Thao and The Get Down Stay Down

Intellectual rock music is difficult to come by these days. Luckily, we have The National, a band defined by dark, sensible lyrics that actually make you think…

Outside Lands 2012 (more by Amoreena Lucero) Lollapalooza and Osheaga are behind us, but the summer festivals keep rolling on with San Francisco’s Outside Lands this weekend (8/9-8/…

It wasn’t just the Foxygen Show at Hudson River Park’s Pier 84 on Thursday (7/26). Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, who have been touring their pants off in support of new album, We The Common, were also on the River Rocks bill. Pi…

The Moog Sound Lab is a video series where bands and artists are invited to perform in the Moog Music factory in Asheville, North Carolina…

today in NYC * Andy Statman @ Barbes * Song of Zebulon @ Barbes * Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl * Neon Legion @ Mercury Lounge * ‘Rock n’ Roll High School’ @ Videology * A Hawk and a Hacksaw @ Lincoln Center * Eat Skull, Modra, The Abandos @ The Flat * Zapp Band, D-Nice @ Brooklyn Bridge Park * oOoOO, Selebrities, Dark Sister @ Glasslands * Buckcherry, Heaven’s Basement @ Irving Plaza * Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers @ Beacon Theater * Marcel Dettmann, Steffi, Anthony Parasole @ Output * pacificUV, Lazyeyes, Ski Lodge, Coastgaard @ Pianos * Hikashu, Libel, The Suzan, Racing Heart @ Muchmore’s * Wayne Horvitz and Sweeter Than The Day @ The Stone * Friend Roulette, EULA, Matty Fasano @ Mercury Lounge * Malaikat dan Singa, Dan Higgs, PC Worship @ Cake Shop * Desert Stars, Howth, Carroll, Pinegrove @ Cameo Gallery * Natural Child, Liquor Store, Daddy Long Legs @ Brooklyn Bowl * Yarn/Wire, Peter Evans, Tyondai Braxton @ Issue Project Room * Total Control, Raspberry Bulbs, Crazy Spirit, Survival @ 285 Kent * Sarah Jarosz, Chris Trapper, Trumpeter Swan @ Rockwood Music Hall * Terveet Kadet, Iron Lung, Massgrav, Wake, Lotus Fucker @ Saint Vitus Bar * The Mohawk Lodge, Life Size Maps, Bennio Qwerty, Slothbear @ Big Snow * Beware of Darkness, Peanut Butter Lovesicle @ The Studio at Webster Hall * Wayne Horvitz and the Royal Room Collective Music Ensemble @ The Stone * Dead Confederate, Roadkill Ghost Choir, Bugs in the Dark @ Knitting Factory * Diamond Terrifier, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Kirin J Calinan @ Silent Barn * Chris Gethard, Shellshag, Little Seizures, Ape Hangers, GDP @ Death By Audio * Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps, Xenia Rubinos, Cold Blood Club @ Union Pool * ISM, The Minor Cuts, Up For Nothing, The New Scum, The Broken Spines @ The Paper Box * Sky White Tiger, My Pet Dragon, My Midnight Heart, Herra Terra, Behaviors @ Bowery Electric * United States of Bass w/ Big Freedia, Drop the Lime, DJ Spinn, DJ Rashad, Salva, JWOW, Egyptian Lover, Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Assault @ Santos Party House * Norah Jones, Patrick Carney (of The Black Keys), Jason Isbell, Butch Walker & The Black Widows, Cory Chisel, Delta Spirit, Johnny T, Adam Green @ Bowery Ballroom Follow @BrooklynVegan on Twitter. Follow @b…

The 2013 ACL Festival happens in Austin, TX on two consecutive weekends: October 4 – 6 and October 11 – 13. Weekend passes are on sale now and the full line-up is below…

As mentioned on BrooklynVegan, the 2013 ACL Festival (10 4 – 10/6; 10/11 – 10/13) was just announced, with Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Vampire Weekend, The National, Phoenix, Wilco and many more among the acts playing this year…

We reported some Seaport Music Festival news earlier and now the free, annual River Rocks series (for the second year on Pier 84) has announced it’s 2013 line-up…

Outside Lands Fest 2012 (more byAmoreena Lucero) The 2013 edition of San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival with happen at Golden Gate Park on August 9 – 11…

Thao at MHOW in 2010 (more by Amanda Hatfield) As mentioned, the new Thao & the Get Down Stay Down album, We the Common, came out this week (2/5) via the Domino affiliated Ribbon Music, and in March the band will head out on a previously discussed tour with Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, which hits NYC on March 22 at Bowery Ballroom…