Kelli Welli, a rising star in children’s music voted by PDX Parent magazine as one of the top 5 performers in Portland, will release a country-style, humor-filled album called Let’s Go Pistachio on January 29th. The first single, “Kickin’ It with My Chicken,” is available now, and the googly-eyed special edition CD is available for pre-orders via Bandcamp and KelliWelli.com.

Located in the heart of the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, Billy Bob’s Texas first opened its doors in 1981. Since then visitors have enjoyed live entertainment each month when stars from the present and past grace the stages. Billy Bob’s Texas has begun a year-long celebration, marking its 40th Anniversary and will be bringing in the biggest names in music along with some of the hottest rising stars from across the country.

Sara Watkins of the Grammy-winning groups Nickel Creek and I’m With Her, as well as The Watkins Family Hour will release Under the Pepper Tree on March 26th via New West Records. The 15-song set was produced by Tyler Chester (Sara Bareilles, Margaret Glaspy) and is the follow up to her critically acclaimed 2016 solo album Young In All The Wrong Ways.

Today, Baltimore-based funk band Pigeons Playing Ping Pong announced plans for a virtual Super Bowl pre-party. The two-set concert, hosted by Brooklyn Bowl, premieres on Saturday, February 6th at 8 PM ET streaming on The Relix Channel exclusively on Twitch. Having garnered national acclaim for putting the "fun in funk" with high-energy themed shows, PPPP is at it again with a new musical costume, "Halftime Hall of Fame," promising tributes to some of the Super Bowl's most iconic halftime performances of the past three decades.

Snarf’s Sandwiches and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats team up with The Marigold Project to battle hunger in Colorado by giving 25% of sales of “The Rateliff” – a custom Snarf’s sandwich available February 1 through March 31, 2021 – to

Tibet House US is excited to announce that The Flaming Lips, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Jesse Paris Smith, Marc Anthony Thompson of Chocolate Genius, Inc. with Tessa Thompson and Saori Tsukada will join the eclectic line-up for the 34th Annual Tibet House US Virtual Benefit Concert. This year’s special virtual edition of one of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in New York City will combine live and pre-recorded segments streaming via Mandolin, the premiere concert livestream platform for artists, venues, and fans.

Jim Keller has shared "Find My Shadow," a brand new song and video from his upcoming album By No Means (February 12). While each song on the new album features Los Lobos frontman David Hidalgo on guitar, this new offering is particularly special for the legend's work accentuating Keller's rich bass notes on vocal duties.

All the world’s a vibration, yet music remains in the abstract, lurking in the formless world of potential, eagerly awaiting the inspiration of someone to bring it to form. The musician, in answer to this calling, illuminates what was once invisible, carrying us into the mind and heart of a moment, an emotion, or to the edges of the universe itself. Like an astronaut, these bards reveal a dimension of being, one central within all of existence—Feeling, the explorations of which seems to know no bounds.

But I am very glad to finally be looking at 2020 in the rear-view mirror! It has been interesting seeing how different artists have been coping with the pandemic and related restrictions. I have, like everyone of course, had to cancel and reschedule a number of shows and scaled waaaaaay back on touring. Fortunately, I had been working on my Solo Acousti’Lectric show pre-covid and have been able to hang in there doing occasional outdoor events and extremely reduced-capacity indoor events.

Earlier this month the announcement was made for the Bluegrass Music TV (BGM-TV) partnership between video producer and record executive Sammy Passamano, III and Country & Bluegrass legend / video producer Ronnie Reno.