The 21-year-old Bay Area rock ‘n’ roller comes to grips with the dark noir of his home state on his debut LP. Jaffe’s new-wave power-pop-inspired songwriting, already praised by Entertainment Weekly, Paper Magazine and others, now channels the visceral energy of Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, Alfred Hitchcock and Raymond Chandler.
Contact: Allen Nguyen
The fifth album from the trio from North Carolina's Golden Triangle represents a reset, the discovery of a new group voice. Produced by John Vanderslice (Spoon, The Mountain Goats), the new music showcases experiments in songwriting using data analysis and bears the influence of early Paul Simon, Cat Stevens and The Incredible String Band. The resulting 11 songs are meticulously crafted, yet accessible and unadorned.
Contact: Spencer Foster
The GRAMMY-winning East LA Chicano rock group’s new album is their second release in Folkways’ Tradiciones/Traditions series. These 18 new songs continue the band’s "artivist" efforts to fight oppression and bring people together with culturally diverse soundscapes that incorporate traditional son jarocho, Cuban batá, funk, Chicano rock, soul and rhythm and blues. The record's many guests include Aloe Blacc, Ramón Gutiérrez, Rocío Marrón, César Castro and Joey De Léon.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
Alynda Segarra follows Hurray's 2014 breakout Small Town Heroes with a cinematic concept album inspired by her own journey as a Puerto Rican woman in search of identity and community from the South Bronx to the downtown punk scene and beyond, with Hurray delving deep into Latin rhythms, searing rock, street corner doo-wop and incisive ballads.
Contact: Amy Bailey
For her much-anticipated new album, the Tennessee-bred, Brooklyn-based songwriter weaves electric blues, African rhythms, cosmic atmospherics and delicate soul into 12 new, original tracks.
Contact: James Rainis
Millions of streams and topped viral charts later, the Brooklyn songstress releases a self-titled EP that displays her evolved fusion of shadowy pop, vulnerable R&B and chilling electronic influences that The Fader calls, “mesmerizing.”
Contact: Max Lefkowitz
David Fricke calls the Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi-led ensemble’s second live album and first concert film “a new peak in the continuing story of a great American rock & roll family band.” In addition to its 15 live tracks, the video also features extensive behind-the-scenes footage, Trucks’ recent visit to Marc Maron’s garage for the WTF! Podcast and an interview with Trucks and Tedeschi conducted by Fricke for SiriusXM Satellite Radio.
Contact: Spencer Foster
The virtuosic, shape-shifting guitarist/composer and Esperanza Spalding collaborator releases his second album as a bandleader, a kinetic exploration of harmony and rhythm driven by masterful playing and singular melding of experimental, jazz and rock. NPR’s Nate Chinen praises album opener “Picture Window” as music that “advances the ideals of modern jazz even when, sonically speaking, it gestures in other directions.”
Contact: Max Lefkowitz
Inspired by the nights of her adopted homes of London, NYC and LA, as well as the polar excitement of love and loss, the pop auteur showcases her evolution of dance floor-cool with this four-song EP. These new songs feature production contributions from Tom Fuller, Me Not You and RKCB, and they orbit the same meticulous, metallic pop universe created by Robyn and Kate Bush.
Contact: Allen Nguyen
The Oklahoma native pushes her eccentric warble and dark humor to center stage on this collection of pop-minded, art punk-influenced tracks produced by John Vanderslice (Spoon, The Mountain Goats) and recorded completely analog on a Neve 8068 console. Expect dark humor, earnest humanity and plenty of hook-driven anthems.
Contact: Spencer Foster
Co-produced by the late legend “Cowboy” Jack Clement and featuring a John Prine duet, this album – a giant leap forward for the Nashville poet and songwriter’s old-school country and folk storytelling – was one of Clement’s final projects and was lost for years after a fire destroyed Clement’s studio. The record's restoration gives its title a more literal meaning.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
Eight songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s runaway Broadway sensation get the lullaby treatment, turning sweeping percussion, rapid-fire rapping and soaring singing into upbeat yet tranquil lullaby jams for the whole family.
Contact: Allen Nguyen
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