New York – Indie pop duo Tune-Yards have a new video for “Real Thing” from their recent album Nikki Nack on 4AD. Tune-Yards has also confirmed a string of December dates including four intimate nights at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg fromDecember 4-7 and a performance at LA’s Wiltern Theatre on December 10. A limited ticket pre-sale has begun
New York – Friday night’s Shakey Graves performance in Manhattan was wonderful and wild, and welcomed the weekend with a bang. The indie musician played in support of the mega-beloved blues-rock outfit Tedeschi Trucks Band, and the turnout was awash in blues fans of all generations. On stage, Alejandro Rose-Garcia is a lit stick of
Austin – “Are you going to ACL this year?” Since 2009, my answer was always “No.” I could never remember which day I’m supposed to spend refreshing the page for ticket sales, and I could never remember to save the money for scalped/second-hand tickets. For the scatterbrained and the sweat-averse, the ACL Late Night circuit
New York – Sallie Ford will begin her North American tour this Friday. Her new album, Slap Back, will be released next week (October 14), but fans can pre-order the album now on iTunes and the Vanguard Records Store. Slap Back, produced by Chris Funk (Decemberists, Black Prairie, Red Fang), introduces the indie rocker’s all-new line-up
Sacramento – The heat came back with a vengeance on the second day of TBD Fest, yet the excitement and the energy of the festival made it totally bearable. The second day had a little more variety in terms of the artists performing and tons of great new bands to check out. Drowners First up
Seattle – It all started 10 years ago when Zach Williams’ young wife broke her neck in a horseback riding accident. Told by doctors that she would never walk again, Williams took to writing down his thoughts and emotions in a journal. However, after months of rehab at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, his wife
Chicago – Let’s face it, weekday concerts are usually a bit subdued, but HOLYCHILD and MØ proved that a Tuesday night in Chicago can seem like a Saturday night in Vegas if you’ve got all the right moves. Liz Nistico of Holychild and Karen Marie Ørsted – aka MØ – danced, jumped, and skipped all
Sacramento – This first weekend of October is turning out to be a hot and sunny one here. With temperatures rocketing up to the mid-90s, it feels more like summer in the desert instead of autumn in California’s capitol city. Nonetheless, the few devotees willing to brave this Indian summer of sorts to bask in
Nashville – A sophomore record two years in the making, Field Report’s Marigolden brings the listener along for the long and winding journey that make up the songs for this album. Field Report, an anagram of singer Chris Porterfield’s surname, holed up in a snowy cabin in Ontario last December to record. Heated by a
Nashville – Ask the average listener to close their eyes and visualize rock and roll and the image will be similar for most folks; vintage Gibson and Fender axes plugged into humming tube amps, long hair and scruffy beards, guitar solos with crunch distortion, and lyrical stories of women and whiskey to tie it all