The founders of Hangtown Music Festival and Marco’s Cafe proudly announce an exemplary new lineup for The Golden Road Gathering at El Dorado County Fairgrounds in Placerville, CA, May 14th-16th 2023.

Today, Memphis rock/alt-country band Lucero releases “Macon If We Make It” from the forthcoming album Should’ve Learned by Now, out February 24 via Liberty & Lament/Thirty Tigers. Inspired by an impending hurricane, the song draws parallels between a literal storm and a troubled relationship back home, before the listener is carried out like a raft on guitarist Brian Venable’s ripping guitar solo.

Paris-based three piece Oracle Sisters announce their long awaited debut album Hydranism, due April 7th via US label 22TWENTY, and share its first taste in album opener: “Tramp Like You.” They also announce a spring headline world tour, buy tickets here.

WATCH THE VIDEO FROM “TRAMP LIKE YOU” HERE

Today, marking a full circle moment and kicking off a very special 25th anniversary, California rock band ALO announce their first full-length studio LP in eight years and ninth overall studio release, Silver Saturdays due out March 3, including a limited run of vinyl, via Brushfire Records and available for pre-order now.

Upstate has announced their third studio album, You Only Get a Few, will be released March 31 via Royal Potato Family. The group’s first full length studio release in three years, the forthcoming album sees members Mary Webster, Melanie Glenn, Harry D’Agostino and Dylan McKinstry navigate the peaks and valleys of transition as they embark on a new and exciting season.

Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard will - once again - be reuniting for an extended run of dates in celebration of the 15th (and counting) anniversary of their film Once. The duo reconvened for the first time in ten years last March 2022 for a limited number of sold-out shows. The response was so overwhelmingly positive they’d hoped to do more shows sooner, but in these modern times tomorrow is five days and next month is next year. Thus, these shows are right on time.  

As if channeling another dimension where genres simply don’t exist, Rainbow Kitten Surprise find harmony in unpredictability, weaving together lyrical poetry, hummable melodies, and a rush of instrumental eccentricities. They quietly built an audience with Seven + Mary [2013] and RKS [2015] before serving up their 2018 full-length debut for Elektra, “HOW TO: FRIEND, LOVE, FREEFALL” – produced by Grammy Award-winner Jay Joyce (Cage The Elephant, Sleeper Agent).

Buster Sledge is a trio of fiddle, banjo, and guitar and of three voices - fronted by an American living in Norway - with many musics as software and bluegrass music as hardware. They offer an original repertoire of music that brings the structur0e and pop-esque melodic focus of american old-time fiddle music and lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with current harmonic and lyrical elements from rap, pop, jazz, or whatever seems to serve the song.

Omaha Perez is a gifted artist with a considerable reputation in the world of comic books, illustration, and graphics for the entertainment industry.

Today, Do LaB have announced the musical lineup for the 20th anniversary of Lightning in a Bottle, North America’s original boutique festival taking place Memorial Day Weekend at Buena Vista Lake in Southern California this May 24-29, 2023. LIB will present an array of top-tier music curation, creative art and immersive environments, and educational classes and workshops — a furthering of its 20 year mission to inspire creativity and foster interconnection.