With 31 years of crowd-pleasing experience under their belts, the Green River Festival continues to deliver a summer music experience that goes “above and beyond” its hundreds of summer festival competitors. It is the festival’s long history, seeded in a community and the arts, paired with the event’s signature Saturday hot air balloon presentation, that keeps families and music lovers coming back to one of the region’s most popular weekend destinations.

Every show Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady and drummer Justin Guip) performs a different set, always unprecedented in mood and expressive in melody and rhythm ... excitement comes from never quite knowing what’s coming next.

Due to illness, moe. must cancel their Friday, August 11th & Saturday, August 12th performances at the Boulder Theater. Because these shows were part of a ticket bundle that included the Sunday, August 13th performance at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, all ticket bundles will be refunded at point of purchase. Please allow up to 72 hours for the reimbursement to appear on your credit card statement. Twiddle will be honoring the dates with performances at the Boulder Theater on Friday, August 11th with Kitchen Dwellers and Saturday, August 12th with Pigeons Playing Ping Pong.

The self-proclaimed “punk empress of African Rock” Cole Williams has premiered an invigorating cover of the Sam Cooke classic, “A Change is Gonna Come.” The track premiered over on Glide.com recently, and can be heard here.

San Francisco Bay Area-based slide guitar master Dennis Johnson announces a September 15 release date for Rhythmland, his latest CD on the Root Tone Records label. Johnson plans to release his first single off the new disc, “Timbale” to iTunes on August 1, and will celebrate the new album with a special CD release party show on September 15 at the Guild Theater in Sacramento. Listen to “Timbale” here.

ALT 92.9, Boston’s Alternative Radio announces The Revivalists, American Authors and New Politics will headline ALT Rocks Boston 2017.

The radio station’s free summer concert series, presented by RCN, will include two shows at Copley Square Park on August 17^th and August 31^st as well as a first time performance at the SoWa Art & Design District Market on September 9^th, 2017.

The evening will begin at 5pm with entertainment by the Bay Area’s favorite psychedelic rock band Moonalice. Guests will enjoy various fresh non-alcoholic, canna-cocktails crafted by Jeff the 420 Chef over music and mingling before sitting down for dinner. DJ Logic will be spinning after dinner in the Redwood Grove, Scott Guberman and Jeannette Ferber playing during dinner with other musical guests.

Sometimes I think I am so full of shit. Ask my wife, and it’s probably safe to drop sometimes I think. But coming to Grey Fox Bluegrass Music Festival, a festival I come to every year, trying to think of a new way to make you, fair reader, understand that it is unlike anything that you have or ever will experience? I am full of shit to think I can do this. But thankfully, this year mother nature is co-writing this review, and she’s writing in the blurry ink of rain.

The Forecastle Festival celebrated 15 years at sea this year with headlining acts Odesza, LCD Soundsystem, and Weezer. Although they set sail 15 years ago, fans are still discovering unique quirks about the festival each year. Did you know their lost and found carries over each year? So, if you lost a glow stick in 2016, you could have potentially salvaged it in 2017. Did you know there is a parenting tent where parents can change or feed their babies in a quiet and shaded environment?