Bonnaroo to Take 2027 Off, New Matisyahu Interview
Billy Strings Shares New Song: “10,000 Miles From a Friend”
Relix Daily
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026
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Bonnaroo will take 2027 off. A message from the festival's promoters explains, “To our Bonnaroo Family, THANK YOU for an epic Bonnaroo 2026. Our hearts are filled to the brim from the weekend that we shared in June. The Farm remains as special as ever, and for a few days, we were once again reminded of the good things in this world. As you know, we spent a great deal of effort and money working to improve the campgrounds and Centeroo in the months leading into the 2026 festival. That included improved drainage, 4.5 miles of new roadways and 135 acres of new grass, all which strengthened The Farm’s resiliency to Mother Nature. With limited time to recuperate from back to back years of storms…”
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Billy Strings has shared a new song “10,000 Miles From a Friend,” the latest offering from his forthcoming studio album, So Much for Goodbyes. The 16-track LP, which is slated for release on Friday, August 28 via Reprise Records, was produced by Strings and T Bone Burnett and finds the guitarist channeling a “deeply personal period into his most musically mature and reflective body of work to date.” The record is accompanied by original artwork created by Strings’ late mother, Debra Apostol, who passed away last year. In addition to the track, Strings has shared a video for the song.
Relix’s new special edition celebrates four decades of Widespread Panic with an original cover from artist Chuck Sperry. The cover art is now available as a poster, in three limited editions: Main, Sparkle Foil, and Lava Foil. The ballot will be open for 24 hours, closing Saturday, 8/22 at 12PM ET.
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St. Vincent will return to New York’s prestigious Cafe Carlyle for a series of shows this fall. The Tulsa, OK-born, Dallas-bred musician will appear the intimate venue from October 27-29.
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You’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled upon the latest pseudonym of Sturgill Simpson after putting on Bob Wagner’s solo debut I’ve Been Down. You wouldn’t be totally off base either. The journeyman Vermont guitarist cites Johnny Blue Skies as an influence and managed to get Simpson’s right-hand shredder Laur Joamets to add lead to three tracks, including album-opener “Sad and Lonesome,” the most Simpson-coded of the 10-song set.
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Matisyahu has long occupied a unique place in the live-music world. Though raised in a Reconstructionist Jewish home right outside New York City—where he frequently attended jamband concerts in the late ’90s—the 47-year-old-musician first stepped into the national spotlight as a Hassidic reggae singer and rapper in the mid-2000s, a few years after he started attending an Orthodox Jewish synagogue on the Upper West Side. In the span of a few short years, he churned out radio hits like “King Without a Crown” and “One Day,” the latter of which has gradually aged into a religious-school standard around the world. At the same time, the singer, who was born Matthew Miller, has long leaned into his love of improvisational music while on stage, collaborating with prominent voices from the jamband world and frequently drawing from the post-Phish playbook.
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Kitchen Dwellers and Dogs In A Pile will join forces for a co-headline fall tour. The 13-date trek will kick off on Thursday, October 29 at Buffalo, NY’s Town Ballroom and make strops throughout the Midwest and Southeast before wrapping up on Saturday, November 14 at Minneapolis, MN’s First Avenue. Along the way, the rising acts will spend Halloween together at Cleveland, OH’s House of Blues.
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Los Lobos, Langford, Hogan & Timms, Mavis Staples, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, Bandits On The Run, Tift Merritt, Meels, Moonalice, Anna Moss, ¿Qiensave? and Lukas Nelson have joined the lineup for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. As previously reported, the annual event will return to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park from Friday, October 2-Sunday, October 4. The free event is now in its 26th year.
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Duane Betts sat in with Little Feat on Monday night at Jackson, WY’s Center for the Arts. The guitarist, who lives in the area, ended up appearing on two numbers his father Dickey Betts contributed to the Allman Brothers Band catalog, “Blue Sky” and “Southbound,” as well as the Little Feat classic “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now.”
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Afrobeat group Armo and The Fraternal Order of the Society Blues are the first special guests confirmed for the Rosh Hashanah service and concert at New York's Nublu Classic on Friday, September 11 at 7:30pm. As previously reported, the musically driven High Holiday gathering, a 15-year tradition for the venue’s community, is part of a suite of offerings that also includes a service and musical celebration of the holiday at New York's Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday, September 12 at 10am.
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