Lynyrd Skynyrd

Plus: Deer Tick, Snail Mail, Leikeli47, Ted Leo singing for a Dexy’s Midnight Runners tribute show, Band of Horses, Slash, Garbage, and more tour-related news.

The 2019 lineup includes headliners Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt and Jason Aldean, plus Tom Jones, Ashley Monroe, Becca Mancari, Dawn Landes, Parker Millsap, and more.

Ed King was an original member of Strawberry Alarm Clock and wrote part of their hit ”Incense and Peppermints” before going on to join Lynyrd Skynyrd for their first three LPs and more.

Live Nation is once again offering $20 “all-in” (aka service fees included) tickets to over 2000 shows  happening this summer with a promotion they’re calling National Concert Week. Those include shows with such artists as Arcade Fire, Beck, Dead & Company, Paramore, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Bon Jovi, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer/Pixies, Dwight Yoakam/Lucinda Williams, Janet Jackson, Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers, Alan Jackson, Bush/Stone Temple Pilots/The Cult, Counting Crows/Live, and lots more.

SXSW Film Festival will also premiere The Last OG, the new series starring Tracy Morgan and created by Oscar nominee Jordan Peele; Netflix’s new hip hop documentary series Rapture; and more.

The Breeders, Erasure, King Krule, Hop Along, I Am the Avalanche/Nightmare of You, Circa Survive/Foxing, Gaz Coombes, The Garden, King Gizzard, Porches/Girl Ray, Minus the Bear, Laraaji, and more tickets on sale.

You know that thing, the thing where no matter what artist you’re seeing, some asshole in the crowd yells “Free Bird!”? Well, that happened at a Bob Dylan show at Berkley, CA’s Greek Theatre last Thursday (6/9) and he actually played it…

As discussed, the annual Seaside Summer Concert Series is returning to Coney Island (West 21st Street & Surf Avenue) this year with free weekly concerts from July 12 to August 21…