Playing For Change is proud to announce their debut album The Real Revolution featuring the Playing For Change Band! The new album is a purpose-driven record with a compelling message of connecting the world through music. The songs embody the spirit of love, truth and unity that binds us all together and leads us from the darkness to the light. Pre-save & order here: https://playingforchangeband.ampl.ink/TheRealRevolutionAlbum

It’s been a busy year for singer-songwriters Mason Summit & Irene Greene. Fresh off the release of their critically-acclaimed debut single “Rosemary” earlier this  year, the two have relocated from Los Angeles to Nashville and are set to release their follow-up, “The Long Parade.” Inspired by the Southern Gothic works of  Tennessee Williams, the song transports the listener to a smoky honky tonk awash with swinging drums, lively tack piano and twangy lap steel guitar as Summit and Greene sing of lost love and betrayal.

Over the course of his wildly successful four-decade long career, Country Music Hall of Famer, Roger Miller, recorded and released hundreds of songs across 19 studio albums, including a remarkable 52 singles.

Today, Neneh Cherry announces a new project titled The Versions out June 10th, a collaboration album of covers from her expansive catalogue by an all-female line-up of some of the most exciting and revered artists of our time. Listen to superstar songwriter Sia’s version of Neneh’s hit “Manchild” out today below.

LISTEN TO “MANCHILD” BY SIA HERE

WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE

“If you were Black, you played blues or soul music … I wanted to play folk music.” Suppressed by a music industry heavily influenced by racial stereotypes, Cleveland Francis' stirring, contemplative, and emotionally moving recordings from the late ‘60s through the early ‘70s were a political act in and of itself. Now restored and remastered by GRAMMY-award winning audio engineer, Michael Graves, the hauntingly beautiful anthology, Beyond The Willow Tree, is available via Forager Records.

Dark Horse Flyer is the band that wrote and performed “Soldier’s Song,” the third track on a project called Troubleshooting Pandora’s Box; the song is its first charity track. “Soldier’s Song” is being released to raise money for World Central Kitchen, who are getting food to the people of Ukraine.

A funk-soul-rock band from Louisiana that marries spirituality, protest, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism, Seratones will headline the Underground Music Showcase's inaugural Impact Show on Saturday, July 30.

As the daughter of a blues musician, Chastity Brown was born with an innate ability to channel complex circumstances into beautiful, uplifting songs. But after surviving the isolation of the early pandemic and witnessing the global racial reckoning that manifested itself in the riots mere blocks from her South Minneapolis home, even she is surprised to hear the way her new album Sing To The Walls turned out.
 

Artfully chronicling the ever-shifting sands in both his personal life and America’s sociopolitical landscape, singer/songwriter Nick Binkley’s epic fourth album Stardust Angels Ghosts covers an expansive array of hard-hitting, emotional topics via a colorful, stylistically eclectic mix that includes tender romantic ballads, hard-edged rockers, infectious lighthearted pop, gritty Americana and lilting reggae in collaboration with the late Jamaican legend “Toots” Hibbert of the Grammy-winning band Toots and the Maytals

All Alone is the second solo release by Jedd Chlebowski but the first as a solo electric bassist. His first CD, Jedd Chlebowski Featuring Special Guests, was a rock CD of original music featuring such talent as Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, John Fogerty), Vernon Reid (Living Colour), Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses, Nancy Sinatra) and more.