THE ROCK LEGENDS CRUISE!   This floating rock festival for a cause aboard Royal Caribbean International’s spectacular, Liberty of the Seas, departs December 1, 2011 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Headliners ZZ Top and George Thorogood and the Destroyers will be joined by John Kay and Steppenwolf, The Marshall Tucker Band, Dickey Betts & Great Southern, Foghat, Molly Hatchet, Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, The Outlaws, Artimus Pyle, Blackfoot, Pat Travers, Devon Allman’s Honeytribe, SwampDaWamp, The Chris Hicks Band, Preacher Stone, and Ryan Balthrop with each playing multiple sets in an array of ship board venues. Fans will have an unprecedented opportunity to rock the waves while rocking out to their favorite bands on a 4 night cruise to CocoCay private...

Want to see Justin Townes Earle this summer? Well you’ll get your chance. Here are tour dates though early August, Highlights include The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Hangout Music Festival and also a free show in downtown Chicago! UPCOMING DATES: April 29 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Tickets April 30 Oxford, MS Double Decker Arts Festival Tickets May 1 Chattanooga, TN Rhythm & Brews Tickets May 2 Atlanta, GA Cobb Energy Center Tickets May 13 Nelsonville, OH Nelsonville Music Festival Tickets May 14 Beaufort, NC Beaufort Music Festival Free May 20-22 Gulf Shores, AL Hangout Music Festival Tickets May 29 Newport, KY Southgate House Tickets May 30 Chicago, IL Pritzker Pavilion – Millennium...

Sting has announced that he will be performing in St. Petersburg this summer as a part of his critically-acclaimed Symphonicity world tour. Following sold-out performances across North America, Europe and Australia, Symphonicity finds Sting performing his greatest hits re-imagined for symphonic arrangement, accompanied by a symphony orchestra and band, conducted by Sarah Hicks. On June 16, 2011, the Symphonicity tour will appear at the opening of the XV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia.   SYMPHONICITY SUMMER TOUR 2011 ITINERARY:   June 6 – Piata Constitutiei, Bucharest, Romania June 7 – Georgi Asparuhov Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria June 8 – Belgrade Arena, Belgrade, Serbia June 10t – Stozice Arena, Llubljana, Slovenia June 11-...

      This Sunday Night, WXRT in Chicago will be streaming live, the Arcade Fire concert. It’s the second of three sold out shows that will be held at the cozy, Aragon Ballroom. The show will begin at 10ET/9CT. Here’s you links to the show stream and the station! WXRT ARCADE FIRE WXRT No guarantees, But this has been somewhat of an average setlist for this tour. Month of May No Cars Go Rebellion (Lies) Neighborhood #2 (Laika) Haïti Rococo The Suburbs The Suburbs (Continued) Intervention Keep the Car Running Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) We Used to Wait Wake Up Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) Encore: Ready to Start Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)         Bookmark on Delicious...

By Charlie Olvera, March 15, 2011 I came of age listening to rock and roll right around the same time that R.E.M. came of age in the eyes of progressive rock radio and the critical press.  R.E.M. had been a “buzz” band since the early/mid 80s, but it wasn’t until the early 1990s that Out Of Time and Automatic For The People came crashing through the gate along with a host of other “college rock” bands: The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, etc.  Back then, it was hard for R.E.M. to do any wrong.  Their collaborations with producer Scott Litt, which started on 1987’s aptly titled Document and continued through 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, consistently set the bar...

By Larry Carta, March 13, 2011 One of the best parts about publishing this website is getting turned onto new bands, new albums, new music. Today I’m going to spotlight a new album by a band from Nashville, Tn. Let me introduce you to Ashley Beth, Dave Beth, Al Plourde, Russ Dean and Dan Leveillee. Collectively, they’re known as Sugar Lime Blue. Yes, I indeed did mention Nashville. However this is not a country act.  Sit back, close your eyes and think about artists like the Grateful Dead, Little Feat, Edie Brickell and even Renaissance’s Annie Haslam. Now mix them  in with R & B acts Al Green, Bill Withers, maybe some Otis etc. Ok, now you have the idea!...

Click Banner at Bottom for Mog Trial Besides some ‘hopefully’ interesting write ups and video playlists, we’re also looking to bring you other musical ‘goodies.’ Well, I’m going to have a hard time topping this one. Check out MOG. With a free 14 day trail, you get FREE unlimited downloads to mobile for 14 days. 10 million songs to choose from!!! So you can add all this stuff we talk about for nothing. After the free trial you can roll into one of two plans. $5 per month for all you can download and listen to via your computer. $10 per month for all you can download and listen to per month via your mobile. So for what you’d...

My Morning Jacket to Offer Free Live Downloads My Morning Jack has announced that it is going to be offering  free downloads.  There will be one a day for five consecutive days plus a track from their upcoming release. Enter you email address into the box and you’ll be all set.   Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Our Friends in New Zealand Need Your Help. ‘Cool Album of the Day’ has always had a special relationship with New Zealand.  We’ve shared so much great music with you from that tiny paradise. Be it The Split Enz in the early Eighties or Crowded House in the present.  We also took a look at Neil Finn and Tim Finn’s solo efforts. New Zealanders all. We must not forget our new fave Justin Townes Earle; you know we’ve raved about him more than once  on these pages. Well who could forget his great song from his last album, “Christchurch Woman.” Well Christchurch is broken and needs your help. So if you can find it in your heart. And if...

  FOSTER & LLOYD IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW Pre Order Your Autographed Copy of ‘It’s Already Tomorrow’. (FYI, You will be ordering via Foster and Lloyd’s site, not mine.) All Pre-orders will be shipped the week of April 19th. Price: $15.00 + $4.00 s&h      Foster and Lloyd It’s Already Tomorrow Looking back at the history of music, you can pinpoint those times when change takes place…something new replaces the old. Music that once sounded “like this” suddenly sounds “like that.” In the 1930’s, country music was considered to be the sound of hillbilly string bands. When the music was electrified, a honky-tonk shuffle played with a drummer became the new sound. It was still country. In the mid-to...