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The independently produced Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival  has announced the initial artist lineup for its inaugural festival that includes headliners Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar and Skrillex, among a total of 80 bands within the hip-hop, indie rock, electronic, folk, modern and classic rock genres. A full list of artists announced during the first […]

Yo La Tengo, who recently released Stuff Like That There (a mix of cover songs, “covers” of Yo La Tengo songs, and brand new originals) today announce a run of headlining tour dates for 2016.  The band’s 2015 fall tour saw them performing in an unprecedented stripped-down set-up, with former member Dave Schramm on electric guitar, […]

Warren Haynes has announced new U.S. 2016 tour dates, part of his Ashes & Dust World Tour which is currently underway in Europe, making a return to the U.S. at the end of the year. The new dates, which include stops in Dallas, Austin, Cleveland, St. Paul, Knoxville and Albany, will take the tour to more […]

Austin’s The Bright Light Social Hour have been tearing up North American stages all year, and after they finish out a round of Midwest dates this month, they will hit the road again in January 2016 for a West Coast run. After headlining shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle + more, the guys will […]

The Cave Singers are excited to announce their fifth studio album Banshee which will be released independently February 19. Banshee brings The Cave Singers back to their original 3 piece lineup and also their approach to songwriting: an exchange of guitarist Derek Fudesko sending vocalist / songwriter Pete Quirk a riff and Pete responding with vocal ideas. From there, […]

Yonder Mountain String Band’s Fall Tour 2015 is in full swing throughout the month of Novemlber 2015, and today the band announced its Winter Tour 2016 with special guests Trout Steak Revival (on all winter dates except Feb. 4 & 5, 2016) and Keller & The Keels (Feb. 4 & 5, 2016). Yonder Mountain brings their electrifying live […]

Pennywise have announced 3 shows at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on March 10, 11, and 12. The band will perform their first three albums in their entirety with one album per night, beginning with Pennywise on March 10, Unknown Road on March 11, and closing out with About Time on March 12. Four ticketing […]

Papadosio has just revealed the details for Act II of their massive “Extras In A Movie” tour–  in support of their new album, EXTRAS IN A MOVIE, out now. Fanclub presale tickets for the tour are on sale now via http://papadosio.com/tour with regular on-sale launching Friday, November 6 at 10am local time. Extras In A […]

Mount Moriah will release How to Dance, their third full-length record, on February 26. How to Dance is available for pre-order now on CD and limited-edition “coke bottle” clear LP in the Merge store, or digitally via iTunes where pre-orders will receive an instant download of the first single, “Cardinal Cross.” (streaming below). The North Carolina-based […]

Following the highly-anticipated release of her twentieth album, “Dig In Deep” (Feb 26, Redwing Records), Bonnie Raitt will kick off her 2016 North American Tour, returning to major cities where she’s long been recognized as one of contemporary music’s great live performers. Bonnie’s Dig In Deep Tour will feature her longtime touring band, which backs […]

On December 11, Merge will release a deluxe 10th anniversary limited-edition version of the Spoon classic Gimme Fiction on double-LP (180g), double-CD, and digital. The reissue contains the original album newly remastered by Howie Weinberg from the original tapes, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased demos from the era, a digital download of nine additional bonus tracks, and […]

On February 26, 2016, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real will deliver its heavily-anticipated third album, Something Real, on the Royal Potato Family imprint. Something Real documents the trail blazed by this hard-driving ensemble in its recent past. Most of all, it captures them in all their current glory as songwriters, performers and progenitors […]

Three-time Grammy Award winner Lucinda Williams returns on February 5 with The Ghosts of Highway 20 (Highway 20/Thirty Tigers). After 11 highly acclaimed studio albums, Williams is in the most prolific period of her nearly four-decade career, as she continues to challenge herself creatively. The Ghosts of Highway 20 finds Williams exploring new territory personally, sonically and vocally like […]

A new limited-edition 10” six-song recording by The Arcs, entitled The Arcs vs. The Inventors Vol. I, featuring Dr. John and David Hidalgo, will be released on Nonesuch Records November 27, 2015, as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event; a digital version of The Arcs vs. The Inventors Vol. I will be available […]

Due to overwhelming demand, the road to THE END just got longer for Black Sabbath.On the heels of their much-anticipated performances in North America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, BLACK SABBATH will end the epic journey they began nearly five decades ago with another run of North American dates in fall 2016. These shows will […]

Mike Gordon returns to the road in January, this time hitting the western half of the U.S. with his band on the heels of a well-received June run. Mike’s band includes longtime collaborators Scott Murawski and Craig Myers, as well as two recent additions: organ and synth-master Robert Walter and sJohn Morgan Kimock on drums. A limited number of tickets are […]

David Bowie has confirmed his new album will be called Blackstar and released on his 69th birthday on 8 January. The singer made the announcement on his official website and Facebook page, adding that Blackstar will also be the title of his forthcoming single.  The 7-song LP was reportedly recorded at the Magic Shop studio in New York […]

Greg Dulli will embark on an intimate solo tour, which will see him make stops in eleven different countries for a total of 32 shows beginning on February 6th in Galway, Ireland at Roisin Dubh and wrapping with a two show engagement on April 1st & April 2nd at Preservation Hall in New Orleans, LA. […]

Two essential live albums from Johnny Cash,  the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announce the upcoming release of two new live albums. For the first time ever as a CD and digital audio release, Johnny Cash’s Man In Black: Live in Denmark 1971 will be released on Friday, December 4, 2015 and is available for pre-order […]

Trey Anastasio’s new full length Paper Wheels is set for release October 30th. Produced by Anastasio and longtime collaborator Bryce Goggin, Paper Wheels was recorded last year at The Barn, the Phish founding guitarist’s Vermont farmhouse-turned-rehearsal space/recording studio. Anastasio and the members of Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) developed the material on stage while touring and […]