It’s been just a little over eight months since I took my first trip ever to New Orleans for Jazz Fest 2011, and I’m definitely planning on making a return trek this year to see this year’s festival as well. The lineup is too good (always), and the possibility of some late-night shows that you [...]

Taking in a show at the Masonic Lodge located within the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery is always a treat. It’s a small room seating roughly 200, with tall ceilings, two hanging chandeliers and seated cushioned benches to the side. To keep it a little more hip, the walls feature film posters like A Clockwork Orange, [...]

According to reliable festival trackers Consequence of Sound and as a press release detailing his tour dates confirms, the former White Stripes frontman Jack White will headline the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama on May 18th. The full lineup has not been released yet, but White is expected to hit the festival circuit [...]

WHO: Kermit Ruffins and the BBQ Swingers, Bonerama w/ Marco Benevento, Outer Borough Brass Band, DJ Cochon Du Lait and Special Guests WHAT: 6th Annual NOLAFUNK.com Mardi Gras Ball(s) WHEN: Saturday, February 18 & Sunday, February 19th, 2012 WHERE: Hiro Ballroom, 88 9th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Big Easy music fans in the Big [...]

Continue below for a photo gallery from the show || All photos by Jimmy Grotting Local guitar hero and songwriter Anders Osborne has been out on the road with GRAMMY-winning blues guitarist Keb’ Mo’ for a two-week winter run, ending (for Osborne) in his howetown for a Sunday night set at House of Blues. There’s [...]

Carnival season gets into full-swing this weekend and Tipitina’s is planning a Carnival Kick-Off Party to get a one-night jump on Saturday’s Krewe du Vieux festivities. The legendary Fred Wesley (of the JB Horns) is making the rounds this weekend, including an appearance with the Trio at the Maple Leaf on Thursday and at the [...]

The Sasquatch Music Festival has released their 2012 lineup, and as usual, it's a doozy....

WillCall is new app launching today in San Francisco which tag-lines itself as: Catch a Live Show. At the Last Minute. At Exclusive Prices.. To which I would probably add…(If It’s Not Sold Out Already). It’s a very cool idea, though; sort of like the concert ticket daily deals integration we would have hoped to [...]

UPDATE: The Hangout Music Fest web site was down for awhile, is now back up and running, no announcement as of yet. 2/2/12 @ 12:05 A.M. CST Last year, Jazz Fest released its lineup in mid-January, about a month later than the year prior and the local competitor taking place two weeks and 200 miles [...]

The initial lineup for the 2012 Electric Forest Festival is out. Resident headliners, the String Cheese Incident, lead the lineup alongside Bassnectar, STS9, Thievery Corporation, Girl Talk, and a bunch of other big names in the jam and electronic space (and just about everything else in between). Check it out… Electric Forest Festival – Initial [...]

With their new album, Be the Void, dropping next week, Dr. Dog is back on the touring circuit....

Check out this full set by the looping violin virtuoso from a room atop England's Queen Elizabeth Hall...

Carnival Time Friday, 2/3/2012 (KREWE OF BRID @ 7:00 p.m. – LAKEVIEW) Gravy @ Blue Nile (upstairs) The Heavy Pets @ Maison Goatwhore + The Void @ The Hangar Carnival Kick-Off Party @ Tipitina’s Featuring 101 Runners with Special Guests Fred Wesley, Raymond Webber and June Yamagishi – 10 pm ($12) Johnny Sketch and the [...]

Spiritualized have announced a set of tour dates in May that will take them across our fair states; the tour will set down in Minneapolis on May 2 and will weave its way East, South and then West to finally end up in Vancouver on 5/26. I still to this day have never caught this [...]

$8?! Deal of the Month. The combined age of the two last bands featured at WTUL’s Back To School Bash at Tipitina’s would make them barely old enough to walk and somewhere deep into the Terrible Two’s. Having not heard of Gold and the Rush until yesterday afternoon, I was completely in the dark as [...]

After playing four festival-related one-off shows last year (two at SF’s Outside Lands, Bonnaroo and Voodoo Experience), the four original members of The Meters have announced their first New Orleans club gig in 30 years for a second Saturday late night show during Jazz Fest on May 5th at The Howlin’ Wolf. Although it still [...]

The latest episode of Austin City Limits featuring Florence + the Machine and Lykke Li has been posted online. Don’t miss it. Thanks, KLRU! Watch Florence + The Machine / Lykke Li on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.

Just another week of live music in New York City, which means lots of options for the concert-going public, including Smith Westerns, American Babies, Tycho, and Skrillex....

Thanks to Steven Hatley for contributing his first review to the site Saturday night brought together two very different acts to Tipitinas Uptown, featuring a bill of Nurses and The Mountain Goats. It was clear by the midpoint of the Nurses set who the sizable crowd really came to see. Nurses put on a solid [...]

Earlier today, I posted a quick round-up of NYC area venue news, including rumors of the return of CBGBs. But it appears that was only half the story. According to Bowery Boogie, there are solid rumors of a CBGBs summer festival that’s in the works for July 3-7, 2012 (complete w/ what appears to be [...]