After a moody meditation on addiction (“I Go”) and a sweetly hopeful ode to lifelong love (“Just Let Me Know”), bluegrass stalwarts The Grascals are back with an energetic portrait of a lovelorn man who just can’t get the woman he’s wooing to reciprocate his feelings.

David Villalta, the multi-talented owner and operator of Studio 55 and General Manager of Louisiana Red Hot Records, has launched the official website for Studio 55 and recently dazzled audiences with a spectacular halftime performance at an NBA Phoenix Suns game. The performance featured Villalta shredding on lead guitar alongside Oscar-winner DJ Paul of Three 6 Mafia.

The Spring tour continued in Harrisburg, PA this week as Spafford made sure to acknowledge the recent passing of legendary musician Dickey Betts in their performance at XL Live.  Guitarist Brian Moss started into the Betts written classic "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" before launching into the spacey original "In the Eyes of Thieves."  As the band hit a pocket of stellar jamming midway through the song, Moss again injected the iconic riffs from the old time ballad.

Today GRAMMY winning, two-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the year Bronwyn Keith-Hynes announces the release of her sophomore solo album I Built A World out May 24th via Sugar Petunia Records and shares her new video for “Trip Around the Sun.” Long renowned as a prolific instrumentalist and member of Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, her latest album finds the Charlottesville, VA native unlocking an impressive new sound: her voice.

GRAMMY-Award-winning bluegrass, folk, and Americana outfit The Infamous Stringdusters have unveiled their first single of 2024 with a cover of Earl King’s timeless classic “Those Lonely, Lonely Nights” featuring New Orleans-based songwriter and guitarist Anders Osborne on vocals. The track is released to celebrate The Infamous Stringdusters with Anders Osborne performing at House of Blues in New Orleans on Saturday, April 27th during the first weekend of Jazz Fest.

From the time he began recording with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s until his death in 2013, Lou Reed released nearly 50 original albums. In Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, out today via Trouser Press Books, Jim Higgins delves into each one, with descriptions, details, analysis and appraisals that will amplify and expand fans’ understanding and appreciation of them.

Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Eric Gales, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Ally Venable Band, GA-20, Tommy Castro & Deanna Bogart, Taj Farrant, and Toronzo Cannon. The 22nd Annual Blues from the Top Music Festival is presented by the Grand County Blues Society, and takes place at the Rendezvous Event Center, 78821 US Highway 40, Friday, June 28 through Sunday, June 30. Tickets on sale at www.bluesfromthetop.org.

Last week, The Black Crowes proved once again that rock and roll is still alive and well as they hit The Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on Monday, April 8 to give rabid fans a dose of rhythm and blues southern style. Promoting their latest album Happiness Bastards, the octet gave everything they had to a packed house and delivered both iconic tunes of the past as well as most of the new record.

The String Cheese Incident, in partnership with Cloud 9 Adventures, proudly presents “The Mexico Incident” - a new, four-night destination concert vacation. The intimate event takes place at Sapphire Resort & Spa, a fully updated all-inclusive resort on the beautiful coastline of Puerto Morelos, Mexico from December 7-11, 2024.

CMH RECORDS (Country. Music. Heritage.) maintains a rich history of classic country and bluegrass albums and is honoring several of these legacy releases by remastering them and making them available in new formats for the first time ever. The latest in this series of releases, Josh Graves’ Same Old Blues, is out on all digital formats today, April 19.