Altsounds — Los Lobos, the Grammy-winning East L.A. band, is on tour this summer in support of a brand new studio album. The new release, titled Tin Can Trust will hit streets on August 3, 2010. The band's summer schedule brings them coast to coast, includi... more info

Totally Fuzzy — -nits- said... floetry-floetic (2002) not only was i blown away by the debut album of marsha 'the songstress' ambrosius and natalie 'the floacist' stewart, aka floetry, i was knocked senseless and left breathless when i had the pleasure of seeing the... more info

Twangville — Our friends at New West Records sent along this great video of John Hiatt talking about “Fireball Roberts,” a track from his latest release. The slow bluesy number finds Hiatt drawing a parallel between the late race-car driver’s professional ... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) Assessing the quality of the songwriting on any John Hiatt [ tickets ] album is a significant challenge. There's not a single release among his 19 studio albums that does not have at least a half-dozen eye openers, songs that play wit... more info

Live Daily — (LiveDaily.com) By opening his Thursday (3/18) afternoon set with “Perfectly Good Guitar,” John Hiatt [ tickets ] set a tone for the hour he would spend onstage at New West's SXSW party at the Belmont. more info

Guardian Music — (Provogue)As guitar heroes go, Joe Bonamassa is something of a talented oddity. He's a one-time child prodigy who opened for his admirer BB King when he was just 12 years old, he's a massive fan of blues-influenced British rockers from the 70s, and h... more info

CMT — I'm a longtime admirer of John Hiatt's music, so it was a real treat for me to interview him for this feature story on his new album, The Open Road. I'm going to lead this playlist of new music with the chug-a-lugging title track. Most of the other m... more info

CMT — Halfway into John Hiatt's new album, The Open Road, there's an unusual song called "Homeland" that I initially thought he wrote about how Native Americans unfairly lost their land, but it's actually a little more personal than that. "There's always b... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — John Hiatt's music has frequently had issues of family at or near the core. That's true of his latest album, but the perspective reaches beyond primary relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, to take on bigger questions of... more info

Guardian Music — Shepherds Bush Empire, LondonThis was an evening of celebrity ­minimalism in a maverick country style. There was no backing band, and just two (later three) chairs on stage. Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt walked on together, ­carrying acoustic guit... more info