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The Top Ten Highlights From This Year’s Hangout Music Fest(0)

May 22, 2012

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 [...]

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

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: <em>Older Than My Old Man Now</em>

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 [...]

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. [...]