The Cal State San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus will be a polling site for Riverside County voters in the upcoming Presidential General Election on November 5. Located at 37500 Cook Street, the campus will host voters in the Indian Wells Theater lobby, offering registered Riverside County residents ...

Craft Recordings and Violent Femmes are commemorating 40 years of the band’s sophomore title, Hallowed Ground, with a vinyl reissue. Set for release on November 8 and available for pre-order now, the LP has been mastered from the original stereo tapes.  In addition to the standard vinyl, widely avai...

The fifth studio album — and first in five years — from Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and Chris Tomson, is due out April 5 from Columbia Records. Inspired by 20th Century New York City, the album was recorded all over the world, from Manhattan to Los Angeles to London and Tokyo. It was p...

Buffalo Tom – Bill Janovitz, Chris Colbourn and Tom Maginnis – will release their 10th album Jump Rope on May 31 via their own Scrawny Records. At the top of the year, the band released the album’s first single, “Helmet,” with the video premiering as well. On March 8, the trio will release the secon...

Craft Recordings will mark the 40th anniversary of Violent Femmes’ 1983 self-titled debut with a special reissue. Due out December 1 and available for pre-order now, the deluxe 2-CD and digital formats will feature newly remastered audio and over a dozen demos, B-sides, and live performances from th...

Photo cutline: Little Richard performing at the Doheny Blues Festival in 2002. Photo courtesy of Daryl Weisser Photography   VARÈSE SARABANDE AND CRAFT RECORDINGS ANNOUNCE 'LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)'   The soundtrack of the award-winning documentary include...

Ten years following the release of the critically-acclaimed Bakersfield album, country music icon Vince Gill and legendary musician Paul Franklin, have joined forces again for their latest project, Sweet Memories: The Music of Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys. The 11-track album is set for release ...

It should come as no surprise that Van Morrison has made an album inspired by skiffle. Morrison's love of skiffle dates back to his childhood. He would hang out at the famed Belfast record store Atlantic Records, where he’d hear early 20th century folk, blues and jazz from the likes of Lead Belly an...

India’s prime minister has announced that Delhi will centralize the country's inoculation drive, providing vaccines to regional states free of charge for all Indians over 18 from June 21.   In a national address on Monday, PM Narendra Modi said that 25% of the vaccination program would be handed bac...