Ragas Live Festival, New York City’s biggest annual music drop, will stage a triumphant return as a 24-hour live event at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works in October.

Featured artists will include: Sid Sriram, Cryo Baptista, Parvathy Baul, Qasim Naqvi, Hamid AlSaadi, Manik Khan, Samir LanGus

2022 marks 50 years since Jim Croce released his breakout album, You Don’t Mess Around With Jim.  BMG celebrates the timeless album’s anniversary with 3 limited edition pressings on vinyl, CD, and cassette, complete with matching alternate gold-bordered cover artwork – available November 25, 2022.

Christmas with The Smithereens is more than a Christmas- time cover album. This quartet does an impressive job of channeling the spirt of 1960s rock, and solidly interpreting each memorable tune. The band’s originals add a nice twist to the disc and are written with such ‘60s-savviness that without prior knowledge it would almost be difficult to decide which songs were covers and which were originals.

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announced the American Vintage II Series, an electric guitar and bass line celebrating Fender’s iconic models through the decades, equipped with authentic specifications and aesthetics for lovers of vintage-inspired style and sound. During the monumental musical decades of the `50s, `60s and `70s, Fender forever reshaped the sonic landscape with its innovative electric guitar and bass designs.

Independent folk artist Jake Swamp and the Pine, brought to you by Drew Zieff, reflects on the feeling of being young and free with his single “Empty Stomachs and Bloodshot Eyes” out October 21st. Similar to his previously released single, “Don’t Be Afraid on Sundays,” this track invites the quintessential aspects of folk music that mingle with the raw, simple wonders of natures simplest (yet most enamoring) sensations like smelling the smoke from the campfire on a chilly fall evening.

The Naya Rockers are back with a remaster of their much-loved 2014 studio album, Naya Sound System. It features plenty of good vibes, irresistible riddims, and star collaborations across its nine tracks. Naya Sound System is due out Oct. 14th and will be available everywhere you stream music. Pre-save and download here: https://ffm.to/nayasoundsystem_pr

Montreux Jazz Festival and BMG today announce the next installment in The Montreux Years series with Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years. Available Friday, November 4, 2022, the album will be available in multi-format configurations, including superior audiophile heavy weight double vinyl, CD and on streaming services, in superlative HD MQA audio.

British acoustic singer-songwriter Steve Hewitt has a long-standing reputation of producing music from the heart, unafraid to deliver soul bearing lyrically honesty. He maintains this tradition with the release of his new single entitled Fly. A beautifully simple structured creation that emanates with Country overtones and carried by Hewitt's distinctive vocal tone and emotive delivery.

https://youtu.be/lfMWLt9J5U4

Self-confessed demented-pop artist Eddy Lee Ryder has been writing songs and performing them in quite the nomadic way since she was a teenager, but her new single “Smoke and Mirrors” ended up in a place even she couldn’t have imagined; a hardcore slasher horror film.

Combining Togolese festive and ritual rhythms, hypnotic voodoo melodies and provocative lyrics that speak to a new generation of young Africans, Togolese artist DOGO du Togo has managed to embody the heart and soul of modern Togo with his debut self-titled album DOGO du Togo (to be released Oct. 28, 2022).