Watch Beck, Jim James, Amanda Palmer, Father John Misty, Phosphorescent, Andrew Bird, Mountain Goats, The Avett Brothers, and others live at the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.

In the newest Gabba episode “Farm,” DJ Lance and the crew visit Farmer Josh (Holloway) who teaches them about animals, … More

See many of the same artist playing Newport Folk Festival – plus Wilco, Edward Sharpe, Bob Dylan and others – the same weekend, in the same region for a fraction of the price. Tickets still available.

It seems 2013 is the year of The Flaming Lips comic. Since January artist Andrew Pawley has been drawing Captain … More

MGMT’s self-titled third album is out September 17th with an “Optimizer” illuminating the music with videos and computer generated visuals. As with their debut LP (but unlike their sophomore effort), it was recorded by just Andrew and Ben, and co-produced by Dave Fridmann, since early 2012. Hear five of the tunes they’ve been working on, three from recent live performances.

As detailed last week, Yoko Ono is curating the 2013 Meltdown Festival, featuring nightly concerts and events in London from … More

UPDATE  Bonnaroo 2013 has come and gone, and so have the webcasts (that this post was originally about) – but … More

On June 25th Mavis Staples returns with her latest album, One True Vine.  (stream the full release now on NPR … More

Receive a free download of “Moonbeams” – the first single from the Plastic Ono Band’s forthcoming album featuring Wilco’s Nels Cline, tUnE-yArDs, Lenny Kravitz and more.
Yoko curates Meltdown Festival, June 14-23rd; will play “Double Fantasy” live for the first time ever

Musicians are helping recovery in Moore, Oklahoma by releasing benefit records, hosting relief concerts and – in the case of The Flaming Lips – redirecting funds from a T-shirt contest.

UPDATE – Watch Broken Social Scene reunite on “Jimmy Fallon”…with Feist . . .
Paul McCartney and Mavis Staples take over Comedy Central late night on June 12th;
On June 14th-15th catch Dispatch and others;
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