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Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium is an expansive overview of American Black roots music.

Scholars, including Pete Seeger, pointed to instruments like the Wolof xalam or the Mandinka ngoni as possible antecedents, but it took the work of pioneering Gambian ethnomusicologist Daniel Laemou-Ahuma Jatta (who also wrote the album's foreword) to show the Senegalese and Gambian ekonting.

Grammy-winner Kali Uchis unveils a live performance video for her song “Melting.

Taylor Swfit has released new digital versions of 'Midnights,' featuring 'behind the song' versions of select album tracks.

Following their acclaimed 2020 debut Grave of a Dog, Lockstep Bloodwar pushes the duo's darkly-hued electronics to surprising new places with the addition an astounding menagerie of eclectic and celebrated collaborators, including YoshimiO (Boredoms / OOIOO), Claire Rousay, Frukwan (Gravediggaz/Stet

Spaghetti Eastern Music, the solo venture of genre-leaping NYC/Hudson Valley guitarist Sal Cataldi, is returning to the instrumental mode with the release of two new singles, 'A Scanner Darkly' and 'A Fresh Kill.

Berlin-based British artist Gemma Ray has been calmly clocking up a cool reputation as an independent maverick on the international underground since her debut in 2008.

Vevo, the world’s leading music video network, has announced its partnership with TikTok to create and program Trending on TikTok, a new weekly Vevo show rounding up the music videos of the top trending songs on TikTok, alongside clips of the creators utilizing these songs in their content.

The visuals to accompany the new album project are equally poignant - the video which will drop in a couple of weeks is once again directed by Luis Velasco and shot on Super 8 cameras.

RAYE has revealed the complete tracklist for the highly anticipated record set to include her current smash hit single “Escapism.

Since the release of their 2020 S/T, self released EP and most recent single “Through and Through” (Suicide Squeeze), the band have already shared the stage with accomplished peers Ceremony, Fiddlehead, Special Interest, Gulch, so on.

Bobby Weir shares a live version of “Greatest Story Ever Told” featuring Tyler Childers, recorded at the very special Radio City Music Hall performances last year celebrating his beloved debut solo album, Ace.

UK power-house IDLES have made their debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing “The Wheel” off their groundbreaking record CRAWLER, which received two GRAMMY® nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Rock Performance for album highlight “Crawl!”.

Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, Love As Projection is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop.

2023 finds Miley the strongest and most confident she’s ever been, with Endless Summer Vacation serving as a reflection of the strength she’s found in focusing on both her well-being.

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Bobby McFerrin, Nirvana, Ma Rainey, Nile Rodgers, Slick Rick 'The Ruler,' The Supremes, and Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart are the 2023 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipients; Henry Diltz, Ellis Marsalis and Jim Stewart are the Trustees Award recipients.

Love In The Void was largely recorded in Nashville, co-produced with Grammy nominated engineer Chad Howat.

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Multi-Platinum, GRAMMY®, BRIT, Golden Globe and Oscar winning artist/songwriter Sam Smith announced, GLORIA The Tour – their first North American run since 2018.

The track sets the stage for her eagerly awaited new album, Queen of Me.

Little Rock-based americana group, Ten Penny Gypsy is known for their down-to-earth and emotionally-charged music.

The Urban Acoustic Coalition bandleader has produced an album of guitar and vocals that is centered on stories.

The album was produced by band members Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris, half the tracks recorded at Figure 8 in Brooklyn, NY, the rest at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, MD with the very last song being a home recording.

Hippie Sabotage kicks off the year with one of their biggest career accomplishments to date, with their viral hit remix of Tove Lo’s “Habits (Stay High)” reaching 1B views on YouTube.