North Coast Music Festival organizers have unveiled the last four at-large festival additions: Latyrx (a Reunion feat. Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker), New Mastersounds, Lettuce and Lance Herbstrong. ...view article
Australian-born multi-instrumentalist Anthony Pell has been creating eclectic electronic music under the stage moniker Apell, since releasing an eponymous debut in 2000. Apell's innovative sound incorporates elements of rock, jazz, funk, and dub, and is informed by artists as wide-ranging as Miles ...view article
When we think about those special places that have been carved out by nature, seemingly for the purpose of “becoming” musical venues, our first thoughts run to the magical vistas of places like the Gorge, Red Rocks and Mountainview. But perhaps the most magical of these places is ...view article
The promoters of the Hoxeyville Music Festival could easily be accused of false advertising. Their event is not the typical festival and it might be better described as a family reunion (with attendees ranging in age from newborns to at least 72 years of age) with great music. Situated in picturesque ...view article
QUADLIBET for TENDER FEET: THE 40th ANNIVERSARY of the Grateful Dead at Fillmore West March 2, 1969
The Zen Tricksters with special guest TOM CONSTANTEN (Grateful Dead) and Joe Chirco will perform the entire show forty years to the day on March 2, 2009 at Mexicali Live 1409 ...view article
The countdown has begun for this summer’s most exciting and anticipated festival, Wakarusa 2013. Wakarusa will again take place at its annual location at Mulberry Mountain in the Ozark National Forest, May 30-June 2. Celebrating its tenth year as the most musically diverse event in the country, ...view article
The West Hollywood show at the House of Blues seemed different than any of the other west coast shows. It was the first show we didn't drive to; we flew down via Virgin Airlines. This show also had a large population of Phish heads in attendance due to the imminent Festival 8 in Indio Valley; ...view article
When I was but a wee little fourth grader in Saint Paul, MN I worked on a group research project about a place that I had never seen and, as far as I was concerned, was too far away and too wild to possibly exist in the same universe. Yosemite National Park in California was about as distant to me ...view article
In response to the record breaking flood that forced its way through the homes and lives of nearly 17 counties in Colorado in early September, a group of industrious music industry folks have joined forces to put together what may be one of the best independent music compilations ...view article