Archive: 2015

A multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit? A ‘Game of Thrones’-level brotherly betrayal? Shit’s getting serious with ‘Better Call Saul.’

After releasing one of 2014’s most brilliant rock records, Cymbals Eat Guitars are back on the road, playing a slew of nationwide dates with Say Anything, Modern Baseball, and Hard Girls for on the better tours this summer. The Staten Island band kicks things off with Say Anything on June 24th in Dallas and the […]

Fort Worth-based artist Leon Bridges has announced that his debut album Coming Home will be released via Columbia Records on June 23rd, 2015. Produced by Austin Jenkins and Josh Block of White Denim, and featuring Leon’s existing three tracks “Better Man”, “Coming Home” and “Lisa Sawyer”, Coming Home is Leon’s debut album and first full […]

On the heels of Monday’s night sold out show at Madison Square Garden, alt-J has announced additional dates to their 2015 North American Summer Tour as well as brand new dates for this fall. The band will play select festivals this summer such as Lollapalooza and Osheaga before kicking off their fall tour with select […]

Believe it or not, the Grateful Dead had a far-reaching influence that stretched way beyond their inner circle of improvisational minded bands.  Since playing their first shows 50 years ago the Dead have earned their place in the lexicon of culture as perhaps the quintessential American band. In light of their final shows, which take […]

[rating=7.00] AWOLNATION is officially now simply Aaron Bruno at this point. The pioneering mastermind nearly single-handedly crafted and recorded the entirety of Run, though he still has a core group of musicians adding their immediacy in the form of a solid rhythm section. Still, it ultimately feels as if it’s Bruno at the helm, more […]

When the McDowell Mountain Festival announces its lineup each December, it becomes a little bleep on the web pages of highly trafficked sites like Pitchfork , which bothers festival organizers very little. Instead a small local community embraces the unveiling – which is the closest thing Arizona has to a national non touring music festival […]

Blackberry Smoke touring in support of their fourth album, Holding All the Roses (which debuted at Number 1 on the top Country albums chart) was all smiles and swagger as they hit the stage in Boston; exuding not a cockiness but rather a quiet “we will never have to sleep in the van again” confidence. […]

Legendary folk singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is being treated in a Los Angeles hospital amid reports that she was found unconscious in her home. “Joni has been hospitalized,” read a message posted on her Facebook page shortly before 8 p.m. PT. “We are awaiting official word on her condition and will post it here as soon […]

Joining alongside bands like Wilco, who yesterday cancelled their May 7 performance in the Hoosier state, a handful of respected indie (pun intended?) music businesses, including the Secretly Group of labels, has decided to speak out against the controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which many believe will allow businesses to pursue discriminatory practices. In an open […]

[rating=6.00] “Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing” After an incredibly disappointing third installment, Community was back on track this week with “Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing”. With an almost intrusive look into the Dean’s sexuality, and a few sub stories centered on acceptance and hard work, Community has again slid into the groove that’s at once familiar and […]

[rating=7.00] Radium Death is William Elliott Whitmore’s eigth studio album and a departure of sorts for the Iowa based roots/folk musician. On his last offering 2011’s Field Songs, Whitmore went as sparse as possible using sometimes just his distinct voice to get his rustic yearning tunes across. Now the man with the dirt laden (in […]

The definitive Primus line-up – Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander – just reunited to release their first full-length studio set in nearly 20 years, ‘Primus & the Chocolate Factory,’ out now. And so as promised, Primus swiftly went out on the road the day after the album’s October 21st release. This […]

Chris Robinson Brotherhood has announced the release of Betty’s Blend’s, Volume Two: Best Of The West on June 2. Recorded and mixed live by the legendary Grateful Dead archivist Betty Cantor-Jackson, the nine-track collection features performances captured on The CRB’s 2014 summer tour throughout the western United States, including “Rosalee” from the Henry Miller Library […]

Since leaving The Steve Miller Band in 1968 Boz Scaggs has made a career of uniting an earthy rhythm and blues approach with smooth soulful crooning. Scaggs’ latest record, A Fool to Care, continues that approach with stylistic success comparable to 2013’s Memphis but with collaborations from the likes of Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams. […]

The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson are joining forces to co-headline The End Times tour. Kicking off July 7th in Concord, CA and wrapping up August 8th in Cincinnati, the tour will span 23 dates in support of Marilyn Manson’s The Pale Emperor and The Smashing Pumpkins Monuments To An Elegy. Tickets go on sale […]

After much anticipation, the band has announced that they will kick off their new 15-city North American stadium, ZIP CODE tour, in San Diego on May 24 at Petco Park. The tour will make stops in Columbus, Minneapolis, Dallas, Atlanta, Orlando, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Detroit and Buffalo before wrapping in Quebec […]

[rating=7.00] Characterized as a break-up album, Death Cab for Cutie’s latest, Kintsugi, follows in the footsteps of 2011’s Codes and Keys, a mostly forgettable record from a band that specializes in memorabilia. Death Cab’s signature songs are like little memory time capsules that explode vividly in your ears as you listen to them. Front man […]

[rating=10.00] Of all the many ventures of Sufjan Stevens, it seems he’s rarely faced inward toward himself. 2003’s Michigan and 2005’s Illinois were deeply intelligent, beautiful, wacko records, but mainly historical works. And 2010’s The Age of Adz was somewhat forgettable, another thematic (and very experimental) piece of work. His latest is on the complete […]