New York – Dawes has announced plans for a busy summer season, highlighted by a major US headline tour. The dates begin Sunday, July 3rd at Manteo, NC’s Waterside Theatre and then continue through late July (see itinerary below). Dawes will be joined on the newly announced dates by such stellar support acts (and Best New Bands
New York – LA rock quartet Dawes’ new video for the title track of their current album, All Your Favorite Bands, has been released. The highly creative and amusing clip for the new single, directed by Kevin Hayes, premiered yesterday and features footage of many of the band’s musician friends lip synching to the song and ends sweetly with
Austin – Dawes are six years and four albums deep into their career now that All Your Favorite Bands is out (as of June 2nd). They’re still a young band, but not exactly a new one. All Your Favorite Bands seems like a good place to take stock. What have they done since emerging from
New York - Four piece rock band, Dawes, performed in the Ed Sullivan Theater at David Letterman’s request, this past Wednesday, April 22, to play their song, “Things Happen.” This is the first track from the quartet’s highly anticipated, upcoming full-length record titled, All Your Favorite Bands (out via HUB Records, June 2, 2015). As a special gift to Letterman,
New York – All Your Favorite Bands, the forthcoming new album from Dawes, the Los Angeles-based quartet, is slated for release on June 2. David Rawlings, of Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, TN, sat in the producer’s chair for this fourth installment – a benchmark that simultaneously represents a sophomore release from the band, off Dawes’s own
New York – No turkeys here; just a Thanksgiving feast. For the fourth year, Record Store Day will help the more than 700 independently owned record stores in the U.S. (and thousands more internationally) by kicking off the holiday shopping season with a Black Friday event with 100 exclusive releases aimed to get music fans
Caitlin Rose just released an incredible cover of The National’s single, “Pink Rabbits.” In an exclusive interview with ELLE, Caitlin said “this song creeped up on me in the same way the band did. It was something I’d heard and enjoyed on several occasions. To sort of know something is great before it resonates with you, then
Music festivals are the Jackson Pollock paintings of the concert-going experience: both are messy, frustratingly incoherent and unmercifully overwhelming affairs. Yet, under the right conditions or at a certain angle or with the help of questionable substances/chemicals/beverages flowing through the blood stream, they can turn into beautiful, spiritual enlightenments. Such is Outside Lands, another excuse
When a band is labeled as a throwback, it could be a blessing or a curse. On one hand, it means that you understand the history and foundation of where great music is made and are honoring that tradition. Contrarily, it could mean that you haven’t adapted with the times and sound old. Fortunately in
It might not have come up in conversation with every person I’ve ever met, but I feel fairly confident when I assume that at least 96% of people I’ve met in my life have at least heard of Bob Dylan, at least. For a new band to be touring with Bob Dylan, then, must be