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The rock canon has many anti-heroes, Black Mountain being the latest. In the past, Can’s Tago Mago established that the only rule in rock and roll is that there are no rules. Pink Floyd’s prodigious output in the 70s showed us that architecture can be cool, while delinquent proto-metalers Black Sabbath demonstrated that you can make a lot from […]

  To celebrate its 12th year Mountain Jam has just announced one of its most impressive lineups to date, and in our humble opinion, one of the best festival lineups of the summer. Though the festival remains rooted in the jam band scene with acts like Gov’t Mule, Umphrey’s McGee, and The New Mastersounds, in […]

M. Ward returns with his eighth solo album, More Rain, which will be released on March 4 via Merge Records. Today, he unveiled the music video for this new single “Girl From Conejo Valley.” Directed by Ward and Carlos Forster, the track is a nostalgic trot through people he used to know and a place he used […]

Super Furry Animals burst onto the music scene in 1995 with the release of their first EP Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space).  They were quickly recognized as being amongst the most interesting and inventive bands of the ’90s British music boom and a string of lauded albums, which included their breakthrough Rings Around The World, , cemented […]

Progressive quartet Dopapod closed out 2015 with their biggest NYE show yet at the The Palladium in Worcester, MA and kicked off 2016 with a packed out Gramercy Theatre in NYC. The improv-ridden outfit is now proud to announce a five week spring tour that will see the band performing multi-night stands every weekend. Kicking […]

Widespread Panic has just announce their spring tour and it will kick off April 8 at Austin’s Moody Theater for a three night run. Among the big shows are two shows at Wanee Music Festival, a home state show in August, GA on 8/19, multi-night stands in Knoxville and a three-night closing run in Chicago. […]

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 […]

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 […]

The fourth annual Shaky Knees festival returns in 2016 with a stellar lineup including Florence + The Machine, My Moring Jacket, Jane’s Addiction (performing Ritual de lo Habitual), At The Drive-In, The 1975, Deftones, The Decemberists and Walk the Moon. This year’s festival delivers a diverse lineup with performances from Huey Lewis and the News (performing Sports […]

Say what? In news that is almost indigestible before the start of the Monday week, we have learned that icon David Bowie has died at age 69.  It was just last Friday Bowie turned 69 and released his latest album *Blackstar. Bowie was battling cancer in secret for the last 18 months and was able to just make […]

Carnegie Hall has revealed plans for a David Bowie tribute concert scheduled for March 31st. The Roots, The Mountain Goats, Cyndi Lauper, Perry Farrell, Jakob Dylan, and Heart’s Ann Wilson are some of the artists who will honor Bowie at the event. Longtime Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti will coordinate the house band and tickets go on sale Monday […]

The lineup for the 2016 Governors Ball, has been announced. Set to take place on New York City’s Randalls Island from June 3-June 5, the three-day event will be headlined by the Killers, Kanye West, and the Strokes (the latter two of which have headlined GovBall within the past three years). Additional acts set to perform include Beck, Gary […]

Mavis Staples is an alchemist of American music, and has continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and even hip hop over the better part of the last 60 years, the iconic singer has seen and sung through so […]

White Denim has announced that their new album Stiff will be out on March 25th. Listen to the first track, “Holda You (I’m Psycho)” below which premiered at NPR and judging from the sound of the track, the band is taking a classic rock turn on their sound.  Stiff is the follow up to 2013’s Corsicana Lemonade, which […]