High Road Touring

STREAM THE BAND’S EXCELLENT NEW ALBUM ‘PRINTER’S DEVIL’ AHEAD OF ITS FEBRUARY 28 RELEASE [MTV] By PATRICK HOSKEN In the early 20th century and before, a young “printer’s devil” would help set type and clean the floors in print shops. He learned his trade as all apprentices do, by watching carefully and, eventually, by doing. ...

Tool announce more North American tour dates, including shows w/ Blonde Redhead [Brooklyn Vegan] By Bill Pearis  Recent Grammy winners Tool have announced lots more North American dates for their Fear Inoculum tour. The new leg begins April 16 in Miami and includes stops in Baltimore, Monreal, Quebec City, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Vancouver, Minneapolis, the NYC area, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, ...

Rolling Stone’s latest Artist You Need to Know cooks and discusses her music By ANGIE MARTOCCIO  Massachusetts indie rocker Squirrel Flower, a.k.a. Ella O’Connor Williams, is Rolling Stone‘s latest Artist You Need to Know. In a new video for the series, Williams cooks risotto, gives a tour of her home, and discusses her great debut album, I Was Born Swimming. ...

Starry-eyed director subjects the Americana duo to his own big ideas and vision [Rolling Stone] ByJOSEPH HUDAK  Shovels & Rope sing about unfulfilled promise in their song “Mississippi Nuthin’,” giving voice to a guy who has big dreams but no way to manifest them. The Americana duo further that theme in a new video for ...

[Saving Country Music] 13. James McMurtry – Complicated Game Venturing into ramshackle dive bars and overturning the stones of socioeconomic depravity to unearth the forgotten refugees cast off from the American dream and escaping the enslavement of technology by hammering out livings on the outskirts of society, Texas singer and second generation writer James McMurtry ...