As Congressional leadership continues to negotiate the next COVID relief bill this week, bipartisan support for the RESTART Act (S.3814/H.R.7481), continues to grow, in part due to NITO’s Call to Action. NITO continues to urge support for the RESTART Act, which now has 44 cosponsors in the Senate, and for the Save Our Stages (SOS) Act (4258/H.R.7806) recently introduced by Senators Cornyn (R-TX) and Klobuchar (D-MN).

The antics continue on Turkuaz's second episode of Hey You, Stay Tuned, out now. The recurring variety show curated by the band includes an array of segments and a slew of special guests, available through the Turkuaz's Facebook and YouTube channels.

Mt. Joy is set to take the stage at the Yarmouth Drive-in on Cape Cod Thursday, August 27. Blending folk and rock, Mt. Joy is celebrating the release of their second album, Rearrange Us. The Yarmouth Drive-in show will be the band’s second live performance since the release of the album in June. Tickets are available now at yarmouthdrivein.com. 

Positive Legacy is running a Back to School program to serve students and teachers grades K-12 of low-income families and neighborhoods across America. They will provide school supplies with an increased focus on laptops and tablet devices as students are forced to more virtual learning and many low-income families do not currently have the technology supplies they will need to be successful.

Selena Rosanbalm stepped away from music for a few years, taking time to process and grieve a traumatic loss. Now, her perspective has broadened and changed, and her songs are more open and honest than ever. The first single from her self-titled solo album is “Patriot,” out Friday and premiering with the Austin Chronicle today. Selena Rosanbalm will be released on October 9.

While live concert touring is on hold indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, THE CORONAS, Ireland’s hardest-working band, are still hitting the road. Well, sort of....

By leveraging its iconic past and leaning into an innovative future, Gibson has set the stage for the next era of shaping sound for present and future with instruments that nurture new players across generations and genres of music. Gibson and Lukas Nelson have announced today, they’ll release the first-ever Gibson USA Lukas Nelson ’56 Les Paul Junior.

Holler folk trio The Ghost of Paul Revere have announced their third full-length studio album, Good At Losing Everything, will be out on August 28.

When you walk outside, in the light, and the sparks in your head define your map of the world, your relation to time and thoughts that lead and follow, full of light, discharging constantly. When you talk to others, an exchange of pleasantries, the flow of humanity, breath through a flute, bow on string, colors, sounds. How you never feel it all at once, the best you can do is hop on a wave and ride it.

All-female, singer-songwriter collective, Song Suffragettes has teamed up with the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave women the constitutional right to vote on August 26, 1920. As announced by The Tennessean this morning, the Commission will be sponsoring Song Suffragettes’ shows at The Listening Room Café on Aug. 3, Aug. 10, Aug. 17, and Aug.