Initial Details Announced For Dia De Los Toadies 2012 The initial details for the 2012 Dia De Los Toadies have been announced. The 5th annual music festival put on by the Toadies will take place August 31st-September 1st at the Whitewater Amphitheatre in New Braunfels Texas. For the first time ever, Dia De Los Toadies will feature artists who don’t call Texas home. Those artists include Helmet (who will share co-headlining duties with the Toadies this summer) and Mariachi El Bronx. Other artists set ... Read More

Lisa Marie Presley Brings 'Over Me' to Jimmy Kimmel Live Lisa Marie Presley performed last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. We are going to rip off Tosh.0 and put 30 seconds on the clock: Tom Petty called he wants the outfits from the Don’t Come Around Here No More video back. Not even Jack White can make this listenable. This went way better than her audition for Dancing With The Stars. When does she start singing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5g5p3-Rvgs&list=UUa6vGFO9ty8v5KZJXQxdhaw&index=3&feature=plcp Yeah these were all rather lame but this performance is so bad ... Read More

Peter Gabriel Celebrates 25 Years of 'So' With North American Tour When I was in Junior High we had a new kid show up in 7th grade. He was from upstate New York and he looked a lot like Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts. Kids being kids were cruel to him even after I passed him the “puck” that ended up being the game winning goal for our quarter of “street hockey” in PE. I tried to be nice because let’s be ... Read More

Jay-Z Set To Curate Made In America Music Festival Jay-Z has a lot of stuff. He has a basketball team, he has 99 Problems, an album with Kanye West and of course a baby with Beyonce. Now Jay-Z has a music festival.  This two day music event will take place in Philadelphia on September 1st and 2nd and will feature a diverse lineup spread across three stages. Some of the highlights include D’Angelo, Dirty Projectors and Pearl Jam. It will be known as ... Read More

Joseph Arthur Hits The Road In Support Of 'Redemption City' The fact is if he needed it, Reverend Justito would probably give Joseph Arthur a kidney. He loves the man and his art that much. Earlier this year, Arthur released the incredible double disc effort Redemption City and as we just discovered he hits the road today in Philly to support it. You can check out our extensive coverage of past Arthur shows by clicking here. You can check the dates for his ... Read More

Watch Highlights of Phish Performing at Bonnaroo in 2009 A few days ago we told you about the exciting new Bonnaroo 365 YouTube channel. Now for one week, the channel will be airing nearly 90 minutes of footage of Phish from their 2009 appearance at the festival. You can check it out down below for yourself up till 05/22/12. If that is not enough of a Phish phix for ya, click here to check out our extensive coverage of the band. Read More

2012 Rock The Bells Festival Announce Dates and Lineup Information for the 2012 Rock The Bells Festival has been announced. The shows will be spread out over two days and will hit three major US markets (Bay Area, Southern California and Camden, NJ). Highlights of the festival include Method Man and Redman performing Blackout in its entirety, Immortal Technique, Deltron 3030, Salt N Pepa, Yelawolf and many more. Also worth the price of admission will be the only North American festival appearances of ... Read More

Voodoo Music Experience 2012 Announces Details and Initial Artists  Last year we had a blast when we headed out to Voodoo Festival on a sunny Saturday afternoon in New Orleans. It’s a shame we can’t make it back this year as it appears the festival could be the best edition yet. Green Day and Neil Young and Crazy Horse have been announced as two of the headliners for the party in City Park. Also on the bill will be Justice, Tomahawk, AWOLNATION, K'naan ... Read More

Toadies and Helmet Team Up For Co-Headline Tour We have been excited for this one for a while. This summer, Toadies and Helmet are hitting the road for a co-headline tour of the United States. The trek will kick off July 20th in Houston Texas and both bands will be playing full headline sets. UME will serve as the opener and the tour is set to wrap up August 14th in Denver Colorado. To check out the latest single from the Toadies Summer ... Read More

Riot Fest 2012 Set To Hit Chicago September 14-16 This actually sounds really cool. It is called the Riot Fest and it is going down September 14-16 in Chicago. While the lineup tends to be rather heavy, one can’t notice such diverse acts as The Jesus and Mary Chain and Elvis Costello.  The event will take place at Humboldt Park and the Congress Theatre. The best part is that tickets start at $18 a day. Below is the full line up (as of ... Read More

Jane's Addiction Extends Theatre of the Escapists US Tour Keeping with the smaller is better approach, Jane’s Addiction have extended their ‘Theatre Of The Escapists’ tour with dates reaching into late May. The trek will focus mainly on markets in the southern portion of the United States with a portion of all ticket sales going to the Occupy Movement.   UPDATED: As of May 15th, Jane's have added a THIRD leg to this Theater of The Escapists Tour heading around the U.S. In August the ... Read More

Coachella Announces 2013 Dates and Presale Information Remember last Friday when we posted that image that the Coachella folks asked us to pass along? Not shocking at all, the announcement was that the 2013 festival will once again be two weekends. Those weekends will be April 12-14 and April 19-21 2013. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale on May 17th 2012 at 10 am PST. Click here to check out the official Coachella site for more pre-sale information.         Read More

The Black Keys Fall 2012 West Coast Tour Dates Having successfully rocked two weekends of Coachella last month, arena rockers The Black Keys will return to the West Coast this fall. The short trek will kick off in the meth infested central valley hotbed known as Fresno and will wrap in beautiful Las Cruses New Mexico a few days later. From there Patrick and Dan head off to the land down under. No word on who will support  Tegan and Sara will support ... Read More

Rocking Out With Mom - A Tribute To The Women Who Raised Us   A few months ago we had the bright idea to have some of your favorite confessors share tales of attending concerts with their Mother's. We hope you enjoy them and encourage you to share your own via the comment section. Happy Mother's Day to our Mom's and all the Mom's out there. Thank you for all that you do. Alexis (LexC666) When this "assignment" first got posted I thought, God people actually go ... Read More

Lamb of God, Dethklok and Gojira Team Up For North American Tour What more can we say? According to ThePRP Lamb of God, Dethklok and Gojira are teaming up for a late summer North American tour. This tour is going to be brutal as fuck and you can check out all the dates down below. We will update the post when we know more details but for now you can check out the dates below.   08/01 Seattle, WA – WaMu Thater 08/02 Vancouver, BC – Queen ... Read More

Coachella asked us to pass this on, so we are doing just that. But what does it all mean? Read More

The Wombats 'Jump Into The Fog' With Conan O'Brien Despite being almost 33, I will probably get grounded for this but it is so worth it. For a while in high school I started calling my Mother a Wombat. Not sure why really, probably because I was a dumb punk kid. She played along and even embraced the Wombat crossing sign I snuck into her truck at one point. So when I see this band, I automatically think of my Mother, which is ... Read More

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Do Their Thing on Letterman It’s shit like this that keeps me out of Silver Lake as much as possible. I mean what the fuck is going on here? I assume the drummer failed with 3-4 bands with names like To Write Love On The Sickest Kids or Pierce The Maya. Is that the oldest Hanson brother on guitar? Oh and hey check out the front man, who I can only assume is Edward Sharpe, but no ... Read More

Bonnaroo Debuts Exciting New YouTube Channel The fine folks behind the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival have once again done something that is totally bad ass. They have launched a new YouTube channel called Bonnaroo 365. We will spare you the painfully unfunny ribbon cutting ceremony from Flight of the Concords star Rhys Darby. Instead we will just feature some great past performances from some of our favorite artists. But before we do, remember that the 2012 edition of Bonnaroo is about a ... Read More

Reggie Watts Shares 'Diametrical Oppositionalism' With Conan O'Brien The fact is if you don’t enjoy Reggie Watts, you don’t have a soul. No, that is not a ginger joke. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Watts paid a visit to beautiful Burbank California. Home of the Warner Bros. lot, the musical madman brought about 15 different styles of music to the Conan O’Brien television program. From metal to singing about cats like Ryan Adams there is something for everyone in his performance of “Diametrical Oppositionalism.” Check ... Read More

Norah Jones Announces Fall 2012 Tour Dates Earlier this year we told you all about Norah Jones and her plans to hit the road this summer. The highly acclaimed singer/songwriter who just dropped her latest album Little Broken Hearts last week has now announced a new batch of tour dates focused on the middle section of America for the fall. You can check them out down below. Below the tour dates, feel free to watch her recent appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. 10/07/12 ... Read More

Silversun Pickups Serve Up 'Bloody Mary' For Jimmy Kimmel As yes there I was last night getting into bed after watching my beloved San Francisco Giants defeat the dreaded Los Angeles Dodgers out at Chavez Latrine. The television was already on and there was Johnny Depp plugging the new Warner Bros. Pictures smash hit Dark Shadows. I enjoyed his brief talk with Jimmy Kimmel Live host Jimmy Kimmel about him and Hunter S. Thompson sabotaging Don Johnson. Then I fell asleep before Silversun ... Read More

2012 Bumbershoot Music Festival Lineup Announced Long before the wheel was invented and fire was discovered, Seattle has hosted a massive labor day weekend music festival known as Bumbershoot. The lineup for the 2012 edition has just been announced and it is nothing short of fantastic. Saturday 09/01/12: Jane’s Addiciton, AWOLNATION, M. Ward, The Jayhawks, The Hello Sequence, City and Colour, The Heavy, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, King Khan & The Shrines, Heartless Bastards, Oberhofer, Thee Satisfaction, Damien Jurado, JC Brooks and the ... Read More

Trey Anastasio Takes The Mound in San Diego Apparently May 7th is “Rock Star First Pitch” day in San Diego. On May 7th of 2011, we headed south to check out Petco Park for the first time and happened to catch Switchfoot bassist  Tim Foreman throw out the first pitch before the Padres lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-0. Last night in San Diego a very sparse crowd got to see one of our heroes throw out the first pitch. In town for ... Read More

Red Fang Announce June 2012 US Tour Dates A few weeks back we shared with you details on a benefit concert Red Fang were hosting for a high school in their native Portland Oregon. Today we are sharing with you a few dates that the band has announced around the same time. Some of the shows find the band headlining while others find them serving as main support for The Sword. Check out where you can catch Red Fang for yourself down below. "A ... Read More

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce Fall 2012 US Tour Dates Last month when Reverend Justito was running around Coachella like a mad man, he took a moment to check out a band he had only heard in name before. That band is known as Godspeed You! Black Emperor and they have decided to keep the reunion tour flowing into the fall. After performing at the ATP gig in September, the group will perform two weeks’ worth of dates that focus on the Eastern ... Read More