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1. Jesse Welles, Warren Haynes, Grahame Lesh and Daniel Donato Highlight This Weekend’s Hudson River Music Festival 

   The 2026 Hudson River Music Festival will spotlight the legacies of American folk music legends Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan when it returns to New York’s Croton Point Park this Father’s Day.  Acclaimed singer/songwriter Jesse Welles headlines the second annual event, which will also highlight performances by the Guthrie Family Singers, Warren Haynes, Grahame Lesh, […]

2. ‘Life Goes On’ Singer Oliver Tree Killed In Helicopter Crash

   He'd been in Brazil as part of a world tour at the time of the crash.

3. Boy George Turns To AI To Reanimate ’80s Hit

   Boy George is revisiting one of pop’s most omnipresent hits with both artificial intelligence and a new company built to reshape how artists control their catalogs.

4. Fruit Bats Find New Routes On ‘The Landfill’

   It's the follow-up to 2025’s stripped-down 'Baby Man.'

5. Handcraft Bets On Global J-Pop With Aoki, Takarabe

   The race to bring J-pop to a truly global audience has a new contender.

6. The Sound of Music

   The concert series has a list of rules that reads like a manifesto against the modern age. No mobile phones. No amplification. No screens of any kind. The audience sits in close quarters, breathing the same air as the musicians, hearing every scrape of bow against string, every intake of breath before a vocal line. […]

7. Inara George Returns to Music With a New Album of Old Songs and a Tour She’s Looking Forward To

   In the leafy tree-lined residential streets of Inara George’s neighborhood in Los Angeles, I am lost. Her house number doesn’t exist on the street I’ve turned on and reception is patchy. I call her anyway and she tells me she’s standing outside and can’t see me. I realize I’m on the wrong street and shout, […]

8. Vince Gill: Still Singing the Truth

   More than 20 years later, Vince Gill still remembers the look on Don Henley’s face. “When I first started playing with the Eagles, we were rehearsing ‘Rocky Mountain Way,’” the Nashville legend explains as he readies his home studio for a session. “I was just ripping these power chords, and Don’s giving me this odd […]

9. The Bobby Lees Story Was Made for the Movies

   If only every struggling band could find a guardian angel like Jason Momoa, we could probably save a lot of careers. Just ask the Bobby Lees. In November 2023, the group broadcast a now all-too-common “indefinite hiatus” update on Instagram—surrendering to the unsustainable constraints the music industry often puts on DIY bands and hoping maybe […]

10. Bob Stanley Is One Reason You Love Pop Music, Even if You Didn’t Know It

    As a member of Saint Etienne, Stanley has co-written such U.K. hits as “You’re in a Bad Way”, “Hobart Paving”, and “Sylvie” and the U.S. dance-chart topper “Nothing Can Stop Us.” As a curator of Ace Records compilations, he’s responsible for rescuing noteworthy obscurities from the memory hole and bundling them into the entertaining...