Soul revivalist, Mayer Hawthorne, will have a busy Spring ahead of him. After announcing a handful of dates supporting Passion Pit, the Detroit-born crooner has announced even more tour dates,
Jay-Z, Muse and Gorrilaz will headline the 11th annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be held April 16-18 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. Also confirmed are
moe. is celebrating its 20th anniversary later this week with a pair of shows at Roseland in NYC, and such a momentous occasion seems like the perfect time for Volume
Last week, PBS aired the latest installment of their fantastic biography series American Masters which focused on the ever too brief life and career of soul music legend Sam Cooke.
With the late night war at NBC coming to a head (or more accurately, chin), the week of January 18-22 will most likely be Conan O’Brien’s last on the air at the
Late last year, surfer/singer Jack Johnson released his first-ever live concert DVD, En Concert. The movie, which documents Johnson’s 2008 European tour, is directed by his longtime friend Emmett Malloy
Legendary hip-hop/rock group CYPRESS HILL have signed an exclusive worldwide deal with Priority/EMI and are gearing up for the April 6th release of RISE UP, their first new studio album
On February 9th, Bama Rags/RCA Records will release Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds’ Live In Las Vegas, a 2-CD set capturing their December 12, 2009 show at the Theater for
Sweet Release may be Velvet Truckstop’s debut album, but it sounds like the work of a band who’s comfortable in its own skin and knows what it wants to sound like. Constanten and Cage, being the pros that they are, step onboard only to serve the song; Sweet Release is a solid sample of Velvet Truckstop’s voice from beginning to end. They ain’t tryin’ to be nobody but themselves.
Charlie Hunter has certainly proved he's his own man during the course of a career that's found him working as parts of solos, duos, quartets, quintets and larger ensembles both as frontman/bandleader and collaborative participant. He is comfortable with himself to the extent his self-description as a 'boutique' artist sounds both pragmatic and proud.
