Blues-rock guitar ace Sean Chambers is nominated in the ‘Live Blues Album’ and ‘Slide Guitar of the Year’ categories for the 2025 Blues Blast Music Awards, for Sean Chambers Live Featuring the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section. The critically-acclaimed album was released last February on Quarto Valley Records. Voting begins Monday, July 14. Vote here: BluesBlastMagazine.com.… Continue reading Blues Guitar Ace Sean Chambers Nominated in "Live Blues Album" & "Slide Guitarist of the Year" Categories For 2025 Blues Blast Music Awards
Fresh off their debut West Coast performance at High Sierra Music Festival over 4th of July weekend, LaMP featuring Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger & Ray Paczkowski, announce their return with seven shows in October. The run kicks off at Mystic Theatre in Petaluma followed by additional California shows at Cornerstone in Berkeley and Felton Music… Continue reading LaMP ft. RUSS LAWTON, SCOTT METZGER & RAY PACZKOWSKI ADD SEVEN WEST COAST SHOWS TO FALL TOUR
Acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated band Gov’t Mule has announced the details for Island Exodus 16. Their annual “concert-cation” experience will take place January 15-18, 2026 at the Hideaway at Royalton Blue Waters Montego Bay in Trelawny, Jamaica. Marking a new location for Island Exodus, the all-inclusive resort will offer an elevated experience for all attendees and musicians featuring… Continue reading Gov’t Mule Announces Island Exodus 16
Colorado-based band Mynd Reader is excited to announce its newest single, “Leaving Our Lives.” Leaning into a timeless vintage-rock soundscape, the band has created an undeniable soul anthem. “Leaving Our Lives” is out now on Merchant Records LLC and is available everywhere you stream music. Unfolding like an earthy-toned Polaroid come to life, “Leaving… Continue reading Mynd Reader Drops Vintage-Rock Gem “Leaving Our Lives”
Omnivore Recordings has announced Françoise Hardy Blues: Complete Vogue Recordings 1962-1967, a complete collection of all the recordings Hardy did for Vogue, out on August 1. The set includes 217 newly remastered tracks, 106 of which will be available for the first time since their original ’60s release date, 10 live tracks recorded at… Continue reading Omnivore Recordings Announces 'Françoise Hardy Blues: Complete Vogue Recordings 1962-1967' Out On 8/1
On August 14, 2025, the dust-jacket comes off a hidden corner of American folk history when Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2 arrives via Shamus Records. For the first time, listeners will hear Woody Guthrie sitting at his own kitchen table in Brooklyn in the early 1950s, a two-channel reel-to-reel whirring while he… Continue reading Deportee Found: Woody Guthrie’s Hidden Reels Drop August 14
The 33rd Annual Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is set to transform the Trumansburg Fairgrounds into a four-day celebration of art, community, and global sound next weekend, July 17–20, 2025. Hosted once again by Americana mainstays Donna the Buffalo, the genre-spanning gathering welcomes more than 90 acts across four stages, with newly… Continue reading Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival Returns July 17–20, 2025, with Lukas Nelson, Lucius, Cimafunk, Sierra Hull, Dobet Gnahoré, Vieux Farka Touré, Donna the Buffalo and Scores More
“Adios AIRBEAT ONE!” drifted across the Mecklenburg night sky at dawn on Sunday, the last bassline fading as the sun inched over Neustadt-Glewe. For four luminous nights and three thumping days, more than 200,000 revelers—drawn from every corner of Germany and over 50 nations—turned the sleepy airfield into the third-largest “city” in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The 22nd… Continue reading Fiesta Pure: 200,000 Celebrate “Viva España” at AIRBEAT ONE 2025
Prague-based Australian guitarist, singer and noise-maker Jack Phemister tears the lid off a year of continental upheaval with Sleeping Dogs, a three-song jolt of garage-punk adrenaline arriving worldwide on 8 August 2025. Tracked in equal parts Melbourne spare room and Prague attic, Sleeping Dogs distils Phemister’s fiery stage show into ten unrelenting minutes. Opener… Continue reading Australian Art-Rocker Jack Phemister Lets Sleeping Dogs Snarl on 8 August 2025
Austin’s own Cosmic Convoy—the vintage-minded quartet featuring alumni of Golden Bear and The Channel—has kicked off the summer in style with the Independence-Day release of its latest single, “Body & Soul.” Dropped on July 4, the track has spent the past week and a half slipping onto playlists and spinning in dive-bar jukeboxes from Texas… Continue reading Austin’s Cosmic Convoy Rolls Out “Body & Soul” for Summer Road Trips
