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The Newport Folk Festival, known for creating electrifying musical moments - the most famous being Bob Dylan's decision to plug in his guitar in 1965 - this weekend has a small outer stage that is being powered in part by festival-goers on stationary bicycles.

It's the first time the system has been tried at a festival.

The Granny Squibb Company is launching new ready-to-drink (RTD) cans available in three flavors, just in time for National Iced Tea Month in June. Headquartered in Rhode Island, Granny Squibbs Organic Iced Tea will now be even more accessible for iced tea lovers in a new RTD can format.

(Editor's note: SPIN contributor Marissa R. Moss's book, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed, is out

Park City Song Summit makes a full return on September 7-10 to redefine the live music experience.

Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Jon Batiste and The Avett Brothers top the bill of the 2022 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival.

1,000-capacity Stable Hall will present national, regional and local acts and feature an...

Ohio University’s fourth annual Music Industry Summit returns as an in-person event April 5 and 6, 2022, in Athens, Ohio, with a virtual attendance option.

Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals in Rhode Island will now be ticketed by discovery and ticketing platform Dice.

Nate Chinen remembers Newport Jazz impresario George Wein, who helped create the modern music festival but never lost his appetite for listening in small rooms and connecting at a human scale.