Today, New Orleans funk icon George Porter Jr. and his band the Runnin' Pardners release Crying For Hope via Controlled Substance Sounds Labs and Color Red. Recorded remotely during quarantine, the 12-track album marks the funk-rock group's first full-length studio release in a decade and boasts a mix of unreleased Pardners tunes and new cuts inspired by the social justice movement.

Gov’t Mule has released a new live album, Live At The Cotton Club / Atlanta / February 20, 1997, the third release in their streaming-only series via Evil Teen Records – PRESS HERE to listen and PRESS HERE to watch the teaser video.

Amigo The Devil (aka Danny Kiranos) has released the new track “Murder At The Bingo Hall” from his upcoming sophomore album Born Against. The new album is set for an April 16th release via Liars Club/Regime Music Group.

On April 2 a group of Colorado banjo players will congregate in front of Senator Hickenlooper’s office at the Federal Building in Denver as part of Recovery Recess (3/29 - 4/11), a grass roots initiative by the Working Families Party and dozens of other progressive organizations in an effort to pass the THRIVE Agenda.

It all started in a Newark, NJ bar, as all great stories do. Rob Fragnito approached Pat Nini if he played music all because of his long hair. And sometimes, stereotypes are correct. Shortly after their first jam session Moon Rabbit Retreat was born. As this rock duo, the pair released their debut EP, Watering Hole.

Today, emerging Long Island rock trio Baked Shrimp released Conscious, their third full-length studio album. Named in remembrance of the late Lon “Conscious” Gellman, Baked Shrimp uses the album to explore their growing sound and reimagine what’s possible for long island’s best-kept secret. Long confined by the limitations of a trio, the band welcomed Nick and Mark Rufolo (The Brothers Nylon) into the studio for the creation of Conscious.