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Monday night David Crosby and Friends kicks off his tour with two nights at City Winery Chicago and continues for 23 more dates throughout the states ending December 9th.

Performing as a full band, his friends consist of James Raymond on keys, Mai Agan on bass, Steve DiStanislao on drums, Jeff Pevar on guitar and Michelle Willis on keys and vocals.

For the first time ever, Whose Hat Is This?, the electrifying acid jazz collective of current Tedeschi Trucks Band members bassist Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie), saxophonist Kebbi Williams (Outkast), and drummers JJ Johnson (John Mayer) and Tyler "Falcon" Greenwell (Col. Bruce Hampton), will be hitting the road for an East Coast US tour in December 2017.

Today at 2:00pm CST, Todd Snider will be performing songs LIVE on Facebook in anticipation of the upcoming Hard Working Americans tour, kicking off this Friday in Portland, Oregon.

HWA will support Tedeschi Trucks Band in Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles and Oakland, and also headline several of their own dates (SEE TOUR DATES BELOW) Tickets are going fast. To purchase visit: www.thehardoworkingamericans.com

When the Struts played at Chicago’s Aragon in 2015, they opened for a popular electronica band, Awolnation, and appeared after singer/songwriter Meg Meyers. Many of the attendees had never heard of the British quartet, so they couldn’t sing along with confidence, despite frontman Luke Spiller’s grand enthusiasm. But that was then and now is a fascinating wow.

The Django Reinhardt NY Festival launched in 2000 at Birdland is in its 18th year.  Out of the Festival came the top players, The Django Festival Allstars, who tour 2X a year and always spend a week at their home in the US, BIRDLAND.  On the road, to standing ovations, they play top venues –Hollywood Bowl, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Montreal Jazz Festival and much more with original music in the style and Django favorites.  This past summer at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Bowl, critic Scott Yan

Some of the most prominent stars of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock music descended on the Novo theater in the LA Live entertainment complex, for the Loudwire music awards and concert. The first annual event replaces the former Golden God awards show that used to take place in the same venue, formerly known as the Nokia club. After a several year hiatus, the show is back under their new moniker.

Loudwire Music Awards

If you've been part of the Dead.net community for the past few years, then you know we're on a mission to make a miracle every day in the month of November. This year is no different.

Jah Sun is back from his Summer European tour performing in front of sold-out shows. Jah states from the tour, “one of the highlights for me was when a fan approached security in tears asking to meet me. He told me how he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment. After two years he beat it and is cancer free. He said my music especially the song “Never Give Up” was inspirational to him.

FestForums returns to Santa Barbara for a three-day conference at the Fess Parker Doubletree Resort, November 16-18th. The event is described as “a festival conference for food, beverage, music, and film festival industry leaders. Addressing cutting-edge technology, talent, ticketing, sponsorships, scheduling, merchandising, operations, sustainability, charitable work, innovation, and safety, FestForums® brings together festivals and events of all sizes for collaboration and professional development.”

The Brothers Comatose follow up last year's The Metal EP with their latest annual Halloween EP, The Punk EP, featuring four pop-punk renditions of songs from their beloved catalogue. With the band growing up listening to acts such as Weezer, Green Day, NOFX, and Bad Religion, '90s punk and pop-punk music is engrained in The Brothers Comatose's DNA.

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