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Grammy-nominated blues artist Kenny Neal is recovering after suffering what his family described as a major heart attack.

The news was shared on Neal’s social media channels in the following statement:

“Kenny Neal’s immediate family would like to inform everyone that Kenny survived a major heart attack this past Saturday in Louisiana. After an intense effort to save his life, he is now stable and recovering in the ICU. We would like to thank the incredible medical staff who have been providing exceptional care to Kenny.

Our family is requesting privacy at this time, as he is not yet out of the woods. Please keep Kenny in your thoughts and prayers, and we will provide an update in due time.”

One of the most respected figures in modern blues, Neal earned a Grammy Award nomination in 2017 for “Best Contemporary Blues Album” for Bloodline. The acclaimed release also earned two honors at the Blues Music Awards and further cemented Neal’s reputation as one of the genre’s leading artists.

Neal was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in May.

Born into a musical family, Neal has spent decades carrying forward the swamp blues tradition while blending elements of soul, funk, and contemporary blues. Throughout his career, he has released numerous acclaimed albums and become a fixture on blues festival stages.

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Know dreams are just for the lonely
But this one is my only
And in the search I found it
I have the key, the lock had to admit

Lost and Found, the second single from CD Ghost’s forthcoming album When The Rain Stops, begins with a private loss: the disappearance of an inner light, the kind a person may spend years trying to recover without knowing exactly where it went. Built around glossy guitars, a moody groove, and Cody Han’s most vulnerable and direct vocal performance yet, the track turns that search into something intimate and open-ended. A voice becomes the way back. A dream becomes a shelter. Speech becomes the fragile thread keeping two people from dissolving into silence, sleep, and distance.

That emotional center gives the song its ache and lift. CD Ghost expands their dream-pop language into indie rock here, bringing out the warmth of guitars and the plainspoken power of a melody that feels close enough to touch. Inspired by the duo’s early high school indie bands, Lost and Found understands how a single dream can become a compass, then a burden, then a source of identity so deep that passion and obsession begin to blur. The song lives inside that blur, but it never loses its pop instinct. It carries longing with a clean melodic line, letting the feeling rise without forcing it into spectacle.

The official video, directed, edited, and colored by Blake Dimas and Cody Han, finds the perfect visual counterpart in something wonderfully simple: the band practicing the old-fashioned way, in a garage, captured with a VHS-style softness that makes everything feel close, casual, and unguarded. With camera work by Sarah Mae Martin and a special guest appearance from Julian Sharwarko (Harsh Symmetry, Omnihell) on bass, the clip brings the song down to earth without dulling its romance. It is all cables, instruments, worn-in walls, easy movement, and the quiet electricity of people playing together because the song has called them into the same room.

The video shows Cody Han and Blake Dimas in a setting where music feels less like a product and more like a proof of life. The grain of the image, the relaxed body language, and the lack of overstatement make the performance feel like a memory still warm from being lived. You can almost sense the hours behind it: the teenage bands, the unfinished songs, the hope that survived bad days and distance.

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As a preview of When The Rain Stops, out July 31 via Born Losers Records, Lost and Found suggests a record made for people trying to hold onto hope while the world loosens around them. CD Ghost balance glossy synths, warm guitars, dance beats, and laid-back drums with a rare emotional clarity. The video keeps that clarity intact, reminding us that sometimes the most romantic image in music is still a band in a garage, reaching together for the same light.

Listen to Lost and Found below, and order the album via Bandcamp here or directly through the label here.

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Following overwhelming demand and a string of sold-out performances, beloved singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso, Diesel, has announced a brand new spring edition of his acclaimed BY REQUEST tour, taking his uniquely audience-driven live experience to 22 venues across New South Wales and Victoria this September, October and November. Returning to regional stages after the enormous […]

The fall trek will see support from Dying Wish and Gaerea

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The intimate fall run features support from Ryan Perdz

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Producer Ted Templeman says Van Halen’s Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love is his favourite song from all those he’s worked on

The two-day festival will feature more than 100 artists across multiple genres

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South London’s Cloud Studies make dreampop feel porous, as if every guitar line has been left in the rain and every vocal has learned to pass through plaster. The trio of Adam Cresswell, Martin J Langthorne, and Michael Malley describe their sound as “gothgaze,” and on Hiding Place, the closing track from their self-titled debut EP, that identity comes into sharp relief: shoegaze mass and dreampop haze pulled toward post-punk pressure, with a darker psychological charge running beneath the surface.

Musically, Hiding Place shows Cloud Studies at their darkest and most direct. The layered guitars open out into great sheets, yet a taut low-end pressure keeps the track from floating away. Adam Cresswell’s vocals sit inside the mix like a presence glimpsed through curtains: intimate, distant, and difficult to place. Around him, Martin J Langthorne and Michael Malley’s guitars add abrasive edges that rub against the more lustrous wash of the arrangement, while bass and synths pull the song deeper into its unsettled atmosphere.

The band’s influences are quite evident: Slowdive’s hazy textures, The Cure’s catchy rhythms and emotional structure, Joy Division’s tension, and vocals reminiscent of Jim Reid from The Jesus and Mary Chain; they blend these influences freely. Hiding Place embodies shoegaze, dreampop, goth, and post-punk, all while maintaining the loose vibe of a band still exploring the boundaries of their sound. The outcome is striking but never calming. Each surge of noise amplifies the feeling of ongoing pursuit.

Hiding Place is a song that explores obsession, stalking, and the uneasy space between fascination and fear, and the video follows that emotional logic without turning it into blunt drama. Filmed by Abi Moore and edited by Cloud Studies guitarist Martin J Langthorne, the clip places the band inside a field of superimposed images, psychedelic colour, blurred forms, and visual interference. Performance becomes less a fixed document than a signal passing through damaged glass. Faces and bodies appear, dissolve, and return, caught between presence and disappearance, as if the viewer has been made complicit in an act of watching that has already gone too far.

Watch the video for Hiding Place below:

Across the debut EP, Cloud Cartography (Extended), Dreams About, Avenue, and Hiding Place trace a widening arc through shoegaze, dreampop, ambient texture, folktronica detail, and post-punk dread. Releasing June 19 2026, physically via The Weird Beard and digitally via Happy Robots, the record presents Cloud Studies as a band with a firm sense of atmosphere and appetite. As its final statement, Hiding Place leaves the door slightly ajar.

You can catch Cloud Studies on July 4th at Hyde Park Book Club (HPBC) in Leeds, UK!

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“I don’t think there’s a song on the first record without a reference to someone getting shot, stabbed, degraded, or insulted”