Frank Ocean on for Drake’s OVO Festival, Who Might Mystery Guests Be?
Drake’s OVO festival will be back for a fourth straight year this summer, and this time will feature Frank Ocean, James Blake and “special guests.” The festival will be held August 4-5, a Sunday and Monday, strangely, at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto. Ocean and Blake will headline the first night, with Drake taking [...]
Fall Out Boy, Violent Femmes, Motorhead Rock Chicago’s Riot Fest 2013
Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, Motorhead, Violent Femmes and Rancid will be among the big names playing this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago. This is the eighth year of the event, and the three-day festival will be held in the city’s Humboldt Park September 13-15. This is a change from last year’s version, which split [...]
Icona Pop Bring the Love to American Audiences in August
Swedish duo Icona Pop currently have the number one single in America with “I Love It,” and they’ll be bringing that song to audiences around the country in a newly announced summer tour. The group has a handful of festival appearances scheduled for early June and then in early August, but their headlining tour won’t [...]
Linkin Park Come Out of Hiding for Sunset Strip Music Festival
Linkin Park will be keeping a pretty low profile for the rest of the year, but they will come out of hiding to headline the sixth annual Sunset Strip Festival in Los Angeles this summer. As per usual, the festival will take place directly on the famed Sunset Strip in L.A., with two stages set [...]
Wu-Tang Clan, Bone Thugs, Eazy-E Hologram Highlight Rock the Bells 2013
How can you tell it’s 2013? Because a festival later this year will be headlined by holograms. That’s right, the biggest names on this year’s Rock the Bells festival tour are hologram versions of the late Eazy-E and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard. The former will…umm…rejoin Bone Thugs N Harmony, while ODB will also be [...]
Diana Ross Takes Greatest Hits on the Road with August Concerts
Diana Ross will set out on a tour of the U.S. beginning in August. The legendary singer will start her new trek on August 2 at the Fantasy Springs Resort in Palm Springs, California, and will continue through a September 13 date at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Other cities Ross will visit [...]
Layne Staley’s Mom Sues Alice in Chains for Back Royalties
The mother of late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley is suing the band, claiming they owe her royalties from the band’s hits. Nancy McCallum, Staley’s mother, claims in a lawsuit that the group owes her half of the money due to Staley, which is about 16 percent of the group’s income, according to the [...]
My Bloody Valentine, MGMT, TV on the Radio Travel to LA’s FYF Fest
My Bloody Valentine and Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline a stellar indie rock lineup at this year’s FYF Fest in Los Angeles. This year’s festival will take place August 24-25 at the L.A. State Historic Park. Other notable names that will appear at the festival include MGMT, TV on the Radio, Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, The [...]
She & Him ‘Volume 3′ Album Review
With Volume 3, the duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward return with fourteen more sugary-sweet folk-pop confections. She & Him’s third volume continues to flaunt their authentic replication of sun-drenched ‘60s easy-listening. Deschanel has earned plenty of criticism for her quirky acting portrayals, which some find tiresome and repetitive, but it’s hard to deny [...]
Aretha Franklin Cancels Chicago, Foxwoods Casino Concerts
Aretha Franklin has canceled two upcoming shows due to “medical reasons.” The 71-year-old Queen of Soul canceled a May 20 appearance with the Chicago Symphony orchestra as well as a solo performance at the Foxwoods Resort Casino on May 26. No official word has been released by the singer or her camp, and the cancellation [...]
