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Learn to play the guitar ‘bluegrass-style’ from world-class guitarist, Eric Lambert, in the comfort of your home, at your own pace, and for less than a single in-person lesson.

When Willie Nile recently sought help in underwriting his new album American Ride — out on April 30, 2013 on his own River House Records — with a fundraising campaign on pledgemusic.com, his fans turned out in huge numbers, reaching his goal amount in a mere four days and ultimately exceeding it.Anyone who’s familiar with the New York-bred singer-songwriter’s large and impressive body of work will have no trouble understanding why he commands such devotion and loyalty fro

Saturday, March 16th, React and Silver Wrapper welcome 1320 Records owners, SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9 (STS9), for another epic evening at the historic Congress Theater!

Country superstar Tim McGraw landed his 14th No. one album debut on the Billboard Country Albums chart this week with the release of TWO LANES OF FREEDOM.  The album also claims the top spot on the All-Genre Digital Albums chart amid a coast-to-coast release week that took the PLATINUM selling entertainer from The Super Bowl to the GRAMMY Awards.

Swedish House Mafia will hold a 3rd and final auction for tickets to their Black Tie Rave charity event being held Feb. 28th at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom.

The second leg of Head for the Hills 2013 Winter Tour begins this Friday evening in their hometown of Ft. Collins, CO at the Aggie Theatre. This portion of Winter Tour takes the group through Colorado, Midwest, and up to Toronto, Ontario for an appearance at Folk Alliance International.The group also performs at the 1st Annual WinterWonderGrass Festival in the Vail Valley on February 16th, co-headlining with Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters and more.

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band is happy to announce the Big Damn Blues Revolution Tour, which will take the band throughout the U.S. this spring with special guests Jimbo Mathus and Alvin Youngblood Hart.With a reputation for their incendiary live shows, it seemed only natural for The Big Damn Band to hit the road again in support of Between the Ditches, their latest album.

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Chart-topping DJ and producer Gramatik (formerly of the Pretty Lights Music label) is adding another project to his plate, a new label simply called Lowtemp. Launching today, the imprint will focus primarily on the artist's own music as well as his friend's releases, and in the future may recruit new artists. Gramatik states "The label name Lowtemp is an abbreviation for low temperature, which implies that the label is putting out ''cool'' music. :)"

In 2010, Yoko Ono performed several shows with the Plastic Ono Band and special guests. At the Orpheum in Los Angeles, Iggy Pop, Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Perry Farrell, RZA, Lady Gaga, Carrie Fisher and Joseph Gordon-Levitt paid tribute to Yoko, performing songs from throughout her career.Yoko also invited a young group she had recently fallen in love with: tUnE-yArDs, whose breakthrough album, Whokill, was still a year away.

This April, ALO and Ryan Montbleau Band are teaming up for an 8-date tour with shows throughout the Midwest and East Coast. A little bit of funk, a little bit of soul and a whole lot of groove have established both ALO and Ryan Montbleau Band as favorites on the live music scene, endearing them to fans from coast to coast.