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Jazz Fest Weekend Two: How I Almost Lost My Jazz Fest Mojo

2012-05-10T00:33:28Z

43nd Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell Weekend II, May 3-7, 2012 Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans I'm not even half way through Jazz Fest 2012 -- seven days of the sensory overload of music simultaneously pouring from 11 stages for eight hours a day, along with the food, art, [...]

Hear Oklahoma Phenom John Fullbright Perform Debut Album live!

2012-05-08T18:42:25Z

If you missed our live stream, check out some of our favorite moments from John Fullbright's performance, plus the entire show! It's hard to believe when listening to his debut album that singer-songwriter John Fullbright is only 24 years old. The native Oklahoman's body of work rings with both a sense of self-assurance and an [...]

Jazz Fest Continued: The Best Little “Restival” in New Orleans

2012-05-04T22:38:43Z

Popular in-store appearances at the Louisiana Music Factory fill the gap between Jazz Fest weekends April 26 - May 7 Barry Smith is fairly calm for a man nailing down the last-minute details for a special DVD-release event with the members of the HBO hit series "Treme," organizing a still-shifting line-up of presentations and appearances, [...]

Jazz Fest Weekend One: Startin’ Some Big “Mess” Here Today

2012-04-30T20:00:26Z

43nd Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell April 27-29, 2012 Fair Grounds Race Course, New Orleans There are lots of worthwhile music festivals out there these days. Coachella, Bumbershoot, Bonnaroo, Rhythm and Roots, and Lollapalooza are annual destinations for many, just to name a few. They all have one thing in [...]

Wilson Phillips: Dedicated To The Songs They Love

2012-04-24T18:09:55Z

If looked at purely on a genetic basis, how in the world could Dedicated be anything but a very fun listen? The latest album by Wilson Phillips--the well-known pop trio who swiftly rose to fame with their 1990 debut album--could not come with a better pedigree. The singers? Carnie and Wendy Wilson, daughters of Beach [...]

Coachella 2012 Weekend 2, Sunday: Hologram Tupac Fails To Impress, Thom Yorke Pops Up At Modeselektor

2012-04-23T14:54:52Z

The massive music cram session that was the Coachella Music Festival 2012 is officially over and we've survived! Seeing the festival out, headliners Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre gave a phenomenal performance, despite it being identical to the one they did the weekend prior, superstar guests and all. While it's completely normal to repeat sets [...]

Coachella 2012 Weekend 2, Saturday: Biggie “Hologram” Guests, Kaiser Chiefs’ Mid-Set Beer Run & Sia Surprises (Kind Of)

2012-04-22T21:35:55Z

Congratulations, we've survived another day at the 104-degree Coachella Music Festival! The spirit of one-upsmanship was more apparent on Saturday as acts flexed their rolodexes to bring out some more surprise guests. But it seems the best guest stars have been the ones who are not really there. The Black Lips, in a very successful [...]

Coachella 2012 Weekend 2, Friday: John Fogerty Joins The Black Keys In Levon Helm Tribute, Pulp Celebrates 420

2012-04-21T18:56:28Z

For the first time in Coachella history, the sprawling, heat stroke-inducing festival based in the Southern California desert made the initially insane-sounding decision to make the event even bigger: Clone itself to add a second, identically lined-up weekend. Giving the artists a chance to improve upon their first weekend performances, some took the opportunity to [...]

Jack Johnson And Friends Celebrate The Kokua Festival

2012-04-19T23:45:30Z

Though it's not as easy a drive for music fans in the contiguous United States as, say, the current Coachella festival, the Kokua Festival in Hawaii may be equally as memorable an event. The creation of singer-songwriter Jack Johnson and now in its eighth year, the festival has consistently featured an interesting array of internationally [...]

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real Master Blues, Rock, Folk and Soul in Webcast

2012-04-18T11:31:25Z

Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. Lukas Nelson and his band Promise of the Real paid homage to Levon Helm, The Band drummer and vocalist, Tuesday night during a 2 hour and 30 minute live webcast from Bob Weir's state of the art TRI Studios in San Rafael, Ca. Earlier this week, Helm, 71, announced that [...]

Lukas Nelson Chats And Jams With Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, Plus Weir & The National’s Full Live Set!

2012-04-17T20:57:10Z

In anticipation for Yahoo! and TRI Studio's live stream of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real tonight at 7pm PT / 10pm ET, we've got exclusive rehearsal clips of the Willie Nelson progeny and his band hanging out with none other than the venerable Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead (not to mention a [...]

Lukas Nelson ‘Keeps It Real’ With Band Promise Of The Real

2012-04-16T19:56:18Z

Lukas Nelson sounds like just any average kid out there who decided to start a band. One night while in college, he met some guys at a Los Angeles Neil Young concert, and that's how things got rolling. "Me and [drummer] Anthony [LoGerfo] were the most hardcore fans there--we were headbanging the whole time," he [...]

Coachella 2012 Sunday: Hologram Tupac, Flesh & Blood Rihanna

2012-04-16T10:35:30Z

The superstars came out on the third and final day of Southern California's Coachella festival--and really, only at Coachella would a surprise dance tent performance by a superstar like Rihanna (more on that later) not be THE most talked-about event of the day. Instead, everyone was talking about another, much more surprising superstar cameo, by Tupac. Yes, [...]

Coachella 2012 Saturday: English Gentlemen, American Girls & Childish Gambino

2012-04-15T17:23:55Z

After an unseasonably cold, damp, and blustery first day at California's Coachella festival, day two of Coachella finally brought the sunshine. And surprisingly, one of the day's brightest and hottest sensations was Childish Gambino, the rap alter ego of charismatic "Community" actor Donald Glover. NBC's "Community" has been rumored to be in danger of cancellation for [...]

Coachella 2012 Friday: ’90s Nostalgia, But No 90-Degree Weather

2012-04-14T16:57:36Z

Coachella, the giant three-day music festival that takes place every April in Southern California's (normally scorching) Indio desert, for all intents and purposes kicked off 2012's entire summer music festival season on Friday, April 13. But the weather was so un-summery this year, confused festival-goers might've thought they'd somehow accidentally teleported to Britain's rainy Glastonbury [...]

Madonna Surprises Avicii’s Crowd At Ultra Music Festival

2012-03-25T23:06:50Z

"Electronic music has been a part of my life, since the beginning of my career," Madonna told an enormous crowd at he 2012 Ultra Music Festival in Miami Saturday night. She pandered, " I can honestly say that a DJ saved my life," referencing the classic Indeep song that became a dance music mantra. The [...]

Bob Weir and the National’s Intimate Show at TRI Studios, Watch the Videos!

2012-03-25T07:07:57Z

Does anyone have some toast? Because Saturday night's event was oh-so jammy sweet! Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and members of indie rock ensemble The National teamed up for an intimate show entitled "The Bridge Session" at Weir's TRI Studios in San Francisco, CA. Bridging the gap between east and west coasts, the band [...]

Bob Weir And The National Cover Bob Dylan, A “Bridge Session” Sneak Preview!

2012-03-23T20:23:56Z

Time to get excited people: The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, members of the National and some of their Brooklyn buddies have released a teaser clip of rehearsals for this Saturday's "Bridge Session," streaming live on Yahoo! Music! The one-off supergroup's only plan is to have a long, freewheelin' set full of hits, covers, and unexpected [...]

Exclusive! Bob Weir Talks To Y! Music About “The Bridge Session,” Technology, And Letting The National Take The Lead

2012-03-23T06:01:09Z

The Golden Gate Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge are sizable enough arches. But connecting the Brooklyn music scene with classic Bay Area rock? That'd require a much bigger bridge altogether. Fortunately, we have just the collaborative musical architects to do it: on one side, Bob Weir, of Grateful Dead fame; on the other, indie-rock band [...]

Watch, Tweet, Register! Interact with Bob Weir and The National’s Live “Bridge Session” Stream

2012-03-23T05:29:07Z

This Saturday night, tune in to watch the Grateful Dead's co-founder Bob Weir perform live with members of The National on Yahoo! Music in a free concert entitled "The Bridge Session." The performance will be streamed on-the-spot from Weir's TRI Studios in the Bay Area. In addition to the music, viewers will be able to [...]