Archive: 2016

Dave Matthews Band will be celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with a summer tour.  The 2016 North American tour will launch on May 11th in Wichita, KS and include two-night stands in Camden NJ, Elkhorn WI, Gilford NH, Saratoga Springs NY, Noblesville IN, West Palm Beach FL and Berkeley CA. The tour will conclude […]

Gregg Allman has announced the return of the Laid Back Festival, a one-day event that was so successful in its first year that it’s now set to take place in five American cities throughout the summer of 2016. The events will be headlined and curated by the legendary Allman, alongside an all-star line-up soon to […]

As indicated by earlier festival dates and performances that have popped and gone on sale, Brian Wilson has now officially announced a world tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds – the 1966 landmark Beach Boys album largely considered among the greatest ever.  It opens March 26 in Auckland, New Zealand, before moving through Japan, […]

“This is the first time I’ve played alone, ever! And you’re the first to see it.” Prince used these words to address the limited number of ever so lucky fans in attendance at Paisley Park on January 21st for an event one might refer to as History/Herstory in the making. Two sets of “Piano – […]

[rating=6.00] Ty Segall is unstoppable. Releasing new music at an alarming rate, the young shredder has no shortage of things to say and noise to make. In fact, on the heels of his new record Emotional Mugger comes a new release from California quartet Audacity, produced by Segall. This is the norm for him, as his is […]

When Tyler Bryant released his first album with his newly-formed band the Shakedown, he “wanted to make a rock record for kids like me,” the then twenty-two year old Bryant explained in a 2013 interview with me shortly after Wild Child’s release. “I wanted to make a rock & roll record for my generation and […]

The existence of the sublimely secretive desert opus conceived by Iggy Pop and Joshua Homme was confirmed yesterday to an unsuspecting studio and home audience of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. And now the world at large can know: March 18 will see the release of Post Pop Depression (Rekords Rekords/Loma Vista/Caroline International), the 17th Iggy Pop album, and […]

A large crowd gathered at the historic Fonda Theater in LA, January 19th to hear Americana singer songwriter Josh Ritter. The 39 year old smiley fresh faced singer from Idaho has been recording his own songs for nearly twenty years, but is now reaching a wider audience on the strength of his new, more rock […]

City and Colour brought their winter tour to Austin, Texas on Friday, January 22nd for a show at Stubb’s BBQ. Local funksters Greyhounds opened the show. Photos by Maggie Boyd.  Edit this setlist | More City and Colour setlists

In a recent interview with this very publication, Mike Gordon described the term “jam band” – a term he will be forever linked to from as a member of Phish – as “horrible”. The bassist may have been referring more to implication of the term, which most associate with jolly, frolicking songs that seemingly never […]

All the technical marvels in the world couldn’t help Anomalisa be not boring.

Despite a mysterious difference of surnames, Page Burkum and Jack Torrey are indeed brothers. Together they are the Cactus Blossoms, an impressive duo partaking in the time honored tradition of the blood harmony made famous by groups like the Everly Brothers, the Delmore Brothers, Blue Sky Boys, and in a more contemporary yet less familial […]

[rating=7.00] Phoenix based dance rockers Harper and the Moths have got a plan and it has nothing to do with being confounding or bland – however that doesn’t mean there isn’t some crypticness to their sound. Like the popular French band (Phoenix) that shares the name of their home city, Harper and the Moths deliver […]

PJ Harvey has announced her long awaited follow up to 2011’s Mercury Prize winning Let England Shake. The new album is titled The Hope Six Demolition Project and will be released on April 15 on Island Records. Watch a new trailer for the album below. Directed by Seamus Murphy, it features the songs “The Community of Hope” […]

Ray LaMontagne is set to release his sixth studio album Ouroboros on March 4th via RCA Records.  Ouroboros was produced by Ray and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The album was written by LaMontagne and will feature first single, “Hey, No Pressure” (below)  Yesterday the single premiered on NPR’s All Songs Considered where they called the track an “inspired […]

Its been a couple years since At the Drive-In reunited in 2012, and no further shows or new music was recorded, instead Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler Zavala regrouped as Antemasqure. Now, At the Drive-In are back once again, but this time, they’re not just touring the world—they’re releasing new music, according to a teaser on the band’s […]

Mike Gordon is a busy guy these days. Phish just finished four sold out shows at Madison Square Garden as part of the band’s annual New Year’s run only to immediately follow it up with their first ever resort weekend of shows on the beach in Mexico. Now, just days after getting back to the […]

Rosie Carney is only 18 and even at such a young age this Irish singer-songwriter’s talent is undeniable. Her haunting, beautiful voice carries with it a feeling that is worldly and wise beyond her years. Gathering inspiration from the mesmerizing, rugged landscape of her home, Carney writes songs that are at once spare yet achingly […]