Friday morning at Bonnaroo 2022 dawned hot and steamy like the preceding days. Many hardcore music fans were just getting ready to fall asleep in the muggy conditions. Then in mid-morning, clouds began to darken the sky, and the threat of thunderstorms shut down Centeroo for several hours. The blustery storm dropped a short downpour before quickly departing, and temperatures at the festival finally began to cool into more moderate summertime conditions.

JD McPherson will release The Warm Covers EP, Vol 2 digitally this Friday, May 27th via New West Records. The 5-song set features McPherson’s interpretations of songs originally performed by Iggy Pop, Pixies, Irma Thomas, Art Neville, and Oklahoma R&B and Country Legend Big Al Downing. McPherson has digitally released one cover a month throughout 2022 with all songs engineered & mixed by Alex Hall (The Cactus Blossoms, Pokey LaFarge) at Reliable Recorders in Chicago, IL.

This summer, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will embark on their first international tour together in well over a decade, including performances at New York City’s Forest Hills Stadium, top spots at Bonnaroo and Glastonbury, as well as a dozen new dates the duo just announced today.

Ready to ignite 2022, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame®-inducted icons and rock music legends Def Leppard return with their twelfth full-length album, Diamond Star Halos [UMe], on May 27th, 2022. It marks the band’s first new work since 2015’s chart-topping self-titled, Def Leppard. It is available for pre-order now in multiple configurations, including a Deluxe Edition, 2-LP Vinyl, Digital formats and more. Exclusive bundles including newly designed album merch have also launched.

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has shared the lineup for this year’s edition of the internationally acclaimed camping festival, taking place June 16-19, 2022 on the Bonnaroo Farm, located just 60 miles southeast of Nashville in Manchester, TN. Bonnaroo 2022 will once again present a wide-ranging bill featuring a spectacular selection of top artists performing around the clock across more than 10 unique stages over the four-day festival.

T Bone Burnett joins Southern Craft Radio with Joy Williams to chat about ‘Raise The Roof,’ Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’s upcoming record which he produced, his advice for young producers and more.

T Bone Burnett on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss join Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss their forthcoming album ‘Raise The Roof’, due out this Friday. They discuss deciding which songs to cover on the album, their creative partnership, creating in the studio with producer T Bone Burnett, hoping to tour when safe, how American geography influenced the album, and more. 

Robert Plant Tells Apple Music About ‘Raise The Roof’…

MerleFest, presented by Window World, is proud to announce the initial lineup for MerleFest 2020, which will be held April 23-26. The annual homecoming of musicians and music fans returns to the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. “For over 30 years, one of the major factors that has built and sustained MerleFest has been the quality of the artists and performances that our guests see over the 4-day festival,” says Ted Hagaman, Festival Director.

It was that time of year again for the annual Bourbon and Beyond Music Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. This time in a new location, at the Kentucky Exposition Center fairgrounds it was 3 fantastic days of music, food and more!

This year’s rendition of Bourbon and Beyond is set to outdo the festival of last year that unfortunately was rained out due to dangerous conditions of the grounds. The new location will be outside the Kentucky Expo center at Highland Festival Grounds, more inland than the previous location on the banks of the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky.