Watch Wilco Cover “Get Lucky”
This year’s installment of Solid Sound Festival — Wilco’s recurring summer music festival in Massachusetts — began last night. For the first night, Wilco headlined with a set of 27 covers.See it on...
View ArticleNews : LOOK: Oxfam America’s “Oxfam Summer Jams 2013” Mixtape Features Wilco,...
Just in time for the busy summer festival season, humanitarian organization, Oxfam America, has released its annual Oxfam Summer Jams downloadable album to help raise awareness of their important work...
View ArticleBeck - "I Won't Be Long"
Beck has lately been working on a new acoustic album, the follow-up to his 2012 sheet music affair Song Reader. But lately, he's debuted a couple of decidedly non-acoustic songs, so who even knows what...
View ArticleGreetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State Turns 10
Before Michigan, Sufjan Stevens was a footnote within a curiosity. In 2003, the Michigan-raised Brooklyn transplant was best known as part of the entourage surrounding Daniel Smith’s off-kilter...
View ArticleWatch CBS Sunday Morning's My Morning Jacket Profile
My Morning Jacket are a big deal, a total festival-crossover band, and your dad probably already likes them. But it's still a bit weird to see a network newsmagazine doing a big piece on themSee it on...
View ArticleSub Pop: 25 years of underground rock
From the era-defining grunge of Nirvana to the dreamy modern Americana of the Shins, the Seattle label has become a cornerstone of US alternative music.See it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
View ArticleDuane Andrews and Craig Young - where jazz meets country
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View ArticleDetroit sounds: the raw power of motor city music
Celebrating the city that brought us Stevie Wonder, Juan Atkins, Iggy Pop and Madonna - here's our guide to Detroit music. Grit, noise and a bubbling tension: it was these components that made Motor...
View ArticleBuilt to Spill Announces Fall U.S. Tour
Starting in September, the Boise-bred indie rockers will embark on a set of European dates before making their way back to the U.S. in mid-October to continue their extensive circuit. The band kicks...
View ArticleNeko Case – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the...
Case confronts inner turmoil and gives in to grief on her sixth album. Let us know what you think of this exclusive stream. On her last album, Middle Cyclone, Neko Case sung about creatures snuffling,...
View ArticleBacktrack: Modest Mouse The Lonesome Crowded West
Modest Mouse grew up in public, but popular opinion is that they really truly figured it out with 2000's The Moon & Antarctica, creating one of those of albums that points to some...
View ArticleMick Jones compares The Clash's career-spanning boxset to 'Breaking Bad'
The band's 13-disc 'Sound System' boxset will be released later this month. The comprehensive collection of the band's music will be released later this month (September) and features remastered...
View ArticleSigur Rós To Appear On Game Of Thrones
There was a time many winters ago when the sign that a band had made it was to get an appearance on The Simpsons. But that was a long time ago, and now it seems like more and more bands are heading...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Frightened Rabbit Songs
Frightened Rabbit is on a hot streak. Starting with September of last year and the State Hospital EP, then through the release of Pedestrian Verse in February, and finally on Tuesday with the Late...
View ArticleYo La Tengo Announce Fade: Deluxe Edition
Just last night I was at tiny Stuart's Opera House in tiny Nelsonville, Ohio, watching Yo La Tengo tear through two sets -- one quiet, one loud, both heavy on material from this year’s exceptional...
View ArticleOkkervil River: The Silver Gymnasium – review
The cerebral Texan rockers turn in a richly textured reflection on small-town youth, writes Ally Carnwath. Like plenty of literate heartland rock bands before them, Okkervil River riff on the theme of...
View ArticleCBGB Fest Announces Free Concert With My Morning Jacket, Grizzly Bear, Divine...
Last year the people involved with the original CBGBs held a music festival and this year it's coming back again in less than two weeks. The group has organized a free concert in Times Square on 10/12...
View ArticleNew Flaming Lips EP Due Out in November
Band's upcoming release is based on 'Ender's Game' novel. The Flaming Lips are preparing to put out an EP based on the themes from Ender's Game. The band had previously signed on to write a song for...
View ArticlePussy Riot Member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Hospitalized After Hunger Strike
Five days after going on a hunger strike, Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been hospitalized.Tolokonnikova is currently on strike to protest the working conditions of what she calls “slave...
View ArticleMusic and More: Kneebody - The Line (Concord, 2013)
Kneebody is an interesting band that skirts the borders of jazz and indie rock, somewhat akin to the Chicago band Tortoise. The band consists of Adam Benjamin on keyboards, Shane Endsley on trumpet,...
View ArticleThe Replacements in '14: A Fan's Reaction :: Music :: Features :: Paste
I was two years old when the Replacements played Grant Park in 1991. I’ve studied their work like scripture since I was 16, all the while praying for what seemed like an impossible reunion. And when...
View ArticleThe trial of Sid Vicious – a classic report from the vaults
Nancy Spungen was killed 35 years ago this week, and her boyfriend Sid Vicious arrested for her murder. Here's how Imagine magazine covered the events, in an article taken from Rock's BackpagesSee it...
View ArticleDigital vs. Vinyl: Where It Makes A Difference - MTT - Music Think Tank
The vinyl-or-digital debate rages on and audiophiles of all stripes have strong opinions on one side or the other. Saying anything almost feels like a reopening of old wounds. Technically speaking,...
View ArticleThe National joined onstage by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon - watch
They performed 'Terrible Love' and 'Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks' together in Austin, TexasSee it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
View ArticleDeath Cab for Cutie Return to Studio to Record Eighth Album | Music News |...
Band begins follow-up to 2011's 'Codes and Keys'See it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
View ArticleAndrew Bird: I Want to See Pulaski at Night :: Music :: Reviews :: Paste
Pulaski is a city in both western Virginia and south-central Tennessee, and yet, in the one song with lyrics on Andrew Bird’s new EP, he’s begging an anonymous someone to come back to Chicago. Given...
View ArticleTame Impala - "Be Above It (Erol Alkan Rework)"
Since its release last October, Tame Impala's Lonerism has been covered, remixed, and redone by artists like the Flaming Lips and the Field. Now London electroSee it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
View ArticleGrizzly Bear - "Will Calls (Diplo Remix)"
Will Calls (Marfa Demo) heralded the release of Shields Expanded, the deluxe reissue of Grizzly Bear's 2012 opus, and proved that the aborted Texas recordingSee it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
View ArticleWatch Sleigh Bells Play Fallon
Sleigh Bells came into this world as a two-piece and played amazing shows for a couple of years as a two-piece, so it'll always be weird to see them expandingSee it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
View ArticleRadiophonic Workshop: the shadowy pioneers of electronic sound
As pop luminaries queue up to appear on their forthcoming LP, Joe Muggs meets surviving members of the BBC's Radiophonic WorkshopSee it on Scoop.it, via Alternative Rock
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