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The Steeldrivers' upcoming Rounder album, Hammer Down, is being offered as a live stream through the mega pop culture site, PopMatters. There you can not only hear the entire project in its entirely, you can read an interview with the band

The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has announced that registration for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass Events and hotel reservations will open March 1, 2013, for bluegrass music’s annual industry gathering and family reunion which will, for the first time, be

Things were hopping in the lobby of the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville last night here at SPBGMA. We caught Dave Adkins & Republik Steele in a lobby alcove performing their current single, The Way I Roll.  

Here's an interesting twist on the ongoing battle between bluegrass traditionalists and big-tenters. At this past weekend's Northern California Bluegrass Awards in Redwood City (just south of San Francisco), there was a tie in the balloting for Best Bluegrass Band. The vote was

Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line have released a live video, shot last week in Nashville. It was actually their first live show as a band, after spending time in the studio last year recording their first album together,

The Boston area’s prime bluegrass event, The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, is coming up in a few weeks and a lot of folks in the northeast are making preparations to attend. We'll have a correspondent/photographer there for the first time

WoodSongs Radio Old-Time Radio Hour, the internationally renowned stage-set radio show, celebrates an amazing milestone tonight (1/28), its 700th broadcast. The 700th show will feature the longtime purveyors, custodians and distillers of a modern big band swing sound Big Bad Voodoo

Marty Lanham has been a figure in the Nashville music scene for more than 40 years. Since relocating there from his native California in 1972, he has worked in the repair department of the legendary Gruhn Guitars on Broadway, helped

As we mentioned last week, The Grascals were featured on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday evening (1/25), where they performed Mystery Train from their current album, Life Finds A Way. Friday night's big guest was Robert De Niro, who

When we posted last Monday about Monroeville's alter ego, the cleverly-named Tex-Mex, Platorapido, we mentioned that they were scheduled to sing the National Anthem this weekend at an SEC basketball game in Knoxville. Unfortunately, network coverage rarely includes the singing of