• Forecastle 2015 Lineup: Sam Smith, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Widespread Jacket Headlining

    With the Snowmageddon 2015 all bluster and hype (unless you live in Boston), summer feels like it's practically around the corner. If you haven't spent all of your festival money so far, another outdoor massive is looking for your time and cash this summer. Louisville, Kentucky based festival, Forecastle, has released the first wave of artists who will be performing this summer. Louisville's own My Morning Jacket, in addition to Modest Mouse, Sam Smith and Widespread Panic, will headline the Kentucky festival.

  • 8 Album Covers With A Childhood Photo Of The Artist

    Childhood is generally not the most badass part of a person's life, which is why childhood photos are often brought out by your parents when they feel like embarrassing you. However, these eight artists embraced these childhood photos, and ended up using them to create iconic album covers.

  • 'Run the Jewels 2' Review: Spencer Tweedy Drops Praise for Hip-Hop Album

    Spencer Tweedy — son of Wilco's Jeff — recently participated in a musicians-review-musicians project for The Talkhouse, dropping expletive-laden praise for hip-hop's hottest album. He chose to take a close look at Killer Mike and El-P's modern hip-hop classic "Run the Jewels 2," and if that sounds like an odd selection, the intro is an even bigger curveball. "Neil Young is an out-of-touch motherf----r," the review begins. After some lengthy Young-centric misdirection, Tweedy arrives at his point: Run the Jewels is the antithesis to Young. They are actually edgy.

  • Wilco Announces Tour Dates, Box Set For 20th Anniversary

    Consequence of Sound reports that in celebration of their 20th anniversary, alt-country superstars Wilco have announced a brief string of US tour dates at the end of October, starting in Nashville on Oct. 21 and ending in Port Chester, NY on Oct. 29, with an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 27. In addition to this tour, they’ve also announced plans for their first ever compilation.

  • Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Announces Fall Tour Dates [FULL SCHEDULE]

    Pitchfork reports that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has announced a tour of the US and Europe in support of his upcoming album Sukierae, which he recorded with his new band Tweedy, featuring his 18-year-old son Spencer on drums. The tour kicks off in Athens, Georgia on Sept. 19 and ends in Leuven, Belgium on Nov. 15. In addition to the Tweedy tour dates, Wilco will also be playing four dates at the beginning of September in Ohio and Virginia.
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