Eaux Claires, the festival founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner in 2015, will stage its first edition in seven years on July 24-25 in Vernon’s hometown of Eau Claire, Wi. The venue has yet to be announced, but speculation centers on Eau Claire’s 2,856-capacity Carson Park baseball stadium rather than…
Once a year, the Bajas come to Tubby’s, and every time, it’s one of the best nights of the year. Every Bitchin’ Bajas track carries the chance of being lost forever inside its all-encompassing tones and zones. There are many reasons for this. Part of it is the illusion of time all of their compositions…
Name Samara Joy Best known for Never being home. Current city New York, my hometown. Really want to be in Paris or Italy, eating the best food and playing with local musicians! Excited about Playing at the NY Philharmonic with my band, as well as debuting their newest orchestrations! May 16 if you’re in town 🙂 My current music collection has a lot…
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….
