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To win free tickets for you and your best mate, all you have to do is: Attend the Facebook event Facebook Like or Share this post Send your name and an answer to "Why do you have to go to Noize Valborg BONANZA?" to vip@wmwl.org Lucky winners will be announced on monday the 29th of april. The Noize crew are bringing over two major players of European house and techno to Malmö for one night of Valborg [...]
British post-punks Clinic are hot off the release of their Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) produced record Free Reign II, and they’ll be in Nashville tonight while [...]
Want to see James Blake on May 7th at NYC's Terminal 5 ? Of course you do, why wouldn't you? You spent all weekend replaying the highlights of Blake's Coachella appearance on YouTube. Luckily we're hooking up a PMA reader with a pair of tickets, and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment below with your favorite live music experience of 2013 so far. Here's one of ours: James Blake performing "Take A Fall For Me" with RZA [...]
On May 10 - 12, The Purple Hatter’s Ball will celebrate the life of Rachel Morningstar Hoffman at the Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The lineup includes HT faves Lettuce, Eddie Roberts’ West Coast Sounds and The New Mastersounds as well as Quantic, DubConscious and The Malah. We also have our eyes on a set dubbed "Sunday Gospel Surprise" that will see Roosevelt Collier and Nigel Hall joined by Lenesha Randolph (Robert Randolph & The Family Band), Adam Smirnoff (Lettuce), Pete Shand (The New Mastersounds), Jermal [...]
Los Angeles' Youngblood Hawke had a great breakout year in 2012 - the band’s anthemic single “We Come Running” received airplay nationwide and quickly became [...]

Next Tuesday, April 30th, HT faves Phoenix will perform before an intimate crowd in-person and a huge worldwide audience as part of the Live On Letterman series of webcasts. Phoenix is expected to perform songs from the just released Entertainment! as well as hits such as 1901 and Lisztomania. You can watch Phoenix's Live On Letterman set live starting at 8PM ET on the 30th or on demand at CBS.com . The broadcast will also be watchable through the CBS App for the iPhone and [...]

Yo La Tengo is coming to Athens soon, and Georgia Theatre is letting us give away a pair of tickets to a fortunate reader. Stick with us below for how to enter and check out the video for "Before We Run," off their most recent record Fade, out now on Matador. An Evening with Yo La Tengo The Georgia Theatre Doors: 8PM Yo La Tengo: [...]

Yo La Tengo is coming to Athens soon, and Georgia Theatre is letting us give away a pair of tickets to a fortunate reader. Stick with us below for how to enter and check out the video for "Before We Run," off their most recent record Fade, out now on Matador. An Evening with Yo La Tengo The Georgia Theatre Doors: 8PM Yo La Tengo: [...]

Want to see James Blake on May 7th at NYC's Terminal 5 ? Of course you do, why wouldn't you? You spent all weekend replaying the highlights of Blake's Coachella appearance on YouTube. Luckily we're hooking up a PMA reader with a pair of tickets, and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment below with your favorite live music experience of 2013 so far. Here's one of ours: James Blake performing "Take A Fall For Me" with RZA [...]
Formed in Atlanta over a decade ago, instrumental electronic rock band SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 (STS9) has risen to the forefront of the international music scene. Consistently ranked among Pollstar magazine’s list of top-grossing touring acts, STS9 boasts a genre-defying list of opening acts along the way including Snoop Dogg, Ghostland Observatory, Bassnectar, Thievery Corporation, Pretty Lights, Big Boi [...]
As we enter the warm-weathered months of summer, Matt Costa and The Blank Tapes will be providing the perfect music for tonight's show. Singer-songwriter Matt [...]

Tomorrow - meaning Saturday, 20 April, 2013 - isn't merely the day you stand in the park with your bros and chief out on sour diesel . April 20th, 2013 is the 2013 Official Record Store Day . The annual event helps to stimulate the music economy and promote awareness of our regional & local independent purveyors of vinyl records. Participating stores are loaded down with uniques, limited edition releases, give-aways, special appearances from performers & much more. WHERE DO I GO? First off, here are the locations in [...]

As hard as it is to believe, Willie Nelson will turn 80 on April 30th. The legendary country artist never slows down and continues to tour and release new music on a regular basis. Earlier this week Nelson released Let’s Face The Music And Dance on Sony Legacy - a collection of American standards and country classics, Irving Berlin and Carl Perkins, Django Reinhart as well as Willie-penned originals. As such Willie Nelson has been Legacy Recordings Artist of the Month for April . [...]

Spring is here, April showers are beginning to replace the gloomy Chicago winter, and “t-shirt weather” is just around the corner. This time of year is particularly special for music lovers and vinyl junkies like myself. Plenty of great record shows come around each Spring but the real vinyl event of the season is Record Store Day. This annual record appreciation day will take place on Saturday April 20th and bring with it over 400 new releases and reissues from artists new and old. The release list is generally heavy on vinyl releases, but this [...]

Can you feel it? The soft waves, the gentle breeze, and the smell of The Ocean ? If you're dreaming about attending this year's edition of the Hangout Music Festiva l in Gulf Shoes, AL, well, your thoughts probably aren't too far off. From May 17th-19th, a summer mix of veterans and rising talent storm the South's enviable beaches, specifically Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kendrick Lamar, The Shins, and many, many more. It’s a lineup well-worth the time off work and the possible sunburn, and here's the kicker: We’ll [...]

LWE and Smart Bar are thrilled to welcome David Kennedy, better known as Pearson Sound , back to Chicago on April 25th . This extraordinarily talented DJ/producer, who also helps run Hessle Audio, will be supported by Jeff Pietro (Borrowed Language) and LWE's own Steve Mizek (also of Argot/Tasteful Nudes ). Want to check out the show for free? Simply email contest@littlewhiteearbuds.com with "PEARSON SOUND GIVEAWAY" as your subject. One lucky winner, chosen at random and notified via email, will be on the guestlist +1. All entries are due April 23rd at noon [...]
With Cold War Kids and Wavves performing in the same building, It's going to get busy tonight over at the Mercy Lounge compound in Nashville. [...]
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few years, then you've likely already become of fan of the California-based foursome Cold War [...]