Todd Snider Occupies America
Todd Snider has added 25 headlining tour dates to his spring tour, including new stops in Seattle, Portland, and Dallas. The 40+ date will feature Snider backed by a full band and wraps up with a special hometown show at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium. Justin Townes Earle co-headlines two shows in Tennessee. All new April, […]
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas ’78
The Rolling Stones' 1978 release Some Girls is widely regarded as a watershed moment in the iconic British band’s career. It followed Black and Blue and It’s Only Rock and Roll that sounded like mere holding patterns even if they had not come out subsequent to the alternately raucous and haunting Goats Head Soup recalling "Silver Train,” "Star Star" along with "Coming Down Again.” Some Girls Live in Texas reaffirms the strength of The Stones as a performing unit
The Sheepdogs – Living Proof
There is a certain excitement that comes when you accomplish something that you have been striving for. It’s part relief, part genuine euphoria, and definitely part panic. Because now that you have reached this well-fought-for goal, what do you do next? The Sheepdogs are a Saskatoon band that have been playing around for approximately seven years. It has been a long hard haul, but the light at the end of the sweaty, small, dark music clubs through the Canadian heartland came quite unexpectedly via Rolling Stone and a whole gaggle of music fans that voted for the band to be on the cover. And it wasn’t only Canadians that boosted them above their competition.
B List: Umphrey’s McGee’s Musical Tributes
A look at Umphrey’s tributes to those who left this mortal plane.
Marc’s Musings: Freakin’ At The Freakers Ball
Marc’s take on the recent Freaks Ball XII at Brooklyn Bowl.
HT Interview: Plants and Animals
Ryan chats with Warren Spicer of Plants and Animals about The End of That.
Video: Widespread Panic – Many Rivers To Cross
Official footage of Widespread Panic covering Many Rivers To Cross by Jimmy Cliff.
Bloggy Goodness: Alan Lomax’s Global Jukebox
Alan Lomax’s recordings will be made available for the first time.
String Cheese Incident, Bassnectar, STS9 Lead Electric Forest Festival
String Cheese Incident, Bassnectar, STS9 and Thievery Corporation will all be taking stage at Michigan’s Electric Forest festival.Scheduled for June 28-July 1 at the Double JJ Ranch near Rothbury, Mich., the second annual Electric Forest will also feature performances by Girl Talk, Santigold, Steve Aoki, Ghostland Observatory, Richie Hawtin, Major Lazer, Big Gigantic, The Travelin’ […]
Real Estate Hits The Road Again This Spring
Real Estate just wrapped up a short East Coast tour, which also found them playing their largest NYC show yet, at Terminal 5, and now have announced even more North American dates in April centered around the band’s first appearance at Coachella. In addition to a slew of year-end accolades, the band recently talked to […]