July 2025

Omnivore Recordings has announced Françoise Hardy Blues: Complete Vogue Recordings 1962-1967, a complete collection of all the recordings Hardy did for Vogue, out on August 1.

 

On August 14, 2025, the dust-jacket comes off a hidden corner of American folk history when Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2 arrives via Shamus Records.

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The 33rd Annual Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is set to transform the Trumansburg Fairgrounds into a four-day celebration of art, community, and global sound next weekend, July 17–20, 2025. Hosted once again by Americana mainstays Donna the Buffalo, the genre-spanning gathering welcomes more than 90 acts across four stages, with newly announced campsite availability and open volunteer enrollment rounding out the final countdown to the festival’s return.

 

“Adios AIRBEAT ONE!” drifted across the Mecklenburg night sky at dawn on Sunday, the last bassline fading as the sun inched over Neustadt-Glewe. For four luminous nights and three thumping days, more than 200,000 revelers—drawn from every corner of Germany and over 50 nations—turned the sleepy airfield into the third-largest “city” in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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Prague-based Australian guitarist, singer and noise-maker Jack Phemister tears the lid off a year of continental upheaval with Sleeping Dogs, a three-song jolt of garage-punk adrenaline arriving worldwide on 8 August 2025.

 

Austin’s own Cosmic Convoy—the vintage-minded quartet featuring alumni of Golden Bear and The Channel—has kicked off the summer in style with the Independence-Day release of its latest single, “Body & Soul.” Dropped on July 4, the track has spent the past week and a half slipping onto playlists and spinning in dive-bar jukeboxes from Texas to Tulsa, its smooth soul groove and country-storyteller heart proving an irresistible combo for holiday road trips and backyard hangs alike.

 

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