The String Cheese Incident Share Summer Tour Dates
The String Cheese Incident have unveiled their Summer 2024 tour which will kick off on June 8 in Beech Mountain, NC, before making their way to the mountain west for several shows including their annual three-night stand at Colorado’s iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Artist presale is Thursday, Mar 14, at 10am MT, followed by public on […]
The Children Talk In-Person Writing, Performance Spaces, and ‘A Sudden Craving’ (INTERVIEW)
The Children is an experimental project that combines the creative visions of members of Swans, Angels of Light, and Cop Shoot Cop, among others. They will be releasing their album A Sudden Craving via Erototox Decodings on 12” LP vinyl and digital download on March 8th, 2024. Born from the New York-based DIY scene, and […]
Charley Crockett Extends 2024 ‘$10 Cowboy Tour’ With Shows At Ryman & Red Rocks
Charley Crockett has announces new dates for his 2024 “$10 Cowboy Tour” – including many of the biggest headline shows of his career to date. As part of the additional 30 dates added to Crockett’s already robust 2024 tour schedule, shows announced are dates at some of the biggest and most revered venues around – […]
Slash Announces S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival Tour With Warren Haynes, Kingfish, Robert Randolph, Samantha Fish & More
Following the announcement of his highly anticipated sixth solo album Orgy of the Damned, due out May 17 on Gibson Records, the iconic, GRAMMY®-winning guitarist and songwriter SLASH, has confirmed a North American tour in celebration of the Blues this summer. SLASH’s newly announced S.E.R.P.E.N.T. festival, an anagram that stands for the following: Solidarity, Engagement, Restore, Peace, Equality N’ Tolerance The tour will kick off on July 5 in Bonner, Montana, and travel to Los Angeles, Denver, Cincinnati, Toronto, […]
Billy Strings Adds New Summer Tour Dates
Billy Strings will continue his headline tour through this summer including back-to-back nights at Inglewood, CA’s Kia Forum, Bridgeport, CT’s Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater, State College, PA’s Bryce Jordan Center, Worcester, MA’s DCU Center and Berkeley, CA’s Greek Theatre at U.C. Berkeley. Tickets for the new shows will be available for pre-sale starting tomorrow, March 13 at 10:00am local time with general on-sale […]
Happy 75th Birthday Bill Payne of Little Feat
VIDEO PREMIERE: Abigail Lapell Weaves in Lore and Superstition on Folk-noir Tune “Rattlesnake”
On her new album of love songs, Anniversary (due out May 10th via Outside Music), Abigail Lapell interrogates the romantic ideal of growing old together. “Anniversary” means literally “returning yearly,” and the album’s 11 songs track the revolving days, seasons and years to celebrate and complicate the notion of eternal love. Lapell drew inspiration from […]
Tuesday’s Gone: The Pogues & The Dubliners With Joe Strummer (Live 1987)
On Manic Monday we offered up an alternative Irish option to avoid the clichés of the season, but today’s edition of Tuesday’s Gone is kind of the antithesis of that idea. Indeed, this is definitely a very Irish song with a very Irish cast, but with one important caveat: it’s paying tribute to a legend […]
‘The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis’ Merge Punk, Jazz & Fearless Flavors (ALBUM REVIEW)
Though their first collaborative full album, saxophonist James Brandon Lewis teased us in 2023 when he teamed with the erstwhile trio with punk roots, , on the last track, “Fear Not,” on his rock/punk-infused trio 2023 Eye of the I. That followed an invitation to sit in with the trio at NYC’s 2019 Winter Jazzfest. […]
Adrian Sutherland Celebrates Indigenous Roots With Warm ‘Precious Diamonds’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Roots rocker Adrian Sutherland from Canada’s Far North, and specifically the Attawapiskat First Nation on James Bay, brings us his singular sound on Precious Diamonds, a collaboration with Colin Linden, who not only produces but splashes his multi-instrumental talents all over the album. From the opening notes of “Notawe (Father),” one of two songs sung […]