Today, “guitarist extraordinaire” (Nashville Scene) Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears announces a special album release show at The Blue Room in Nashville on Thursday February 6 and a Grimey’s in-store performance on Friday February 7 in support of upcoming LP Head In The Sand, out the same day via Ears Over America/Missing Piece Records.

Soul Coughing will follow their hugely successful first tour together in 25 years with the self-release of their first-ever official live album, LIVE 2024, arriving on CD, 2LP vinyl, and at all DSPs on Friday, April 4, 2025. Recorded this past September and October, the 21-track collection captures all the energy and excitement of the tour they said would never happen, Soul Coughing Play The Songs Of Soul Coughing, a sold-out, 17-city run that saw the band performing to packed houses of rapturous fans across the United States.

Omnivore Recordings has announced a reissue of Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg’s No Resemblance Whatsoever, to be released on January 24. Mastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael Graves and with lacquers cut by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl/ Sam Phillips Recording Service, No Resemblance Whatsoever returns for its 30th anniversary on CD and, for the first time, on vinyl.

From all of us here at Grateful Web, we gather in heavy hush, the sound of distant thunder in our chests, to mourn and honor the passing of our dear brother Zakir Hussain. Like a star-spun traveler caught between midnight and morning’s glow, he drifted from this mortal coil on December 15, 2024, leaving behind a legacy of rhythms and echoes that will haunt our halls for ages.

On this eerie day of rattling strings and dust-kissed memories, we at Grateful Web raise a jubilant howl to the man with the brim and the beard, Billy Gibbons, now 75 years deep into the cosmic groove. Oh, how the guitar shivers and wails beneath his knowing fingers, as if it’s whispering old blues secrets into a hot desert wind. He has long strolled through sonic territories where oil-slick riffs meet smoky barroom laments, a conjurer of tones that hang like ghosts in the rafters of roadhouse ceilings.

Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s most transcendent musicians, passed away from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in San Francisco at the age of 73. He is survived by his wife, Antonia Minnecola; his daughters, Anisa Qureshi (her husband, Taylor Phillips, and their daughter, Zara) and Isabella Qureshi; his brothers, Taufiq Qureshi and Fazal Qureshi; and his sister, Khurshid Aulia. He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy cherished by countless music lovers around the globe, with an influence that will resonate for generations to come.
 

After a period of deep exploration and creative refinement, Los Angeles-based band Cave Flowers is proud to announce the release of their second album, Western Spectre, on January 17, 2025. A dusty, country-tinged landscape of songs marked by a restless, ramshackle soul, Western Spectre distills the band’s grudging admiration for the tangled beauty that defines life in the sprawling “everything-town” of Los Angeles.

The GRAMMY Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers return to the stage at the historic Boulder Theater on January 29, 2025, joined by legendary bluegrass icon Peter Rowan for an unforgettable night of music. Fans of Americana, folk, and bluegrass will have the rare opportunity to witness some of the genre’s most influential songwriters and performers united under one roof.

Sweetwater Music Hall is proud to present an unforgettable evening of music on Sunday, January 12 at 8:00 PM, headlined by Pete Sawyer and The Left Hand Monkey Wrench Gang. Celebrating a rich blend of rock, jam, and improvisational prowess, this one-of-a-kind performance brings together some of the most highly regarded and sought-after musicians in the Bay Area.

The all-star lineup—fondly known as “The Gang”—includes:

The Milwaukee PBS production of the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award-Winning Violent Femmes: 40th Anniversary with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will make its national debut on PBS stations across the country tonight Friday, December 13 at 9 PM ET with an encore broadcast at 10:15 PM ET. It is also available to stream on Violent Femmes: 40th Anniversary with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.