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The Lockdown Interviews • Hen Ogledd
Given the turbulent, truly batshit-crazy year that we’ve all just staggered through, it was easy to overlook a lot of great, often idiosyncratic albums that continued to be released, pandemic be damned. And we’d like to pause, catch our mask-in-place breath, and bring you up to speed on a few obscure aural delights you might […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 21st -January 24th
Bandsintown Plus presents an exclusive Phoebe Bridgers performance and Q+A from Los Angeles on Thursday, January 21s at 8 PM. Sign up for Bandsintown Plus to watch. “The Hives Present: The World’s First World Wide Web World Tour 2021″ kicks off on Thursday with a live show in Berlin. Fans will have the chance […]
Featured: Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon • The Impossible Tour
For many enterprising artists, live-streaming concerts from home during last year’s pandemic lockdown became a requisite new skill that demanded mastering; finding a way to implement several online platforms to your benefit when touring was no longer possible. But for Dream Syndicate bandleader Steve Wynn and his drummer wife Linda Pitmon, it had a cold, […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz January 12th – January 17th
Country singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen celebrates the release of his second album, Dangerous: The Double Album, with a live stream from Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Tuesday, January 12th at 8 PM. The show is free to watch on his Facebook and YouTube channel. Pinegrove is holding a pre-release charity screening of their upcoming movie, Amperland, NY, […]
Spins: Taylor Swift • evermore
Taylor Swift evermore (Taylor Swift) Despite the roller-coaster year that was 2020, it seems that nothing can stop Taylor Swift from doing what she does best. Swift dropped her surprising second no-skip album of the year in early December, somehow managing to display her own genius yet again. Continuing the contemporary alternative writing of her […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz December 17 – December 20
Audiotree: Staged presents Chicago punk rock trio Meat Wave live from Lincoln Hall on Thursday, December 17th at 8 PM. Tickets available here. Grandson’s Death of An Optimist: The Movie features never before seen footage from the studio, the road, and the grandkids, along with the live debut of his new album, Death of an Optimist. […]
Hello My Name is…Exene
It’s not like Exene Cervenka, and her bandmates in the Los Angeles proto-punk quartet X are just sitting around their respective houses, idly twiddling their thumbs this enforced-lockdown December. But they are coming to surreal grips with the fact that for this Yuletide season, at least, they will not be the hardest-working band on the […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz – December 1st – December 5th
Punk rockers Salem will stream a socially distanced show presented by Kerrang’s K! Pit Tuesday, December 1st at 12 PM. Watch it for free on their Facebook page. Clint Black and wife Lisa Hartman Black will perform live from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee Wednesday, December 2nd at 8 PM. Get tickets […]
Spins: U2 – “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” • Super Deluxe Vinyl Box Set
U2 All That You Can’t Leave Behind Super Deluxe vinyl box set (Island/Interscope/UMe) During the year 2000, U2 was a band on a mission. After the perceived disappointment of 1997’s experimental and techno-friendly Pop (an album that went “merely” platinum in the United States), the Irish quartet were determined to reclaim their signature sound–and with […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 24th – December 1st
Tim McGraw and Justin Moore will perform fan favorites and sit down for a chat with Radio.Com LIVE Tuesday, November 24that 5 PM. Watch for free here. “The 16th Annual Last Waltz Revisited” goes live from the Boulder Theater Wednesday, November 25that 7 PM. Watch the show here. Danny Brown’s seventh annual “Bruiser Thanksgiving” […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 17 – November 23
Yungblud’s The Weird Time of Life virtual tour kicks off its European leg this week. The singer will perform from Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Dublin, and Berlin starting Tuesday, November 17that 11 AM. You can get tickets here. Catch Edwin McCain and Lauren Hall at “2020 Sucks: A City Paper Streaming Concert for Charleston,” a benefit […]
Stage Buzz: Livestream Buzz November 10th – November 14th
Halsey celebrates the release of her poetry book, I Would Leave Me if I Could, with a special livestream Tuesday, November 10that 5 PM. Pre-order a copy of her book and show proof of purchase to get a ticket. 311 will perform songs from their debut album Music live from their Hive studio in LA Wednesday, November 11that […]
Spins: Bobby Bare • Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus
Bobby Bare Bobby Bare Sings Shel Silverstein Plus (Bear Family) Country music superstar Bobby Bare’s career spans more than six staggering decades, with an extensive catalog peppered with hits from the heyday of American radio from the late ’50s to the mid-’80s. Bare’s 1958 #2 single “The All American Boy” (errantly credited to Bill Parsons) […]
Spins: Paul McCartney • McCartney 50th Anniversary Half Speed Master
Paul McCartney McCartney 50th Anniversary Half-Speed Master (UMe/MPL/Capitol) Paul McCartney’s debut solo album McCartney followed releases by all three of his Beatles bandmates and arrived a month before the band’s 1970 swan-song release Let it Be. This 50thanniversary reissue made its own debut with September’s Record Store Day Drop and now remains available in a […]
Spins: Credence Clearwater Revival • Cosmos Factory
Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo’s Factory (Craft) In a brief career littered with highlights, most fans point to CCR’s fifth album as its best. Cosmo’s Factoryarrived in July 1970 with a feel-good country-folk single “Lookin’ Out My Back Door.” The LP produced six top-ten hits and spent nine weeks atop the Billboard albums chart, toppling chart rivals […]
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