Chip Taylor: Still Chasing the Chills
It is difficult -- well nigh impossible really -- to cover a career like that of Chip Taylor's in just a few hundred words.
It is difficult -- well nigh impossible really -- to cover a career like that of Chip Taylor's in just a few hundred words.
Jeff Pollack | Posted 05.11.2012
On the last weekend in May, the 11th annual Sasquatch Music Festival (also known as simple "Sasquatch!") will be held in George, Washington. Let's sta...
Melissa Webster | Posted 04.18.2012
I refuse to buy an iPod, a Kindle, or download any movies that go straight to my computer or television. Face to face social interaction and good times, that was the true value of these businesses.
Jeff Pollack | Posted 04.13.2012
Today is the first day of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, better known as simply Coachella. Previously only one weekend per year, Goldenvo...
Howard Fishman | Posted 05.22.2012
So many of the things that make our lives faster, easier, more convenient, also distance us from ourselves and from one another. At my concerts, I make a point of calling everyone's attention -- mine too -- to the present moment.
Mark R. Collins | Posted 05.21.2012
Free booze matters because then even people who don't enjoy live music congregate at Fader Fort every year. Inevitably the drunks will be drawn to the stage and exposed to some band or artist they never would have heard on the radio.
Mark R. Collins | Posted 05.13.2012
South by Southwest is more than just a festival. It's a choose your own adventure with live music as the central theme. The plot takes you from show t...
Jeff Pollack | Posted 05.08.2012
It seems like every year the SXSW film, digital, and music conference in Austin, TX gets bigger and bigger. 2012 is possibly the biggest year yet, esp...
Jerell Tongson | Posted 04.28.2012
The unbridled passion and excitement the entire night, from the opening performers to the crowd, was special, something that doesn't come very often at hip hop shows.
Sean Carman | Posted 04.24.2012
It makes sense that the members of a band that plays songs about hard liquor and crime would, when asked a direct question, point their fingers at each other. It's also true that the Highballers are an exceptionally strong band.
Ben E. Kessler | Posted 03.31.2012
Taking a few nights off this week, and unless I'm missing something, the alternative is not entirely tempting. The weekend is surprisingly bare, but there's also the Super Bowl with which to contend.
Jeff Pollack | Posted 03.07.2012
The Noise Pop festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary next month, February 21st -26th, in San Francisco, CA. Noise Pop is an annual event held at...
Judah Joseph | Posted 02.15.2012
Sounding similar to dance-pop groups like CSS and Cut Copy, French pop trio Yelle stands alone in how its music influenced an entire population of Francophone youth.
Jon Chattman | Posted 01.31.2012
In this series, artists will perform their tunes in a restroom followed by a brief interview about the song and the experience. The acoustics in a bathroom, as it turns out, are quite remarkable.
HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.21.2011
tUnE-YarDs' Merrill Garbus is the type of artist whose music somehow manages to retain its edge of inscrutability while being as instantly accessible ...
Jeff Pollack | Posted 01.04.2012
I tend to write these pieces about a single event or festival, but I also tend to break my own rules... For November, I decided to simply write about ...
Mark R. Collins | Posted 01.10.2012
For three days and nights Austin belonged to Fun Fun Fun Fest. The little festival that could outdid itself once again, bringing together a combination of indie up-and-comers with industry giants.
Jon Chattman | Posted 12.19.2011

Jeff Pollack | Posted 12.07.2011
It's hard to think of a better place to be for Halloween than New Orleans. Few places have such a great mix of haunted history combined with an all-da...
Emely Candray | Posted 12.01.2011
I've spent almost four years now watching my favorite bands spill their passion and emotions on stages all over Southern California and I've learned a lot, but most importantly I've learned that music has a way of bringing people together.
Taryn Haight | Posted 11.22.2011
The Rapture are back and sounding exactly as I remember them -- a flawless rock/pop/dance melange, distinguished by their reliable drums, unmistakeable vocals and one hell of a steady cowbell.
Ben E. Kessler | Posted 11.20.2011
If you're still complaining about D.C. concert crowds not dancing you either haven't lived here very long or you need to get over it. At this point, there are not other choices.
Taryn Haight | Posted 11.15.2011
This year drew big name acts, mostly known for killer live performances, like Deadmau5, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Empire of the Sun and !!!.
Jeff Pollack | Posted 11.08.2011
On the coattails of Outside Lands, San Francisco's big music festival that's fast becoming the Coachella of northern California, comes the bay area's ...
Posted 11.06.2011
In just its second year, Chicago's homegrown, hip hop- and electronic music-focused North Coast Music Festival is already proving that it is a worthy ...
Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.14.2012