I am a giant fan of Austin, TX especially after this year's phenomenal SXSW festival. The city breathes music and is the perfect place to catch a show. Which is why I'm this close to buying a plane ticket and heading back down there for Austin City Limits. It runs from September 14-16 and the headliners include Arcade Fire, Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, Stevie Wonder and Kanye West. On top of that, artists like Fleet Foxes, TV on the Radio, Chromeo,… Read More
The Lollapalooza festival isn't that far away. It takes place on April 2-3 and...it's in Chile? Well that's certainly nowhere near Chicago. Lollapalooza Chile, which is an offshoot of Perry Farrell's Windy City-based summer music festival, is being held for the first time in Santiago and the line up is quite stellar (via CoS).… Read More
Festival season has finally arrived! The lineup for the Coachella festival has been revealed and the headliners are Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West and The Strokes. KOL will headline the 15th, Arcade Fire on the 16th and Yeezy and The Strokes will close the festival on the 17th. Coachella, which is held in Indio, California gathering, takes place from April 15-17 this year. Now if those headliners seem a bit too "mainstream" for you because you're just so "hip,"… Read More
Over in Madrid, Spain, the MTV European Music Awards took place earlier today. One of the highlights that took place, as you'll see by clicking play up top, was a 30 Seconds To Mars performance of… Read More
There was a pro and a con to my watching this years VMA's. The pro was that I actually got paid to watch them. The con was that I had to watch every second of the shambles of an award show that MTV presented. But, being the rock music writer that I am, it is my duty, as much as it pains me, to report on the rock music happenings at this years ceremony. Luckily there wasn't much on the rock front so this will be relatively short. 30 Seconds To Mars… Read More
There's a growing call from musicians to boycott the state of Arizona due to their recent passing of an immigration law that allows local authorities to stop anyone they feel may be an illegal citizen. Leading the charge is none other than Rage Against The Machine. Billboard reports that a website called thesoundstrike.net… Read More
So I did not watch the VMA's on MTV. I spent my time watching the Bears lose to the FUCKING Packers (I don't wanna get into it) but I do know that there were a few highlights to the "awards" show. Up top you can check out Muse's kickass performance of their single "Uprising" (via TheAudioPerv) from their new album The Resistance which comes out this Tuesday. They are… Read More
