Amidst shuttered rural dance clubs and encroaching globalization, five Grammy award-winning Cajun musicians push against stereotypes of the South and move the music of their ancestors forward with the hopes of keeping their culture alive. But the fans are getting older and older, the dance halls are closing, and the language is fading away. Yet these artists push on, winning awards, going on world tours, and are starting to get millennials out two-stepping on Friday nights. But will it be enough to save a dying community?

Country artist Brit Taylor’s highly anticipated new single, “Cabin in the Woods,” and video premiered yesterday on Wide Open Country and is available everywhere now.  Produced by Grammy winners Sturgill Simpson and David “Fergie” Ferguson, the not-quite-bluegrass and somewhere-left-of-country-center song is an invitation to join Taylor on a drive back to her East Kentucky roots.  It’s a foot-stompin’, hillbilly revival about loving the simple things in life and having friends along for the ride.  

Appalachian Road Show shares the latest from its forthcoming album ‘Jubilation’ with a soul-swinging sing-a-long called “La La Blues.” The song is available everywhere today (9.9). Listen here: youtu.be/kGp-y1Ec-kM

After releasing a series of singles and performing live all summer, including on several festival stages, Canadian electro-folk duo MOONTRICKS are excited to finally share their debut full-length album Currents, out today (9/9) on Westwood Recordings. Based in the rustic Kootenay mountains of Western Canada, Moontricks--Nathan Gurley and Sean Rodman--draw inspiration from the ongoing cycles of the natural world.

Following milestone performances at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl and Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats are set for their Seventeenth Annual Holiday Show in Denver. The performance will take place at Ball Arena on December 16 with very special guests Marcus Mumford and Hermanos Gutiérrez.

General on-sale begins Friday, September 23 at 10 a.m. local time while Fan Club Lottery and The Marigold Project ticket packages can be purchased HERE.

Lauren Monroe’s new album, Messages from Aphrodite, explores multiple facets of love and amplifies messages of healing. The New York-born, California-based polymath conducts parallel careers as a gifted singer-songwriter and a renowned mental-health advocate; she approaches these intertwined roles with equal passion, her nuanced understanding of human behavior informing her music, which she sees as “a heart-based experience” that is “not just about listening—it’s about feeling and connecting.”

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his iconic solo debut, Radney Foster is touring through Summer 2023, his first stop at Nashville's City Winery. “Thirty years ago, Radney Foster opened up his heart, wrapped it in lap steel and Fender guitars, shouted it from a microphone mountain in a voice of bluebonnet twang, and created a work of riotous loss along the lines of Merle Haggard or Buck Owens," says author/historian Peter Cooper. “Del Rio, TX 1959 is an album that mines the personal to unearth the universal.”

For the past fifteen years, The Hooten Hallers have been crisscrossing the country as inveterate road warriors, bringing their peculiar vision of Americana–a fiery rock and roll fever dream birthed in Missouri’s fertile musical heartland. They’ve put so many miles into the road that they’ve burned through multiple tour vans and left twisted metal and frayed rubber strewn across the road behind them.

Damn Tall Buildings are thrilled to independently released their 3rd album, Sleeping Dogs, on Sept 9. Bluegrass, roots rock, old time, and vintage swing are among the influences on this acoustic Americana trio.

Stewart Copeland has one of the most versatile careers in the music industry. He is universally recognized for founding, songwriting and playing drums in the band The Police and for that we are eternally grateful. Copeland is firmly regarded as one of the best drummers in history and his playing style is clearly distinct and recognized in many musical genres. His time with The Police from 1977 to 1986 was during an era of an ever changing and evolving music industry.