Some festivals offer at least the illusion that a ticket holder can see a bit of every act on the bill. But III Points Miami increasingly goes for sensory overload, with more than 150 acts on 12 stages packed into just two days over October 17 and 18 this year—and that’s not even counting the…
Fans walk into a concert thinking about the moment the lights drop, not the rows of trucks that got everything there. They chase the setlist, not the cords and scaffolding lining the backlot. The headliner gets the scream, but somebody else has already built the entire world the crowd steps into. After forty years of…
I love Wrap Season. It’s a reminder of who we actually are. The data is astounding, as YouTube and Amazon jumped in this year to join Apple and Spotify. Although there are lingering questions about the transparency and legitimacy of the algorithms that got us here, there are always interesting insights. I was expecting more…
Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart Kings of Leon, Lainey Wilson, Teddy Swims, Lorde, Jon Batiste, Tyler Childers and David Byrne will headline this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which runs from April 23-May 3 at Fair Grounds Race Course. As of now, this is Nicks’ only confirmed show of 2026 and her first…
One of 2025’s most stunning records arrived without fanfare last May. QUIET, the latest full-length album from Munich-based, German-American singer-songwriter Caro Kelley, is a soul-pop masterwork that deserves to be heard. Across eight impeccably crafted originals, Kelley reveals an artist who has fully come into her own: confident, boundless, and writing songs with the purpose…
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is a unique star, a bright constellation within the multiverse of jam bands. This Maryland-bred quartet fuses funk, rock, and electrifying showmanship into what they call “high-energy psychedelic funk.” Since forming in 2009 at the University of Maryland, they’ve built a devoted following through relentless touring (as many as 200 shows…
Can our culture trust the source of its poison to be the source of its medicine? (Illustration by Gremlin via Getty Images) “The key that makes this product different” — came the excited voice, riding the dual stimulants of artisanal coffee shop caffeine and San Francisco Bay ocean air — “is it’s about human-to-human interaction….
Courtney Love opens up about her life on and offstage in the new documentary Antiheroine, which will premiere early next year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The event runs from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 and is the last in Park City and Salt Lake City before uprooting to Boulder, Co., in 2027….
The first new Afghan Whigs music since their 2022 album How Do You Burn? has arrived today (Dec. 10) in the surprising form of covers of Minneapolis indie pop band Poliça’s “Fake Life” and U.K. duo Still Corners’ “Downtown.” See visualizers for the recordings below. “Both of these songs were born out of soundcheck jams,”…
Billie Eilish and James Cameron push the limits of technology in the first trailer for HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D), which will be released March 20 by Paramount, Darkroom Records, Interscope Films and Lightstorm Entertainment. Watch the clip below. “We’re using tech that’s never been used before,” Cameron says at…
