Mentored by 6-time GRAMMY® winner and blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, bluesman Colin James’ own career is becoming legendary via his 8-Juno Award wins (Canada’s GRAMMY® equivalent), 30 Maple Blues Awards, multi-platinum record sales, and being inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame. Yet what is missing from this prodigiously gifted guitarist’s career is a GRAMMY® nomination.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Sarah Brindell breathes new life into Luiz Bonfá’s classic with her latest single, "Samba De Orfeu," set to release on October 18th. This heartfelt reinterpretation is a musical celebration of simplicity and the beauty of everyday moments, inspired by Brazilian rhythms and the myth of Orpheus.

The Red Clay Strays will take their “These Moments Tour” to Australia and Hawaii in May with newly confirmed shows at Honolulu’s Republik, Brisbane’s The Tivoli, Newcastle’s Bar on the Hill, Sydney’s Enmore Theatre, Melbourne’s The Forum and Perth’s Metro City.

Tickets for the tour will go on-sale this Friday, October 18 at 10:00am local time. Full details can be found at www.redclaystrays.com/tour.

Samantha Fish, the genre-defying blues-rock powerhouse, proudly announces the return of her Shake 'Em On Down Tour for its second annual edition. Fish will again headline an electrifying lineup showcasing the best in modern blues. This year's tour features Grammy-nominated Cedric Burnside, a North Mississippi Hill Country Blues torchbearer, and the return of blues-punk legend Jon Spencer.

3x GRAMMY® Award-winner Fantastic Negrito has shared a stark and beautiful official music video for the recently released single, "I Hope Somebody’s Loving You." A rare ballad for Fantastic Negrito, the song is taken from his new album, Son of a Broken Man (Storefront Records), arriving everywhere next Friday, October 18. Pre-orders are available now.

Rockin’ Dopsie Jr. and the Zydeco Twisters’ recently released, self-titled album has been earning raves for its high-energy celebration of one of America’s rich cultural traditions that is beloved across the world: zydeco music.  

Listen to the album here: https://atorecords-ffm.com/morefun  

Watch this short film about the album here: https://youtu.be/VZP2_1xEUsY?si=0ReFORBV46LxLrCw

2021’s vinyl only American Dreamer Box Set reintroduced the world to the undisputed but somewhat overlooked talents of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Laura Nyro, the brilliant Brooklyn-born female artist who, in four decades of recording, would merge r&b, doo-wop, pop, jazz, Broadway, opera, folk with her own individual brand of blue-eyed soul across several critically acclaimed studio albums she recorded before her tragic passing in 1997 ag

Live sensations and Boone, North Carolina natives Rainbow Kitten Surprise are collaborating with the PLUS1 Rapid Relief Fund to provide aid for communities affected by Hurricane Helene, totaling more than $50,000.

Purchase tickets to the livestreams HERE

Today, following a stunning performance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Hurray for the Riff Raff has released an official music video for their song, "Buffalo." One of many moving highlights from The Past Is Still Alive, the 2024 Nonesuch album that Pitchfork just declared one of the best of the decade thus far, "Buffalo" is a love song about survival, patience, miracles and

After the release of the brutally raw “Bonehead,” Frankie and the Witch Fingers continue to preview their new music by sharing the double AA side single, “i-Candy,” which premiered yesterday on KEXP. The second of their new offerings since last year’s landmark LP Data Doom (Greenway Records / Reverberation Appreciation Society), today’s track kicks off with a synth-induced groove that turns into full-on relentless riffs, soundtracking an objectified robot’s vengeance.