ESCAPER, NYC’s sonic alchemists, release "Sleepin’" today—a sultry, trance-inducing journey into euphoric clarity. The second single from their forthcoming album Still Time (Ropeadope Records, Sept. 5, 2025), the track channels the band’s cult favorite "Open Sky" while pushing deeper into intimate, soul-jam territory.

Puff of Smoke, the highly-anticipated ninth studio album from Grammy Award-nominated Americana trio The Wood Brothers, is out today via Honey Jar/Thirty Tigers. The release is accompanied by a video for the title track, an improvised collaboration between the band members, that was directed, filmed, and edited by Chris Wood.
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For Grateful Web readers hungry for a new autumn adventure, let us point your compass toward Indiana—where the picking is sweet, the camping is easy, and the roots run deep. The First City Music Festival, returning September 25-27, 2025, in Vincennes, Indiana, has quietly grown into one of the Midwest’s most authentic, family friendly, and welcoming gatherings for fans of bluegrass, Americana, and folk-fusion sounds.

This fall, Autzen Stadium will once again look a little more like Shakedown Street than your typical Pac-12 (make that Big Ten) Saturday. When the Oregon Ducks host the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday, October 25, 2025, the university is inviting fans to stage a full-stadium tie-dye out—a one-of-a-kind “Grateful Ducks” celebration that nods to Eugene’s deep bond with the Grateful Dead.

Why Oregon + the Dead makes perfect sense

Tedeschi Trucks Band (TTB), the GRAMMY Award-winning band led by the dynamic duo of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, has released the latest offering from their upcoming album Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (LIVE AT LOCKN’) with Leon Russell with the new single “Feelin’ Alright.” The stirring rendition features guest appearances from Dave Mason, who penned the hit, on lead vocals and Anders Osborne on guitar.

These days, it can often times be a daunting task for those of us who are fans under the ever expanding umbrella of the genre known as country music to sift through the seemingly endless mire of tired, overplayed & shallow subjects like red solo cups, truck tailgates and bikini clad girls on a river bank (usually while also holding red solo cups and sitting on truck tailgates).