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Ally Venable brings Money & Power back to the UK in September 2026

Following her triumphant UK tour in October 2025, Texas-based blues-rock guitarist and singer Ally Venable will return to the UK for a ten-date headline tour in September 2026. Special guest on all shows is celebrated Canadian blues-rock artist Garret T. Willie. Tickets for all concerts, except Glasgow and Faversham, are available via altickets.com. Tickets for […]

Solomon Hicks releases new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue?

Solomon Hicks has released his new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue? today via Artone / Provogue. The record is available now on all streaming platforms, with physical formats also on sale. To mark the release, Hicks has shared a video for “Flyin’ High (Yesterday)”, his take on a song originally recorded by […]

Joanne Shaw Taylor shares defiant new single “Hell Or High Water”

Joanne Shaw Taylor has released her new single “Hell Or High Water”, out now via Journeyman Records. The track is a stripped-back, emotionally direct blues-gospel song that centres on resilience, belief, and facing inner conflict head-on. Described by Joanne as “a defiant, soul-bearing blues gospel anthem”, “Hell Or High Water” addresses the mental battles that […]

Jared James Nichols announces new album Louder Than Fate

Blues-rock guitarist and singer Jared James Nichols will release his fourth studio album, Louder Than Fate, on June 5 via Frontiers Music Srl. The album is available to pre-order now. Alongside the album announcement, Nichols has shared the new single “Pretend”, which is out now on all streaming platforms. Louder Than Fate is Nichols’ most […]

Gulf Coast Records start 2026 with nine straight single releases

Gulf Coast Records will begin 2026 with an intensive nine day run of new single releases, setting the pace for what is shaping up to be the label’s busiest and most ambitious year to date. From 20 to 30 January, the label will release one new single per day, each track drawn from a different […]

Celtic Connections opens its doors for 2026

Now in its 33rd year, the festival is the world’s largest winter celebration of traditional and roots music. Delivered by Glasgow Life in partnership with Innis & Gunn, the 2026 edition features more than 300 events across 25 venues, with over 1,200 performers from Europe, the Americas and Africa. New economic figures underline the festival’s […]

Spencer Mackenzie pushes the pace with Rory Gallagher cover ahead of new album

JUNO-nominated and Maple Blues Award winner Spencer Mackenzie has released his fourth single, Don’t Know Where I’m Going, taken from his upcoming studio album Empty Chairs. The track is out on Friday 16 January and is available across all streaming platforms and on YouTube. Mackenzie turns up the heat with a fast, driven take on […]

Tickets moving fast as Orianthi’s January 2026 UK tour takes shape

Following the release of her latest album Some Kind of Feeling, Orianthi will return to the UK for a run of headline dates in January 2026. With Leeds already sold out and demand rising elsewhere, fans are being urged to move quickly. The tour begins at Manchester’s Band on the Wall on January 24, followed […]

Bywater Call return with new single “Only”

Canadian roots, rock and soul collective Bywater Call open 2026 with the release of their brand-new studio single “Only”, out Friday 9 January 2026. Available now on all streaming platforms, “Only” marks the band’s first new studio release of the year and continues a remarkable run of momentum that has seen Bywater Call firmly establish […]