CashorTrade, the world’s first fan-to-fan face value ticket exchange, is proud to announce its partnership with Golden Road Festival, taking place October 17–20, 2025. Together, they’re making it easier than ever for music lovers to buy, sell, and trade tickets at face value, keeping the community strong and scalpers out.

Los Angeles based music collective The Big Ol’ Nasty Getdown is back and breaking boundaries once again with their new single, “When the Juice Ran Out,”  a funk fueled warning for a world on the edge. 

Listen to “When the Juice Ran Out” here.  

Sweetwater Music Hall, the intimate nonprofit live music venue established in 1972, rolls into late August and September with a packed slate of performances across rock, blues, bluegrass, reggae, Americana, tributes, open mics, and community benefits. Doors open one hour prior to show time. All Ages | Wheelchair Accessible.

Wyatt Ellis continues to reinvigorate the traditional bluegrass cannon with his powerful rendition of “Country Boy Rock ’N Roll,” a song originally brought to life by Don Reno, Red Smiley, and The Tennessee Cutups in 1956. First discovering the track as a country song through one of his musical heroes, Marty Stuart, Ellis soon uncovered the song’s bluegrass roots.

Rising reggae-fusion artist Joey Calderaio continues to make waves in the independent music scene with the release of his latest project, Cloud Covers, a full-length studio album now available on all streaming platforms. The album showcases Joey’s signature blend of thoughtful songwriting, vibrant instrumentation, and genre-blurring energy—solidifying his place as one of the most dynamic voices in American reggae.

When you look at the Grateful Dead’s vibrant subculture around the world, it’s as strong as ever. The culture revolves around the music and lifestyle of the band and its followers, affectionately known as Deadheads. The band's music is a time capsule that embodies peace, love, kindness, and adventure for everyone who wants in. From the early beginnings of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir meeting at a music store in Palo Alto, California, in 1965 to the recent sixty-year celebration of the Grateful Dead’s music performed by Dead & Co.

Luther Dickinson of North Mississippi Allstars will release Dead Blues Vol. 1 on October 17, 2025 via Strolling Bones Records. The 9-song set was produced by the 10-time GRAMMY Award-nominated Dickinson and is a collection of blues songs the Grateful Dead performed throughout their career by Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bo Diddley, the Mississippi Sheiks, Willie Dixon, and more.

The nationally-recognized nonprofit organization JAZZ HOUSE KiDS announced the full lineup of the MONTCLAIR JAZZ FESTIVAL Downtown Jamboree and Block Party, taking place in downtown Montclair, NJ on September 13. 

The international ensemble SHAKTI celebrated their 50th anniversary with an unprecedented world tour that followed their first new studio recording in more than 45 years, the brilliant GRAMMY™ award-winning album, This Moment.. Just over a year after the tour’s end, “a curtain came down on a monumental part of my life,” recalls guitarist, composer, and Shakti Co-Founder John McLaughlin.

Cooking Vinyl has announced the 40th Anniversary reissue of Telephone Free Landslide Victory, the groundbreaking debut album by Camper Van Beethoven, arriving September 5, 2025 on CD and LP.