Valentine’s Day is lame. After this statement I am sure you instantly labeled me a disgruntled, single woman who has lost all hope in love. This is an incorrect assessment as actually I am a true romantic who loves fervently, yet I can wholeheartedly understand the initial reaction and placing me in the cold-hearted category. Regardless, hear me out as I have a multitude of sensible reasons for disliking V-Day. The first issue is the pressure to show love with overly priced red roses or tacky jewelry just because a national day, primarily benefiting large corporations, has been declared.

With no airbrushing and no studio trickery, Raw Soul Express are still the soul and funk force of nature they were when they released their first album 45 years ago and their new single, Fate of the World, sees the band as tight and as vital as ever. Retaining their original core members, a feat almost unheard of in the music world, the band are still at the top of their game, creating a track with delicious melodies, thought-provoking lyrics and extraordinary musicianship and vocals.

With light, online dating anthem "SWIPE," and retro-horror flick video for "Mega Hot Super Babe" under their belts in 2021, Charleston-based quintet Little Bird is here with ALPHA, a nine-track EP featuring lyrical songs and instrumental interludes. Of the project, Alt Citizen wrote, "[ALPHA] still has that fresh feeling to it – a little bit like that optimistic, not-a-care-in-the-world feeling of a kid who still gets excited about Christmas...it's a little bit jam band, a little bit jazz, a little bit indie rock,

With her new album, The Waylon Sessions, the prolific and wide-ranging Shannon McNally set out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a legend with whom she’s always had an ongoing fascination. “I have always loved his defiantly existential but immediately accessible common man’s music and how it boogies,” says McNally.

For 60 years, the legendary Impulse! Records has been home to the greatest jazz artists of all time, including John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Quincy Jones, and more. The orange-and-black imprint known as the House That Trane Built was a cultural beacon of progressivism, spiritualism, and activism throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Starting today (February 12) at 8pm ET, Pearl Jam will stream their iconic August 10th, 2018 hometown show from Seattle’s Safeco Field. Having already released the stream of Night 1, the band is responding to fan requests and partnering with Nugs.net to stream Night 2. This 2-show homestand is widely regarded as one of the band’s career highlights. The stream will be available until February 16 at 11:59pm PT.

Celebrated pianist George Winston is revered as one of the foremost instrumental performers and composers of our time. In spring 2021, fans have an opportunity to spend three Sundays enjoying his masterful compositions while supporting select non-profit organizations and music venues that are in much need of financial support due to the hardships from the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day weekend, Patsy Cline’s timeless, aching love song “Crazy” has received its first-ever official video. Directed by director and photographer Natalie O’Moore and beautifully filmed at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge outside of Nashville, the video vividly brings to life the yearning and heartbreak that Cline so perfectly emoted with every line and punctuated with every high note as a young woman, clad in vintage western wear, pines after the object of her desire who is with another woman.

Today, ascending Connecticut rock act Goose announced the release of a new album. Titled Ted Tapes 2021, the project is a compilation of sixteen instrumental tracks, recorded live at band soundchecks and rehearsals between April 2019 and December 2020. Now available across all streaming platforms, the album combines adroit instrumentation with exploratory improvisation, yielding a colorful mix of soundscapes.

Baltimore’s premiere four-piece funk outfit Pigeons Playing Ping Pong will rebroadcast its “Halftime Hall of Fame” livestream on Monday, February 15th at 8 PM ET. Recorded live at Brooklyn Bowl, the show paid homage to some of the most memorable Super Bowl halftime performances of the past few decades.