Phosphorescent News

Folk music appears to be in a pretty dire state on the surface. Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers have co-opted the genre to fit their watered down version of it, while their alt-country forebears in Wilco, who were once looked to as folk saviors, have grown complacent.

Julia Holter has a few live dates coming up this spring and summer, including previously discussed NYC dates on April 25 at BAM for day 1 of the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival with The Roots, Parquet Courts, Solange, David Longstreth, TV on the Radio, Phosphorescent and others ; and May 1 at Brooklyn Masonic Temple for the Night of Improvised ... (more)

Rufus Wainwright has been corralled into a perfect doubleheader by 89.3 the Current.

If you can brave the weather, there's plenty of music going on this week. Thursday, twenty one pilots play a sold-out show at the Triple Rock while Boz Scaggs makes an appearance at the State Theatre.

The lineup for the three-day outdoor event has been rolling out with Phosphorescent, Amanda Palmer, Jim James and more already announced.