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Billy Strings Will Release So Much for Goodbyes in August

Billy Strings will release a new album, So Much for Goodbyes, on August 28 via Reprise Records. Along with the record’s announcement, Strings has also dropped the first single from the project, “Burn the Other End,” which he wrote with Greensky Bluegrass’ Paul Hoffman.

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"Dear Mr. Fantasy" - Billy & The Kids ft Billy Strings | Red Rocks | 07/12/21

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Don Was on Bob Weir: The Fine Art of Flotation

On January 10, just prior to taking the stage in Ann Arbor with his Pan-Detroit Ensemble, Don Was received some devastating news. “About 30 minutes before the show, I got the call about Bobby,” he reveals. “Since we had announced that we were going to play all of Blues for Allah in the middle of our show for the whole tour, we had drawn a lot of Grateful Dead fans. So I had to go out and tell them that Bobby was gone, which put a real different vibe on the thing.”

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"Don Was + David Fricke" | Relix Live Music Conference | New York, NY

Billy Strings’ New Record: So Much For Goodbyes

Produced by Billy Strings and T Bone Burnett, So Much For Goodbyes, a 16-track set, finds Strings “channeling a deeply personal period into his most musically mature and reflective body of work to date.” Strings’ mother, Debra Apostol, who passed away in 2025 due to an accidental overdose, is responsible for the album’s artwork.

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Bob Dylan Taps Joel Paterson As New Guitarist

Bob Dylan continues to switch up his band. As previously reported, jazz guitarist Julian Lage has been playing with the group ever since a performance at the Santa Barbara Bowl on June 17. Lage stepped in for Doug Lancio, who had been on the road with the Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour since it kicked off in November of 2021. However, Lage’s tenure with Dylan appeared to be short-lived from the start–or at least contain one notable conflict–since the guitarist had a previously scheduled show at Brooklyn, NY’s National Sawdust yesterday.

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"Racy" - Nels Cline & Julian Lage

DelFest’s Bluegrass Heart Meets the Grateful Dead Songbook on DelFest Does Dead

This live 2-LP vinyl features 10 interpretations captured across DelFest 2025 (May 22–25, 2025), in Cumberland, MD. The result is a front-to-back journey of Grateful Dead covers filtered through Appalachia, high-lonesome harmonies, and hot-rod string band energy, mixed to be played loud.

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Claypool’s Golden Caravan

When Primus unexpectedly parted ways with their drummer shortly before New Year’s Eve a year and a half ago, bassist/singer Les Claypool quickly pivoted, pulling together several of the oft-intertwined projects he’s focused on during the past 30 years for two highly collaborative shows at Oakland, Calif.’s The Fox Theatre. The concerts, billed as Claypool Gold, worked and this spring and summer the bassist has been taking the concept on the road, performing distinct sets with his refreshed Primus lineup, the improvisationally heavy Colonel Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade and The Claypool Lennon Delirium, who recently released their third LP, The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy.

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The Claypool Lennon Delirium | The Capitol Theatre | 7/30/19

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George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Stephen Marley, moe., Lettuce and Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country Set for Jam Cruise 23

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Stephen Marley, moe., Lettuce and Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country are among the acts slated to appear on Jam Cruise 23. The destination event will set sail from Miami, FL, heading to Ocho Rios, Grand Cayman and Cozumel, aboard the MSC Poesia from February 4-10, 2027.

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"Up For The Down Stroke" - George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic | Relix Studio

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Chris Thile, Blake Mills, Alex G and More Join Phoebe Bridgers on New Single

Chris Thile, Blake Mills, Jack Antonoff, Alex G and Bright Eyes’ and Mike Mogis are among the notable musicians listed in the credits for Phoebe Bridgers’ new single, “Lost Boys.” The track, which appears on her first album in six years, Lost Weekend, also boasts contributions from Bridgers’ boygenius partners Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, her regular collaborator Christian Lee Hutson, Rob Moose, Nate Walcott and Harrison Whitford. Bridgers produced the track with Antonoff, The Belle Brigade’s Ethan Gruska and her frequent producer Tony Berg, who recently worked with Bruce Hornsby on his latest album and often utilizes Blake Mills. Bridgers will release the new set on August 14 and kick off an extensive arena tour a month later on September 14 in Indianapolis.

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"Cold Rain and Snow" - Chris Thile & Michael Daves

New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Lyceum '72