Upstate New York-based folk artist Holland Belle is excited to present “What’s Best For You,” the latest song to be lifted from the Friday, May 13 release of her debut solo album, Bird Song (pre-save HERE).

Singer-songwriter Stef Mariani started an internationally inclusive movement founded in Hawaii that is based on her recent Nā Hōkū Hanohano award-winning album Stay Gold. The Stay Gold Movement, named after the album’s title track, helps people go from feeling shut down to living a life of meaning and purpose by learning and implementing the eight pillars of the Stay Gold Principle.

Today, drummer, vocalist, and composer Bryan Carter released his rendition of the Burt Bacharach & Carol Beyer Seger-penned composition “Making Love.” The song is the third single from Carter’s upcoming LP I Believe, due out June 2022 via La Reserve Records. Jazziz called the song “Quote.”

Listen to “Making Love” by Bryan Carter

Living Blues magazine, in its May 2022 issue, announced the nominees for the 2021 Living Blues Readers' Poll Awards. This year, ten Alligator artists received a total of 16 nominations. Leading all artists with four nominations is Grammy Award-winning guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Christone "Kingfish" Ingram. He is nominated for Blues Artist Of The Year (Male), Best Live Performer, Most Outstanding Musician - Guitar, and Best Blues Album for 662.

One of Flushing Town Hall’s most in-demand series, Common Ground: Mini-Global Mashups, will continue through the summer of 2022 with a brand new lineup of musicians. The monthly concert series pairs two performers from different musical disciplines and cultural backgrounds together on stage for a collaboration that yields a wholly unique musical experience.

Glastonbury quartet REEF have today released their brand new album, Shoot Me Your Ace. One of the most exciting rock albums of recent years, Shoot Me Your Ace is a thrilling blast of unadulterated rock’n’roll joy.
 

Los Angeles psych-rock juggernauts Frankie and The Witch Fingers have announced an extensive run of 2022 headline tour dates, which will take them across both US coasts and into Canada. In addition to a monumental two-night stand in New York City, the band will also make an appearance at Portland, OR's Pickathon and much more. Tickets go on sale tomorrow -- see the full list of dates below, and find more information HERE.

Readying itself as an antidote for the weariness worn on the sleeves of blues music lovers everywhere, a new collective project makes its way to the scene with the Strongman Blues Remedy, Volume 1 —available June 17 via Stony Plain Records.

It’s just coincidental that Austin musician Everett Wren’s new album, Porchlight, contains a song titled “Rebirth,” but the May 20, 2022 release does represent a rebirth of sorts. It’s not only his debut solo effort, but also the first time he’s making music under his chosen name instead of his birth name.

Roots singer-songwriter Billy Woodward is slated to release a new single “Heartworn Hopeless Highway” April 22 in anticipation for his upcoming LP The Boy From The Bay. Tinged in poignance, the track details an odyssey in which the listener can picture the character at hand sojourning through life as he oscillates between finding light or wallowing in the darkness.