Indie Rock
Peach Music Festival 2023: Goose, Ween, My Morning Jacket, Tedeschi Trucks Band Headline
The Peach Music Festival has unveiled its 2023 lineup headlined by Tedeschi Trucks Band, Goose, My Morning Jacket, and Ween. The 11th annual festival takes place across four days from June 29th through July 2nd in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Also receiving prominent billing are Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Les Claypool’s Flying Frog Brigade, Mike Gordon, Umphrey’s McGee, Lettuce, Twiddle, and Ripe. The lineup is rounded out by Duane Betts, Andy Frasco & The U.N., TAUK featuring Kanika Moore, Magic City Hippies, Dogs inaA Pile, Lawrence, Thumpasaurus, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Karina Rykman, Ghost Light, Tapers Choice, Son Little, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, Mihali, Raq, TAZ Plays Hendrix, Circles Around the Sun, Melt, Mo Lowda & The Humble, Oh He Dead, Cris Jacobs Band, Fr...
Pixies Announce First Run of 2023 North American Tour Dates
Pixies have announced the initial handful of dates for their upcoming 2023 North American headline tour. Currently wrapping up their 2022 jaunt in New Zealand, the alt-rock stalwarts will hit the road starting on May 4th at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California. They’ll primarily cover the southwest US throughout the month, making stops in cities such as Phoenix, Santa Fe, Denver, and two back-to-back nights in Las Vegas. They’ll wrap up the leg with a festival set at the Kilby Block Party in Salt Lake City. Though the tour is in support of Pixies’ September album Doggerel, the band have a whole treasure trove of hits and deep cuts to add to their setlists — “setlists” being plural, because each night will see the band play a unique lineup of songs, deciding whatever “the next s...
How to Get Tickets to The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie’s 2023 Tour
Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service will come together for a co-headlining 2023 tour celebrating the 20-year anniversaries of their respective albums, Transatlanticism and Give Up, and tickets will treat audiences to full performances of both. Ben Gibbard, who co-founded and fronts both groups, shared in a statement: “I know for a fact I will never have a year again like 2003. The Postal Service record came out, Transatlanticism came out. These two records will be on my tombstone, and I’m totally fine with that. I’ve never had a more creatively inspired year.” Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service’s Next Tour? Advertisement Related Video The 17-date run will kick off in Portland, Maine on September...
Brandon Flowers Joins Sharon Van Etten to Perform “Like I Used To”: Watch
Sharon Van Etten and The Killers both just so happen to be touring Australia at the moment, and both acts made the most of it by meeting up onstage in Melbourne on Thursday night. Van Etten brought out Brandon Flowers to duet “Like I Used To,” her collaboration with Angel Olsen. Flowers’ voice doesn’t quite match Olsen’s — whose does? — but he still sounds great as he covers her parts and harmonizes with Van Etten throughout the song. Van Etten took to social media afterwards to share her apperciation: “Had such an amazing 2nd show tonight here in Melbourne and the epic Northcote Theatre,” she wrote on Twitter. “Thank you, @BrandonFlowers for being such a sincere , humble , beautiful person. Loved singing with you – and @AngelOlsen gave her blessing. Hope to do it again sometime.” Van Ette...
The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie Announce 2023 Co-Headlining Tour
Ben Gibbard is set to pull double duty on The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie’s 2023 co-headlining tour. During the fall run, the groups will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their respective albums Give Up and Transatlanticism by performing them in full. Marking the first live performances from The Postal Service in over a decade, the trek will kick off September 8th in Portland, Maine ahead of stops in Boston; New York City; Philadelphia; Seattle; Washington, DC; and more. It will wrap in Los Angeles on October 13th. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, December 16th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. A Live Nation pre-sale will go down one day earlier on Thursday, December 15th (using access code CHEER). Advertisement Related Video Gibbard will be accompan...
The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie Announce 2023 Co-Headlining Tour
Ben Gibbard is set to pull double duty on The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie’s 2023 co-headlining tour. During the fall run, the groups will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their respective albums Give Up and Transatlanticism by performing them in full. Marking the first live performances from The Postal Service in over a decade, the trek will kick off September 8th in Portland, Maine ahead of stops in Boston; New York City; Philadelphia; Seattle; Washington, DC; and more. It will wrap in Los Angeles on October 13th. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, December 16th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. A Live Nation pre-sale will go down one day earlier on Thursday, December 15th (using access code CHEER). Advertisement Related Video Gibbard will be accompan...
The Strokes, Pavement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Pixies to Play Kilby Block Party in 2023
The Strokes, Pavement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Pixies are among the acts set to play Kilby Block Party in 2023. The three-day music festival goes down from March 12th-14th at the Utah State Fairgrounds in Salt Lake City, Utah. The lineup also promises Run the Jewels, Japanese Breakfast, The Walkmen, Caroline Polachek, The Backseat Lovers, Parquet Courts, O Sees, Faye Webster, Lucius, Frankie Cosmos, Deerhoof, Indigo De Sousza, Crumb, Ethel Cain, Mannequin Pussy, Alice Phoebe Lou, Jean Dawson, Spill Tab, Tamino, and more. Advertisement Related Video Tickets to Kilby Block Party — including GA and VIP three-day passes — go on sale December 7th at 10:00 a.m. MST. Editor’s Note: Visit Consequence’s new Live section for the latest live music news, tour dates, festival lineup announ...
The Flaming Lips Announce “An Evening With” Tour Dates
If you live on the west coast, you’re invited to “An Evening With” The Flaming Lips. The Flaming Lips’ newly announced 2023 jaunt begins with two shows at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on February 28th and March 1st. From there, the band hits Stateline and Las Vegas, Nevada before wrapping up with three shows across California. The tour ends on March 9th with a gig at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. According to a press release, “An Evening With The Flaming Lips” will find “the alternative rock stalwarts mining their catalog for what promises to be an epic and unforgettable two-hour set.” Advertisement Related Video Tickets to The Flaming Lips’ “An Evening With” tour go on sale Friday, December 9th at 10:00 a.m. local time, while fans can use code CHEER to access a pre-sale b...
The Flaming Lips Announce “An Evening With” Tour Dates
If you live on the west coast, you’re invited to “An Evening With” The Flaming Lips. The Flaming Lips’ newly announced 2023 jaunt begins with two shows at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on February 28th and March 1st. From there, the band hits Stateline and Las Vegas, Nevada before wrapping up with three shows across California. The tour ends on March 9th with a gig at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. According to a press release, “An Evening With The Flaming Lips” will find “the alternative rock stalwarts mining their catalog for what promises to be an epic and unforgettable two-hour set.” Advertisement Related Video Tickets to The Flaming Lips’ “An Evening With” tour go on sale Friday, December 9th at 10:00 a.m. local time, while fans can use code CHEER to access a pre-sale b...
Spencer Krug Announces Sunset Rubdown 2023 Reunion Tour
Spencer Krug has announced that Sunset Rubdown will reunite for the first time in 13 years for a 2023 reunion tour. What began as a solo side project for Krug quickly morphed into a quartet, and together they put out the albums 2006’s Shut Up I Am Dreaming (2006), Random Spirit Lover (2008), and Dragon Slayer (2009). Afterwords Krug moved on to Moonface before reuniting with Wolf Parade in 2016. “I always said this would never happen because I didn’t believe it ever would,” Krug wrote in a December 6th post on social media. “Glad I was wrong. Announcing the return of Sunset Rubdown.” Advertisement Related Video The group will reunite March 24th in Montreal, Quebec, and play a total of 14 shows in the US and Canada before wrapping April 25th in Los Angeles, California. C...
Sons of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Iron Maiden’s Janick Gers Share Single “Red Skies”: Stream
Dylan Gers, son of Iron Maiden’s Janick Gers, and Noah Yorke, son of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, have shared the new collaborative single “Red Skies.” Musically, “Red Skies” hews closer to Radiohead’s cracked take on rock music than Iron Maiden’s heavy metal. Yorke’s guitar picks out a pensive minor-key waltz as Gers sings, “You’re watching the road twist and twine/ My lord/ Seeing that rain drip upon/ That stove.” “I hope you enjoy the inner workings of our minds,” Gers wrote on Instagram. Via Louder Sound, he added, “I’m truly more excited with this than anything I’ve done in my life.” Advertisement Related Video Yorke said that the song was “written and sung by dyl with me on 12 string, bass, vocal harmonies, and piano and some other bits,” continuing, “We’re really proud of it. W...
Hamish Kilgour, Founding Member of The Clean, Dead at 65
Hamish Kilgour, the New Zealand musician who co-founded the pioneering indie rock band The Clean, has died at age 65. Representatives for the band confirmed the drummer was found dead after being reported missing in November. A cause of death was not revealed. “With very heavy hearts, we can confirm that Hamish Kilgour has passed away in his home country of New Zealand,” The Clean’s US label Merge Records said in a statement shared with Pitchfork. Kilgour and his brother David founded The Clean in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978. Their most famous lineup included bassist Robert Scott, and after signing to fledgling indie label Flying Nun, the trio helped establish the “Dunedin Sound,” complete with David’s angular guitar and Hamish’s robotic drumming. The Clean’s debut single, “Tally Ho!,” ca...
