‘Good Morning’ is the perfect forward for an album about a breakup. The pain of lost love is strongly felt as Norah sings of giving in, giving up, and moving on with her life. It’s a quick and gentle coo of resignation, and if the rest of the album had a similar perspective on breakups, [...]
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Album Review: Norah Jones ‘Little Broken Hearts’
Luke Bryan Planning Headlining Tour in 2013
Just because Luke Bryan is currently crisscrossing the country with Jason Aldean, doesn’t mean he’s not already working on his future touring plans. In fact, he’s already planning his next headlining tour for 2013. “We’re already throwing around set ideas and checking prices on these little knick-knacks and toys to have fun with,” Bryan told [...]
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Kansas Books Tour Dates for Fall
On its most recent trek around the country, the band Kansas played classic songs alongside college symphonies, but now the band wants to get back to a “more traditional tour approach” as they set out on the road for a slew of dates this fall. The fall dates will kick off September 13 at the [...]
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Grooveshark Profiles Music Fans with Beluga
Music streaming service Grooveshark has launched a new service called Beluga that gives listener analytics to anyone who requests them. For example, on the Beluga site you can search for any artist that has music on Grooveshark and view information on others that have streamed the artist’s music. The question to be answered, of course, [...]
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NBC Kills ‘The Sing Off,’ Plans ‘The Winner Is’
When NBC announced recently that they would air the hit reality singing competition in both the fall and the spring television season, the network wasn’t finished with the shake up to its reality show lineup. Recently, the network announced both the cancellation of “The Sing Off,” as well as the addition of a new show [...]
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Mumford and Sons Book Mini Music Festival Road Tour
Just after announcing that their much-anticipated sophomore album will be released in September, Mumford and Sons has now announced a series of “mini music festivals” that will be held around the U.S. every weekend in August. The dates will be part of what the band calls the “Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers.” Each stop will [...]
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The xx Tack Brief North American Leg onto Summer Tour
Though British electronic group the xx had a fairly extensive world tour lined up for later this year, they did not have any North American dates scheduled. Fortunately for fans on the continent, the band has now changed this. In the midst of the world tour, the band will visit five major markets in North [...]
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Folk Legend Doc Watson Dies at 89
Folk legend and virtuoso guitar player Doc Watson has passed away. He was 89 years old. Arthel “Doc” Watson recently underwent abdominal surgery which resulted in his hospitalization in Winston-Salem, N.C. He died Tuesday in the hospital. Watson had been blind from the age of 1, when he developed an eye infection that was worsened [...]
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Album Review: John Mayer ‘Born and Raised’
“John Mayer is an asshole.” This is the rather blunt statement I overheard between sets at the Beale Street Music Festival earlier this month. Strangely, this seems to be the popular sentiment leveled on the beleaguered singer-songwriter since his epic implosion within the pages of Playboy and Rolling Stone. Caught up in the trappings of [...]
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Yeasayer Books Summer Dates that Push into Fall
Indie popsters Yeasayer have announced an extensive summer tour later this year that will take the group around North America. During the tour, the band’s third album, Fragrant World, will be released. The tour will be preceeded by a handful of dates in June beginning on the 19 in Richmond, Va. and continuing through June [...]
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Willie Nelson, Civil Wars, Dierks Bentley Headline Johnny Cash Music Festival
The lineup for the second annual Johnny Cash Music Festival has been announced, and will feature Willie Nelson, Dierks Bentley, the Civil Wars and Rosanne Cash. The one-day festival will take place October 5 at Arkansas State University’s Convocation Center, which is located in Jonesboro, Ark. The event was announced at a press conference last [...]
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New Album Details Revealed for Bob Dylan, The Killers, Mumford & Sons
Just in time for the upcoming summer concert season, music fans are getting the good news that some of the biggest acts in music will be releasing new albums before the year is out. Among them include Bob Dylan, Mumford and Sons, and The Killers. The new Dylan album will be the legendary singer-songwriter’s 35th [...]
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Album Review: Neon Trees ‘Picture Show’
I was momentarily excited that Picture Show would be an album for synaesthetes, with musical landscapes creating vivid imagery and allowing the listener to lose his or herself in its kaleidoscopic wonders. Not so much. A more likely reason for the title is that they were inspired by the cinema, and if you listen to [...]
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Five Best Things Jack White Has Done Since the White Stripes Broke Up
When the White Stripes split up in February of 2011, frontman Jack White seemed to find a whole new kind of freedom – and it wasn’t just that he got to introduce colors other than red, white and black to his wardrobe. No, he was free, in essence, to do anything he wanted. And that’s [...]
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Album Review: M. Ward ‘A Wasteland Companion’
M. Ward is one of those consummate and prolific songwriters who doesn’t miss a beat, and for whom the art of crafting a deceptively simple and quietly brilliant tune for the guitar seems to be completely natural. Like most who could warrant such a description, he tends to go relatively unnoticed, often choosing to take [...]
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Skrillex, Moby, Benny Benassi Take Over Chicago’s Spring Awakening in June
The inaugural lineup for the Spring Awakening Music Festival has been announced as the event gears up to be one of the largest all-dance music festivals in the country. Headliners will be Skrillex, Afrojack, Moby and Benny Benassi for the event that will take place in Chicago June 16-17. Other notable artists set to perform [...]
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RIAA Loses Its Mind, Sues Limewire for Astronomical $72 Trillion
We all know that illegal downloading is a major problem for the music industry, and that the RIAA has spent more than a decade attempting to curve a widespread problem, often asking for amounts of money that seem outrageous in relation to the actual number of illegal files downloaded – but when Forbes reported yesterday [...]
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Repiratory Infection Sidelines Week of Elton John Vegas Shows
Elton John has had to cancel four Las Vegas concerts due to a “serious respiratory infection” that landed him in the hospital on Wednesday. The concerts were part of the legendary British singer’s show “The Million Dollar Piano,” which is a three-year residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Sin City. John developed the [...]
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Justin Bieber Makes Fans ‘Believe’ with Extensive Fall Tour
To support his upcoming third studio release, Justin Bieber has announced a very extensive North American tour that will begin this fall and run into early 2013. Bieber will kick off the trek on September 29 in Glendale, Ariz. and the tour is scheduled to run through January 26, 2013 when it will close out [...]
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Phillip Phillips Bests Jessica Sanchez for American Idol Crown
It’s that time of year again when the next “American Idol” is named – and this time around the title goes to Phillip Phillips. The 21-year-old with the husky voice received the majority of the 132 million votes cast for the 11th season of the show. He beat out 16-year-old Jessica Sanchez, the contestant that [...]
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