Ollie Joseph & Matt Corman
Selwyn Birchwood Album Release Party
Award-winning visionary bluesman Selwyn Birchwood will release Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues, his sixth Alligator Records album. Rolling Stone calls Birchwood “a remarkable, contemporary bluesman…a powerhouse young guitarist and soulful vocalist.” Now, this mesmerizing guitarist, lap steel master and cinematic songwriter unleashes the powerful new self-produced album, Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues, further blazing his own musical trail. The album will be available on CD, translucent yellow vinyl LP, and at all digital service providers. Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues features 10 wildly imaginative, laser-focused, vibrant original songs, produced by Birchwood and recorded in Florida. From the wide-open honesty of Damaged Goods to the up-to-the-minute observations of All Hail The Algorithm and Talking Heads, Birchwood and his band play with honest, emotional intensity. On Labour Of Love he looks at the pains and joys of parenting, while The Struggle Is Real serves as an anthem for our times. Birchwood’s tough, slide guitar opus, What I’ve Been Accused Of, the slow burning, romantic Soulmate and the blazing Should’ve Never Gotten Out Of Bed, all show Birchwood as one of contemporary blues’ most prolific, significant and innovative artists. Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues is Birchwood’s own fully realized artistic statement, and the first of his Alligator albums that he has produced by himself. “Producing allowed me to really take the wheel and steer the music to the exact destinations that I wanted to go. It allowed me to present these songs with the full, three-dimensional sound that I have wanted all along. This album is the full realization of the sound I have been cultivating. It tiptoes the tightrope between gritty gutbucket blues and contemporary grooves to create a soundscape that honors the roots but allows listeners to experience the music from a modern vantage point. Sharing songs with this much honesty allows us all to connect to music on a higher level…to feel a little less isolated and a little more ‘seen’ in what can be a hard life at times.” Live, Birchwood is a true force of nature. A favorite among blues fans and jam band fans alike, his ability to win over an audience—any audience—is proven night after night. With his warm, magnetic personality, Birchwood is as down-to-earth as his music is electrifyingly jaw-dropping. With his band feeding off his energy, the 6’3” musician roams the stage barefoot, ripping out memorable guitar licks with ease, his soulful, rocks-and-gravel vocals impossible to ignore. When he sits down to play his signature model Caladesi lap steel, he magically lifts the crowd into a sweat-soaked state of blissful elation. Mega-star Joe Bonamassa raves, “Selwyn Birchwood has become one of my favorite discoveries. He puts on a great show.” Says Birchwood, “You would be hard-pressed to find an album or a band that sounds exactly like mine, and that has been and always will be the goal. I pride myself in writing songs so that when you hear a band like us, you hear a band that sounds just like…US!” According to Guitar World, “Blues star Selwyn Birchwood is the real deal. He puts his own fresh spin on the blues, taking the tradition and making it into something new.” $20 or just $10 for BSO Members! Memberships available at the door.
Paddy’s Rave
AGES 18+ Hear your favorite Paddy’s Day hits, Y2K classics & EDM. Find the greenest clothes you have❗ Bring the PLUR vibes 💚, shamrock-shake that ass and find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow🌈. U2 will get Lucky! ☘️🤞
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DONT USE Paddy’s Rave
AGES 18+ Hear your favorite Paddy’s Day hits, Y2K classics & EDM. Find the greenest clothes you have❗ Bring the PLUR vibes 💚, shamrock-shake that ass and find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow🌈. U2 will get Lucky! ☘️🤞
The Callous Daoboys
The recklessly free-spirited collective from Atlanta, Georgia, revels in high-strung extremity, music that’s somehow dense, impenetrable, and chaotic yet confusingly inviting.
Zero 9:36
Adapting to any setting, Zero 9:36 has toured alongside Shinedown, Neck Deep, Hollywood Undead, Three Days Grace, Asking Alexandria, Nothing More, Bullet For My Valentine, Wage War, The Plot In You, and many others. Zero has made festival appearances at Welcome to Rockville, Louder Than Life, Inkcarceration, and many others. His collaborations are an eclectic list including Travis Barker, grandson, Hollywood Undead, Atreyu, The Warning, and Scarlxrd. Zero 9:36 proudly occupies a lane of his own and in the process has amassed over 50 million streams across DSPs.
Past Self
Past self is a Las Vegas-based Darkwave and Shoegaze band. Known for their swirling guitar tones, distinct image, and unique blend of Korean and English lyrics that the band has dubbed “K-Goth,” they’ve quickly gathered the attention of the wider goth scene as a whole. Pulling heavily from bands like The Cure, Molchat Doma and Slowdive, the band consists of Sung (Vocals/Guitar), aether (Keys) and Spektor (Bass). They’ve opened for acts such as Twin Tribes, French Police, Mareux and Drab Majesty. In 2021, The band released their debut album, “Bedrot,” followed by their West Coast Tour, where they met their then up-and-coming peers “Deceits.” After embracing more Korean elements into their music with the release of 2023’s “Die Cry Hate,” the band took part as Deceits supporting act for the East Coast leg of their “…If There’s No Heaven” tour in the Summer of 2024; followed-up by an appearance alongside them at the El Rey Theater. That same year, they collaborated with Haunt Me for the single “Sinner.” In October 2024, past self played Substance San Antonio alongside artists like Topographies, Black Marble, and Riki. On December 13th, past self released their newest EP, “Premonitions.”
James McMurtry and the Martial Law Review
James McMurtry released The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy on June 20th via New West Records. The 10-song collection was co-produced by McMurtry & Don Dixon (R.E.M., The Smithereens) and is his first album in four years. It follows his 2021 acclaimed new West debut, The Horses and the Hounds, which UnCut Magazine said “lifts storytelling-in-song to meticulous new levels” and Pitchfork awarded an 8.0, saying “James McMurtry stands out even among the Lone Star State’s finest songwriters…” The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy features appearances by Sarah Jarosz, Charlie Sexton, Bonnie Whitmore, Bukka Allen and more, alongside his trusted backing band, THE MARTIAL LAW REVIEW, Tim Holt on guitar and accordion, Cornbread on bass and Daren Hess on drums. As varied as they are, McMurtry’s new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family’s past: a rough pencil sketch by Ken Kesey that serves as the album cover, the hallucinations experienced by his father, the legendary writer Larry McMurtry, an old poem by a family friend. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, McMurtry teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that have elements of Americana but sound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same breath, The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy adds a new chapter to a long career that has young songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence.
Colby Acuff – Handmade Horsepower Tour
A fifth-generation Idahoan, Acuff grew up watching his hometown Coeur d’Alene transform before his eyes. One by one, the lumber mills closed down as a blue-collar town turned into a ritzy resort escape for elites from around the country. Acuff’s childhood was full of music — Willie Nelson, Hank Williams, bluegrass — that situated all the changes he witnessed in a long lineage of working-class American struggle, and soundtracked the nostalgia felt by watching a way of life become bygone. By the time Acuff released his 2020 debut Life Of A Rolling Stone, his perspective and concerns as an artist were already fully-formed. He’d make two more albums while living in Idaho, 2021’s If I Were The Devil and 2022’s Honky Tonk Heaven before moving to Nashville to record 2023’s Western White Pines and 2024’s American Son with producer Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan and Brandi Carlile). After the release of American Son, Acuff sat down with his right-hand man, producer Eddie Spear, and they puzzled over a new approach to the next project. They decided to go out and talk to people, take the temperature, see what listeners wanted to hear. The resulting work still boasts the thoughtful reflections on American life that Acuff has made his name on, but refuses to simply stare into the void. Instead, the throughlines of the project became resilience and optimism even in the bleakest times. Having toured with the likes of Luke Combs, Charles Wesley Godwin, 49 Winchester, Midland, Whiskey Myers, Flatland Cavalry, Jon Pardi, Muscadine Bloodline and more, Acuff is embarking on the Handmade Horsepower headline tour in 2026 playing shows all across the country. For more info, please visit colbyacuff.com.