This weekend, the inaugural Great GoogaMooga Festival will transform Brooklyn, NY’s Prospect Park into a music and food paradise with over 75 food vendors, 35 brewers, 30 winemakers and 20 live music performances. Pairing a wide array of food, drink and musical activit...

Rosanne Cash, John Oates, Jim Lauderdale and John Leventhal will perform at the Americana Summer Celebration at Blackberry Farm [...]

On May 19 and 20 in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Superfly Presents will stage the first annual The Great Googa Mooga , an event bringing together approximately 75 food vendors, 35 brewers, 30 winemakers and 20 live music performances. While the food vendors, brewers and winemakers were previously announced, today Superfly unveiled the 20 acts set to perform at the festival’s two stages. Headlining the action will be The Roots, Holy Ghost! and Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Saturday, while John Oates">Daryl Hall & John Oates along with Fitz & The Tantrums are a top Sunday’s bill. We’re also ...

Celebrities including Janet Jackson, the Jonas Brothers, Diana Ross, Fergie of the Black-Eyed Peas, Clive Davis, Ryan Seacrest ("American Idol"), Berry Gordy, Barry Manilow, Smokey Robinson, Suzanne Somers, Kenny Rogers, Tony Orlando, Quincy Jones, "X-Factor" judge LA Reid, John Oates of Hall & Oates, Connie Francis, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Joan Rivers, Three Dog Night, Pat Boone, Larry King, Mario Lopez, Snoop Dogg, Katie Couric, Ann Wilson of Heart, Marlee Matlin, Gloria Estefan, Lisa Ling and President Barack Obama were among those to send out public condolences on the passing of "American Bandstand" icon Dick Clark. http://www.hitfix.com

Rock, blues, crazy solo Kiss weirdness, even heavier stuff, some smoking jazz, it’s all there for you this week — topped by new music offerings from Bonnie Raitt, Curtis Salgado, Darius Jones, Jeff Loomis, Kenny Garrett and OHMphrey. As for notable reissues and smoking live dates, dig into Ace Frehley (get into the New York groove!), Alice Cooper, John Oates, [...]

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Among the acts flying high in the Rockies were Sam Bush, The Blue Sky Riders and Angel Snow [...] [Subscriber-only] Login / Subscribe

Last night at the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, CO, Yonder Mountain String Band’s Adam Aijala (guitar) and Ben Kaufmann (bass) performed as part of the Aspen Songwriter’s Festival. During the encore the duo were joined by Sam Bush on “Night Out,” followed by an...

One of them had a hit album in 1980 called Voices. The other is a judge on NBC’s The Voice. Now, Daryl Hall and Cee Lo Green have joined voices. Green stopped by for filming of the latest edition of Hall’s compulsively watchable live web series “Live at Daryl’s House,” filling in for Hall’s long-time singing partner John Oates on [...]

One half of Hall & Oates played Dublin on Pancake Tuesday.

Famed artist and writer John Oates brings a bit of Nashville to his hometown [...] [Subscriber-only] Login / Subscribe

Bush & Oates Sam Bush, Yonder Mountain String Band’s Adam Aijala and Ben Kaufmann, Marc Broussard, Bob Schneider, Vertical Horizon’s Matt Scannell and The Blue Sky Riders featuring Kenny Loggins are among the acts slated to appear at The Third 7908 Aspen Songwriters Festival....

Prog-jammers Umphrey’s McGee’s first tour of 2012 reached the Midwest this weekend for performances at the LC Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio on Friday and at The Fillmore in Detroit last night. At each show the band unveiled a new classic rock cover that they had never played before – the Blue Oyster Cult 1981 hit Burnin’ For You in Columbus and the fitting Detroit Rock City by KISS in Motown. [via Justin Wendt of Oh Kee Pah Blog ] Friday night’s performance also featured the first UM version of Red by King Crimson since October 8, 2009. Umphrey’s ...

For better or for worse, I recall Hall & Oates as one of the most quintessentially 80s bands out there. They had everything of that decade’s excesses going for them: copious amounts of synth and keyboard flourishes, percussion that could have come out of a drum machine, grainy, cheesy music videos… and, of course, the undisputed magnificence [...]

When Hall & Oates were cranking out blue-eyed soul hits in the ‘70s and ‘80s, few would gave guessed that thirty years later guitarist/singer John Oates would have a second life on the jamband circuit. But thanks to a chance collaboration with moe. and a newfound frie...