Mike Watt, Mike Baggetta and Stephen Modges' "post-genre power trio" mssv are part of this year's Big Ears lineup and will tour the U.S. this spring around the festival...
Cut-and-paste sonic social critics / pranksters Negativland are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year and will release new album True False on October 25. It's the first of two interconnected albums, and "tackles concerns that will be familiar to any surviving fans of the band: our …
An all-star cast of indie rock musicians will come together for a free performance of the 2011 piece, including Paul Banks, Lenny Kaye, Angel Deradoorian, Andrew Wyatt, Sarah Lipstate and more.
Lyrically, Chuck Stern says the album is about ”exile and abandonment... It is a story about certain people in my life moving on without me: the death of my father, a terrible breakup with a girlfriend, Obama's departure.”
Also: Arctic Monkeys, Beyonce & Jay Z, Paul Simon, Sam Smith, Alice In Chains, Alice Cooper, Violent Femmes, Joe Jackson, Pussy Riot, The Voidz, and more newly-announced tours.
The festival begins this Thursday (5/18) and runs through June 8, also including Marc Ribot, Steve Gunn, Gyan Riley, Trixie Whitley, Ava Mendoza, Indian slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya, and more.
New York City is still a place where you can see musicians from the original no wave era perform all the time. Here's a roundup of some upcoming shows from some no wave legends (and other related stuff)...