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Raine Hamilton’s Brave Land, out today, is a concept album: inspired by the mountainous landscape they encountered while touring, it’s music made for reaching between different worlds, centering around courage, connection and wisdom, and showcasing resonant chamber-folk with prism-clear, bright vocals and strings along the way.

“It’s about the beauty of being alive and the courage that can take,” Hamilton says of the album’s title track, a theme that also weaves throughout the album as a whole.

The idea of “losing yourself” may seem negative, but to Grammy-award winning guitarist Eric Krasno, the phrase has a deeper meaning. “It’s about losing your ego when you find someone who works for you,” he explains.

With much anticipation, the next chapter of Imagine Music Festival is set to begin as organizers write the story for the fully immersive electronic music experience forged in nature.

Singer/songwriter Brock Davis announces a March 11 release date for his new album, A Song Waiting To Be Sung, on Raintown Records.

Derek Vanderhorst, a musician, sound designer and re-recording mixer for film and tv, is a self-described workaholic.  Known for working on Academy Award nominated films from No Country For Old Men, Hidden Figures, and most recently The Eyes of Tammy Faye, he has a knack for mixing dialogue and music and pulling out the emotion by balancing all the elements that make up a film soundtrack. Those skills translate on his upcoming album, Wildflower.

NIN3S dives straight into 2022 with the release of ‘Adeve,’ an experimental odyssey of jazz electronica created in collaboration with Teal Jazz, released on January 19th.  It’s the second single taken from his forthcoming album, ‘Hopeyard’, a stripped back, sophisticated, jazz-inflected recording and his debut album out March 2022 on Dorado Records.

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Virginia rock band Kendall Street Company announce the release of a cover of The Beatles’ 1968 tune “Rocky Raccoon.” The new single is a modern take on a classic, and the band’s first ever release of a cover song. A longtime live staple in KSC’s catalog, the reimagined take features subtle lyric changes and revamped instrumentation including a raucous saxophone solo.

January 27, 2022 marks Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks 10th Anniversary. This historic event made its debut at the beloved Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater in 2012 and was the first winter concert to be produced at the world-famous Colorado venue.

Artikal Sound System is proud to release their new single featuring Little Stranger “When I Wanna.” The new song, out now, drops ahead of their album Welcome to Florida due out February 1, 2022 on the tastemaker and iconic record label Silverback Music's Controlled Substance Sound Labs. Welcome to Florida will be available everywhere you stream music. Pre-Save and Pre-Order here: https://cssl.fanlink.to/welcome-to-florida

You may recognize Aaron Skiles’ name from the Bay Area-based band, Bourbon Therapy.  The indie rock/alt-country band was fronted by Skiles and his wife Rebecca and released 1 full-length album, two EPs, and 12 singles before calling it quits earlier this year.  “No one’s fault,” Skiles reassures.

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