He’s performing at the Newport Folk Festival this year. Here’s the relevant information for you: Friday, Tennis Hall of Fame, doors 6:30p, music 8pSat. and Sunday, Fort Adams State Park, parking 8a, doors 10a, music 11:30a For line-up and more info, visit www.newportfolkfest.net It looks like an incredible line-up (Jim James, Calexico, Richie Havens and Levon Helm, to name a few), and here are our top five reasons to show: 5. Because the line-up is incredible. And you’re in New England. Duh.4. American Idol’s off for the night, and it’s time to get your fill of real music. Don’t worry, we won’t tell. 3. BrandiRead More →

Okay, so not “tragedy” tragedy, but still something pretty quite bad: http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/231834/vampire-weekends-cover-art-contra-versy-model-sues-band-for-2-million/ Turns out someone forgot to get permission to use that Polaroid as their cover art. Costly mistake, it may turn out to be. Though we didn’t really dig the album too much, here’s no hard feelings. Just wondering if the model on the cover (one Ann Kirsten Kennis) wouldn’t first try to right the wrong without going to court. It’s her right to, of course, but I’d think it’d be nice to get her manager in contact with the record label to see who dropped the ball on this one. That’s probably whatRead More →