Archive: 2014

Free from the expectations and boundaries of the bands that constitute their “day jobs,” the members of Trigger Hippy seemed quite at ease during their Boston performance.   The music and laid-back vibe more closely resembled a casual encounter at a rehearsal space than a rehearsed concert production. Taking the stage to a recorded children’s chorus […]

This captivating musical force owes as much to progressive rock as it does The Zombies and Brian Wilson.

This week’s Community is the classic bottle episode of the season.

On this week’s America’s Next Supreme, Queenie returns to put her name back on the ballot. It’s another solid outing with many great small moments.

They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, and in the case of the New Jersey’s Railroad Earth that distance can be measured in time. It’s been three years since the group’s last studio release, but during that time the band has only grown as they’ve become a major touring act known for their unpredictably […]

Phantogram is going to be releasing their sophomore full length Voices on February 18th via Universal Republic. The first single “Fall In Love” just hit #1 on the Spotify Viral Chart and the second track “Nothing But Trouble” retains much of their glitchy electronics with a fresh aggressiveness. 

The 10th annual Mountain Jam Festival will take place this year at the Hunter Mountain ski resort in Hunter, N.Y., from June 5-8. The initial lineup for the fest has just been revealed. An additional major headliner is reportedly still to be announced. Although the dates and times have not yet been announced, top acts […]

Founders Entertainment has announced the lineup for the 2014 Governors Ball Music Festival, unveiled early this morning with a full page ad in the New York Times.  This years festival will be headlined by OutKast, Jack White, Vampire Weekend and Skrillex. Held Friday, June 6th through Sunday, June 8th in Randall’s Island Park, the 4th […]

‘Darlings,’ his second solo LP, is out March 18th on Arts & Crafts.

After a month-long break, the danger in ‘Sleepy Hollow’ is still ever-present. Yet much of the energy feels lost after so many weeks without our team of Apocalypse fighters.

There have been numerous tributes to the late Jerry Garcia since his death in 1995, but none such as an accurate reflection of the man’s own uniquely Zen approach to life and art. If the tongue-in-cheek opening interval is slightly disconcerting-showing actor Luke Wilson asking directions to the site of the filming at Bob Weir’s […]

Hangout Music Festival organizers have announced the lineup for the fifth annual Hangout Music Fest, featuring The Black Keys, The Killers, Outkast, Jack Johnson, Queens of the Stone Age, Pretty Lights, The Avett Brothers, Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips on the beaches of Gulf Shores, AL on May 16-18, 2014. Also included in the […]

The lineup for the 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest has been revealed and include Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish,  Arcade Fire, and Vampire Weekend. Here’s a look a the full lineup for this year’s event: Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Christina Aguilera, Phish, Arcade […]

This week’s slap-bet installment is a convoluted tale that stalls the forward momentum of the show. But at least it’s entertaining.

This episode, a sort-of tongue-in-cheek half-nod to the road trip as plot device, is loaded with even more signs of how much Hannah and Adam have grown as a couple

For the first time, the full catalog from the original Black Sabbath lineup is now available digitally in the U.S. and has been mastered specifically for iTunes, ensuring the delivery of the music to listeners with increased audio fidelity, more closely replicating what the artists, recording engineers, and producers intended.  Available exclusively on the iTunes […]

Once again the Dave Matthews Band will be touring summer sheds, but the group’s 2014 North American summer tour may be its most surprising yet. “A Very Special Evening with Dave Matthews Band” will feature the group delivering two sets per evening, performing songs from throughout its career. Dave Matthews Band will wind through numerous […]

[rating=6.00] Fun fact: Stephen Malkmus has now released one more album (six total) with his band the Jicks, than he recorded in the entirety of his tenure fronting alt-rock legends, Pavement. For us ‘90’s nostalgics now settling into a more steady and sedate form of adulthood, this only serves to reinforce how fast the time […]

Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what’s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds like the best kind of fucked […]