May 2025

CBGB & OMFUG - Home of Underground Rock lives on with the announcement of the CBGB Festival, presented in partnership with The Bowery Presents, taking place September 27 at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, NY. The one-day event features a stacked lineup of 21 generation-spanning bands across 3 raucous stages. Headlining the festival are Iggy Pop—his first NYC show in over a decade—and Jack White.

 

Three‑time Grammy Award–winning singer‑songwriter Brandi Carlile will return to Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre for two unforgettable nights on Friday, September 5 and Saturday, September 6, 2025. Set against the dramatic sandstone monoliths and sweeping mountain views of Morrison, CO, these performances promise to showcase Carlile’s powerhouse vocals, emotive songwriting, and magnetic stage presence in one of the world’s most storied live‑music venues.

San Francisco historian and bestselling author Dennis McNally—celebrated biographer of the Grateful Dead and longtime friend to the band—unveils his electrifying new study, The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties, on May 13, 2025.

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Influential Los Angeles psychedelic punk rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared “Dead Silence,” the latest single from their new album Trash Classic (June 6, 2025 // The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records). An official video accompanies the track – watch HERE.

GRAMMY®-winning Quarto Valley Records latest signing, David Starr, releases his first full length Blues album, Must Be Blue. The project is a mixture of classic blues covers and brand new originals written by Starr featuring background vocals from Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, John Oates, on select tracks, and a stacked band of GRAMMY®, CMA, and ACM winning musicians.

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Today, Australian indie rock sensation Spacey Jane’s highly anticipated third studio album, If That Makes Sense, is out now via Concord. In conjunction, the Perth natives unveiled a new music video for album track “Whateverrrr.”

LISTEN TO IF THAT MAKES SENSE HERE

WATCH THE “WHATEVERRRR” MUSIC VIDEO HERE

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