Newport Jazz Festival Releases 2026 Artist Lineup, Punch Brothers Share First Single Off All-Instrumental LP
New Interview with Julian Lage, Dogs in a Pile Honor the Grateful Dead
Relix Daily
April 21, 2026
April 21, 2026
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Newport Jazz Festival has unveiled the initial artist lineup for its 2026 presentation, set to return to Newport, R.I.’s Fort Adams State Park from July 31 to Aug. 2. This first dispatch for the standard-setting festival’s 72nd annual staging works out from its historical jazz core to include a range of related genres and styles, curated in collaboration with Newport Jazz’s new Artistic Director Nate Smith. Herbie Hancock, Vulfpeck and a centennial celebration for Miles Davis and John Coltrane, led by Kamasi Washington and Chief Adjuah, will headline this year’s festivities, with 50 acclaimed acts confirmed and more still to be announced.
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Punch Brothers Announce First-Ever All-Intrumental LP The Unsung Adventures of The Punch Brothers, Share Fiddle-Heavy Single “New Bike”
The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is just that – the Grammy Award-winning group’s promised seventh studio, which draws on 11 total movements: lyricless journeys that evoke the canter of eight original compositions parsed with three traditional songs that were arranged especially for the feat. The band’s forthcoming seventh album is due on July 24, 2026, via Nonesuch Records, and represents their first all-instrumental set, as well as their initial offering with new member and fiddle player, Brittany Haas, who joined in 2023. As a debut listen and preview, the group has turned over the single “New Bike.”
Newport Jazz returns July 31st through August 2nd at Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island. Specially-priced 3-Day GA tickets, 3-Day Jazz Lounge tickets, and 3-Day Student tickets are now on sale. Full price 3-day and all single-day ticket types go on sale Thursday, April 23rd at 1PM ET.
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On Monday, April 20, Dogs in a Pile took their affinity for the Grateful Dead songbook to Ardmore Music Hall, located in the suburbs outside Philadelphia. The concert was billed as a tribute and leaned heavily into the contents of the original improvisational thrill-seeker’s best and most beloved work. “Viola Lee Blues” served as a concert standout, marking a debut cover that emerged from the second-set sister songs and defacto openers “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot!” The concert arrived in tandem with the new app Play Dead.
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Over the last several years, Julian Lage has become one of the most distinct sounds in jazz guitar, rivaling such contemporary masters as Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot and John Scofield. Like those luminaries, he’s developed his own unique voice on the instrument—a voice that’s soft, patient and full, all at the same time. It’s a combination that’s earned him seven Grammy nominations over the years and numerous collaborations, including jazz giants Charles Lloyd, John Zorn and Gary Burton.
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Tedeschi Trucks Band will bring their new album, Future Soul, to Japan next autumn. The 12-piece ensemble will embark on a four-night stay beginning Nov. 15 at Comtec Portbase in Nagoya. They’ll take their finesse for the 11-track collection to Osaka’s Festival Hall the following evening, before closing out the regional run over two nights at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo. News of the international touring leg comes on the heels of the group’s stop at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Woodland, Texas, on Friday, April 17, where they welcomed Lukas Nelson to join them on the final four tracks of their live delivery.
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Less than one week after a Manhattan jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for operating as a monopoly in violation of federal and state law in a landmark antitrust case, the entertainment giant has agreed to pay $9.9 million to settle a deceptive pricing lawsuit with the District of Columbia. Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced the deal on Monday, also detailing ordered reforms in Ticketmaster’s ticketing practices to address allegations that the company “misled customers about ticket prices, charged deceptive fees, and used illegal pressure tactics to get fans to buy tickets for a decade.”
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Prince’s estate has released “With This Tear,” a previously unheard recording by the late icon. The latest dispatch from Prince’s famously expansive personal archive was released via his own NPG Records and Legacy Recordings yesterday, one day before the 10th anniversary of the artist’s passing at Paisley Park, his hallowed home and studio complex outside of Minneapolis.
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Bob Dylan has widened the ground he will decidedly cover this summer during the relentless Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour. The Minnesota-bred artist, legally known as Robert Zimmerman, has added six new appearances to his mostly mapped itinerary. After previously unveiling the dates and locations of stops in the Northeast and beyond, the musician announced a follow-up slated for July 21 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, N.Y., with subsequent Southern concerts also added.
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This summer, Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade will take to the skies again as part of the Claypool Gold tour, canding together three of the bassist and bandleader’s most beloved outfits for an unprecedented collaborative outing. As anticipation for that run reaches a fever pitch, Claypool has unveiled Return Of The Live Frogs: Volume 1, a four-track live EP from the band, set to release on May 22.
