No barriers. No boundaries. That's always been Ghalia Volt's approach to American roots music.

Jobi Riccio knows that while a quiet heart-to-heart can solve many problems, sometimes the heart needs a giant, all-caps billboard, especially when the world around that massive sign gets louder by the day. As each new track on her new album Face the Feeling (due May 15th via Yep Roc Records) unveils, Riccio faces another inescapable emotion as if it were a billboard screaming into view as she hurtles down the highway. And rather than turn away from their challenge, Riccio faces those uncomfortable moments with the thrill of self-discovery, reveling in growth and change as facts of life.

Lemoncello, the Dublin based duo of singer songwriter Laura Quirke and cellist arranger Claire Kinsella, release their second album, Perfect Place, via Claddagh Records. Co-produced by Ruth O’Mahony Brady (Lisa O’Neill, Gorillaz) in Dublin, Perfect Place evolves from the band’s folk soaked roots of their critically acclaimed 2024 self-titled debut, the record encompasses full band recordings that weave synths and electronic percussion into the duo’s organic sound.

Emmy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, and composer Ingrid Michaelson releases 1st new solo record in five years. "I haven't released a full-length solo record since 2019," Michaelson said. "I really wanted to put something out in the world that felt a little different from what I had released before, but also kind of a returning home. Something a little quieter, something a little hopeful, something for those of us who can't help but keep dreaming despite the darkness, and all under the sonic umbrella of the vintage vibes of decades past. Most recently, Ingrid composed and shepherded the highly-acclaimed Original Broadway Cast Recording of The Notebook on Atlantic Records.

The Putumayo Discovery series continues with the digital album, Women of the World, a celebration of women’s voices from around the globe that features 10 remarkable artists from Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America.

Global Women is a captivating musical journey that celebrates female voices from diverse cultures. Blending contemporary, acoustic melodies and traditional sounds from around the world, these 10 singers from Brazil, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Norway, India and beyond, pay tribute to the unique traditions, languages and stories of their homelands.

Forged from the fire of internal struggles, Loraine was wrestling with confidence and a desire for change when she embarked on this album. A guiding hand came through producing 2025's 'Clandestine EP' with singer Anysia Kym, which gave her the experience of a more 'pop' setting and the tools and insight to work her instrumentals into more conventional shapes.

8 years after their last LP Kites, Submotion Orchestra return with their long awaited sixth studio album, the remarkable Passed Me By. A deeply personal journey into memory, creativity, and the passing of time, it shows the band continuing to push their signature electronic sound forward, and the result is some of the boldest and most emotional territory of their storied career.

Highly acclaimed Gumbaynggirr and Noongar artist Emma Donovan today releases her powerful new album "Take Me To The River” via Civilians. A deeply personal and culturally resonant body of work, the album sees Donovan reconnecting with memory, and place - guided by the enduring presence of water as a source of healing, community, and spirit.

Six-time GRAMMY® Award winner and 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree Amy Grant has announced her new album The Me That Remains, arriving May 8 via Thirty Tigers. Produced by ten-time CMA Award winner and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Mac McAnally, the project marks Grant’s first collection of all-original songs in 13 years.

Lykke Li’s The Afterparty is a journey through the night, turning the collective feeling of hopelessness into a celebratory revenge. With hooky choruses, maximalist arrangements and “apocalyptic bongos,” The Afterparty asks the eternal question. It’s 4am: can we have one last euphoric dance before the hangover crushes us?

This program brings together the work of three hugely significant alto saxophonists and composers whose musical aspirations were broader and more aspirational than their well know cannon of jazz tunes might reveal at first glance. Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Oliver Nelson were all tied together in a “yearnin’” (to quote an Oliver Nelson tune title) to create primarily notated compositions with a large-view structure and scope, and to score these pieces for non-standard jazz instrumentations.

It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like “Maps” or “Zero” or the latest addition to their canon, “Spitting off the Edge of the World featuring Perfume Genius” — an epic shot-to-the- heart of pure YYYs beauty and power.

Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, known professionally as Connie Francis, was an American singer and actress. One of the top-charting female vocalists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, she amassed over 200 million records sold, placing her among the best-selling music artists in history.

Named after the Japanese word for chameleon, Susan Wong’s twelfth album Kamereon highlights the Hong Kong-born singer’s unerring ability to bring a fresh, new complexion to a wide range of songs taken from different musical genres. Aided by her producer, the Osaka-born saxophonist Hisatsugu Suzuki, and his band, Wong has created a stylish jazz album brimming with her trademark soulful vocals drizzled over syncopated grooves.