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The blues legend is cruising into retirement with a headlining set at Chicago Blues Fest this weekend. But his influence on the city, and the genre, is undeniable.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Funeral For Justice, the new album by Mdou Moctar.Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, Funeral For Justice captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are

This week’s PBS Feature Album is From The Fire, the debut album by Audrey Powne.Embracing all evolutions as a musician and composer, Audrey Powne releases From The Fire via independent UK record label BBE. Cover to cover telling her story of recovery, persistence, and survival, the album is one complete body of work, drawing from experiences in her own life and watching the

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Total Reality, the third full-length album by Dr Sure’s Unusual Practice.Total Reality finds the sometimes-solo project of Dougal Shaw in full collective form. The five-piece live band and an assortment of guests join the Doctor in the studio to examine the impacts of recurring crises on the human psyche. An enduring optimistic lense over a

With multiple awards to their names and thousands of miles between them, Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields are bonafide masters of their craft, having discovered a natural chemistry as performers, the union of their songwriting enables them to explore new depths in their music. Over the past year, the duo have captivated audiences across New Zealand and Australia with extensive

Join us as we revisit our massive Drive Live from back in February! Every day this week we will be sharing videos of the full live performances thanks to the legends at Trade Creative, so stay tuned for more clips throughout the week.From Monday February 19 - Friday February 23, Drive Live 2024 featured two acts performing daily – LIVE, and direct to our PBS community via the

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Ramona, the third release by Australian singer/songwriter Grace Cummings. Ramona is a work of raw truth rendered in its most beautiful form. In a departure from the self-produced approach of her 2019 debut Refuge Cove and its 2022 follow-up Storm Queen, the Melbourne-based artist dreamed up a lavishly orchestrated sound that fully accommodates

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Trail of Flowers, the latest release from singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sierra Ferrell.Sierra Ferrell brings a dose of beautifully strange magic to everything she touches.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Dakar Bamako, the third studio album by Ausecuma Beats.Dakar Bamako features a total of fourteen musicians from three cities around the world, coming together in a true cross-cultural collaboration that celebrates stories of migration, cooperation and the unifying power of music and dance as a force to bring humanity together.The band are

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the self-titled debut album by Meanjin/Brisbane duo Yirinda. The band combine ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. Fred Leone and Samuel Pankhurst’s music invokes thousands of generations of story and culture, while emerging as something entirely new. Yirinda was recorded in Brisbane by Samuel, then mixed in London by