RISE Festival, the world's largest sky lantern festival, is set to illuminate the Mojave Desert once again for its milestone 10th anniversary, spanning three unforgettable nights from October 3rd through 5th, 2025. Located just 20 miles south of Las Vegas on the striking expanse of Jean Dry Lake Bed, RISE offers a unique convergence of immersive art, soul-stirring music, and the breathtaking spectacle of thousands of lanterns ascending into the desert sky.

Today, 3X GRAMMY Award winner and global phenomenon Sarah McLachlan announced Better Broken, her first album of new material in over a decade, due out September 19 via Concord Records.

Joni Mitchell introduces Joni’s Jazz, a passion project years in the making. This career-spanning collection features recordings chosen by Mitchell that reflect jazz’s profound influence on her music.

Today, Puzzled Panther announces the release of their sophomore EP Fits of Serenity, out July 15 via Eugene Hütz’s Casa Gogol Records (Rolling Stone), with a psych-dance-punk cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Venus in Furs” out now.

Today, Chicago-based psych-rock trio Daisychain share their rich, electrifying debut album All in a Name, produced by renowned producer, mixer, and engineer Sylvia Massy (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, Prince), out everywhere now.

Rooted in the grit of outlaw country and lifted by the soulful harmonies of bluegrass, folk, and Americana, Kentucky native Kyle Ray releases his debut 5-track EP, This Will End In Tears, today. A recent Berklee College of Music graduate and featured performer at the 2024 Bourbon & Beyond Festival, Kyle Ray steps into this new chapter with a refined voice, a clear creative vision, and a sound that feels both timeless and unmistakably his own.

“Green Country Coastline (Improv 2),” a new single from acclaimed musician, composer and producer, Chris Combs, is out tomorrow, Friday, June 27. The song is available on all major streaming platforms and will be included on Comb’s forthcoming, full-length album, Chris Combs – In Session: Live at The Church Studio, scheduled for release Aug. 15.

Harmony-rich quartet From the Dirt have released their sophomore album, Colored Edge of Memory, recorded at producer-engineer Jerry Brown’s storied Rubber Room studio in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The ten-song collection—out now on all digital platforms—deepens the band’s signature blend of bluegrass drive, Celtic pulse, and rock-and-roll muscle while foregrounding Daniel Kenny’s evocative songwriting.

Originally released in 1975, For Earth Below, the third studio album by British guitar hero Robin Trower brought considerable commercial success none more so than in the US where the LP reached Number 5 on the Billboard chart further cementing Trower’s profile as a major league solo artist.

After an emotional Grand Ole Opry appearance that included a retirement sendoff of long-time Grascals bassist Terry Smith, the group’s leader, mandolinist Danny Roberts might have been in a nostalgic mood when he chose the next in his series of singles for Mountain Home Music Company. Named for his youthful home in western Kentucky, “Leitchfield” is a lively instrumental that, much like the winding country roads around the town, takes a few unexpected turns along the way.