• Another Punch Brothers preview

    Here's a second video preview from the upcoming Punch Brothers CD, Who's Feeling Young Now, due from Nonesuch on February 14. This one is for the song, Clara, which again shows Chris Thile and his merry band experimenting with the use

  • 2012 SPBGMA nominees announced

    The nominees for the 38th Annual Bluegrass Music Awards from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America have been announced, and are listed online. Winners will be announced at the SPBGMA awards show held in Nashville over the first

  • Baucom, Rice and Mountain Heart

    Mountain Heart performed in Augusta, GA on Friday evening, along with special guests Terry Baucom and Tony Rice. On these shows, the material tends to focus on Rice's rich catalog of music, as this video attests. It has Barry Abernathy taking

  • Craig Havighurst to produce for Music City Roots

    Craig Havighurst, writer, NPR music journalist, independent filmmaker and IBMA Board member, has been tapped as Senior Producer for Music City Roots, a weekly, two-hour live radio/television broadcast aired on Wednesday's from Nashville's Loveless Cafe. The show presents music from a

  • Expedition Quartet on NPR

    Experimental banjoist Jake Schepps and his Expedition Quartet are featured in a new edition of Tiny Desk Concerts at NPR.org. They perform music from their recent album, An Evening In The Village, which includes new arrangements of the music of Béla

  • Steep Canyon Rangers live online

    Another Steep Canyon Rangers concert is set for a live cybercast this weekend, this time from the Lincoln Theater in Raleigh, NC. The band's show on Friday (1/20) will be offered online via live streaming by Gigstream, an outfit that specializes

  • Nightflyer in the studio

    We posted once before about Nightflyer, a new band recently formed by Rick Hayes, who spent many years as the mandolinist with The Gibson Brothers. Hayes, along with Richard Propps on guitar, Tim Jackson on dobro, Ronnie Stewart (not this one)

  • Trailblazer video from The Roys

    Brother/sister duet partners The Roys have just released a music video for Trailblazer, one of the songs from their 2011 Rural Rhythm release, Lonesome Whistle. The track is also being released as a single to radio. It showcases Elaine Roy as

  • The Barry Bales podcast

    Did you know that Barry Bales has his own audio podcast? Well he does. The bass player for Alison Krauss & Union Station, in-demand Nashville session player, and notable bluegrass producer has set out to publish a new solo podcast each

  • Punch Brothers video preview

    Nonesuch has released a video preview for the first single from the upcoming Punch Brothers project. The new album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, is set for release February 14 on both CD and vinyl LP, with a variety of pre-order specials