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. “There’s a definite Los Angeles vibe to this record,” McMurtry says.

Today, Grammy-Award winning rock band Greta Van Fleet share a live performance video of their latest song "Sacred The Thread" - Watch/share HERE.

The song is from their much anticipated new album Starcatcher on July 21 via Lava/Republic Records. Of the new track, American Songwriter calls "Sacred The Thread" a "stunner."

Baltimore jam-funk quartet Pigeons Playing Ping Pong returned to Legend Valley in Thornville, OH this weekend for their annual music festival, Domefest. Since its inception, Domfest has been all about magical collaborations, and with bands like Pigeons, Twiddle, TAUK Moore (TAUK ft. Kanika Moore), The Magic Beans, Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers and more on the lineup, this year’s edition was never in doubt of producing some of that classic Dome-magic.

My Morning Jacket has announced today’s premiere of Return To Thunderdome, a new documentary film chronicling the band’s now-legendary performance at 2004’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival during what proved a historic downpour, debuting tonight, May 23, at 9:00 pm (ET), exclusively via the official MMJ YouTube channel.

Returning to Lake Wales, FL this winter, Orange Blossom Revue is proud to announce the lineup for its ninth annual festival spanning the weekend of December 1-2, 2023. Hosted by illustrious American roots outfit The Wood Brothers, the intimate celebration of music, community, and nature has quickly grown to become a beloved tradition for residents of central Florida and enthusiastic visitors alike.

moe. has announced that it will cap its already packed summer schedule with a 2-night run at Music Box at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ on August 4th-5th. The run will follow an extensive 17-date tour that will wind its way across the Midwest in June, and resume for a string of east coast dates in mid-July, culminating at The Caverns in Pelham, TN on July 22nd. A special artist pre-sale will begin tomorrow, Wednesday, May 24th at 10am ET – click here for more information.

One Wing Shy by Noah Gabriel pulls its audience into an immersive mindful environment that Chicago's own Dave Ramont calls “rich, meditative beauty.” Each track envelops the listeners into a soothing space overlooking Noah’s lyrics that share challenges faced with a haunting pang of apologetic nostalgia.

“Some things are meant for the birds

So take these hollowed bones,

I can’t fly…”

The music only heated up for moe.'s second night of three at the Brooklyn Bowl on May 19, 2022 in Brooklyn, NY. The band continued to dig into their extensive catalog coupled with exciting, and in some cases new, covers.

Mid-May, Billy Strings and his incredible gentlemen of the acoustic tale closed out their three-night Colorado run with a bang. Leading with an end-of-days meteorological event at night one of Red Rocks Amphitheatre that would have had most performers and fanbases ducking for cover and postponing their best laid plans, the band and the devoted dug in and drank deep under the deluge of precipitation and sound.

Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. The stream running throughout the musical narrative is a speculative commentary about our human search for meaning, and we’re reminded that as a version of our ancestors’ vision, this quest never ends.