I’ve grown up resignedly accepting the fact that there are some bands I’ll just never get to see live. Not because they’re dead, but because they had bad break ups or whatever various and sundry reasons caused their demise. Talking Heads is one example. Well, a few exceptions have creeped up on me over [...]

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Tom Waits is such a bad ass. For one thing, you never have to worry about hearing a Tom Waits song played during a commercial for nachos, as he is staunchly against using his music to sell products. The cryptically funny troubadour rarely tours, but I was lucky enough to catch him on a rare [...]

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If you’re a Throwing Muses fan or at least even quasi-familiar with Kristin Hersh’s solo material, then you’re well aware that her mental anguish is serious if not altogether frightening. Well, Hersh has made strides battling mental illness over the past two decades, and she’s put together a spoken-word performance piece entitled “Paradoxical Undressing”, [...]

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New York magazine has a brief but excellent interview with The National’s Matt Berninger, wherein the soft-spoken vocalist comments on his band’s willingness to eschew staying an underground secret in favor of reaching more fans. But the best part is his reaction to the characterization of his unique vocal style by various journalists:
Critics get [...]

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With their new album Saturdays=Youth out on April 15th, M83 are hitting the road in support.

“M83 returns to North America! The French artist, Anthony Gonzalez, embarks on a North American tour this spring in support of his brand new album “Saturdays = Youth” which will be released April 15th on Mute. The first single from [...]

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So, having been slowly won over by Kate Nash’s Made of Bricks, I’m contemplating seeing her this spring when she comes back to the US for a month-long tour to coincide with Coachella. And, amazingly, the south is not being glossed over. She’s playing both Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA and the (smoke free) [...]

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Riding high from the number of year-end best-of lists Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga landed on (including several of ours), Spoon has scheduled another round of tour dates. This time The Walkmen and White Rabbits will be joining them for a few weeks in April. The Walkmen are finishing up their fourth record, not [...]

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Unless you’re some Peter Pan-like freak, the bands you loved as a kid, hopefully, aren’t the artists you adore today – that is, after pimples, after trigonometry and most certainly post your “first time.” Granted, life - and to a certain extant, music itself - was a helluva lot simpler then. You liked what you [...]

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Raking in almost $340 million bucks from last year’s record shattering tour hasn’t slowed The (reunited) Police, who are prepping one final summer jaunt across the US before retiring for good. Or at least until its time to rob fans blind again and build more castles. The band is planning to play amphitheaters and [...]

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Radiohead confirms US tour dates, and amazingly the South is represented. Supposedly, this is just the first batch:
May 5 - Cruzan Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, Florida
May 6 - Ford Amphitheatre - Tampa, Florida
May 8 - Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, Georgia
May 9 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - Charlotte, North Carolina
May 11 - Nissan Pavilion [...]

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Since Paul Weller has come down with a nasty case of principles, his remaining two ex-bandmates in The Jam have reunited under the catchy moniker From the Jam: Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. The leftover duo has recruited some anonymous scabs Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers two replacements to fill in for Weller on [...]

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According The Slut, Jens Lekman is coming back! Better buy your tix now, as these shows are sure to sell out.
3-13 Austin, TX - Mohawk
3-14 Dallas, TX - Granada
3-21 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda
3-22 San Fran, CA - Bimbo’s 365
3-23 San Fran, CA - Bottom Of The Hill
3-24 Portland, OR - Berbati’s Pan
3-25 [...]

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With its new record, Distortion, out in January via Nonesuch, The Magnetic Fields have set up a brief tour to help spread the word. The dates are slim pickins, but at least they are playing multiple shows in each town- said towns just happen to be very, very far away from the South. 

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 …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is set to embark on yet another round of touring for its under-achieving, fifth long-player, So Divided, which has been on shelves the better part of a year. The band is hitting colleges with Adult Swim’s fictional metal band, Dethklok from Metalocalypse fame, whose debut record The Dethalbum [...]

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Bloomington, Indiana’s Murder By Death may be slow to get new records out, but the band plays no shortage of shows. The non-stop touring has to take its toll at some point. I can’t imagine being able to write new material in such a draining, repetitive environment, but the band just released a statement on [...]

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Murder By Death played the Flat, Black and Circular record store in Lansing, MI, last year, supporting its third full-length, In Bocca Al Lupo. This low-key performance of “Dynamite Mine” puts much more emphasis on the inherent tension of Turla’s doom-country stomp compared to the fiery dynamics of the full band’s electric show.

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So “Needy Girl” wasn’t just an underground one-hit wonder after all. This Montreal synth-funk duo has more to offer than slick catchy joke throwbacks. Its latest record for Vice, Fancy Footwork, has inspired all kinds of people to fight for a piece of the action. The Beastie Boys have offered up a few opening slots on their current [...]

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On October 23, Lost Highway will release a seven-song EP by Ryan Adams and The Cardinals, entitled Follow the Lights, which follows closely on the heels of his latest full-length Easy Tiger. Two new songs are interspersed with some older ones, all of which were recorded live in the studio this summer. The two new [...]

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Famous mainly for opening for the Sex Pistols at Winterland on the last date of the Pistols’ first American tour, The Avengers were as punk rock as you could get. The band never even released an album during its life span, which was only about two years (1977-1979). The band’s rudimentary punk sparked [...]

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Mournful acoustic plucker Jose Gonzalez is gearing up to release his latest record, In Our Nature, on September 25 via Mute by kicking off three nights in New York City. While he’s there, he’s planning on taping a spot on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. His tour dates are spotty, but he’s hitting both coasts and some [...]

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