After two years of planning and working through the COVID pandemic, two Edmonton promoters have joined forces to present a new music festival in Edmonton, Dead Ends Live.

On the weekend of March 18 and 19, 2022, Edmontonians will be able to enjoy the first hotel-based indoor festival as Dead Ends Live presents a weekend based on music inspired by The Grateful Dead and the spirit of the Jam Band Scene.

Today, Minnesota songwriter Mason Jennings has released his new album Real Heart via Loosegroove Records. The record has been acclaimed by outlets like Relix, American Songwriter, No Depression, and Glide who calls it “a record that both reclaims and redefines Mason Jennings’ role as a leading light in the folk community.” Real Heart is available to stream and purchase here.

Bozeman, Montana-based neo-bluegrass band, raconteurs and outdoor enthusiasts, Kitchen Dwellers have announced their third, full-length album Wise River and are thrilled to share the title track off the record. “Wise River” follows 2021’s release and collaboration with Backline to raise mental health awareness.

Australian “singer, songwriter and guitar hero” (-Billboard) Hamish Anderson is keeping busy in quarantine. With his band in Los Angeles, an ocean away from Melbourne, he’s been able to remotely record several singles. His latest “Everything Starts Again” drops TODAY!

The multi-talented singer, songwriter, and reggae pop star HIRIE is due to release her newest collaboration “YOUniverse'' with Arise Roots! The new song is out now on Silverback Music’s Controlled Substance Sound Labs and is available everywhere you stream music.

“Songs That Shook The Planet” reintroduces listeners to indelible songs from artists who literally put their lives on the line to speak truth to power and provides a soundtrack of civil uprising that is perhaps even more powerful and relevant today.

After debuting a massive revamp of the festival grounds in 2021 and welcoming a record-breaking crowd of 75,000 people, Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival aims to make the 2022 edition the biggest one yet. Over the weekend of July 15-17, music fans will converge for three days of nonstop music, tattooing, haunted attractions, and more, all held on the historic grounds of the Ohio State Reformatory (made famous by the movie The Shawshank Redemption) located in Mansfield, Ohio.
 

Haroula Rose sings like she’s telling a secret, a style the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter can perhaps owe to the many years she spent shyly composing and playing her haunting melodies alone in her native Chicago. With Catch the Light (June 17), her third album and first to co-produce, Rose has deepened and complicated her dreamy, tender repertoire.

Born from ten-hour jam sessions in peeling Brighton bedsits, the technical parameters of a bootstrap recording process and the osmotic, multi-genre influence of internet music archives, quintet Ebi Soda have been steady-cultivating a unique sound amidst the exploding UK jazz scene.

Bouncing back post-lockdown after the success of their debut record and viral single “Ric Flair”, with barnstorming festival seasons and sell-out shows across Glasgow, including the QMU,  Glasgow funk powerhouse Tom McGuire & The Brassholes continue their exciting 2nd phase as Scotland’s foremost funk outfit. The group follows up their 2021 comeback singles 'Super Solid Soul Vehicle' and 'Oh Savanna', with the release of 'D.R.E.A.D' on the  25th of FEBRUARY.