April 2023

Demons, Dark Sides, & Downtime, the new EP from Pete Jive will be available Thursday, April 20th, 2023 for download on all platforms as well as vinyl for sale. There is something special about the unfolding.

The tenth-annual Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival, in partnership with Live Nation, hosted fans for three days of musical entertainment featuring headliners Kenny Chesney, Eric Church and Shania Twain. After a decade on the beach of Fort Lauderdale, The Sun Sentinel praised “that such a lineup of talent could be encouraged to perform on Fort Lauderdale beach — in the name of ocean-conservation group Rock the Ocean — once seemed like a dream.

The Rock and Roll Playhouse, a family concert series where kids and parents rock out to the classics, just announced a special run of shows over Earth Day Weekend benefiting international non-profit Oceanic Global on Saturday April 22 and Sunday, April 23. Featuring the music of Bob Marley and The Grateful Dead, The Rock and Roll Playhouse will bring family fun to 13 different venues across the country. Tickets are available here.

In celebration of their much anticipated forthcoming third studio album Starcatcher—due July 21 on Lava/Republic Records—Grammy-winning rock band Greta Van Fleet are set to kick off their Starcatcher World Tour July 24 in Nashville at the Bridgestone Arena. The tour, produced by Live Nation, includes stops at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York and The Forum in Los Angeles as well as London’s OVO Arena Wembley and more; see below for a complete list of dates.

The initial lineup of artists performing in its 2023 XPoNential Music Festival presented by Subaru has been announced by Philadelphia public radio station WXPN. The 30th annual outdoor music festival produced by WXPN will take place from Friday, September 22 through Sunday, September 24 at Wiggins Park on the Camden, New Jersey waterfront, directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.

Roaring out of the fog-shrouded hills of Sonoma and drowning out the chatter, prog-pop troubadours PARDON THE INTERRUPTION (aka PTI) are taking their place and asserting their voice in the storied musical conversation of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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