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Khruangbin and Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré today announce their collaborative album Ali honoring Vieux’s late father, Ali Farka Touré. Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate.

GRAMMY® Award-winning guitar virtuosos Rodrigo y Gabriela have shared an ambitious new cover version of the Radiohead classic, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. An official visualizer premieres today at YouTube. Recorded by Rodrigo y Gabriela in their studio in Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Mexico, “Weird Fishes” marks the duo’s first new release since last year’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated version of Metallica’s “The Struggle Within.” Additional new music will follow later this year.

Hawaii based, singer songwriter, and renowned big-wave surfer Landon McNamara has released a new video for his recent single “If You Only Knew,” out now on Controlled Substance Sound Labs / Silverback Music. In the video, we see McNamara with his family capturing the best parts of life, the in-between times of serenity while celebrating day-to-day quality time. All while the song shines a light on a life lived and asks: “If you were to die tomorrow, what would you do today?

Multi-faceted singer, songwriter, guitarist and voice actor Dan Navarro will release his new album Horizon Line on August 26 via his own Red Hen label. Horizon Line is the long-awaited follow-up to Navarro’s 2018 NACC Top Ten Folk Album Shed My Skin.
 

After being forced to postpone numerous tour dates over the last two years JOE SATRIANI is more than ready to get back to live shows and playing for his legions of fans across the world. The U.S. leg of his worldwide “Earth Tour” will get things started with the tour launch on September 21  in Riverside, CA and continue through November 19 with a final date in the U.S. to take place in Dallas, TX. Satriani will then head over to Europe for rescheduled shows in early 2023.
 

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Chef Presents and Earthdance Global announce an unprecedented U.S. global music event Word.Sound.Power to Celebrate Soundsystem Culture with an epic block party in Northeast Minneapolis at 56 Brewing (3055 NE Columbia Avenue) on Saturday, August 13, 2022. Akin to Jamaican soundsystem events of the 1950s, Word.Sound.Power unites the Minneapolis community with a one-day urban festival for essential cultural healing.

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Silicon Valley's premier annual music event, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest 2022 returns for its 32nd festival season from Friday, August 12 through Sunday, August 14 in and around Plaza de César Chavez Park in downtown San Jose, Calif. Renowned as one of North America's foremost music events with its dynamic multi-day programming, San Jose Jazz presents a riveting artist lineup for one of the summer's major SF Bay Area outdoor music festivals.

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Blü Egyptian (Chico, Ca) are excited to announce 'Goin' Places' Fall Tour 2022. They will be recording various shows on tour and releasing a live album in the winter. The tour includes their second tour of Oregon in September. The band has been touring non-stop this year and playing at many Northern California festivals this summer including High Sierra Music Festival, SCI's Hogfarm Hideaway, Hangtown Music Festival, California Worldfest and The Days Between.

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So you’ve scored your passes to Sacred Rose Festival and you’re ready to make a game plan. Gone Gone Beyond is at noon thirty on a Friday. So you check into the Super 8 on 79th and Roberts on Thursday night before (8/25/22), and you get a pie. It’s Thirsty Thursday and there are several options for fun depending on what you're into. But first, get a pie.

Written, performed, and produced entirely by Paul McCartney, his three eponymous career-spanning solo albums (1970’s McCartney, 1980’s McCartney II, and 2020’s McCartney III) will now be packaged together and available in one special boxset for the first time.

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