Today the 36th annual Beale Street Music Festival wrapped up, and unlike in years past we made it through the weekend without the slightest hint of rain. Of course, rain probably would have been pretty welcome on a day like today, with temperatures peaking in the mid-90s. The mid day crowd seemed thinner than in [...]

The Beale Street Music Festival was still muggy from the dense humidity on Saturday afternoon, but the clouds kindly tucked away the sun to provide some relief to the music revelers. The day was jam packed with acts across the musical spectrum on each of the three main stages and the lower profile Blues Tent. [...]

Jane’s Addiction was the main headliner for the Saturday installment of the Beale Street Festival in Memphis, trumping acts like the incomparable Al Green, Pitbull, and Grace Potter for headlining honors. Jane’s Addiction is currently touring in support of their October 2011 release, “The Great Escape Artist” though it’s difficult to tell when you unwind [...]

The 36th Annual Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival kicked off in stellar fashion on Friday, with the likes of Three Six Mafia, Megadeth, and My Morning Jacket performing. Tom Lee Park is an ideal setting for a festival, grazing Beale Street at its most northern point and stretching lazily down the Mississippi River [...]

As night firmly settled in on day one of the Beale Street Festival in Memphis the heat didn’t seem to get the memo. Temps were still cresting 80 degrees as Evanescence wrapped their set just after midnight. The warm temperatures certainly didn’t keep the crowd away as they packed in ever tighter to see this [...]

So Coachella is officially in full swing this weekend and next. While we don’t have the pleasure of sweating it out in the toasty California sun and getting beer spilled on us, we can experience the next best thing – streaming of select shows in HD from the comfort of your computer. This is a [...]

The one thing the Toadlick Music Festival has been missing is healthy dose of estrogen. I’m not talking about the women in attendance. They showed up in full force to sing, dance and generally moon over some of country’s best looking men like Dierks Bentley and Billy Currington. I’m talking about the performers. Of the [...]

The rain subsided and the sun elbowed through the clouds as country music’s rising star, Jake Owen took the stage on Day 2 of Dothan, Alabama’s Toadlick Music Festival. The crowd, who was milling about following the conclusion of Sawyer Brown’s set, quickly filled in to sing along to the Florida native’s current single “Anywhere [...]

Not even the threat of tornados could keep the crowd away for day two of the Toadlick Music Festival in Dothan, Alabama. The day awoke to heavy downpour with the weather forecast calling for rain pretty much all day. While the rain did have its way with the town in the early part of the [...]

The inaugural Toadlick Music Festival kicked off yesterday afternoon in Dothan, Alabama. Its bill features some of country music’s brightest up-and-coming stars as well as iconic names like none other than Randy Travis. After taking in a solid set by Atlanta-based southern rockers Blackberry Smoke, Randy Travis was set to take the main stage at [...]