The Breeders are in town. This past Monday the sisters Deal and Co. were at Webster Hall here in New York City on tour supporting the reissue of their 199 masterpiece Last Splash. While in the area, seemed convenient to head over to 30 Rockefeller Center and hang out with Jimmy Fallon to play a couple tracks. The band performed "Cannonball" and "Drivin on 9". You could check out video replays of the performances below. Read More

Earlier today, some Beck news happened that doesn't involve odd collaborations or sheet music. Plans to hit the road for some acoustic dates this summer were unveiled. By some we mean six. Wantagh, NY gets Beck with Dylan and Wilco at 4 in the afternoon, and Rhode Island gets hit for the Newport Folk Festival. The finale in Brooklyn at Prospect Park (part of the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series) is NOT free, and you can get ticket information here. Check out the ... Read More

Rockstar Energy Drink has announced the lineup and dates to the 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival. Headlining spots go to Alice In Chains, Jane's Addiction and Coheed and Cambria. Middle Class Rut and Walking Papers also make appearances along with others. Check out all the cool venues this tour will be hitting below, and also do not forget to hit the festivals official website for more information. Oh yeah, and customary with festivals these days, there's a little lineup announcement video that goes ... Read More

San Francisco decided to jump into the festival mix early Tuesday, when the lineup for the sixth annual Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival was announced.  Sir Paul McCartney will headline along side Nine Inch Nails and the Red Hot Chili Peppers the weekend of August 9th through the 11th at Golden Gate Park. Other notable acts include Phoenix, Willie Nelson, Kurt Vile and The Violators, Gary Clark Jr (shocker), Young The Giant, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band Of Horses, Fishbone and Grizzly Bear.   No ... Read More

Monday, the recently reunited Black Sabbath announced four tour dates on North American soil, with stops in New Jersey, Toronto, Washington and LA. The good news about this: besides fans getting to see the newly single Ozzy along with Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi live in person, two of these four venues they'll play are awesome. The Gorge in George, WA is the closest thing to heaven us satan worshiping souls will ever get, plus the PNC Bank Arts Center in Homdel, NJ is always ... Read More

Jerry Cantrell has abandoned all of his long hair brothers and sisters and cut his locks. That my friends is a damn shame. What's not a shame, is Alice In Chains have a new record coming out soon, and have begun their trip around the late night circuit. Last night was Jimmy Kimmel, where the band performed "Stone" off the forthcoming album 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here". Check out the video of that below: Alice In Chains - Stone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNZPr4Mvhkc Read More

Jay-Z is the latest of festival curators to announce the lineup via an annoying Spotify playlist. Right as the ink is dry on the sale of his shares in the New Jersey Brooklyn Nets, the rapper/sports agent announced that Made In America Festival will be returning to Philly this Labor Day Weekend. Big names include Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age and Beyonce`. Other acts on the stupid Spotify playlist signifying their spots at this festival include Phoenix,  The Gaslight Anthem, Kendrick ... Read More

Meat Puppets  -  04/04/13 Mercury Lounge - New York City Words/Photos/Videos - Jay Porks Back to places familiar to this guy as the Meat Puppets graced the Mercury Lounge tonight completing a back to back stint in New York City. If you've been following us here at Concert Confessions, you've read the documented tales of the band ripping through Lancaster and New Hope. Who would have thought that those shows wouldn't have even began to prepare me on what was going to take place here ... Read More

Performances like these are the reason why David Letterman isn't rumored to be replaced by anybody. Wednesday evening, The Flaming Lips stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater and got totally weird. Wayne cradling the baby in his arms says it all... They performed "The Terror", and you can check that performance out below: http://youtu.be/ng-9vMA1moY Read More

Meat Puppets- 04/02/2013 John And Peters - New Hope, Pennsylvania Words/Photos/Videos - Jay Porks We're gonna put this in the first 25 words because it's that important: John and Peters in New Hope is the most amazing place in the world! This little place on a little street in a little town, the perfect way to dive into our 2nd night of seeing the Meat Puppets. It's this tiny bar with a sliding door leading 3 steps down to the basement in the back with ... Read More

Meat Puppets -  04/01/2013 Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA Words/Photos/Videos - Jay Porks Opening Day. Fresh cut grass, blue skies and Baseball. It is indeed the foundation of America. Today is a different kind of Opening Day for this guy, as it's the first of four consecutive nights to be spent with my desert punk legend buddies, The Meat Puppets. They've got a new record coming out, Rat Farm, this month and all reports are that the first few shows of this Rat Farm tour ... Read More

Alight folks here we go. Lollapalooza 2013 has revealed it's full lineup. We debated sharing the headliners with you when they broke a few weeks ago (  Phoenix, The Postal Service, The National, the Killers, Mumford & Sons and Vampire Weekend). We decided to wait for the full lineup, and it turned out alright. In the artists we care about after giving the lineup a quick skim category we list these folks: Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails ,The Cure, Ghost(not calling them B.C.!),Kendrick Lamar, ... Read More

  As you know by now, not only is Black Flag back together, but there are TWO versions of Black Flag back together. One featuring original members Greg Ginn, Ron Reyes and Gregory Moore, calling themselves Black Flag. Then there's FLAG featuring Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski,  Stephen Egerton and Bill Stevenson. Black Flag, not FLAG is the band this posts tour dates are concerning. Now that we've got that straightened out, the tour dates for Ginn, Reyes and Moore's Black Flag lay below. Black Flag ... Read More

Returning to Brooklyn taking place in Prospect Park May 17th through the 19th will be The Great GoogaMooga Festival. And the price is right: the Saturday and Sunday of this event can easily cost you Zero dollars if you choose to register between April 1st and 3rd with winners being selected on April 10th. You get to rock out to acts like The Darkness, The Flaming Lips, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sharon Van Etten, Matt & Kim and many many more. There's a good ... Read More

We're at a point now where we cannot promise that this will be the last 90s nostalgic tour for this summer, but we can promise this was the big one last year. Summerland 2013! That's right I said it. "Last year's Summerland was a blast," Everclear frontman Art Alexakis said in a statement. "This year, we've brought a decidedly edgier flavor bill to satisfy all of the fans of Nineties rock & roll out there.  It's going to be an amazing summer night every ... Read More

Okay West Coast, put away your cameras and don't you dare try to take a pictures- Prince is coming to your side of the country. The Purple People Eater will make his way through your town beginning in April with two night/four show runs in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego and Anaheim.  For all of those dates, just click your mouse and scroll down a bit. Prince West Coast Tour Dates: 04/15 – Vancouver, BC // The Vogue (Early Show) 04/15 – ... Read More

Like we said on Monday, that Summerland 2013 announcement isn't coming to save our summers (Spoke too soon, check out the Summerland 2013 Lineup here). So your choices for 90s throwback tours are down to a few now. You have the Last Summer On Earth Tour and now you have Mark McGrath's 'Under The Sun' traveling 90s circus.  Gin Blossons, Fastball, Smashmouth and Vertical Horizon round out the list of acts, as word on the street is that McGrath and Art Alexakis of Everclear ... Read More

Monday night, Killer Mike took to the stage on David Letterman. If you follow Killer Mike on twitter, you were definitely aware that it happening. If you're the guy writing this, you're glad Killer Mike tweeted out a link to the video of this so he could set his alarm forward a few minutes tomorrow morning. Anyway, check out the video of the performance for "Untitled" (which featured Scar and El-P ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nF4d_H4PM Read More

Good news for fans of Metal everywhere, The 2013 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival has announced the artists and dates that will keep heads swinging on both ends of the country this summer. Rob Zombie will headline and play along side Amon Amarth, Mastodon, Five Finger Death Punch while Children of Bodom, Behemoth, Battlecross and Machine Head will occupy the rest of your festival day. Check out the dates below, along with a announcement video that every festival seems to be doing these ... Read More

For those of us waiting on a Summerland 2013 lineup announcement, well, we can't promise that it is in fact coming. But, if you want to check the engine of the 90s with your dipstick, we just might have the concert tour for you.  The Last Summer On Earth 2013 tour features Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five and Guster traveling the country hitting all your favorite outdoor venues. For the dates, just check below. Some of which don't include Guster and some not ... Read More

The Gorge is known for magical moments, and there's sure to be some of that at this years inaugural Jambase Live Music Festival going down July 5th and 6th. Headliner you ask? Robert freakin' Plant.  The full lineup for the two days includes the aforementioned Robert Plant & Sensational Shape Shifters, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Slightly Stoopid, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, G. Love and Special Sauce, STS9 , Galactic, ALO, Lettuce, Railroad Earth, Bruce Hornsby & The ... Read More

After months of fans holding off on committing physical harm to themselves, Phish have finally announced their tour plans for this summer across North America. Kicking things off in Maine followed by three nights upstate where they race the pony's in New York, the band has two night runs in most of these tour stops, with San Fran, Chicago and the ending run in Colorado all getting the three night treatment. PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel is where Jay Porks told us ... Read More

For all you folks down with keyboards and electronica "rock"  non sense, Depeche Mode is set to return to America this August. The tour, like albums, has a title as it's being billed as the Delta Machine World Tour. You can check out all the dates below. For more information, do what any 13 year old girl would do and head over to the band's tumblr, which broke these dates. Depeche Mode 2013 North American Tour Dates: Aug. 22 (Detroit, MI) DTE Energy Music Theatre Aug. ... Read More

The Darkness are coming back to America! Well, for a seven date swing anyway. This May the band will make their way through North Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Upstate New York before closing the small leg of shows in Montreal (that's Canada). If you're not good at reading flyers, check the dates below. And below that, check out sweet photos of past Darkness concerts we've covered for you here at Concert Confessions. The Darkness May 2013 North America Tour Dates: 5/10 Raleigh, NC // Lincoln ... Read More

Last night, Dave Grohl and the Sound City Players took over Hollywood at Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform two songs.  The band played "Fortunate Son" w/ John Fogerty and then Rick Springfeild came out to sing on "The Man That Never Was". Hulu has both performances for you, and we've embedded the video replays below. Dave Grohl will deliver the  keynote speech at this years SXSW festival in Austin, TX. On March 14th the band will perform at Stubbs with most of the star ... Read More

So by now, we shouldn't have to explain to you how hard Japandroids rock. On the heels of last week's blazing performance of “The Nights Of Wine And Roses” on Conan(Video of which you can check out here), the band has announce headlining dates in the US this Summer surrounding their various festival appearances. Supporting the band on tour will be Cloud Nothings in April and A Place To Bury Strangers for six dates in May and June. You can view the ... Read More