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Cindy Blackman Santana Talks Coherence, Carlos Santana, Snoop Dogg, John McLaughlin, and the Universal Message of Love

Cindy Blackman Santana - photo by Paul Mann Cindy Blackman Santana has always played with fire, precision, and purpose....

The Terrapin Roadshow Comes Home to San Rafael

Terrapin Roadshow | Forest Meadows Amphitheatre | July 26th, 2026 - photos by Gabriel David Barkin For the second year....

Bluegrass Comes Full Circle on the Final Day of RockyGrass 2026

Bluegrass has always been traveling music. Its lineage reaches across the Atlantic to the fiddle tunes, ballads and dan....

Phish Turns Madison Square Garden Into 1992

Trey Anastasio walked out sleeveless, and anyone who has spent time with a 1992 soundboard knew immediately what that m....

Phish Reaches Deep for “Have Mercy” and “Contact” at Merriweather Post Pavilion

Phish opened a two-night stand at Merriweather Post Pavilion on June 18, 2026 with a first set built like a letter to a....

Buffalo Traffic Jam Releases Debut Album Pictures of You

Béla Fleck Shares Tiny Desk Concert Ahead of My Bluegrass ...

Guster Announces On The Ocean 2026 Lineup and Activities in ...

Bronwyn Pays Tribute to East Nashville With New Single “Gallatin ...

Billy Strings Shares “Mill Town Flood” From New Album So ...

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Lee Ranaldo Reimagines The System Soundtrack for New Silver Current Records Release

Sonic Youth co-founder and pioneering experimental-rock guitarist Lee Ranaldo has reimagined his original soundtrack for The System, reshaping the music into a newly sequenced album featuring previously unreleased material. The System is available digitally today exclusively through Bandcamp. Black and colored vinyl editions will follow October 2 via Silver Current Records and are available to… Continue reading Lee Ranaldo Reimagines The System Soundtrack for New Silver Current Records Release

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Annapolis Baygrass Nominated for IBMA Event of the Year, Adds Friday Night Kick-Off Party

The Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival has been nominated for the 2026 International Bluegrass Music Association Industry Award for Event of the Year, recognizing the festival’s combination of world-class music, environmental stewardship, community programming, and its beachfront setting along the Chesapeake Bay. The festival will return to Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday… Continue reading Annapolis Baygrass Nominated for IBMA Event of the Year, Adds Friday Night Kick-Off Party

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Lollapalooza Preview: Charli XCX Brings Music, Fashion, Film to Grant Park

Reggae on Fire Brings Donny Rasta & JAHBUDDA! and Native Elements to Oakland

Reggae Town Music presents Reggae on Fire, a cannabis-friendly concert featuring two generations of Bay Area reggae talent, on Saturday, August 22, at Root’d in the 510 Cannabis Lounge in Oakland. Bay Area reggae veteran Donny Rasta will perform with his full band, JAHBUDDA!, alongside longtime San Francisco favorites Native Elements. Together, the groups will… Continue reading Reggae on Fire Brings Donny Rasta & JAHBUDDA! and Native Elements to Oakland

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Drivin N Cryin Bring Crushing Flowers Tour to Cervantes’ Other Side on August 18

Photo credit: Trisha Gene Brady Nearly four decades into their career, Atlanta rock veterans Drivin N Cryin remain a living, breathing American rock band—not a revival act or a nostalgic footnote, but a continuing story still being written. The band will bring its Crushing Flowers tour to Cervantes’ Other Side in Denver on Tuesday, August… Continue reading Drivin N Cryin Bring Crushing Flowers Tour to Cervantes’ Other Side on August 18

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Synth-Pop, Nostalgia, and Neon: Totally Tubular Festival Brings the ’80s Back to the Hollywood Palladium

Thomas Dolby | Totally Tubular Festival | July 24th, 2026 – photos by L. Paul Mann There is something inherently magical about entering the iconic Hollywood Palladium on a warm Friday night. When the room is packed with checkerboard Vans, synth-wave enthusiasts, and neon-clad purists, you know you are in for an epic nostalgia session.… Continue reading Synth-Pop, Nostalgia, and Neon: Totally Tubular Festival Brings the ’80s Back to the Hollywood Palladium

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Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Headline a Full Day of Bluegrass at Shady Grove Festival

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades – photos by Dan Ward Small towns are awakening. There is plenty of good happening in places where life moves at a slower pace and the town has only two stoplights. During the summer, Buchanan, Michigan, puts out the welcome mat every Thursday night for an evening of music at The… Continue reading Horseshoes & Hand Grenades Headline a Full Day of Bluegrass at Shady Grove Festival

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Connor Sobieri Shares “Lost Ones” From Debut Album First Steps

Photo Credit: Isaac Wheatley New York City-based alto saxophonist Connor Sobieri has released “Lost Ones,” the lead single from his debut album, First Steps, arriving October 21. Watch the “Lost Ones” music video HERE. Fresh off announcing the project on the viral social media platform Track Star, the 23-year-old musician’s forthcoming release combines the jazz… Continue reading Connor Sobieri Shares “Lost Ones” From Debut Album First Steps

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Holly Bowling to Join Greensky Bluegrass at Vail’s Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Mountain Grass Unit Shares “Suspicion” From Forthcoming Debut Album Appalachian Smoke

Mountain Grass Unit (L-R): Josiah Nelson, Sam Wilson, Drury Anderson, Luke Black. Mountain Grass Unit today releases “Suspicion,” a haunting, traditional bluegrass heartbreak ballad from its forthcoming debut studio album, Appalachian Smoke, arriving August 28 via Dualtone Records. Listen to “Suspicion” HERE. Lustful, yearning, and edged with unease, the song unfolds inside the racing mind… Continue reading Mountain Grass Unit Shares “Suspicion” From Forthcoming Debut Album Appalachian Smoke

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Scott Fagan Announces Long-Awaited New Album Soon, 55 Years After Its Creation

Soon has been a long time coming. The new album from Scott Fagan has been some 55 years in the making. Its songs, all drawn from the 1971 Broadway rock opera of the same name that Fagan conceived and wrote with songwriting partner Joe Kookoolis, were originally intended as the follow-up to his classic 1968… Continue reading Scott Fagan Announces Long-Awaited New Album Soon, 55 Years After Its Creation

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Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Return With New Single “The Signs”

After announcing his retirement from touring, legendary bluegrass icon Doyle Lawson has returned to the recording studio with Quicksilver, beginning an exciting new chapter with Turnberry Records. The debut single for the label, “The Signs,” marks the first release from an all-new Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver album and signals a highly anticipated return for one… Continue reading Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Return With New Single “The Signs”

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