As the photographers were making their way to the photo pit, the Tabernacle’s media coordinator reminded us that, contrary to popular belief, there were other band members onstage besides Hayley Williams. It was said as a tongue-and-cheek comment, but it’s actually a real concern. Hayley monopolizes your attention when she is onstage. What is it [...]

Electronic music duo Daft Punk release one of the year’s most anticipated albums in Random Access Memories, their fourth full-length and first since 2005′s Human After All. The duo are noted for their patience between releases, and hearing the vastness that is Random Access Memories makes that approach entirely understandable. This is a jam-packed, 74-minute [...]

We started the morning ready to give you a traditional review of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Trey Anastasio and Stevie Wonder, but the course of the days events made that impossible. Instead of giving you half baked coverage, I thought we’d take a different approach instead, giving you a day in the life of a [...]

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 you finally knew [...]

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 2013 Hangout Festival [...]

It seems like almost yesterday that I went to my first rock concert. It was actually 1997. The Smashing Pumpkins were touring on their smash double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. They stopped at Atlanta’s old Omni Arena for a robust rock show. The cost was a whopping $29 for a lower level [...]

Phoenix’s latest album Bankrupt! has only been out of the stables for a few weeks, but the band is already hard at work sharing their new vision to the masses. The French group has signed on for numerous summer festival appearances on both sides of the pond (Coachella, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Reading) as well as [...]

This year is the first that the Austin City Limits Music Festival will be held over two weekends, and it looks like organizers wanted to make the most of the expanded edition with two performances each from headliners Depeche Mode, the Cure and Muse. Actually, all performers will be pulling double duty, as each weekend [...]

When Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z revealed they would tour together as the Legends of Summer later this year, the bill became one of the most anticipated of the year. Unfortunately, the relatively short tour will leave many fans unable to see Timberlake perform his new hit record, The 20/20 Experience. But now, Timberlake has announced [...]

Sometimes you begin typing up an article with something completely unexpected. When the day started, we had lots of rain, but the promise of Soundgarden, Bush and Rise Against were enough to pull our sorry butts off the couch to brave the harsh elements. A strange thing happened along the way. The fans showed they [...]