2025 has been a great year for record stores, and we’re going out with a bang, celebrating with over 170 RSD Black Friday releases from many of their favorite artists.

Guitarist John Scofield and bassist Dave Holland, two of jazz’s contemporary masters, have played together over the years in contexts including work with Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson and a spirited co-led band with Joe Lovano and Al Foster called ScoLoHoFo. Memories of Home is their first duo album.

Today, breakout Montana folk duo Buffalo Traffic Jam return with their darkly moving new tune “Fool’s Gold,” out now on Arista Records. The sonically rich single arrives alongside a lyric video and will land on the just-announced Take Me Home EP, due out October 24. The boys are currently on tour with country riser Dylan Gossett—see the itinerary below.

The relaxed, beachfront gathering that is the Ohana Festival once again rolled into Dana Point, California, on September 26, 2025, bringing three days of music and community to the sand-lined shoreline of Doheny State Beach. Now in its ninth year, the event has earned a reputation as both a labor of love and a personal calling card for its founder and spiritual anchor, Eddie Vedder.

The High Sierra Music Festival, one of Northern California’s longest-running and most beloved festivals, will celebrate its 34th year at a new location: the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley, California. The move makes the festival more accessible than ever, with abundant lodging options and close proximity to the Bay Area, while preserving the traditions fans have cherished since 1991.

New Orleans-based Father Ron and Friends, a folk/Americana band, are taking advantage of glorious fall weather to perform music from their Global Music Award-winning Forever The Seasons [Louisiana Red Hot Records] at fall festivals (Abita Fall Festival / Ozone Songwriters), lawn concerts, and porch performances.

Director/writer Rick Korn, editor/producer S.A. Baron, and producer Jason Chapin announce their award-winning documentary, Harry Chapin - Cat's In the Cradle: The Song that Changed Our Lives, will be available on DVD and digital streaming service beginning November 4. Pre-order the DVD here.

Jane Goodall was everything good about humanity. She entered the forests not with arrogance, but with patience. She sat quietly, watching, listening, and slowly the chimpanzees let her into their world. What she discovered was not only their intelligence, their tenderness, their grief and their joy — but our own reflection. She showed us that the distance between “us” and “them” was never as wide as we imagined.

Nashville-based Americana rock band Cordovas has announced the release of their highly anticipated fifth studio album, Back to Life, out January 30, 2026, via Yep Roc Records/Redeye. Known for their soulful harmonies, poetic songwriting, and cosmic improvisation, the group has long drawn comparisons to The Band, Grateful Dead, and Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Solas is lighting up stages across the globe as they celebrate three decades of pushing boundaries and honoring traditions in Irish music. Hailed by The Boston Globe as “the finest Celtic ensemble this country has ever produced,” and by The Wall Street Journal as “an Irish traditional band bearing all the marks of greatness,” Solas continues to captivate audiences with their spellbinding musicianship and genre-defying creativity.