One-man-band Keller Williams makes a surprising turn to the piano for his upcoming digital release KEYS: A Collection of Grateful Dead Covers on Piano to Benefit the Rex Foundation. KEYS finds Williams’ performing ten not-so-traditional piano versions of Grateful Dead favorites.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have added further dates for the US West Coast in April. They have also announced their UK/European tour for autumn 2013. The dates kick off on October 26th with two shows at London's Hammersmith Apollo.

Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing of Hymn for Her have been busy touring across the country and abroad over the past few years, injecting juiced-up backwoods country blues with a dose of desert rock psychedelia that has been described as “Hell’s Angeles meets the Amish.”They recorded their last album, Hymn for Her Presents . . .

In a rare display of realness in music, Marcus Singletary Sings Country Music Standards features no vocal auto-tuning and was engineered with a single, open-air microphone positioned in the middle of the recording studio.  Cut in three days, its minimalism recalls Sam Phillips' Sun Records productions.

Paul McCartney's Kisses On The Bottom (Concord/Hear Music) has won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 55th annual GRAMMY Awards.Last night's win brings McCartney's career GRAMMY tally to 16.Additionally, McCartney & Wings' Band On The Run (Concord/Hear Music), a previous winner both as last year's Best Historical Album and for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus in 1974, has been inducted this year into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame.

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Shakedown Street featuring Melvin Seals to the Boulder Theater on Friday, March 29th, 2013.  Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, February 15th, 2013 at 10:00 am for $15 general admission.One of the longest running Grateful Dead tribute bands in the world, Shakedown Street, makes its home in and around the Rocky Mountain region of North America

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present Jeff Austin with Larry Keel, Jenny Keel & Danny Barnes at the Fox Theatre on Friday, April 12th.  Tickets go on sale Friday, February 15th for $20.00.From Jeff Austin...I have always wanted to play music...sing, play, whatever.

Among the Ramones’ blitzkrieg boppin’, the Talking Heads’ art-school New Wave and Blondie’s thrift-store garage pop at the now-legendary CBGB’s in the late ’70s, Steve Forbert stood tall as the lone troubadour. But it didn’t matter to him. “I never thought about it being strange to play there,” he recently confided from Nashville, his current home base. “I just figured they had live entertainment.

Today, Alpha Rev announces a massive tour with Nashville singer-songwriter Ben Rector; a sure-to-be stunning American music caravan that winds through 30 cities in southern, east coast and Midwest U.S. states. The tour begins March 20th, just one day after Alpha Rev releases their third album, Bloom (March 19, 2013 / Kirtland Records).

Afrobeat gets a new twist on February 26, 2013 when genre veteran Chicago Afrobeat Project releases its fourth studio effort Nyash UP! on its own label, CAbP Music.Nyash UP!