John Driskell Hopkins & Balsam Range Debut at the Grand Ole Opry March 8th Performing Music from Their Independently Released Album DAYLIGHT.

You’ve already marked your calendars- now get your tickets!!!! Wanee Festival will be April 18^th-20^th at The Spirit of Suwannee Music Park in lovely Live Oak, Florida. Wanee 2013 promises to be an amazing journey into the depths of jam band virtuoso peppered with some serious flavor.

Alpha Rev will be in their hometown of Austin, Texas for the SXSW Music Conference, and will hang around the week after - when the band releases their third album, Bloom (March 19/Kirtland Records). Details on all their upcoming Austin plays are included below.Bloom’s first single - “Sing Loud” (listen here) - currently has them at #5 on the radio charts and still climbing.

After a Grammy nomination and a Latin Grammy Award for best Alternative Album, Los Amigos Invisibles are ready to take back the Latin music world by storm with their seventh studio album titled Repeat After Me, to be released by Nacional Records on April 2nd 2013. To celebrate the release of their new album, the band will be embarking on an coast-to-coast tour during the month of April.Grammy winners Los Amigos Invisibles are definitely amognst the hardest working bands in the Latin Alternative scene.

Guitarist/singer Dudley Taft announces a May 7 release date for his new CD, Deep Deep Blue, coming from his own American Blues Artist Group Records. On Deep Deep Blue, Taft pulls together his influences – geographical, biographical and musical – and filters them through his blue soul.

WALK WITH ME presents that last recordings done by original drummer Lloyd Knibb who passed away shortly before this album saw release. The 11 tracks on this album are a tribute to all the members who have passed on over the years and is another in long line of outstanding collections from the grandfathers of Reggae and all Jamaican music.

After being featured on SPIN's Must Hear Music CD sampler with My Morning Jacket, OK Go, Dawes, Other Lives and more and getting frequent airtime on local New Jersey rock radio station, WRAT, New Jersey-based quintet, Owel (formerly known as Old Nick) are set to make their mark on 2013 with the release of their debut full-length on April 2nd.

In anticipation of tonight’s kickoff of their North American tour, Stars are sharing a stream of the new Sem Thomasson house remix of “Give It,” which is available exclusively at Beatport and will be available at additional online retail stores in two weeks.  The upc

The 24th annual Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Festival will rock over Memorial Day weekend, May 25-26, at Rancho Santa Susanna Community Park, 5005 Los Angeles Ave., in Simi Valley. The festival features two full stages for each of its musical genres. Music will proceed non-stop each day from 12 noon until 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $20 (adults 13+) and $15 (children) and are available online at or at the gate. Parking is ample and free. Fast-moving California Hwy.

SXSW will spotlight more New Orleans acts than ever next week, a crop that spans everything from jazz, folk and pop to death metal, indie rock and bounce. At the top that list sits New Orleans' ambassadors of funk, Ivan Neville's DUMPSTAPHUNK.