A simple piece of downtown real estate caused City Tavern owner and Homegrown Fest organizer Josh Florence to have an epiphany back in January 2010, when he was trying to think of a way to get local bands in front of a bigger audience. "As soon as I saw Main Street Garden Park completed, ...

Black Joe Lewis, Hayes Carll, Ben Kweller, Eisley, Centro-matic, Octopus Project, Robert Ellis, Mystery Skulls, Bright Light Social Hour, Ume, Mohicans, Girl in a Coma, Low Dark Hills, the Bird Dogs and Madisons hit downtown and represent Austin, Houston and Dallas. See this week's music feature ...

Brussels DJ duo Onda Sonora have their own radio show on FM Brussels , frequently collaborate with On-Point, Laid Back and Eckelwood and also compile the 22tracks Future Beats list.

This Memorial Day weekend you’ll find me in a yurt on the grounds of Black Forest’s 400 wooded acres at the La Foret conference center (the historic summer home of local philanthropist Alice Bemis Taylor) for the fourth annual homegrown Meadowgrass Festival, just north of Colorado Springs. I’ve never been to this fest before, but [...]

Guy Clark Homegrown Tomatoes [ purchase ] Where we live, Mother's Day weekend generally marks the first safe weekend for planting vegetables. Tomatoes are our cash crop. We are a Best Boy family, though we always try to mix in a couple other hybrids. Not being particularly sophisticated growers, we choose the additional plants based on how closely their names correspond to our own personal aspirations: Valiant. Celebrity. Jet Star. Early Girl. Beefy Boy. Globemaster! We may not get there, but maybe our tomatoes will. Invariably, sometime during our weekend of planting, we play Guy Clark's "Homegrown Tomatoes." We hope ...

Los Angeles' very own The Belle Brigade will perform a very special show this week, presented by American Express, at the Clive Davis Theatre for the Grammy Museum series "Homegrown" on Wednesday, May 16 at 7:30 PM. Along with the performance, The Belle Brigade will also engage in discussion with

Los Angeles' very own The Belle Brigade will perform a very special show this week, presented by American Express, at the Clive Davis Theatre for the Grammy Museum series "Homegrown" on Wednesday, May 16 at 7:30 PM. Along with the performance, The Belle Brigade will also engage in discussion with

As London warms up for a memorable 2012, homegrown production duo Disclosure look set to drop the soundtrack of the summer. The Face EP is the latest offering from brothers Guy + Howard Lawrence... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.

Camden Crawl has become something of an institution across the water since first appearing in the mid ’90s. It prides itself on giving an equal footing to both established and emerging acts and for the first time Camden Crawl is coming to Dublin. The line-up is mightily impressive, continuing it’s mantra, it has a nice mix of homegrown and [...]

Triple J’s Hottest 100 is one of the most anticipated countdowns of each year. It tends to have something for everyone – representing the year in music. 2011’s Hottest 100 was, of course, no exception and features a variety of songs from a vast range of genres and artists/bands. The annual two disc CD release, Triple J’s Hottest 100 Vol. 19 is a 41 track compilation, featuring a selection of the songs that made the top 100 – and a stellar compilation at that. The variety of songs on these two discs is really commendable – you get a ...

There's a new webisode of Finnish live music video program Off the Record featuring homegrown act Black Twig: http://offtherecord.fi/black-twig/

Wilmington Delaware’s homegrown pop outfit has returned. After spending the last couple of years constructing, installing, and setting up a coffee pot in a new studio in their hometown, the Spinto Band has now offered up the fruit of their labors on their new label Spintonic Recordings. The fruit of all this is Shy Pursuit, [...]

“Goldie,” the first single off A$AP Rocky’s upcoming major label debut, LongLiveA$AP , sees the rapper bridging his homegrown, hometown rap with the richer production and nuanced posturing of the big leagues. The video embodies this transitive stage as well, as A$AP chills in his Harlem neighborhood with his posse — and then heads out to Paris and drives around town in a drop-top, flashing his Louboutin slippers.  Speaking of New York rappers in Paris, there are also plenty of dramatic closeups that seem straight out of Jay-Z’s “On to the Next One” clip: gold teeth, gleaming ...

[Homegrown, Kentucky-born hip-hop group, Audio Stepchild is gearing up for the release of their latest album, Every Coincidence Is Significant. Slated to his stores May 22, and currently available for pre-order, this eclectic group of musicians are here to tell you five reasons you need to cop this asap!]

Homegrown harsh noise collective The Amenta (pictured) have announced plans to release a digital EP later this month. The last Hell Awaits heard these guys were working on a full album to follow-up 2008’s n0n record, so this Chokehold is coming a bit out of left field. A welcome surprise however, the EP will feature several live tracks from last year’s VO1D tour, as well as a cover of the Godflesh classic Christbait Rising and two new songs from the band. In the Rave dungeon we’re big fans of Th ...