Henry J. Star, the creative alias of Knoxville, TN-born singer-songwriter Devin Badgett, was born out of an offering to his younger self. The debut project of the visionary creative, Henry J. Star is a rich tapestry of sonic and personal influences—drawing from Japanese adventure games, ambient music, and Southern literature—to chronicle a powerful journey toward understanding and healing.
Earlier this summer, Badgett announced his debut album, The Soft Apocalypse, out October 17 via Acrophase Records, and introduced the world to Henry J. Star through lead single “Greenway”—a track that earned him early comparisons to Youth Lagoon and Alex G.
Now, Henry J. Star has shared “Petrichor,” a heavy and powerful reckoning on what it means to navigate the world as a Black individual. The track opens with a gut-punch question: “What if I die today?”
It’s a song about the exhausting calculus of simply existing — the weight of everyday decisions, and the real, lived consequences they carry.
Written, produced, and largely performed by Badgett in bedrooms and basements across Tennessee, The Soft Apocalypse is a fearless realization of his singular creative vision. The album draws from the complex weight of Badgett’s past—including his father’s incarceration, the intricacies of his multi-racial identity, and the quiet isolation of suburban life. For Badgett, music became a lifeline—a way to build a world beyond what he could see.
A worn VHS copy of The NeverEnding Story sparked that sense of wonder early on. “It was perhaps the first time I believed that a better world was not only possible, but worth fighting for,” he says.
LEGO is set to release its most ambitious Star Wars build yet: the new Death Star. Standing 28 inches tall and 32 inches wide, the set features 9,023 pieces and 38 minifigures. Arriving October 4, 2025, at $999.99, it promises an immersive galactic experience for collectors. This centerpiece build captures the scale and detail fans have dreamed of. You can get it here.
The four virtuosos of 40 Fingers have turned David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” into a breathtaking guitar symphony. Filmed in a desert glowing red like the planet, the cover radiates artistry and atmosphere. It’s a cinematic take on a classic that feels both otherworldly and timeless.
Sebastian Schub has released “Be Still,” a beautifully restrained and intimate new single from his debut EP Sing Like Madonna, out now via Island EMI / Capitol Records.
“Be Still” puts Schub’s rich baritone front and center, capturing the emotional resonance that has drawn audiences across sold-out tours and viral online moments. It’s a powerful showcase of Schub’s emerging artistry and the depth behind his songwriting.
Born in Hamburg, Schub’s journey began as a child in the city’s youth opera academy, studying mime, theatre, and vocal performance. A move to London at 17 saw him busking to support his dreams. With time, practice, and open mic gigs at Camden’s Spiritual Bar, he developed the sound that now defines his work.
His debut EP is the culmination of years spent refining his voice—both musically and lyrically. A non-native English speaker, Schub worked hard to master the language and its nuances. “I read Jane Eyre four times… just to get it,” he says.
Now collaborating with producers like Steve Fitzmaurice, Rob Kirwan, and Dann Hume, Sebastian Schub is ready for his moment.
residency, now featuring 48 shows through January 31st, offers fans the ultimate connection to the band’s legendary catalog in an immersive experience that only Sphere can provide.
The general on-sale for the new shows will begin Friday, September 19th, at 10 am local time.
Advance presale registration is available by Seated, and begins Wednesday, September 17th at 10 am PT. Live Nation, Ticketmaster, and Sphere presales begin Thursday, September 18, at 10 am PT. Tickets start at $175 and reflect all-in pricing.
Limited VIP Ticket Packages will be available with premium seats, exclusive merchandise, parking, & more.
Vibee is the Hotel & Experience Package partner for the Eagles Sphere residency. Vibee packages include a concert ticket and a two-night stay at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas – the only resort connected to Sphere – with guests receiving priority entry to the venue, commemorative keepsakes, and more. Vibee Hotel & Experience packages for the newly announced dates are available beginning Tuesday, September 9th at 10 am PT.
The Vibee Concierge and Eagles Third Encore Experience is conveniently located in The Summit Showroom at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas, located just off Restaurant Row. Admission is free and open to the public. It features the Troubadour replica, exclusive to Vibee VIP guests, as well as the Hotel California immersive experience, memorabilia, merch store, and all-new activations that all fans are sure to love.
Rising country standout Emily Ann Roberts has announced her upcoming EP Memory Lane will arrive Oct. 3 that will feature her new single “Jack & Jill Daniel’s”.
“Jack & Jill Daniel’s” has already struck a chord with critics as MusicRow lauds “The sunny mood and sweetly bopping track support a shiny-bright vocal performance.”
“As far back as I can remember I have loved hearing a good story. And while honesty is the best policy, some of the best stories stretch the truth a little bit,” shared Roberts about the cheeky story song. “I was at a retreat writing with Ryan Beaver, Jeremy Spillman, and Trent Willman in January when this song was born. Ryan and Jeremy had the idea that maybe Jack Daniels was created to help him move on from Jill, and the rest is history.”
Memory Lane also features “Easy Does it,” “The Fence,” and “Scratching Out A Living,” which Roberts debuted earlier this year. The trio of songs has been widely celebrated, with accolades from Billboard, American Songwriter, Country Now, Country Central, and more. Rounding out the tracklist are “Pretty In Pink,” “Bus To Augusta,” and the title track.
Roberts has been on the road throughout the year with superstars Blake Shelton, Cody Johnson, and Megan Moroney on their respective tours in addition to her own headline dates.
Memory Lane 1. Memory Lane 2. Jack & Jill Daniel’s 3. Easy Does It 4. Pretty In Pink 5. Scratching Out A Living 6. The Fence 7. Bus to Augusta
Acclaimed bassist Trish Imbrogno, (Trish Plays Bass) announces the release of her brand-new debut EP, Bluegrass Love Songs Volume One, available on November 7, 2025.
Her second single will feature the instrumental ‘Cherokee Shuffle’ which will be released on September 12. Featuring a stellar lineup of powerhouse women in bluegrass—Becky Buller (fiddle), Murphy Henry (banjo/vocals), Rainy Miatke (mandolin), Dede Wyland (guitar/vocals)—the EP showcases Trish’s signature upright bass work and rich, emotionally resonant vocals.
Known for her rich upright bass tone, Trish blends the intimacy of traditional bluegrass with this carefully crafted collection. Bluegrass Love Songs Volume One is both a tribute to the timeless genre and a fresh take on the universal language of love.
“When I titled the EP Bluegrass Love Songs, Volume One, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Bluegrass has no shortage of songs about tragic romance, but the ‘Volume One’ tunes end with heartbreak rather than someone’s partner in a river. And the instrumentals are their own kind of love song to the music, to the people, and to the community that keeps it alive.”
The upcoming release is the first entry in what promises to be a multi-volume series, offering audiences a chance to hear the evolution of Trish’s artistry through the lens of bluegrass-inspired narratives.
Trish Imbrogno is a genre-bending bassist, composer, and performer with roots in bluegrass, jazz, and folk traditions. Praised for her versatility and emotive playing, she has established herself as a sought-after collaborator and a solo artist.
blindspot has released the product of their latest endeavour, which is a music video for their newest single, “Sleepwalker.”
The band consists of lead singer Alexa Economou and drummer Chris Cormier, a dynamic duo that writes their songs, plays all the instruments, and even does their own recording and mixing. Their fifth single since their debut release in 2017, “Sleepwalker” is a high-powered anthem electrified by Economou’s soaring and passionate vocals and backed by vigorous synths and drums.
Nat & Alex Wolff debut the official music video for “Soft Kissing Hour,” a delicate and emotionally rich visual directed by celebrated filmmaker Gia Coppola. Premiered at an exclusive Amazon Music event, the release was paired with a special acoustic set from the duo.
The video showcases Coppola’s cinematic minimalism, focusing on shifting skies and subtle emotion. Alex’s acoustic guitar and Nat’s soft-spoken vocals are captured with raw simplicity, creating a poignant atmosphere that perfectly echoes the song’s reflective nature.
Released last year and produced by Billie Eilish, “Soft Kissing Hour” embraces longing and vulnerability, offering a minimalist melodic experience with soft rock undertones. The track also marked a milestone as the brothers joined Eilish on her HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 2024 tour across the U.S.
The Wolff brothers—known for their Billboard-charting releases and acting work—continue to carve a space that bridges classic rock influence with modern introspection. With new music slated for later this year, Nat & Alex Wolff remain steady in their upward artistic trajectory.
Experience Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, are releasing Bold As Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on November 7. Produced by Janie Hendrix, original Experience recording engineer Eddie Kramer, and John McDermott, this expansive collection is available as either a five vinyl LP plus Blu-ray, or four CD plus Blu-ray set. The deluxe box set includes the original stereo and mono mixes of Axis: Bold As Love remastered from the original mixes created by Hendrix, the album’s producer Chas Chandler and original engineer Eddie Kramer. Kramer and engineer Chandler Harrod recently created brand new immersive Dolby ATMOS mixes of the entire 13 song album. The box set presents an additional 40 alternative versions, unreleased studio takes, demos, live tracks and television appearances from the album’s gestation and recording period, 28 of which have never before seen the light of day. One of these tracks, a previously unreleased October 1967 studio demo of “Stone Free/Up From The Skies [Demo],” has been made available today.
By May 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience had finalized their groundbreaking debut album Are You Experienced at Olympic Studios in London, and immediately began work on their next album. Jimi Hendrix arrived in London in late September 1966 and soon amassed three top 10 singles in their UK homebase, followed quickly by success across Europe but were yet to conquer the US. In June 1967, the group left for the US to make their American debut at the Monterey International Pop Festival. Their stunning Monterey debut—complete with Hendrix setting his guitar alight at the close of his performance, propelled them across the US throughout the summer of 1967. Before returning to London, producer Chas Chandler recorded the group’s fourth single “Burning Of The Midnight Lamp” b/w “The Stars That Play With Laughing Dice” at sessions in New York and Los Angeles. Bold As Love showcases previously unreleased versions of both of these songs.
Starting on October 1, 1967, Chandler—the former Animals bassist who served the Experience as its producer—led the group back to Olympic Studios in London to resume work on what would become Axis: Bold As Love. Chandler was determined to help Hendrix make a critical leap forward creatively. He worked closely with Hendrix to prepare his new songs for recording and even took the unusual step of same day, double booking both Olympic and Regent Studios in London so that the group would have a firm handle upon the arrangements of Hendrix’s stock of exceptional new material. Surviving two-track demos from Regent include Hendrix’s unique hybrid “Stone Free,” which had been the b-side of his December 1966 debut single, together with an uptempo rendition of “Up From The Skies”.
Axis: Bold As Love was released in the UK and Europe in December 1967 to great acclaim and commercial success. In the US, where Are You Experienced had only just been issued in late August, Reprise issued the album in January 1968 where it too became a best seller. Evergreen favorites such as “Little Wing,” “Spanish Castle Magic” and “Castles Made of Sand” have been covered by countless artists throughout the world. The iconic “If 6 Was 9,” was used with dramatic effect as part of the soundtrack for the film Easy Rider.
The Bold As Love box set encompasses Hendrix’s effort to craft his definitive follow up to Are You Experienced. In addition to the demos made at Regent Sound, the collection showcases Hendrix’s unique creative approach to recording, drawing upon previously unreleased takes of songs from the Axis: Bold As Love album. These include previously unreleased alternate takes recorded at Olympic (“Spanish Castle Magic,” “You Got Me Floatin’,” “One Rainy Wish,” “Up From the Skies,” “Wait Until Tomorrow” and others) as well as alternate versions of songs, most notably “Castles Made of Sand” with a backwards guitar track, are also represented on Bold As Love. The Experience’s performances on British tv programs Top of the Pops and Dee Time, Dutch tv program Hoepla, and eight songs from a September 1967 concert in Stockholm round off the bonus tracks. Music journalist David Fricke and Experience Hendrix’s John McDermott provide comprehensive liner notes that tell the complete history of this exciting period for the band. Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. commented, “Jimi was fearless in his artistic expression. Each song, each lyrical composition was and is an invitation for those listening to be free to feel. His music was an unapologetic statement of how he perceived the world and all the emotions it evoked. Bold As Love is the creative embodiment of those feelings. The Bold As Love set masterfully reintroduces the beauty of Jimi’s musical depth, highlighting a significant segment of not just his career, but his life.”
The cover art, a drawing done by Jimi when he was five years old, was hand selected by his sister Janie. It was kept by their father, giving it added special meaning. “I thought it was perfect for this project. It’s a colorful dragon that depicts exactly what the song ‘Bold As Love’ is talking about — the empowerment of each color of the rainbow. I don’t believe there could be a better reflection of the message in the song.” Bold As Love vinyl tracklist:
LP ONE (AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX) SIDE A
EXP
UP FROM THE SKIES
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
AIN’T NO TELLING
LITTLE WING
IF 6 WAS 9 SIDE B
YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’
CASTLES MADE OF SAND
SHE’S SO FINE
ONE RAINY WISH
LITTLE MISS LOVER
BOLD AS LOVE
LP TWO (AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE ORIGINAL MONO MIX) SIDE A
EXP
UP FROM THE SKIES
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
AIN’T NO TELLING
LITTLE WING
IF 6 WAS 9 SIDE B
YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’
CASTLES MADE OF SAND
SHE’S SO FINE
ONE RAINY WISH
LITTLE MISS LOVER
BOLD AS LOVE
LP THREE SIDE A
MR. BAD LUCK [Take 6]*
SHE’S SO FINE [Take 4]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Take 30]*
THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Paramount Studios]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Instrumental]*
THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Instrumental]* SIDE B
STONE FREE/UP FROM THE SKIES [Demo]*
UP FROM THE SKIES [Take 2]*
AIN’T NO TELLING [Demo]*
AIN’T NO TELLING [Take 12]*
LITTLE MISS LOVER [Demo]*
ONE RAINY WISH [Take 1]*
YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’ [Take 1]*
UNTITLED GUITAR EXPERIMENT*
CASTLES MADE OF SAND [Take 16]*
LP FOUR SIDE A
BOLD AS LOVE [Take 19]*
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW [Take 2]*
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC [Take 2]*
LITTLE WING [Take 2]*
UNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL #1 [Take 3]*
UNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL #2 [Take 1]* SIDE B
LITTLE MISS LOVER [Alternate Version]*
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC [Take 4]*
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW [Take 14]*
CASTLES MADE OF SAND [Backwards Guitar]*
ONE RAINY WISH [Alternate Version]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Original Mono Mix]
THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Original Mono Mix]
LP FIVE SIDE A
SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND [Sweden]
FIRE [Sweden]
THE WIND CRIES MARY [Sweden]
FOXEY LADY [Sweden]
HEY JOE [Sweden]
I DON’T LIVE TODAY [Sweden] SIDE B
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Sweden]
PURPLE HAZE [Sweden]
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Dee Time]
PURPLE HAZE [Hoepla]*
FOXEY LADY [Hoepla]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Top Of The Pops]
*Previously unreleased recording
Bold As Love CD tracklist:
CD ONE (AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE ORIGINAL STEREO MIX)
EXP
UP FROM THE SKIES
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
AIN’T NO TELLING
LITTLE WING
IF 6 WAS 9
YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’
CASTLES MADE OF SAND
SHE’S SO FINE
ONE RAINY WISH
LITTLE MISS LOVER
BOLD AS LOVE
CD TWO (AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE ORIGINAL MONO MIX)
EXP
UP FROM THE SKIES
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW
AIN’T NO TELLING
LITTLE WING
IF 6 WAS 9
YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’
CASTLES MADE OF SAND
SHE’S SO FINE
ONE RAINY WISH
LITTLE MISS LOVER
BOLD AS LOVE
CD THREE
MR. BAD LUCK [Take 6]*
SHE’S SO FINE [Take 4]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Take 30]*
THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Paramount Studios]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Instrumental]*
THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Instrumental]*
STONE FREE/UP FROM THE SKIES [Demo]*
UP FROM THE SKIES [Take 2]*
AIN’T NO TELLING [Demo]*
AIN’T NO TELLING [Take 12]*
LITTLE MISS LOVER [Demo]*
ONE RAINY WISH [Take 1]*
YOU GOT ME FLOATIN’ [Take 1]*
UNTITLED GUITAR EXPERIMENT*
BOLD AS LOVE [Take 19]*
CASTLES MADE OF SAND [Take 16]*
WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW [Take 2]*
SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC [Take 2]*
LITTLE WING [Take 2]*
UNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL #1 [Take 3]*
BURNING OF THE MIDNIGHT LAMP [Original Mono Mix]
THE STARS THAT PLAY WITH LAUGHING SAM’S DICE [Original Mono Mix]
