Independent music label Heartcore Records has announced Heartcore for Home, the fourth installment in its Heartcore for the World outreach initiative. Building upon the highly successful Heartcore For Africa, Heartcore For India, and Heartcore for Ukraine projects, Heartcore for Home is designed to benefit children currently housed in German Red Cross refugee camps by providing access to music instruction, instruments, and group performance activities.

BIRDBRAIN was recorded live-off-the-floor in a barn in Baden, Ontario. Three songwriters and vocalists each add their range of critique and love for life in Ontario, along with vivid stories of traveling. These stories sing over guitar-driven warm funky and entrancing grooves, with exciting solo sections sweeping in and out on an album that is a kaleidoscope of TONE!

Zuffalo is Canadian guitar-driven, uplifting psychedelic rock act with folk and pop-based melodies and harmonies.

Texas-based Gulf Coast Records, which has been releasing exciting new blues/rock albums since 2018, has signed Milwaukee area-based guitarist/singer Dave Kalz and will release his debut CD, Relish, on June 25th.

Guitars Over Guns Organization (GOGO) is proud to release “The Rain May Be Pouring,” its first-ever album of original music to coincide with “Guitars Over Guns Day,” officially designated by Miami-Dade County. GOGO is a non-profit that delivers unique after-school, arts-based youth mentorship programs designed to creatively engage and empower vulnerable youth to take control of their life paths.

Award-winning musician Jennifer Porter will release her eighth album, SUN COME AND SHINE on June 22nd, Available for pre-order May 15th.  During preparation for her newest project, Porter’s transcendent songs and inimitable velvety voice attracted the attention of legendary drummer and music director Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, whose prodigious, decades-spanning body of work Jennifer had long admired.  Mr.

The leading contemporary performer of Sikh ‘Kirtan’ music, Manika Kaur continues to be the fastest selling and most popular contemporary Sikh solo artist in the world. As the very first person to place Kirtan in the European World Music Charts and views of her videos running in to the many millions, Manika’s music has not only received overwhelming praise from the global Sikh community, but has also transcended and touched the souls of music lovers from all walks of life throughout the world.

Austin’s fast rising multilingual folk fusion group, Ley Line, release their new single “En Busca del Agua” today on all digital platforms including Spotify, Apple Music, and more.

Growing from the friendship of Gann Matthews and Brad Grear, Honey Blazer chips the shale off rock-and-roll gems that draw from West Coast experimentalism and the best of Golden-Era songwriting. Growing Vine is the first single off their debut full-length, Lookin’ Up.

After shooting to the forefront of the UK folk/Americana scene with their debut album Wild Silence, The Wandering Hearts headed to the genre’s spiritual home of Woodstock at the start of 2020 to work on a follow-up. The result is their forthcoming self-titled album, which will be released on July 30th, which they have today launched with the new single “Gold”. It represents their first release under a new deal with Cooking Vinyl. Listen HERE.
 

Alan Doyle, Canadian national treasure and unofficial ambassador of Newfoundland's rich musical traditions, will release a new EP, Back to the Harbour - a collection of songs to celebrate his love of folk music – on May 21. The album was produced by Joel Plaskett at The New Scotland Yard in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Featured alongside Doyle on the album are Kendel Carson and Cory Tetford from his touring band, along with Plaskett himself.