Legendary musician, songwriter and producer Booker T. Jones’ timeless hit “Green Onions” (Stax/Concord Records) was featured in Uber Eats’ star-studded Super Bowl 2025 commercial. In the 60-second spot, Matthew McConaughey humorously explores a conspiracy theory that football was invented to sell food, with "Green Onions" providing a timeless and unmistakable groove that tied the ad’s humor and nostalgia together. The ad also features Martha Stewart, Charli XCX, Kevin Bacon, and Greta Gerwig, among others.

Today, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals announced a 15-date summer tour. The tour will kick off on May 30th at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington DC with stops at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City, Higher Ground Ballroom in Burlington, VT, Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, WI, and the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA, among other cities. The tour will conclude on August 24th at The Orpheum in Los Angeles.

MerleFest, presented by Window World, will return to Wilkes Community College the weekend of April 24-27 for its 2025 event. Known for blending incredible live music with strong community ties, MerleFest continues to hold its title as a can’t miss annual tradition for both area natives and visitors from all over the world.

Just five years ago, amid the beginning of the pandemic, singer/songwriter David Johansen, legendary co-founder of the New York Dolls,  discovered his aggressive cancer had progressed and he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, leading to complications ever since. He has not made his diagnosis public as he is generally a very private person, however due to the increasingly severe financial burden his family is facing, he is ready to share his story.

Today, Nashville guitar virtuoso Sean Thompson releases Head In The Sand, his second album under the moniker Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears, via Ears Over America/Missing Piece Records. He celebrated the album with a release show last night at The Blue Room and will play a Grimey’s In-Store today before closing out the weekend with a listening party event at East Nashville’s The Green Ray.

Today, GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Joe Ely has released his 29th solo album Love and Freedom via Rack ‘Em Records / Thirty Tigers. A healing elixir for the world’s emotional turmoil, this timely album features songs written by the prolific Texas native as well as by some of his musical heroes including Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Woody Guthrie.

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Cleopatra Records celebrates Record Store Day on April 12 with one of the most anticipated releases in Todd Rundgren’s catalog: a 2-LP live album recorded during the maestro’s 2008 Arena tour.

Named after his most recent studio album, this tour found Rundgren performing alongside his usual A-list band of musical wizards, with a set list encompassing a host of favorites from his past solo albums.

The legacy of legendary country vocalist Patsy Cline, whose storied recordings of the 1950s and 1960s with producer Owen Bradley helped establish country music’s pop-crossover Nashville Sound, receives a new chapter on Record Store Day (April 12) with “Imagine That: The Lost Recordings (1954-1963),” a revelatory collection of previously unreleased recordings from Elemental Music/Deep Digs.

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Josh Phillips, founding member of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and Josh Phillips Folk Festival, is proud to announce the release of his new charitable EP, “Already Gone,” out now via CommunityZ RecordZ—a 501(c)(3) charitable record label owned and operated by friends and fellow artists SeepeopleS and Sparxsea.

DEVO, the trailblazing band that first introduced the world to their unique concept of “de-evolution,” is continuing their creative renaissance with an exciting slate of new projects and live performances. Following a five-year hiatus, the group demonstrated their enduring impact by releasing Hardcore Devo Volumes 1 and 2—70s-era compilations that trace DEVO’s early electronic rock experiments and cemented their reputation as pioneering innovators.