Guitar virtuoso Matteo Mancuso will release his debut album, 'The Journey', on July 21st via The Players Club/Mascot Label Group. He has revealed the first track from the album, "Drop D," which you can listen to here.

Youth on Record's Block Party and Community Celebration will bring together hundreds of community members on June 10th for a day-long youth-led music festival. This is a Youth Led and Youth Designed event with support from Youth on Record (YOR) Staff. The event will take place from 1pm-7pm at the Youth on Record Studio and neighboring streets. Plus, day-long performances will feature a talented lineup of YOR students!

Award-winning roots singer/guitarist JW-Jones new solo album, Everything Now, is out now on Solid Blues Records, distributed by Stony Plain. Joining him on the new disc are special guests Jimmie Vaughan, The Texas Horns, Rob McNelley, Stanton Moore and Gordie Johnson of Canadian roots monsters, Big Sugar, among others. JW penned the entire album with fellow Canadian legends Dick Cooper and Johnson (who also produced).

Matt Von Roderick, also known as Matt Shulman, takes the iconic song “Fly Me To The Moon” and makes it soar with a celestial new rendition.

If Django Reinhardt, Dmitri Shostakovich and Claude Debussy ever sat down to write an album, the result may not have been too far from violinist Tobie Medland’s vision for The Aviary (July 7th, Future Fable Records).

Known for his work on the gypsy jazz scene - including as founder of the Gypsy Jazz Festival of London - Medland presents a refined, modern, avante-garde and genre spanning take on a style which rose to popularity almost 100 years ago.

Today, LA-based multi-instrumentalist rocker Graham Czach shares his genre-bending full length concept album Originalien out everywhere now via Ropeadope. Alongside the release of the full project, Czach shares the birth story of the album with the momentous track and video, "DOB 2023" out now.

Celebrated musician Terry Gibbs, whose remarkable career spans over eight decades, is set to delight audiences once again with the release of his highly anticipated album, The Terry Gibbs Songbook. This momentous album, which pays homage to Gibbs' exceptional talent as both a composer and a vibraphone player, features 15 original songs, all penned by the jazz icon himself.

The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame announced today the six inductees that will comprise the 2023 class scheduled to be enshrined during the annual induction ceremony on October 19 at the Mooresville (N.C.) Performing Arts Center. The 2023 inductees are:

Brennen Leigh is premiering the official video for her trucker song "Carole with an E" with Holler, who writes: "Like the other songs on Ain’t Through Honky Tonkin’ Yet,' ’Carole With an E’ echoes the best of the era, when bluegrass-fuelled tunes, beer soaked honky-tonk ballads and hard-country weepers burst forth from AM transistor radios. The album’s country roots run deep, with guests like Marty Stuart and Rodney Crowell and a line-up of top-flight musicians."

Latin GRAMMY Award-nominated and virtuoso jazz harpist Edmar Castañeda releases his latest studio album, Viento Sur, featuring his World Ensemble on Friday, May 5, 2023. Castañeda follows up seven albums (Cuarto de Colores; Entre Cuerdas; Double Portion; Live at the Jazz Standard; Live In Montreal; Harp vs. Harp, Family) with his latest recording project, Viento Sur, with a nine-person ensemble of acclaimed global musicians from Switzerland, Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Chile, USA, Argentina, and Colombia.