Three years ago, we were honored to win the 2008 Weblog Award as Best Music Blog. Today, the nomination page for the 2011 Bloggies has gone live and if you
2011 marks 25 Years as a band for southern jam titans Widespread Panic. The group already announced a run of three intimate shows in its home state of Georgia that
Word spread yesterday that the Grateful Dead have sold the exclusive rights to develop online and mobile GD-themed video games to Curious Sense, an Asheville-based company which has previous worked
While last year Okkervil River served as the backing band on psych-rock legend Roky Erickson’s first solo album in 14 years, we haven’t heard anything in the way of new
When I put together my list of the Ten Best Concert DVDs of 2010, Ladies and Gentleman the Rolling Stones took the #2 spot. You can catch this 1972 concert
On the heels of Phish’s New Year’s week shows, which culminated with a sold-out, three-night stand at Madison Square Garden, Trey Anastasio announces plans for an intimate theatre tour with
Everyone is looking for their fountain of youth; a way to stay young if not physically then mentally. And I am here to tell you that it lives inside the heart of rock & roll. ALL rock & roll, no matter which way your tastes lean. As long as you’re rocking, you’re still like the kid you once were in a room full of posters and records. If you actually play rock & roll, it never stops beating. Witness two so-called hair metal bands whose heyday was back in the early 90’s – Kix and Slaughter. They were extremely popular with as many fans as the next band: hit records on the charts, sold out concerts.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker’s Damn the Torpedoes was the band’s breakthrough album, launching an ascent to rock icon status via a painstaking (and often painful) creative process. The combination of the band’s third album in an expanded package with a simultaneously released DVD would’ve made for a truly deluxe edition.
On Kaputt, Bejar’s full-length follow-up to 2009’s Bay of Pigs EP, the formula that has worked so well on past releases returns, however, this time with a twist: an ‘80’s jazz-fused, electronic sound more in line with Roxy Music and Spandau Ballet than previous albums have revealed.
The year 2010 saw Soundgarden – Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Ben Shepherd and Matt Cameron – reuniting after a 13-year absence to a thunderous roar. As promised, the band have
