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DelFest, the beloved genre-spanning festival brainchild of McCoury Music and High Sierra Music is pleased to announce the initial lineup for its 14th annual festival, once again taking place in beautiful Cumberland, Maryland, on Sept. 23-26. This year, the festival hosts The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin’ McCourys will be joined by Old Crow Medicine Show, […]

Bristol, VA/TN The Birthplace of Country Music (BCM) has announced its full roster of talent slated to appear at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion this September, including Philadelphia indie-rock stalwart Dr. Dog, who will join Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Tanya Tucker, Blackberry Smoke, Yola, The SteelDrivers, Rhonda Vincent, and Hayes Carll as headlining acts for the […]

The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival announces the lineup for the internationally acclaimed camping festival’s upcoming 20th-anniversary edition. Set to take place September 2–5, 2021 on the Bonnaroo Farm, located just 60 miles southeast of Nashville in Manchester, TN. Bonnaroo will once again present an extraordinarily diverse bill featuring a remarkable selection of top artists performing around the clock across […]

This Friday, London-based band Dry Cleaning will release their debut album, New Long Leg, on 4AD.   Today, they release its third single/video, “Unsmart Lady,”  which follows “Strong Feelings” and “Scratchcard Lanyard,” plus their recent television debut on Later…with Jools Holland. “Unsmart Lady” is driven by a pleasing bone-rattling grunge groove and lyrics about body image. The band’s lyricist Florence Shaw says, “’Fat […]

Influential hip hop label Death Row Records kicks off its 30th Anniversary celebration this year with today’s launch of its first-ever online store.  The new home for Death Row Records can be found at DeathRowOfficial.com, where fans can purchase music, merchandise, NFTs and much more. A special 30th Anniversary limited edition merch line will launch in late […]

Following a stream of single releases, guitar-pop artist and producer Brijs released his anticipated debut album, Glitra earlier this month. A kaleidoscope of euphoric indie-pop and a life-affirming coming of age record that celebrates the adventure of your mid-20s. Glitra follows the artist’s decision to quit his job and leave London, chasing a new perspective. The move began a chapter spent living […]

SofaBurn Records and Mojave Desert-based Americana duo Starlight Cleaning Co. are presenting “The Race,” the second single to be lifted from the Friday, May 21 release of the band’s self-titled debut album. A hopeful testament to true love and partnership when faced with life-altering challenges, “The Race” also features lead and melodic rhythm guitar by the band’s dear friend and […]

New Madrid’s self-titled album is due out April 30 via Lemonade Records. The 10-song set was produced by Drew Vandenberg (Bambara, Faye Webster) and finds the band revisiting the southern indie rock sounds of their 2012 Yardboat debut while exploring new elements of dreamy psychedelia, jangly pop, and energetic post-punk. “It feels like a cool re-set,” says bassist Ben […]

Making music has been both a dream and reality for Torbjörn Schierbeck throughout his life. Discovering The Beatles at an early age laid out the musical ground on which Torbjörn has been creating ever since. To truly encapsulate 32 years of songwriting, covering different themes of life from love, family, and reminiscing on childhood. His […]

Steve Miller has dug deep into his archives and found an unreleased, full-length concert recording, Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, arriving via Sailor/Capitol/UMe on Friday, May 14. A variety of formats will be available, including digital, CD, and 2xLP black vinyl. The accompanying live concert film featuring the full performance will be […]

The Joy Formidable are today sharing a brand-new single, “Into The Blue.” It is the band’s first new material since their kaleidoscopic 2018 album AAARTH. Check out the purring alt-rock single below where the band continues its adventurous songcraft where modern alt-pop collides with tenacious old school indie. Written in North Wales and later completed at […]

PACKS were an increasingly visible presence in Toronto in the first part of 2020. A string of intriguing lo-fi singles, appearing once every month or so on the internet through had begun to persuade people to take notice in their hometown, where the band were sharing stages with people like Squirrel Flower and Odetta Hartman. Despite having rarely ventured […]

Johnny Burgos is a singer, songwriter, producer, and engineer born and bred in Brooklyn, New York. His brand of future-soul embodies a raw uncompromising sound revealing beauty from pain, hope from despair, and the will to keep fighting. Step into the funky world of Johnny Burgos and enjoy his fabulous new single “All Outta Fucks.” […]

Memphis is a city with music in its blood. In 1999, when musician and producer Fred Ford, co-founder of the Beale Street Music Festival, was diagnosed with cancer, David Less organized Fredstock, a fundraiser to help with his medical bills. Less contacted Memphis legend Alex Chilton (The Box Tops, Big Star), who was living in New Orleans, to ask him to participate. […]

The Decemberists has announced a series of streaming concerts to celebrate their 20th Anniversary, April 11, April 18, April 25 at 8:00 PM ET. Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy described the concerts in a note to fans below: ​ It was with truly heavy hearts that we announced the cancellation of this summer’s tour. We really had hoped that we’d be […]

The Stockholm-born Melpo Mene left his native Sweden in 2013 for a trans-Atlantic move to Los Angeles. Equally repelled and fascinated by the sprawl of LA, contrasting with the cocoon of his studio, Melpo writes from his strange new perspective, grappling with the role of ego in keeping us alive and entangled in this world. […]

The Pink Stones will release their debut album Introducing…The Pink Stones on April 9th via the New West Records imprint Normaltown Records. The 10-song set was produced by Henry Barbe (Drive-By Truckers, Deerhunter) and was recorded at Chase Park Transduction and the Barn in Athens, GA. Mixing elements of classic cosmic country, raucous rock’n’roll & indie rock, […]

On June 11th, Azure Ray will release Remedy via Maria Taylor’s Flower Moon Records (pre-order). The album marks the 50th release on Taylor’s label, Flower Moon Records and Azure Ray’s first full-length album in 10 years. The new 10 song LP will be available on digital platforms, CD, and vinyl in three color variants with […]

Soft is the gorgeous new LP from Yellow Ostrich. Due out out April 23rd on Barsuk Records, the album takes its name from the lyric that stands as a thesis for the entire album, a beautiful and haunting rumination on the pitfalls and pressures of traditional masculinity and on band founder Alex Schaaf’s drive toward […]

Girl As Wave is the project of New York-based artist, Marci Elizabeth. Working in collaboration with producer and multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Deer, Elizabeth released her debut EP Poison Vines and Nectar in 2018, following a series of single releases. With inspirations rooted in lo-fi indie rock, dream pop, and cinematic surf music; the four-track collection is a reflection on […]