Artists
Welland, Ontario-based reggae-rock band Street Pharmacy, hard at work putting the finishing touches on their follow-up to 2015’s Pharmanomics, have announced an upcoming single, “Roaming Souls,” due out this January 2018. The power trio, made up of Ryan Guay (vocals/guitar,) Jesse Robitaille (bass/vocals,) and Isaac Thompson (drums/vocals,) will follow the release with a winter tour throughout Ontario.
With Thanksgiving weekend in the rearview, ALO is excited to announce the acts who will be joining them on the road for their 12th annual Tour d’Amour. Held each year in February and March, to surround Valentine’s Day, the tour is a celebration of love in all of its forms. John Craigie will open most shows, including the Friday at the Fillmore. Monophonics will join ALO for Seattle and Portland, and TAUK will help close out the tour, and Fillmore weekend on the Saturday night in San Francisco.
Dripping Springs, TX musician Israel Nash, has released a new song, “Sutherland,” via a Crowdraise campaign to benefit The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence in honor of the Sutherland Springs, TX tragedy. Nash, a vocal supporter of responsible gun law reform, was deeply affected by the Texas shooting and wrote the new song in reflection of the latest American tragedy.
Israel Nash, about the campaign and song:
The self-proclaimed “punk empress of African Rock” Cole Williams has premiered a brand new single titled “Free” over on Huffington Post. The new single follows the release of “A Change Is Gonna Come” (Sam Cooke) from earlier in the year, and showcases Williams at the top of her game. Huff Post has called the song “a gift…[a] singular touching performance” and credited her for her “powerhouse vocals and empowering lyrical stance.”
The tenth date into their fall tour, Dead and Company played to a full house in Detroit at the newly opened Little Caesars Arena. The audiences were both longtime deadheads, and interestingly new fans that have come as a result of being John Mayer fans. Or simply new fans getting tuned in to the Dead only recently.
The Jerry Douglas Band brought their innovative new music to the prestigious Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles on November 13. The band is on a national tour promoting their new album, “What If.” The band was led by one of the most well-known veteran resonator and lap steel slide guitar players in American music. The singer-songwriter and master guitarist has recorded 14 albums and won 14 Grammys.
So Many Roads is a Grateful Dead/Dead and Company tour lifestyle blog that has taken its newest form and has launched for the fall tour.
“So Many Roads” is the creation of the Bohemians, Anthony Travagliante, and Litho Freeman, filmmakers from Cleveland, OH that jumped on the scene in 2015 with a documentary of the Fare Thee Well shows called "I Need a Miracle". After much initial success, the duo hit the road in the summer of 2016 and documented through photo and video much of the entire tours lot scene.
Acoustic trio Raven and Red announce a February 2, 2018, release date for their new CD, We Rise Up, on Line Crossing Records. Originally from Georgia and Pennsylvania and now based in Nashville, Raven and Red is comprised of Brittany Lynn Jones - lead and harmony vocals, 5-string violin, tenor guitar, mandolin and banjolin; and brothers Mitchell Lane - lead & harmony vocals, 6 and 12-string guitars; and Cole King - harmony vocals, mandolin. Special guests on We Rise Up are Paul Leech on electric, upright bass and cello; and Justin Collins on drums and percussion.
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David Cassidy a pop music icon of the 1970s, died November 21, in a Florida hospital near his home. The singer, guitarist, and actor was only 67 and had been hospitalized for several days with organ failure. At the height of his career, the teen idol had a number one hit song; I Think I Love You and toured stadiums and arenas worldwide. His success sprang from his appearance on the television show, The Partridge Family, which was hugely successful for four years.
