To support the release of their brilliant third studio album, Waving From A Sea, Michigan Rattlers kicked off their mammoth Waving From A Sea Tour in Columbus, OH. With 40+ stops in major markets including Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Austin, New York City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Nashville, Boston and more, this intimate set of club dates is one you won’t want to miss.

Today, Sterling Drake has announced his debut album The Shape I’m In, due out May 2 via Calusa Music/Missing Piece Records. Produced by GRAMMY-winning Icelandic musician Thorleifur Davidsson (Sierra Ferrell, KALEO), the new album is a captivating exploration of the Montana troubadour’s journey, vulnerably reflecting on love, heartbreak, purpose and the revelations that bring us back home.

Fans were treated to a notable musical combination on Friday, February 7, 2025, between the genre-blurring funk band from Boston, Mass., Lettuce, and rapper GZA (aka The Genius), who is a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan. This all took place at Brooklyn Steel, located in Brooklyn, NY.

For his first release after signing with Mountain Home Music Company, multi-instrumentalist Jesse Smathers digs deeper into the vein of his earlier singles with a neatly multi-flavored version of “Sleepy Eyed John,” an old favorite written by a Kentucky fiddler turned Hollywood western swing musician and found in the repertoire of old-time, country, swing and bluegrass musicians alike.

esperanza spalding has detailed a number of key performances for 2025, including a 12-night residency at the Blue Note in NYC, beginning February 18.  spalding’s itinerary also includes Big Ears in Knoxville, TN on March 28 and tour dates in New Orleans and Kansas in April.  See below for spalding’s full itinerary, and at https://esperanzaspalding.com/ 

Fugitiv Films, in collaboration with The Reel Blues Fest and Northern Light Productions, is pleased to announce the wide release of Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues. This riveting new documentary offers an intimate look at the life of James “Super Harp” Cotton (1935–2017), whose remarkable journey carried the blues from the post-Depression Mississippi Delta to the forefront of American music and beyond.

A Blues Legacy That Shaped American Music