] As we move into 2016, it’s safe to say we could all use a little salvation after a year filled with a rise in white nationalistic hate rhetoric, bigotry, gun violence and terrorism. Salvation can come in many forms, yet music has always been one of the most effective remedies. This idea was a […]

If it begs credulity to state the music Brad Mehldau creates in a solo piano setting is more intense than that musicianship within the intricate interplay of his trio. One listen to this self-compiled, decade-spanning collection will fundamentally alter that perception. On his own as with his group, Mehldau plays with almost equal parts purpose […]

[rating=9.00] The two CD ‘Deluxe Edition’ of the Allman Brothers Band’s Idlewild South achieves what so very few such archive titles accomplish: placing the original work in a context that illuminates the artist’s evolution. Arguably the finest studio recordings this iconic Southern band ever completed are further  refined  in this package by remastering that also […]

Over 130 films will be on tap for the 2016 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic looks stunning in this first preview.