Review Photos Setlist We enter day two of our Hangout Festival coverage. Yesterday, we had a fantastic first day, highlighting the musical styling of The Shins, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Kings of Leon. On Saturday, the heat we’d heard so much about finally arrived to Gulf Shores. It wasn’t quite the suffocating variety, but [...]

Review Photos Setlist I’m sitting here on a lawn chair in the sand, watching the waves crash against the sand, as Jim James’ psychedelic musings drifted over from the Hangout Stage. Now that’s the way to see a concert. Today we come to you from sunny Gulf Shores, Alabama. It is the site of the [...]

There is a rich history of coming-of-age novels that strike a fine balance between universally relatable youth and the time period the plot takes place in. The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower all take place in different decades, but they find a common bond in [...]

Archive.org is a treasure for fans of bootlegged music shows. Their live music archive is one of the most underrated sources for music on the web, featuring free sets of artists ranging from John Mayer to Hank Williams. And then of course there’s one of the greatest live bands ever: The Grateful Dead. Bootlegs are [...]

Candice Glover is your new American Idol. The South Carolina native was voted the winner of season 12 last night, edging out fellow finalist Kree Harrison. This was the third season Glover auditioned for the show, also trying to make it on seasons nine and 11. “I can’t even… oh, my god,” she said through [...]

How popular is One Direction? Well, it’s hard to say, but here’s one metric that can give you an idea: when the band announced a new 2014 world tour yesterday, the buzz generated more tweets than the death of Margaret Thatcher. Twitter confirmed that within 80 minutes of the reveal there were one million tweets [...]

Tony Bennett is 86 years old, but it’s hard to find a space for him to rest in his current tour schedule. He will be on the road consistently from now until August, supporting a newly discovered album with Dave Brubeck that was recorded in 1962. As if that weren’t enough, he’s also planned to [...]

Drake’s OVO festival will be back for a fourth straight year this summer, and this time will feature Frank Ocean, James Blake and “special guests.” The festival will be held August 4-5, a Sunday and Monday, strangely, at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto. Ocean and Blake will headline the first night, with Drake taking [...]

Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, Motorhead, Violent Femmes and Rancid will be among the big names playing this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago. This is the eighth year of the event, and the three-day festival will be held in the city’s Humboldt Park September 13-15. This is a change from last year’s version, which split [...]

Swedish duo Icona Pop currently have the number one single in America with “I Love It,” and they’ll be bringing that song to audiences around the country in a newly announced summer tour. The group has a handful of festival appearances scheduled for early June and then in early August, but their headlining tour won’t [...]