Joe Satriani

Plus: LCD Soundsystem, Jeff Rosenstock, Lost Dog Street Band, Show Me the Body, Band of Horses, Welcome To Rockville and more tour and festival news.

Saturday’s NYC-area shows include We Are The Union, Imperial Teen, Chris Thile & Michael Daves, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and more.

Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Pusha T, Metric, Rakim, Kilo Kish, Robert Glasper, Eyehategod, Militarie Gun, and more.

Plus: Interpol / Spoon, Teenage Wrist, These Arms Are Snakes, Elton John, Craven Idol, Angel Olsen, Foo Fighters, The National, Kraftwerk, Voivod, and more tour and festival news.

Mark Knopfler, John Mellencamp, The War on Drugs, Nathaniel Rateliff, Steve Martin, Leon Bridges, Graham Nash have also donated instruments to the National Independent Talent Organization’s charity auction…

Paul Stanley and Joe Satriani have paid tribute to their former collaborator.

Dave Mustaine makes his ‘Experience Hendrix’ debut (which also includes Joe Satriani, Band of Gypsys’ Billy Cox, Taj Mahal, and more), plus 2-Tone ska vets The Selecter, The Bouncing Souls, Amy Schumer, and more tour news.

Todd’s also on tour this spring.

With the greatest possible respect to Joe Satriani, we have now unfortunately found it necessary to respond publicly to his allegations. If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental, and just as surprising to us as to him…