Alabama Shakes Shake The Letterman Stage  Critical darlings Alabama Shakes, who are supporting Jack White on his current tour along with their Coachella stop, stayed busy on Thursday afternoon. The Athens boys  stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City to perform "Hold On" on Late Night w/ David Letterman. We've got the video here: Read More

Arctic Monkeys Bring 'R U Mine' To Conan With our very own Reverend Justito currently en route to the desert for Coachella, we're here to bring you a couple other dudes on their way to Indio as well, and that's the Arctic Monkeys. The  band performed "R U Mine?" on Conan (4/12), and the video sits below: (Video first stumbled upon Courtesy of The Audio Perv) Read More

Slash Takes Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators To Kimmel Last year,  Slash went all "Carlos Santana" on us, and released his first solo album, with exclusively guest singers. May 22nd of this year is the set date for the release of "Apocalyptic Love" and you'd think "Wow, cool new Slash solo record".. Except for one thing:  Myles Kennedy will be the resident lead vocalist on this album, and on the road they're touring as 'Slash With Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators' (I guess the ... Read More

Lollapalooza 2012 Line-Up Unveiled  According to the Chicago Sun Times,  we officially have a list of the performers that will take the stage for Lollapalooza 2012. After cancelling numerous tour dates earlier this year due to illness of Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath will headline the festival that takes place in Chicago August 3rd-5th alongside Jack White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The Black Keys. Don't worry folks, everybody's favorite reunited band At The Drive In will be there too, along with Avicii, Florence and The Machine, ... Read More

The Darkness To Open For Lady Gaga On European Tour Talk about an odd way to wake up. As per their official website, The Darkness will open for Lady Gaga for a slew of dates in Europe. "The Darkness are honoured to announce their addition to the bill as main support for Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way Ball’ tour 2012." -TheActualDarkness.Com Now those dates are only in Europe, so we won't be getting that show on this side of the pond. Quite frankly not sure how many people ... Read More

Scott Lucas And The Married Men Schedule A Few Dates We know that there's at least one writer here at Concert Confessions who is having an awesome week.  Just days after we posted Local H lining up tour dates(plus your chance to win a ticket to see them 4/15 in NYC!), it seems Scott Lucas And The Married Men are also in the business of releasing albums and playing shows this year. Don't get to your Googling  just yet, I'm going to explain it ... Read More

Local H Prep US Tour/Win Ticket to NYC Stop! You can't make this stuff up. Just as we were prepping this ticket give away, Local H dropped a whole bunch of US tour dates on us.  We here at Concert Confessions would like to thank Local H for their superb timing. Tour dates are at the bottom of this post, but if you're in the New York City area April 15th, and you dig Local H, you may want to read about a ... Read More

  KROQ Announces Details For the 2012 Weenie Roast Y Fiesta You've read about the KROQ Weenie Roast here at Concert Confessions in past years,  Known for groundbreaking lineups, were not 100% sure if this line up is going to blow anyone's mind as hard as past years, but for your hard earned dollar you get a day in the sun with the likes of Coldplay, Incubus and The Offspring. Oh and for those of you who like Pennywise, there's always that. With the event celebrating ... Read More

 Firefly Music Festival To Be Held In Delaware  Delaware, welcome to the world of States that have sweet Music Festivals. The news broke last night, that the three day  ’Firefly Music Festival’, will be headlined by The Killers, The Black Keys and Jack White .  Solid, right? I mean, sure The Killers aren’t in the stratosphere of musical relevance circa 2012 as the The Black Keys and Jack White are; but hey, they could have went with the Beach Boys, so we’ll chalk up those headliners as a win. The ’2nd tier’ ... Read More

Marilyn Manson Has Ribs Put Back In Because Of Scoliosis Complications   Note: This story was part of our April Fool's 2012 News Blast Spectacular. It is not to be confused with truth. We hope you enjoy.  These days, if you mention  Marilyn Manson and you get one thing: The disgusting, yet so  legendary surgery Manson went under to have the the lower half of his ribs removed so he can give himself auto-fellatio.    Well, it's time we switched gears. Because after performing "The Beautiful ... Read More

Lee Ranaldo(of Sonic Youth) Releases New Video, Spring Tour Dates We all know that Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore have recently divorced, hence putting the future of the band they've helped front for 30 years in limbo. But while us die hards wait with baited breathe for any news on this front,  there is some music coming from the Sonic Youth camp after all.  And it comes from Lee Ranaldo Besides opening for M.Ward on a bunch of Spring dates, Lee Ranaldo has added ... Read More

The Darkness Add A Few More US Tour Dates The Darkness are favorites of most of the writers here at Concert Confessions. We have reviews from New York City, California, Seattle-all shows blowing our collective minds along with opening the world up to the epicness that is Foxy Shazam, who opened for them. So we're glad to report that as per the Darkness Website, they've added 8 more U.S. dates, included stops at the Infield Festival, Rock On The Range, and Rocklohoma. Here are ... Read More

Leonard Cohen is not done sharing his genius with the world. The 77 year old Cohen, is embarking on a World Tour in support of his most recent effort "Old Ideas". The tour will make it's way through 12 countries, and according to Rolling Stone "Leonard will return to North America this Fall, details to be announced soon." [caption id="attachment_414" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Leonard Cohen"][/caption] If you're wondering if Leonard Cohen still has it, you can check this review here of an L.A. gig in ... Read More

Aerosmith will be touring this summer. So for those of you who tune in 8 times a week to American Idol, you can catch your favorite "talent" judge on the "Global Warming Tour" The tour will hit 20+ cities, including stops at Summerfest and Ottawa BluesFest . Unlike the Beach Boys where we all figure one of the band members by tours end, the prediction for this one is just another Steven Tyler trip to rehab cira August/September. Cheap Trick is currently scheduled ... Read More

They have finally returned to America! That's where Episode 66 of the Jay Porks Never Ending Concert Series kicks off, bringing us to Terminal 5 in New York City to see the one and only Kasabian. This is a special night for all of us fans out there who've waited for this band to return to the United States. Facebook groups have been started, Twitter accounts have been created, all in efforts to get this band back to U.S. Soil ... Read More

New York City brace yourselves, we finally got ourselves a good festival. It's called Catalpa , and taking place July 28th and 29th at Randall's Island Park in NYC. Who are the headliners you ask? The Black Keys, TV On The Radio, and Snoop Dogg (Performing 1993's Doggystyle in it's entirety). With a full announcement of artists to come soon, I'm pretty sure this is one all of us in the New York City area need to check out. Weekend Early Bird Passes start at $99. ... Read More

When I saw that Crosby, Stills and Nash were going to tour, I didn't think there'd be this many dates. The band's been working on a cover album with Rick Rubin reportedly for years, but looks like Neil Young and Crazy Horse beat them to that with 'Americana'. So they answer back with this massive tour.. The band will bring backing musicians Todd Caldwell (organ), Shane Fontayne (guitar), Steve DiStanislao (drums), Kevin McCormick (bass), and James Raymond (keyboards) Check below for the ... Read More

So I was wondering where I heard of this Sharon Van Etten chick before. The name sounded so familiar-then it hit me like a bullet. We here at Concert Confessions teamed up with Live Nation Los Angeles a few weeks ago to give away tickets to Sharon Von Etten w/ The War On Drugs at Avalon in Hollywood, CA March 20th 2012. So here on the East Coast, hours before that show in Hollywood was set to kick off, Sharon Van ... Read More

I love the Internet and everything it brings with it. Without the World Wide Web, where would we uncover this video of Katy Perry covering Jay-Z/Kayne West's "N*ggas In Paris"? We wouldn't have. In all seriousness though, this is great for 2 reasons: The NY Yankee hat is one, and the second being that Katy Perry may have a better version of this song out now then the one that you'll find as Track 3 on "Watch The Throne". Check it out: Special shout ... Read More

Fresh off storming through SXSW, Jack White get's set to hit the road in 2012 in support of his solo debut "Blunderbuss". For those without tickets to Sasquatch or Hangout Music Festival never fear, we've got all the tour dates for you here so you can catch him in a town near you. The supporting act will be Alabama Shakes Tickets go on sale Friday 3/23/12 at 1PM at Ticketmaster. That's right, not the usually 10AM or 12PM but 01:00pm. No idea what ... Read More

Slaughterhouse 2012 Tour Dates, New Album It feels like just yesterday. En route to SOB's to see the most buzzed about act to be affiliated Shady camp since Eminem himself: Slaughterhouse. Consisting of Joe Budden, Royce Da 5'9'', Crooked I & Joell Ortiz, Hip Hop's most powerful super-group proceeded to take the stage and tear down Lower Manhattan that night. In turn, that led to excitement heading ... Read More