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Hot Tuna Acoustic Settles In at The Cabot

Jorma Kaukonen | Cabot Theater | July 22nd, 2026 - photos by Scott Kepnes An appreciative audience of longtime fans ma....

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....

J.P. Reali Releases Grateful Blues, a Six-Song Tribute to the ...

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 ...

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Billy Strings Shares “Mill Town Flood” From New Album So Much for Goodbyes

Press photo credit: Dana Trippe Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Billy Strings shares his new song, “Mill Town Flood,” today. Watch the official music video HERE. The song is the latest unveiled from Strings’ highly anticipated new album, So Much for Goodbyes, out August 28 via Reprise Records. Pre-order or pre-save the album… Continue reading Billy Strings Shares “Mill Town Flood” From New Album So Much for Goodbyes

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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

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

Every Lollapalooza lineup has an artist who feels impossible to ignore. This year, Charli XCX arrives in Chicago not just as one of pop’s biggest stars, but as an artist who continues to reinvent herself in ways that challenge expectations. After transforming pop culture with Brat, Charli’s latest album, Music, Fashion, Film, takes another unexpected… Continue reading Lollapalooza Preview: Charli XCX Brings Music, Fashion, Film to Grant Park

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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

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

Following a joint set at the Flood City Music Festival, Greensky Bluegrass has confirmed that longtime collaborator Holly Bowling will join the band for another performance at Vail’s Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater on Friday, August 14. Tickets are on sale now HERE. The Vail performances kick off another run of shows across the U.S., with… Continue reading Holly Bowling to Join Greensky Bluegrass at Vail’s Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

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Gov’t Mule’s Freeman Arts Pavilion Show Cut Short by Severe Weather

Warren Haynes | Selbyville, DE | July 28th, 2026 – photos by Howard Horder Gov’t Mule played an excellent show at the newly built, state-of-the-art Freeman Arts Pavilion in Selbyville, Delaware, on July 28, 2026. The concert venue is located in Southern Delaware, close to the Maryland border and easily accessible from the Delaware beaches… Continue reading Gov’t Mule’s Freeman Arts Pavilion Show Cut Short by Severe Weather

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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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