2nd Annual Cal-Roots Fest!

The 2nd Annual California Roots Music & Arts Festival is a rock/reggae new roots festival that takes place on Memorial Day weekend of May 28-29, 2011. The festival will be held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, CA.

Artist Radar: Dan Sherrill

For this weeks Artist Radar, The Pier set its focus on Dan Sherrill, a native of South Dakota & a Wyoming local who plays Reggae-Rock, Acoustic Roots

Easy Star All-Stars Update…

As mentioned in our Most Anticipated Albums of 2011 article, The Easy Star All-Stars are set to release their first full-length album of original songs titled FIRST LIGHT on April 5th followed by the First Light Tour that will coincide with their new release!

Updated Exclusive Interviews…

Every Tuesday, we here at The Pier update our Editorials section with new Exclusive Interviews! This week, The Pier has caught up with Mike Pinto Band & Tomorrows Bad Seeds

Thunder Body on Tour!

Formed in April 2010 out of Rochester, NY. THUNDER BODY is a new Roots and Dub Band with a new self-titled album out as they’ve already announced their first tour to the West, that includes a stop through Chi-town and a week of shows in Colorado. Thunder Body consists of

ATX Wild-Fire Festival

ATX Wildfire Reggae & Arts Festival is coming into it’s 2nd year during SXSW courtesy of Episode Phive! Episode Phive put ATX Wildfire together because

New Album Review!

Every Monday we update our Editorials section with new Album & Music Reviews! This week we focus our radar on Iration’s newest release with their Fresh Grounds EP

MP3 Leak of the Week: NoNeedz

Every Sunday we update our MP3 Leak of the Week on the homepage with a new FREE song that runs from Sunday to Saturday. This week we have a FREE track from NoNeedz’s new album The Last NoNeedz LP…I Think with the song Let One Fly, Let On Go.