‘Miles Of Time,’ the second collaborative album from guitarist, producer, and songwriter Carl Carltonand singer and actress Melanie Wiegmann, will be released on January 23, 2026. Following their successful debut, ‘Glory Of Love’ (Top 50 of the German album charts), the duo continues their musical journey—genre-spanning, intense, and full of emotion.

There are songs that spread good cheer and make you want to press the repeat button with a smile on your face. Carl Carlton & Melanie Wiegmann have included just such a song on their upcoming album “Miles of Time” (release date: January 23, 2026), creating a swirling and upbeat Latino rhythm & blues track.

Donald Fagen is one of the greatest musical minds that has ever graced the world of rock, and his standards are impeccably high as a result.  Firstly, his standards are high for himself. When he was writing with Steely Dan, he would always ensure that he and the band were doing as much as they could in order to get the most out of a studio session.

Jimmy Barnes was lost and terrified.  It's early in 1983, Cold Chisel had imploded, and Australia's most iconic frontman was staring down that awful question we all face at times of upheaval: what now? Barnes wanted his music career to keep soaring, but needed to prove he had something to offer outside of his legendary band.

Before The Band was established as one of classic rock’s most defining bands, they were known as The Hawks, a group of young musicians getting their start as a backing band.
The Canadian-American outfit secured their proper start playing for rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins.

Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is much more than a legend of African music: she is a powerful voice for culture, empowerment, and human rights across the continent.
Today, she adds another string to her bow by becoming the master of ceremonies for the CAF Awards 2025 set to take place in Rabat, Morocco.

Photographer Elliott Landy publishes a new two-volume set of Band photos and a live slideshow at Upstate Films’ Orpheum Theater on November 20, revisiting the brief, blazing years that defined Americana.

In Elliott Landy’s studio, there was a box he’d labeled “seconds.” Inside were the photographs that didn’t make it into his first book on The Band. Years after that 2015 volume was published, Landy opened the box, started flipping through the eight-by-ten work prints, and felt a shock of recognition. How did I leave that out? One image after another—favorites, forgotten. “At that point,” he says, “I knew I had to do a second book.”

Mike Finnigan, an acclaimed studio/touring musician known for his work with the Hammond B3 organ and for recording stints with acts including Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and many others, passed away in 2021 — and early next year, a special new album will be released in his memory.

They are famously one of the most dedicated studio bands of all time, being both creative and ruthless in equal measure. Enough stories of them being meticulous task masters from behind the mixing board to suggest that at least some of them are true. It means that, out of any band in the 1970s, they were willing to cast judgments on all kinds of fabulous instrumentalists.

Singer and The Voice star is back with 22nd album 'Grandeur Nature', following his lung cancer remission and vocal recovery.

Larry Campbell’s list of performance and recording credits can hold its own next to any other. In five decades of performance, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer has lent his talents to ventures from some of rock’s most iconic artists of all time, including Levon Helm, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Linda Thompson, Little Feat, Mavis Staples and Bob Dylan, with whom he spent seven years on the Never Ending Tour. Now, he’s added Bruce Springsteen to that list by his part in the long-awaited live recreation of Nebraska.

Cal Performances couldn’t have engineered a better season kickoff than a joyous collaboration between Beninese superstar singer Angélique Kidjo and cello maestro Yo-Yo Ma. "Sarabande Africaine" explores a whole new set of shapes. On “Lonlon,” Kidjo delivered her original lyrics for Maurice Ravel’s Bolero with the requisite dynamic calibration. She was at her Parisian best on “La Foule,” which set the chanson standard indelibly linked to Piaf to a galloping vals Peruano groove. And her Yoruban lyric for a theme from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5, recited by Ma in English beforehand, transformed the melody into a supplication for the safety of girls in conflict zones.