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500,000 Fans Attend Historic 2024 New Orleans Jazz Fest and Bass Magazine Was There to Capture It

JPM discusses why he chose to record this song and feels like it is a modern-day version of Teen Town

Bassist Eric Avery, Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, and Stephen Perkins have reunited for the first time in 14 years

The Vision 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award will be given at Roulette Intermedium, on June 18, 2024

His first live shows in eight years in Los Angeles and New York in support of his new album Luck and Strange, out on September 6

Driven by the rhythm section of founding members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaug this song spans generations

The first single from his upcoming album ‘Quilted Stereo’ out on July 26th

The mid-career retrospective featuring a supergroup is out June 14th

Palle Danielsson, the great Swedish bassist, has died, aged 77

The innovative bassist/sonic explorer/DJ discusses his life of touring with Disco Biscuits, the current tour with the new album “Revolution in Motion, and more!

STYX will join up with FOREIGNER and special guest John Waite for the “Renegades & Juke Box Heroes” co-headlining trek with their new bassist

The Mudvayne bassist and his pro-rock trio return with a new EP

A selection of instruments collected on his travels are going up for auction at Julien’s Auctions in its upcoming Music Icons sale

The new brand builds on the core values of the Oakland Coffee brand, established a decade ago, to provide carefully curated organic, Fair Trade Certified coffee

A rollicking and strikingly heartfelt memoir from a heavy metal pioneer

Their debut album will consist of 8 tracks, and sounds somewhere between Radiohead, The Mars Volta and Medeski Martin and Wood

The album features 16 tracks that celebrate and reimagine five of Nascimento’s beloved classics and newly written originals by Spalding

Celebrating 25 Years of ‘Slipknot’ with special guests Knocked Loose, Orbit Culture, and Vended

Current and former members of Steve Vai Band, Joe Satriani Band, Jefferson Starship, Y&T, Tower of Power and more will be hitting the stage

The track was recorded live from the 2024 Dead Ahead Festival in Cancun, Mexico

Mohini and the band get busy while Willow’s vocals soar, effortlessly teetering between emotive highs and lows

Fusing the rich heritage of Michael’s Yoruba culture, the evolving popular music of West Africa, and gospel and jazz traditions

The beloved actor made her late night music debut with Gottschalk laying down the grooves

“The bass turned out to be very nice and played like a dream. Tempted to keep it but want to do something for St. Judes because they are a magical entity.”

The Two Upright Masters Move the Art of Bass a Giant Step Forward with But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?

The 17-track live album features songs from across McKagan’s solo career

The track is co-written by original bassist Paul Delisle

The influential British rockers are teaming up with Boy George for U.S. tour

The new song is now available for streaming and as an instant gratification track with all ‘=1’ download pre-orders

With a gospel-like voice, five-string bass and kind-hearted disposition, he endeared himself to many over the years and mentored the next generation of funk stewards

Collective Includes Musicians Who Have Played With Fishbone, The Skeletones, Social Distortion, The English Beat, Suicidal Tendencies and Trulio Disgracias

A surge of energy underscores this body of work amplified by thunderous rhythms, skyscraping guitar solos, and vital vocals

Their new album ‘The Law of Augmenting Returns’ is out on June 7th

One of the greatest rock bands of all time to release new album on July 19th

Live studio sessions from 1974 newly mixed and available for the first time

For this Split 7” Mike Watt covers “Long May You Burn” from Papa M’s 2003 EP Four

Band Members of Snarky Puppy, Prince, Snoop Dogg,
Erykah Badu, Herbie Hancock, Kendrick Lamar,
Marcus Miller, Toto, Justin Timberlake, and more

On this Tiny Desk, Oh presents a mix of cuts from her 2023 release, The Glass Hours, and new works

Album Release Performance at LA’s Sam First Tomorrow, Saturday, April 13, 2024

The Aluminati team will be debuting some of their brand-new models, gear demos and workshops, giveaways and contests

Phish’s 16th studio album and first in over four years, Evolve, arrives on Friday, July 12

This groundbreaking course is designed to transform bass players’ approach to learning jazz standards, combining deep musical insight with practical hands-on instruction

Joined by his Double Quartet. he will be to releasing “I Am My Neighbors Keeper” on June 14th

These Releases Coincide with William Parker LifeTime Achievement Celebration at Vision Festival 2024 on June 18

Red Hot + Ra – The Magic City curated by Meshell Ndegeocello is the third release in a series of tributes to Sun Ra

Dream Theater will be performing classics and fan favorites from their catalog in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music

This is Trusedell’s eighth release as a bandleader, following his award-winning releases, “The Quarantine Chronicles”

The supergroup will join forces for the BEAT Tour, a creative reinterpretation of iconic ’80s King Crimson albums

Bassist for psychedelic, Reggae-Rock titans Audic Empire shares his history as a musician and how he came to find Bergantino

Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, guitarist Vernon Reid, and drummer Calvin Weston are bringing their super trio’s new release to life