The Nashville incarnation of Zac Brown’s Southern Grounds festival will be back for a second time later this year, and will feature Willie Nelson and Grace Potter, among others. Those are just the a few of the artists that will appear at the two-day festival, and when Zac Brown Band performs at the close of [...]

It’ll be like 1996 all over again this summer when the Counting Crows and the Wallflowers head out on a North American co-headlining tour. The nearly month-and-a-half long tour will kick off June 14 at the Pennysaver Amphitheater in Farmingville, New York and will continue through a July 21 show at the Orange County Fair [...]

This year’s second incarnation of the Under the Influence tour will feature Wiz Khalifa, A$AP Rocky and B.o.B, along with a slew of special guests. The expanded version of the tour this year will hit 20 cities in North America, starting at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on July 17. The trek will [...]

Adam Ant has put together a fairly extensive North American tour later this year that will keep him on the road from July to September. The trek will kick off at the National Grove of Anaheim on July 19 in Anaheim, California, and will continue through a September 20 show at the Hard Rock Cafe [...]

Carly Rae Jepsen and Leonard Cohen were the big winners at last night’s Juno Awards. The awards, of course, are essentially Canada’s answer to the Grammys, and Jepsen took home a total of three awards. Cohen took home one, but it was one of the night’s biggest: songwriter of the year. This year marks the [...]

Bob Dylan still tours pretty extensively, particularly as a man of a certain age. And when new dates for his so-called “Never Ending Tour” are announced once or twice a year, they typically include a relatively strong support act or two, but it’s rare that a truly impressive lineup for a string of Dylan shows [...]

Relationships are like a double-sided coin for Taylor Swift. As with anyone who is not currently married, all of Swift’s relationships have resulted in a break-up thus far – inspiring plenty of heartache, but also creativity. There are many talented songwriters who channel tumultuous emotions into effective songwriting, or at least in Taylor Swift’s case [...]

Almost Famous is one of the finest music-oriented dramas ever. In addition to its brilliant casting and superb original soundtrack, its success hinged largely on director and writer Cameron Crowe, who used a hefty amount of anecdotal inspiration to create characters like William, the bright-eyed protagonist, and Penny Lane, the mysteriously beautiful groupie of the [...]

Renowned just as much for their hedonistic behavior as their hair metal, Motley Crue are one of the true survivors of the 80s rock scene. But after a 30-year career plagued by drug addiction, alcoholism, prison time and in-fighting, the notorious hell-raisers have recently hinted that they intend to go their separate ways for good [...]

In today’s public service announcement, please protect your ears. They’re the only two you’ve got and as Baz Luhrmann would say you’ll miss them when they are gone. I know you’ve walked out of many a concert and couldn’t hear yourself speak. You crash in the bed only to wake up the following morning to [...]