Did you really think I'd live you hanging on Thanksgiving day? Of course not... If Henry Rollins is working on Thanksgiving, then I am, too! Thursday, November 22nd Henry Rollins: The Long March at Yoshi's - San Francisco It seems that Henry Rollins has retired entirely from music. Which is fine, because he's best when [...]

Photos by Kira Doucette Memories from Life is good 2012 Prowse Farm - Canton, MA 2012 FESTIVAL COVERAGE - Thousands attended this year's Life is good Music Festival. Each year RSL selects a very small number of bands to our Best Live Acts in America List. Each [...]

Cover songs. Love 'em or hate 'em, they're a surefire way to get people talking. They pay homage to the classics, and often put a new spin on something tired. Many are even more famous than the original. Sure, Dolly Parton may have penned I Will Always Love You , but it's Whitney Houston's take that put the song on the map. In fact, many women have offered their own takes on songs that aren't their own, and I'm here to give them some love. So here, I present you with some of my favorite [...]

Fountain Lawn at Bumbershoot / photo by Jim Bennett It’s Friday and time again for Friday on My Mind . This is our weekly collaborative effort with King 5 News in which we look at videos centered around a common theme. This Friday, we for sure have Bumbershoot on our mind which is taking place this Labor Day weekend, so we’re looking at videos from a few of the many many artists playing this year. The festival is one of the best places to discover up and coming bands both locally and [...]
Click to view slideshow. We are lucky to live on the edge of the Cotswolds and on the fringes of the beautiful Cornbury Park Estate. Previously it was home to the Cornbury Festival, which was unfortunate in, for a few years, consistently having the worst musical line-up you could contrive to put together. It was a source of constant disappointment to us. However, last year the Cornbury Festival thankfully moved on and in its place came Wilderness . Last year was a toe in the water triumph, and this year it is back bigger, better [...]
Saturday's shows: ► Make Music Pasadena , a free day of music on multiple stages throughout the City of Roses, goes off starting at noon today with Grouplove, Grimes, Cults, Dengue Fever, Milo Greene, Dam-Funk and many more. See yesterday's preview for more details. That's Grimes' video for "Oblivion," above. ► The Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl boasts a lineup of the Christian McBride Big Band, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Boney James, Ozomatli, Sheila E. and more. ► White Arrows celebrates the [...]
Between the Dap-Kings and The Roots (more on them later), this year's Bonnaroo was full of R&B-inspired backing bands that work so well together that "tight" doesn't really begin to do it justice. During their opening warm-up, I began wondering who'd win in a battle of the bands between those two groups. But really, who [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Kevin Winter, Getty Images After a Thursday evening packed with some of the best rising acts in music, the Bonnaroo fest-goers woke up to a nearly cloudless blue sky and a full Friday of world-class acts. Preempting the excitement were huge, new photo murals of Bruce Springsteen , the Black Keys , and other Bonnaroo legends past in the que to enter through the freshly opened main stages. [...]
Over the past decade Bonnaroo has become the cultural crossroads for a wide variety of musicians, comedians and artists world wide. It's a breeding ground for creativity, as was highlighted by last year's Superjam featuring The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and creole legend Dr. John, which instantly led to the recording of this year's superb album Locked Down . With a bill that features acts as diverse as Feist, Alice Cooper, and Kenny Rogers who knows what types of collaborations could happen this year? With so much to do, it's impossible to accomplish [...]

Sharon Jones at Bowery Ballroom in 2011 ( more by Tamara Porras ) Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings have a bunch of shows and festival appearances scheduled this summer and they've just announced that they'll be playing Williamsburg Park on August 18 with openers Antibalas . That show falls directly in between the Jane's Addiction (Aug 17) and My Morning Jacket (Aug 19) shows at Williamsburg Park. No word on an on sale yet but keep an eye on [...]
Here's the playlist from today's Noon ET edition of My Old Kentucky Blog Radio on SIRIUS XMU , Channel 35! You can also stay up late and catch the show again at midnight ET. Turn your dial to channel 35 on either SIRIUS or XM. Listen online with a free trial here . Check out this week's playlist below! White Rabbits - Heavy Metal Chains Of Love - He's [...]

Scan "Self-Portrait with Sheila " by me Howdy kiddos! How the fuck are ya? Me? Well just dandy dandy, thank you for asking... As many of you know, I've been a busy boy over at tsurufoto , takin' lots of pictures, starting a nudie blog , and, of course, running the #1 nudiezine in the world ! I've taken quite a hiatus from "new music" for a few months and I [...]

VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul aired last night, and each of the soulful ladies who took part brought their best game. "Today is probably one of the best days of my life," Jessie J said during the telecast. "I feel like crying. I'm probably going to cry when it's over, happy tears." Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige and Kelly Clarkson kicked the night off with a medley of the Supreme's Motown classic "You Keep Me Hanging On" and their own respective staples "Spotlight", "Real Love" and "Since U Been Gone". Another highlight of the evening: a musical tribute [...]
This week's NYC concert calendar is another really nice and diverse mix of shows, including a multi-night run by the National, My Morning Jacket w/ Band of Horses at MSG, American Babies at Mercury Lounge, and two nights of Atlas Sound, among many other interesting shows.

Yeah, that's Nancy Reagan. No, this is not Photoshopped. Editor's Note: More recycling of past blog posts, gotta conserve this Christmas! How many shopping days left until Christmas? Not enough, that's for sure. The holiday season isn't about shopping anyway, it's about hanging around with people you like and, in the case of most of our families, a few people you don't like. It's about giving but it isn't about begging. And it's not about the TV commentators who are so afraid white Jesus isn't represented enough in Christmas celebrations. [...]
This months Mojo magazine has a free cover disc reinterpreting the Rolling Stones classic album Sticky Fingers . The idea behind the collection was simple: ask a number of modern-day soul and soul-influenced artists to pay tribute to the Stones most soulful album. So we have eleven covers including Aloe Blacc & Joel Van Dijk , Alice Russell and Lee Fields amongst others. We've provided a couple of our favourites below, but this is an edition of the magazine that is well worth getting - including [...]
Dakin's taking the week off from recommending shows. He's busy shopping for just the right turkey for his Thanksgiving dinner, I guess. Personally, I recommend getting a bottle of Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau to bring wherever you do end up going for Thanksgiving. It's the ultimate Thanksgiving wine. But enough booze talk. Let's go see [...]
One day a year just isn't enough for the people behind Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent vinyl retailers. So for the second year running, the Record Store Day people have organized another day where all sorts of exclusives will be available at indie record stores, and it'll once again go down on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. This year, that's 11/25. Below, we've got a list of some of the more interesting Black Friday exclusives. Read More...

We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… Paul McCartney sure knows how to work the publicity machine. This past weekend, the former Beatles bass player got hitched for the third time, this time to Nancy Shevell, where according to reports Sir Paul debuted a song as a gift to his new wife. Now, just days after tying the knot, Macca has announced a 11-stop European tour that will kick off on November 26 in Bologna, [...]