Brooklyn Vegan — Andrew Bird has announced a fall tour and has invited some pretty cool people to open for him. Continue reading… more info

Rolling Stone — Willie Nelson has announced the lineup for his storied 4th of July Picnic, held this year at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack in Austin, Texas. The roster is among the Independence Day party's most diverse, with aggro-country outlaw Brantley Gil... more info

Guardian Music — The outlaw Nashville singer worried she’d be singing to empty bars her whole life until Jack White heard the songs on Midwest Farmer’s DaughterA new sticker has appeared on the back of the Third Man Records minivan, which is blocking th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Saturday Night Live has been on a roll with getting awesome rising musicians to perform lately. They just had Margo Price, and now they revealed the hosts and musical guests for the three final shows of this season, including indie rock breakout Cour... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — This summer, Hudson River Park will host a series of free and low-cost events called Summer of Fun with music, movies, dance, food festivals, family events, fitness, walking ours, fishing and river cruises. It kicks off on May 21 with the annual Huds... more info

Rolling Stone — What you expect to hear at an Old Crow Medicine Show concert: an audience enthusiastically chanting the words to their seminal hit "Wagon Wheel." What you also heard at their show last night in Huntsville, Alabama: the band, with plenty of help from ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The multi-venue Great Escape Festival takes place in the seaside resort town of Brighton, England from May 19 - 21. Like SXSW or Pop Montreal, the focus is really about discovering new bands, but some names already familiar to us include charismatic ... more info

Guardian Music — (Third Man)Margo Price’s debut opens with Hands of Time, seemingly a compendium of country cliches. She leaves home just $57 from broke, tears in her eyes, leaving the daddy who lost the farm when she was two. She goes to the city, plays the b... more info

DrownedInSound — The 33-year-old has lived and lost, and drunk and cried, but has emerged from it all as a special talent more info

Guardian Music — (Third Man)The avalanche of interest in this debut on Jack White’s label owes as much to Margo Price’s backstory as to her talents as singer-songwriter. Indeed, the two are inseparable, as opener Hands of Time makes clear, detailing how Price hit... more info