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Long before Gary Clark Jr. jammed with Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, and Foo Fighters, and headlined festivals all across the globe, he was an unknown, unsigned blues guitarist in his hometown of Austin, Texas, desperate to make a name for himself. On Sept. 24, 2004, when he was just 20, Clark found himself onstage at Antone’s Nightclub playing the blues standard “Catfish Blues” on a bill that also included Double Trouble, James Cotton, and Jimmie Vaughan.

A tape of his blazing performance from that night has been tucked away for the past 21 years,...

Your favorite indie duo is back: Waxahatchee has enlisted Mj Lenderman for a cover of Lucinda Williams’ “Abandoned.”

Katie Crutchfield and Lenderman take Williams’ slow-burning rocker — from her 1988 self-titled album — and strip it down even further, trading verses and harmonizing on the chorus. The cover appears on Crutchfield’s new EP Apple Music Nashville Sessions, where Lenderman and producer Brad Cook also appear. The EP is rounded out by two renditions from her recent album Tigers Blood: her Lenderman duet “Right Back to It” and “Burns Out at Midnight.”

Crutchfield,...

South by Southwest has revealed a packed initial slate of showcasing artists set to perform at the 38th annual festival, taking place March 11 through 16, 2024 in Austin.

The lineup, so far, features 149 artists from around the world. That includes widely revered Detroit techno producer Omar S, London post-punk darlings Dry Cleaning, Spanish indie rock favorites Hinds, Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers Hermanos Gutiérrez, and Stephenville, Texas Tejano-country rockers Giovannie and the Hired Guns.

Other acts set to appear include Reality Club (Jakarta, Indonesia), Faux Real (Los Angeles), Viji (London), Red Axes (Tel Aviv, Israel), Rawayana (Caracas,...

Deer Tick have announced their new album, Emotional Contracts, out June 16th as their debut on Ato Records. They’ve also expanded their 2023 tour (grab tickets here) and shared the lead single, “Forgiving Ties,” alongside album track “The Real Thing.”

Emotional Contracts was produced by Dave Fridmann, who is best known for his work with The Flaming Lips, Spoon, and Sleater-Kinney. The 10-track LP includes a feature from Steve Berlin of Los Lobos and background vocals from Courtney Marie Andrews, Vanessa Carlton, Kam Franklin, Angela Miller, and Sheree Smith.

In a statement, vocalist/guitarist John McCauley described letting loose during the recording process. “This time we wanted to see what it would feel like to let go a bit,” he said. “We figured that the songs were strong enough to stand on their own two feet, so whatever we put them through would just make them stronger and take us in some new direction.

How to Build a Sustainable Music Career & Collect All Revenue Streams is the #1 Music Business podcast globally, charting on six continents with listeners in 140+ countries. Best-selling author, industry veteran and #iVoted Festival founder Emily White will cover the modern music industry in full and solve musicians’ problems in real time via livestream on Volume.com in front of a live audience at Academy Award winner John Ridley’s Nō Studios. Season two debuts January 10, 2023

Emily will take musicians through their process from recording to release and beyond throughout this series. She presents this information in a clear and methodical manner that is applicable to artists’ home markets and shares how musicians can grow their careers nationally and internationally from there. While also ensuring they are not missing a single revenue stream along the way.

Musicians and music industry professionals can tune in live and later restream via Volume.com where...

Margo Price will release her next album at the top of 2023. The singer-songwriter and performer has announced that Strays, her fourth studio full-length, will arrive Jan. 13 via Loma Vista Records and includes appearances by Sharon Van Etten and the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell. The project follows Price’s 2020 album That’s How Rumors Get Started.

Price previously released the album’s first single, “Been to the Mountain,” in August. Along with the announcement of Strays, Price dropped the new song “Change of Heart” and its accompanying video. An intense, blues-influenced psych-rock tune,...

The first three days of this year’s Newport Folk Festival closed with an unforgettable surprise: soul and R&b legend Chaka Khan. The singer joined an ensemble cast of performers including Kam Franklin, Brandi Carlile, Adia Victoria, Joy Oladokun, Margo Price, Kyshona, Yola, and Amythyst Kiah on the festival’s main stage headlining set titled “Once and Future Sounds,” curated by Allison Russell.

Khan, in superb voice at 68, led the all-star group of performers through a two-song greatest hits mini-set, delivering jubilant renditions of “Ain’t Nobody” and “I’m Every Woman.

Margo Price has released a video of her cover of the Beatles’ “Help,” a track she recorded for the new EP Live From the Other Side. The Suffers’ Kam Franklin, Kyshona Armstrong, Adia Victoria, and Allison Russell accompany her and each get their own solos in the performance.

Price takes a slowed-down approach to the Fab Four’s 1965 single, drawing inspiration from Tina Turner’s syncopated version on 1984’s Private Dancer. As with Price’s recent performance of “Hey Child” on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert, each of her...

Margo Price has announced the release of a new EP. Live From the Other Side is a collection of three live performances, including a pair of collaborations with four of Price’s favorite artists: Adia Victoria, Allison Russell, the Suffers singer Kam Franklin, and Kyshona Armstrong. The all-star ensemble’s rendition of “Hey Child,” a track off Price’s That’s How Rumors Get Started album, premiered Friday night on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Accompanied by a lone piano, the five singers deliver a slow-burning take on “Hey Child,...

The War on Drugs, Waxahatchee, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, members of Grizzly Bear and more will partake in the Vote Ready livestream concert/voter registration drive, August 14th starting at 7 p.m. Et.

The free virtual concert was put together by the voter registration group HeadCount and Fort William Artist Management and will be part of the Live From Out There livestream series. The show will feature original, self-recorded and socially distanced performances, and those that want to attend can secure a free eTicket simply by verifying their voter registration...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.

Elizabeth Cook, “Bones”

The Americana badass gets her Mad Max on in the apocalyptic video for “Bones,” a smoke-show of a song off her upcoming album Aftermath. “I wear your bones around my neck/I am the keeper of the flame,” she moans,...

When Dave Hause and his brother and collaborator Tim decided to write “Your Ghost” in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, they knew they had to get it just right. Two white guys from Philly writing about racial injustice and police brutality could land with a thud. So Hause “vetted it fiercely,” sending their song to an array of black voices to get their feedback, from fellow artists to a professor of anthropology at Temple University.

“I felt like if we didn’t do that, it would just be gross,...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.

Dave Hause featuring Amythyst Kiah & Kam Franklin, “Your Ghost”

“Am I just another white guy singing about someone else’s experience? Yes, I am,” Philly songwriter Dave Hause admits in an essay accompanying his new song “Your Ghost,” inspired by the killing of George Floyd.

When Pete Shapiro co-founded the youth voter registration non-profit HeadCount in 2004, he hoped to merge his twin passions: live music and political activism. “The idea,” says the music industry veteran, “was to use shows, festivals, arena concerts and club gigs to reach people, get them activated, engaged and registered.”

Fifteen years later, Shapiro, the concert promoter (Fare thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead) and owner of esteemed New York venues like Brooklyn Bowl and the Capitol Theatre, has been named the non-profit’s Chairman of the Board of Directors.