Music Heals International (MHI) whose global mission brings music and musicians to children in need to rebuild communities and inspire resilience and creativity, has announced the first-ever annual recipient for the MHI Rob Wasserman Memorial Ambassador Award in partnership with

Sound Summit celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday, September 13, as CAKE returns to the historic Mountain Theater to headline the daylong festival atop Mount Tamalpais that has brought both exceptional music and benefit to the mountain and Bay Area community alike over the past decade.

Dark tales of disaster have always been an important part of the bluegrass songbook, and Balsam Range has always known a good one when they’ve seen it. Case in point: the award-winning group’s latest single for Mountain Home Music Company, “The Pacific.” 

Globally acclaimed music phenomenon Africa Express is sharing two new singles in celebration of their highly anticipated forthcoming studio album, Africa Express presents… Bahidorá (due July 11 via World Circuit Records).

Americana duo The Imaginaries—husband-and-wife team Maggie McClure and Shane Henry—have announced their highly anticipated sophomore album, Fever, due out August 22nd. The Oklahoma-based duo’s latest offering from the record, a resilient, harmony-soaked country-leaning ballad titled “Little By Little,” is available everywhere now.

The Django Festival Allstars, the “sensational” gypsy-swing juggernaut lauded by George Benson and crowned by DownBeat as the hardest-swinging band to hit Newport, return to Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center for a fiery four-night stand, July 10–13. Tickets are on sale now at https://ticketing.jazz.org/19015.

GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer Mádé Kuti has announced his Eeagerly awaited standalone debut album, Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?, arriving everywhere via LegacyPlus Records on Friday, July 25. Pre-orders/Pre-Saves are available now.

Rituals, the long-awaited new studio album from North Carolina duo Watchhouse (Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz), is officially out now via Tiptoe Tiger Music / Thirty Tigers. Co-produced with Ryan Gustafson (The Dead Tongues), the 11-track collection marks Watchhouse’s first album of entirely new, original songs since their acclaimed 2021 self-titled release, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and earned praise from Rolling Stone, NPR Music, Mojo, American Songwriter, and more.

Two-time Grammy-nominated and multiple International Bluegrass Music Association award-winning sextet Sister Sadie returns with All Will Be Well, their boldest and most personal album to date, due out June 27, 2025, via Mountain Home Music Company. The all-female group continues to push the boundaries of bluegrass while remaining firmly rooted in its soul, navigating themes that range from heartbreak to healing.

New Orleans musicians and culture bearers Chief Bo Dollis Jr. and The Wild Magnolias release their newest single “Hard to Handle,” featuring Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph of Galactic and the GRAMMY-winning band Tank and the Bangas. This reimagined version of the Otis Redding soul classic finds Joseph in control, compellingly owning the narrative and interpreting the song from a female point of view.