First Avenue is the gem of downtown Minneapolis. For the past 40 years they have been hosting amazing concerts at the independently owned icon, everyone from Joe Cocker to Prince to Nirvana to Atmosphere to The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. More recently, First Avenue has become home to an annual three-night ...view article

AUSTIN, Texas —The schedule has been set for the 27th Old Settler’s Music Festival, and it’s packed full with some of the world’s finest roots, bluegrass and Americana artists. This year’s hotly anticipated acts include Jeff Bridges & the Abiders, Big Head ...view article

Heading up to the 10,000 Lakes Festival from Chi-town to Detroit Lakes, MN for my 4th straight year I was stoked, to say the least. Excitement was already in the air as I arrived in Madison, WI greeted by the guys from Steez who would be playing their first ‘10KLF’ on the Vitaminwater Sync Stage ...view article

July 18, 2012 (Pinnacle, NC) - Jomeokee Music and Arts Festival is pleased to announce additional artists to its first annual festival lineup. Patterson Hood & the Downtown Rumblers, the Captain Midnight Band, and The Danberrys have joined the ...view article

It's been nearly five years since singer/songwriter Slaid Cleaves released the critically-acclaimed Wishbones (2004), the follow up to his breakthrough disc, 2000's well-received Broke Down. Longstanding fans of the New England-born, Texas-based singer/songwriter will be excited to ...view article

Split Lip Rayfield, powerhouse trio from Kansas has announced Winter 2012 tour dates.

Often described as a mix of bluegrass and country with an accent of metal, no other band delivers the experience of the homemade gas-tank bass played by Jeff Eaton, sets the mandolin strings on fire like ...view article

Donna Jean Godchaux, Grateful Dead vocalist in the 1970s, will return to Philadelphia on March 7^th to host a table at the annual WXPN Beggar’s Banquet fundraiser to be held at Penn’s Landing Caterers, 1301 S. Columbus Blvd. For more information, go to http://www.xpn.org/support-xpn/2009beggarsbanquet.

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Quintessential guitarist Steve Kimock is hitting the road this spring with stops already scheduled for Connecticut, New York, Maine, ...view article

SAN FRANCISCO, CA- The Mickey Hart Band will be performing their final shows of 2012 in Paradise, CA (Nov 28), and Napa, CA (Nov. 29th), before they head to the Fillmore on Dec 1st to perform at the Rex Foundation benefit, "A Buck Dancer's Choice".  The Rex Foundation will honor the memory of ...view article

One-man-band Keller Williams makes a surprising turn to the piano for his upcoming digital release KEYS: A Collection of Grateful Dead Covers on Piano to Benefit the Rex Foundation. KEYS finds Williams’ performing ten not-so-traditional piano versions of Grateful ...view article