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Soulive is the latest signing to the reactivated Stax Records label, which will issue the group’s next album, "No Place Like Soul," on July 31. The set is Soulive’s first with full-time vocalist Toussaint, formerly of the China Band. It’s the follow-up to 2005’s "Breakout" (Concord), which reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Contemporary Jazz […]

Organizers today announced sixteen of the headliners who will perform at the U.S. leg of the 7-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts on 7/7/07.  The concert will be held at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, Live Earth Founder and Executive Producer Kevin Wall said.  Tickets for the show go on sale Monday, April 16 at 10 […]

In a recent post on the band’s official website, Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood announced that guitarist Jason Isbell has parted ways with the group. Hood notes: "It’s with a wide range of emotions and feelings that I’m announcing that we have parted ways with Jason. The split, which I consider extremely amicable is the result […]

Common, the Decemberists, Television, Neko Case and Cassandra Wilson are among the headliners for the 2007 season of New York’s Central Park Summerstage. The series will open June 15 with jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson. The full lineup will be announced in mid-May.Television will play its first area show in quite some time on June 16 […]

The String Cheese Incident  has announced dates for its final tour, including an extended farewell in the band’s home state of Colorado. The band plans to call it quits at the end of the summer tour season, a move that follows last November’s announcement that guitarist Billy Nershi would be leaving "to pursue other musical […]

 The Allman Brothers Band have mapped out plans for their 2007 summer tour, which include co-headling dates with Ratdog. Tour Dates  April 2007 5-8 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre 13, 14 – Live Oak, FL – Wanee Festival May 2007 4 – Memphis, TN – Beale Street Music Festival 5 – New Orleans, […]

Pollstar reports that Arcade Fire, Air, The Polyphonic Spree, Laurie Anderson and jokester Ricky Gervais are among the artists hand-picked by curator and co-founder David Bowie to perform at the inaugural outing of the H&M High Line Festival. Other musical acts on the schedule include Deerhoof, The Secret Machines and a triple bill featuring Daniel […]

 Spoon, Booker T. & the MGs, Drive-By Truckers, the New Pornographers and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have signed on for the summer-long River to River concert series in New York. The sixth annual event is free and open to the public, with presentations hosted at a number of lower Manhattan destinations like Battery Park, […]

The 37th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival is pleased to announce an impressive initial lineup for the 2007 Labor Day event. Bumbershoot, the biggest contemporary music & arts festival in North America, is a 3-day Festival held September 1-3 in a distinctive urban setting. Set against the backdrop of Seattle’s cityscape and under […]

Wilco returns to the road this spring to support its latest album, "Sky Blue Sky," which hits stores in May. Wilco will play an April 6, one-off show in their hometown before heading off for a brief tour of Australia. After taking a few weeks off, Wilco will begin a European tour before heading kicking […]

Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father’s ashes mixed with cocaine. "The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as […]

Billboard.biz is reporting that British independent music company Sanctuary Group Plc will shut down its U.S. label this summer, according to a source within the company. The U.S. label is home to artists such as Morrissey, Widespread Panic, Motorhead, Jonny Greenwood, Idlewild and Dolores O’Riordan. Source:  Billboard.biz

The inaugural Asheville Music Jamboree today announces the lineup for a music festival featuring more than thirty bands on two stages over three days June 1-3 at Deerfields Amphitheater. Located just outside of Asheville in Mills River, NC, the debut event features the musical talents of such noteworthy nationally-touring performers as Michael Franti & Spearhead, […]

With the May 15th release of Sky Blue Sky, Wilco will be offering a 48 minute DVD feature film called Shaking it Off as a deluxe version of the new album.  According to the band’s website, the film is to include rehearsals, interviews about the record, behind the scenes stuff and is directed by Brendan […]

Page McConnell will hit the road at the end of May for a string of dates, dipping into mid-June. The tour begins with a hometown show at Higher Ground in South Burlington, VT and will make stops across the east to the mid-west at favorites such as Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse and The Vic Theatre in […]

The Flaming Lips are known for their outlandish stage shows, which can involve fake blood, mock UFOs, giant bubbles and scores of people jumping around in animal costumes. Now, the group is hoping to bring that sensibility to Broadway with a musical based on its 2002 album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." The project will […]

 The Dave Matthews Band’s U.S. summer amphitheatre trek starts July 8 in Illinois and includes 36 shows across the country.  The band will perform two shows in a number of cities, including Hartford, Conn.; Camden, N.J.; East Troy, Wis.; George, Wash.; West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Los Angeles.  Tickets requests are now available on the […]

New York indie rockers The National have a new album, Boxer, due for release this spring and have booked a 23-city tour of the U.S. and Canada to support it. The group will warm up for those dates with three shows in Europe – May 22 at Astoria in London, May 23 at La Maroquinerie in […]

 Dinosaur Jr. are heading out on the road this spring in support of the a new album, Beyond, the first release featuring the band’s original lineup since 1988’s Bug. The 27-date club tour kicks off May 10 at The Casbah in San Diego, with a show that, although it’s being billed as "J Mascis and Friends," […]

Live Nation will greatly expand its Fillmore franchise with new Fillmore venues in New York, Philadelphia and Detroit, with others to follow. They join Fillmore venues in San Francisco and Denver. In New York that concept will debut on April 11 with Lily Allen at the newly renovated Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza. In […]