Wye Oak Releasing New Album Shriek April 29th
Baltimore two-piece Wye Oak (Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack) will release their fourth full-length studio album April 29th on Merge Records. The album will be available for pre-order beginning today at iTunes with an instant download of the first single “The Tower”. Also, an exclusively designed t-shirt will be bundled with the album for those […]
James Vincent McMorrow – Post Tropical
[rating=7.00] There is distinct vulnerability in James Vincent McMorrow’s voice on his latest release Post Tropical. It’s a tone that casts a vision of remembrance, strained relationships and patience, and while these are vivid elements that stand out in the music, they cause parts of the record to blend together the way they are arranged. […]
Reverend Horton Heat – Royale, Boston, MA 1/23/14
Photos of Reverend Horton Heat by Marc Lacatell at the Royale in Boston, MA 1/23/14.
The Allman Brothers Band to Stop Touring Next Year
Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks announced their departures earlier this month.
‘How I Met Your Mother’ Breakdown: ‘How Your Mother Met Me’
So many answers, so many tears. This classic episode shows us how The Mother’s life intersected with Ted’s, and how close they came to almost meeting before the true first time.
Railroad Earth – Last of the Outlaws
[rating=8.00] Railroad Earth’s latest album, Last of the Outlaws, finds the sextet both exploring some new territory in the studio while at the same time giving their fans a healthy dose of what they have been used to since the band’s inception in 2001—tightly-crafted music that tells a story and seems to get better each […]
Dum Dum Girls – Too True
[rating=8.00] Written on both coasts between touring, Too True finds the Dum Dum Girls pushing off almost all their garage rocking ways and in turn trying on some shimmering 80’s pop for size; it sure fits well. Main songwriter Dee Dee Penny talked about an overall aesthetic (and a new guitar pedal) that links things […]
Widespread Panic, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Govt Mule Lead Inaugural Phases of the Moon Music + Art Festival
The inaugural Phases Of The Moon Music + Art Festival is set to take place September 11-14 at the beautiful 3000 acre Kennekuk Country Park just outside Danville, IL. Phases Of The Moon is proud to announce Phase I of artists scheduled to perform at the first annual event. Artists include: Widespread Panic (two nights), […]
Alice in Chains Announce 2014 Tour Headlining Tour
Alice in Chains have announced the first leg of their 2014 headlining tour of North America, set to kick off April 25th at the Brady Theatre in Tulsa (itinerary beow). It’ll be a busy year for the band, who are also playing a slew of international festivals, including Soundwave in Australia, the Singapore Rock Festival, […]
Legendary Folk Singer/Activist.Pioneer Pete Seeger Dies at 94
Pete Seeger, a 20th-century troubadour who inspired and led a renaissance of folk music in the United States with his trademark five-string banjo and songs of love, peace, brotherhood, work and protest, died Monday night after being hospitalized in New York for six days. He was 94. His death was confirmed to the Associated Press […]
Modest Moust, Death Cab For Cutie, Jack Johnson Lead 2014 Boston Calling Festival
Boston Calling Music Festival announces its May 2014 lineup today; presale tickets will go on sale tomorrow, January 29, 2014. As in 2013, 2014’s lineup was curated by Aaron Dessner of The National in collaboration with Crash Line Productions and Bowery Boston. Boston Calling is produced by Crash Line Productions and is Boston’s first multi-day […]
Jack Johnson Announces Summer Shed Tour
Jack Johnson has announced a summer headline tour in support of his sixth studio album, From Here To Now To You. Support during the tour includes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (May 24- 31), Amos Lee (June 1 – June 7), Michael Kiwanuka (August 18 – September 1) and Brushfire labelmates, ALO (May 20-May 21) […]
‘Girls’ Breakdown: ‘Dead Inside’
This week’s episode deals with a variety of deaths, both literal and metaphorical.
Amy Stroup
Amy Stroup is the perfect example of Nashville being represented from not country music but the eclectic nature of a festival that is 60 or so miles south in I-24 – Bonnaroo. With shades of Lucindia Williams, Phantogram and Regina Spektor, Stroup’s solo debut Tunnel dabbles in tasteful tracks of perceptive lyrics, lush arrangements and […]
Riffing It Up With Jake E. Lee (INTERVIEW)
It’s a quiet night in mid-December and Jake E Lee has been talking a long time. You can hear it in his voice. The vocal chords are becoming just a little tired but the enthusiasm shows no sign of wavering. Jake E Lee is back and every guitar hero worshiper in the modern world is […]
Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Join Forces at The Both
Aimee Mann and Ted Leo have joined forces for a collaborative project they call The Both. The duo’s self-titled debut will be released April 15 via SuperEgo Records. Building on a friendship forged while they were on tour together last year, it was Leo’s solo sets that piqued Mann’s interest in getting on stage with […]
An Open-Letter to Arcade Fire About Their INXS Cover and Other Stuff
People still do these, right?
‘Community’ Breakdown: ‘Geothermal Escapism’
With Troy’s departure, ‘Community’ goes for broke with a school-wide lava game competition.
The Hold Steady Release New Track “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You”
The Hold Steady has released the first song, “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You,” from their new album Teeth Dreams, out March 25. Teeth Dreams is the New York band’s sixth album and first on its own Positive Jams imprint via new label Washington Square, itself a newly established imprint formed by Razor […]
Built To Spill, Deer Tick, Aaron Freeman, Marco Benevento Cover 80’s Bob Dylan
ATO Records is excited to announce the release of Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One on March 25. The brainchild of producers Jesse Lauter (Elvis Perkins, The Low Anthem) and Sean O’Brien (Dawes, PAPA), the mission of Bob Dylan In The 80s: Volume One is to shed new light on a large cache of […]