Jack Savoretti - Hotel Café (LA, CA)
This is night one of the breakout British star’s two-night stand highlighting the "urgent and impassioned songwriting" (London Evening Standard) of his latest album, Sleep No More (BMG).
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March 2017
01 March
01 March
IQ2US Debates “Charter Schools are overrated” – Kaufman Center (NYC)
In the last 25 years, charter schools have become a highly sought-after alternative to traditional public education. Four education authorities debate whether charter schools have lived up to their promise.
02 March
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Ryman Auditorium (Nashville)
Back for another three-night stand, husband-and-wife guitar virtuosos Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, along with the rest of this 12-piece ensemble, bring the drive of Southern soul and the energy of electric rhythm & blues to this kick-off performance.
02 March
Jack Savoretti - Hotel Café (LA, CA)
The breakout British star’s wraps up a two-night stand that highlights the "urgent and impassioned songwriting" (London Evening Standard) of his latest album, Sleep No More (BMG).
03 March
Matt Jaffe & The Distractions/ ‘California’s Burning’/ Independent
The 21-year-old Bay Area rock ‘n’ roller comes to grips with the dark noir of his home state on his debut LP. Jaffe’s new-wave power-pop-inspired songwriting, already praised by Entertainment Weekly, Paper Magazine and others, now channels the visceral energy of Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, Alfred Hitchcock and Raymond Chandler.
Contact: Allen Nguyen
03 March
Bombadil/ ‘Fences’/ Ramseur Records
The fifth album from the trio from North Carolina's Golden Triangle represents a reset, the discovery of a new group voice. Produced by John Vanderslice (Spoon, The Mountain Goats), the new music showcases experiments in songwriting using data analysis and bears the influence of early Paul Simon, Cat Stevens and The Incredible String Band. The resulting 11 songs are meticulously crafted, yet accessible and unadorned.
Contact: Spencer Foster
03 March
Django A Gogo Music Festival - Carnegie Hall (NYC)
The festival honoring the great Django Reinhardt celebrates its 10th anniversary with a historic night featuring Stephane Wrembel, considered one of the world’s greatest acoustic guitarists; Al Di Meola, America’s “fusion hero” (The New Yorker); and Gypsy jazz master Stochelo Rosenberg. Special guests also include David Gastine, Ryan Montbleau, Larry Keel, Nick Anderson, Thor Jensen and Ari Folman-Cohen.
03 March
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Ryman Auditorium (Nashville)
One of rock & roll’s most respected live acts continues its three-night run, embodying the vision of a large touring family bound by music. The band’s most recent effort, 2016's Let Met Get By (Fantasy Records), earned praise from Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal and Associated Press, which called it "one of the great records of the year."
04 March
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Ryman Auditorium (Nashville)
The closing night of this three-night run also serves as a preview of the upcoming “Wheels of Soul” tour, which will hit some of the country’s premier outdoor venues on the band's most ambitious summer tour to date.
04 March
Randy Rogers Band & Josh Abbott Band - Terminal 5 (NYC)
Randy Rogers Band, fresh from a recent sold-out run on the West Coast, and Josh Abbott Band, the top-tier country outfit renowned for heartfelt songwriting and traditional instrumentation, team up to play the annual Texas Independence Day celebration.
04 March
Il Volo - Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
The powerhouse Italian operatic trio kicks off its “Notte Magica – A Tribute to The Three Tenors” tour, which pays homage to its biggest inspiration, The Three Tenors, with a 55+-piece orchestra. The Three Tenors is the name for the legendary July 7, 1990, concert in Rome in which three heavyweights of opera – José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti – sang together, and this show will evoke the transcendent feel of that famed night.
04 March
Whiskey Myers - House of Blues (Anaheim, CA)
Following the top five Billboard Country debut of its latest album Mud (Thirty Tigers), the Palestine, TX Southern-rock band puts on a lively show that fulfills the promise made by VICE Noisey: “If anyone is going to save country music, Whiskey Myers is a very hot contender for the job.”
05 March
Jack Savoretti - Rockwood Stage 2 (NYC)
This is night one of the breakout British star’s two-night stand highlighting the "urgent and impassioned songwriting" (London Evening Standard) of his latest album, Sleep No More (BMG).
05 March
Electric Guest - Bowery Ballroom (NYC)
Night one of the indie-pop duo's back-to-back shows in the city is a part of its first North American tour in four years. The tour features its most confident, catchy and fully-realized synth-pop music with new album Plural (Downtown/Interscope).
06 March
Whiskey Myers - Troubadour (LA, CA)
The soulful Southern-rock band, praised by Rolling Stone and VICE Noisey and with a #1 song (“Lightning Bugs and Rain”) on Texas radio, is on Live Nation’s “Ones To Watch” Tour, presented by SiriusXM Outlaw Country.
06 March
The Music of Aretha Franklin at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
The 14th Annual Tribute Concert at Carnegie Hall honors Aretha Franklin with an all-star lineup including Bettye Lavette, Melissa Etheridge, Kenny Loggins, Ann Wilson, Todd Rundgren, Rhiannon Giddens and more to be announced.
06 March
Jack Savoretti - Rockwood Stage 2 (NYC)
The breakout British star’s wraps up a two-night stand that highlights the "urgent and impassioned songwriting" (London Evening Standard) of his latest album, Sleep No More (BMG).
06 March
Electric Guest - Music Hall of Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY)
Night two of the indie-pop duo's back-to-back shows in the city is a part of its first North American tour in four years. The tour features its most confident, catchy and fully-realized synth-pop music with new album Plural (Downtown/Interscope).
09 March
Maggie Rose - PlayStation Theater (NYC)
One of “Nashville’s rising storytellers” (Washington Post) joins Lauren Alaina and Post Monroe on CMT’s third annual “Next Women of Country” Tour, which has partnered with Martina McBride’s 2017 “Love Unleashed” tour to show off the very best of modern female country.
10 March
Quetzal/ ‘The Eternal Getdown’/ Smithsonian Folkways
The GRAMMY-winning East LA Chicano rock group’s new album is their second release in Folkways’ Tradiciones/Traditions series. These 18 new songs continue the band’s "artivist" efforts to fight oppression and bring people together with culturally diverse soundscapes that incorporate traditional son jarocho, Cuban batá, funk, Chicano rock, soul and rhythm and blues. The record's many guests include Aloe Blacc, Ramón Gutiérrez, Rocío Marrón, César Castro and Joey De Léon.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
10 March
Hurray for the Riff Raff/ ‘The Navigator’/ ATO
Alynda Segarra follows Hurray's 2014 breakout Small Town Heroes with a cinematic concept album inspired by her own journey as a Puerto Rican woman in search of identity and community from the South Bronx to the downtown punk scene and beyond, with Hurray delving deep into Latin rhythms, searing rock, street corner doo-wop and incisive ballads.
Contact: Amy Bailey
10 March
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Valerie June/ ‘The Order of Time’/ Concord Records
For her much-anticipated new album, the Tennessee-bred, Brooklyn-based songwriter weaves electric blues, African rhythms, cosmic atmospherics and delicate soul into 12 new, original tracks.
Contact: James Rainis
11 March
Valerie June - Town Hall (NYC)
The "unstoppable" (Rolling Stone) roots music trailblazer brings her "unique, stunning voice" (New Yorker) and mesmerizing new album The Order of Time on the road, weaving electric blues, African rhythms, cosmic atmospherics and delicate soul into her inventive ruminations on love, family, struggle and the passing of time.
11 March
Hailey Knox - Gramercy Theatre (NYC)
NBC’s Today Show, the New York Times and headliner AJR all agree – this 18-year-old master of the guitar-and-loop-pedal should be on your radar. She performs sharply intelligent yet playful songs that observe Gen-Z life off her debut EP, A Little Awkward (S-Curve).
12 March
Hailey Knox - Gramercy Theatre (NYC)
After playing sold out dates across North America, the iHeartRadio Music Awards' “Social Star Award” nominee joins indie-pop trio AJR for another night in the city. Her set showcases electric arrangements of her acoustic songs and teases new, unreleased music.
12 March
Electric Guest - Exit/In (Nashville)
The indie-pop duo is touring North America for the first time in four years. A set highlighting songs from new album Plural (Downtown/Interscope) finds the pair playing confident, catchy and fully realized synth-pop.
15 March
Matt Urmy - Hotel Café (LA, CA)
The Nashville native performs music from his upcoming Out of the Ashes album (3/31), one of legendary producer “Cowboy” Jack Clement's final recording projects. Country Standard Time calls Urmy “a rare poet and visionary [who] has one of those old souls that you read about and a big ol’ humanist heart a la John Prine.”
17 March
B.Miles/ ‘B.Miles’/ Independent
Millions of streams and topped viral charts later, the Brooklyn songstress releases a self-titled EP that displays her evolved fusion of shadowy pop, vulnerable R&B and chilling electronic influences that The Fader calls, “mesmerizing.”
Contact: Max Lefkowitz
17 March
Matthew Stevens - The Blue Whale (LA, CA)
The virtuosic, shape-shifting guitarist/composer and Esperanza Spalding collaborator previews new music from his upcoming album Preverbal (3/24 via Ropeadope), a kinetic exploration of harmony and rhythm that NPR says ”advances the ideals of modern jazz even when, sonically speaking, it gestures in other directions.”
17 March
Tedeschi Trucks Band/ ‘Live From The Fox Oakland’/ Fantasy Records
David Fricke calls the Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi-led ensemble’s second live album and first concert film “a new peak in the continuing story of a great American rock & roll family band.” In addition to its 15 live tracks, the video also features extensive behind-the-scenes footage, Trucks’ recent visit to Marc Maron’s garage for the WTF! Podcast and an interview with Trucks and Tedeschi conducted by Fricke for SiriusXM Satellite Radio.
Contact: Spencer Foster
17 March
A Tribe Called Red - Highline Ballroom (NYC)
The First Nations DJ/producer collective released their latest album last fall, deemed "critical listening for everyone" by Pitchfork and listed as 2016's No. 1 album by the CBC. They bring an intense (and loud) show featuring pummeling beats, traditional First Nations dancers and projections of indigenous people portrayed in media over the decades.
21 March
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Overcoats - Troubadour (LA, CA)
The NY-based duo previews its upcoming debut LP, YOUNG (4/21 via Arts & Craft). The music is heavy on lush electronic beats and vocal harmonies, and the already NPR-approved LP was co-produced by Autre Ne Veut and Nicolas Vernhes (The War on Drugs, Dirty Projectors).
22 March
IQ2US Debates “The Universal Basic Income is the safety net of the future” – Kaufman Center (NYC)
Finland just launched a pilot program to give every citizen a "universal basic income" of $600 a month. Could this work elsewhere?
23 March
Il Volo - Microsoft Theatre (LA, CA)
The powerhouse Italian operatic trio performs for its “Notte Magica – A Tribute to The Three Tenors” tour, which pays homage to its biggest inspiration, The Three Tenors, with a 55+-piece orchestra. The Three Tenors is the name for the legendary July 7, 1990, concert in Rome in which three heavyweights of opera – José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti – sang together. Special guest Maestro Domingo will join the trio on stage.
24 March
Matthew Stevens/ ‘Preverbal’/ Ropeadope
The virtuosic, shape-shifting guitarist/composer and Esperanza Spalding collaborator releases his second album as a bandleader, a kinetic exploration of harmony and rhythm driven by masterful playing and singular melding of experimental, jazz and rock. NPR’s Nate Chinen praises album opener “Picture Window” as music that “advances the ideals of modern jazz even when, sonically speaking, it gestures in other directions.”
Contact: Max Lefkowitz
24 March
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Ariana and the Rose/ ‘Retrograde’/ Independent
Inspired by the nights of her adopted homes of London, NYC and LA, as well as the polar excitement of love and loss, the pop auteur showcases her evolution of dance floor-cool with this four-song EP. These new songs feature production contributions from Tom Fuller, Me Not You and RKCB, and they orbit the same meticulous, metallic pop universe created by Robyn and Kate Bush.
Contact: Allen Nguyen
24 March
Samantha Crain/ ‘You Had Me At Goodbye’/ Ramseur Records
The Oklahoma native pushes her eccentric warble and dark humor to center stage on this collection of pop-minded, art punk-influenced tracks produced by John Vanderslice (Spoon, The Mountain Goats) and recorded completely analog on a Neve 8068 console. Expect dark humor, earnest humanity and plenty of hook-driven anthems.
Contact: Spencer Foster
25 March
Electric Guest - Teragram Ballroom (LA, CA)
The indie-pop duo returns for this hometown show on its first North American tour in four years. The tour features its most confident, catchy and fully realized synth-pop with new album Plural (Downtown/Interscope).
25 March
Quetzal - Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (LA, CA)
The GRAMMY-winning East LA band summons a powerful panoply of sounds from its urban palette – rock, R&B, Mexican son jarocho, Japanese taiko, Afro-Cuban batá and more – to create an ambitious, artful album with a social point of view. The Eternal Getdown, their seventh album, taps the group’s extended family of artists to affirm the power of music and people to get down together in creative harmony.
30 March
Strand Of Oaks - Troubadour (LA, CA)
Philly’s Tim Showalter tours behind his new album Hard Love (Dead Oceans), a fearlessly honest release that confronts the struggle between overindulgence and accountability while yearning for rock ‘n’ roll transcendence.
30 March
Mitchell Tenpenny - The Country (Nashville)
The Nashville native, whose new EP comes out this May and who penned a Billboard Top Five hit for country singer Granger Smith, brings his writing insights to the Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival. Now in its 25th year, Tin Pan South celebrates Music City’s songwriting community.
31 March
Matt Urmy/ ‘Out of the Ashes’/ Independent
Co-produced by the late legend “Cowboy” Jack Clement and featuring a John Prine duet, this album – a giant leap forward for the Nashville poet and songwriter’s old-school country and folk storytelling – was one of Clement’s final projects and was lost for years after a fire destroyed Clement’s studio. The record's restoration gives its title a more literal meaning.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
31 March
Allan Rayman - Troubadour (LA, CA)
Armed with a seductive blend of R&B, hip-hop and folk, as well as an alter ego, this young enigma hailing from Lost Springs demonstrates why he’s “the most mysterious man in music” (Ones To Watch) with his new concept album, Roadhouse 01 (Communion Records).
31 March
Rockabye Baby!/ ‘Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Songs From Hamilton/ CMH Label Group
Eight songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s runaway Broadway sensation get the lullaby treatment, turning sweeping percussion, rapid-fire rapping and soaring singing into upbeat yet tranquil lullaby jams for the whole family.
Contact: Allen Nguyen