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First City Festival: Passion Pit, Modest Mouse, MGMT, Beach House and more

The crew at Goldenvoice is busy today with the first announcement of a new festival set for Monterey, CA over the August 24-25 weekend. First City Festival...

PHOTOS: Wilco @ Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams 7/27/12

Newport Folk decided to do things a bit differently this year. After selling out the two-day festival three and half months early, Jay Sweet and company decided...

EPIC FESTIVAL RECAP: Wakarusa 2012

Wakarusa isn’t the biggest festival I’ve been to. They don’t get the A list headliners of Bonnaroo or the media coverage of Coachella. They can’t boast about th...

VIDEO PREVIEW: Wakarusa Music Festival 2012

There is less than one week until I'm back on Mulberry Mountain for Wakarusa and I can't even think about anything else. The schedule for this year's festiv...

Sasquatch 2012 Lineup: Jack White, Beck, Bon Iver, The Shins, Pretty Lights, Tenacious D

The Sasquatch Music Festival has released their 2012 lineup, and as usual, it's a doozy. Headliners included Beck, Bon Iver, Jack White, Pretty Lights, Tena...

Wakarusa 2012: Full Lineup Announced (Pretty Lights, Avett Bros, Primus & more)

In case you missed it, the lineup for this year's Wakarusa Music Festival was finalized late last week. Topping the bill is a solid eclectic mix with Pretty Li...

Wakarusa 2012 Lineup Additions: UM, Girl Talk, Big Gigantic & more…

The second round of artists have been announced for Wakarusa 2012. Joining Pretty Lights on the headliner slot will be Primus as they're gearing up for ton...

LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Dec. 5 – Dec 11)

The NYC live music scene picks up again with a bunch of great shows happening this week, including the Black Keys, the Barr Brothers, Sharon Jones and the D...

LMB NYC: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct 24-30

Although last week there were a ton of shows going on due to CMJ, I think I'm actually more impressed with this week's selection. (more…)...

Newport Folk 2010: Yim Yames, Sharon Jones, Edward Sharpe, Ben Soilee, Blizen Trapper & More

One of our newest contributors, Eric Tsurumoto, got some amazing stuff at this year's Newport Folk Festival just a few weeks back. Here are his notes and h...

High Sierra 2010: Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper played two nearly identical sets at High Sierra, both on the Big Meadow Stage and set around the same time each day, and man did these guys ...

High Sierra 2010: Day One Roundup

Here is a smattering of other photos from our crew's first day at High Sierra. I had an amazing time on day one but definitely hung back and bit and turned...

Bonnaroo 2010: Day One Photo Dump (Lotus, Blitzen Trapper, Fanfarlo, and more)

We're super excited to have a photographer onsite at Bonnaroo 2010 this year. Here is our first set of photos from Day One... (more…)...

The Capitol Hill Block Party Announces 2010 Lineup: !!!, Blitzen Trapper, The Dead Weather, MGMT, and more

It must be "West Coast Music Festival Lineups" week here at LMB. The Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle just announced their lineup today for the weekend ...

Tour Dates: Blitzen Trapper Release Destroyer of the Void on June 8th

I'm really excited to see Blitzen Trapper this summer at High Sierra, especially considering they're well on their way to releasing a new album called Destroyer...

Newport Folk Festival 2010 Lineup: Levon Helm Band, John Prine, Andrew Bird, Avett Brothers, Yim Yames

Newport Folk Festival 2010 from Mike Anderson on Vimeo. The annual Newport Folk Festival has announced their 2010 lineup, releasing this artsy video above to...