The Orion Amphitheater, Huntsville’s newest live entertainment destination, will celebrate its opening weekend May 13-15, 2022, with The First Waltz—a landmark event featuring many of music’s most beloved artists, all of whom have deep ties to the North Alabama region. Across the momentous three-day event, there will be performances from Brittany Howard, Drive-By Truckers, Emmylou Harris, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, John Paul White, Mavis Staples, St.

Southern California’s Punk In The Park brought a weekend crowd of nearly 20,000 punk rock and craft beer fanatics to Oak Canyon Park in Orange County November 6 & 7 for two days and two stages of music from over two dozen bands, led by headliners Pennywise (Saturday) and NOFX (Sunday), plus craft beer tasting from more than 40 of the region’s best craft breweries.

Joe Grushecky and Bruce Springsteen join Strombo on Apple Music Hits to talk about 25 years of Joe Grushecky and The Houserockers’ album, American Babylon, produced by Springsteen.

The progressive bluegrass and Americana quartet Barbaro, release their new EP, Under the Covers, to the world today, with all proceeds from the EP to benefit the charitable organization, Our Saviour’s Community Services of Minneapolis.

THE JACK KEROUAC ESTATE has announced plans to celebrate the centennial birthday anniversary of world-renowned American novelist, writer, poet and artist JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969) starting in his birth month of March 2022 and continuing throughout the year in his hometown of Lowell, MA.

Outside Lands is finally back. The crown jewel in the Bay Area’s yearly live music experience finally returned to Golden Gate Park. Three days of music, food, and escape for everyone from hippies to tech bros. Unable to return during their typical early-August dates due to pandemic-related restrictions, the festival was slated for a unique space on the calendar. Halloween, the unofficial landmark holiday of San Francisco, collided with the last day of Outside Lands 2021.