January 2012

Jason Isbell is one of those artists able to magnificently personify a region of the United States through his performance; he and his band are undoubtedly from the South, Muscle Shoals, Alabama to be exact. On Thursday night at The Fox Theater in Boulder they treated the audience to some musical southern hospitality in the finest sense.

Big Gigantic, the "high-altitude club bangers" (LA Times) who specialize in a shape-shifting blend of electronic and hip-hop, will release 'Nocturnal' on January 11, a major artistic statement by an act already exploding on the live scene.Comprised of musical mad scientists Dominic Lalli (saxophonist/producer) and Jeremy Salken (drums), the Boulder, CO-based Big Gigantic formed in late 2008 with the idea of interpreting traditional DJ-based mu

The Line-up for the 2012 Wanee Music Festival will be announced Monday, January 16th at 10AM at waneefestival.com and it is shaping up to be one of the most exciting yet!  The group of star studded acts joining the Allman Brothers Band April 19th through the 21st at Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL will add energy and excitement to what is fast becoming one of the most popular Festivals in the country. Also, 3-day tickets to the 2012 Wanee Music Festival will be going on sale Friday, January 20th at 10AM through waneefest

Think you have what it takes to do the Grateful Dead? Show off your musical chops and you just might get your music video featured on Dead.net as part of The Dead Covers Project! The rules are simple - all video submissions must contain a song either written by or recorded by the Dead. How that song is interpreted, however, is entirely up to you!

Black Box Revelation brought their scuzzy guitars, crashing drums, unabashed energy and depth of soul collision through the States for much of 2011 on tour with the Meat Puppets, Beady Eye and Girl in A Coma and return next month for national tour dates with Jane's Addiction!
 

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Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Drive-By Truckers at the Fox Theatre on Friday, March 10th.  Tickets go on sale Friday, January 13th for $30.00. Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s.