Z-Trip

LL Cool J brought his Kings of the Mic Tour with fellow hip hop vets Ice Cube, Public Enemy, and De La Soul to Austin last week for a packed, sold-out show at Stubb’s (7/2)…

The 2013 Grammys went down last night (2/10), and here’s a quick recap of some of the winners and videos of performances. The big ones: Gotye took home Record of the Year for “Somebody That I Used To Know” (beating The Black Keys, Kelly Clarkson, …

Concert cruises are all the rage lately, and this is in fact real. Indio, CA music festival Coachella continues for two weekends in April, 2…

Tom Morello @ Newport Folk Fest 2009 (more by Jim Brueckner)Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has announced plans to perform at the Occupy Wall Street protest at noon in Manhattan…

Handsome Furs @ Lincoln Hall – TKN 2011 (more by Graeme Flegenheimer) today in Chicago * Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival (Day 1) * Handsome Furs, Parlovr @ Bottom Lounge * Locksley, The Ivorys @ Panchos (Early Show) * James Murphy (DJ Set), Shit Robot @ the Mid * William Elliot Whitmore, Cloudbirds @ Lincoln Hall * Morning Teleportation, Colour Music @ Subterranean * Richard Bucker, Cameron McGill @ Schubas (Late Show) * Glorious Vapors, Tim Kinsella, Chocolate Horse @ Hideout * The Heartless Bastards (acoustic) @ Schubas (Early Show) * Pictureplane, Teengirl Fantasy, Gatekeeper @ Empty Bottle * Z-Trip, De La Soul, Nosaj Thing, Daddy Kev @ Congress Theater * Sleepovers, Mouthbreathers, Outer Minds @ Panchos (Late Show) Stream Arcade Fire‘s deluxe reissue of The Suburbs via the Daily Beast…

For the second year in a row, Red Bull Thre3style is taking place in Brooklyn to test the top party DJ’s in their mixing skills. In the ultimate battle scenario, nine local DJ’s will take turns stepping up to the tables to determine who can rock the dance floor the hardest combining three different music genres in fifteen minutes…

Boys Noize at HARD NYC (more by Zachary Alex Stern) Boys Noize will team up with Rusko for a date at Webster Hall on 10/29. The two electronic artists, who both just played Electric Zoo (and who both played different dates on the recent HARD tour), are criscrossing in NYC, but each are hitting the road for much larger separate tours in promotion of their latest LPs, Power and O…

“At the sold-out Sasquatch, bands holding down the headliner spots haven’t necessarily turned out to be the biggest draws. Sure, My Morning Jacket played to a mostly packed house on Saturday, and Massive Attack was overwhelmingly solid on Sunday despite a not-so-full amphitheater floor, but the band drawing the most populous, most stoked, most deserved gathering was unquestionably Vampire Weekend…

Wow…Public Image Ltd, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, Fever Ray, Devo, Hot Chip, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, Mew, Camera Obscura, Gil Scott-Heron, The xx, John Waters, Dillinger Escape Plan, Deer Tick, Gary Numan…

Truth told, it was hard to pay any attention to any of the music because randomly, three drunk chicks in silver spandex bodysuits and green painted legs came onstage and did a little bizarre, nonsensical, inebriated dance tease (doubt they were professionals as they were having difficulty balancing or even standing still in their stilettos…