Archive: 2016

Following their upcoming “March Madness” tour and three nights of headlining Electric Forest, The String Cheese Incident will celebrate Independence Day by kicking off their summer tour in Asheville, NC where they will play two “Independence Incidents” in Asheville and two in Atlanta, GA followed by dates in Cooperstown, NY, Columbia, MD and Portsmouth, VA.  SCI will return to Red Rocks Amphitheatre in July for three nights at the […]

Sub Pop will release Wolf Parade’s Apologies to the Queen Mary: Deluxe Edition, a reissue of the group’s acclaimed first album, worldwide on 3xLP/DL May 13th. The reissue features the original album, now as a double LP, along with the band’s pre-Sub Pop, self-titled EPs (released in 2003 and 2004), both of which are making […]

Photos of the 2016 Okeechobee Music Festival from Okeechobee, FL which featured Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & Sons, Ween, Miguel, Avett Brothers and a Late Night set featuring Win Butler and Miguel with special guests. Photos by Amy Harris

Brooklyn-based Lake Street Dive is on tour in support of their latest release, Side Pony. They swung by Portland, Oregon’s Crystal Ballroom on March 2nd  to deliver their breezy, soulful sounds to a sold-out crowd. Before Lake Street Dive took the stage, the audience at the Crystal Ballroom was given a proper warm up. Their […]

Your favorite music will not always be around. Sure, the crystallized moments of studio recordings will endure with all the pink of youth in their hue but the flesh and blood machines that make the music we love are prey to time and tide.  It’s a heavy thought and one that started pinging around in […]

Jon Langford is a busy guy. These days he splits his time between his career as an artist, playing shows with his legendary punk band the Mekons, and various solo endeavors. But in Langford’s world there is always time for the Waco Brothers, the country-punk band he helped form over 20 years ago. Though Langford […]

Since forming in the late 70’s, New Jersey band The Feelies have always belonged to an elite club in the rock world. For better or worse, this is the club of acts that, while hugely influential to other bands and adored by critics, somehow always eluded the mainstream and the financial success that comes with […]

Baroness return to North America this spring, confirming their first national tour since the release of the band’s critically acclaimed fourth album, Purple. Read our REVIEW. The tour, which includes stops at the Sasquatch, Project Pabst and Shaky Knees festivals, kicks off on April 29 at the Royale in Boston before wrapping up at the Fonda Theatre in […]

The Melvins, who have a history of imaginative line-up changes, feature not one, but six different bass players on their appropriately titled new album, Basses Loaded (June 3, Ipecac Recordings). The collection features Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover joined by Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Redd Kross’ Steve McDonald, Butthole Surfers’ J.D. Pinkus, Big Business’ Jared Warren,  Mr. […]