Archive: 2015

Early this morning Lollapalooza announced its 2015 lineup, which features heavy-hitting headliners like Paul McCartney and Metallica alongside other major acts like Florence + the Machine, Bassnectar and Tame Impala. There are also plenty of indie acts, and luckily not as many electronic/EDM acts as last year. Lollapalooza happens July 31 – August 2, 2015 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Check […]

[rating=8.00] The first Twin Shadow album, Forget, released in 2010, was a beautiful surprise. Pulsating and dreamy, awash with synths and drum machines, it drew instant comparisons to ‘80s New Wave and New Romantic influences, to which it clearly owed a debt. Twin Shadow, aka George Lewis, Jr., was obviously well-versed in ‘80s synth-pop, but […]

The Milk Carton Kids have announced the release of their new album Monterey as the record arrives May 19th and the title track premiered Tuesday and is streaming below. Monterey is The Milk Carton Kids’ third album and the follow-up to their 2013 breakthrough The Ash & Clay. The two years since have been significant […]

Photo: Low Cut Connie rocking out The annual music industry gathering has come and gone, but you can get a taste for the massive, eclectic volume of live music that went down throughout the five days in Austin with our photos from Arthur VanRooy and Maggie Boyd. Check out our daily recaps featuring our favorite […]

[rating=5.00] After a steady start in its Yahoo residency, this week’s Community fell short with “Basic Crisis Room Decorum.” Going nowhere tends to be a running theme in the series, but in this case the wacky antics and generally pleasing subplots were snuffed out by needless relationship building and character analysis. Two things that were […]

Van Halen will be touring North America beginning July 5 in Seattle, Washington at the White River Amphitheater, with concerts scheduled through October 2 in Los Angeles, California at the legendary Hollywood Bowl. Special guest Kenny Wayne Shepherd will support all dates along the tour. Tickets for the Live Nation-promoted tour go on sale beginning […]

After months of rumor and innuendo, Fox made an official announcement today that sent chills of excitement down the spines of nerds and fanboys across the land. The seminal 90’s TV show The X-Files is officially being brought back for a six episode television event. Production is set to begin this summer and while there’s […]

Rhett Miller has been playing in touring bands (most notably, The Old 97’s) for the better part of 20 years. This fact alone certainly qualifies him as someone allowed to title his latest solo album titled The Traveler, which will be released on May 12th. Although the album was written and performed by Miller he […]

The eighth annual Outside Lands Festival held annually in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park has announced its lineup for 2015. As with all the great Outside Lands lineups of the past seven years, the 2015 edition has a mixture of it all from legends like Elton John and D’Angelo, to current massive hit makers such […]

Cuba is ninety miles from Florida. Over eleven million people live on the island but for most Americans, it has always been a place off-limits since the first embargo was imposed back in the early 1960’s. But all that is about to change as the political environment starts to shift and we may now start […]

Influential and seminal jam band Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit will return to rattle the landscape this summer with a series of live performances – than band’s first since a much-talked-about 2011 reunion at the Georgia Theatre in Athens. With the daring, iconoclastic Hampton at the helm, the Aquarium Rescue Unit played […]

On March 21st at Brooklyn Bowl jazz-rock trio Soulive ceremoniously concluded its 6th annual Bowlive residency in stellar fashion with a little help from their friends. The brainchild of Bowl owner Peter Shapiro, Bowlive has evolved into a must-see event at the iconic flourishing venue. Soulive invites different special guests on each night and one […]

It’s a measure of their respective willingness to experiment that the shows Gov’t Mule perform with John Scofield can take on such totally distinct character. The initial night in Port Chester, New York might be seen as the great guitarist sitting in with The Mule, as the latter offered their inimitable blend of vintage originals, […]

In a lot of ways SXSW is like making a big meal for the whole family. Whether you’re a band, filmmaker, journalist, official SXSW staffer, or even just a fan of it all trying to make a plan, it feels like we spend months and months preparing for the weeklong event only to devour it […]

With Lee Daniels’ ‘Empire,’ you don’t watch for just the songs. You watch for the drama, the characters, and the camp.

[rating=8.00] Allison Moorer, one of the strongest voices in alt-country, returns for her eighth studio album and the first for eOne Nashville. Down to Believing is Moorer’s most provocative album since 2004’s The Duel and her most personal, with many of the tracks dealing with difficult family matters. The title track references the dissolution of […]

A concert is supposed to be experienced. It’s not supposed to be sit-listen-clap-repeat. Not at a rock concert, at least. It’s an on your feet until they go numb, fist shaking, lungs bursting from screaming and singing experience. It’s supposed to be a moment in time when the kids aren’t whining in your ear, the […]

Photo: The Residents get weird at The Paramount Anyone thinking that the final two days of SXSW would bring out massive crowds may have found some relief in the rain that stuck around for much of Friday, which seemed to scare off some of the throngs. However, the rain didn’t stop a myriad of acts […]

As the sun set in Austin, Texas last evening, another successful SXSW came to a close. The streets geared up for a final night of revelry before the boring nature of reality descended once more and we all woke up, hung over and exhausted from our week-and-a-half long bacchanal. While Neil Ferguson lurked the clubs […]