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Joining Big Star — which will perform its revered third album “Sister Lovers” with a number of guest artists and accompaniment from Kronos Quartet; Neko Case, T Bone Burnett,  Joe Jackson and Steve Earle are among the acts set to appear at this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, set for Oct. 2-4 at Golden Gate Park […]

Delta Spirit announces Outpost Fest, a one-day music and culture event to take place on the downtown streets of Santa Ana, CA, on Saturday, November 14th. Cold War Kids, Delta Spirit, Blonde Redhead, Beach Fossils, Tijuana Panthers and Guards will perform. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 18th. Outpost Fest is the brainchild of Delta […]

This December, Phish returns to Madison Square Garden in New York for a four-night New Year’s Run to ring in 2016. The first show will be on Wednesday, December 30 and run through Saturday, January 2. The band has played thirty-one shows to date at Madison Square Garden since December 1994. As with the last […]

Grupo Fantasma is back with their fifth studio album, Problemas, produced by Steve Berlin(Los Lobos, Los Super Seven) and set for release on October 30, 2015 on Blue Corn Music.  This is the band’s first studio album since their GRAMMY award-winning 2010 release El Existential. With all the chatter of the Austin music scene changing too fast and subject to gentrification, one […]

Austin’s self-proclaimed “trash poet” John Wesley Coleman III incorporates his heady musings and witticisms with analog slacker rock. His new full length release, Greatest Hits, will be released on October 23rd by local imprint Super Secret Records. Following years of varied creative output at a breakneck pace, including performing with psychedelic five-piece The Golden Boys and releasing a combination poetry book/CD titledAmerican […]

In 2009 and 2010 Knitting Factory Records reissued the complete works of Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Almost 50 original albums were released over 26 individual CDs, all re-packaged, with in-depth track commentaries written by Afrobeat historian Chris May, as well as the compilations ‘The Best Of The Black President’ (part 1 […]

GRIMES announced today that she will embark on her headlining North American “Rhinestone Cowgirls” Tour with very special guest Nicole Dollanganger.  The tour will begin with Grimes playing the Growlers Beach Goth Festival on October 24th in Santa Ana, CA and will hit major markets including New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago and more (see full […]

Long Beach, California’s Rival Sons have been announced as main support to Black Sabbath  for what will be the heavy metal icons’ final world tour. Be sure to check out Glide’s recent interview with Jay Buchanan of Rival Sons Due to kick off on January 20th in Omaha, Nebraska, the scheduled dates will take the […]

On the heels of numerous sold-out shows, Dead & Company are announcing additional U.S. dates with multiple nights in Colorodo, Vegas, Minnesota and dates in the southeast and other spots full tour dates listed below). Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann and Bob Weir joined forces with singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band […]

In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of Okkervil River’s iconic album Black Sheep Boy, Jagjaguwar is presenting the Black Sheep Boy 10th Anniversary Edition, a three-LP set combining the classic Black Sheep Boy album and its counterpart the Black Sheep Boy Appendix with an all new unreleased album of covers entitled There Swims A Swan: […]

Iron & Wine is returing with the second installment in his Archives Series on October 16th via his own Black Cricket Recording Co. A 7″ featuring covers of Neil Young’s “Albuquerque” and The Four Tops’ “It’s The Same Old Song,” this duo of songs comes from the same era as the previously released Archive Series […]

Sub Pop will reissue Sharpen Your Teeth, the underground classic and lone offering from Ugly Casanova (Isaac Brock), on 2xLP worldwide October 30th. The long, out-of-print vinyl edition will come with the original 13 track album and 4 bonus songs: “Babies Clean Conscience,” “Diggin Holes,” “Roads to Go to Roads to Go to…“ (which were […]

Sub Pop will release Low’s Ones and Sixes, the group’s latest studio effort, on CD / LP / DL  worldwide Friday, September 11th. The album, featuring the standouts “No Comprende”,  “What Part of Me,” “Gentle,” and “No End,” was co-produced by the band and engineer BJ Burton at Justin Vernon’s April Base Studios in Eau Claire, […]

If 2015 was the final chapter for Motley Crue, 2016 promises to be the year of Black Sabbath. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler will close the their history with a farewell tour that kicks off January 20th in Omaha, NE with more dates to be announced. On their previous tour, Bill Ward was […]

Gary Clark Jr.’s  highly anticipated second album for Warner Bros. Records, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, is set for release on 9/11/15  is another step in a career that mirrors that of guitar heroes past and present.  The Story of Sonny Boy Slim was written, produced, arranged by Clark, who also plays most of the instruments, with […]

Phish has announced Phish: Riviera Maya, the band’s first-ever resort concert event set to hit Mexico’s Riviera Maya on January 15-17, 2016. The four-day, all-inclusive event will see the band performing for three nights on the beach in one of the world’s most beautiful locations – Mexico’s Caribbean coastline. Phish: Riviera Maya, presented in partnership […]

We knew a solo album was due soon, but it has sort of already arrived sooner than later for Alabama Shakes front-woman Brittany Howard. Today she has announced a side project called Thunderbitch which features members of Fly Golden Eagle and Clear Plastic Masks. Check out their promo video below where the band takes on a […]

Alberta Cross, led by lead singer and guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee – will release their third album via Dine Alone Records on October 16. The self-titled LP is available to preorder now at http://geni.us/albertacross. Co-produced by Stakee and Claudius Mittendorfer (Temples, Interpol, Johnny Marr), the LP showcases new musical territories with vibrant horn sections weaved […]

Photo by Arthur VanRooy.  Motörhead are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, but so far things have not been going so well on their North American tour. At a show in Salt Lake City this past Thursday, frontman Lemmy Kilmister walked off stage just a few songs in, blaming his feelings of “sickness” on the […]

Earlier today organizers behind this year’s Phases of the Moon Music & Art Festival announced that the festival will be no more. In a statement on their Facebook page earlier today they said the following: Dear Phases of the Moon Community, It saddens us to inform you that Phases of the Moon Music & Art Festival has […]