Mariposa Folk Festival Returns July 3-5 with Star-Studded Lineup
Mariposa Folk Festival returns July 3-5 in Orillia with Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Billy Bragg, Taj Mahal, and a stacked supporting lineup. Tickets are on sale now. https://t.co/5AULbyzjKP
Foo Fighters Announce Australia‑NZ Take Cover Tour
Foo Fighters are bringing the Take Cover Tour to Australia and New Zealand this November, hitting stadiums across both countries with 16 handpicked local acts sharing the bill. Tickets are on sale now. https://t.co/uwuh7HRGcx
Category 10 Expands to Orlando’s CityWalk By
Luke Combs and Opry Entertainment Group are bringing Category 10 to Universal Orlando Resort's CityWalk, a 33,000 square-foot, three-story venue opening in late 2027. The brand is growing fast, and Orlando is next. https://t.co/zNLC2cBINy
Molly Johnson Drops EP ‘Long Time Running’ with Notable Collaborations
Molly Johnson releases the new EP ‘Long Time Running,’ featuring collaborations with Haviah Mighty and Jim Cuddy, alongside the original composition “Slipped Away.” https://t.co/PduhiOpLTi
Asthma Kids Drop Anthem for Unity and Class Resistance
Ontario punk duo Asthma Kids release “The People United and Strong,” a blistering new anthem about solidarity, class inequality, and turning anger into collective action. https://t.co/EMU14HftC6
Silka Weil Drops Seductive New Single Ahead of EP
Montréal alt-pop and folk-rock artist Silka Weil releases “Make Me Lose Control,” a bold and seductive new single from her upcoming EP ‘Midnight Blue,’ arriving July 3. https://t.co/w5joxpgPr1
Uncle Trent Honors Late Father with Grief‑Filled Anthem
Cowessess First Nation singer-songwriter Uncle Trent Agecoutay releases “The Foundation,” a deeply personal song about grief, family, and generational strength co-written with his late father Jim Agecoutay. https://t.co/4n0lCSe2G7
New Progressive Rock Meditation Tackles Anxiety and Healing
Martin Larose and Anaïs Vanessa release “Breathe In Breathe Out,” a progressive rock meditation on anxiety, resilience, and healing from their collaborative album ‘The Solivagant Tales,’ out now. https://t.co/BqY3N6w8jf
Artist Jon Mullane Highlights Music Industry Mental Health Crisis
Singer-songwriter Jon Mullane is speaking out on mental health in the music industry following the release of Canada’s first national study on the crisis, bringing both lived experience and a psychology background to the conversation. https://t.co/lsSz1I4l3x
Phantasia's 9-Year Dream Song Recorded Live, No Clicks
Toronto indie rock trio Phantasia release ‘I’ve Been Here Before,’ led by "King Of All My Dreams," a song nearly 9 years in the making and recorded live off the floor with no click tracks. https://t.co/otTDEERoXg
Primaluce Releases Cinematic, Emotionally Transformative Progressive Metal Masterpiece
Primaluce's 'Way Of Perfection' is out now, a 12-track progressive metal album built on cinematic atmosphere and emotional transformation, and it's the clearest, most complete statement the project has made yet. https://t.co/xGcNarwy5X
Accidental Riff Propels “American Woman” To 1970 #1
On this day in 1970, "American Woman" by The Guess Who hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Born from a broken guitar string, a thunderous riff, and a fan’s bootleg recording, one of rock’s greatest songs came together completely...
1987 Live TV Gem: Bush & Gilmour's Electrifying Cover
Wanna watch Kate Bush and David Gilmour perform “Running Up That Hill” back in 1987? Of course you do. It’s haunting, electric, and everything live TV used to be. https://t.co/Hao5FAyJby
A Spark and Courteney Cox
On this day in 1984, Bruce Springsteen released “Dancing in the Dark”—a song about his frustration writing a hit. It became the biggest hit of his career. All it took was a spark... and Courteney Cox. https://t.co/6vaF5IQn84
Jon Landau Spotlights Springsteen as Rock’s Future, 1974
On this day in 1974, Bonnie Raitt played Harvard Square Theatre in Cambridge with opening act Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. In the crowd was Rolling Stone critic Jon Landau, who left inspired to write: "I have seen...
Hana Piranha Drops Synth‑driven ‘Valentine’ About Toxic Love
Hana Piranha's new single "Valentine" is a literarily charged, synth-driven anthem about the intoxicating pull of a romance you can already see destroying you, and the 'Heart of Darkness' EP is coming later this year. https://t.co/54wr3bQ7XF
Iconic Music Dynasties Share Stage Across Generations
These 15 music families didn’t just pass the torch—they took the stage together. From the Marleys to the Cyruses, here are the legendary parents and kids who turned bloodlines into backlines. https://t.co/wDe7aUI9tO
Rock Stars Who Took Over Broadway
When your favorite musician trades the mic for a marquee, magic happens. These 20 artists didn’t just visit Broadway—they owned it. Curtain up on rockstars turned showstoppers: https://t.co/rVgXFiGJj0
TikTok: Musicians' Ultimate Guide to Audience Growth
TikTok is the most powerful music discovery tool ever built. Here's everything you need to know about using it to grow your audience, straight from the musicians who've figured it out. https://t.co/qRVoz0fI6E
Michael Jackson Lands Ten Classics on Hot R&B/Hip‑Hop Chart
Michael Jackson placed 10 songs on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart this week, including "Billie Jean," "Beat It," "Human Nature," "Smooth Criminal," and "Man in the Mirror." https://t.co/NmESNI7Fg0
Rare Ian Curtis Archives Debut in NYC Exhibition
"Ian Curtis: Insight," a free exhibition of rare archival material from the Joy Division frontman, opens June 25 at the Voltz Clarke Gallery in New York City and runs through July 22. Many items on U.S. display for the first...
Lambert and Doris Day Foundations Fund $233K Spay/Neuter Grants
Miranda Lambert's MuttNation Foundation and the Doris Day Animal Foundation have awarded $233,000 in spay and neuter grants to 63 shelters and clinics across Southern California through the It Takes Balls campaign. https://t.co/c9XD42jgE6
Kiesza Drops “Dancing and Crying: Volume 3” And Launches Tour
Kiesza releases 'Dancing and Crying: Volume 3' today via Zebra Spirit Tribe, featuring new track "With You." The Dancing and Crying Tour kicks off May 20 in Atlanta and runs through June 13 in Brooklyn. https://t.co/nVGXtz2o0r
Cochemea’s Full KEXP Live Session Showcases New Tracks
Cochemea delivers a full live session at KEXP, performing "Otros Mundos," "Ancestros Futuros," "Omeyocan," "Pyramid of the Sun," and "The Land Swallowed Them Whole." Watch it: https://t.co/5uF1Ku1Noh
Larry Fleet Unplugged: “Baseball on the Radio” Live
Larry Fleet shares an acoustic performance video for "Baseball on the Radio," filmed at Welcome to 1979 Studio as part of his "Live From a Bar Stool" series. 'Another Year Older' is out now. https://t.co/l0JtBITToS
Lockimara Unveils Honest Indie Pop Album Only Sun, Only Moon
Lockimara announces sophomore album 'Only Sun, Only Moon', out July 24 via Play Dead, and shares lead single "December." Nine tracks of genre-less indie pop built from loss, upheaval, and a lot of personal honesty. https://t.co/o8UjK7TdMe
Revive Overlooked Tracks with Fresh Promotion Strategies
If you've got a release that didn't get the attention it deserved the first time around, it's not too late. There are ways to bring new energy to older music and I'd love to explore what that looks like for...
Late‑Night Soundtracks: Ten Albums Perfect for 1 A.m.
There's a version of Massive Attack's 'Mezzanine' you only hear at 1 a.m. Same with Burial's 'Untrue' and DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing.' Ten albums that belong to the late hours and why they work. https://t.co/oX1Pc2FF1Z
McCartney And
"Home to Us" started as a Ringo Starr drum track, became a phone call, and ended up as Paul McCartney and Starr's first ever duet. Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Texas singer Sharleen Spiteri on backing vocals. Out Friday May...
Stars Unite on ‘Foreign
Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and Chad Smith all appear on 'Foreign Tongues.' The Rolling Stones built quite a room for this one. https://t.co/sLUDZ0FjWX
John Martyn's 1977 'One World' Pre‑dated Trip‑Hop
John Martyn's 'One World' helped invent trip hop in 1977 and nobody noticed for twenty years. Five surprising facts about how this album got made, and why it still sounds like nothing else. https://t.co/rlZGo60P3L
Gary
"Gary" reframes everything you thought you knew about Richie and Mikey from Season 1. The Bear dropped it as a surprise today, and Season 5 still hasn't got a premiere date yet. https://t.co/qCZIuX5CmI
Meet MTV's First VJs: The 1981 Pioneers
The Original MTV VJs: JJ Jackson, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn and Alan Hunter, 1981 https://t.co/Qj6s3p6nrt
Alex Chilton's 'Third': Unseen Collaborators, Tragic Timing
Alex Chilton never considered 'Third' a Big Star album. Steve Cropper and William Eggleston played on it. And Chilton died three days before a scheduled Big Star show at SXSW. Five wild facts about the saddest album in rock history....
Conan Mocked His Own Debut with Self‑critical Op‑ed
The day Late Night with Conan O’Brien premiered in 1993, The New York Times ran an op-ed titled "O’Brien Flops," warning readers to have "grave doubts about his prospects." It was written by Conan O’Brien himself. https://t.co/DVQUhk8NRM
Unsold Ticketmaster Seats Signal Live Music’s Future
Blue Dot Fever is the new phrase sweeping the music industry and if you haven't heard it yet, you will. It's about what happens when those unsold seats on Ticketmaster start piling up and what it tells us about where...
Daily Music News & PR Tips From 30-Year Veteran
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Russell Dickerson and Fetty Wap Drop Country‑Trap Hit
Russell Dickerson teams up with Fetty Wap on "BOOTS," a country-trap crossover arriving May 8. The viral TikTok that started it all has over 34 million views. This one's been building for a while. https://t.co/9xDfsfxZNy
Rihanna's 'Anti' Logs 520 Weeks, First Decade‑Long Chart Run
Rihanna hits a major milestone as ‘Anti’ reaches 520 weeks on the Billboard 200, holding at #51 and becoming her first album to spend a full decade on the chart. https://t.co/F8OsQMGeRV
Oliver Tree Announces Seven‑Continent World Tour, Tickets May 8
Oliver Tree just announced a world tour behind 'Love You Madly, Hate You Badly,' hitting all seven continents from May through October. General on-sale is May 8. Pre-registration is open now. https://t.co/4McWawabBS
Pink Floyd Vinyl Classics Surge Back Onto Charts
Pink Floyd return to the U.S. charts as ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ reenters at #20 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart and climbs to #24 on Top Album Sales, while ‘Wish You Were Here’ reenters Top Album Sales at...
Spencer Hatcher Releases Deeply Personal Pedal‑steel Heartbreak Anthem
Spencer Hatcher is out now with "Any Other Girl," a pedal steel-soaked heartbreaker penned by Jimmy Yeary, Bart Butler and Will Bundy. It's his most personal release yet, and it sounds like it. https://t.co/7sSTWIRGZa
Joe Nichols Drops Dance‑Floor Honky‑Tonk Teaser “High Notes”
Joe Nichols is out now with "High Notes," a Hank-flavored honky-tonk tune co-written with Jaron Boyer and Matt Gorman. It's the third teaser track from his forthcoming studio project, and it sounds exactly like a packed dance floor feels. https://t.co/rShODwtKEX
Whitney's KEXP Session Features “Dandelions” And New Tracks
Whitney brought their session to KEXP on March 6, performing four songs including "Dandelions" and "Back To The Wind." Watch the full studio performance now: https://t.co/gVPRIyaGuw
200,000 Canadians Sing Triumph’s “Hold On” Nationwide
Music Monday unites over 200,000 Canadians today in a coast-to-coast sing-along. Triumph's "Hold On" is the 2026 anthem, performed simultaneously at 12:30 p.m. ET with students, educators, and artists from British Columbia to Atlantic Canada. https://t.co/VXSTB4VEDY
These Albums
Some albums don't reveal themselves until the room is dark and everyone else is asleep. Portishead, Burial, Miles Davis, Cocteau Twins and seven more records that sound completely different after midnight. Read the full list. https://t.co/nHZOHYGk0A
Lucas's $500k Pay Cut Yielded $20B Merch Empire
George Lucas took a $500,000 pay cut on Star Wars in exchange for the merchandising rights. Fox thought it was a great deal. By 2012 those rights had generated $20 billion. Five Star Wars facts worth knowing on May the...
Weekly Music Business Coffee Chat: PR, News, Tips
Think of my newsletter as a weekly coffee chat about the music business. We talk PR, we talk news, we talk about what is working and what is not. Pull up a chair and join us: https://t.co/iQmfNgUw4S
Elton John's Remix Vinyl Cracks UK Dance Top 10
Elton John lands his first U.K. Dance Albums top 10 as ‘Positiva Presents: Elton John – The Remixes’ debuts at #10, driven by Record Store Day vinyl sales and marking his first appearance on the chart. https://t.co/NO9WNr3DAo
Oreo's Firecracker Pop: Limited-Edition Triple‑Cream Cookie
Oreo just dropped a Firecracker Pop limited-edition cookie inspired by the classic red, white, and blue popsicle. Three crème flavors, one golden cookie, and here's how to get them before they're gone. https://t.co/czJkz8ySdX