Virgin Festival, Pimlico Race Course, Baltimore, Maryland, August 4 & 5 — V Fest Goes Green! Sure it’s a cliche to say that the Virgin Festival (V Fest) is even
Tokyo Police Club will be recording their debut full length in September for Saddle-Creek Records and are hoping for an early 2008 release. TPC are on tour for the next
Shapes and Sizes sophomore effort, Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner," exerts less of an impact than their self-titled debut by taking itself too seriously. Despite that, the band continues to engage in an intellectual slugfest, creating their form of art rock by hammering away at convention. Here you will find an array of horns, notes from a music box, and static all working together to produce progressive sound.
Over three decades as the innovative percussion engine of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart‘s ear for global sounds brought numerous unpredictable guests to the Dead’s stage performances. Hart’s 1991 release
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Aussie sextet Architecture in Helsinki will release its third album, Places Like This on Aug. 21 via Polyvinyl Records, and will launch a full US tour on Oct. 10 in
Pearl Jam will unveil a Danny Clinch-directed live DVD this fall, featuring footage from five Italian shows last fall. "Immagine Nel Telaio" (Picture in a Frame) is due Sept. 25
Bluegrass aficionado Bela Fleck has been known to break many boundaries of genres in his collaborations, and his working with fusion jazz great Chick Corea on their new release The Enchantment brings two master musicians together to create a one-of-a-kind sound. With 20 Grammy awards between the two of them, Corea and Fleck combine the unlikely pairing of both banjo and piano crossing limits.
Last Gang Records and Metric have announced the globe-trottingfour-piece’s first US tour in over a year. Though the band has been unbelievably busy — writing new material, selling out shows
On the second album by the pride of Sydney, Australia, Dappled Cities delivers hooky pop-rock that is eclectic and experimental, but still manages to be a little bland.
