On Bob Dylan's birthday, Emily Haines, Peter Wolf, Steve Buscemi, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Laurie Anderson and more recreated Bob's first ever concert at NYC's Town Hall.
Bob Dylan first played NYC's Town Hall on April 12, 1963, and in celebration of that show's 55th anniversary and Bob Dylan's 77th birthday, there will be a Dylan tribute at Town Hall on May 24 titled "Tomorrow is a Long Time." Mark Kozelek, Laurie Anderson, Metric's Emily Haines, Peter Wolf, Joan as Police Woman, Teddy Thompson and more will perform songs from that Dylan Town Hall show,..
The 9th annual Brooklyn Folk Festival takes place April 28 - 30 at St. Ann's Church. This year's lineup includes The Last Poets, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton, Willie Watson, Jim Kweskin, Anna & Elizabeth, Rev. Billy And The Stop Shopping Choir, Peter Stampfel, and more.
The 14th annual Pop Montreal festival will take place September 16 - 20, 2015 at venues all over the Quebec City. The initial lineup of bands has just been announced and includes Built to Spill, Giorgio Moroder, The Cribs, Mikal Cronin, Godflesh, Will Butler, Babes in Toyland, Thurston Moore, Stars of the Lid, Cannibal Ox and more...
As previously discussed, Antony, Kembra Pfahler, Johanna Constantine, and Cocorosie's Bianca and Sierra Casady have joined forces to form 'Future Feminism', "a call to arms to reorganize ourselves as a species and affirm archetypally feminine values...
Literary and postmodern icon William S Burroughs, who died in 1997, would have turned 100 this year and there are Centenary celebration events happening all over the world...
At the encouragement of Bob Dylan, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg went into the studio in 1971 to record his first ever album of music. He then re-entered the studio in 1976 and 1981 and finally in 1983 he compiled all of the recordings (which featured contributions from Dylan, members of his band, and Arthur Russell, and was produced by John Hammond...