Art by Wes FreedThe Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers are about to redeem their chosen genre's decades-old bad reputation with the kickoff of their joint "Rock and Roll Means Well" tour. The first stop on the mission of do-goodery is tonight (October 30) in Louisville, Kentucky. The two bands will alternate opening and closing duties on the whol...

Like a Down Under, rock version of Rock the Bells, St Jerome's Laneway Festival will travel to various cities around Australia once again next year. The 2009 installment of the festival goes down smack dab in the middle of the Australian summer, kicking off January 31 in Brisbane and wrapping things up February 8 in Sydney. The other cities cove...

Every so often, the folks from Fordham University's non-commercial, listener-supported WFUV ring up their favorite bands and invite 'em into the studio for an on-air session. Somewhat less often, WFUV files through the recent offerings and compiles the best ones onto a nifty CD. The 11th installment in that series-- FUV Live Volume 11, wouldn't ...

Our last report on Johnny Cash's posthumous goings-on took the opportunity presented by Johnny Cash Remixed to illuminate the similarities between country music and rap. It turns out the comparison was more apt than we could have imagined. Judging from the Cash output planned for this month alone, the Man in Black rivals Tupac in sheer quantity ...

The Hold Steady have rescheduled their UK tour.