Steve Earle’s contributions to the highly-anticipated tribute album Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty, due on June 21 via Big Machine Records, have dropped. “Yer So Bad” finds Earle expanding the original format of the Petty rocker with a bluegrass-tinged effect that still lives in the country/rock realm. Earle’s contributions debuted yesterday via Tom Petty Radio on Sirius XM, ahead of his arrival on the show next Friday, May 17. On the show, he will join revered music journalist David Fricke. During the broadcast appearance, the pair will discuss the tribute album and E ..read more

Last night, May 9, Phil Lesh & Friends took their live format to The Warfield in San Francisco. The performance arrived after the Grateful Dead bassist shared a video entitled The Clubhouse Sessions—Episode I, which took viewers behind the scenes and into band practice ahead of Thursday’s concert. Notably, the material included in the clip, a five-song run-through, did not percolate during the show; instead, the group of musicians worked on other classics from the Dead’s beloved canon, including a bust out of the Blind Willie Johnson original, “Nobody’s Fault but Mine.” Thursday’s stand he ..read more

Photo Credit: Bill Kelly On Thursday, May 9, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB touched down in Chicago for a thrilling tour opener at The Salt Shed. After the last-minute cancellation of its performance during BeachLife Festival’s Sunday program, the quartet marked its first live showing of 2024 and its first Windy City set since 2022 with a tight, funky, and exploratory engagement lined with stripped-back Phish classics and Anastasio originals. To set off its 15-stop summer run in style, the band debuted three new songs, treating the Chicago crowd to a taste of good things to come. Classic TAB–w ..read more

Lotus have unveiled the 2024 artist lineup for their annual Summerdance Music Festival. The 16th occasion will return to Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, Ohio, from August 30 through September 1, 2024. The jamtronica vets’ flagship event will see the host band perform two sets each evening, focusing on new material from their recently announced studio LP, How to Dream in Color, due July 11.  In addition to a total of six frames from the hosts, their festival lineup expands to include various acts from the jam and electronic music scenes, such as Dopapod, The Motet, Perpetual Gr ..read more

Today, May 10, Grammy-nominated vocalist and keyboard player Nigel Hall (Lettuce) and fellow academy-recognized multi-instrumentalist and producer DJ Harrison (Butcher Brown) have come together with the shared intent to pay homage to the great R&B, soul, funk, and disco legends Earth, Wind & Fire. The Burning Bush: A Journey Through the Music of Earth, Wind & Fire fuses deep cuts and borrowed hits into one cohesive collection and is available today via Regime Music Group. Listen below. The project was ignited by a mutual admiration for the musical icons–a spark that naturally led t ..read more

Logo via Spotify Last month, Spotify announced a new set of subscription price hikes across its platform. Following the service’s first-ever markup in July of 2023, this follow-up raised U.S., U.K., and Australian monthly rates for individual subscribers by $1 and duo and family rates by $2 to cover the cost of audiobooks, a service introduced to the platform last year which premium members can access at no additional cost. In this move, the streaming giant also unveiled a new basic tier, which excludes access to audiobooks for the former premium rate. Today, a dispatch from Billboard music pu ..read more

In Utero Cover Art On Tuesday, May 7, performer, engineer, organizer, and champion of the underground music scene, Steve Albini passed away at age 61. The punk legend’s death was confirmed the following day, provoking an onslaught of memories and memorial posts that paid tribute to his historic standings. Amongst the messages was a four-page letter Albini sent to Nirvana before he agreed to record their final album, the acclaimed In Utero set.  Populated from Nirvana’s official Twitter/X account, the famed Washington state-rockers letter, marked Nov. 17, 1992, and addressed to Kurt Cobain ..read more

Photo by © Richie Pechner On June 21, the Grateful Dead will reissue their seminal From the Mars Hotel album to mark its 50th anniversary with a deluxe and expanded edition of the 1974 LP, known for populating favorites from love-flushed “Scarlet Begonias” to bouncing narrative “Loose Lucy” and satirical “Ship of Fools.” As the second preview of the remastered work, a live compliment featuring the latter was delivered today. Listen to “Ship of Fools (Live at University of Nevada 5/12/74)” below.  “Debuting at Winterland in San Francisco on February 22, 1974, less than three months before ..read more

Photo Credit: Julia Drummond, Courtesy of BRIC As summer rapidly approaches, BRIC has unveiled the full artist lineup for the 46th annual Celebrate Brooklyn! music festival. Returning to the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, the longest-running free performing arts festival in New York carries on its tradition of high-profile public programming this year with 18 unique shows plotted from June 8 to August 24. Among the highlights are shows from Meshell Ndegeocello, Fishbone, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Thee Sacred Souls, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul and Sinkane, with more still to be ..read more

Photo Credit: Marc Millman This evening, May 9, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh will take his ever-changing Friends lineup to San Francisco’s fabled Warfield venue. Ahead of the impending hometown show, the musician tapped tonight’s list of players, John Molo, Grahame Lesh, Nicki Bluhm, Holly Bowling, and Daniel Donato, for a practice session consisting of five staple songs. The Clubhouse Sessions—Episode I has been shared on YouTube.  Initial hints leading to the latest bout of received content were alluded to during Lesh’s Nov. 3 stand at The Fillmore in San Francisco, when the artist s ..read more