June 2025

Fresh off his win as the 2024 IBMA Songwriter of the Year, acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Rick Faris unveils “You Don’t Know What You’re Missing,” the third advance single from his forthcoming album Life’s Parade, due July 11 on Dark Shadow Recording. A nimble, hard-driving track with a contemplative core, the song urges listeners to disconnect from the daily digital churn and reconnect with life’s deeper, human moments.

 

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Acclaimed drummer, composer, and producer Geoff Mann is set to release Underground, a full-length tribute to his father Herbie Mann’s landmark 1969 album Memphis Underground. Out today is the second offering from the project: a cinematic reinterpretation of “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” the abolitionist anthem by Julia Ward Howe popularized through Herbie’s fusion classic and later adopted by Hunter S. Thompson as the official campaign song for his 1970 run for Sheriff of Pitkin County.

After lighting the fuse with the gritty debut single “Maggie Went Back to Mineola,” Texas Headhunters featuring (Ian Moore, Jesse Dayton and Johnny Moeller) show a deeper, more emotional side with “Kathleen,” the second track from their upcoming self-titled album, due August 22 on Hardcharger / Blue Élan Records.  The track lands today alongside a powerful new video that captures the song’s tension and beauty.

 

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