Highlights From The 2012 Hangout Music Fest

The Top Ten Highlights From This Year’s Hangout Music Fest

The biggest challenge the Hangout Festival faced this year was how it could top itself. Last year the festival snagged Paul Simon and the Foo Fighters to headline and ended up selling all 35,000 tickets in a matter of weeks. So how could the festival possibly top Graceland on the beach? Snag huge touring acts [...]

Video: Dar Williams Discusses Her Latest Album

Dar Williams’ ninth studio album, In The Time Of Gods, would do Appollo, the God of Music, proud, writes Hal Horowitz in his American Songwriter review. In this new video, the veteran folk artist discusses the albums’ creation and penchant for myth. Want more? Read our recent Q&A with Williams.

Neil Young, Jack White, Black Keys To Headline ACL Festival

The 2012 ACL Festival in Austin, Texas boasts one of the year’s most enticing lineups. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, The Avett Brothers, The Black Keys and Jack White will headline alongside Red Hot Chili Peppers and Florence + The Machine. Iggy and the Stooges, M. Ward, Steve Earle, Alabama Shakes, Punch Brothers, The Civil [...]

Paul McCartney: Ram

Paul McCartney Ram (Deluxe Edition) (EMI) Rating: Originally released in 1971, Ram was met with decidedly mixed reviews. It was McCartney’s second post-Beatles album and the only LP co-credited to his wife Linda. The album ratcheted up the production methods considerably from his previous outing and showcased the preciousness McCartney was always accused of during [...]

Loudon Wainwright III: Older Than My Old Man Now

Loudon Wainwright III Older Than My Old Man Now (2nd Story Sound) Rating: Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen have both enjoyed latter-day critical resurgences not just because their recent work is in top form, but because at their age they are forced to confront death, and have done so with grace and aurally-enhanced creakiness (and [...]

Daily Discovery: Wild Cub, “Colour”

  BMI’S 2012 ROAD TO BONNAROO CONTEST WINNER ARTIST: Wild Cub SONG: “Colour” BIRTHDATE: November 2011 BIRTHPLACE: Nashville, TN AMBITIONS: Soundtrack for late night drive, on repeat. TURN-OFFS: Songwriter rounds, sunglasses on stage, festival panels on “cracking the music biz via social media” TURN-ONS: Sade, Jensen Sportag, SBTRKT, Chairlift, James Blake, The XX, Twin Shadow [...]

Q&A: Sara Bareilles

On May 22, Sara Bareilles will release her EP Once Upon Another Time, produced by her friend and fellow The Sing-Off judge Ben Folds. We spoke with the songstress about her newest creative collaboration, and what sets this EP apart. Check out the EP track “Stay” here. Do you consider “once upon another time” to [...]

Hunter Hayes Is Martin Guitars’ Latest Brand Ambassador

Martin Guitars has announced that country artist Hunter Hayes will serve as C.F. Martin & Co.’s latest brand ambassador. The 20 year-old multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/producer is a former child prodigy (fun fact: Hayes received his first guitar from actor Robert Duvall at age six) whose impressive debut album, Hunter Hayes, was released last year on Atlantic Records. [...]

Video Teaser: The Temper Trap, “The Sea Is Calling”

Australian indie rockers The Temper Trap have a new, self-titled  album, the followup to 2009′s acclaimed Conditions, which will hits our shores on June 5th. Watch a video teaser below for the album track “The Sea Is Calling,” and check out the band’s 2012 tour dates (including a return trip to Bonnaroo) here. Lead singer Dougy [...]