As shocking as it sounds Staten Island, New York will indeed serve as home for a music festival this upcoming summer. Rock The Harbor, described as the island’s first and original rock festival, will take place on June 14 at Snug’s Harbor Cultural Center and features a small collection of artists representing the “borough’s best […]

Despite the late addition of Prince and anticipation leading up to reunion performances by Portishead and The Verve, this year’s recent edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, whether a result of the increasing over saturation of the market and/or a reflection of the state of the economy, failed to match last year’s […]

Two years have passed since the Red Hot Chili Peppers released their Grammy Award winning, double album, Stadium Arcadium, and with time spent, one starts to wonder: What’s next? As we reported last week, the Peppers have apparently been flirting around with new sounds in the studio. However, despite acting as curator for the new […]

Returning for its seventh go around, the D Fest Music Conference and Festival will take place between July 25 and 26 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This year’s edition will feature a hodgepodge of different styles and sounds as everyone from Paramore and All American Rejects to Ghostland Observatory and The Roots are currently scheduled to perform.

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Ra Ra Riot are signed, sealed, and now ready to deliver.
The Syracuse based quintet, who recently signed with Basurck Records, have announced plans to release their debut album, entitled The Rhumb Line, on August 19. A U.K. release date, through V2 Records, will be some time after that.
While the band has yet to announced a […]

Beck isn’t the only musician to drop a brand new song today.
The Hold Steady have officially unveiled “Sequestered in Memphis,” the first single of their forthcoming album Stay Positive (June 15 via Vagrant Records) as a stream on their myspace.
U.K.’s Uncut Magazine has an early review of the band’s fourth studio album and so far […]

Beck has premiered a new track from his forthcoming album, rumored to be titled Modern Guilt. Entitled “Chemtrails,” the song, which premiered earlier today on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show and is now available as a stream on the musician’s myspace, gives us one of our first looks at the direction that Mr. Hansen […]

For all those punk lovers, today the Godfather of the genre, the late Joey Ramone, would have turned 57-years-old. In honor of the legendary frontman, many bands and personal friends will pay tribute to the man with performances and toasts at the Fillmore in New York City later tonight.

Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom, Mary Weiss, Richard […]

Citysol, New York City’s only solar-powered music, art and advocacy festival, will return once again this summer to provide four days of great fun and free music. This year’s edition, which is set to go down between June 26 and 29 at Solar One’s East River-side venue in Stuyvesant Cove Park, recently unveiled its initial […]

Acclaimed British post punk band Wire have announced details for their eleventh studio album - and first in nearly five years. Entitled Object 47, a reference to its number in the band’s discography, the nine track album will be released on July 7.
The band will also release the album’s first track, “One of Us,” prior […]

All of us at Consequence of Sound love Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters. There’s no denying that. From a kickass performance in Chicago this past February to his open letter to Metallica encouraging their new album to kick lots of ass, anything Dave Grohl touches turns to gold.
In other words, we were […]

The well beyond their years, three-piece band from The Isle of Man, Back Door Slam, who derive their name from the Robert Cray song of the same name, is a heavy dose of pure blues and rock, laced with a slight Irish/Celtic undertone. The trio, all in their early twenties, is […]

A few months ago, we did a listen article on South Boston native, Rumorz. The man and his music stand as a testament of integrity against the current state of rap and hip-hop currently dominating the market today. Earlier today on his myspace page, the Boston beat blaster announced his new music blog […]

The 21st edition of Hultsfred Festival is set to kick off once again later this year. Set to take place June 12 and 14, Hultsfredsfestivalen, as its known in Sweedish, will feature some 150 acts over seven stages to crowds nearing 30,000+. And while past versions have featured the likes of Radiohead, Bjork, and Fatboy […]

As expected, Metallica headlined the 16th annual KROQ Weenie Roast this past weekend in Irvine, California. And while the band unfortunately did not debut any new material off their forthcoming album, the entire performance was captured live, and in high quality, via the folks over at Blabbermouth.
Metallica - “Creeping Death” (Live at Weenie Roast 2008)

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Good things come from Vermont. For one, it serves as a great vacation spot from everyday life and in the winter, you can practically knock on any tree for maple syrup. Also, thanks to Phish, Vermont’s music scene serves up nice slices of buttered up pancakes to go along with the music. […]

If there was a ship in sight with a crew of grunge rockers aboard, the proud sailors hoisting the flag would be Seattle’s best, The Melvins. The sludge grunge rockers announced earlier this weekend that they will release their 21st album entitled Nude With Boots on July 7th. The album will see a […]

Since those pretty unimportant song leaks last month, the buzz around Oasis’ next album has pretty much died down. Well, that was until today.
Appearing on Russell Brand’s Radio 2 program last night, Noel Gallagher revealed that the followup to 2005’s Don’t Believe the Truth will be released this coming September, though he would not reveal […]