In James McMurtry’s new effort, The Horses and the Hounds, the acclaimed songwriter backs personal narratives with effortless elegance (“Canola Fields”) and endless energy (“If It Don’t Bleed”). This first collection in seven years, due August 20 on New West Records, spotlights a seasoned tunesmith in peak form as he turns toward reflection (“Vaquero”) and revelation ( closer “Blackberry Winter”). Familiar foundations guide the journey.

Prior to the release of 2018’s The Girl From Chickasaw County box set, the music of Bobbie Gentry would often be lazily filed under "Easy Listening" or "Country" but the expansive collection opened the ears and the eyes of the world to what really lay in this incredible songwriter’s recorded oeuvre. Her seven studio albums revealed an extraordinary body of work that merged Americana, soul, country, chamber-pop, bayou funk, jazz, folk and psychedelia across recordings that possessed incredible musical ambition.

Today, acclaimed artist Andrew Combs shares “Anna Please,” the latest single from his forthcoming album Sundays (August 19th, Tone Tree (US), Loose Records (UK/EU)). The song’s sparse, cinematic silence is reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman’s work, and the accompanying music video pays homage to the Swedish filmmaker’s 1972 film Cries and Whispers.

Watch the official “Anna Please” music video via YouTube

The open air and the grass beneath your feet; the smiling faces at every turn and the crowds cheering at every stage; the energetic glows of the stunning light show behind each performer, the smoke and pyrotechnics, and the deep bass so loud you could feel it in every inch of your body. All of this and more made the first annual Heatwave Music Festival unforgettable.

Elton John is joined by singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten on the latest episode of Rocket Hour. She tells Elton about the inspiration behind her latest album ‘We've Been Going About This All Wrong'.

Sharon Van Etten on making her latest album, ‘We've Been Going About This All Wrong’

Over the past few months, groups of individuals have been cropping up unannounced in remote locations throughout West Texas, igniting massive bonfires surrounded by quadrophonic speakers, and gazing at the stars. While local residents have wondered at the mysterious groups, the individuals were in fact enjoying a communal listening experience of The Polyphonic Spree’s long awaited new album ‘Salvage Enterprise,’ which Tim DeLaughter has described as a magnum opus that needs to be experienced as a whole.
 

On the heels of an electrifying, sold-out series of spring tour dates, Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum (Michael C. Hall, Peter Yanowitz & Matt Katz-Bohen) will kick off their summer headline tour today in Baltimore at Soundstage before making stops in Detroit, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta and more.
 

On Friday, July 8, 2022, the funk-ska-reggae-jam-rock septet, Float Like a Buffalo, released 2 new music videos for the songs FKA and Vertigo off of their 2020 EP of the same name exclusively to a packed house at Herman’s Hideaway in Denver. Since then, they have premiered the videos on their YouTube page with Vertigo most recently debuting on July 22, 2022.

"Where are you going to get original arrangements of The Grateful Dead, Eddie Harris, The Beatles, Bessie Smith, Ellington and Charles Mingus, and not played as novelties but, like, this is our music?" Steven Bernstein asks. Popular Culture, that's where.  It's what the Millennial Territory Orchestra (MTO) has done brilliantly for 20 years: playing Bernstein's arrangements of the American Songbook, but reimagining that tradition in their own image.

The String Cheese Incident rolled into their final night of their annual Red Rocks run with all cylinders firing, and while it was with utmost disappointment the band announced Phil Lesh would no longer be joining them due to a positive COVID test, a “good friend” would be stepping in to support and honor the music and spirit of the Grateful Dead.