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With only 50 more days to go, New York’s most anticipated music festival Electric Zoo: Evolved has just announced its stage-by-stage daily line-ups for the big event happening over Labor Day weekend August 30, 31 & September 1 at Randall’s Island Park in New York City.
Miami’s own GRAMMY® and Latin GRAMMY® nominated reggae fusion band Locos Por Juana is proud to announce Crazy for Jane their 6th studio album due out July 12th via Rock the Moon. The new release includes the critically acclaimed hit singles, “Crazy for Jane” ft. Common Kings, “Don’t Tell Me No” ft. Freddie McGuire, and “Children of the Light.” Crazy for Jane will be available everywhere you stream music on July 12th.
To say that Canadian musician Leeroy Stagger’s life journey has followed a strange path would be a bit of an understatement. 17 years as a singer-songwriter and 10 years sober, with two kids, a home in Lethbridge, Alberta, and a world-class recording studio to go with it, he’s far removed from the hard-living twenty-something who started on this musical path.
Bassrush, the internationally renowned bass music brand, will be returning to Arizona on August 24th with Bassrush Massive. Presented by Relentless Beats and Insomniac Events, the one-day festival will shake Rawhide Event Center to its core with such acts as: Flux Pavilion; Black Tiger Sex Machine; Herobust; Riot Ten; Mastadon; Zeke Beats, and Sharps.
Grammy nominated Raging Fyah is kicking off their U.S. tour this week. They are supporting their latest single/video “Better Tomorrow” that premiered at Relix earlier in the year and was released on all digital service providers in late March. The band will also be performing at VP Records 40th anniversary event happening on August 10th at Central Park SummerStage.
Acclaimed New England-based guitarist/singer Paul Gabriel announces an August 2 release date for his latest CD, Man of Many Blues, coming from Smoke Ring Records. Produced by Duke Robillard (who also guests on the new CD), Man of Many Blues was recorded at Lake West Studio in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, by Jack Gauthier, and also includes perennial Blues Music Award nominee Sugar Ray Norcia (of Sugar Ray & the Bluetones) as a special guest.
Their recordings paint sweeping, symbolic landscapes, conjuring worlds that vibrate between the hallucinatory and nostalgic. The band draws from a deep pool of influences, owing as much to early psychedelic pioneers Pearls Before Swine as they do to the compositions of Ennio Morricone.
Daemon Chili is excited to announce their forthcoming album, Live in Lowell. Videos of this live performance will be released one-by-one, beginning with “Boston Blues” on July 7 and concluding with “Mercy of the Sea” on October 4. The album’s official singles “Lay Your Burden Down” and “Take Sounding” will be released on August 23 and September 20, respectively.
The new album, Sonocardiogram, from Daymé Arocena is a vivid return to her Havana roots. Backed once again by a killer band of fellow Cuban musicians, the visionary singer, composer and songwriter has stripped everything back to the core. Holding sessions in a simple, repurposed artist's studio in Havana, Daymé and her band produced the record themselves, with her taking the reins to make Sonocardiogram her most raw and arresting outing yet.
