Special calls were made to whatever beach Jack Johnson happened to be sitting on this week, and the laid-back musician was called up to the big leagues to headline Bonnaroo on Saturday night in place of Mumford & Sons. The latter band had to pull out of their scheduled appearance due to bassist Ted Dwane’s [...]

Chimaira has announced a new headlining tour starting late next month to support its upcoming new album. Both the tour and the album have been dubbed “Crown of Phantoms,” and the group will kick things off at the Empire in Springfield, Va. on July 26. The tour will then run through an August 25 show [...]

Sasquatch Music Festival started out 12 years ago as a simple, one-day music festival that had grown to a four-day, nationally renowned event when it was held last month. Because of that growth, organizers have announced that next year’s event will be spread out over two weekends. While festivals expanding to two weekends are not [...]

John Fogerty will head out on the road this fall to support his recent new solo album, Wrote a Song for Everyone. The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman will get things started with appearances at the Interlocken Festival in Arrington, Virginia on September 5-8, and then will perform two nights at The Lawn at Riverfront [...]

First Neutral Milk Hotel announces a reunion, and now the Replacements — it’s been a helluva year for long disbanded but legendary indie bands. The Replacements have announced that they will appear at all three versions of Riot Fest this year. The first will be in Toronto (August 24-25), the second will be in Chicago [...]

Boards of Canada’s stunning ability to produce chillingly memorable atmospheres continues with resounding success on their fourth album Tomorrow’s Harvest, the Scottish duo’s first in eight years. Brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin practice extreme patience in their songwriting, resulting in intoxicating soundscapes that range from the starry-eyed serene to the anxiously awaiting. Despite some [...]

The ominous guitar halts of opener “End of the Beginning” play like an apt arrival for a comeback of epic proportions. “Is this the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end?” Ozzy Osbourne asks to kick off Black Sabbath’s first album in 18 years. It’s a question that’s seemingly impossible to answer, [...]

DEAR US & CANADA, I’M COMING FOR YOU! WHO’S IN? So looking forward to getting back out on that long American road… KT x And thus it was announced that KT Tunstall is touring North America this fall. The dates kick off on September 20 with a show at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, [...]

Dave Chappelle has fairly quietly released a slew of upcoming tour dates, a surprising move for the star that has been living something of a reclusive life since walking away from his legendary Comedy Central program, Chappelle’s Show, back in 2006. Things will kick off soon with two shows in Richmond, Virginia on June 15 [...]

Neko Case already has a slew of North American festival appearances planned for the upcoming months, and now she has revealed a headlining tour for the fall. Case’s name will top the bill at shows beginning September 11 at the House of Blues in San Diego, and she’ll stay on the road through an appearance [...]