Charlie Hickey has signed to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory record label with plans to release a physical version of his EP Count The Stairs. “Being able to sign Charlie is one of the reasons I started a label,” Bridgers said in a statement. In celebration of the announcement, the 21-year-old artist released a reimagined version […]
A week after Live Nation and Dierks Bentley canceled the Seven Peaks Music Festival “due to current capacity restrictions in place by local health officials,” the local officials in Chaffee County, Colo., are pushing back. They say Live Nation put tickets on sale June 13 for the Labor Day weekend (Sept. 3–5) festival in scenic mountain hamlet Buena Vista, but had not obtained permit approval in advance, and was […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Taking the stage not far from trucks roaring down Interstate 25 in Cheyenne, Wyo., with the faint odor of manure from the air, Subtronics announced to a fist-pumping EDM audience packed to a general-admission pit: “I’will shout! We’re actually back at this time. Is this true? ” Regardless of the unusual location, […]
In their tiny rehearsal space in an old Birmingham, Ala., shopping center, where a mystery critter nibbled inside the walls, all eight members of the soul band St. Paul and the Broken Bones spent three-plus hours in mid-April playing their songs — without masks or social distancing. The band members are fully vaccinated, and with […]
The numbers are in for Billy Strings’ six-night run at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York last week. The bluegrass phenom sold 20,000 pay-per-view tickets for four shows streamed on Fans.live, and lured another 200,000 viewers who tuned in for the series opener and finale broadcast on Twitch. At one point during the […]
American music lovers have a intricate relationship with the heaps of amphitheaters that criss-cross the United States. A handful are placed on a base for their stunning design and acoustics — think Denver’s Red Rocks or the Gorge in Washington state — while the majority are only tolerated by lovers who slog through muddy parking […]
