The Django Festival Allstars, the “sensational” gypsy-swing juggernaut lauded by George Benson and crowned by DownBeat as the hardest-swinging band to hit Newport, return to Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center for a fiery four-night stand, July 10–13. Tickets are on sale now at https://ticketing.jazz.org/19015.

GRAMMY® Award-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer Mádé Kuti has announced his Eeagerly awaited standalone debut album, Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From?, arriving everywhere via LegacyPlus Records on Friday, July 25. Pre-orders/Pre-Saves are available now.

Rituals, the long-awaited new studio album from North Carolina duo Watchhouse (Andrew Marlin & Emily Frantz), is officially out now via Tiptoe Tiger Music / Thirty Tigers. Co-produced with Ryan Gustafson (The Dead Tongues), the 11-track collection marks Watchhouse’s first album of entirely new, original songs since their acclaimed 2021 self-titled release, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart and earned praise from Rolling Stone, NPR Music, Mojo, American Songwriter, and more.

Two-time Grammy-nominated and multiple International Bluegrass Music Association award-winning sextet Sister Sadie returns with All Will Be Well, their boldest and most personal album to date, due out June 27, 2025, via Mountain Home Music Company. The all-female group continues to push the boundaries of bluegrass while remaining firmly rooted in its soul, navigating themes that range from heartbreak to healing.

New Orleans musicians and culture bearers Chief Bo Dollis Jr. and The Wild Magnolias release their newest single “Hard to Handle,” featuring Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph of Galactic and the GRAMMY-winning band Tank and the Bangas. This reimagined version of the Otis Redding soul classic finds Joseph in control, compellingly owning the narrative and interpreting the song from a female point of view.

Dave Goddess is thrilled to announce the release of his new roots rock effort, Kitty Hawk. Kitty Hawk unfolds like a rambling collection of short stories. The songs are rough, ragged, and soulful. 

Grammy-nominated musician Grace Potter releases her long awaited album Medicine, produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett via Hollywood Records. You can stream Medicine on Spotify, Apple Music, and iTunes and watch the brand new music video for the title track HERE.

Becky Buller celebrates the release of her new single “Muddy Waters” from her up-coming album of cover songs that had a huge impact on her musical career.

Songwriter Phil Rosenthal says: “I’m thrilled to have Muddy Waters given new life in this creative rendition by Becky Buller and the band. It’s especially nice to have Seldom Scene offspring Chris Eldridge and Jay Starling on board!”

Milwaukee singer-songwriter Trapper Schoepp returns this fall with Osborne, his most raw, revealing, and radically different album to date — a blazing 11-track journey through addiction, recovery, and rebirth. The album’s lead single, “Loaded,” is set for release on May 29, marking the first chapter in a deeply personal new era for the 34-year-old artist.

Chrysalis Records will mark the 50th anniversary of Robin Trower’s For Earth Below on June 27th with the album’s most ambitious reissue yet. Available digitally, as a four-CD set, and as a double-LP, the package contains a newly remastered version of the original 1975 mix, an extended 2025 stereo remix of the entire record, a trove of previously unheard outtakes, rarities, and BBC sessions, and—for the first time in full—a concert recorded at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on 16 March 1975.