Artist: Grace Potter and the Nocturnals

VER LA LUZ, Scott Tournet's first solo album since 2006's Everyone You Meet Is Fighting A Hard Battle, hits streets today. The self-produced and independently released effort was recorded and engineered by Mike Kamoo (The Stereotypes, The Loons, Lights On), who engineered and mixed VER LA LUZ at his Earthling Studios in San Diego. The sound on VER LA LUZ is unpretentiously sophisticated, a seamless fusion of the homespun and the experimental; the songs are earthy, heartfelt; and Tournet's vocals have an aching vulnerability and natural [...]

HT faves Grace Potter and Nocturnals have an extremely busy summer planned as they'll be opening for the Dave Matthews Band, Robert Plant, The Avett Brothers and the Allman Brothers Band by the time September rolls around. The band will also headline their own Grand Point North Festival  on September 14 and 15 at Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vermont. [Photo by Brian Jenkins] Joining Grace and the Nocs at this year's fest will be Gov’t Mule, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Charles Bradley and [...]

Last week we broke the news that the Allman Brothers Band would play a series of shows with Steve Winwood this summer. Today, the dates for the jaunt have been revealed. While the Allmans will share the bill with Winwood at a number of shows, they'll also perform at Chicago's Chicago Theatre by their lonesomes and have announced four shows with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The tour starts with the ABB's headlining appearance at The Peach Music Festival before the band hits the [...]

Past editions of Brazil's Rock in Rio music festival have drawn upward of 1.5 million people, and this year's lineup should do little to curb enthusiasm. Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Metallica, Muse, Iron Maiden, and Bon Jovi will all perform headlining sets during the seven-date festival, set to run September 13-15th and 19-22nd in Rio de Janerio. Other performers include Florence and the Machine, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Slayer, Alice in Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, Ghost B.C., Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Ben Harper, Sepultura, The Offspring, [...]

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• Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line - Carnival

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• Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line - 02_Carnival

Dawes have announced an extensive leg of headlining tour dates to go along with their upcoming stint opening for Bob Dylan . Currently, the band's tour docket stretches from late March thorugh late July and also includes appearances Free Press Summer Fest and Forecastle Festival . Check out all the dates below. The band will release their new album, Stories Don’t End , on April 9th via HUB Records. Stream the lead single, "From A Window Seat”, here . Dawes 2013 Tour Dates: [...]

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The Final Four of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament will take place in Atlanta next month. Event organizers have just announced a three-day music fest called The 2013 NCAA Big Dance Concert Series which will be held during The Final Four in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park on April 5 - 7. While many of the performers expected to play will be announced later, the three bands that will perform at the final day, which is being billed as "Capital One JamFest," have been revealed. Grace Potter [...]

If you think there's a classic American sound to The Lion, The Beast, The Beat - the fourth album from Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - you wouldn't be too far off the mark. Produced by Wilco and Tom Petty cohort Jim Scott, it also features The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach on two tracks, 'Never Go Back' and 'Loneliest Soul'. The band support The Avett Brothers on their European tour in March, including a date at Dublin’s Button Factory on 18th March.

• Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - The Lion, The Beast, The Beat

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• Grown Up Avenger Stuff - The Beat

Forecastle has revealed the lineup for this year's festival, which takes place July 12th - 14th at Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The lineup includes The Black Keys, The Flaming Lips, The Avett Brothers, Alabama Shakes, Animal Collective, Big Boi, Jim James, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Dawes, The Joy Formidable, Purity Ring, Young the Giant, Toro Y Moi, Bob Mould, El-P, Killer Mike, Foxygen, Wild Belle, Ryan Hemsworth, and The Pass. Also playing are String Cheese Incident, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Matt & Kim, [...]

Ottawa Bluesfest has revealed the lineup for its 2013 festival, which takes place July 4th - 14th at Lebreton Flats Park in Ottawa, Ontario. The lineup includes Skrillex, Wu-Tang Clan, Passion Pit, Animal Collective, Belle & Sebastian, Neko Case, Tegan & Sara, She & Him, Killer Mike, El-P, Weezer, Stars, Sharon Van Etten, Dawes, The Joy Formidable, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Fitz & the Tantrums, Amadou & Mariam, Justin Townes Earle, Diamond Rings, Atlas Genius, LP, Ra Ra Riot, and Camera Obscura. Also playing are Dixie Chicks, Rush, B.B. King, Zac Bown Band, fun., [...]

The 17th annual All Good Music Festival will take place from July 18 - 21 at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio boasting a lineup that features headliners Furthur, Primus, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Pretty Lights. STS9, Keller Williams with the Travelin' McCourys, North Mississippi Allstars and John Scofield's Uberjam Band are among the other acts that will be performing at All Good this July. [Photo by Andrew Bender ] Here's a look at the initial All Good 2013 lineup announced today... [...]

Hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement that Umphrey's McGee will play Red Rocks with Delta Spirit and Dr. Dog in tow, comes news about another impressive triple-bill set for the historic Morrison, Colorado venue. The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and JJ Grey and Mofro will join forces for a June 15th gig at Red Rocks. A Tedeschi Trucks Band presale starts today at 10AM CT/ Noon ET via the band's ticketing site .

Tweet Follow @acidjacknyc [photos by acidjack] The Grateful Dead graced the stage of the Capitol Theatre on the 23rd of February exactly forty two years before this Grace Potter & the Nocturnals show. They may not be the Dead, but Grace Potter & the Nocturnals have clearly been sprinkled with some of that early 70s pixie dust. The band, formed in 2002, has come into their own over the last few years as their [...]

Yesterday we told you about the cover of the Grateful Dead's Casey Jones that Grace Potter and the Nocturnals delivered at their first of two Capitol Theatre shows in Port Chester, New York. Well last night, at the group's last U.S. show for a while, Potter and her band treated fans to yet another Grateful Dead classic at a venue that hosted the iconic band 18 times in the early '70s. [Photo by @maritorri ] Watch as Grace Potter and the [...]

HT faves Grace Potter and the Nocturnals kicked off a two-night stand at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York last night. Towards the end of the evening Potter and her band debuted a Grateful Dead cover for the first time in the group's history. Grace and guitarist Benny Yurco shared vocals for a rockin' take on Casey Jones... Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Casey Jones This has been even more of [...]

AXS TV aired a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert live from Stubb's in Austin, Texas last November. This weekend AXS TV will premiere an hour-long special featuring footage from the gig, with the first showing scheduled to air on Sunday night at 8PM ET. Also be on the lookout for a fascinating Simon & Garfunkel documentary on Palladia, a repeat of Paul McCartney's recent visit to Saturday Night Live on NBC and The Avett Brothers appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. [...]

Now in its second year, Scranton's Peach Music Festival is coming back to the Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain on August 15th to August 18th.  Presenters and headliners The Allman Brothers Band return for two nights, accompanied by Rat Dog, The Black Crowes, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Rusted Root and more.  Following last year's ... Continue reading �