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Drive-By Truckers & Blitzen Trapper played Terminal 5 (pics)

“The Drive-By Truckers show at @Terminal5NYC was a-may-zing.” – Jack Criddle Drive-By Truckers @ T5 – 3/20/14 Alt-country vets Drive-By Truckers put out their tenth album, English Oceans, earlier this month and they’ve been on a tour with the likeminded Blitzen Trapper in support of it…

'Bob Dylan in the 80s' tribute to feature Built to Spill, Deer Tick, Craig Finn, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, more; release show at MHOW

To celebrate the 1980-1990 period of Bob Dylan‘s career, ATO Records will release Bob Dylan in the 80s: Vol. 1 on March 25. The tribute compilation was put together by producers Jesse Lauter (Elvis Perkins, The Low Anthem) and Sean O’Brien (Dawes, PAPA), and features covers and more…

Jeff Tweedy, Damien Marley, Jonathan Wilson, Valerie June, Antibalas & more playing Mountain Jam 2014 (lineup)

Jeff Tweedy w/ Wilco in 2013 (more by PSquared) Upstate, NY jam band festival Mountain Jam is returning this year from June 5 – 8 at Hunter Mountain, and though they’ve got the usual jammy suspects (Bob Weir & Ratdog, Gov’t Mule, Tedeschi Trucks Band, etc), as always, there’s other stuff too like Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy, Damien Marley, Jonathan Wilson, Valerie June, Blitzen Trapper, Antibalas, Treetop Flyers, Lucius, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger and more…

Shaky Knees Festival 2014 lineup announced (The National, Modest Mouse, Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, Spoon & more)

Governors Ball and Hangout Fest lineups were just announced today (and Firefly yesterday and Coachella not long before that), and now comes the lineup announcement for another big fest, Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Festival…

Drive-By Truckers playing Austin & San Antonio on tour

Drive-By Truckers are releasing their 10th studio album, English Oceans, on March 4 via ATO Records. You can listen to its first single, “Pauline Hawkins,” be…

Blitzen Trapper announce new album & tour (dates & stream)

Blitzen Trapper at Newport Folk Fest pre-show in 2012 (more by Jessica Amaya) Portland folk rockers Blitzen Trapper are set to return this year with a new album, VII, on October 1 via Vagrant Records…

Belle & Sebastian played ACL Live w/ Blitzen Trapper (pics)

Belle & Sebastian have been on a tour with Yo La Tengo that recently hit NYC and culminated in both bands’ appearances at Cincinnati’s Bunbury Festival…

Belle & Sebastian playing Moody Theatre in Austin before Pitchfork Fest (presale thursday)

From Belle & Sebastian!…”We announced one additional show today to our tour of the USA in July. Hopefully some of you will keep a space in your diary on the 16th July as we’ll be playing at ACL Live at The Moody Theatre, Austin, TX with Blitzen Trapper…

Hurricane Sandy cancels or postpones almost all of Monday's events in NYC (even Swans)

Hurricane Sandy is finally upon us, with the height of the storm hitting around 6 PM. Like Sunday, mass transit is closed and almost everything is cancelled…

pretty much almost everything in NYC is cancelled tonight (Swans still happening as of this post though)

UPDATE: This post was mostly about Sunday. Monday’s cancellations HERE. We’ll keep you posted, but at the moment, Swans @ Bowery, Sic Alps @ Knitting Factory, and the show at Cake Shop are still listed as happening…
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