Just yesterday beloved singer-songwriter Martin Sexton released his new EP 2020 Vision, available everywhere through Kitchen Table Records. His first new release in six years, the 4-song collection snapshots moments of clarity during the past year and beyond. Stream or purchase 2020 Vision HERE.
 

Pat Metheny has released SIDE-EYE NYC (V1.IV) today, the recording debut of his SIDE-EYE trio project featuring the 20-time GRAMMY winner accompanied by a handpicked and rotating selection of, as he puts it, “newer generation musicians who have particularly caught my interest along the way.” Throughout SIDE-EYE NYC’s eight compositions, Metheny completely reinvents his classics including “Better Days Ahead” and “Timeline” alongside brand new and characteristically genre-defying work revealed for the first time.

Back in the studio after beginning to return to live performance, Organic Records’ Jon Stickley Trio serves up another round of the acoustic guitar-violin-drum ensemble’s immediately recognizable sound with “Golden Eagle.” Combining the passionate intensity of in-the-moment improvisation with a witty, sophisticated approach to composition, “Golden Eagle” is a quintessential Trio number that goes a long way in explaining their growing appeal to fans from across the musical spectrum.

“We can play a country church in Mississippi, or we can draw a crowd at a hipster club in Brooklyn. We connect with a wide-ranging audience,” says veteran musician Walter Parks, speaking of the music on his forthcoming album, The Unlawful Assembly (out Sept. 10 via Atomic Sound). “The joy, gratitude, pain and yearning in these songs is universally felt.”
 

Rising Nashville indie quintet Future Crib have released their excellent new album Full Time Smile today -- stream it in full HERE, and watch the video for album highlight "Miserable" HERE. The band begins its U.S.

Fort Lowell Records has announced a November 5 release for the compilation album Luz de Vida II: A Compilation to Benefit Homicide Survivors, and released Gabriel Naïm Amor's "La Nuit Pour Nous Deux" today on all streaming platforms. The album was featured at Consequence and Glide Magazine this week, and will be released in partnership with Homicide Survivors, Inc and JFCS of Southern Arizona to coincide with the All Souls Procession Weekend of November 5-7.