We’ve been counting down the days until this year’s Newport Folk Festival , since the lineup was announced back in the beginning of March. With the fest essentially extending to three days this year, thanks in part to Wilco’s Friday night show, and music ending on the early side for music festival standards, it’s no surprise that there have been a handful of “late-night” options announced for those headed Newport. Much like they did last year, local heroes  Deer Tick  will again take up residency at the  Newport Blues Cafe , where they will curate three Newport Folk ...

Indie record label Yep Roc is celebrating its 15th birthday with three nights of concerts

Yep Roc Reocrds has announced that it will be celebrating its 15th anniversary with Yep Roc 15, a three-night concert in North Carolina, where the artist-driven label has called home since it was founded in 1997. The event will take place October 11-13 at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C., and will feature performances by Yep Roc artists such as Nick Lowe, Chuck Prophet, Robyn Hitchcock, Fountains of Wayne and others....

Indie record label Yep Roc is celebrating its 15th birthday with three nights of concerts

It started out as simple way to honor the life and music of Bob Dylan , by Rolling Stone editor Austin Scaggs at his favorite local East Village bar, but over the course of a decade Dylan Fest has become an annual raucous event that’s a must attend for any Zimmy fan. Now in its tenth year, the two-night event will celebrate Mr. Dylan’s 71st birthday on May 24 (his actual birthday) and 25 at New York’s Irving Plaza, with another impressive roster of musicians that includes Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith (Dawes), Matt Vasquez (Delta Spirit), Nicole Atkins ...

The power-pop group returns to the show to perform favorites and new songs from Sky Full of Holes .

The song selection was delectable, the offbeat sense of humor seemed to be fully intact and overall, it was just nice to have Fountains of Wayne back in Cleveland. I thought it was 2009...but no, it was 2007 that was the year of my last Fountains of Wayne encounter. There were two great encounters that [...]

Bananas is shooting his cemetery guns off to @fountainsofwayn Fountains of Wayne - Cemetery Guns Richard Branson likes their latest album Sky Full of Holes, you should too . For more info, click here .

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012 MATES OF STATE @ SOUND FIX 44 Berry St Brooklyn, NY 11211 FREE, 7:30PM A free show from Mates of State on Record Store Day? Oh, THIS is going to be crowded! Mice Parade @ Littlefield Mates of State @ Sound Fix Every Time I Die @ Maxwell's Via Audio @ Rockwood Music Hall Chilly Gonzalez @ Le Poisson Rouge The Greyboy Allstars @ Brooklyn Bowl The Snow & Lucinda Black Bear @ 92YTribeca Mike Doughty & Bobby Bare Jr. @ City Winery EULA, Grandfather, & The Barrens @ Fontana's Fountains of Wayne & James Iha @ Irving Plaza Terry Malts, The Suzan, & Mainland @ Glasslands Lustmord ...

Whilst the streets of EC1 may be lined with windowlickers gazing through to luminously televised football pitches, the doors of The City Arts & Music Project remain slammed shut, bolted down by electromagnets. It's a late kickoff on this side of the street and a damp wait while scuzzy Stoke Newington four-piece Fanzine "just do a verse." As per it's ludicrously warm within thus the globules and droplets of lukewarm rain soon slide from sodden facial bristle and flung out early to push both tempo and temperature is opener I Wanna Touch Your Hand. A hunk of fuzzy euphoria equally suited to this subterraneous cavern as it would seemingly be to excessively vast stadia, it's a heartwarming introduction to a show that is – albeit subtly – rather revitalising. That's not to say that Fanzine are ploughing furrows unblemished by the mechanised hand of the human; far from it. Their sonic aesthetic recalls Yuck and before them Weezer and before them Mudhoney and somewhere in amongst all that, occasionally, Fountains of Wayne. In back-to-front baseball caps, beanies and smoky lumberjack threads the imagery conjured is as infused with a glamorised Americanisation as the songs themselves although when they're as irresistibly engaging as Roman Holiday is in this swanky(ish) cesspit the Hooters tees merely serve to convincingly augment the unabashedly transatlantic vibes ...

If you want proof of what Jason Falkner has brought to other people's records, listen to his own songs Someday, someone will bring together all the many strands of Jason Falkner 's career. He's one of rock's great enablers, as producer, writer, arranger – and with some of the undoubted but more marginal talents in music he has been the catalyst for their best work. Take Eric Matthews , whose chamber pop debut It's Heavy in Here was made with Falkner in 1995, or Brendan Benson , whose Lapalco album made him the toast of the music press in ...

This is the second and third in a series of observations about the kind of odd and random relationship glimpses one can get over just a single weekend hanging out in The French Quarter. Like snowflakes, these particular encounters are unique, yet the snowflakes manage to fall just the same with every trip... (Encounter #1 is here .)  Encounter #2: The Hand In The Bar I've Got a Flair - Fountains of Wayne (mp3) One of our obligatory activities in New Orleans is to play a stupid golf game called Golden Tee while watching basketball in my favorite sports-themed bar. As ...

New York-based S-Curve Records and Warner Music U.K. have teamed up in a comprehensive multi-rights partnership. Effective immediately, the deal will see Warner Music U.K. license S-Curve’s future repertoire for all international territories, excluding North America. S-Curve's roster includes Stone">Joss Stone, Betty Wright, Duran Duran, We The Kings, Andy Grammer, Fire">Care Bears On Fire and Fountains of Wayne.

After looking back at Seasons 2, 3, and 4 of Scrubs , a few things stick out to me. One is how I always wanted to hit a golf ball off the roof of a building (Season 2, Episode 16). The other is the relationship between important life changes and music. Life-altering events are often accompanied by certain songs, and Scrubs producer Bill Lawrence is well aware of this fact. As we watched J.D., Turk, and Elliot grow up a little bit as doctors (don’t worry, immaturity still runs rampant), tender moments are highlighted with some great music. The ...

DOWNLOAD : The Hounds Below - "For You and I" The Hounds Below EP by The Hounds Below The Hounds Below have announced multiple performances at next week’s SXSW (South By Southwest Festival) in Austin, TX. Made up of Midwestern music notables, the band includes Jason Stollsteimer (who launched his former band The Von Bondies to global recognition) as well as Jesse Shepherd-Bates (bass), Griffin Bastian (drums) and Skye Thrasher (guitar). The Hounds Below are also announcing U.S. dates as main support for The Cribs (dates below). The U.S. dates will be immediately followed with a month long headlining ...