Archive: 2020

Sub Pop has signed Man Man to a worldwide deal and will release Dream Hunting in the Valley of the In-Between on CD/2xLP/CS/DL worldwide on May 1st, 2020. You can now watch the new lyric video for “Cloud Nein,” the album’s ebullient first offering, which is available now at all DSPs. Honus Honus, who directed […]

RJD2 has announced his return with new album, The Fun Ones, out April 17th on RJ’s Electrical Connections, alongside lead single, “Pull Up On Love,” and its accompanying video. His first album since 2016’s Dame Fortune, The Fun Ones is the seventh solo album in the constantly expanding RJD2 catalog. Assembled as a mixtape using […]

As the summer season in the world-famous mountain town of Telluride, Colorado begins to approach, the Telluride Jazz Festival reveals its 2020 artist lineup. Set on August 7-9, 2020, the festival presents a well-rounded, diverse mix of live jazz, funk, rock, soul, and gospel performances featuring The Beach Boys, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Bamako To […]

Legendary brother duo Sparks — Ron and Russell Mael — lift the lid on their new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, (due 5/15) with the release of “Self-Effacing” in which the evergreen masters of the musical vignette show no loss of appetite for their singular sonic adventures. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip will be available on multiple formats including […]

The Pitchfork Music Festival will celebrate its 15th anniversary this summer, Friday, July 17 through Sunday, July 19, at Chicago’s Union Park. Today, the Festival announces the full 2020 lineup, including headliners Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Run The Jewels, and The National. Leading up to the Festival weekend, there will be a week of special 15th Anniversary Events commemorating 15 years of the Pitchfork Music […]

In an age when independence is idolized and every person seems to be seeking their own lone wolf career path, Seattle-based roots band Western Centuries believe that the way forward is better together. Collaboration, inspiration and mutual admiration are what Cahalen Morrison, Ethan Lawton, and Jim Miller cite as the heart of their project. Western […]

Railbird Festival, the Lexington-based, world-class music festival produced by AC Entertainment and Lexington entrepreneur David Helmers, is proud to present its 2020 lineup. Grammy Award-winning artists topping the weekend’s bill include Americana standout Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit and singer-songwriter Maren Morris. The festival will return to the Grounds at Keeneland, August 22-23, 2020. Additional acts […]

The remarkable story of Sweet Lizzy Project’s debut, Technicolor, is unlike almost any other. Building a strong following in their native Havana, the Cubans did so with scant resources and limits on their freedom. The filming of Havana Time Machine that ran as a PBS special featuring them, traditional Cuban artists, and The Mavericks, led […]

For almost a decade, Agnes Obel has been one of the most independent and original artists in contemporary music. Now she has returned with her fourth album, Myopia. Following the same principles as with her previous albums (Philharmonics, Aventine and Citizen Of Glass), which she completed as a one-woman project in her own Berlin home studio, Obel has been under self-imposed […]

The opening sequence for Do U Want It? is a ready-made thesis: percussion and ambient swells set to a panoramic city skyline on the opposing shore of the Mississippi River. Braids of stratocumulus purl through the twilight as an American flag agitates in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. Then, cut to a pile […]

It’s been almost five years since Riley B. King passed away in May of 2015.  Be it his diabetes awareness ads or his early endorsement of Sirius satellite radio, B.B. always seemed to be the perfect ambassador for almost anything.  However, he truly was the last living of the great bluesmen, a title he has […]

ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) brought their Tour D’Amour winter run to the famed Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles on February 15, 2020. The Brothers Comatose lead singer and guitarist Ben Morrison opened the show in support of his new solo album Old Technology. The two bands delighted a packed house with up-tempo tunes, impressive harmonies […]

Ariel Pink announces the second installment of Ariel Archives, a new comprehensive series of reissues and retrospective collections concentrating on the treasure trove of material recorded and released by Ariel Pink as Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. The second cycle of the series is comprised of the albums The Doldrums, Worn Copy and House Arrest, out April 24 on Mexican Summer. The Doldrums and House Arrest will be presented on double LPs […]

Today Cass McCombs has announced a co-headlining North American spring tour with Steve Gunn. Both artists will tour with full bands on a run of West Coast dates that include San Francisco, Portland and two nights in Los Angeles. Called “his most immersing and casually skillful collection of songs to date” by Vanity Fair, Cass McCombs released his […]

The National have announced North American dates to their already extensive 2020 tour. Kicking off at Shelburne, Vermont’s The Green at Shelburne Museum on July 15th, the tour will include openers Lucy Dacus, Julia Jacklin and Sharon Van Etten. Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 21st, at 10:00AM local time, except Shelburne, VT, at […]

The Foo Fighters are celebrating 25 years. What better way to celebrate than joining the band in commemorating its silver anniversary in some of the same cities where the first FF shows took place in 1995? Beginning April 12 at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix AZ, the Foo Fighters’ 2020 Van Tour will […]

Today, Bright Eyes have shared details of a forthcoming world tour, with an extensive run across North America. Full list of dates below. Tickets on-sale February 21st at 12:00 PM EST. After a nine year hiatus, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott re-grouped to record and tour in 2020. The beloved band, whose previous […]

Primus will pay homage to prog-rock legends Rush this summer with A Tribute to Kings, a cross-country tour that will feature the Bay Area trio playing Rush’s classic 1977 album A Farewell to Kings in its entirety, in addition to their own music. “A little over one year ago, Ler Lalonde and I started kicking the idea around of Primus performing […]

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds have announced a Fall 2020 North American tour. With the late 2019 release of his latest LP Ghosteen, Cave continues to up his artistry game and attracting new fans now in his fifth decade of performing. The band will perform 15 shows across USA and three shows in Canada. Tickets […]