Avett Brothers

Newport Folk Festival 2009 (more by Jim Brueckner) Newport Folk Festival will be happening again at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 31st and August 1st…

DOWNLOAD: The Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin (Live On WOXY) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Low Anthem – Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From? (Live On WOXY) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Low Anthem – This God Damn House (Live On WOXY) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Low Anthem – Cage The Songbird (Live On WOXY) (MP3) The Low Anthem and Timber Timbre (Toronto’s Taylor Kirk) team up for a tour after SXSW (which they’ll both attend)…

After a hectic day of updating the constantly updating Bonnaroo lineup page, the entire thing has been announced. Gwar, Norah Jones, and the rest of the lineup below…

The lineup to the 2010 Bonnaroo Festival is being announced today, but not all at once. Bands playing the the festival will each be announcing themselves one by one…

Wow…Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Fever Ray, Devo, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Mew, Camera Obscura, Gil Scott-Heron, The xx, John Waters, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deer Tick, Gary Numan…

Happy Holidays! I take on more than I can handle. That results in a lot of unposted content. In the name of catching up, while also taking it easy during this final week of the year, here’s some of that lost material…

Best of 2009: Top 10 Amazon Picks1) Neko Case 2) Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3) Phoenix 4) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 5) The Avett Brothers 6) Girls 7) Animal Collective 8) K’Naan 9) Jay-Z 10) Camera ObscuraTwo of Amazon’s Top 10 bands are playing shows in NYC tonight (11/6): Girls and Yeah Yeah Yeahs…

The Avett Brothers are on tour and played a show at the big Terminal 5 on Saturday night (10/17). More pictures from that show, below…

“…And to think it almost didn’t happen. When the festival‘s future was in question earlier this year, original executive producer George Wein took back the reins and scrambled to fill two days with an impressive lineup that appealed, in producer Jay Sweet’s words, to “the musical omnivore…

“Half a century ago, Pete Seeger helped found the Newport Folk Festival, a weekend notorious for its dichotomies- Rhode Island high society and scrappy folk singers, old time traditions and new sounds, social rebellion and responsible activism…