“Heyday,” the title track from Lonesome River Band’s latest album, is No. 1 on this month’s Bluegrass Today radio chart.

A wistful reminiscence cast in the voice of a small town that’s “still sleepy but…still alive,” the song features new member Adam Miller (mandolin) on lead and subtle, sympathetic solos from fiddler Mike Hartgrove and guitarist Jesse Smathers.

JUNO award-winning, powerhouse rock outfit Crown Lands are eager to embark on their most impactful US tour to date. The duo of Cody Bowles (vocals, drums) and Kevin Comeau (guitar, bass, keys) will join the 2022 'Dreams In Gold' arena tour, supporting the one and only Greta Van Fleet! Crown Lands will begin their run on the tour on October 18 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Commenting on these upcoming shows, Cody & Kevin share:

The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) honored two Ohio entities last week during their annual conference and awards show: Industrial Strength Bluegrass as Event of the Year; and Paul "Moon" Mullins as their newest inductee to the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.

Today, the D’Addario Foundation has launched a new initiative called the Immersive Music Challenge, which aims to raise awareness and funds around a groundbreaking new study that finds intensive music mentoring, especially implemented in lower-income schools, is linked to significantly improved reading and math scores; decreased pandemic related anxiety was also observed.

Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG today announce the next installment in The Montreux Years series with Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years. Available Friday, November 4, 2022, the album will be available in multi-format configurations, including superior audiophile heavy weight double vinyl, CD and on streaming services, in superlative HD MQA audio.

Town Mountain released their anticipated Lines in the Levee last Friday via New West Records. The 11-song collection was produced, engineered, and mixed by the multiple Grammy Award nominated Justin Francis (Kacey Musgraves, Orville Peck, Anti-Flag) at Ronnie’s Place in Nashville, TN. Hailing from Asheville, NC, Town Mountain is the sum of all of its vast and intricate influences — this bastion of alt-country rebellion and honky-tonk attitude pushed through the hardscrabble Southern Appalachian lens of its origin.

This song was created in conjunction with Everland who’s Forest Plan is in response to the urgent call, presented at the 2021 Climate Change Conference, to end deforestation by 2030.

"This is a cause that is close to Julian’s heart and the messages he places within his music."

Partnering up and sharing his voice is something he felt he need to do, answering the urgent call to action and fight for better world for our children.

Will Bradford is worried about the future. For 22 years, Bradford has toured the country as SeepeopleS’ bandleader, songwriter, and producer, bringing his defiant, politically-charged music to the masses, challenging audiences to question the world around them creating a community of misfits hellbent on speaking truth to power.

British acoustic singer-songwriter Steve Hewitt has a long-standing reputation of producing music from the heart, unafraid to deliver soul bearing lyrically honesty. He maintains this tradition with the release of his new single entitled Fly. A beautifully simple structured creation that emanates with Country overtones and carried by Hewitt's distinctive vocal tone and emotive delivery.

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Self-confessed demented-pop artist Eddy Lee Ryder has been writing songs and performing them in quite the nomadic way since she was a teenager, but her new single “Smoke and Mirrors” ended up in a place even she couldn’t have imagined; a hardcore slasher horror film.