Following up an incredible year of non-stop touring, a national television appearance and signing a distribution deal with INgrooves Fontana for their own Little Sur Records, San Francisco’s Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers self-titled debut will be  released worldwide on August 27, 2013. The album pre-order begins today directly through www.nickibluhm.com.

An EOTO performance is a musical journey that is unlike any other electronic performance on the circuit today. Loaded to the brim with all of the latest technology of a live producer, EOTO mixes and melds live instrumentation of the guitar, bass and drums into a musical galaxy of pavement pounding dance grooves.  Featuring rancorous highs and their signature bass bomb lows, the duo has been selling out theater performances and packing festival appearances since their 2005 inception.

You'll barely feel the weather getting colder as Dark Star Orchestra heats things up with Fall Tour East 2013, beginning November 13 in Buffalo followed by a return trip across the border to Toronto and winding up in State College, PA on December 4.

Looking for some local fun, beer, and music? Look no further then WARMFest in Broad Ripple, Indiana, Labor Day Weekend 2013. This local festival will be held in Broad Ripple Park , and will feature many local favorites and local vendors. In its 7th year, this festival has moved from the main streets of Broad Ripple to the park and will now feature five different stages. Broad Ripple, Indiana is a close knit and young community that is focused on being locally sustainable. In this small corner of Indianapolis you will find art galleries, local markets, restaurants, and bars.

Great music, great venue, great weather. The Newport Folk Festival has succeeded in reinventing itself in recent years, adopting a broader definition of “folk” that has allowed for the inclusion of a wide range of what might be called “folk-inspired” bands, while still paying homage to its acoustic guitar-strumming roots.

Keller Williams stops at Marin County’s beloved Grate Room at Terrapin Crossroads on August 30 and 31 for two nights of very special shows.

Denver’s Fox Street Allstars (FSAS) are back on tour behind their highly acclaimed sophomore album Tough Talk and have announced their Fall 2013 Cowboys & Astronauts Tour. The tour will see the band return to Utah, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Additional dates are expected to be announced soon including new Florida shows and a return to Texas in November.

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After closing out its first two-day festival today with enormous success, and to a sold out crowd, Boston Calling, announces a second edition, which will take place just a few months from now, September 7 and 8, 2013, at the city’s historic City Hall Plaza [One City Hall Square, Boston, Massachusetts]. Just before headliner The National played an unforgettable set on the Main Stage, Boston Calling further amped up fans by announcing that it will return to City Hall Plaza in September with Vampire Weekend and Passion Pit headlining.

It was the biggest and best small festival I have ever attended. There, I said it. I have started with a boom; a writer’s biggest mistake. There was no building to this statement. The opportunity to hook you with subtlety and humor was lost. If you stop reading now, I have only myself to blame.

Today, Cloud 9 Adventures proudly announces Furthur’s Paradise Waits – where former Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh & Bob Weir and their band go south of the border for the very first time to perform four magical nights at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya, Mexico on January 20, 21, 22 & 23, 2014.For four epic shows in a stunning tropical backdrop, fans can expect Lesh & Weir to push the musical envelope with jaw-dropping improvi