Austin City Limits Announces 2013 Line Up The other Austin, Texas festival – Austin City Limits – has announced the line up for their Coachella-inspired double festival weekend, kicking off October 4-6 and October 11-13 at Zilker Park. The headliners...
Justin Bieber Fan Wants a Hug, Instead We Get Chaos on Stage Justin Bieber with the lead headline – this blog has gone to the dogs. Don’t worry, we’ll post more great songs today to make up for it (note:...
Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dies This funny and happy blog has turned into the depressing 6 o’clock news it seems. Yesterday we told you news of Mac Daddy from Kris Kross dying. Today, we have news about metal band Slayer...
Mac Daddy Dies 90s teen rappers Kris Kross have had one of their two members suddenly die. Chris Kelly (aka Mac Daddy) died in an Atlanta hospital last night at the age of 34 (via Consequence of Sound). No cause...
Beck to Release Acoustic Album Beck released the literally DIY album Song Reader last year, and is following that up with an acoustic album and a small tour. A press release noted “..these very special performances will feature never before...
Reunions and Coming Out of Hibernation Yesterday, there was a slew of announcements regarding acts that had broken up or people thought were not recording again. Indie rock fans were over the sea moon when they heard that Neutral Milk...
No Parole for Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Last night at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary film festival, I saw Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer. Since I read music news pretty much all day, I knew a decent amount about the Russian...
Twitter #MUSIC boss jumps ship Yeah… about that whole #MUSIC app thing? Well, not sure what this says about the whole project, but the brains behind it just LEFT THE COMPANY. Probably not good – right? Kevin Thau has joined...
Cannes to Screen Amy Winehouse Doc Documentary maker (or documentarian for those fancy folks) Asif Kapadia is teaming with Universal Music to make a documentary about the late Amy Winehouse (via Hollywood Reporter). The film will be shown at Cannes,...
Woodstock Performer Richie Havens Passes Away Richie Havens is a good name for remember for future games of Trivial Pursuit (assuming that game still exists). If you don’t know who he is, he was the first performer at the original...
It’s true – at midnight April 20th, the first track from Random Access Memories will be released. Get Lucky is a collaboration b/w Daft Punk, pop super-producer Pharrell Williams, and pop super-producer/guitar legend Nile Rodgers. There are only a handful...
The Stone Roses Get Demoted The Stone Roses somewhat surprisingly were named headliners of Coachella, despite audiences in America not quite knowing WHO THE HELL THEY ARE. Without an explanation, Coachella has swapped the Manchester legends’ Friday night headlining spot...
There’s a New Venue in Toronto Having too many music venues is not really a problem a city can have. Well, let me add “a city where bands like to tour.” Thankfully, lots of bands come to Toronto, and thankfully,...
New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience 2013 Lands PJ, NIN and HTDA Okay, I got a little lazy in the headline, so let me expand my acronyms. It’s the 15th anniversary of the New Orleans festival, Voodoo Experience. They somehow roped in...
What You Missed at Coachella You probably weren’t at Coachella. I definitely wasn’t at Coachella. Why would I go and see some bands like Stone Roses, Blur, and Red Hot Chili Peppers when I’ve never heard of them?! As usual,...
