MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome) Album Art Today My Morning Jacket unveiled a new live album titled MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome), which is set to release on Friday, June 9, via ATO Records. The release marks the third installment of MMJ Live releases following MMJ Live Vol. 2: Chicago 2021 and MMJ Live Vol. 1: Live 2015. MMJ Live Vol. 3: Bonnaroo 2004 (Return to Thunderdome) was tracked on June 12, 2004, on the Which Stage at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. The collection contains 12 songs and captures one of the band ..read more

Bleached Festival has dropped a preliminary artist lineup for their inaugural event, which will take place on August 5 and 6, at Waterfront Park in San Diego, Calif. Presented by local indie-pop and new alternative curator Tight Knit and FNGRS CRSSD, the festival will bring together an eclectic mix artists for two days of live music.  Headlining acts for Bleached Festivals official debut include Joji, Leon Bridges and DIY singer-songwriter Omar Apollo. Other top-billing artists on the roster are social media sensations PinkPantheress, Lizzy McAlpine and Stephen Sanchez.  Chanell Tres ..read more

Today, the folks behind the 25th annual Rhythm & Roots, Music, Dance and Food Festival delivered the names of the headliners and associated acts for the gathering, which takes place over Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 1 through 3, at Ninigret Park in Charleston, R.I.  The impending spring event will include Greensky Bluegrass, Trombone Shorty and Dumpstaphunk as headliners. The bill includes 20 other acts, such as Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys, Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble, The Revelers, Corey Ledet Zydeco, Old Fashioned Aces and more.  Rounding out the current lineup are ..read more

photo: Matthew Donaldson *** One night a few years ago, legendary Senegalese singer Baaba Maal was sitting just outside a tiny hotel bungalow in Mar Lodj—a village in the country’s coastal, mangrove-covered Sine-Saloum region. His band had decamped to Mar Lodj for some rehearsal time, to dive deeper into Maal’s three[1]decade catalog of songs. Maal began plucking at his guitar and singing a new melody—a fluttering, swirling tune. That’s when he realized that he wasn’t alone—an entire chorus of crickets was singing along with him. During the last track on Baaba Maal’s latest album, Being, you a ..read more

Alta Music Festival has announced the artist lineup for their 2023 event, which will take place on Sept. 23 and 24 in Avila Beach, Calif. Located at the ocean-side Avila Beach Resort, the festival will bring together a number of esteemed musicians for a weekend of live music under the sun. On Saturday, Sublime with Rome will dish out a full rendition of Sublime’s iconic 1992 LP, 40oz. To Freedom. On Sunday, Reggae-rock outfit Dirty Heads will top the bill.  Other artists to perform on Saturday include The Tribal Seeds, Bones Thugs N Harmony, Tropidelic and Schwayze. Sunday will see additi ..read more

This morning, the organizers behind the annual FloydFest gathering, scheduled for July 26 through 30 in rural Check, Va., shared that the 2023 edition of the event is in limbo due to final permitting and logistical factors.  Previously the folks behind the celebration of live music, which was dubbed “FloydFest 23: Forever,”  had announced that it would welcome nearly 100 artists on six stages, including headliners The Black Crowes, My Morning Jacket, Sheryl Crow and Goose.  In an official statement issued by FloydFest, they initiated the news by offering, “Very few ‘independent ..read more

Photo Credit: Danny Clinch In anticipation of their eighth studio album, Weathervanes, due on June 9 via Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers, GRAMMY-Award winners Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have released a second track from the project, entitled “Middle of the Morning.” The new track was written during the COVID-19 lockdowns and presented Isbell’s unique approach to narrative. The honest lyrics capture the feeling of being stuck in one place while the mind wanders and yearns for more. The track is steeped in melancholy and personifies global restrictions on a personal level.  Written an ..read more

Photo by Bobbi Rich American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Jenny Lewis has shared her first album in four years, Joy’All, will release on June 9 via Blue Note/Capitol Records. Accompanying the album, which serves as Lewis’ fifth solo LP and follow-up to her 2019 record On The Line, comes a new single titled “Psychos.”  Joy’All marks the first offering since signing with Blue Note/Capitol Records and sees her set off on a new era in a new town. “I started writing some of these songs on the road, pre-pandemic… and then put them aside as the world shut down, and then from my home in ..read more

“The night before the first show I did at Port Chester, N.Y.’s Garcia’s with The Englishtown Project, I was actually singing at Carnegie Hall. So I did a contemporary opera at Carnegie Hall, and the next night I was playing some Grateful Dead at Garcia’s,” Clare Maloney says with a chuckle, reflecting on the long, strange path that led to her debut studio album, Daybreaker. “It traverses so many different landscapes for the listener as you move through the album.” On Daybreaker, Maloney quickly proves that she is deftly able to balance those seemingly divergent interests. “I always love going ..read more

Photo by Danny Clinch Today, the legendary Bettye LaVette shared she’ll release her next offering, LaVette!, on June 16 via Jay-Vee Records. In celebration of the announcement of the collection of songs written by Randall Bramblett, LaVette released a new song titled “Plan B.” “I ain’t got no f*cking other plan,” said LaVette in regard to her latest collection since her 61-year storied career began. LaVette! sees the artist partner once again with producer Steve Jordan–who founded Jay-Vee Records with Meegan Voss. “Bettye LaVette is like a combination of Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Miles ..read more