Month: April 2017

East Coast

DelFest: All you need to know & more for the 10th year of this Maryland festival May 25-28 [Event Preview]

Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off the beginning of summer. More importantly, Memorial Day weekend signals the start of festival season. If you’re a bluegrass or progressive string music fan that can only mean one thing: DelFest! DelFest is a four-day, medium sized, traditional bluegrass and progressive string music festival set in the beautiful Allegany […]

Apr 28, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

See you in Mexico for Strings & Sol with Yonder Mountain, Railroad Earth, Fruition, Leftover Salmon & More Dec. 8-12 [Event Preview]

Four days of bluegrass on the beach returns to Puerto Morelos, Mexico, December 8th-12th, 2017. Strings & Sol, back for its fifth installment, brings the best in bluegrass to paradise near Cancun for an intimate tropical slice of string heaven right in time for that holiday vacation. Guests stay at either the Now Sapphire or Dreams Riviera […]

Apr 27, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Not for the faint of (Desert) Heart(s) | March 31st – April 3, 2017 [Photo Gallery + Festival Review]

    As the sun went down on Friday, my crew and I approached Los Coyotes Indian Reservation and the night started to show its cold, brisk smile. Traffic had been hellish getting out of San Diego and LA—which is where our two cars had respectively left from—but by the time we reached the gate, the […]

Apr 26, 2017 Read →

Funk

Lettuce Rage Rocks Just 19 Days Away; Get Tickets Now [Event Preview]

Calling all funk fools, Lettuce fam, music lovers and curious Red Rocks cats alike! The time in almost nigh for the annual Lettuce Rage Rocks. The date set for the Funk rager is Saturday, May 13th, just in time to kick off Summer at Red Rocks proper. The lineup for this year’s Rage Rocks is […]

Apr 24, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Phunkberry Music Festival announces talent stacked live artist bill; ONLY TEN DAYS until we are on The Farm [Event Preview]

Only ten short days until we are basking the warm Arkansas sun, surrounded by the Ozarks and our closest Phunky phamily. Deadhead Productions is taking Phunk to a whole nother level with the the inaugural Phunkberry Music Festival. Taking place the weekend of May 4th-6th at The Farm in Eureka Spring, Arkansas, Phunkberry aims to […]

Apr 24, 2017 Read →

Funk

SunSquabi Cruises through Austin on ‘Deluxe’ tour, Jason Hann Sits in on Percussion [Show Review]

The Sunsquabi boys have been on quite the roll over the last few months. The trio, made up of Chris Anderson on drums, Kevin Donohue on Guitar/Keys/Production and recent Winter addition of Josh Fairman on Bass/Synth, these Colorado cats are making huge waves in the ever bending Electro Funk Livetronica realms. April 7th marked the […]

Apr 24, 2017 Read →

Indie

A Happy Holiday with Umphrey’s McGee: Live at Stubb’s Austin, Texas 4.20.17 [Show Review]

Driving by Stubb’s, just before 7 pm, it sounded like the party had already started. The sun was still out and the sounds of North Carolina’s Big Something spilled out onto the sidewalk from the outdoor stage as the crowd came trickling in.             Again, Stubb’s was filling up with festie freaks, though these were […]

Apr 23, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Fresh Collaboration brings Pacific Patterns, Wolfkin + Indra to The Black Box in Denver, CO | April 27th, 2017 [Event Preview]

The Mile High is a hotbed for artistic talent, and as Spring arrives in full force the city will be treated to an array of musical delicacies in the coming months. Coming up next on our plate will be a Fresh Collaboration show featuring Northwest heavyweights Pacific Patterns, Wolkfin, and local Boulder producer Indra next […]

Apr 21, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Three Rappers Who Are Going To Blow You Away At Middlelands [Festival Preview]

Middlelands, the second festival to come to the Texas Renaissance Fairgrounds this year, has a stacked lineup of EDM brought to you  courtesy of C3 Events and Insomniac. But don’t let the focus fool you – there are some stellar rappers on the lineup. In case you missed it, here are my top three rappers performing at […]

Apr 19, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Euphoria Music Festival 2017: What makes this Texas fest one of the best around [Festival Review + Photo Gallery]

Euphoria Music Festival simply reminds us why we gather around music, art, community and like-minded people. The amount of times I found my euphoria this go around makes this festival truly difficult to sum into a physical and communicable form. Hosted on stunning private grounds just a skip away from Austin’s airport on a branch of the […]

Apr 19, 2017 Read →