November 2013

As part of the Live from AURA Studios series, Atlanta-based low-endie rock band Stokeswood will be performing tomorrow (Wednesday, November 6) at 8 pm EST. Fans can tune in to the FREE 5-camera HD video stream at www.LIVEfromAURA.com. We also have sessions coming up with The Revivalists, Consider The Source, and Mike Dillon Band. Details are below including social media links.

Coming up in January & February 2014, Yonder Mountain String Band heads out on tour in support of their brand new EP, YMSB EP '13 (Frog Pad Records: Oct. 8, 2013), hitting select venues with The Travelin' McCourys in the Deep South, East Coast, and Midwest.

Just a week ago, Carlos Burle captured the world record for largest wave surfed. Off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal, the Brazilian dropped into the face of an estimated 100-foot monster and, roughly 20 seconds later, entered the record books with the ride of his life. I am overwhelmed with joy when I listen to a band hit the groove so hard during a jam, it seems like the musicians are riding their own 100-foot wave. Picture Phish’s Ghost from Prague ‘98 or SCI’s Little Hands from Philly ’00.

The Band of Heathens have released a free eight-song download of live tracks recorded during their most recent East Coast record release tour. The download, Clams & Jams Vol. 1, is available through the band’s website, http://www.bandofheathens.com. The just-released studio effort Sunday Morning Record sits in the top five of the Americana Radio Chart, and rave reviews of the record continue to praise the band for yet another stellar album to add to an already heady catalog.

The Floozies are excited to release their first full length studio album, Tell Your Mother, on November 5th.  Tell Your Mother will be the inaugural album released off of GRiZ’s new label, Liberated Music.  The contemporary electro-funk album was created over the course of 2013, both in t

Award-winning singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley’s “Miles & Music For Kids” hosted its biggest crowd to date yesterday in Nashville, TN.  Thousands of bikers road into downtown where fans joined Bentley for the post-ride concert to help make the event’s biggest donation to date of over $307,000 to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. “Every year, the support from the fans for these events catches me off-guard,” said Bentley.