Samantha Fish and her band rolled into the Aggie Theatre last night to present the 2025 Paper Doll Tour. Fish’s newest album release of the same name was a hot topic among fans with the anticipation of hearing the new material in a live concert setting. When Fish appeared on stage, the temperature in the room quickly pegged into the red. Dressed in all black with silver accents, she looked like a rock goddess on a mission to slay the audience into rock n’ roll submission.

John Butler released his 10th full-length studio LP on September 5th, 2025, marking his third in just two years. Prism is a return to John’s solo roots, though not to the style that defined his early solo work.

Today, the Indiana-born, Nashville-based rising star Stephen Wilson Jr. earned a nomination for New Artist of the Year at the 59th Annual CMA Awards. This marks Wilson Jr.’s first CMA Awards nomination, following the massive success of his debut double album søn of dad (Big Loud Records).

Tamayo Band, Central Florida's premier jam group, released Another World, a full-length album now available on Spotify. The new album weaves pulse-forward rhythms with chiming guitars, vivid piano lines, and hook-heavy melodies, gliding from intimate mid-tempo moments to widescreen, stage-ready crescendos. Built with a live band’s dynamics, it is made for deep dives and big, shared refrains. To mark the new album's release, Tamayo Band will play three upcoming Florida dates, culminating in a hometown celebration in Gainesville:

Hajaj (https://hajaj.store/) possesses the uncanny ability to make any note sound soulful with his cosmic blend of funk, R&B, and Motown-inspired music. After reaching an unforgettable milestone opening for the legendary Stevie Wonder in London’s Hyde Park, the Jeddah-born, London-based singer and songwriter announces In the Meantime, a six-song EP due out October 24th via Nettwerk.

In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, launched in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, Billy Bragg has released "Hundred Year Hunger," a new song available today on all streaming platforms. Proceeds from the release will go to Amos Trust’s humanitarian aid to Palestine.
 

After more than a decade as one of the South’s most beloved music weekends, Moon River Music Festival—founded by Drew Holcomb and praised by Southern Living and Garden & Gun as a must-attend Southern festival, with Paste delivering glowing “best-of” recaps—takes to the open water for the first time with Moon River At Sea, sailing November 11–15, 2026 from Miami, FL to Nassau, Bahamas aboard Norwegian Jewel.

GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Eric D. Johnson (aka Fruit Bats) is bringing his acclaimed live show to Boulder Theater on October 20th (ticket info) for an intimate, solo evening. Johnson is touring in support of his deeply personal forthcoming album, Baby Man (out Friday via Merge Records). You can pre-save the album HERE.

Dropkick Murphys have just released a new single and video from their powerful and poignant For The People album. Following the success of early track “Who’ll Stand With Us?,” a call to stand together against divisiveness and inequality, the new single and video for  “Chesterfields And Aftershave” pay tribute to singer and founder Ken Casey’s late grandfather who was an important role model in his life.

After their last single, a grim tale of a doomed riverboat, you might think that Western North Carolina’s premier bluegrass group would want to lighten the mood with their next one. But that’s not the bluegrass way, and it’s definitely not true for Balsam Range — though to tell the truth, compared to “The Pacific,” the uncertainty of love at a distance that is the subject of “Virginia Girl” could seem positively uplifting. And the story of how this record came to be offers its own kind of inspiration.