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Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Rachael Sage has premiered the exclusive stream of her latest album, 'Myopia', via Curve Magazine. The collection is out May 4 via MPress Records/ILS/Caroline and is her 13th full-length release. Listen and share here and via iTunes and Amazon.

Hot off her 7-week tour with synth legend Howard Jones, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Rachael Sage has released her cover of Jones' song 'No One Is To Blame' via Billboard. The track appears on her forthcoming album, 'Myopia', out May 4 via MPress Records. Listen and share 'No One Is To Blame' and pre-order the album via Pledge Music.

North Carolina's beloved Americana band Mipso have released an official video for 'Servant To It,' a track from their recently released acclaimed album Edges Run. Premiering with Culture Collide, the video shows the behind-the-scenes dynamic and shenanigans of the band on the road. Mipso's Libby Rodenbough (vocals, fiddle, songwriter) describes, 'There's a romantic myth about artists that doesn't square with the banal kind of privilege it usually takes to be one publicly. 'Servant To It' is a wink at that myth. This video is a portrait of our reality as working musicians. Jacob Blumberg, the creator, came out on the road with us on a recent run down through the Deep South, and he put together a ton of material-disposable camera stills, old VHS camcorder footage, etc.-in a way that conveys the fun and silliness and strangeness and madness of touring.'

Austin-based folk-pop virtuosos The Belle Sounds are thrilled to announce the forthcoming release of their album 'The Sea Within' on Friday, July 20. Their official album release party will take place on Saturday, July 21 at One-2-One Bar located at 1509 S. Lamar Blvd. St. 600, Austin, Texas. Doors are at 7:30 p.m., with The Sanco Loop playing at 8 p.m., The Belle Sounds at 9:30 p.m. and the Brandon Aguilar Band at 11:30 p.m.Tickets are $12 and there will be a free download card of the album with entry. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here. The Belle Sounds will also have a Houston album release party at The Mucky Duck on Tuesday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available now here. For more information on the group, please see www.thebellesounds.com.

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) is pleased to announce the 40th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival will be hosted from August 24–September 2 in Millennium Park, the Chicago Cultural Center (78 E. Washington St.) and at venues throughout the city. Among many featured headline guests, on September 1 Chicago native Ramsey Lewis will perform his last live performance in Chicago before his retirement. For the complete lineup of performers in Millennium Park and the Chicago Cultural Center, visit chicagojazzfestival.us.

the cell (Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian, Artistic Director Kira Simring) will grant four artists each a month-long residency as part of its 2018 season. This new residency program grants selected artists the use of the venue for a month and the resources needed to develop a project of their choice that will be presented at the end of their one-month term.

Today, North Carolina's acclaimed indie-Americana quartet Mipso release their fourth album, Edges Run (April 6th, 2018 | AntiFragile Music). Edges Run is available now on all digital service platforms and for physical purchase at www.mipsomusic.com. The band begins their extensive album release tour tonight, hitting 30+ markets throughout the US through mid-May, with additional summer dates to be announced. The current list of confirmed Mipso tour dates is included below.

As White Eagle Hall approaches its one year anniversary on May 5th, things are really ramping up for the venue. Recent additions to the schedule include an array of amazing talent such as The Psychedelic Furs (5/31), Grammy winner Aimee Mann (6/19), New Jersey's own Real Estate (6/14), Ani DiFranco (6/12), Nick Lowe's Quality Rock & Roll Revue featuring Los Straitjackets (6/22), Kurt Vile and The Violators (6/16) and Superchunk (6/20).

Mipso, the acclaimed indie-Americana quartet from North Carolina, premiered the second single and title track from their upcoming fourth album, Edges Run, with American Songwriter Magazine, with the song hitting digital platforms far and wide today. The album is set for release on April 6th, 2018  (AntiFragile Music) and Mipso kicks off an extensive North American tour on Edges Run release date -- hitting 30+ markets throughout the United States through mid-May, with summer dates still to be announced. Visit www.mipsomusic.com to view the current list of Mipso's upcoming tour dates.

North Carolina's acclaimed indie-Americana quartet Mipso release their fourth album, Edges Run, on April 6th, 2018 (AntiFragile Music). The band will begin an extensive North American album release tour on Edges Run release date, hitting 30+ markets throughout the United States through mid-May, with summer dates still to be announced. Visit www.mipsomusic.com to view the current list of Mipso's upcoming tour dates.

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts announces three more critically-acclaimed acts to its 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). They are Toshi Reagon -- a talented singer, composer, and producer with roots in folk, blues and rock; Nobuntu - an all-female a capella group from Zimbabwe; and Inventive Mothers: A Tribute to Frank Zappa performed by Studio Dan from Austria. Each will enhance the stellar lineup of artists already planned for PIFA 2018. The 11-day festival is packed with more than 50 performances ranging from music and dance to 360-degree immersive spectacle experiences, and will attract regional visitors to Philadelphia from Thursday, May 31 through Sunday, June 10.

Ed Romanoff's highly anticipated album,The Orphan King, is out now viaPineRock Records. Album purchase is available HERE. The title of the follow-up to his 2012 self-titled debut stems in part from Romanoff's recent discovery from a DNA test that his father's identity was mistaken.

Park City Institute presents singer, songwriter and author, Dar Williams, Saturday February 24, at 7:30 PM. Performing songs from a career that includes 10 studio albums, and leading a conversation about how communities find and nurture their souls, Williams will perform on the Main Stage, part of PCI's 20th Anniversary Season at the George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Center.

Award-winning singer-songwriter and eclectic multi-instrumentalist Rachael Sage will be joining 80s pop pioneer Howard Jones for his nationwide U.S. tour kicking off January 24th in Seattle, WA. Sage has often named Jones as a seminal influence on her music and previously supported him during the UK leg of his 2017 world tour. Along the tour, Sage will be previewing material from her new album 'Myopia', due May 2018.

Award-winning singer-songwriter and eclectic multi-instrumentalist Rachael Sage will be joining 80s pop pioneer Howard Jones for his nationwide U.S. tour kicking off January 24th in Seattle, WA.

Today, Atlantic Records singer/songwriter and artist fueled by social change, MILCK has released her eagerly awaited debut EP This Is Not The End, available via all digital music retailers and streaming services

PopMatters Premieres Ed Romanoff's Video For LESS BROKEN NOW New Album Due 2/23

Award-winning singer-songwriter and eclectic multi-instrumentalist Rachael Sage will be joining 80s pop pioneer Howard Jones for his nationwide U.S. tour kicking off January 24th in Seattle, WA.

'An Evening With Greg Brown' is set for the Boulder Theater on Friday, June 22, 2018.

The Kentucky Center will present 'An Acoustic Christmas with Over the Rhine' today, December 6, 2017.