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Playing soul favorites along with their heartwarming originals, the group, led by Noah Kibreab, a man with a sweet, husky voice and a gentle, emotional style of guitar playing, might lift spirits enough to ruin Thanksgiving and save Christmas.

Tiller has worked with some of the best artists out there—H.E.R. and Rihanna, to name a few—and his album Trapsoul went triple platinum. His second album, True to Self, debuted in the number-one slot on the Billboard 200.

Their sound is smooth and fuzzy simultaneously: extensive, expansive, big-M metal. The people who get mad when someone calls Metallica a jam band will love Source’s music. 

We weep for the poor, beautiful and often dead lady, every time. Opera San Jose understands the need to collectively grieve the Bohemian vision, even as we distance ourselves from the art that sustains us.

Blending Chinese folk instruments and western instruments, Stephanie Chou crafts music that is expansive to the mind and easy on the ears.

Elephino, a sphinx of elephantine and rhinocerotic origins, is also a band that plays mostly instrumental funk improv.

Her music has just the right amount of steel guitar (important!) and hits just right, like a warm cup of coffee on a cold winter morning—spiked with some yummy bourbon, making the drinker want to tap their feet, sway and dance to the joy and pain that is ’Murica.

The native Brit has a beautiful, husky, sweet voice, and her guitar playing evokes the kind of playfulness and confidence often associated with Jerry Garcia, but poppier.