Archive: 2016

The South by Southwest® Music Conference and Festival (SXSW®) has announced the third round of artists invited to perform. This is a small sample of the wide array of artists performing for the attending global music community. SXSW Music’s 30th annual event takes place Tuesday, March 15 – Sunday, March 20, 2016 in Austin, Texas. You can also check […]

M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, has announced an initial series of North American tour dates, including special performances at theCoachella festival in Indio, CA and The Governor’s Ball in NYC. This summer will see further festival performances across the globe, including stops in Spain, Germany, Sweden and more. Tickets will be available for pre-sale from January […]

Extending the prolific tear that kicked off with the 2012 release of Silver Age and intensified with Beauty & Ruin in 2014, Bob Mould has confirmed the release of Patch The Sky out March 25th, 2016 on Merge Records. Once again featuring his stalwart band of Jason Narducy on bass and Jon Wurster on drums, Patch […]

The organizers behind Sasquatch Music Festival have announced the lineup for the 15th edition, taking place May 27th  – 30th, with over 120 artists including performances by The Cure, Florence & The Machine, Disclosure, Major Lazer, Alabama Shakes, A$AP Rocky, Sufjan Stevens, M83, Grimes, Chet Faker, and Jamie xx.  Created by Adam Zacks in 2002, the […]

As the Dave Rawlings Machine neared the end of a lengthy tour in support of their latest studio album Nashville Obsolete, they found themselves in Austin, Texas on a chilly Saturday night. The quintet took the stage at the ornate and historic Paramount Theater to a near capacity crowd of fans both new and old, […]

Explosions in the Sky have announced their first album in five years, The Wilderness, which will be released April 1 through Temporary Residence Ltd.  The Wilderness is the band’s seventh studio album, is available for pre-order an the new song “Disintegration Anxiety” can be heard below. For the LP, the band hired on John Congleton (St. Vincent, Spoon) for additional […]

The Nelsonville Music Festival taking place in Nelsonville, OH over June 3-5th 2016 (taking the weekend spot of Wakarusa which isnt happening this year), has announced their lineup. Pulling from a unique pool rather than the carbon copy we’ve seen on many other cards, The 2016 Nelsonville is led by Gary Clark Jr, Courtney Barnett, […]

Steve Kimock, finds himself  breaking new ground with his latest solo effort, Last Danger of Frost due 3/18/16. “There are other spaces and experiences music flows into, fills, and conforms to: family, nature, travel, quiet study and contemplation, imagination, to name a few. For me, the balance of the music has shifted to ‘other,’” Kimock declares. […]

Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters will return to the road this spring with Blues…Roots and Hollers (A Southern Journey), an 11-date tour of the American South. The dates begin March 4 – 6 at the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival in Florida and then travel highways and byways below the Mason-Dixon Line through […]

Austin’s BUHU like many other like minded bands out of that region, play music that embodies experimentalism and artistic integrity: and they’ve pretty much nailed it wth the first single off their debut full length LP Relationshapes. BUHU is comprised of Clellan Hyatt, bassist, synth-wrangler, and abstract programmer Juan Pablo Mendez, and guitarist / vocalist Jeremy Rogers. […]