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Currently in the middle of an extensive summer tour, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood continue to prove themselves one of the hardest working bands in the country announcing another 33 headline U.S. shows in October and November. Criss-crossing “Freak America” performing two sets and three hours of music a night, The CRB begin at Higher Ground […]

First Bob Dylan and now Willie Nelson will take a stab at Frank Sinatra classics. Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release My Way—Willie Nelson’s new studio album (and 12th for the label)–on Friday, September 14. My Way will be available on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats as well as part […]

Producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and vocalist Devonté Hynes returns with his fourth album as Blood Orange, Negro Swan, released on Domino on August 24, 2018.   Raised in England, Hynes started out as a teenage punk in the UK band Test Icicles before releasing two orchestral acoustic pop records as Lightspeed Champion. In 2011, he released Coastal Grooves, the first of three […]

The Struts has announced a fall North American headline tour today. Currently on the road supporting the Foo Fighters on their sold-out tour, including two shows earlier this week at Madison Square Garden in New York City, The Struts will kick off The Body Talks Tour September 21st at St Andrew’s in Detroit. White Reaper, […]

The Hold Steady has released a new single. “The Stove & The Toaster” b/w “Star 18.” It will be available at all DSPs and streaming services via Frenchkiss Records this Friday July 20. The Stove & The Toaster” b/w “Star 18” is currently available to hear exclusively at The Hold Steady’s Bandcamp page and to members of the official Hold Steady fan community, The Unified Scene. Members who […]

Matthew Sweet and his band join fellow influential ’80s psychedelic pop rockers The Dream Syndicate for an October West Coast tour; scroll down for complete dates. Sweet is touring for his current album release, Tomorrow’s Daughter. This co-billed tour will find the bands alternating the headlining slot each evening. Sweet’s current guitarist, Jason Victor, joins […]

After a prolific career of 22 studio albums, Keller Williams has announced his first ever entirely instrumental release SANS, out on October 19. The new album offers a fresh take on his previous work, with a collection of eight reimagined tracks plus one new song. Williams is set to hit the road this fall with […]

Minus the Bear will close the book on their nearly two decades as a band with a farewell tour this fall. Since their first shows in 2001, the Seattle group have been thrilling crowds with their virtuosic songwriting and play from Los Angeles, New York, London and Tokyo, to Jimmy Kimmel Live and Bonnaroo. Their […]

Robert Plant has announced a new series of North American headline dates celebrating his extraordinary latest album, Carry Fire. The dates – for which Plant is once again accompanied by The Sensational Space Shifters – begin September 9 at LouFest in St. Louis, MO, and then continue through the month. Besides LouFest, Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters […]

Richard Thompson is set to return with 13 Rivers on September 14th, 2018.  A return to New West Records, the 13-song set is the Grammy nominated artist’s first self-produced album in over a decade and was recorded 100% analog in just ten days.  It was engineered by Clay Blair (The War On Drugs) and features Thompson’s regular accompanists […]

On September 7, Katie Crutchfield’s ever-shifting musical project Waxahatchee returns with the Great Thunder EP. Featuring a collection of songs written with now-dormant experimental recording group Great Thunder while Crutchfield was also writing the Waxahatchee albums Cerulean Salt and Ivy Tripp, the original recordings have mostly faded into obscurity. Unearthing and reimagining them with producer […]

On their new album Shapeshifter II: Outbreak, New York-bred band TAUK offer an unsettling but ultimately exhilarating look at artificial intelligence and its potential to upend our world. With its dynamic sense of tension and cinematic mastery of mood, TAUK’s all-instrumental blend of progressive rock, hip-hop, and jazz proves to be the perfect backdrop for such explorations, giving […]

In May, Low Cut Connie released their critically-acclaimed fifth studio album Dirty Pictures (Part 2) that was recently named one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2018 so far. In his four-star review, David Fricke called the record “a stand-alone triumph of missionary zeal.” The band just announced a fall headline tour which includes stops in Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., New Orleans, […]

Sister Sparrow has announced the release of her eagerly awaited new album. GOLD arrives at all music retailers and streaming services via Thirty Tigers on Friday, October 12th. The album will be heralded by the powerful first single, “Ghost,” set to release Friday, August 3rd, and Sister Sparrow will celebrate the new LP with a major U.S. […]

Last night (7/13/18), The Smashing Pumpkins kicked off their 43 date, (semi) reunion tour at Gila River Arena in Glendale, AZ. Back in February, Billy Corgan actually posted the setlist for this tour on his Instagram page, and apart from the running order, they stuck to their script. Opening with an acoustic “Disarm,” one of the […]

Legendary songwriter, recording artist and performer Paul Simon will release his 14th studio album – In The Blue Light – on September 7.  Produced by Simon and Roy Halee, who have worked together since the 1960s, the album features a talented cast of musicians who have joined Simon to lend fresh perspectives on 10 of the artist’s favorite (though perhaps less-familiar) songs, […]

True Meanings, Paul Weller’s 14th album will be released on September 14th and is an album characterized by grandiose-yet-delicate, lush orchestration: an aesthetic to which Weller’s better-than-ever voice, singing some of his most nakedly honest words, is perfectly suited. A dreamy, peaceful, pastoral set of songs to get lost in, it is both an album that his […]

The Lemon Twigs have announced details of their most ambitious project to date: their second album, Go To School to be released August 24 via 4AD. A musical conceived by brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario, the 15-track opus was written, recorded, produced and mixed by the pair at their home in Long Island. Go To School tells the heartbreaking coming […]

The term “supergroup” gets thrown around on a regular basis these days, however, GENERATION AXE undisputedly brings together some of the greatest guitarists of all time. Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abisi once again will join together to tour North America to stage 32 appearances across the country.  Beginning on November 7 at […]

On September 28th, the beloved, PNW rock and roll institution Mudhoney will release Digital Garbage, the 10th album from the band in 30 years, a barbed-wire-trimmed collection of sonic brickbats. Mudhoney will embark on a world tour beginning on Aug. 11th at SPF30, Sub Pop’s FREE 30th Anniversary Festival and Party at Alki Beach in West Seattle. They will then […]