Archive: 2023

Cat Power has announced a wide-ranging headline tour that will see her celebrating her acclaimed new live album, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert , with complete performances of the 15-song concert around the world. North American dates get underway February 12, 2024 at Red Bank, NJ’s historic Count Basie Theater, and then continue through mid-March. Highlights include […]

Keyboardist and multi-faceted Marco Benevento has announced his new live album, Barn Burner: Live At Levon’s, will be released on March 29, 2024. The album was recorded in Woodstock, New York at Levon Helms Studios aka The Barn over the course of two sold-out shows in January of 2023. You can listen to three tracks […]

“They say they never really miss you ‘till you dead or you gone so on this note I’m leaving after this song” exclaims Jay-Z over the soaring strings of his classic The Black Album. Twenty years ago today Jay-Z announced his retirement with his eighth studio album, which was released on November 14, 2003. Obviously, […]

James Mastro – guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer-songwriter extraordinaire – has toured the world dozens of times over as a supportive musician with some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed rock and pop artists ever to grace a stage including Patti Smith, Ian Hunter, Judy Collins, John Cale, The Jayhawks, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, […]

Raised in the Hudson Valley and currently based in Brooklyn, Meir Levine blends his folk-rock nostalgia for the 1970’s with a modern indie sensibility. He recorded his upcoming EP with acclaimed engineer D. James Goodwin (The Hold Steady, Bonny Light Horseman, Bob Weir, Kevin Morby, Watchhouse), with producer Andrew Freedman (Henry Jamison, Michael Mayo), and […]

Heavy metal titans Metallica brought their M72 World Tour to Detroit for two shows at Ford Field, promising a “no repeat weekend” with two fully distinct setlists. (It was also the band’s first time playing the Motor City proper in over six years, having played Comerica Park last in the summer of 2017.) The thousands […]

Following up on the immense success of their 2022 debut and the long tours that came after, the supergroup The Smile has announced a new album. Wall of Eyes is set to be released on January 26 via XL Recordings and its title track has arrived with the news. The new song is accompanied by […]

Jon Batiste today announced his Uneasy Tour: Purifying The Airwaves For The People in support of his newly Grammy-nominated album World Music Radio, out now via Verve Records/Interscope Records. Batiste’s first-ever headlining tour will kick off February 16 at the Schnitzer in Portland, OR, and visit intimate theaters across North America and Canada, including stops at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle, WA; The […]

Smith and Tegio is the musical project of long-time friends and songwriting partners, Austin Smith and Mark Tegio. Austin and Mark met through a mutual friend in their late teens in San Diego, CA. By introducing each other to singer-songwriters such as Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, and Tom Waits, among many others, they laid […]

Sara Trunzo is a Maine-based independent singer-songwriter, community organizer (co-founder of Veggies For All and Waldo County Bounty), and creator and host of “Country & Northeastern” on WERU Community Radio. With a powerful voice evoking deep emotional feelings, Trunzo brings us her vulnerable and spirited track “Taking My Power Back”. Built on rich electric guitar tone and creative percussive elements, Trunzo […]