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 [...]

In 2010, when the Hangout Music Festival kicked off in Gulf Shores, Alabama, the news came as a delight to both music fans and local business owners. The shore-side festival boosted the town’s economy just before the summer rush, and many music fans were thrilled with the eclectic lineup – a treat for a state [...]

John Mayer, Demi Lovato and the Roots will be among the artists taking the stage at the Philly 4th of July Jam this year, a festival being promoted as the “largest free concert in America.” The annual concert event is held right on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the city to celebrate Independence Day, and [...]

Well this year’s Carolina Rebellion certainly was eventful. Normally with our festival coverage, we cap things off with a wrap-up review, but with things taking a turn for the worse on Sunday a broad overview is a bit redundant. Yesterday, the festival organizers did step up to cover the rain snafu, offering partial refunds to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We’ve got one of the strongest festival seasons in recent memory around the U.S. and the world this year, and many events are not only selling out, but selling out in record times. We saw the trend start earlier this year when both weekends of Coachella sold out in just a few hours, and now [...]

What a difference a year makes. This weekend last year, I was sweating my balls off in Memphis, taking in the bevy of acts at Beale Street Music Festival. Last night, I was freezing my nips off at Charlotte Motor Speedway. I wasn’t watching the stock cars endlessly circle the Nascar track. I was here [...]

Ben Gibbard’s been in the news this year more for the 10-year-anniversary (and subsequent tour reunion) of his side project the Postal Service than his main band, Death Cab for Cutie. But the latter group will appear at this year’s Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle as its first announced concert date of the year. But Death [...]