Archive: 2016

The fourth annual Shaky Knees festival returns in 2016 with a stellar lineup including Florence + The Machine, My Moring Jacket, Jane’s Addiction (performing Ritual de lo Habitual), At The Drive-In, The 1975, Deftones, The Decemberists and Walk the Moon. This year’s festival delivers a diverse lineup with performances from Huey Lewis and the News (performing Sports […]

If you’ve ever watched a performance by Rival Sons, your first impression of singer Jay Buchanan is that he is serious, mysterious, almost shamanistic in the way he seems to put every drop of emotion into the conveyance of the song he is singing. His body will twist in turmoil, sweat pouring off of him, […]

Having seen Gregg Allman play many times over the years with his solo band, there was something very noticeable about their performance recently in Baton Rouge: the total connectivity of the players to music that has been around long before any of them were a part of the group. These songs – which make up […]

Say what? In news that is almost indigestible before the start of the Monday week, we have learned that icon David Bowie has died at age 69.  It was just last Friday Bowie turned 69 and released his latest album *Blackstar. Bowie was battling cancer in secret for the last 18 months and was able to just make […]

Carnegie Hall has revealed plans for a David Bowie tribute concert scheduled for March 31st. The Roots, The Mountain Goats, Cyndi Lauper, Perry Farrell, Jakob Dylan, and Heart’s Ann Wilson are some of the artists who will honor Bowie at the event. Longtime Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti will coordinate the house band and tickets go on sale Monday […]

Pickup line of the night: “So how long have you been a Jedi?” Sometimes when you get too much sun, you pass out early. On Jam Cruise, when you finally come to about a quarter past midnight, things are just getting into full swing. After a day on the beaches of Cozumel, Mexico, the MSC […]

Covers sell: After a day on dry land in Costa Maya, Mexico, we once again set sail as the Infamous Stringdusters served their Pool Deck crowd a hearty serving of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by The Band. Later that evening, under a star-filled sky, Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath invited both Skerik and […]

The lineup for the 2016 Governors Ball, has been announced. Set to take place on New York City’s Randalls Island from June 3-June 5, the three-day event will be headlined by the Killers, Kanye West, and the Strokes (the latter two of which have headlined GovBall within the past three years). Additional acts set to perform include Beck, Gary […]

2:18AM EST – Black and White Lounge, MSC Divina: The drums are getting tuned up, the bass levels seem to be feedback free and things in the Jam Room are about to kick off. There’s no scheduled end time but it’d be surprising if the house lights came back on any time before sunrise. What […]

(editors note- David Bowie passed away at age 69 on 1/10/16 just days following the publication of this list) David Bowie has always epitomized what it means to be a true musical chameleon. Some artists evolve. Bowie transforms. From his beginnings in the late ‘60s as a fair-haired folkie to his drag queen persona, on […]

You could call The Revenant stunning, but that would only scratch the surface.

It’s quite possible we’ve already seen the worst movie of 2016.

Mavis Staples is an alchemist of American music, and has continuously crossed genre lines like no musician since Ray Charles. Weaving herself into the very fabric of gospel, soul, folk, pop, R&B, blues, rock, and even hip hop over the better part of the last 60 years, the iconic singer has seen and sung through so […]

Tool kicked off their 2016 tour last night in San Francisco. We take a look at the set list to see if there were any surprises and learn what we might expect in the coming days.

Rocky waters ahead? Before embarking on the MSC Divina for Jam Cruise 14, a few updates to the event had many-a-Cruiser a little less optimistic about the trip to come. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the cruise line itself unilaterally ruled against our coveted port stop at Belize City in place of Costa Maya, Mexico (last […]

It’s been awhile since we last heard from Yeasayer, 2012 t be exact when they released Fragrant World. The band teased their return just before Christmas with “Amen & Goodbye”, a 24-second trailer and now the band has revealed that  their fourth album Amen + Goodbye is due April 1st via Mute. Today the band premiered […]

White Denim has announced that their new album Stiff will be out on March 25th. Listen to the first track, “Holda You (I’m Psycho)” below which premiered at NPR and judging from the sound of the track, the band is taking a classic rock turn on their sound.  Stiff is the follow up to 2013’s Corsicana Lemonade, which […]

Harvest Thieves have only been around since 2013, yet one listen to their debut studio album Rival and you’ll think you’re hearing a band of seasoned pros who have been making music together for years. Frontman Cory Reinisch writes fleshed out lyrics chronicling the kind of whiskey-filled Texas nights that lead to bad decisions, broken hearts, […]