Joan Osborne

Joan Osborne, Lee Ranaldo, Robyn Hitchcock & more celebrated City Winery's final night on Varick St

Joseph Arthur, Jill Sobule, Teddy Thompson, Rhett Miller, Jill Hennessy, James Maddock and Brian Mitchell also helped celebrate City Winery’s final night on Varick St, covering Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Patti Smith and others.

tours announced: Charly Bliss, Lithics, Ryley Walker, The Color Fred, more

Plus: the Philly Folk Fest lineup, Wyclef Jean, The Roots, Iron Chic/Toys That Kill, Brodequin, and more tour-related news.

15 of Julien Baker's most awesome covers and collaborations

In addition to her own great music, Julien Baker has a real knack for doing great covers and collaborations. Here are some of our favorites, including collabs with Manchester Orchestra, Frightened Rabbit, Sharon Van Etten, Touche Amore, and Ben Gibbard, covers of Jawbreaker, The Postal Service, Elliott Smith, and Springsteen, and more.

Clearwater Fest is back in 2017 (Arlo Guthrie, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Alejandro Escovedo, more)

Croton, NY’s Clearwater Festival had to take 2016 off due to financial troubles, but it’ll be back in 2017 and the lineup is already looking pretty great…

Jenny Lewis added to Alex Bleeker's Grateful Dead tribute at City Winery Chicago (which is in Dead mode all week)

Grateful Dead mania is in full force, with the California shows right behind us (pictures, recap, setlist) and the Chicago shows coming up this week…

Mavis Staples has a new EP, an HBO documentary on the way & touring with Patty Griffin, Joan Osborne ++ other dates

Mavis Staples has a PACKED schedule through the end of the year. From May 29 (when she appears at Ohio’s Nelsonville Music Fest) through November (when she plays some shows in Florida), she’ll have been to many corners of North America, and will have visited the UK as well…

Arcade Fire's Win Butler & Regine Chassagne, Tweedy, Glen Hansard, Gregg Allmann, more playing Mavis Staples tribute

Mavis in NYC in 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Legendary Chicago R&B/soul singer Mavis Staples turned 75 this year and in honor of that she’ll be celebrated in her hometown with the concert “I’ll Take You There: Celebrating 75 Years of Mavis Staples” on November 19 at Auditorium Thea…

XPoNential Music Festival 2014 lineup & tix (Beck, Ryan Adams, Band of Horses, The Hold Steady, Old 97's & more)

The Hold Steady on Pier 26 in 2013 (more by Tracy Allison) The 2014 XPoNential Music Festival happens from July 25 – 27, and like last year includes music at Camden, NJ’s Susquehanna Bank Center and Wiggins Park…
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