Today, Dec. 17, Steve Martin and the board of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize have announced the 2024 recipients of their prestigious bluegrass awards. In keeping with its custom since 2021, the 14-year organization founded […]
Indian tabala virtuoso Ustad Zakir Hussain performs at a concert at the Indian Music Experience (IME), Indias first interactive music museum, in Bangalore on July 27, 2019. Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle […]
Fresh off releasing his latest album, Highway Prayers, this past September, Billy Strings has stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thanksgiving night a performance of his song, “Seven Weeks in County.” Taking […]
Here in these United States of Cognitive Dissonance, Christmas — against which there is nor has there ever been a war — is coming. If anything, it is attacking you, its troops already arrayed in […]
CATEGORY 7, the new band featuring former MACHINE HEAD and current KERRY KING guitarist Phil Demmel, ex-ADRENALINE MOB guitarist Mike Orlando, ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX singer John Bush, SHADOWS FALL/ex-OVERKILL drummer Jason Bittner and EXODUS bassist Jack […]
Getty Image “Jerry would have loved it.” You hear it a lot if you’re even remotely Grateful Dead-adjacent online. It’s the classic Deadhead refrain, uttered with a wry smirk and a dash of irony: Jerry […]
On November 22 and 23, the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in Owensboro, Ky., will host Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey, a weekend of music that plays up the roots of its genre through an assemblage […]
Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead’s co-founding member and bassist, has died at the age of 84. According to a statement posted to social media, Lesh “passed peacefully” on Friday, October 25th. “He was surrounded by his family […]
Yonder Mountain String Band have dropped the title track and official music video for their impending full-length release, Nowhere Next, due out on Friday, November 8, via Thirty Tigers. While the studio recording clocks in […]
Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts | More Platforms Kyle Meredith With… is celebrating its milestone 1,000th episode (!!) with an incredible two-guest episode. Host Kyle Meredith sits down with two of rock’s most unique minds, Les Claypool […]
As a songwriting student at Boston’s Berklee College of Music in the mid-2010s, Amy Allen had a teacher whose ideas about lyrics included the conviction that words must not be improperly stressed. Among the instructor’s […]
Billy Strings‘ new album, Highway Prayers, has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart, marking the first time a bluegrass album has secured the top spot since 2002. Highway Prayers is Strings’ […]
CATEGORY 7, the new band featuring former MACHINE HEAD and current KERRY KING guitarist Phil Demmel, ex-ADRENALINE MOB guitarist Mike Orlando, ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX singer John Bush, SHADOWS FALL/ex-OVERKILL drummer Jason Bittner and EXODUS bassist Jack […]
From Oct. 4 to Oct. 6, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass returned to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park with an awe-inspiring, top-tier lineup of performers. For its 24th annual staging, the beloved Bay Area institution welcomed more […]
From October 24-27, Hulaween will return to the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Fla., for another rousing edition of the beloved American tradition of combining a multi-genre musical lineup with a […]
This week’s new music includes the current king of bluegrass, electronic stylings from an RNB pioneer and a posthumous release from the iconic producer SOPHIE, who passed away in 2021. Share This Article
Photo: Samantha Muljat Molly Tuttle has released her latest batch of new music, the six-song EP, Into the Wild. Today’s release follows the musician’s Grammy-award-winning and critically acclaimed collection, City of Gold, delivered in July […]
Andrew Bird and Madison Cunningham have joined forces for a top-to-bottom cover of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ 1973 album Buckingham Nicks. Cleverly titled Cunningham Bird, the project is due out October 18th via Loma Vista […]
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The annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival returns to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from October 4th-6th, 2024. The three-day event features 70 artists performing across six stages, and the best part is that it’s completely […]