Ah, the Taste of Chicago. For nine whole days, downtown becomes THE meeting place for the fattest of the fat and anybody else that wants to try some real Illinois corn on the cob. I seriously think there were 5 booths selling corn on the cob. But the other reason to go […]

The San Diego Street Scene lineup was announced today. SoCal mainstays TOOL and hiphop darling Kanye West will headline this year’s installment of the annual festival. Other performers include AFI, Social Distortion, Snoop Dogg, Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Queens of the Stone Age, Wu-Tang Clan, My Chemical Romance, Sean Paul, Bloc Party, Bad Religion, […]

Hedgpeth has announced the lineup for its summer festival in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. The two day festival will be headlined by The Flaming Lips and Primus and will also feature what is, as far as I know, the first confirmed performance of Mike Patton’s newest act Peeping Tom (not counting the upcoming Conan O’Brien performance). […]

Rehage Entertainment has announced the headliners for the 2006 Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Duran Duran will be on the main bill this year. The two day festival has continued to expand over recent years, making it one of those most significant events in the country. This year’s headliners […]

ACL announced today the lineup for their 35th annual music festival. The lineup, as per recent years, will feature a melting pot of rock, indie and hippie crap. Most notable on the list is Massive Attack, who kicked total ass at Coachella. The rest is pretty vanilla:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, […]

The Intonation Music Festival recently added two new sets to the “most diverse music festival” this summer: Ghostface Killah and Roky Erickson. Press release is as follows:
The annual Intonation Music Festival, scheduled for June 24th and 25th, 2006 in Chicago’s Union Park, has completed its unique lineup. Just added to Saturday’s lineup are psychedelic rock […]

Greetings all! As you probably noticed, I have been largerly absent in the last two weeks. Thanks to Brian who is responsible for filling the void while I was gone.
The reason for my abscence was that school was wrapping up and I was completely absorbed by papers and finals and teachers being bastards. But […]

Supporting their new album Ten Silver Drops (due to drop 04/25), The Secret Machines are about to embark on three month tour of the US and Europe with some extra festival dates in August. Mostly left coast dates with a few midwest and east coast shows thrown in on their way across the pond.
April 21 […]

Pitchfork dropped yesterday a load of news on Andrew Bird. The reported that everyone’s favorite whistling wonder has been busy developing and laying down tracks for his followup to last year’s stellar Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs The new album, tentatively titled The Armchair Apocalypse.
In addition to adding to his library, Mr. […]

Blabbermouth reports that Strapping Young Lad have completed recording their new album, titled “The New Black,” due out in July. For the uninformed, Strapping Young Lad are a Canadian metal band who are redefining the genre with their irony and pure sonic brutality. They are one of the hottest metal shows around right now. The […]