
all photos by Jim Bennett A couple times a year, Starbucks, STG, and KEXP team up to put on the Little Big Show - a little show with a big impact - where 100% of the proceeds go towards helping the arts stay alive for young people. This evening's sold out show raised over $14,000 for The Vera Project , the non-profit all ages music venue at the Seattle Center where artists at any age can hear music, participate in the music scene, learn to screen print, and more. [...]
++Photo Gallery: Coachella 2013, Saturday Weekend 2++ Live on April 20, 2013 Photos by Chris Molina for The Scenestar

Paulo Goncalves joins the punk rocker in Dublin.

We forgot to ask Gary Wolstenholme if there were as many annoying pricks wearing backpacks at Hatebreed's Manchester Academy 2 show as there were when the band played London , mainly because Jamey Jasta's face just brings out the urge to M0SH in us. Yep. -- Hatebreed @ Manchester Academy 2 - 30 April 2013 c/o Gary Wolstenholme [...]
++Photo Gallery: New Order With Johnny Marr at Santa Barbara Bowl++ Live on April 18, 2013 Photos by Tony Molina for The Scenestar

Debbie Hickey and Paulo Concalves get out and about.

Debbie Hickey and Paulo Goncalves come back for more.

This is the week Sempiternal was meant to be released before those damned leakers leaked the crap out of Bring Me The Horizon 's excellent fourth album. This is the London leg of their release tour and if you're thinking, “Oh, they're only playing Koko,” it's because this is a special intimate show. We crowbarred our way into the gig. Pre-gig meal: Sainsbury's prawn mayonnaise sandwich, standing outside the venue. 6 things we learnt when we saw BMTH in Camden... [...]
++Photo Gallery: Coachella 2013, Friday Weekend 2++ Live on April 19, 2013 Photos by Chris Molina for The Scenestar
++Photo Gallery: Youth Lagoon at El Rey++ Live on April 17, 2013 Photos by B. Venti for The Scenestar

The weather might've taken a sudden turn for the better here in the UK, but the one thing we can always count on is that we're never far from gangs of young men making surly, dark, and altogether stormy music. Such is the doom thrown out by Bongripper and Conan . Our man around the North West, Matt Thomas , was on hand to snap the lot of them when they came to Liverpool. Also playing on this tour are Humanfly , but we'll be honest [...]

We've talked about how punk rock Enter Shikari are before. Right now they could be playing massive venues, raking in the cash, and generally have a bloody nice time of it being the world premier whatever-you're-calling-it-thi s-week-core banbut-it's-got-lasers-and-ele ctronics-core band. But instead, they're off playing deliberately much smaller venues than usual, just because they bloody want to. That's how our photographer, Matt Thomas , was able to get so up close and personal with the action when they played the New Brighton (not near the Brighton you're probably thinking of) Pavilion last week. [...]
++Photo Gallery: Coachella Parties 2013++ Live on April 11-14, 2013 Photos by Jasmine Safaeian for The Scenestar

Look, we're not going to muck about with a fancy intro paragraph here - if Tony Kakko's face and pose in that photo above haven't convinced you to check out Gary Wolstenholme 's galley of photos from Sonata Arctica's Manchester show earlier this week, well, nothing we say here is going to either. Okay, maybe if you're an obsessive Pythia fan you'll want to look at Gary's photos of them, as they were supporting, but are there even any mad obsessive Pythia fans? Please let [...]
Photo gallery of Turquoise Jeep Records with Cashatt in Nashville at Mercy Lounge on April 4, 2013. Photos by Pureform Media. Full gallery on next page!

We can't get enough of festivals here in the UK. Summer festivals, Winter festivals, and - right now at least - Spring festivals. Earlier this month, Hard Rock Hell hosted the very first Hard Rock Hell AOR and Hard Rock Hell Prog, and we were naturally on hand to photograph the whole shebang. Well, we say "we", when in fact we mean " Gary Wolstenholme was on hand to photograph the whole shebang". And by that we mean The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Caravan, Hawkwind, H.E.A.T, Kip Winger, Magenta, Mostly Autumn, [...]

Going to Coachella on Weekend 2? Want to relive the first weekend? Buzz Bands LA covered 49 sets Friday, Saturday and Sunday and published more than 150 photographs. Following are quick links to everything: Coachella Friday at a glance Lord Huron IO Echo The Neighbourhood The Shouting Matches Dam-Funk Stars [...]
All Photos by Kate McCann | katemccannphotography.com When downtempo Duluth trio Low played an instore set at Main Street Music this spring, they alluded to a return appearance in June. Today we got the details; they'll perform at World Cafe Live downstairs on Friday the 21st of June; tickets go on sale this Friday, the ... Continue reading

All photos and text by Alex Crick If I could choose a single children’s book to describe this year’s Treefort Music Festival , it would be The Little Engine That Could . After the resounding success of the inaugural Treefort Festival last year, the organizers truly did listen to all of the feedback and incorporated it to make this year’s festival bigger and better than before. On the top of the improvement list was the addition of a new venue The El Korah. By day, the Shrine [...]