Dave Matthews Band Announces Summer 2016 Tour – Taking 2017 Off
Dave Matthews Band will be celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with a summer tour. The 2016 North American tour will launch on May 11th in Wichita, KS and include two-night stands in Camden NJ, Elkhorn WI, Gilford NH, Saratoga Springs NY, Noblesville IN, West Palm Beach FL and Berkeley CA. The tour will conclude […]
Gregg Allman’s Laid Back Festival Returns in Five U.S. Cities
Gregg Allman has announced the return of the Laid Back Festival, a one-day event that was so successful in its first year that it’s now set to take place in five American cities throughout the summer of 2016. The events will be headlined and curated by the legendary Allman, alongside an all-star line-up soon to […]
Brian Wilson Announces 50th Anniversary ‘Pet Sounds’ Tour
As indicated by earlier festival dates and performances that have popped and gone on sale, Brian Wilson has now officially announced a world tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds – the 1966 landmark Beach Boys album largely considered among the greatest ever. It opens March 26 in Auckland, New Zealand, before moving through Japan, […]
Prince Blows Minds With Intimate Paisley Park Hometown ‘Piano and a Microphone’ Show (SHOW REVIEW)
“This is the first time I’ve played alone, ever! And you’re the first to see it.” Prince used these words to address the limited number of ever so lucky fans in attendance at Paisley Park on January 21st for an event one might refer to as History/Herstory in the making. Two sets of “Piano – […]
Ty Segall Gets Fuzzy & Perplexing on ‘Emotional Mugger’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
[rating=6.00] Ty Segall is unstoppable. Releasing new music at an alarming rate, the young shredder has no shortage of things to say and noise to make. In fact, on the heels of his new record Emotional Mugger comes a new release from California quartet Audacity, produced by Segall. This is the norm for him, as his is […]
Graham Whitford of Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Spills the Goods (INTERVIEW)
When Tyler Bryant released his first album with his newly-formed band the Shakedown, he “wanted to make a rock record for kids like me,” the then twenty-two year old Bryant explained in a 2013 interview with me shortly after Wild Child’s release. “I wanted to make a rock & roll record for my generation and […]
Iggy Pop and Josh Homme To Release New Album, ‘Post Pop Depression’
The existence of the sublimely secretive desert opus conceived by Iggy Pop and Joshua Homme was confirmed yesterday to an unsuspecting studio and home audience of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And now the world at large can know: March 18 will see the release of Post Pop Depression (Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International), the 17th Iggy Pop album, and […]
Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band Keep Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre Captivated (SHOW REVIEW)
A large crowd gathered at the historic Fonda Theater in LA, January 19th to hear Americana singer songwriter Josh Ritter. The 39 year old smiley fresh faced singer from Idaho has been recording his own songs for nearly twenty years, but is now reaching a wider audience on the strength of his new, more rock […]
City and Colour – Stubb’s BBQ – Austin, TX 1/22/16 (PHOTOS/SETLIST)
City and Colour brought their winter tour to Austin, Texas on Friday, January 22nd for a show at Stubb’s BBQ. Local funksters Greyhounds opened the show. Photos by Maggie Boyd. Edit this setlist | More City and Colour setlists
Mike Gordon Covers Flaming Lips, Talking Heads And More At Winter Tour Opener In Austin (SHOW REVIEW)
In a recent interview with this very publication, Mike Gordon described the term “jam band” – a term he will be forever linked to from as a member of Phish – as “horrible”. The bassist may have been referring more to implication of the term, which most associate with jolly, frolicking songs that seemingly never […]