Archive: 2011

This is her most consistent effort yet, and the process of building the songs up from programmed sounds reveals Herzig’s deft architectural hand, and the fact that she’s chosen bouncy, spirited and cathartic as her palette further bolsters the album. The next step will be learning how to incorporate lyrically the more intimate and raw moments of introspection, but this is an admirable first step in the right direction.

If Sebastian Bach is anything, he is a trooper. He has been in this business long enough to know that sometimes you just have to fight for what makes the blood run through your veins.

Having already announced dates in Australia, New Zealand and South America, Chris Cornell has added more US shows to his solo acoustic Songbook tour, giving even more fans the chance to see him perform unplugged and up close. These special performances of songs from his extensive catalogue let Chris interact with the crowd and share […]

Known for consistently booking some of the finest performers in new and traditional folk, roots rock, bluegrass and newgrass, and other American roots music, Suwannee Springfest returns in 2012 for its 16th straight year. Suwannee Springest will be held March 23-25, 2012 at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida and […]

Dave Grohl. Ryan Adams and Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard are among the artists gathering in Los Angeles this fall to honor punk pioneer Bob Mould. Mould’s legacy is going to be tough to honor in only one evening, but Grohl, Adams, and Gibbard, along with No Age, Best Coast, Margaret Cho with Grant-Lee […]

Seminal Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alt-rockers R.E.M. have called it quits after 31 years of playing together. The announcement came yesterday via their official website: "During our last tour, and while making Collapse Into Now and putting together this greatest hits retrospective; we started to ask ourselves ‘what next?’," commented Mike Mills. "Working […]

Mustachioed madman and frontman of Eagles of Death Metal, Jesse Hughes will release his debut solo album as Boots Electric on Dangerbird Records today. September 20th.  He has also assembled a crew of some of LA’s eclectic rockers to take the Boots Electric material on the road.  Titled Honkey Kong, the album was produced by […]

This week Dan Deacon reissued two albums from his back catalog, announced a run of Fall tour dates, as well as details on the Wham City Comedy Tour 2011. Dan Deacon will be performing solo on his Fall tour, it will be the last opportunity to see his solo set for awhile as his 2012 […]

On September 27, Dare Records Inc. will release Robert Randolph & the Family Band Live In Concert. This definitive, career spanning album was recorded on Robert Randolph & the Family Band’s recent U.S. tour and marks the group’s first live collection since their 2002 debut album, Live at the Wetlands. It will include such Robert […]

Look for Keller Williams on tour through the end of the year in several of his various incarnations, including his newest collaboration – The Travelin’ McCourys Featuring Keller Williams – debuting this fall at Magnolia Fest, Voodoo Music Festival, and others. Also announced today, a New Year’s run: beginning December 28 at The Lincoln Theatre […]

With his newest release – The Lost Cause Minstrels – on the Potato Head Family label, Grayson Capps takes his music in a new direction.  Having lived in both New Orleans and Nashville, the Alabama native recently returned home and seems to further embrace his roots.

Tom Waits On Tom Waits brings together a large number of interviews conducted throughout the great man’s storied career. Covering a remarkable 35-year span from 1973 to 2008, this collection employs Waits’ own words to paint a vivid self portrait of a highly original American artist and iconoclast. The book makes for a very intriguing chronology of Waits’ development as a songwriter, recording artist and performer. Fiercely protective of his private life and notoriously reclusive, Waits nonetheless has always been a lively and unpredictable interview subject.

Will Sheff is a densely literate songwriter of the highest degree.  Like a good novelist, his songs reveal layers as they progress, adding intrigue and possibility to the plot and subtle nuance to the characterization, while weighty symbolism abounds throughout.  The man also likes his hand-claps, as Sheff raucously urged and prodded the crowd to “throw their hands up” and clap along to the beats of some of the band’s best-known numbers

The Little Willies have reconvened to record For The Good Times, the rousing follow-up to their eponymous 2006 debut, which will be released by EMI’s Milking Bull Records in January 2012. The band will be previewing songs from the new album at a few select shows this fall: The Bell House in Brooklyn on October […]

Rhythm and Roots Festival held in Charlestown, R.I. 9/2-4/11.

I stumbled across Ten and Tracer, or Jonathan Canupp, an American producer from Boulder, Colorado by listening to samples that left me drooling for more.

Neil Young’s taking a look at his life for a new memoir. The tentatively titled "Waging Heavy Peace" is scheduled for release in fall 2012, according to an announcement from publisher Blue Rider Press issued on Tuesday. Young had mentioned that he was in the process of writing a book while in Toronto recently to […]

Jessie and Jennifer Clavin returned to writing music together after a brief pause, but this time under the name Bleached. Fully entrenched in the SoCal scene, their music is beginning to spread around the country, thanks in part to the well-received Carter 7inch release and their wildly enjoyable and raucous live show. Look for the Clavin sisters this fall as they tour to and from the CMJ festival.

My Morning Jacket will join friends Band Of Horses, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Delta Spirit for a round of December shows. Tickets go on sale this weekend to the general public. Fan club Roll Call members (MMJ’s official fan club_ pre-sale begins today, September 19th. Tour Dates 12/1   Los Angeles, CA – Gibson […]

Comedy Central’s Colbert Report will air its first hour-long episode Sept. 26, when Colbert sits down with Radiohead Radiohead will perform four songs, featuring material off its most recent album, "The King of Limbs," as well as the recently debuted and unreleased track, "The Daily Mail." An additional song will also be performed for the […]