Making your summer-festival choice that much harder this season – on which of the country's many, many music festivals should you spend your hard-earned money? – yet another new event has exploded onto the scene. The inaugural Interlocken Festival will take place in Arrington, VA, this coming September 5-6. More laid-back than let's-rage, Interlocken boasts a lineup of jamband heavyweights, including headliners Neil Young…
by Ryan R on June 18th, 2013 No Comments
Hailing from London - and featuring a French lead singer - Savages have been making noise in 2013 with their debut album, Silence Yourself. And although a Savages US Tour was already on the books to support the new release, another round of Savages tour dates have been announced recently in their support of the Queens of the Stone Age tour. In addition to opening for QOTSA concerts, Savages are also opening for Portishead and…
by Angela Bunt on June 18th, 2013 No Comments
Round out the festival season with the 2013 Music Midtown Festival! Held in Atlanta, GA, this festy has been around since 1994—but not without the same financial problems that seem to plague other large music gatherings (like Rothbury and Nateva). Music Midtown had a successful run from its incarnation in 1994 all the way through 2005, annually drawing crowds around 30,000. But the recession wasn't just affecting the little…
by Hannah Kowalsky on June 17th, 2013 No Comments
Music legend Lionel Richie announced his latest North American tour today, June 10, 2013. The tour, titled "All The Hits All Night Long,' will kick off September 18, 2013 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. The five-time Grammy winner will then go on to play 16 more shows in cities including Atlantic City, NJ; Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Windsor, Canada; and Mexico City, Mexico. Along the…
by Xuan Ky Le on June 17th, 2013 No Comments
Wiz Khalifa? ASAP Rocky? B.O.B? Talk about an exciting cast of rappers to get under the influence with this summer. The trio, along with Trinidad Jame$ and Joey Bada$$, are bound to hit 20 cities during this year's Under The Influence tour, starting in San Francisco with planned stops in Denver, Houston, Chicago and Boston, among many others, along the way before wrapping up in Cincinnati. Taking into account that this tour…
by Ryan R on June 16th, 2013 No Comments
The date and location for Farm Aid 2013 has been announced, and the charity concert benefiting family farmers across the US will return to New York for the first time since 2007. Co-founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp will headline for a cast for friends and fellow Farm Aid artists at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, NY. Started in 1985, Farm Aid's mission is to keep family farmers…
by Anna Storm on June 15th, 2013 No Comments
In the grand new tradition of super popular/lucrative music festivals, entertainment company Primal Social Group has wisely decided to get in on the trendy action. PSG will launch its first-ever festival this coming September. Breakaway Music Festival will take place in two locations: in Columbus, OH, and Frisco, TX, on September 14 and 21, respectively. Ambitious from the get-go, organizers are already thinking ahead to next…
by Lindsay Denninger on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
Creedence Clearwater Revival singer and rock god John Fogerty has announced plans for a U.S tour, kicking off this fall, to promote his new album, Wrote A Song For Everyone. The shows start in early September at the inaugural Interlocken Festival in Arrington, Virginia; next, Fogerty moves through Nashville, Tennessee; Los Angeles, California; Austin, Texas; Durham, North Carolina; and finishes it up with a show at the Beacon…
by Anna Storm on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
Ever the humble artist, Kanye West has outdone himself with his new album: the appropriately hubristic titled Yeezus (a mashup of Kanye's nickname, Yeezy, and the name of his homeboy, Jesus). This latest from the controversial father-to-be will mark West's followup to 2010's fantastic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, his last solo record, and Watch The Throne, the 2011 collaborative album he produced with Jay-Z. With less…
by Cormack Glass on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
The Dodos, the indie rock duo of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber, have announced a full North American tour this fall to coincide with their forthcoming album, Carrier, due out on August 27. The band, which formed back in 2005, has announced support on this tour from a myriad of bands, including Bleeding Rainbow, COUSINS, The Love Language and Dustin Wong. They'll play mostly smaller venues, ensuring that the demand for tickets…
by Hannah Kowalsky on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
Nine Inch Nails front man, Trent Reznor, announced Tuesday that the band's latest album, Hesitation Waits, will be released September 3, 2013. This will be NIN's first new music in five years, since 2008's The Slip. The first single, "Came Back Haunted," is now available on for free download on iTtunes with a pre-order of the album. After a three year hiatus from 2009-2012, Reznor has spent the past year recording with producers…
by Xuan Ky Le on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
Heavy Metal veterans Skid Row have released details of their upcoming European Tour, which will have them blowing out venues alongside fellow rockers Ugly Kid Joe. The band will open their 12-country tour in Southampton, England, and will make stops in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France and Switzerland, before drawing the curtains in Vienna, Austria. Sounds like fans in Europe are…
by Malone Sheppard on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
The legendary John Scofield is at it once again. The jazz pioneer and world-famous composer plans to release his newest album, Überjam Deux, on July 2. Although the album has not yet been made public, Scofield himself has described the collection as "funk, Afrobeat, reggae, house music, RB...and a lot of what’s in between." In short, it will be what we hoped to hear from Scofield and probably more, a return to the original…
by Anna Storm on June 14th, 2013 No Comments
Alt-rock pioneers The Replacements, to the delight of their many fans the country over, are officially reuniting for a series of shows this fall. Last year, Paul Westerberg hinted at the reunion in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, saying, "It's possible. I'm closer to it now than I was two years ago, that's for sure." The possibility became definite when popular music festival Riot Fest announced the group would be…
