Animal Collective thought it was awesome playing their two-show stint to close out this year's Celebrate Brooklyn music series in Prospect Park this weekend. I know this because Avey kept saying "It's so awesome to play here" on Saturday night. (He also said that everything was "sweet" a lot, and that the Park's Bandshell was "the best place to ...

While we spent our Independence weekend in very lo-fi environs, Death Cab For Cutie hosted a ritzier affair, inviting fellow indie rock darlings Tegan & Sara and the New Pornos to open their show with the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Beck's dad David Campbell, at the Hollywood Bowl. Quoth the LA Times: [A]s the Los Angeles Philharmonic back...

At the end of last year, Dave Grohl said the Foos were gonna take a long break from the playing and the writing and the appearing at things. But when Top Chef calls, you man up. And since you're already out there, you may as well say OK when Obama and the USO invite you to play an Independence Day concert on the White House lawn. According to th...

Everyone is invited to "Light Up" their Independence Day weekend celebration on Friday evening, July 3rd with a fantastic outdoor concert extravaganza, featuring "A Tribute to Journey"

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane reunites international art thief Declan MacManus with his Coward Brother T-Bone Burnett. T-Bone produced 1986's twangy King Of America (and its classic cut "Indoor Fireworks") and 1989's Spike (which included "Veronica," Elvis' highest charting US hit) so while this may be Elvis' 93rd album (28th country album), h...