Gipsy Kings’ One-Night Stand at James L. Knight on April 20

Gipsy Kings is the OG gitano rock band. Way before Gogol Bordello sang punky odes to the proverbial wanderer, the Kings traversed the globe, blending Spanish rumba and flamenco guitar for a worldwide audience. Formed in 1978, the Gipsy Kings is two sets of siblings, the Reyes and the Baliardos…

Rat Bastard and Scraping Teeth Are Back for The Worst Band in America Tour 2012

Hellish hiss and skull-splitting feedback explodes into a swirlingly atonal shit-cloud of expertly terrible guitar noise, erratic yet superprecise drum strikes, droning bass, garbled shrieks, and totally indecipherable lyrical chatter. That’s the sound of Scraping Teeth. And it’s the fucking worst. No, really. Almost 20 years ago, Spin Magazine launched…

Michael Bublé is Better Than Drake, According to Canada

Is the proof in the proverbial Canadian pudding, the Juno Awards, Canada’s equivalent to the Grammy’s, that Drake is mad soft? Last night, while we watched Taylor Swift walk away with another Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year award, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was…

Sweatstock 2012 Announces Complete 27-Act Lineup

Wanna perspire till you pass out? Try squeezing into a rubber suit, guzzling 32 ounces of java, and running some treadmill in the sauna. Or … Test the limits of dehydration and heat exhaustion at the 2012 edition of Sweatstock. Just a couple of weeks ago, this annual indie music…

Ultra Music Festival 2013 Dates Announced

Are you beat-freaking kidding me? We’re still uhntz-uhntz-ing around Ultra Music Festival 2012, waiting for EDM riot-starter Kaskade, David “The French Tickler” Guetta, and super-Dutch trance man Armin van Buuren to hump up onto the Main Stage and bring this sweaty, pheremone-soaked festival of dance to a furious, fist-pumping climax…