Mumford & Sons, the Killers, Vampire Weekend and Phoenix will headline this year’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago this summer. Festival organizers have not officially released the lineup, but the headliners were reported by the Chicago Tribute. Additionally, the paper says that “multiple industry sources” confirm that the National and the Postal Service also will appear [...]

Phil Lesh, The Black Crowes and the Roots are among the big names that will appear at this year’s version of the Gathering of the Vibes festival. The hippy festival is set to take place over the weekend of July 25-28 this year at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The festival was founded to honor [...]

So we’ve reached the end of our SXSW experience. And I do mean experience. SXSW is like no other festival that we’ve covered, primarily because it’s not really a festival. South by Southwest is an industry event that takes the city of Austin hostage for the week and every hole-in-the-wall that can serve as a [...]

On Friday, we headed over to Auditorium Shores, a beautiful, spacious outdoor venue, to catch three much buzzed about SXSW acts: The Divine Fits, Jim James, and the Flaming Lips. This open air venue was chosen to provide a free opportunity for local Austinites who didn’t shell out hundreds of dollars for wristbands & badges [...]

We return with coverage of South by Southwest with the spotlight on Friday’s events. We hit a bit of a hiccup on Thursday, breaking our cardinal rule of ‘park thy butt at one venue and call it a night.’ We started at the ACL Live to check out the soul review, jumped to Brazos Hall [...]

We opened our week-long South by Southwest coverage by hitting up one of Austin’s quintessential hole-in-the-wall bars, The Belmont, to witness music’s next generation amongst the sweaty masses. Last night, we went to the opposite end of the spectrum, visiting the new ACL Live at Moody’s Theatre comfortably tucked into the W Hotel. It is [...]

Welcome to South by Southwest! Spring arrived in sunny Austin, Texas to welcome the music industry after a week of technology and film festivities. Tuesday was the official start of the music leg, but the meat of the presentation will be served later in the week. There were a few panels to munch on during [...]

For it’s 8th year, Montreal’s Osheaga Festival will welcome headliners the Cure, Mumford & Sons and Phoenix. This year’s festival will take place August 2-4 at Parc Jean-Drapeau in the city. Other notable acts in the eclectic lineup include New Order, the Lumineers, Vampire Weekend, Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Alt-J, Gaslight Anthem, Father [...]

As is usually the case, the lineups for the Reading and Leeds music festivals are shaping up to be among the biggest of the European festivals this year with Nine Inch Nails, Eminem and Green Day announced as performers. Other notable artists this year include Fall Out Boy, Phoenix, Skrillex, Alt-J, Tame Impala, Johnny Marr, [...]

The Watershed Festival will once again be bringing country music to the Pacific Northwest, this time featuring Brad Paisley, Toby Keith and Luke Bryan. The festival is held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash., the same venue that hosts the popular Sasquatch Festival. This year’s Watershed event will be held August 2-4. Other notable [...]