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In case you haven’t noticed there appears to be a resurgence in popularity of artists who are put into the jam band bucket lately. A term that once held a negative connotation to hipsters and casual music fans, “jam band” has gained a new perspective as a crop of young and old fans discover acts […]

Back on April 21st, 2019, Portland, Oregon’s Soul’d Out Music Festival had the good fortune of hosting Prince for a pair of shows at the Roseland Theater. Just three years later, to the day, Prince passed away. This year on April 21st, Soul’d Out Music Festival and funk/soul juggernaut Ghost-Note played homage to The Purple […]

Eclectic Austin rockers White Denim have been chugging along for close to 15 years, and in the process they have been quietly building a prolific body of work. The only constant members of the band – guitarist and singer James Petralli and bassist Steve Terebecki – opened their own recording studio called Radio Milk earlier […]

North Carolina based instrumental group Toubab Krewe brought their African influenced musical stylings to The Mint in Los Angeles on April 11, 2019. They are on a 22 date Spring 2019 tour and broke out a few new songs from 2018’s Stylo, their fourth studio release. Justin Perkins amazed the crowd with his expertise on […]

FOALS brought their current World Tour behind the new album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 1 to New York City’s Brooklyn Steel for a sold-out three-night run April 12-14, 2019.

California rock and rollers the Rival Sons hit the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina on Wednesday, April 10th. They were joined by Canadian classic rockers The Sheepdogs.

Andrew Bird brought his latest album My Finest Work Yet to an intimate audience at Brooklyn’s eclectic art hub National Sawdust on April 9, 2019. The sold-out two-night stand was part of Bird’s set of intimate dates around the US before launching into a larger tour in much larger venues. The show was presented in […]

Lauded as the ‘Guitar Event of the Year’, the Experience Hendrix Tour once again presented a star-studded concert and celebration with legendary artists who banded together to pay homage to the late, great – Jimi Hendrix and his music at the Lowell Auditorium (Lowell, MA)  on 4/4/19. This event featured Billy Cox, Eric Johnson, Jonny […]

Country singer J.P. Harris and rock and roller JD McPherson are each criminally underrated artists within their respective genres. So, despite playing different styles, it seems fitting that such high caliber artists would hit the road together. On Thursday, April 4, they both played the second of two sold out shows at Mississippi Studios in […]

KISS said farewell to Atlanta on Sunday night (4/7) with a colorful rock circus that encompassed all you might expect from the band on its End Of The Road World Tour. Photos by Ian Rawn  

Bob Mould returned to back to the twin cities- a place where he once fronted a well-known indie band in the 80s and early 90’s. On this occasion, he visited St. Paul’s Palace Theatre where he performed a lively rock show in support of his 2019 album Sunshine Rock. Photos by Billy Briggs

Weezer and The Pixies brought their respective radio indie and record store indie to the Xcel Energy Center in St Paul, MN on 3/3019. Photos by Billy Briggs.

“Get out here Silas, this is a festival and there’s about to be a whole lotta pickin’ goin’ on”, beckoned a smiling and bundled up Vince Herman to his mandolin-playing son, who was waiting just offstage. The younger Herman was summoned early on to join his dad’s jamgrass band, Leftover Salmon as they headlined the […]

Nick Murphy (formerly Chet Faker) performed songs solo for a private audience at Sotheby’s in New York City on April 2nd. Murphy said it’s the first time he has performed songs for an audience off his forthcoming LP Run Fast Sleep Naked out on Downtown Records on April 26th. Included in the performance was the […]

As usual, Gary Clark Jr. delivered a knockout performance via his six string – this time at Boston’s House of Blues on 3/29/19. Photos by Marc Lacatell  

The Infamous Stringdusters, 2018 Grammy award winners for Best Bluegrass Album, performed at Atlanta’s own Variety Playhouse this past Saturday night. On March 30th. They were joined by one of Nashville’ finest bands, The Great Peacock, who opened the show and would later return for a collaborative encore for a cover of The Band’s “Up […]

Maggie Rogers has been riding an ever-growing wave for the past three years. First as an unintended breakout viral hit, followed by a record deal, a world tour behind her first EP Now That the Light Is Fading and most recently a full debut album, “Heard It In A Past Life” landing at number two on […]

On Monday, March 25th, The Punch Brothers brought their intricate progressive bluegrass to Asheville, NC for a show at the Orange Peel.

Guster performed a special Lost & Gone Forever 20th Anniversary show at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, March 23rd. In honor of the 1999 album which features “Barrell of a Gun” and “Fa Fa”, the Boston-based based band performed the album in its entirety. Photos by Cathy Poulton