Archive: 2011

Phish will webcast all four Madison Square Garden shows.

A look at the tour date announcements from the last seven days.

Craig Myers chats about Barika and balancing membership in three groups.

HT fave David Lott has just put out a two-track and we share Broken Heart from the release.

Wilco kicks off the “Incredible Shrinking Tour” at the Civic Opera House.

Robert Chapman shares his photos of George Porter Jr. and Runnin’ Pardners.

Seattle-based The Head and The Heart, one of 2011’s biggest indie success stories for having surpassed 100K sales with their Sub Pop debut, just announced a headlining tour through North America, beginning on March 4th, 2012 in Lawrence, KS. The tour winds through the Midwest before heading through Canada and down into New England and […]

Goldfrapp just announced the release of their collection The Singles on February 7th, 2012 through Astralwerks Records. The album is a career-spanning overview featuring tracks from their five critically acclaimed albums, alongside two brand new songs written especially for this release: “Yellow Halo” a slow building synth-pop wonder, and the introspective and defiant new wave […]

Lotus’ self-titled fourth studio album features the band painting with bigger, broader brushes to create their musical vision.  There’s a signature sound in place, the result of a decade’s worth of evolution in both band and equipment, but many of the intricacies that defined the band’s sound have been shaped into grander melodic ideas.

Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles covers this second period of Ray Charles’ career 1959 to 1972 on ABC-Paramount, offering A and B sides of all the singles released by ABC. The hits are here starting with his first #1 for ABC, “Georgia On My Mind” all the way to “America The Beautiful” in 1972.

The Felice Brothers had a right to look perfectly bedraggled under the stage lights at Higher Ground. As Ian Felicde related early in the set, their bus had broken down enroute to Vermont while sibling James had been in the hospital earlier in the day with pink eye (hence his intro of a tune later in the set as “the conjunctivitis version).

The Magnetic Fields will release Love at the Bottom of the Sea, their tenth full-length album and first release of new material with Merge since 1999’s highly acclaimed 69 Love Songs. The band will celebrate their new album with a North American tour that passes through the SXSW Music Showcase in Austin, Texas. After putting […]

 Tool has posted several  shows on Ticketmaster in conjunction with a January tour. Jan. 14, at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nev.; Jan 17, at the Tucson Arena in Tucson, Ariz.; Jan. 18, at the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, N.M.; Jan. 24, at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio; Jan. 29 at the Susquehanna […]

In Part I of our conversation, we examine the Night of Hunters creation process. Part II focuses on Shenale’s work on the Night of Hunters tour and his background with Amos and their history of working together, including the serendipitous point where he took the helm as her orchestral counterpart.

Check out the video for The Muppets’ centerpiece musical number, Man or Puppet.

A look at the Chicago venues Wilco will play over the next week.

A look at the musical acts on television this week.

Indie-pop act Tennis shares the video for their self-produced new single, Deep In The Woods.

Mike Gordon ends a three-night stand at The Egg in Albany.

Back around 1987, ZakkWylde was a baby-faced, long-legged skinny guitar player in New Jersey when Ozzy Osbourne was sniffing around for a new axeman for his solo band.