In a recent interview with Stereogum, members of The National released information on the next compilation in the Red Hot charity series, a collection of Grateful Dead covers curated by the band.After the success of Dark Was The Night, produced by The Nationals Dessner brothers and featuring a slew of big indie artists contributing...

Iron & Wines Sam Beam was the final contributor to 2015'sA.V. Club Undercover Series, where artists choose from a list of songs to cover live. As the year goes on, the choices become fewer, and songs typically get weirder.Needless to say, Beams take on the track strips the violent, visual-oriented song to a...

Ween will be reuniting for two shows in Colorado this February, the bands first dates together since breaking up in 2012.The band will play two concerts at the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield, Colorado over Presidents Day Weekend, February 12 and 13, their first dates since a farewell show in Denver on New Years Eve in 2012.According...

Thundercat is an especially reflective artist, every recording the man touches seeming to leak emotions and feeling, the virtuoso bassist and mastermind producer combining jazz, funk, R&B and psychedelic tones for an always unique listening experience.A true artist at heart, it should come as no surprise that Thundercat quickly recorded a piece...

Drive-By Truckers performed two consecutive nights at Thalia Hall this weekend, playing massive sets. The band played 22 songs on Friday and 23 on Saturday, yet only repeated four tracks between the two nights.For fans of any band, 41 distinct songs performed between two sets is about all you can ask for.It almost needs to be...

The Wood Brothers performed a pair of new songs for radio station Radio Woodstock just days after the release of their newest album, Paradise.Opening with Never And Always, the trio boasts a soulful, R&B-inflicted flare, blending genres to nail the sound theyve perfected over the last decade.After a short interview, the...

The Wood Brothers- Paradise [10/2]The newest record from The Wood Brothers refines their folk-rock sound to a smooth, polished consistency, resulting in one of their best albums to date. The songs seem deceptively simple, packed with careful layers of guitars and catchy vocal hooks from Olivers distinctive delivery. The band now includes a percussionist as...

David Bowie has officially confirmed that his new studio album Blackstar will be released January 8, on Bowies birthday. The first single is out November 20, and expectations are high.Though Bowie has been busy working on Lazarus, his upcoming stage show based on the interstellar sci-fi 70s film The Man Who Fell To The Earth, which...

I drapedlast year's edition of this post with a love letter to the perfect marriage between city, venue, band and fan base that is the annual fall WSP Milwaukee Riverside Theater run.Feel free to go back and read that for background, but this year there are more pressing matters at hand...First, this could...

By: Philamonjaro StudioThe New Mastersounds returned to Chicago to a full house of diehard fans Saturday October 17th at Concord Music Hall.Local opening act The Heard stirred up the dance floor with their own brand ofhorns-layeredfunk to set the mood for a great night.Guitarist Eddie Roberts fondly reminisced that the band's first concert...