Shovels and Rope

Listen to new songs by Diet Cig (Metallica cover), Wavves, Born Without Bones, Bad Bad Hats, Joey Cape, Xeno & Oaklander, Big D ands the Kids Table, Alien Boy, Chief Keef, and more...

plus Maha Festival, Lake Street Dive, black midi, Japanese Breakfast, Bright Eyes, Lomelda, Ben Folds, Cold Cave, and more tour and show news.

”This is a song that is so personal to me, as we have listened to a lot of The Beach Boys music with our child and to share a sentiment of calm and exhaustion, sleep and frustration - this cover embodies it all,” Sharon says.

It includes Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder (both as headliners), plus Kings of Leon, EOB, Maggie Rogers, Mac DeMarco, Brian Fallon, Real Estate, Broken Social Scene, and more...

Wilco, Brittany Howard, Nathaniel Rateliff, Mavis Staples, Andrew Bird, Drive-By Truckers, Rufus Wainwright, Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen & more are playing Shovels & Rope's fourth annual High Water Festival...

It appears that Parquet Courts, Gojira, Little Simz, The Nude Party, and more are playing...

Outside Lands kicked off in San Francisco on Friday (8/11) without A Tribe Called Quest, but with Gorillaz, Fleet Foxes, Alt-J, Future Island, Belle & Sebastian, Sleigh Bells, Little Dragon, Noname, Tove Lo, Henry Rollins, Dr. Octagon, Hamilton Leithauser, Hundred Waters, and more.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Steve Miller Band, Sinkane, The Head & the Heart, White Denim, Gary Clark Jr, Peter Frampton, and more are playing this year's Mountain Jam.

Third Eye Blind, Sylvan Esso, Warpaint, Car Seat Headrest, Cloud Nothings, Modern Baseball, Whitney, Preoccupations, Pinegrove, PUP, and Cymbals Eat Guitars are also on the lineup.

The "Top Albums of 2016" lists keep coming...