Ben Cosgrove, courtesy. For more than a decade pianist Ben Cosgrove has quietly combined his lifelong passion for nature and music. He traipses around beautiful wilderness and then composes music about how it moved him. While Cosgrove has also built a career as a touring pianist and sideman with…

B.J. Thomas, courtesy. Artists in Nashville and beyond have offered condolences for five-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter B.J. Thomas, who died last weekend following a fight with cancer. “One of the signs of true greatness in any of the arts is instant recognition of the creator,” said Paul Stanley of Kiss.…

Moby had enough hits just off his 1999 album, Play, to last a lifetime. But the DJ/producer extraordinaire, whose career has now spanned three decades, has never been one to let his songs rest. He’s explored music-making in numerous sonic spaces over the years, and his latest, Reprise, takes…

Tim Booth of James, courtesy. The pandemic has forced artists to turn inward, writing about the ways in which COVID has kept them locked in, without shows to play and a livelihood taken away. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg that Tim Booth touches on “Recover,” off…

Courtesy: Stern Grove Festival. The Stern Grove Festival, which has provided admission-free concerts to hundreds of thousands in San Francisco for more than 80 years, will return with in-person concerts in June, Mayor London Breed announced on Thursday. The 84th season will begin on June 20 and run Sundays…

SHAED, courtesy. Spencer Ernst is glowing when he rejoins his wife Chelsea Lee and his brother Max at his and Lee’s new home in the suburbs of northern Virginia for a video call interview a week prior to releasing High Dive, their first full-length album as SHAED. High Dive…

Fans of Ben Acker and Ben Blacker’s podcast, “Thrilling Adventure Hour,” and its accompanying stage show, will find themselves right at home on Long Lost, the new concept album by Lord Huron that will have listeners doing the time warp. Long Lost Lord Huron Whispering Pines Studios Inc./Republic, May…

Ashley Monroe, courtesy Alexa King. To understand why Ashley Monroe is holding onto joy and love so tightly on her new album, Rosegold, you have to reach back all the way to her teens. After a fairly typical, joyous life with her parents and brother, her dad was diagnosed…

Josh Radnor, courtesy Ella Hovsepian. If not for his friend, musician Ben Lee, actor-director Josh Radnor would have never picked up a guitar or written a song. Two well-received folk albums later as part of a duo with Lee, Radnor is a legit musician in his own right. Now…

Andrew Farriss, courtesy. Nearly a decade removed from the twilight years of INXS, Andrew Farriss is living a much quieter, “normal” life. Farriss, who teamed with Michael Hutchence to write some of the biggest hits of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s—Hutchence the lyrics and Farriss the music—is happy…