Grammy award winning Esperanza Spalding, the jazz bassist Berklee graduate, will release her new album, Radio Music Society on March 20th, but NPR Music is streaming her new music now for free preview. Check out the stream here, and watch a trailer for the album below:
Why? is playing New York’s beautiful Le Poisson Rouge as part of Carnegie Hall’s 2012 American Mavericks festival. Their set will take place on Friday March 16th, and frequent Sufjan Stevens-collaborators Danielson will support. The show starts at 6:30, and you can buy tickets here.
Record Store Day is coming up soon, and a whole bunch of artists are gearing up for the celebration. We recently pointed you toward Animal Collective’s plans for Record Store Day, and now we’ve found something equally exciting; St. Vincent will release a 7′ to feature two new ...
Last night, Andrew Bird stopped by The Colbert Report for an interview and a performance of a song from his excellent new album Break It Yourself. He played Break‘s lead single “Eyeoneye,” on the show, as well as album cut “Danse Carribe,” as a web exclusive ...
White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather fans rejoice! Jack White has shared another new song from his forthcoming solo debut Blunderbuss, and it’s called “Sixteen Saltines.” It’s got all the pomp and distortion that one could expect from the man who penned “Ball and ...
The Shins forthcoming album Port of Morrow will be officially released next week on March 20th via Columbia, but you can listen to it in advance now. iTunes is streaming the album in full here. Check it out, and watch several videos for new Shins songs below:
Best Coast recently announced that their sophomore album, The Only Place, will be released on May 15th via Mexican Summer. The band recently played a song from their forthcoming album live, and you can check out a high quality video of that performance below. The song is called “Why I ...
Recently Titus Andronicus played a sold out show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, and the band played a very unique setlist. The set included several new songs that are slated to appear on Titus Andronicus’ forthcoming follow up to 2010′s excellent The Monitor. Luckily, one ...
The Decemberists will release a 20 track, double live album titled We All Raise Our Voices to the Airon March 13th. The album collects tracks recorded on the band’s most recent tour, and features song that span the band’s entire career. Though the collection won’t be released ...
Sharon Van Etten is currently touring behind her recently released third album, Tramp. The Van Etten team has released a video for the sprawling and beautiful album cut “Leonard,” which you can watch below: