She’s the songwriter behind 2015’s BMI Country Song of the Year (Brett Eldredge’s “Beat of the Music”), several No. 1 singles and music by Keith Urban, Kenny, Chesney, Maren Morris and more. Now the Nashville by way of Richardson, TX “creative force” (TIME) makes her proper debut with her first solo LP, inspired by a borrowed guitar from Jason Mraz, a trip to Joshua Tree, an Airbnb and a breakup.
Contact: Jaclyn D. Carter
At 22 years old, Marcus King has been a bandleader for a decade and was declared by Washington Post to be "music's next great guitarist." However, his band's daring and ambitious Dave Cobb-produced new album marks an artistic leap of another order. King grows his trademark blues-rock musicianship with a new narrative depth that explores heavy themes of leaving home, guilt, yearning, absolution and love.
Contact: Greg Jakubik
The “Prince of Americana” (New York Times) continues to grow on this sequel to last year’s roots-meets-basement-DIY EP. The new release finds the former Black Crowes guitarist starting a new chapter in his life: his first months of fatherhood, time off his relentless touring and a cross-country move from Brooklyn to his birthplace of Northern California. Whereas Vol 1 used Delta blues to explore modern society, Vol 2 embraces the bluegrass and folk of Greene’s youth.
Contact: Josh Page
In the five years since Muchacho, his best-reviewed and best-selling album to date, Matthew Houck fell in love, started a family, left New York for Nashville and built a studio from the ground up. His new album attempts to translate these life-altering experiences into music as intuitively as he could, harnessing the earthy and the incandescent glow of his new life.
Contact: Amy Bailey
The prolific musician and his band (featuring wife Lani Hall) perform beloved songs from a legendary catalog and beyond, with a residency at this legendary Upper East Side cabaret spot. His latest release, Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass, is out 10/19 via Herb Alpert Presents.
The prolific musician and his band (featuring wife Lani Hall) perform beloved songs from a legendary catalog and beyond, with a residency at this legendary Upper East Side cabaret spot. His latest release, Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass, is out 10/19 via Herb Alpert Presents.
The prolific musician and his band (featuring wife Lani Hall) perform beloved songs from a legendary catalog and beyond, with a residency at this legendary Upper East Side cabaret spot. His latest release, Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass, is out 10/19 via Herb Alpert Presents.
The prolific musician and his band (featuring wife Lani Hall) perform beloved songs from a legendary catalog and beyond, with a residency at this legendary Upper East Side cabaret spot. His latest release, Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass, is out 10/19 via Herb Alpert Presents.
The keyboardist's first album of original compositions in five years explores the different facets of the keyboard, from the Prophet 6 synth to Fender Rhodes to acoustic piano and beyond. Over 10 tracks, Escreet presents a thrilling snapshot of his provocative, envelope-pushing spirit in jazz and experimental music while also providing sonic commentary on the current state of the world.
Contact: Chris Taillie
After years of writing songs for others – including Miranda Lambert, Brent Cobb, Anderson East, Lee Ann Womack and Little Big Town – the Alabama songwriter finally tells his own story. Hood reflects on his blue-collar roots with a mix of swaying country ballads and roadhouse roots-rock jams, all recorded live to harness his raw sound on stage where overdubs and multiple takes are not options. This record, stripped free of studio tricks, shines a light on everyday experiences.
Contact: Jaclyn D. Carter
The first album Costello has made with The Imposters in a decade, and his first album since his acclaimed 2013 Roots collaboration, is beautiful in its simplicity. These 12 songs reflect a specific lyrical and sonic vision that combines the scope of Imperial Bedroom with the beauty of emotion of Painted From Memory. The album features three contributions by Burt Bacharach, who makes a guest appearance leading the Imposters from the piano on “Do Not Look Now” and “Photographs Can Lie,” as well the Carole King co-write “He’s Given Me Things.”
Contact: Amy Bailey
“Norway’s answer to Nick Drake” (NME) reunites with GRAMMY-winning producer Larry Klein (Herbie Hancock, Joni Mitchell) for his new album, which trades the GRAMMY-nominated singer’s Scandinavian homeland for balmy Los Angeles. The album ranges from the tear-jerking twang of “When I Go” to the wistful rock n’ roll of “Lifeline,” with “Can I Have It All” capturing the album’s intimate, airy feel. The atmosphere is central to the experience – “The Longest Night” even starts with the chirp of crickets and a striking match.
Contact: Spencer Roth-Rose
Co-produced by Roche and Indigo Girls producer Jordan Brooke Hamlin, Roche’s new LP is a sure-footed and powerful call to a world gone awry. Her album as a statement is highlighted by the lead single “Heroin,” a confessional tribute to the tough parts of love, and the stirring Matthew Perryman Jones duet “Quit With Me.” The LP has earned early praise from Paste, which calls “Heroin” “sonically hearty” and “lyrically creative” and praises her “ability to manage simplicity in a sad song is what makes it most impressive and effective.”
Contact: Grace Fleisher
The prolific musician and his band (featuring wife Lani Hall) perform beloved songs from a legendary catalog and beyond, with a residency at this legendary Upper East Side cabaret spot. His latest release, Music Volume 3: Herb Alpert Reimagines The Tijuana Brass, is out 10/19 via Herb Alpert Presents.
The pop songwriter trades electronic soundscapes for girl-group harmonies and piano-driven pop for her latest LP. Produced by GRAMMY winner Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Sia), this soulful departure was recorded live to tape in a London studio with a top-shelf cast of musicians who have recorded with Adele, Joe Strummer and Brian Eno.
Contact: Grace Fleisher
In honor of 21 years at the forefront of the folk protest tradition, the acclaimed GRAMMY-winning independent label releases a powerhouse triple album exploring two decades of their most revolutionary work, featuring new recordings by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Donovan, Tim Robbins, John Wesley Harding, Tom Russell and more. Across 57 tracks, each disc serves as a beacon of the label’s longstanding devotion to their three philosophies: truth-telling, preserving wisdom keepers both past and present and keeping the legacy of roots music alive for future generations.
Contact: Amy Bailey
The prolific musician revisits and transforms some of his most iconic songs on the latest addition to his Music Volume series. The reinvention of “A Taste Of Honey,” “Lonely Bull," “Spanish Flea” and other historic recordings are, according to Alpert, “scrambled up”; a mix of new arrangements, production and samples of the original tracks update these classic songs in fresh and surprising ways.
Contact: Chris Taillie
These 20-year-old identical twin sisters channel Celtic folk, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, and modern feminist critiques on their self-titled debut. Busking as a duo since age twelve, Brianne and Alanna Finn-Morris played over one hundred shows a year while in high school and developed the evergreen, harmony-heavy folk sound that flows throughout the album’s 12 tracks – six written by each sister.
Contact: Hannah Schwartz
The legend of stage, screen and spoken word gathers an eccentric cast of vanguards, icons and misfits for his first-ever holiday album. Henry Rollins, Iggy Pop, Brad Paisley, Judy Collins, Todd Rundgren, Billy Gibbons, Ian Anderson, Rick Wakeman and more help Shatner turn 13 holiday classics on their head. “Jingle Bells” now follows a rambunctious punk beat, “Blue Christmas” channels groovy honky-tonk and other tracks weave through jazz, blues, blues, bossa nova and beyond.
Contact: Natalie Maher
Merging a sonically progressive palette with a tasteful reverence for the past, the Burgin, KY native has crafted a slice of solid country gold — one that’s fueled by plainspoken lyrics and a rich baritone voice — on his Dave Cobb-produced debut. The album captures vivid snapshots of the people Carmichael grew up around: hardworking, bighearted folks taking life one day at a time, sticking together through the good times and the bad with honesty, dignity and faith.
Contact: Jaclyn D. Carter
Known for her prowess as a songwriter and tradition bearer who performs with "the skill of a folk-circuit veteran" (Rolling Stone), the Grenadian-Canadian artist takes a decidedly different turn for her Smithsonian Folkways Recordings debut. What started out as a search to discover the roots of her identity became a physical and emotional exploration of history — in particular, her paternal ancestry — and has led to bold new heights of her imagination and creative expression.
Contact: Andrea Evenson
This trenchant concept album by the Polaris-nominated and JUNO-winning MC holds a mirror to our world. Shad tells his incisive and uplifting story through disarmingly catchy songs that weave through issues of migration, environment, politics and, above all, the human spirit. Driving his sound is a swath of hip-hop beats, trap, funk and jazz featuring collaborations from genre-less luminaries (Kaytranada, 2oolman, Lido Pimienta), crafty indie rockers (Yukon Blonde) and Toronto rap vets (Ian Kamau, Eternia, DJ T Lo).
Contact: Spencer Roth-Rose
Recorded in December 2017 as part of Woodstock Sessions’ ongoing live-in-studio releases, Montbleau’s latest album features beloved hits and unreleased tracks. It is the best showcase yet of the New England-based musician’s mastery of acoustic songwriting and performance developed over a successful fifteen-year career.
Contact: Kerri Brusca
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