Veteran singer-songwriter, guitarist, and storyteller Jamie James—frontman of the influential ’80s rockabilly trio The Kingbees, longtime member of Dennis Quaid & The Sharks, and collaborator with the late Harry Dean Stanton—will release his acclaimed solo album Straight Up on vinyl for the first time on September 12, 2025 via Oglio Records.

Los Angeles country artist Rosy Nolan releases her new single “How It Feels To Fall In Love” today, co-written with Ted Russell Kamp. The track pulses with fiddle, mandolin, Latin percussion, and Cajun legend Dirk Powell’s accordion, capturing the dizzying beauty and risk of opening your heart. Inspired by the rare queen of the night cactus flower, Nolan uses luminous imagery to reflect the fragile, fleeting nature of love.

Naya Rockers, in association with Floki Studios (Iceland), proudly present Higher Education, an 11-track benefit LP uniting some of the most respected names in reggae, ska, dub, and New Orleans R&B. Recorded across 15 studios in five countries and featuring Grammy-winning artists, engineers, and musicians, the album was created to support youth music education at Kingston, Jamaica’s historic Alpha School of Music.

The single is her fourth release in 2025 (of seven) and is taken from her forthcoming debut album of originals entitled Synthetic.

Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, proudly announces the release on VOD to the music documentary feature FINDING LUCINDA, which will be available to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, starting September 9, 2025.

It’s never one thing with Roger Glenn. A multifarious musical force, he’s cut a brilliant path across the jazz scene since the 1960s, collaborating with an improbable constellation of masters on a daunting array of instruments. Criminally under-documented as a leader, he reintroduces himself with the delicious blast of Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian jazz on the August 22, 2025 Patois Records release My Latin Heart. It’s his first new album since 1976’s Mizell Brothers-produced cult classic funk/jazz session Reachin’.
 

Music has always been a compass in dark times. From Dylan and Seeger to the Dead and beyond, artists have held a mirror to power and refused to let lies go unchallenged. Today, as Donald Trump doubles down on authoritarian tactics, mocks science, and waves away inconvenient truths as “hoaxes,” we are once again at a crossroads. Every day of silence is another day he tightens his grip.

That’s why Jesse Welles matters right now.

Prog-Rock supergroup DarWin today release a third track “Rising Distortion” off their upcoming new studio album, Distorted Mirror, out September 26 via OoS/Phantom Recordings. 

GRAMMY-winning saxophonist, producer, and sonic visionary Zem Audu—known for contributing to the music of Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, Kendrick Lamar, Doja Cat, Sabrina Carpenter, Lana Del Rey, and more—has announced his highly anticipated solo debut, his forthcoming EP You Can’t Catch Me, due out October 24th. The project’s first single, “You Can’t Catch Me,” arrives today alongside the announcement, with a daring new video, offering an electrifying first glimpse into Audu’s bold new sonic chapter.

Peter Stampfel, the Grammy-winning psych-folk pioneer and longtime champion of freak-folk and anti-folk, will release his eighteenth solo album, Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage Jingles, Prayers and Rounds, on September 19 via Jalopy Records. The project finds Stampfel reemerging in vibrant form, both creatively and vocally, following a long battle with dysphonia that once left him unable to sing.