The Rolling Stones Announce 2020 No Filter U.S. Stadium Tour
The journey of the Rolling Stones continues as the band has announced theyll be returning to stadiums in the United States in 2020 marking their seventh decade of live shows. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood will bring the NO FILTER tour to the following stadiums this year: MAY 2020 08 – […]
Brandi Carlile, Trey Anastasio Band & Levon Helm’s 80th Birthday Celebrations Leads Mountain Jam Lineup
Mountain Jam, one of the Northeast’s largest rock n’ roll music festivals, now in its 16th continuous year, has announced its lineup for the three-day music extravaganza May 29-31, 2020. The Festival will feature over 30 bands across three days including headliners Trey Anastasio Band, Gov’t Mule, and Brandi Carlile plus performances from Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, The Head and the Heart, […]
75 Years Ago Today- The Late Great Bob Marley Was Born (Watch Live ’79)
Antibalas Gives Vibrant Display Of Spirit & Soul on ‘Fu Chronicles’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The Williamsburg, Brooklyn based Afrobeat band Antibalas are celebrating their twentieth year as a collective with the release of Fu Chronicles, proving they are still on top of their game and even improving as a unit. While the band is known for their exuberant live shows, this six song collection from Daptone Records is a […]
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) Led by Sherman Irby, Journey Through Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell – Live from 2012 ‘Inferno’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Last week we introduced you to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Music of Wayne Shorter and indicated that we’d cover more releases from their label. This installment is a suite of seven movements composed and conducted by the JLCO’s lead alto saxophonist, Sherman Irby, Inferno was performed live in 2012 and captured on this […]
Christian McBride Delivers Civil Rights Perspective on Major Opus ‘The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Renowned bassist, bandleader, composer, artistic director, and preeminent jazz spokesperson Christian McBride has turned his childhood fascination of Black American history into a 20-year-long Civil Rights project highlighting the icons Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Muhammad Ali, as well as Barack Obama on The Movement, Revisited: A Musical Portrait of […]
Future Islands, Japanese Breakfast Top Vermont’s Waking Windows Music & Arts Festival
The Waking Windows Music & Arts Festival returns May 1-3, 2020 to downtown Winooski for the 10th (!) installment of what Seven Days describes as “simply the coolest music festival in Vermont.” As we hit the double digits, Waking Windows shan’t fix what isn’t broken: our M.O. has always been to push festival programming in […]
Wannabe Reviews Beach Slang’s ‘The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City’
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City, the new album from Beach Slang, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):
SONG PREMIERE: Grant Peeples Wins With Melodically Precise & Haunting “Bad Wife”
On Grant Peeple’s tenth album, Bad Wife, the longstanding singer-songwriter pays homage to woman singer-songwriters and rightfully so. 2020 will mark the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment when American women wrestled their right to vote from a Constitution historically reticent to grant equality it precisely extolled. Research shows this album might […]
