“I never went looking for ghosts,” Melissa Ruth sings on the title song of her self-produced fourth album, Bones. “They walk alongside me wherever I go.”

BMG today releases the stunning live video performance of “Buana Buana King Kong’ from flamenco guitarist Paco De Lucía. The rare video is taken from Paco De Lucía’s performance at the 1984 Montreux Jazz Festival and appears on the upcoming release “Paco De Lucía: The Montreux Years”- out 24 February and available to pre-order now.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, GRAMMY award-winning bassist/producer Ben Williams and Broadway’s Nala Syndee Winters have returned with “Lifetime,” the latest single from Butterfly Black, a fresh new R&B duo that delivers bubbly, boogie-centric, and upscale R&B.

Sitting somewhere between world folk, modern classical, and tribal dance music, The Trouble Notes have traveled their way across the continents in search of different musical influences.

Float across oceans and time with the soulful melodies of Bennet’s violin, and Carola’s voice as your body pulses from the explosive energy via Florian’s guitar. Worldly percussion rhythms transport the audience across genres with an uplifting spirit, for which The Trouble Notes have become renowned around the world.

On Sunday February 5th the Recording academy hosted the 65th annual GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles, California. Defying expectations and sparking a level of national pride by his fellow Jamaicans, Kabaka Pyramid won Best Reggae Album for ‘The Kalling’.

Americana literary songsmith Karen Jonas’s sixth LP, The Restless (out Mar. 3), is a dark alt-country exploration of vulnerability. Each song is a confession that lands somewhere between nostalgia and doom. This mix of playful longing and earnest heartbreak crescendos into B-side opener “Rock the Boat,” which leaves Jonas prepared to walk straight into a river. The Restless is a visceral experience: you can feel the “lace and velvet” and taste “the bite of bourbon” on your lover’s tongue.

Los Angeles singer-songwriter-guitarist DAVID HAERLE is preparing for the release of his third full-length album El Camino Sierra, set for release on April 7. The 16-track collection traverses genres -- singer-songwriter, rock, pop and Americana -- with words inspired by his life, experiences, people and observations of all that surround him. One of those songs, “Electric Trucker,” is out today (1/20) alongside its official music video, which first debuted on Rock and Roll Globe.

North Carolina-based singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Chessa Rich releases “Julia” from the forthcoming album Deeper Sleeper, out April 7 via Sleepy Cat Records. Featuring Alex Bingham of Hiss Golden Messenger on bass and synths and Joseph Terrell of Mipso on background vocals, “Julia” is a treatise on the creative process, paying homage to the titular Julia Cameron and her 1992 book The Artist’s Way.

For an astonishing number of decades, alto, soprano, and baritone saxophonist Fostina Dixon has performed and recorded with a star-studded roster of musicians, from Frank Foster, Roy Ayers, and Abbey Lincoln, to Melba Liston, Gil Evans, and Marvin Gaye; has been one of the most accomplished artists on her instrument; and has been a master teacher to generations of students. Yet for all of her accomplishments, Dixon has only recorded a few albums as a leader.

Ned Luberecki and Stephen Mougin, who perform as the duo "Nedski & Mojo", release their new single "A River To Cross". The song premiered today on Hawkesbury Radio on Mike Kear's show "Music From Foggy Hollow" in Australia, and is available for downloading and streaming HERE.