Last minute announcement: High Voltage will make it out for Day Two of Kanrocksas this year. Day Two features artists like MUSE, OK Go, Cage The Elephant and much more. Stay tuned to this festival section for live photos and other updates or maybe we’ll even see YOU there! Kanrocksas Links: Official Website | Twitter

In 1971 George Harrison and Ravi Shankar staged two concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden that brought together a star-studded cast of musicians to alert the world to the plight of the Bangladeshi people, victims of simultaneous floods, famine and civil war. The Concert for Bangladesh, the first major music benefit for a humanitarian cause, supported UNICEF programs and […]

They might chafe against such hyperbole but truth is truth: Pearl Jam is American rock music royalty. But love for them travels well outside of US borders, so this is making a lot of music fans all over the world very happy right now. The official trailer for PJ20 is here. Cameron Crowe’s documentary of insight and perspectives accounts the […]

“Summer breeze makes me feel fine. Blowing through the jasmine of my mind.” You know the Seals & Croft tune, don’t you? Well, that’s where my head goes when I see and hear the fresh and newly minted Los Angeles five-piece Milo Greene. Born of friends and fragments of former bands, Milo Greene is that thing of folk and pop […]

The lovely and talented Amy Winehouse passed away yesterday, July 23rd, 2011, at the young age of 27. This isn’t news; this is a tribute to Amy and the opportunity High Voltage had to work with her in 2007. Amy made her debut at SXSW in 2007 showcasing her soon-to-be #1 hit “Rehab”. Having been hired by Island Records UK […]

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is one of the finest examples of a band of badass proportions which you need to file under: “Holy sh*t!”. It’s Dead Sara and they make me believe in the future of quality, unadulterated music. A foursome of equal parts XX and XY chromosomes, Los Angeles’ Dead Sara is a much welcomed and […]

When last we saw Neon Indian aka Alan Palomo, he was synthing and popping and synth-popping it up on stages at the best festivals around like South By Southwest, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, and as the opener for the likes of The Flaming Lips and those Frenchies, Phoenix. All of that on the heels of carving out a creative space for himself […]