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On Friday, July 19, 2024, Alligator Records will release Good Intentions Gone Bad, the first release in three years from award-winning guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Chris Cain. Good Intentions Gone Bad is Cains second Alligator album, and the 16th of his career. It will be available on CD, red vinyl LP, and at all digital services.

Orgy of the Damned finds Slash and his many guests bashing through the most over-played blues standards with the subtlety and grace of Axl Rose in a china shop.

A terrific new HBO documentary corrects the record about Stax.

David Sanborn, the Grammy-winning saxophonist who played lively solos on such hits as David Bowie’s “Young Americans” and James Taylor’s “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and

In March, Sanborn was honored by Jazz St. Louis with the inaugural Steward Center Lifetime Achievement Award in Excellence.

When he’s not recording and touring with Dave Matthews Band or performing select dates with Matthews in an acoustic duo format, guitarist Tim Reynolds

"The place is legendary," said Chicago Blues Revival (CBR) founder Jeff Pinzino, a bespectacled graduate of the University Chicago carrying a pleased-as-punch grin as he surveyed the packed house at

Host with the most, Ace Frehley welcomes GW to his New Jersey home to show us his stuff, talk guitar playing, and explain why he has no plans on stopping any time soon

The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project at Northeastern re-examined a military police killing of a Black soldier in 1941.

Award-winning, world-beloved Chicago bluesman Toronzo Cannon has announced the first set of dates of his Shut Up & Play! concert tour. The 28-city tour will take Cannon from the Midwest to the East Coast and back, including dates in Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Boston. Shut Up & Play! will be released on Friday, June 7, and is the third Alligator album from Cannon. It will be available on CD, yellow vinyl LP, and at all digital services.