Video: Bono & Glen Hansard Busking in Dublin...

Video: Beck, Devendra Banhart & More @ MOCA...

Doug Aitken documented the recent MOCA performance with Beck, Caetano Veloso & Devendra Banhart.

R.E.M. Prepares For Collapse...

COLLAPSE INTO NOW, R.E.M.'s new studio record, is set for a Tuesday, March 8th release in the USA on Warner Bros. Records. The album, the band's 15th, will be released internationally on March 7th. COLLAPSE INTO NOW was produced by R.E.M. and Jacknife Lee and features guest appearances from Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Joel Gibb, Peaches, and Eddie Vedder. Stay tuned for more details!

COLLAPSE INTO NOW
1. Discoverer
2. All The Best
3. Überlin
4. Oh My Heart
5. It Happened Today
6. Every Day Is Yours To Win
7. Mine Smell Like Honey
8. Walk It Back
9. Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter
10. That Someone Is You
11. Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I
12. Blue

Video: Ray LaMontagne ~ Live From the Artists Den...

Bright Eyes Take a Look at Royal Oak...

Bright Eyes will release The People’s Key on February 15th 2011 on Saddle Creek. The People’s Key – the band’s seventh studio album - is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007’s acclaimed Cassadaga.

Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour. Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People’s Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is renowned. Recorded in Omaha, Nebraska, at the band’s own ARC Studios, The People’s Key was produced by Mike Mogis and engineered by Mogis and Andy LeMaster.

Bright Eyes will play Royal Oak Music Theatre (Royal Oak, MI) on March 14th. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 17th.

Full track list for The People’s Key:
1 Firewall
2 Shell Games
3 Jejune Stars
4 Approximate Sunlight
5 Haile Selassie
6 A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key)
7 Triple Spiral
8 Beginner’s Mind
9 Ladder Song
10 One For You, One For Me

The Red River Flows Through Toledo...

The Red River returns to Toledo to play The Ottawa Tavern on January 16th. You wont want to miss this ensemble's melodies and harmonies and overall musical goodness.

To Linfinity & Beyond (or at least Toledo)...

Linfinity, a band from New York, will be playing Mainstreet Bar & Grill in Toledo, Ohio on Sunday, December 5th. They are on the independent music label American Myth Recordings.

Linfinity has been described as having an "Old World" quality by Rolling Stone magazine and WNYC Soundcheck's John Shaefer. WNYC Soundcheck host John Shaefer described Linfinity's lead singer Dylan Von Wagner voice as "a strange blend of David Byrne and Anthony Haggerty." Rolling Stone magazine described his voice as "Eddie Vedder and Tiny Tim harmonizing."

Greg Brown Returns to Ann Arbor's Ark...

Folk singer Greg Brown, an extraordinary songwriter with an unmistakable voice, will be returning to Ann Arbor to play The Ark on May 6th, 2011. The venue is a fantastic space to hear the lush simplicity of the music he delivers on stage.

Click here for more info.