Björk It was only last year that Bonnaroo introduced a suggested mandate of festival ethics, the Bonnaroovian Code. Its pillars are as follows: Be In Here, Play as a Team, Don’t Be That Guy / Gal, Radiate Positivity, Build It, Leave No Trace, Keep It Alive and Spread the Word. For the most part, Bonnaroo’s [...]

Whenever an artist brings back an old song, chances are he or she hopes it will still resonate with modern audiences. In the case of Elvis Costello and Mumford & Sons’ ingenious, heartfelt take on Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost Of Tom Joad,” the resonance is multiplied many times over because the song’s original inspiration goes [...]

Mumford & Sons rescheduled three of their upcoming shows after doctors discovered a blood clot in bassist Ted Dwane’s brain. Dwane has been scheduled to receive emergency surgery to remove the clot, but he’s expected to make a speedy recovery. After feeling sick for a few days, Dwane was rushed to the hospital yesterday. The [...]

Sasquatch! is like summer camp for music lovers. You don’t know what it’s like to experience a weekend at the Gorge in George until you’ve been there. We can do our best to describe it to those who ask, “What’s it like?” but the look of the sun cutting through the clouds at dusk while [...]

If you’ve got a large group of friends, some spoons, a washboard and an iPhone, you could be well on your way to starting your own Mumford Band – at least according to the latest addition to Barely Political’s Key of Awesome series. The music video, featured on YouTube’s first ever Comedy Week, parodies the [...]

March/April 2013 “On My Deathbed” winner Nicholas Sumner reveals his prize picks. From Nickel Creek to Tom Waits, read Nick’s ruminations on the picks that helped him win the Martin D-35 Seth Avett Custom Signature Guitar. And enter the May/June “On My Deathbed” contest for your chance to win a Martin GPCPA1 Plus Guitar. Trouble [...]

If, like us, you’re headed to Bonnaroo this year, today is the day you’ve been waiting for since February’s big lineup reveal. The good folks behind this year’s three-day musical extravaganza have released the full schedule on their website. Japandroids, Alt-J, Father John Misty and The Vaccines will greet the intrepid Thursday crowd. Wilco, Jim [...]

Singer-songwriter David Mayfield doesn’t usually worry much about the vibe or look of a recording studio room. With his band the David Mayfield Parade he’s typically content going headlong into a song, relying on raw emotion. But for the recording of the song “Goodbye Farewell So Long” off his band’s sophomore release Good Man Down [...]

At noon Eastern today, “Weird Al” Yankovic will address a very serious manner — the lineup for the 2013 Bonnaroo festival, which will be held June 13-16 in Manchester, Tennessee. You can watch the whole thing unfold in the video below (click here for our real-time updates). To whet your appetite, there will be a [...]

It was a night all about musicians making real music, about real bands with real instruments conjuring up that kind of magic musical spirit only real bands can create. Crystallized by a exultant tribute to an absent friend, The Band’s Levon Helm, led by Elton John, Zac Brown and Mavis Staples, it was also a [...]

Last night’s all-star performance at The Grammys caps off what has been the year of “The Weight.” The beloved track about Fanny and Miss Annie has taken on a new life since the passing of Band drummer/vocalist Levon Helm in April. In fact, the song, which first appeared on the 1968 album Music From Big [...]

If you missed Mumford & Sons’ unique “Gentlemen of the Road” Stopover shows last year — and most likely you did, given that there were only seven of them — fear not. The popular Brit-folk band has announced a new slate of dates for 2013, in the US, UK and Canada. They’ll be joined by [...]