Nu-Blu continues to blaze a trail all its own to the forefront of the acoustic music scene with 10 high-profile 2025 Josie Music Award nominations.

The band, founded and fronted by Carolyn and Daniel Routh, received nods for Group of the Year, Song of the Year, and Music Video of the Year, all coveted categories.

“It’s still sinking in for us that we’re nominated in so many categories,” Daniel says. “We would’ve been thrilled with just one - - but ten!”

“It’s a highway, filled with deep, exotic colors and beautiful delicate things as well as the perils that come from moving so fast,” says Dar Williams, describing modern life. On her 13th album, Hummingbird Highway, out September 12 on Righteous Babe Records, Williams celebrates the colors she glimpses from her vantage as a touring musician. “I was a kid from the suburbs who listened when her hippie teachers said to get out in the world,” Williams muses. Hummingbird Highway is the latest chapter in a richly unfolding story.

Renowned singer, songwriter, musician, artist, and best-selling author Josh Ritter releases his new song, “Wild Ways,” today. Listen/share HERE.

Of the track, Ritter shares:

With just 50 days to go until Hulaween’s 12th annual celebration, the festival has revealed its highly anticipated stage lineups for The Meadow, The Hallows, The Amph, the Spirit Lake, and OFF LIMITS stages, igniting excitement for its return to Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, from Thursday, October 30 - Sunday, November 2, 2025.

Six-time Grammy winner, acclaimed producer, and Blue Note Records President Don Was is set for the release of his debut album with The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, a “nine-piece soul jazz group from Detroit,” as he describes it. Groove in the Face of Adversity is due October 10 via Mack Avenue Records. Pre-save/pre-order the album HERE.

In anticipation of the release, the band is sharing the track “Midnight Marauders;” listen/share HERE.

By late summer in Los Angeles, the Forum has seen it all: Lakers championships, pop spectacles, hip-hop blowouts, and even spiritual revivals. On August 30th, it became home to two of America's strangest showmen — “Weird Al” Yankovic and Puddles Pity Party. Together, they turned the arena into a surrealist funhouse of parody, melancholy, and unexpected musical brilliance.

The Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse came to Berkeley Sunday night near the tail end of their summertime co-headlining "Good Times Are Killing Me Tour.” A groovy gathering of punk rockers, hippies, and freaks of all colors and ages assembled for the festivities in the venerable Greek Theatre.

Samantha Fish and her band rolled into the Aggie Theatre last night to present the 2025 Paper Doll Tour. Fish’s newest album release of the same name was a hot topic among fans with the anticipation of hearing the new material in a live concert setting. When Fish appeared on stage, the temperature in the room quickly pegged into the red. Dressed in all black with silver accents, she looked like a rock goddess on a mission to slay the audience into rock n’ roll submission.

John Butler released his 10th full-length studio LP on September 5th, 2025, marking his third in just two years. Prism is a return to John’s solo roots, though not to the style that defined his early solo work.

Today, the Indiana-born, Nashville-based rising star Stephen Wilson Jr. earned a nomination for New Artist of the Year at the 59th Annual CMA Awards. This marks Wilson Jr.’s first CMA Awards nomination, following the massive success of his debut double album søn of dad (Big Loud Records).