Rounder Records is pleased to announce the signing of John R. Miller, whose first single for the label, “Lookin’ Over My Shoulder,” is released today. Miller, who initially attracted notice for his spare, elegant, vividly imagined songs as the leader of indie band The Engine Lights, is working on his full-length label debut, set for release later this year.

“Lookin’ Over My Shoulder” wryly captures the trepidation of revisiting the site of a failed romance.

Keb’ Mo’ has never shied away from speaking his truth. Today, the five-time GRAMMY winner released “The Medicine Man,” his first new recording since 2019 and his debut collaboration with acclaimed, GRAMMY-winning American roots string band Old Crow Medicine Show.

Listen to “The Medicine Man” HERE.

Globally acclaimed producer Manic Focus (John ‘Jmac’ McCarten) releases 'Fractured' today, marking the Denver-based composer's first release of the year. The single is a harmonic balance of electronic bass music, country rap, and soul with "chopped & screwed" hip-hop influences.

LISTEN TO ‘FRACTURED’ HERE

In this week’s interview on Joe Bonamassa’s series Live From Nerdville, Joe speaks candidly with the one-and-only Todd Rundgren on the verge of his Clearly Human Virtual Tour that has been making major headlines!

Today, Baltimore’s favorite funky foursome Pigeons Playing Ping Pong announced a return to the road with a series of five shows in June and July. On 6/18 and 6/19, the band will visit Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards in Lafayette, NY, followed by a 6/26 concert at Westville Music Bowl in New Haven, CT. 7/10 will see the band at Devils Backbone Brewing Company in Roseland, VA, and the initial run concludes with a 7/16 play at Northlands in Swanzey, NH. At each event, attendees will be seated in socially distant pods.

Poetry pours out of John Mailander’s version of Joni Mitchell’s Borderline. The sounds of dripping water, flowing rivers, messy spills, puddles, and pools of wet boggy mashes give way to tubs of bubbles, sunsets, and endless horizons, skies as wide as infinite while nothing is certain or definite. The cinnamon shades of grey Mailander consistently portray pours a warm cup of tea in your earworm. Kristina Train’s vocals creep into the melody like a song in slumber.

Grateful Dead tributeers Dark Star Orchestra today announce their 9th Jamaican Jam in the Sand festival. Happening January 11-15, 2022 at the Jewel Paradise Cove Resort in Runaway Bay, Jamaica, the festival features four full beachside concerts (2 sets each night) from Dark Star Orchestra within the palm tree covered, beachfront stage. Nightly sets from special guests Melvin Seals & JGB featuring John Kadlecik with songs to fill the air.

Working Man’s Dread is a debut album from The Contraptionists, but the duo is not new to the music game. Paul Givant and Stephen Andrews have played music together for nearly a decade in the five-piece Americana band, Rose’s Pawn Shop.

The innovative sounds and addictive grooves of The New Motif, the Northeast's hottest up-and-coming funk fusion jam band, are planning to wake from the Covid slumber for Spring 2021. The band has announced their second official live album titled ‘Live from the Lobby’. It is set for early hard copy release on Thursday 4.8.21, the opening night of their spring residency at Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke, MA.

Notable artists and mental health advocates will band together in a free virtual broadcast on Thursday, March 25 at 8 p.m. ET to shine a light on the music industry’s mental health crisis.