Words: Ryan Mannix | Photos: Faz ChaudryIn a city-mouse, country-mouse scenario... what if Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival had a cousin that lived in St. Charles, Iowa?That's Hinterland Music Festival.Combining new and exciting indie groups with top alt-country artists makes for a unique energy. Hinterland is a camping fest but not a wild party with...

Festival Watch is a Tomorrows Verse feature where we break down festival news into the facts you need to know.Hinterland Music Festival August 3-4, 2018Headliners To WatchSturgill Simpson The man has been burning up headlines as much with his music as his meta-commentary on the scene.  Great tunes and truly an "important"...

Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge- Twelve Reasons To Die II [7/10]Combining a fictitious action storyline, a spaghetti-western sound and Ghostfaces notoriously gruff delivery, Twelve Reasons To Die II exceeds the boundaries of modern hip-hop. Organs, bass and live drum sounds make up the majority of the beats with guitar, bells and other instruments coming in...

Band Of Horses brought the acoustics to the Vic this week for their winter tour. With the staged dressed up like a comfortable living room, Ben Bridwell and company focussed on gentler arrangements of their original songs that get the full rock treatment in the electric setting.Here's a six song video playlist and complete...

Some nice looking videos from the front of the venue have emerged from this sold out Sunday night show. Here are the complete song lists:Band Of HorsesFor Annabelle, The First Song, Lardeo, Electric Music, The Great Salt Lake, Feud, Is There A Ghost, Heartbreak On The 101, Cigarettes, Wedding Bands, Everything's Gonna Be Undone,...

When can a band, who is not even on the Lollapalooza lineup, secure a coveted pre-Lolla gig at Chicago's famed Metro? When they are the goddamn Band Of Horses that's when. Here's a set of their unapologetic rock music that adequately prepped festival-goers who were in town before the three day mega-fest earlier this month....

If you missed the awesome Kevin Shapiro Phish From The Archives show broadcast on Sirius/XM this year prior to the SPAC simulcast, a kind soul has added it to the Drop Canvas file sharing site (part one, part two). Unlike a lot of the other great downloads that we host on tomorrowsverse.com it...

The Barn's 2010 Holiday Mixtape was subtitled A Very Jamband Christmas and justifiably so -- it's intent was to collect a CD length holiday playlist that showcased the style of improv-leaning bands on Christmas classics. Though at the time I thought I had cultivated the cream of jamband holiday fare, it became obvious that more material...