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MerleFest's Chris Austin Songwriting Contest to Accept Entries for 2020
MerleFest will begin accepting entries for 2020’s Chris Austin Songwriting Contest (CASC), starting October 1. The notable contest has a reputation for launching careers and bringing new talent...
Brad Keaton - Full Circle
Brad Keaton – Full Circle (EP) ©2019 BKeaton Music Release Date: April 19, 2019 www.bradkeatonmusic.com @bradkeatonmusic (Instagram/Facebook/Twitter) That voice. A couple of...
Esther Rose Tours With Charley Crockett
Esther Rose, a New Orleans bombshell, opened for Charley Crockett on Sunday evening at Elevation 27 in Virginia Beach. The pint sized brunette bared her soul with melodies from her new album, You Made...
An Interview with The Inspector Cluzo
From their own farmland in the South West of France, the two-man group, The Inspector Cluzo, releases their Anniversary album "We The People Of The Soil." Tommy Geilingh, IMG's Global Correspondent,...
Up and Comer Jean Deaux Releases Empathy
Jean Deaux, a Chicago-based singer/rapper/director and artist recently released an EP, Empathy (Empire), with her first single Anytime (ft. Kehlani). Anytime markes only the second time the two friends...
Operation Music Fest Announces Lineup
Operation Music Fest is a two-day music festival by AF Entertainment, LLC, based in Anderson, SC. The festival will be held at Denver Downs Farm on August 30th and 31st and will host some of the biggest...
Tee Grizzley Drops New Album - Scriptures
Tee Grizzley released his sophomore album, Sciptures, on June 7th via 300 Entertainment. The album is produce by Timaland, and during a recent interview, Tee called Scriptures his "words of wisdom...
Northlane To Release New Album August 2nd
Northlane will release their upcoming fifth studio album, Alien, on August 2 via UNFD. Their brand-new single, "Talking Heads", premiered on Twitch and can be seen below. The song "talks...
Marc Cohn and the Blind Boys To Release New Album
Grammy winning artists Marc Cohn and Blind Boys of Alabama are set to release a new album, Work To Do, on August 9th on BMG. The collaboration between acclaimed singer-songwriter Marc Cohn and gospel titans...
Shovels & Rope - By Blood
Halfway through the latest album "By Blood" from Shovels and Rope, Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst sing pleadingly, almost desperately, to each other, "Carry me home, I'm no good when...
John Shakespear - Spend Your Youth
John Shakespear’s first full-length solo album Spend Your Youth delivers a brightly atmospheric swell of nostalgia for childhood dreams and first romances – for simpler times. But Shakespear...
Interview with Quarry
Super talented Multi-instrumentalist Indie Rock Solo Artist/Singer-Songwriter and Pinball Wizard Vittorio Tolomeo, the genius behind European artist Quarry, releases his new album “Super- Arcade”...
Talking with the Creators of Metal Swim 2
The first thing I notice in talking with Adult Swim creative team Laura Sterritt and Jason DeMarco about the new Metal Swim 2 compilation is their unabashed love for all things metal. You can tell that...
Silvertung - But At What Cost??!
Baltimore's Silvertung deal in a melodic but pummeling brand of modern hard rock with it's roots stretching back to mid-era thrash and late '90s nu-metal, but firmly accessible to rock radio...
An Interview with 311
The Epicenter Festival is hosting a wide variety of bands during its inaugural event, including but not limited to well known nataional acts like Korn, Foo Fighters, and Tool. We had the opportunity to...
Peter Frampton To Win Award and Release Final Album At Music Biz 2019
Grammy Award winner, Peter Frampton, is set to release his final album, All Blues, at the Music Biz 2019 conference in Nashville, TN on May 7th. It will feature a collection of his favorite blues classics...
Epicenter Festival Set for Rockingham, NC
The Carolina Rebellion Festival in Rockingham, NC has been replaced by a new festival featuring some of the biggest rock names around. The inaugural Epicenter Festival, a three-day event, will happen May...
Letting Loose with Luthi
There is one common mantra shared by all the members of "The Boogie Circus" known as LUTHI: Keep it weird. With influences including old school R&B, psychedelic funk, and New Wave 80's...
An Overview of the Underhill Family Orchestra
The Underhill Family Orchestra is a group of five multi-talented musicians that make their home in Alabama. Though they may not be family by blood, they are in every other sense of the word. With bonds...
Carsie Blanton - Buck Up
New Orleans conjures different images for everyone. Whether you’ve spent time there or not, odds are you’ve heard tell of the free-flowing libations, the Bourbon Street shenanigans, the colorful...
A New Album and Interview with Dan Bowskill
From the soil of Ghana and England grew a young man inspired by the greats such as Aswad, Gregory Isaac and Bob Marley and the Wailers. Thirsty for creation, he followed his calling that made him bloom...
Greek Artist Marinos Tokas Releases "Silogi"
Unknown to many, I am a convert to Greek Orthodoxy, albeit a pretty slack one. That hasn't kept me from working many Greek Festivals over the last dozen or so years though! As such, I've learned...
Rebelle Road Returns for SXSW 2019
Rebelle Road is heading to Texas once again with shows amplifying and highlighting women in the country/roots genres. The California event management company has dedicated itself to women in music and...
On a Mission by Bloody Times
Bloody Times is the brainchild of German metal musician Simon Pfundstein, a bassist and songwriter who has taken the blueprint Dave Grohl gave us in 2004 with his Probot project and ran with it; a group...