Highlights from Week 1 of the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.

  This year’s ACL Festival in Austin Texas featured bands like Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Avett Brothers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence + The Machine, Rufus Wainwright, Gary Clark Jr., First Aid Kit, Bombay Bicycle Club, Freelance Whales, Oberhofer, and more.

Did you have a good ‘Roo? Whether you watched from home on the webcast, slogged it out for four nights in Manchester, or are blissfully ignorant of the entire weekend, we’ve got the skinny on ten legendary moments from this year’s Bonnaroo. Dawes Grow Up Dawes drew a huge crowd to the Sonic Stage on [...]

If you can’t make it to Bonnaroo this year, you can still catch a good portion of it from the comfort of your couch. There’s less chance of heat exhaustion, and the sound is always crystal clear. Here’s the official Bonnaroo Webcast schedule on YouTube, which includes headliners Radiohead, Phish and Red Hot Chili Peppers [...]

This year’s highly anticipated Bonnaroo schedule has been posted on the Manchester, Tennessee festival’s official Website. Radiohead will headline Friday, June 8, which will also see performances from St. Vincent, Feist, and Dawes. Saturday will be headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers, and will see sets from Blind Pilot, Punch Brothers, The Roots, the still-mysterious [...]

Lollapalooza will return to Chicago’s Grant Park on August 3-5, with a lineup that features the reunion of several bands — late ’60s metal pioneers Black Sabbath, 90′s alt-rockers Afghan Whigs, and modern hardcore heroes At The Drive-In. Also appearing are Jack White, who’ll perform songs from his debut solo album, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, [...]

On April 3, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson will release Thick As A Brick 2, the followup to 1972′s beloved prog opus Thick As A Brick (an album comprised of two long, interconnected songs). In this extensive interview, rock’s most famous flautist talks to American Songwriter about the sequel’s genesis, its parallels to the original, his [...]

Red Hot Chili Peppers I’m With You (Warner Bros.) Rating: The most essential album in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ large catalog isn’t Blood Sugar Sex Magik, their 1991 breakout that produced their biggest hit, “Under the Bridge.” Nor is it 2006’s best-selling Stadium Arcadium, which stretched their ambitions out to fill a double album. [...]

The summer is heating up. On August 30, funk warriors Red Hot Chili Peppers will make their return with their tenth studio album, I’m With You, the followup to 2006′s Grammy-winning double album, Stadium Arcadium. The new LP finds the band once again teaming with producer Rick Rubin. The new album will be released on [...]

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