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tix on sale: Death Cab, Speedy Ortiz, Ty Segall, Calexico, Stevie Wonder, Swans, Sebadoh, UMO, Kooks, more

The Gaslight Anthem show at Webster Hall was sold out but tickets are back on sale. T5 is still sold out. (Update: and sold out again.) The newly-added Courtney Barnett and Viet Cong shows both go on BrooklynVegan presale a…

Shaky Knees Festival 2015 lineup (Strokes, Wilco, Pixies, DFA 1979, Spiritualized, Panda Bear, American Football & more)

We’re officially in Music Festival Announcement Season, and the latest one is Atlanta’s annual Shaky Knees Festival, happening May 8-10. This year includes The Strokes, The Avett Brothers, Wilco, Pixies, Social Distortion, Ryan Adams, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Tame Impala, Brand New, Mastodon, Neutral Milk Hotel (supposedly one of your last chances to see them for a while), Interpol, Flogging Molly, TV on the Radio, Manchester Orchestra, James Blake, Death from Above 1979,…

Lollapalooza Day 1 in pics (Lykke Li, Blood Orange, Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, CHVRCHES, Courtney Barnett & more)

; Soundwave Tent and Arctic Monkeys “Ker-plunk!” The first raindrops of the day splash down, but no matter. Courtney Barnett is in the house and delivers a convincing set…

tix on sale: Sky Ferreira, Juicy J, Cave Singers, The Kooks, Chris Thile, Gardens + Villa, YC the Cynic & more

Laura Stevenson is playing a full band show at Brooklyn Night Bazaar on Friday (6/20) with Not Blood Paint, Fascinator and Tow3rs. Like all BKNB shows, it’s free…

tix on sale: Nick Cave, The Kooks, The Horrors, Milosh, Cherry Glazerr, Herzog, Hundred Waters, The Donkeys & more

Tickets for the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds show at Hammerstein Ballroom go on artist presale today at 10 AM. Tickets for their Prospect Park show are still available…

Outside Lands 2014 lineup: Kanye, Tom Petty, Arctic Monkeys, Flaming Lips, Disclosure, Spoon, Death Cab & more

Outside Lands Festival returns to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from August 8 – 10. This year’s lineup was just announced and includes Kanye West, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab for Cutie, Disclosure, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, Haim, Lykke Li, and more…

Lollapalooza 2014 lineup (Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Skrillex, Broken Bells & more)

Lollapalooza 2014, which goes down from August 1-3 in Chicago, announced its 2014 lineup. Artists include Eminem, Outkast, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monekys, Skrilex, Broken Bells and tons more…

Osheaga 2014 lineup: Outkast, Arctic Monkeys, Replacements, Modest Mouse, Danny Brown & more

Montreal’s Osheaga Festival is returning this year from August 1 – 3 at Parc Jean-Drapeau. The lineup was just announced and includes Outkast, Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, The Replacements, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Modest Mouse, Local Natives, Haim, SBTRKT (who’s streaming a new EP), Pusha T, Gogol Bordello, Cut Copy, Flume, Chance the Rapper, Gesaffelstein, Danny Brown, Four Tet, Volcano Choir, Against Me…

watch a video of David Letterman asking a bunch of different bands, "Are those your drums?"

For those keeping score, your man Klaus has played drums in many many unpopular and unsignable bands since 1991. I’ve dragged my 1964 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl 4 piece kit (2nd rack tom not shown) with 1965 Gretsch snare (all of which were purchased in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts for $175) from one end of the earth (the Northeast) to the other (the Midwest mostly) hundreds of times…

Rock Werchter 2012 -- day 1 pics from a trip to Belgium (Garbage, the Cure, Justice, Skrillex, Amon Tobin, Maccabees & more)

Flanders is a Festival! That was a new phrase to me prior to last week, and I’ve learned a lot since then underscoring the truth of it. For the uninitiated – Flanders (which includes Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and Leuven) is rife with more than 280 music festivals per year…
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