Having fun yet? This is so cool. Thanks to everyone who entered last week and we continue today with the giveaways courtesy of the always awesome folks at Drusky Entertainment. All you have to do is email me at hughshows@comcast.net with the name of the performer you are interested in seeing in the subject line and the name of the person who will bring I.D. to will call the night of the show, good for two tickets. This contest runs until Friday (6/21) afternoon when the winners will be randomly drawn and contacted. As always, thanks for participating and good luck!…

There’s a rich history in rock of exes making beautiful music together. But what makes TeamMate’s story particularly compelling is how insurmountable drummer Dani Buncher and singer-keyboardist Scott Simons’ break up seemed…

Kevin Finn is a musician, visual artist and poet. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Finn has performed with many genre-defining artists, such as Six Organs of Admittance, Neil Halstead, Mark Kozelek, and Damien Jurado. Current collaborators include Greg Lagrosa…

Nov. 2010-Will and John form a band with guitarist Dave Weik (of Magarche) and loosely write 3–5 songs with substandard sound equipment in a vacant work room in the basement of their place of work. Tons of other shit happens…

Drew Schofield was surrounded by music from his very beginnings. Born to a singer/songwriter mother and a church-going, hymn-singing father, Drew developed a love for music from his earliest years. His first instrument was drums, and he became passionate about percussion…

In-Flight Safety is happily based in Halifax, NS, Canada. The band formed in the small town of Sackville, NB, during the twilight of their undergrad degrees. They studied fine art, computer sciences, geography, commerce and classics by day and toiled over music…

Here we go again. Starting today and continuing every week throughout Summer, I will be giving away a pair of tickets to a show courtesy of the always awesome folks at…

Craig Almquist and Al Smith formed Cold Fronts in 2011. They developed a fan base in West Philadelphia while performing a year-long residency at the infamous Rathaus, which was dubbed “Satan’s dorm room” in the Philadelphia papers…

he 4onthefloor deliver stompin’ blues at an alarming intensity. 4onthefloor was born in the bottom of a bourbon bottle with the idea that it’s effing time to have some fun and make amazing music as well. Audiences immediately took to the infectious driving…

LUE X BAXTER has readily found out there are other ways to somewhere. There is nothing really needed when its around, and then, there’s nothing really hidden about art. When I was 10 I was a myth. At 11 he was a bandit..

Hands can be so many things: welcoming, scolding, loving, clenched into a fist. With Hands as your name, you have to both capture emotion and prove that the music you create with your own is worthy of the moniker…

Stuart Davis is all about the hyphens: Writer-Director-Actor-Comedian-Songwriter. Naturally, Stu’s debut television series Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll allows him to play in myriad ways. His day job has always been rock ‘n roll. Having performed thousands of shows and released 14 albums, Davis is a pillar of the showbiz carnival. But in the past few years he’s been branching out into other forms of fun. Combining original songs…

The Hush Sound’s journey began in 2005 in the way most young bands do: as a group of friends playing together in their parent’s basement after high school. Songwriters Bob Morris and Greta Morgan would write their quirky piano…

Good Jeans is Derek January. This self-released five-song debut EP was written and recorded in 28-year-old January’s bedroom over a period of six months. Most tracks feature bright synth lines over mid-paced dance rhythms, while the vocals act as a texture, floating and melting into the background, along with experiments into more psychedelic …

Not long ago, the members of Motive were shredding through jazz lead sheets and getting carted across the U.S. and Europe to showcase their
young talent. Nowadays, Motive populates a different scene. These Seattle transplants, turned Brooklynites, emerged from a Clinton Hill, Brooklyn practice space onto stages around the city and are rapidly taking NYC…

Radar Brothers return with Eight, a very special new release only available on LP and digital beginning January 29. Featuring an expanded band of brothers including Stevie Treichel and Be Hussey from The Illustrated Garden as well as new members Dan Iead (formerly of The Broken West) on guitar/pedal steel, Brian Cleary on keyboards and Ethan Walter on piano and synthesizers…

“Now, take his musical resume and combine it with three seasoned musicians (Michael Starr, Ron Leard, and Zach Wolfe), who are influenced by The Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin and The Grateful Dead, and lock them in a hunting camp for three days with four carloads of recording equipment, and you get the debut album ,”Time Waits for No One”, by Ben Valasek and the Growlers…

“Gospel Gossip are a beautiful mess of noise and emotion. The trio’s loud, fragile pop songs have earwormed into discriminating listeners’ psyches for years now. Following a three-year lag, Gospel Gossip return with their best work yet, a self-titled LP that references where they’ve been and where things are going. While the soaring guitars and insidious melodies remain, these songs peel back a layer of feedback to reveal a nod to classic pop songwriting previously buried on earlier records. The sad beauty true to Galaxie 500, Fleetwood Mac and Neil Young is on full tilt here. Gospel Gossip’s
new record finds them more mature, honest, and once more clutching great songs aimed at the heavens.”…

“In a world where the gift of simply appreciating music seems to have been lost, it takes something extraordinary to capture the heart and the attention of listeners. Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk do just that. From captivating folk-pop melodies to an authentic and energetic performance, you’ll get drawn in to the music and won’t be letting go anytime soon.”…

CRMNL HYGNE was formed in 2011 over a couple of really good burgers at Olympian Family Restaurant in South Central Los Angeles. Eat lunch there and you might start a band too, its a fucking great establishment. They have Cherry Coke on tap and they are very generous with their Thousand Island dressing, which goes good with anything on the menu….