August 2024

New Jersey band Mirrors On The Moon's dual single, “Wild Love / California,” is officially out now. The songs were written and produced by frontman Donny Dykowsky and mastered by Grammy-nominated Joe Lambert (Mt. Joy, Sharon Van Etton, Black Crowes). Glide Magazine premiered the video for "Wild Love." They cheered, "With a distinctively vintage feel to the music video, the song is a sharp and grooving work of laid back rock and roll.

Born and raised just a few minutes from Nashville’s Music Row, Teddy and the Rough Riders—the songwriting/vocal duo of Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings—blossomed in Nashville’s alternative-rock boom of the 2000s, spearheaded by the likes of Jack White and JEFF the Brotherhood. Through experimentation and sharing stages with groups like The Raconteurs and Natural Child, they naturally merged their rock leanings with the traditional country roots of Music City, developing a sound that is uniquely cosmic-Americana.

Women will rock Stage AE in Pittsburgh, PA on August 28th as the annual Women Who Rock™ Benefit Concert Presented by Gibson Gives returns with Melissa Etheridge headlining.

All proceeds from the Women Who Rock™ Benefit Concert support understudied and underfunded women’s health research at Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI), the nation’s first and largest research institute dedicated solely to life-saving women’s health research and reproductive biology.

To a recording artist, having a bunch of big-name guests on your album can be a double-edged sword: It’ll get you some attention, sure, but there’s always the danger you’ll find yourself pushed out of the limelight—a supporting player in your own production.

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Rare Bird Books and Sal Paradise Press announce the latest release in their partnership and collaboration with The Estate of Jack Kerouac. Self-Portrait: Collected Writings is the ultimate collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive spanning Jack Kerouac’s adult life.

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The music plays the band! Dark Star Orchestra and Borderland Festival announce that DSO will perform the famous Grateful Dead 5/9/77 show at the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, NY, on Sunday, September 15, during the three-day festival in East Aurora, NY. Dark Star Orchestra will make their Borderland debut, paying tribute to the epic upstate Grateful Dead tour stop from the Spring ‘77 run, which also featured the revered Barton Hall show at Cornell.