The Barr Brothers

Montreal’s The Barr Brothers will release their new album, Queens of the Breakers, on October 13 via Secret City Records. The first single from the album is gorgeous, atmospheric “You Would Have to Lose Your Mind,” which is a great example of the band’s unique sound…

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…

The lineup for Montreal’s Osheaga festival has been announced, and it’s pretty stacked. We already mentioned that Radiohead were reported to be on the bill, and indeed they are, along with Lana Del Rey, Disclosure, M83, Haim, Future, Grimes, Beirut, Leon Bridges, Last Shadow Puppets, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Wolf Parade, Todd Terje and the Olsens, Vince Staples, Whiite Lung and many many more…

The 2015 edition of Pop Montreal is coming up in less than a month (September 16 – 20) and festival organizers have recently made a few additions to the already robust lineup…

UPDATE: IT HAPPENED Rumors are starting to spread that Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is going to be backed at Newport Folk Fest tonight! My Morning Jacket and its members are Newport Folk Fest regulars, but they weren’t on the schedule this year, despite being in the area to play Lewiston two days ago, and Xponential Music Festival in Camden on Saturday…

Pop Montreal has just announced its second round of artists added to the festival’s 2015 lineup. That includes Viet Cong, The Orb, Micachu & the Shapes, The Besnard Lakes, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Lee Ranaldo, Albert Hammond Jr, Empress Of and more…

The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Patrick Watson, Absolutely Free, Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah, Braids, Tobias Jesso Jr an…

SummerStage has been leaking some of the artists playing their 2015 season, also its 30th year, for the last month and today they’ve announced the whole lineup and schedule…

The 2015 Forecastle Festival take place July 17 – 19 in Louisville, Kentucky. The fest has just announced the first round of performers, which include Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Tweedy, Desaparecidos, The Gaslight Anthem, Sturgill Simpson, Sam Smith, Alvvays, JEFF The Brotherhood, Speedy Ortiz, Big K…

NYC SummerStage is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2015 and you can get a taste of what’s to come this year at their annual preview party which happens at Highline Ballroom on Thursday (1/8)…