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Everyone Orchestra is combining forces with City Repair Project’s Village Building Convergence 2007 event on May 26,  with an exciting edition assembled from a rotating cast of all star musicians, including EO founder/conductor Matt Butler, String Cheese Incident’s Michael Kang , local bassman Tye North (Leftover Salmon), string wizard Darol Anger, keyboardist Asher Fulero, the […]

Outspoken Anti- recording artist and award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Franti will perform an extremely rare San Quentin Prison concert on Saturday, May 19th at 11 a.m. With a theme of tolerance and co-existence, the first gig inside the prison in five years – since Metallica’s 2002 appearance – will be held before roughly 2,000 inmates. […]

Pearl Jam has boxed up three complete concerts held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash., over the past two years for the aptly named release "Live at the Gorge 05/06." The seven-disc collection will arrive June 26 via the band’s own Monkeywrench label. "Live at the Gorge" rounds up shows from Sept. 1, 2005, […]

With the String Cheese Incident approaching the band’s final show, Kyle Hollingsworth is stepping out with his latest collaboration – soleside – featuring Kyle, Speech (of Arrested Development) and DJ Logic. Backed by a full band, these three creative souls, seemingly worlds apart, will smash jazz/funk, hiphop and turntables into an explosive new music that […]

Today, trance-fusion rockers The Disco Biscuits announce Camp Bisco 6 – the sixth year of the band’s always-anticipated annual music festival.  Reputed for each year offering music’s most cutting edge and experimental innovators, Camp Bisco 6 will host three nights of music and camping at the Indian Lookout Country Club in upstate New York.  With […]

As published in NME Alex James has again fuelled hopes Blur will reunite with Graham Coxon, insisting the foursome will be hitting the studio this summer. The bassist claims they want to give it one last try together – and if the reunion doesn’t work out they will simply go their separate ways. "We’re all […]

Rage Against The Machine played its first show in seven years last night (April 29) to close the 2007 edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. The foursome tore into staples like "Testify," "Bulls on Parade," "People of the Sun" and "Guerrilla Radio" to one of the largest main stage […]

The Shortlist Music Prize has listed its 10 finalists for its 2007 award. Those who made the cut from a total of 61 nominations are the Band of Horses, Beirut, Bonnie Prince Billy, Cat Power, Girl Talk, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, Regina Spektor, Spank Rock and Tom Waits.After a year’s hiatus, the Shortlist Music Prize […]

The first proper Bad Brains studio album in over a decade, Build A Nation, is now scheduled to arrive in stores on June 26, 2007 on Megaforce Records.  The album features all the original members of the group: HR, Darryl Jenifer, Dr. Know and Earl Hudson. Produced by long time fan, Adam Yauch of the Beastie […]

The organizers of the eight year old Blues in the Park, the Fair Oaks Blues & More Festival, announced today, the new name of their expanded event — the Northern California Blues Festival, reflecting their growing vision of what the festival represents and who it serves. "While it took a while for us to get […]

 This summer, The White Stripes will embark on a tour of Canada that traverses 10 provinces as well as the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories.  The band will be supporting its new album, Icky Thump, which drops June 18 in Europe and June 19 everywhere else.  "Having never done a full tour of Canada, Meg […]

Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming.  The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, "This is Spinal Tap," will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7.  The […]

Every Wednesday in November 2006, Marco Benevento set up shop for a residencyat Tonic, the recently shuttered New York City improvisational music Mecca."For these shows, I decided I was going to invite some of my closestfriends along to play and we’d just let the music go where it wanted. I’ve alwaysthought that if you think […]

Bob Dylan will embark on his traditional summer North American tour beginning with a June 22-23 stand at the Borgata in Atlantic City, N.J. Dates are on tap through July 28 in Kelseyville, Calif., and include festival appearances on July 4 in Montreal and the following day in Ottawa, Ontario. Dylan is presently winding down […]

Former Drive By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell will release his solo debut, "Sirens of the Ditch," July 10 via New West. The 11-track set features guest turns by DBT principals Patterson Hood, Shonna Tucker and Brad Morgan, plus Hood’s father David and Spooner Oldham. "Sirens of the Ditch" was tracked at FAME Studios in Muscle […]

The Raconteurs are in a Nashville recording studio working on the follow-up to their 2006 debut "Broken Boy Soldiers" and hope to have a new album out sometime next year. The group, which features Jack White of the White Stripes, Brendan Benson, and Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler of The Greenhornes, has been recording at […]

The Widespread Panic Summer Tour 2007 has been officially announced.  The band will be traveling all across the country with stops including California, Texas, New York, New England, and of course 3 nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado to kick it off. Jun. 09, 2007     Lawrence, KS  –  Wakarusa Music Festival Jun. 14, […]

“There’s so much lost time to cover,” says former VHS or Beta member Zeke Buck in a recent interview with The Louisville Eccentric Observer’s Mat Herron.  “Basically, I’m trying to start anew.”  And that’s exactly what Buck is doing.  After a successful 10 year run in VHS or Beta – which included a national arena […]

 "The feel, the energy of LIBERTAD is about the eternal struggle for freedom — personal and social freedoms." So says Velvet Revolver’s frontman Scott Weiland in describing the band’s forthcoming album LIBERTAD, scheduled for release July 3 on RCA Records.  It will be preceded by the track "She Builds Quick Machines." "LIBERTAD has soul," Weiland […]

The city of Berlin will bestow a unique honor on a unique figure in modern music on July 28th when a street is renamed in memory of American rock and roll legend Frank Zappa. I n the Marzahn district of what was East Berlin, "Street Number 13" will be formally dedicated as "Frank-Zappa-strasse". The ceremony […]