Looking back on last month's High Vibe Fest, we can’t help feeling the ripples of inspiration and awe. The festival took place from May 4th-8th 2023 and featured an incredible lineup of conscious musicians, inspiring workshop presenters and stellar performance acts. A main philosophy of the gathering is that High Vibe is a sober festival, and with no alcohol sales or consumption on site, the sacred space was truly held in deeper presence and cocreation.

Due to an overwhelming response from Northern California music fans, festival promoters Good Vibez Presents and JMF Presents are thrilled to announce a new venue for 2023’s Holo Holo Music Festival in Sacramento, California. Over the weekend of September 9th and 10th, Holo Holo will now be taking place at Sutter Health Park, outside of the stadium home of Sacramento Minor League Baseball.

The Nashville / London duo Ida Mae released the official video for their new single “My Whispers Are Wildfire.” Buzzing with libertine energy and the frenetic groove of a streetcorner percussion ensemble, the track paves the way for Ida Mae’s most maverick record to date, Thunder Above You, to be released on August 25 and currently available for pre-order here.

Last Friday, independent recording artists the Wide Eyed Lounge Cats (WELC) released their third studio album The Watermelon Sessions on all  major streaming services, and after 3.5 days can report 5400 streams on the entire album and a  33% save rate on the Spotify platform alone, crushing the total streams of their first two releases  in short order and tripling the Spotify save rate.

Today, The Janutee have unveiled “Ishmael,” the second single off of their forthcoming record Anything coming out via Regime Music Group on July 14th. The release is accompanied by a stop-motion animated lyric video that can be viewed HERE.

Fresh off the success of their recent album Mid-Atlantic Dub, rising Reggae Rock outfit Bumpin Uglies have announced the release of 'Underdog: The Acoustic Sessions,' a visceral 16-track collection arriving September 8 via Controlled Substance Sound Labs/The Orchard (Slightly Stoopid, Rebelution, Pepper).

Ley Line, Austin’s multilingual folk fusion group, is proud to announce a new single “Desde Lejos,” which will be released on June 9, 2023. The band, consisting of Kate Robberson, Emilie Basez, and twin sisters Madeleine and Lydia Froncek add this beautiful new song to their celebrated catalog which includes a combined total of over 5 million plays on Spotify and rising. Their critically acclaimed releases have support from NPR, Billboard, Brooklyn Vegan, KUTX, and more.

Canada’s discovery music festival, North by Northeast (NXNE), has announced the full artist lineup of 300 emerging acts for this year’s festival running from June 13-18, in over 20 of Toronto’s hottest live music venues.

Today, Seth Walker shares "I Must Be In A Good Place Now," his re-imagination of the classic Bobby Charles' song originally released on the Louisiana singer/songwriter's eponymous 1972 debut album. Walker's rendition was produced by his longtime collaborator Jano Rix (The Wood Brothers), who also contributes piano, and features Matt Glassmeyer on tenor and alto saxophone.

“Apparently, my neighborhood is cursed,” says Graham Sharp, Steep Canyon Rangers’ banjoist and co-writer of their brand new single, “Hominy Valley.” A pulsating romp through the hills and valleys of which the Rangers sing, “Hominy Valley” dives into the backstory of Sharp’s cursed neighborhood: the story of General Rutherford’s campaign against the Cherokee during the Revolutionary war.