If there’s anyone who knows the blues, it’s legendary guitarist Eric Gales. Over 30 years and 18 albums, Gales has been a blues firebrand, with a passion for the music and a boundless desire to keep it vital that has never waned. Now, after a career that’s gone from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, Gales is taking his rightful place at the head of the blues-rock table with the release of ‘Crown,’ his career-defining new album, out January 28th via Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group.

This holiday season, UMe has once again teamed up with legendary artists and estates to create official animated videos for some of the most beloved holiday songs in the Christmas canon from the likes of Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, The Jackson 5, Jimmy Durante, Marvin Gaye, and Nat King Cole.

Mamak Khadem — who the Los Angeles Times calls “one of the wonders of world trance music” — is proud to announce her new single “Across the Oceans,” with special guest Chris Martin (Coldplay) on piano and vocals, and is out now on Six Degrees Records.

Playing against their namesake, alt-rock band Chameleon Lady define a strong Celtic inspired identity on  their upcoming EP 11 Waverley Road. Named for the house in which the project was written, the EP marks a move to rockier and experimental waters for the group that reflects on their growth since their 2018 album Calling Card. 

After decades of stardom in soul, blues, and rock n roll, as well as several GRAMMY wins with  the Blues Brothers, Booker T. and the M.G, and as a songwriter and producer, Steve Cropper has earned his first GRAMMY nomination as an individual musician for ‘Fire It Up,’ his latest full-length release.

Courtney Barnett released her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time last month to critical acclaim and last night she performed the album track “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch the performance here.

Rising Connecticut rock quintet Goose will wrap up a fruitful 2021 with yet another new endeavor – the release of a self-produced feature film. Premiering virtually on Flymachine from December 23-26, 2021, Shenanigans Nite Club: The Movie is a 75-minute movie that is a companion piece to the band’s eponymous album, released earlier this year.

Elevation Festivals, creators and producers of WonderStruck in Cleveland and the WonderBus Music & Arts Festival in Columbus, OH announced today the birth of their third multi-day music festival, WonderRoad. The city of Indianapolis will host the USA's newest contemporary music festival. WonderRoad scheduled for June 11-12, 2022 will be presented in association with the Indianapolis-based, independent concert promoter MOKB Presents.

In Winston-Salem, N.C., the late guitarist Sam Moss is a legend. A superior, highly versatile musician whose advocacy for the blues and 1960s mastery of the nuances of electric soloing somewhat paralleled Mike Bloomfield’s in Chicago, Moss was an inspiring, charismatic mentor to generations of North Carolina rockers, including Let’s Active and The dB’s.

Neil Young joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 for a conversation at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studio in Malibu about his new album with Crazy Horse out this Friday, 'Barn’. He tells Apple Music he’s thankful to still be making music and discusses planning to record the album around a full moon, the magic of his songwriting process, his guitar sound, and the importance of recording in the right environments.