Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking
Gogol Bordello will make another pass through the U.S. and Canada before heading back to Europe to finish out the year. The new slate of North American dates kicked off
NBC tonight will be showing a special called Live From New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live at 8 pm. While we’re sure there will be plenty
We’ve got big news for fans of The Boss (no, Papa Steinbrenner’s not dead yet). Bruce Springsteen today announced an extensive fall tour that will once again reunite him with the badass E Street Band. The Boss also announced that Radio Nowhere, the first single from his new album, will be available exclusively as a free track on iTunes for the next week. Full dates listed after the jump…
Feisty Canadian singer-songwriter, um, Feist, played the ol’ Letterman program last night, and she brought a few of her all-star indie friends with her. Joined by members of Mates of
Scotty usually throws out an oversized post full’a music-related links every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But it’s a light day out there, I’m already semi-bored at work, and I thought
Austin 6-piece The Black Angels are thrilled to announce that they have been chosen as direct support for the Queens of The Stone Age on their US tour this Fall.
ith a title like Viva Las Vegas, I suspect many people's expectations are very low, associating this with the lounge lizard Elvis. However, that turns out to be an off-base assumption. The truth is this album captures Elvis during his second-wind. True, the young, hungry singer from the days before the Army and the movies is gone, but he still had an awful lot of performance left in him and these 16 tracks, all but one recorded live between 1970 and 1972, find his great voice backed by a much bigger sound.
The Brickhouse in downtown Phoenix was more like an oven on a recent Friday night. Many people cleared the room before the headliner Talib Kweli even entered the stage, as the temperature rose well past 100 degrees. Yet Kweli, with his predictably smooth rhymes and easy backbeats, managed to pull off a compelling show despite the elements and those who stayed were lyrically impressed.
The release of Matt Costa’s sophomore effort, Unfamiliar Faces, has been changed to January 15th, 2008, which will be supported by a headlining tour early in the year. In the
