Lowell George, the late Little Feat leader and Frank Zappa sideman, is the focus of a new tribute compilation called Long Distance Love, which was put together by the Swee Relief Musicians Fund. That compilation is out today, and it includes contributions from Ben Harper, Bedouine, Jonathan Wilson, the Bird And The Bee, Gaby Moreno, and more. El...

Sound On Sound Festival, taking place Sept. 30 through Oct. 1 at Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, will return for its second annual edition with headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer, and Alan’s Morissette. Additional performers will include: Trey Anastasio Band, Hozier, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lo...

Nick Drake is being honored with a new covers tribute album, The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs Of Nick Drake, which will be out in July. Contributors include Liz Phair, Feist, Philip Selway, Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves, Let’s Eat Grandma, Ben Harper, John Parish & Aldous Harding, Christian Lee Hutson, Skull...

Ben Harper will be unplugging this fall and heading home to kick off his West Coast Acoustic Tour in his hometown of Claremont, CA on November 6th

Justin Timberlake, along with Mavis Staples, Ben Harper, an others, performed at the White House last night for an evening celebrating Memphis soul music. Earlier in the day, he joined FLOTUS Michelle Obama to teach a workshop called Soulsville USA: The History Of Memphis Soul, where they taught the long lineage of the city’s music [...]