December 2021

After decades of stardom in soul, blues, and rock n roll, as well as several GRAMMY wins with  the Blues Brothers, Booker T. and the M.G, and as a songwriter and producer, Steve Cropper has earned his first GRAMMY nomination as an individual musician for ‘Fire It Up,’ his latest full-length release.

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Courtney Barnett released her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time last month to critical acclaim and last night she performed the album track “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch the performance here.

Rising Connecticut rock quintet Goose will wrap up a fruitful 2021 with yet another new endeavor – the release of a self-produced feature film. Premiering virtually on Flymachine from December 23-26, 2021, Shenanigans Nite Club: The Movie is a 75-minute movie that is a companion piece to the band’s eponymous album, released earlier this year.

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Elevation Festivals, creators and producers of WonderStruck in Cleveland and the WonderBus Music & Arts Festival in Columbus, OH announced today the birth of their third multi-day music festival, WonderRoad. The city of Indianapolis will host the USA's newest contemporary music festival. WonderRoad scheduled for June 11-12, 2022 will be presented in association with the Indianapolis-based, independent concert promoter MOKB Presents.

In Winston-Salem, N.C., the late guitarist Sam Moss is a legend. A superior, highly versatile musician whose advocacy for the blues and 1960s mastery of the nuances of electric soloing somewhat paralleled Mike Bloomfield’s in Chicago, Moss was an inspiring, charismatic mentor to generations of North Carolina rockers, including Let’s Active and The dB’s.

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Neil Young joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 for a conversation at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La Studio in Malibu about his new album with Crazy Horse out this Friday, 'Barn’. He tells Apple Music he’s thankful to still be making music and discusses planning to record the album around a full moon, the magic of his songwriting process, his guitar sound, and the importance of recording in the right environments.

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