Ohana Festival, the premier California beachside music event founded by Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, returns to Doheny State Beach September 26–28, 2025, with an extraordinary three-day lineup spanning rock, folk, blues, and beyond. Presented in partnership with California State Parks and Kona Big Wave, this year’s festival offers fans an unparalleled seaside concert experience against the backdrop of Dana Point’s legendary surf breaks.

Celebrated for balancing their sun-soaked reinventions of Grateful Dead classics with a punk rock ethos, Grateful Shred flips the Grateful Dead’s unfinished studio business into a tight and personal indie manifesto on their first-ever studio album, Might As Well.  Set for release June 6 via their own independent imprint Liberty Hair Farm Records, Might As Well will be available via vinyl and digital formats, with pre-orders live now.

Borderland Music Festival announces the 2025 Daily Lineup and Single-Day General Admission Festival Passes. Heading into its seventh year, returning and new attendees can plan their September 12–14 weekend and see which days their favorite bands will be playing.

For those unable to attend the festival all weekend long, Single-Day General Admission tickets will be available for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in addition to Weekend GA, VIP, and the flexible Single-Day “Anyday” GA passes.

The best was saved for last in terms of Eggy’s Here and How 2025 Spring Tour. Their final non-festival date at Manhattan’s Webster Hall on April 26, 2025, was a barn burner, much to the delight of the packed crowd. Their performance included a number of new and repeat covers, as well as a guest appearance by Hamilton Leithauser from the American indie-rock band The Walkmen.

The High Sierra Music Festival returns to the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, CA, on July 3-6, 2025. Tickets are available now via the festival website.

The Bob Dylan Center will present “Going Electric: Bob Dylan ’65,” a groundbreaking exhibition opening July 24, 2025, and closing in the spring of 2026.

Presented by Bob Dylan Center founding members Bob and Debbie Russell, the exhibit offers an immersive, multimedia exploration of one of the most transformative years in Dylan’s career and the cultural upheaval that followed.

This past weekend, Sierra Ferrell made her stunning return to Stagecoach Festival, performing across multiple stages with several special guests, as she reaffirmed her reign as "the May Queen of American roots music" (NPR Music). On Friday evening, she and her band delivered a remarkable revue of standouts from her latest album, Trail of Flowers, following Ferrell's clean sweep of four wins at the 2025 GRAMMY® Awards.

Kitchen Dwellers and 4:08 Productions have re-released the band’s performance from season three of The Montana Sessions, originally premiered in 2023. The Bozeman-based pickers performed “Bottom Shelf” in a lush green field nestled in the heart of Paradise Valley.

Goose has announced a new run of upcoming headline dates, beginning September 19 at Sterling Heights, MI’s Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill and then continuing through the month. Highlights include a two-night stand at Louisville, KY’s historic The Louisville Palace (September 23-24) and shows at Chicago, IL’s Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island (September 20), Alpharetta, GA’s Ameris Bank Amphitheatre (September 26), Charlotte, NC’s PNC Music Pavilion (September 27), and Columbus, OH’s KEMBA Live!

Where are today’s groovy horn bands? Growing up listening to Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago, and Tower of Power, I’ve noticed a gap in today’s music for a funky, hard-hitting horn section. Well, tonight the horns are back with a vengeance at Bell’s as they host two up-and-coming bands: Flexadecibel and Desmond Jones.