Ticket Giveaway! We’ve got a pair of tickets for you and your hot date to go to The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival January 28th with a lineup that has 15 (15!) bands playing all day long, including Drive By Truckers, Joe Pug, Van Ghost, and personal fave- Dawes! For those of you who think that Chicago summers are useful for one thing and one thing only (music festivals), this is a DON’T MISS event. Music festival in the winter? Genius. We went last year and had the best time watching (among fabulous others) Grace Potter and Edward Sharpe ...

Ticket Giveaway! We’ve got a pair of tickets for you and your hot date to go to The Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival January 28th with a lineup that has 15 (15!) bands playing all day long, including Drive By Truckers, Joe Pug, Van Ghost, and personal fave- Dawes! For those of you who think that Chicago summers are useful for one thing and one thing only (music festivals), this is a DON’T MISS event. Music festival in the winter? Genius. We went last year and had the best time watching (among fabulous others) Grace Potter and Edward Sharpe ...

2011 could very easily be hailed as the year of 'indie-overground' take over. With artists such as Bon Iver, Lana Del Rey, Adele, Foster the People, The Decembrists, My Morning Jacket, Cults, and James Blake gracing top spots on many a best of list, it is clear there is a seismic shift occurring amongst the indie-music zeitgeist. Let me preface my next comment by clearly stating that all of the aforementioned artists are truly talented and could have very well made the best records of 2011. However, the ease at which popularity befell this group of artists is not to ...

Where will you be on December 31, 2011? If the answer is "in front of a television set with a bag of Funyans" you have a few options: • Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve will return with host Ryan Seacrest live from New York's Times Square (and Fergie live from somewhere in Los Angeles). The show features Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Florence + the Machine, Blink-182, Justin Bieber, LMFAO, Pitbull, Will.i.am, OneRepublic, Taio Cruz, Gym Glass Heroes, the Band Perry, and Hot Chelle Rae. When/Where: 10 p.m. on ABC • Carson Daly will also be ...

Athens, Geogia kom for alvor på det musikalske landkort i firserne og halvfemserne. Selv om der havde været tilløb til det, var det omkring 1980, at rockscenen i Athens blev kendt uden for lokalområdets grænser med navne som R.E.M. og B-52s. Siden er en lang række navne kommet til. Pylon, Vic Chesnut, Drive by Truckers [...]

[ Last Update : December 9] “I hate New Year’s Eve, it’s always so anticlimactic.” – Friends of yours that don’t see live music every year. Perhaps you’ve already got a show picked out for New Year’s Eve 2011-2012. Maybe you lucked out and it’s local or maybe you’re traveling 3,000 miles or even crossing an ocean to get there. Regardless of the status of your plans, it’s always fun to know what else is going on at that exact moment all over the country. [Photo of Umphrey's McGee NYE 2010-2011 by Chad ...

He’s back…the man behind the mask. Well, strictly Alice has never really gone away. Now Alice, in my humble opinion, has never made a truly terrible album although some do shine far brighter than others. 1975’s original Welcome To My Nightmar e set, however, stands head and shoulders above anything else in his solo career. As a die hard Alice fan, when I heard in 2010 he was working on a sequel to that album, Hell, I was intrigued…I even got wood!!! When I heard that the surviving members of the original Alice Cooper band were ...

WHAT : Constellations Festival WHEN : November 12 WHERE : Leeds, England WHO : Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Wild Beasts, Yuck, the Antlers, the Big Pink, Spectrals, Braids, Gardens & Villa, Exitmusic, more WHAT : Orlando Calling WHEN : November 12-13 WHERE : Orlando, FL WHO : Pixies, the Raconteurs, the Roots, Iron & Wine, Gogol Bordello, Kid Cudi, the Avett Brothers, Drive By Truckers, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Dr. Dog, Justin Townes Earle, more WHAT : Semibreve Festival WHEN : November 10-13 WHERE : Braga, Portugal WHO: Fennesz, Alva Noto, Murcof, Jon Hopkins, Qluster, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, more WHAT : Cropped Out WHEN : November 11-12 WHERE : Louisville, KY WHO : Scratch Acid, Sun Araw ...

They say having a baby changes everything, but does that include the way you write music? "I feel like it will," Taylor said. "I draw from what's happening in my life when I write. I imagine my disposition will be different, and it will even affect the sound as well as the lyrics."

Check out photos of Drive by Truckers and Those Darlins at First Avenue on 10/25

We've been hearing a lot about Brooklyn's Country Mice over the past few days and decided it time to get on board. Often described as a mix between Wilco and Drive By Truckers with tinges of Neil Young, this country rock trio can bring it. We are pumped to see them rock the Cake Shop in NYC on Friday with Little Gold and Grand Rapids (doors at 8PM.) Hear their in-your-face, vamped guitar anthem "Festval" above. Their debut album, Twister is out now. See you out there folks!

Music, like food, assimilates the flavors and textures of its surroundings. A Louisiana gumbo is a world dish, incorporating influences as diverse as a French base of flour and fat (a roux), the Choctaw spice filé, the African vegetable okra, and the Cajun/Creole "trinity" of onions, bell pepper and celery. Gumbo also serves as an apt description of the music of the genre-defying Jamie McLean Band . If you're not familiar with the group, Jamie cut his teeth as the guitarist of the New Orleans' seminal Dirty Dozen Brass Band before  deciding to chart his own course in 2006 ...

A little bit surprised that this band from Athen’s GA made the cut for this year’s ACL Fest, but definitely glad that they did. This year has seen the band performing on the road in the Bonnaroo Buzz Tour, at Bonnarroo, and with the Drive By Truckers, just to name a few. Quite the year [...]

[mp3] Caitlin Rose: "Own Side Now" [mp3] Caitlin Rose: "Shanghai Cigarettes" What can't Caitlin Rose do? After releasing her debut record earlier this year, Own Side Now , Rose took the UK by storm ruffling feathers at NME, BBC and Q Magazine. Shortly thereafter, she returned to the states garnering album reviews from the New York Times, NPR, LA Weekly and more. Doing what a good young artist does best, Rose kept to the road spreading her crystalline voice, cheekily-creative lyrics and southern charm. This Nashville-native was making friends in the right places; ultimately those friendships landed her a record ...

With Equifunk 2011 approaching this weekend, we wanted to give the lucky few who are attending our breakdown of what to expect from each act. Band Name: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe Why they’re funky: Funk Saxophone. Read that again: Funk. Saxophone. Over the past 20+ years KDTU has built a funk empire. The six-man crew has have served as the torch bearers between the afromatic glory days of late ’70s funk into the present day booty revival. They are a contemporary classic of polished soul-funk and they’ve been known to blow the mothasuckin roof off the sucka ...