BIRDBRAIN was recorded live-off-the-floor in a barn in Baden, Ontario. Three songwriters and vocalists each add their range of critique and love for life in Ontario, along with vivid stories of traveling. These stories sing over guitar-driven warm funky and entrancing grooves, with exciting solo sections sweeping in and out on an album that is a kaleidoscope of TONE!

Zuffalo is Canadian guitar-driven, uplifting psychedelic rock act with folk and pop-based melodies and harmonies.

Grateful Web recently had the honor of visiting with Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay. While most folks are familiar with Donna Jean as the radiant co-vocalist of 1970s Grateful Dead, augmenting some of the seminal group’s most celebrated tunes such as “The Music Never Stopped,” “Cassidy,” “Mississippi Half-Step,” and “Playing in the Band,” she holds deeper roots in Americana as a 1960s session musician of the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

Brandi Carlile’s acclaimed memoir, Broken Horses, debuts this week at #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers list (Print Hardcover Nonfiction and Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction).

As we await the joyous return of live music at Preservation Hall, please join us for 'Round Midnight Preserves – a two-night virtual concert and fundraiser streaming live from 726 St. Peter street, with special guests Durand Jones and Ivan Neville.

Donations made during both nightly streams will support the Preservation Hall Foundation and our efforts to protect, preserve and perpetuate New Orleans music and culture.

Holler-folk trio The Ghost of Paul Revere have released the official music video for “Travel On”, the gritty, soul-rock anthem off their recent album Good At Losing Everything (2020). The video sees the Portland, ME natives and lifelong friends pay homage to Jim Henson’s The Muppets with a shot-by-shot recreation of the classic “Movin’ Right Along” from The Muppet Movie.

Capitol Records Nashville singer/songwriter Caylee Hammack is releasing a new version of her deeply personal song “Small Town Hypocrite” with a guest vocal by Chris Stapleton, available here.  Since Hammack released the autobiographical song, critics, fans and peers alike have had an overwhelming affinity for the track and the picture it paints of the s

“I have always loved his defiantly existential but immediately accessible common man’s music and how it boogies,” says Shannon McNally of the man whose timeless music is the subject of her new album THE WAYLON SESSIONS, Waylon Jennings. Upon the album’s completion, McNally’s collection of tunes ended up being not so much a tribute as it is a recontextualization; a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero-masculinity.

A special video for GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter and musician Brandy Clark’s new song, “Remember Me Beautiful,” is debuting today. Watch/share HERE. The video was created following an overwhelming response to the song on social media, where fans continue to share photos of their loved ones who have passed.

Texas-based Gulf Coast Records, which has been releasing exciting new blues/rock albums since 2018, has signed Milwaukee area-based guitarist/singer Dave Kalz and will release his debut CD, Relish, on June 25th.

Wax Future and Jesse Miller (Lotus, Octave Cat, Beard-o-Bees) have  teamed up as BeesWax for a new studio album, Royal Jelly, a follow-up to their 2019 self-titled EP. Listen to the title track “Royal Jelly'' here. Vinyl pre-orders and merch packages, including BeesWax branded honey, are available now.