The 2013 edition of the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is officially in the books. The craziness that descended on Austin for the week brought the music industry and all its glory. There were thousands of bands playing in hundreds of venues in this drunken orgy of music. This was our first year covering [...]

John Legend is busily putting the finishing touches on his fourth studio album entitled Love in the Future. Its release date is still a mystery (rumor is he’s aiming for a spring release), but it mark’s Legends first release since his 2010 collaboration with the Roots Wake Up! The first single off the new album [...]

Dave Grohl asked PJ Harvey to join the remaining members of Nirvana to cover one of the group’s tracks, he reveals to NME, but the British singer was unable to do so. In an interview with the magazine, Grohl was asked if he would ever play a Nirvana track live. “Every once in a while [...]

Barbra Streisand will head to Europe later this year to continue support of her most recent album. Streisand, who played a handful of U.S. dates late last year, will visit the O2 Arena in London on June 1. On June 6, she will appear at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, then she will travel to [...]

Thom Yorke is a genius, or maybe just a bit odd. Not quite as odd as he looks, but odd enough to consistently surprise with the musical decisions he makes. About the only thing you can be sure of going into a new release– no matter what band he is playing with– is that your [...]

Next month, Prince will head out on a residency tour of the west coast that will find him playing four shows in two days at each city he visits. The trek will begin at the Vogue in Vancouver, where Prince will perform two shows each on April 15 and April 16. He will perform the [...]

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 [...]

Matchbox Twenty and the Goo Goo Dolls will team up this summer for a co-headlining tour. The nearly two-month long tour will kick off June 25 in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Verizon Wireless Arena, and the tour will continue through an August 18 show at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Mass. Other cities on [...]

Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer, which are relatively unknown in the U.S., have been picked to open up for One Direction on the latter band’s world tour. “Soooo excited to announce our mates @5Secsofsummer are supporting us on tour!” tweeted One Direction member Louis Tomlinson announcing the news. One direction currently is touring Britain, [...]

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 [...]