Last weekend Louisville, Kentucky hosted the eleventh annual Forecastle Festival on the banks of the Ohio River. Over 75,000 fans, four stages, 65 musical acts and one festival evacuation made for an exciting weekend. With live music comes the element of surprise and it was plentiful this year. Unfortunate cancellations were made by acts Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings due to illness and the threat of powerful thunderstorms shifted the schedules during two day of the event.

The 11-piece juggernaut known as the Tedeschi Trucks Band begin their co-headlining tour with The Black Crowes and special guests The London Souls this Friday, July 19 in Nashville, TN.

On June 29th, the first Saturday of the Milwaukee Summerfest 2013 , Dispatch was the headliner at the BMO Harris Pavilion.  This is the 45th Annual Summerfest and I decided to make this an adventure.  I am a Chicago native and had to make a couple of hours journey, so I booked a hotel in Milwaukee.  As show time approached, I took the drive into town.  As I neared the Park, the traffic was heavy.  The roads were flooded with groups of

String Cheese Incident fans, plan your costumes, get your tickets and be ready to travel as String Cheese Incident will headline the first ever Suwannee Hulaween, an unprecedented musical celebration, during the 2013 Halloween weekend at the beautiful Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SOSMP) located on the famous Suwannee River in Live Oak, Fla.Join the String Cheese Incident (SCI) family from Oct. 31 - Nov.

The preeminent cowboy musician of the last half century gallops into the Freight to present his “Lone Cowboy Show.” Michael Martin Murphey was the original Cosmic Cowboy back in the 1970s when, along with folks like Jerry Jeff Walker and Willie Nelson, he helped launch the music scene in Austin, Texas into the stratosphere.