Archive: 2019

Some of rock’s most accomplished resumes will hit the road together next summer for a coheadlining tour to be held in America’s biggest stadiums.  THE STADIUM TOUR featuring DEF LEPPARD, MÖTLEY CRÜE, with POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS will hit select cities in the U.S. where each band will bring their electrifying stage […]

The Never-Ending Tour keeps rolling on for Bob Dylan who at 78 still delivers the goods as he did on a cold Tuesday Night (December 3rd) in front of a sold-out diverse crowd for the eighth show of his ten-night Beacon Theater residency.  Since the late 80’s Dylan and his band have revisited some of […]

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on the self-titled new album from The Slow Laters in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop): The Slow Laters by The Slow Laters

In October, Dan Snaith shared his first track as Caribou in five years – the warm and addictive “Home” – and announced a 13-date North American tour, with shows in Brooklyn and Toronto already sold out and more dates added.  Today, Snaith follows up that single with the announcement of a new Caribou album, Suddenly, to be released via Merge Records […]

Thundercat heads out on his biggest headline tour to date across North America in Spring 2020. The 26-date run is the longest he’s ever undertaken and includes Webster Hall in New York and the Wiltern in his hometown of Los Angeles. European tour dates will be announced later this month. For the uninitiated, Thundercat forms a cornerstone of […]

 Bob Weir and Wolf Bros have announced five nights at the iconic Sweetwater Music Hall this February, including a special Valentine’s Day show with ticket holders receiving a surprise gift at the venue. Purchase tickets HERE. The storied venue, which is located in downtown Mill Valley just north of San Francisco, opened in 1972 and has seen some of music’s biggest stars […]

Indie folk band The Head and the Heart and soul octet St. Paul & The Broken Bones will headline the 2020 Old Settler’s Music Festival. Friday night will also feature country music icon Tanya Tucker ahead of St. Paul & The Broken Bones.  Tucker’s latest album, While I’m Living, received four Grammy nominations last month […]

A box set of any kind is meant to be a thorough collection of songs. It’s hard to imagine a collection more thorough than Down in Jamaica: 40 Years of VP Records. This collection of reggae includes 94 songs and features 101 different artists ranging from Gregory Isaacs to Beenie Man. It not only takes […]

Over the course of the last decade, Fred Hersch has rightfully risen to prominence as one of the premiere jazz artists in the world. Not coincidentally, most of his activity has taken place in the company of his trio including bassist John Hebert and drummer Eric McPherson, so it only stands to reason the pianist/composer […]

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges are pleased to announce Texas Sun, their forthcoming collaborative EP out February 7th on Dead Oceans, in partnership with Columbia Records and Night Time Stories Ltd. In conjunction with today’s announcement, they present its title track. Over a slowly rolling backbeat and strums of flamenco-style guitar, Bridges sings of the pull the unique Texan […]

Today, Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot announce a 19-date headline tour across North America. Fronted by Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, the group will kick off their month-long trek on March 13th in Los Angeles. As vocal champions for women’s rights around the globe, Pussy Riot are proud to partner with PLUS1 throughout the duration of this tour so […]

Third Man Records is excited to announce Maggot Brain, a new, full-color quarterly edited by noted Detroit music scribe Mike McGonigal. The December/January/February issue is available now, and yearly four-issue subscriptions can be purchased HERE. The Premiere Dec/Jan/Feb issue features:  Alice Coltrane, Swell Maps, Malls Across America, Mia Zapata, Dilla’s ‘Donuts’, Luc Sante, Vibrant Detroit Sign Painting, Mayakovsky, Index, Big […]

M. Ward has revealed plans for his latest album, Migration Stories, to be released on April 3rd, 2020 via Anti Records. A full North American tour will follow in April and May – all dates below. The captivating first track, “Migration Of Souls,” is out now. For his tenth album, he journeyed to Quebec, Canada to work with Arcade Fire’s Tim […]

For the last 30 years, Greg Dulli, frontman of The Afghan Whigs and The Twilight Singers, has been the poet laureate of the bizarre whims and cruel tangents of desire. A foremost authority on the sell-your-soul rewards of carnal lust, the high voltage epiphanies of chemical enhancement, and the serotonin lows left in their wake. […]

Over the last four years, the band Telemonster has produced eight kids and one record. The record, titled Introspecter, Pt. 1, is their first in six years, and comes from this particular place in life – a place where you carry toddlers more than guitar cases; where you play hide ’n’ seek more than you play shows; where […]

Every year around this time we’re suddenly bombarded with the same old Christmas music everywhere we go. It almost seems like artists are scared to step out and try to make something entirely new, something that deviates from the same tired standards. Sure, nostalgia has its place (especially at Christmas), but why not give the […]

“If Joni Mitchell and Richie Havens had a love child, with Rodney Dangerfield as the midwife, the results might have been something close to the great Vance Gilbert.” As the above quote from Richmond magazine suggests, Vance Gilbert defies stereotypes. It’s little wonder then that he also exceeds expectations. In this case, those two qualities […]

After earning his living as a sideman in New York City for most of his twenties, Graham Norwood decided to leave music behind when he married a painter joking that, “it seemed like if we wanted to have any kind of a stable life with a house and kids someday, we couldn’t both be allergic […]