• Q&A: Baroque Pop King Jacco Gardner At Culture Collide Festival

    If you haven't an idea of Jacco Gardner, think Donovan-like offspring of Pink Floyd and The Zombies. Meeting him, you could be fooled into thinking you're frozen in a 1967 D.A. Pennebaker documentary. Just for a moment. And then you realize he's a fresh artist in his own right. Just 25 and hailing from the Netherlands, he brings an experimental sound that has no limits of where it will go from its past influences.
  • A Perfect Circle Releases New Song: Is New Album Far Behind? [LISTEN]

    A Perfect Circle has a tightly knit compilation of fans that either dig the band's ability to go from stomping menace to melodic lullaby, or they're Tool fans that need something to tide them over until vocalist Maynard James Keenan comes around. Tool hasn't released anything since 2006, and Circle since 2004, so those fans are thirsty for something (Keenan's other band, Puscifer, has put out two albums, but Music Times doesn't find them up to snuff). The kind-of good news is that A Perfect Circle released a new track, "By and Down," on October 14.
  • Culture Collide Festival: Keaton Henson and Liars

    With over 65 acts from countries around the globe, Culture Collide is like the U.N. of Music. The three-day festival has seven venues nestled within Echo Park, LA. There's little room for pretention -- soundchecks happen in front of the audience and artists put their sound and soul on the line for whoever stumbles their way. There's out-door dancing, dark-room discovering, and in some cases, sitting in a church. Keaton Henson and Liars are two standout acts exploring outcast themes, which festival-goers fully embraced from start to finish.
  • Christmas Music Allowed Back in Marshfield, Wisconsin

    The citizens of Marshfield, Wisconsin spoke and the new policy on Religious music has been changed. It didn't take long for news of the school administration's newly written "limitation" on Religious music that would effectively cause all Christmas concerts to be cancelled in Marshfield, Wisconsin schools to reach the town's citizens and the rest of the nation.
  • A tobyMac Auction

    TobyMac will be heading out on the Hits Deep tour soon and he is auctioning off front row tickets, along with the opportunity to meet him before the show...
  • Mandisa 2013 Tour Dates

    Mandisa will be on tour through mid-December, closing out 2013 on a high note. Mandisa will be on tour through mid-December, closing out 2013 on a high note.
  • Rumour Has It Adele Considering Residency in Las Vegas...for $40 Million

    Adele may be performing a slew of dates in the United States next year, but that doesn't mean the British vocalist will be going on tour. According to rumors given to The Sun in London, the "Rolling in The Deep" songstress is fielding offers from several Las Vegas casinos with offers to perform a residency. There's no word on how many shows the gig would entail, but the payment is said to be in the $40 million range. Elton John has been advising Adele in support of the deal, the source added.
  • Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and Eric Church to Headline Stagecoach Festival: Check Out Music Times' Picks

    If you think that Indio Valley, CA. might not fit them theme for one of the year's biggest country music festivals, you might be right. But then again, it'd be wrong of us to deny country musicians access to the same Los Angeles-area weather that's inspired just about every other genre we know of. The Stagecoach Festival just announced its lineup for April 2014, and here's a quick summation of the acts that caught Music Times' eye: