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The sideshows have been announced for Splendour in the Grass 2023, with top artists headed to Melbourne and Sydney in July.

Non-Comm, the annual gathering of music business insiders and programmers from non-commercial radio stations, is back in town.

Appreciation of the impresario is short on jazz detail but shows the gulf between the 60s and the culturally superficial, shallow present

One can trace the roots of progressive rock back to the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Then, some bands found a place in the genre and enjoyed notable success as part of the movement. Here are 20 of the best bands who did just that.

By 1973 Soft Machine already had a long history of playing in Rotterdam, appearing at major festivals such as Hippy Hippy Fair (1967), Kralingen (1970) and AHOY (1971, Phil Howard’s debut), and no less than four times at the city’s most prestigious venue, De Doelen, most recently (in September 1972) on a double bill with Robert Wyatt’s Matching Mole. This time, however, they were booked in a smaller venue, which they filled to capacity at around 400.

The Chronicle’s curated list of notable music releases this month.

Including Black Thought, Low Cut Connie, Lana Del Rey, Muna, Lucinda Williams & Bruce Springsteen, boygenius, and more

Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Laszlo Gardony will celebrate his recent Sunnyside Records recording Close Connection with two Boston area album release concerts this spring.

Roger Waters has won a legal battle over an upcoming show in Frankfurt, which was cancelled over his alleged anti-semitic views.

This week's best new indie releases featuring Mac DeMarco, Florence And The Machine, Foo Fighters, Arlo Parks, and more.