Later this month the granddaddy of all music festivals, George Wein’s Newport Folk Festival, will get under way at Fort Adams State Park in scenic Newport, RI. The festie, which
If you missed Phoenix’s recent appearance on MTV’s Unplugged, you can still watch each of the songs the Gallic rocker performed at MTV’s Buzzworthy Blog. The grammy winners mix the
You’d think bands who improvise such as Phish, moe. and Umphrey’s would feel comfortable taking the stage without a setlist, but that rarely happens. Just because these groups like to
One of 2010’s most buzzed-about bands has been The Morning Benders, a group of trendy, Urban-Outfitted prepsters that resemble the unsigned younger cousins of Vampire Weekend. Nattily dressed in cardigans, skinny ties, and Sperry’s, the band has been riding the success of their release Big Echo and parlaying it into a plush opening spots for Black Keys and Broken Bells and late-night appearances on Jimmy Fallon and Carson Daly.
THE BLACK CROWES take flight like never before with their first-ever double album of all acoustic material, CROWEOLOGY. Due out Tuesday, August 3, 2010 via band’s label Silver Arrow through
Grammy-nominated artist Matisyahu will be hitting the road this summer for a coast-to-coast U.S. tour behind his critically acclaimed album Light, which debuted inside the Top 20 on the Billboard
The dream originated in 2004 when Eric Clapton decided to gather the top guitarists in the world to share the same stage for a hot summer weekend festival in Dallas, Texas. Since then, Crossroads has returned every third year, the last happening at Toyota Park in 2007 and back again at the same venue now in 2010. Having collaborated with so many amazing musicians over the years and honoring many of the legendary blues guitar heroes from long ago, Clapton has paid tribute to those who have influenced him throughout his career and those whom he admires. The day-long festival is a benefit for The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment center for chemically dependent persons, founded by Clapton himself in 1998. With the help of his friends and peers, Eric Clapton once again succeeded in assembling some of the best collaborative performances on the greatest of stage, and it’s all for a good cause.
This Brooklyn Sextet hopes to have created your electronica-pop soundtrack to the summer with Travel Book. Motoring in multiple directions, the album has a mission to build, layer and sift through tweaks, sonic-yelps and bleeps while tying everything together with head-bobbing rhythms. The best tracks start simple, piling on sound and beats before letting the combination blossom under Sam Tyndall’s vocals.
