Fawn’s Enemy is a view straight into my heart. Some of it is an earnest admission of defeat, some of it is an assertion of personal power, all of it is ripped from the pages of my journals. I would describe this record as feminist to its core. I’d call it an indie folk record, deeply inspired by Gillian Welch, Fiona Apple, Damien Rice, Big Thief, and more outright country artists like The Chicks and Tyler Childers. Who is Fawn’s Enemy? Oftentimes, Fawn’s Enemy is Fawn herself. She can be tender, she can be spiteful, she can be self-destructive, she can be strong-willed and self-assured. I’m burdened with both an honesty compulsion and a penchant for melodrama. I made an agreement with myself before I wrote this record that every word on it would come solely from me, so Fawn’s Enemy feels, to me, both uncompromised and unfiltered.
“Fawn’s Rage” is the crux of this entire record, the foundation that it was built around. Once I recognized the ways the Fawn Response appeared for me in my day-to-day life, my creative world started to light up. Writing, recording, and producing this record was empowering and terrifying at the same time, so putting it out feels like the ultimate emotional release. My biggest hope that it provides some healing for listeners and I hope people receive it as an invitation to become closer with themselves.
Tracklist:
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Dawn
I Can't Even Touch Myself
Maybe In Your House
Fawn's Rage
Rocky Loves Whitney
Hills
This All Used to be Woods
Whittle
UPC: 732388033287Label: Maddie MedleyRelease Date: 9.25.26Format: CD
Magic Tuber Stringband act in communion with the natural world around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio are leaders within the burgeoning Avant-Folk world. Growing up in Appalachia studying the folk traditions of the region in tandem scientific and observational work in nature, their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of the landscape. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation. Heavy Water addresses the impact of nuclear production on the environment and the communities within, a musical evocation of destruction and resilience, an embrace of dissonance and tension within moments of transcendence. The inspiration for Heavy Water is rooted in fiddler Courtney Werner's work as an ecologist in rural South Carolina.Werner explains:"The town of Ellenton, South Carolina was the largest of the towns displaced in 1952 by the U.S. federal government to build the Savannah River Plant, which produced radioactive materials for U.S. nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The former site of Ellenton was dedicated to the extraction of 'heavy water,' whereas other areas of the plant focused on manufacturing weapons-grade plutonium and tritium within nuclear reactors. Heavy water is chemically altered to be denser than normal water and is incredibly expensive and time-consuming to synthesize, requiring 52 gallons of river water to produce one fluid ounce. It's denser properties made it valuable for use within the nuclear reactors on the site."Heavy Water is more than a collection of songs. It is a work whose compositions are entirely modern. Played on traditionally folk acoustic instruments, it defies expectations and emotionally addresses the pain of lives human, flora or fauna irrevocably changed by dominant forces and defiantly persevering.
Tracklist:
Death of Ellenton
Marker of a Drowning
Sound of a Million Stars
Woodpeckers
Scintillation
Blooms in the Rapids
Tribute to the Angels
Where the Place Becomes Forgetting
Wintering Grounds
Soft and Pliable
Dog-Headed Man
UPC: 790377065725Label: Thrill JockeyRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Maisy Owen, a Nashville native, has been surrounded by music and the art of songcraft just about all her life. First came the viola at the age of 9, then guitar where she embraced fingerpicking while soaking in influences from Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Mazzy Star and David Olney. Raised in a musical family, her father Gwil Owen is an Academy Award-nominated songwriter. 'Dark on a Sunny Day' is her debut album.
Tracklist:
My Youth is All For You
Letters
Dark on A Sunny Day
The Rest of Me
On My Way Down
I Can Be Just Like You
God Fear
It All Ends the Same
UPC: 850052454135Label: Tompkins SquareRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
For more than a decade, Mama's Broke, the Canadian duo of Amy Lou Keeler and Lisa Maria, have forged a style carried across landscapes rather than tied to one. Their forthcoming 12-song LP Reunion follows years in near-constant motion, bringing their folk-without-borders approach to small clubs, DIY spaces, and everywhere in between.Reunion reflects a world coming apart in plain sight, tracing fractured communities, the erosion of shared ground, and the growing awareness that the systems we were taught to trust no longer hold or deliver the promises they were meant to keep. The songs don't preach or prescribe; they reflect, holding up a mirror and leaving space for something else to take shape.Sonically, Reunion moves with quiet intimacy. These are the kinds of songs shared around campfire flames or in small, attentive rooms, where every detail matters. The arrangements are delicate and stripped back. There's something in their harmonies that lingers, quiet and haunting, hard to shake. The effect is timeless: it feels less recorded than remembered, as though it's been carried here, passed between voices, and held close. It's the sound of something older than the room it's played in, something that, once heard, feels like it's always been there.
Tracklist:
Failing
Heaven
Build It Up
All Alone
The Nameless
The Forsaken Lover
Wildflowers
Dig Deep and Win Wisely
Bridges
Fifolet Waltz
Old-Fashioned Love Song
No Great Reunion
UPC: 877746013126Label: Free Dirt RecordsRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: CD
Before setting to work on her 4th album "I Am Both", the New York-based singer/songwriter Margaret Glaspy assembled a selection of songs that span from fictional vignettes to unguarded self-revelation to empathetic observation of the troubled world around her. Produced by three-time Grammy winner Joe Henry (Aimee Mann, Joan Baez) at New York City’s Reservoir Studios, "I Am Both" brings Glaspy’s disarmingly direct vocals and eloquent guitar work to a cathartic form of folk-leaning indie-rock.
Tracklist:
Michigan
Reminder
That Rose
I Thought She Was Song
Petty
Common Ground
James and Marie
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sharp Knife
Wildest Dreams
I Am Both
UPC: 880882697822Label: Ato RecordsRelease Date: 8.7.26Format: CD
Recorded in Denver, Colorado on January 30, 1974 and broadcast on European radio networks, this performance captures Maria Muldaur just as her solo career was taking off. Performing songs from her early repertoire, she moves between blues, folk, country, and jazz-influenced material with the style that made her debut album a success. The set includes a live take on her signature hit "Midnight at the Oasis" and offers a snapshot of Muldaur on stage during one of the most important moments of her career.
Tracklist:
Me And My Chauffeur Blues
Any Old Time
Midnight At The Oasis
In My Tennessee Mountain Home
Sweet Potatoes
Three Dollar Bill
I Never Did Sing You A Love Song
Walkin' One And Only
The Work Song
Earl's Crab Shack
Georgia On My Mind
I'm A Woman
UPC: 630428400429Label: Audio Files RecordsRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: CD
Marisa Anderson's music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections of artistry and expression with form and tradition. Anderson crafts pieces bursting with equal parts reverence and curiosity, contouring familiar shapes into work that is wholly her own. Anderson has spent decades mining the veins of the complicated, interconnected American folk traditions she was steeped in from a young age, stretching beyond those traditions and incorporating the vocabulary and techniques of vernacular folk music from around the world into her work. Eschewing replication or revival, Anderson's music lives in conversation with tradition. "My approach to tradition is with the hands that I have and the history that I have," notes Anderson. "In that way it's a collaboration-you don't go into collaboration trying to play like the other person, you go in trying to find out how to play together."The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music is drawn from nearly one thousand songs culled from the private record collection of the late Harry Smith. For this record, Anderson works on music from places that the United States has been in conflict with since 1970: Southeast Asia, the USSR and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world. In Volume 1 Anderson presents her own deeply personal iterations of nine songs from the Anthology. Composed, transcribed and arranged through a process of trial and error, deep listening and research, Anderson charts a musical course across the globe. Each piece on the album stands as a dialogue between Anderson and the original source recordings, refracted through the prism of her unique musical lens. Anderson's contribution to this dialogue ultimately invites asks: "Who are the people we've been told in our lifetimes are "unamerican?" What have we lost or been denied access to in the fallout from that label?"
Tracklist:
Quodibet
Rababa
Sarvi Dimin
Taquism for Guitar
Zar
Pair of Duduk
Rop Koh
Hamd
Whistle Song
UPC: 790377065428Label: Thrill JockeyRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Every great song is essentially a secret told to a stranger. And when the truth is clear, the stranger recognizes themselves in it. Mary Bragg describes the title Secrets to Strangers as a ""zoomed-out representation"" of her latest release, a collection of deeply personal stories offered to the outside world. ""All these spaces are invitations to share a truth for the sake of connecting your own experience to another human being's,"" Bragg says.Across twelve songs, she approaches memory, longing, and self-acceptance with grace and lyrical finesse. Recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, a legendary room that captured landmark records by Aretha Franklin, Etta James, and countless others, one gets the sense, as more of Bragg's songs go to tape, that what is taking place will be a major career breakthrough. The hooky ""Kid Flamingo,"" the bossa-tinged ""I Like It Here,"" a poetic embrace of life's messiness: all come to life with co-producers Ben Tanner and John Paul White, stretching Americana to include indie rock, pop, early '80s radio vibes, and southern soul. ""It's geographically neutral,"" Bragg says. ""I like that it's not trying to satisfy the bounds of one genre."" A dream team of players including Chad Gamble (Jason Isbell's 400 Unit), bassist Zac Cockrell (Alabama Shakes), and guitarist/keyboardist Jay Gonzalez (Drive-By Truckers) helped build the album alongside collaborators Maia Sharp, Mindy Smith, and John Paul White.Bragg has quietly become one of Americana's most admired artists. NPR called her breakout Lucky Strike ""one of the year's best,"" and Rolling Stone praised Violets as Camouflage for it's ""mix of classic country twang and gentle chamber-pop."" A Berklee-trained producer herself, she handed off production duties this time, wanting to ""expand what the songs could become in a way that was newly open to possibility.""The result is an album about giving yourself permission to enter a day without all the answers. ""I hope that people who hear the record will immediately feel called to honor their own voices,"" Bragg says, ""to hear their own joy and pain, and say, 'Yeah, that's me too.'""
Tracklist:
Kid Flamingo
Hi-Fi
Secrets to Strangers
What Do I Do
Champion Sleeper
Easy
Way Back When
Stop Thinking
I Like It Here
The Game
Speaking Different Languages
UPC: 617308065503Label: Single Lock RecordsRelease Date: 10.16.26Format: CD
Reckoning is a dense, carefully nuanced, profoundly complex text, though all nine songs are presented as directly as possible: Mary's voice, her guitar, bits of harmonica. Folk music, of a kind, but not a broadside. Nothing so easy as that. Topical songs with a long view, because she's seen and lived too much of it.
Mary's most celebrated songs — “I Drink,” “Mercy Now,” “Drag Queens in Limousines” — are confessional stories, closely observed, clear-eyed and compassionate. She sings with the unmistakable languor of her native Louisiana, writes with the bluntness of Boston, where she was once a successful restauranteur, and rewrites with the fierce precision of Nashville, her home for many years. Her 2018 release, Rifles & Rosary Beads, co-written with wounded Iraq war veterans, received a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album, and an Americana Music Association nomination for Album of the Year. During Covid she wrote and saw published (by MacMillan) Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting, part memoir, part reflection on songwriting, through the lens of her most impactful songs.
“A reckoning,” Mary Gauthier writes on the outer sleeve to her newest album, “can be personal, political, or spiritual. These songs inhabit all three realms at once.”
Tracklist:
Alcohol and Adderall
Heaven
Judgement Day
Reckoning
Soldier of Fortune
Some Times
Black Ice
Gone
Thought I Heard a Train
UPC: 732388037087Label: In The BlackRelease Date: 9.25.26Format: CD
Chicago singer-songwriter Max Subar laid down the bones of Anything Could Be, his debut album, in a house on the shore of a frozen lake in Wisconsin. Subar returnedto the sonic and spiritual landscape he'd cultivated during the initial ten day session, remaining present in that moment by working when he could truly occupyit's heart. Most of the additional sessions that add texture and color to the album were recorded in Subar's home studio, in the same house where Case Oats, the CaseyGomez-Walker-led outfit in which Subar plays guitar, recorded their 2025 debut Last Missouri Exit. His brother, Sam Subar, played drums. Further instrumentation was provided by Case Oats bandmates Spencer Tweedy (drums on "I Never" and "Way Up"), Jason Ashworth (upright bass), and Scott Daniel (violin), as well as frequent collaborators Chet Zenor (electric guitar), Kelly Hannemann (piano), and Sarah Weddle (vibraphone, organ, and electric piano).The arrangements that took shape are generous and illuminative, giving flesh to the bones of Anything Could Be's live guitar and vocal takes without sacrificing theirspontaneity. "Performing no more than a few takes of these parts was crucial to keep the songs from ever feeling laborious, tired, or overworked," says Subar. "If Icouldn't get it in about three takes, something wasn't right. Maybe the part was too busy. Maybe it was my approach. Whatever it meant, I took it as a sign to move on.The result of this process is a mesmerizing, open-hearted debut that grows with the listener, rewarding time and close attention. Title track and lead single "Anything Could Be" is an invitation to meet Subar on this wavelength, his voice invoking the memory of a dream while his guitar gently pulls him through it's logic, arriving at the desire for freedom, openness, and growth that animates the record. On "Like You've Known It," the arrangement recedes into the sound of windchimes and waves breaking on the shore, an organic pulse that bears the song out into the water. His use of pedal steel on songs like "See Saw" allows him to stretch time, following it'sundulation to a stunning moment of witness where what's stirred to life is nothing less than a once-stagnant spirit, a long-simmering breakthrough that comes tofruition, at last, on "As The Weather," where his voice rises to meet that breakthrough with grace and gratitude for what he has weathered.Anything Could Be offers the listener both the transformative space in which the album was shaped, and a portrait of the artist, and person that artist became in making it. It's 11 songs are imbued with what the poet Adrienne Rich called "a wild patience," aradical stillness that is, itself, a journey towards consciousness, peace, andself-awareness. It makes no promises about what's next. Just the same, it leaves you in breathless anticipation for what that may be, so long as it stirs Subar to pick up his guitar and play through it as he did this chapter of his life.
Tracklist:
Anything Could Be
See Saw
Cat at My Door
I Never
Like You've Known It
History
As the Weather
Way Up
Everything Is
Words Unkept
The Day Will Be New
UPC: 673855088822Label: Merge RecordsRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: CD
Folk legend Melanie shines beneath the brightest lights on Broadway in this vintage set of unreleased live recordings showcasing the full bloom of her songwriting and performance talents! Includes stellar, intimate performances of all her most beloved songs from "Beautiful People" to "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)," "Babe Rainbow," "Ring The Living Bell" and many more. Comes with comprehensive and informative liner notes from Melanie manager and music journalist Dave Thompson!
Tracklist:
Introduction
Give My Regards to Broadway / Brand New Key
Johnny Boy
Steppin’
Some Day I'll Be A Farmer
Alexander Beetle
What Have They Done To My Song, Ma
Come All Ye Faithful
Psychotherapy
Center Of The Circle
Babe Rainbow
Beautiful People
Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
Ring The Living Bell
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
The Actress
BONUS TRACK - Do You Believe (Live in Saratoga Springs, NY)
UPC: 889466728020Label: CleopatraRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: CD
It's a family affair on this celebration of folk icon Melanie and the songs she performed at the historic 1969 Woodstock festival!Partially based on a live performance recorded in 2021, this album unites Melanie's voice with the voices of her musically gifted children as they offer new interpretations of their mom's best known songs!Artwork includes several candid shots of Melanie and family through the years!
Tracklist:
Close To It All - Melanie & Melanie's Children
Momma Momma - Melanie & Melanie's Children
Beautiful People - Melanie's Children
Animal Crackers - Melanie & Melanie's Children
Birthday Of The Sun - Melanie & Melanie's Children
Tuning My Guitar - Melanie & Melanie's Children
Taking A Bath - Melanie's Children
Brand New Key - Melanie's Children
The Champagne Song - Melanie's Children
Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma - Melanie's Children
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie's Children
Everyone Says Hi - Beau Jarred
UPC: 889466686122Label: CleopatraRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
Mia Wilson is the debut album from Southern California singer-songwriter Mia Wilson. Produced by Tim Ramsey (Vetiver, Little Wings, Kacey Johansing), the album blends piano and guitar based compositions with lush orchestral arrangements to create a backdrop for Wilson's introspective lyrics and captivating mezzo-soprano vocals.
Tracklist:
Face to Face
It Must Be So Easy
I Want It All
What Can I Do?
The Dream in Everything
Time Is An Arrow
Going Back
Still Pretending
When You Go
UPC: 199284782884Label: Royal OakieRelease Date: 12.19.25Format: CD
Powerful songs inspired by the life and fate of Georg Elser (1904-1945): a musical memorial to the man who almost stopped Hitler. In 1939, Georg Elser failed in his assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and was murdered for it on April 9, 1945, in the Dachau concentration camp. More than eight decades later, Michael Moravek (one of the most poetic representatives of English-language Americana songwriting from Germany) has dedicated an extraordinary work to him: GEORG - Songs of Courage and Humanity, and the question of attitude in dark times. Moravek, together with his band Electric Traveling Show, succeeds in giving Elser a voice and at the same time making the songs shine with a drastic topicality that could not be more contemporary. Together with his virtuoso band, he creates sparkling Americana folk rock with jazzy nuances and poetic, sober lyrics. UPC: 4250702802174Label: TyxartRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: CD
'Bloodline', the striking debut album from Mon Rovîa transforms personal struggle into a powerful statement of resilience and hope. The record channels themes of identity, survival, and transformation into a sound and story that have already resonated with millions worldwide. Mon's music is rooted in his groundbreaking Afro-Appalachian folk sound, a genre-defying blend that bridges folk tradition and modern storytelling. At the heart of Mon Rovîa's artistry is a commitment to fostering community and connection. Whether performed in intimate settings or reaching millions online, his work resonates as a call to gather, to reflect, and to imagine a more connected future together.
Tracklist:
Black Cauldron
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Day at the Soccer Fields
Bloodline
A Foreshadowing
Little By Little
Old Fort Steel Trail
Whose Face Am I
Running Boy
Field Song
Somewhere Down in Georgia
Oh Wide World
Code of Many Colors
Heavy Foot
Infinite Pines
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea
UPC: 067003181426Label: Nettwerk RecordsRelease Date: 1.9.26Format: CD
Some of the richest music is also the hardest to categorise. With their fifth full-length "Acou", Moon Far Away embark on a musical exploration of the magical nature of sound. The band from the sub-arctic city of Arkhangelsk in Russia's north is studying the mythological cycle of the universe by assigning certain sounds and musical styles that range from the archaic and folklore to liturgical, classical, and even experimental music to each stage of it's existence. Moon Far Away were inspired by the finding that the world begins and ends in many ancient legends with a sound - from the utterance of a word to actual music or even the big bang of science. On "Acou", which means 'listen!' in Greek, the word (lógos) and music (mousike) are as fundamental to the fabric of the universe as the classical elements of earth, fire, water, and air. Moon Far Away have occasionally been referred to as "the heart of Russian gothic folk" or "The Russian Dead Can Dance", which are notions that still ring true regarding "Acou". Their music appears to be both light and even dreamy on the surface, yet at the same time it comes with a dignity, gravitas and passionate seriousness that set these songs apart from simple pop; despite sounding captivating and melodic. With "Acou", Moon Far Away present their richest and most complete album so far that will find old and new friends from a wide range of stylistic preferences that certainly include fans of DEAD CAN DANCE, ALCEST, WARDRUNA, and many others - although the unique band from Russia's North does sound different from all of those mentioned above. There is only one way to find out: "Acou"! Listen!
Tracklist:
Acou (Prelude)
Acou
Steel, Light, Love
Look, the Human Flocks
Soulofkey
17 Years
To Count Her Names
Turquoise
What Way Your Rose Grows?
How Do the Moons Walk on Grain
Acou (Coda)
UPC: 884388894129Label: ProphecyRelease Date: 3.27.26Format: CD
After a critically acclaimed debut album, Well Dressed Exile: Second Humming (2021), Mô'ti tëi returns with Ant 1: The Scam of the Mystical Cicadas, a pivotal album that is darker, more danceable, and more assertive. This new opus reveals an artist who has been forged by high standards and doubt, but who now fully embraces his voice, his lyrics, and his vision. This second album explores a new intensity: the lyrics are deeper and more serious, reflecting an era and a state of mind marked by the fractures of the world as much as by intimate wounds. But this darkness is counterbalanced by a powerful rhythmic energy, where the guitar plays a central role and infuses an irresistible groove reminiscent of both Sting's rock anthems and Eddie Vedder's melodic depth."Ant 1: The Scam of the Mystical Cicadas" is an album of contrasts and energy, a sincere journey where each track opens a door, where each lyric leaves a luminous scar. It's a record that confirms the obvious: Mô'ti tëi is now one of the most unique and demanding voices on the French independent scene.
Tracklist:
Intro (The Anthill Awaken)
My Deaf Friend
Holding Time
Our Rage
The Best Songs I Write
A Second
The Point
Decline
The Weapon
Fertile Soil
Real Vertigo
UPC: 3700398737485Label: KuronekoRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
In the late summer of 1925, pioneering producer Ralph Peer directed a series of recording sessions atop the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina that would become the stuff of legend. They were the first commercial recordings ever made in Appalachia and included several influential "old-time" musicians (Wade Ward, Ernest V. Stoneman, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Kelly Harrell, and Henry Whitter) alongside regional prize-winning fiddlers, banjo players, harmonica soloists, and even visiting vaudeville and pop performers like Emmett Miller and the Carolina Club Orchestra. The immensely entertaining and historically important records they produced include mountain ballads, folk tunes, ragtime instrumentals, novelties, and more; and yet, these recordings have been overlooked for a century because of their extreme rarity and technological limitations. Peer would go on to direct the famed 1927 Bristol Sessions, widely considered the "Big Bang of Country Music" - but these 1925 Asheville recordings lit the fuse. The long-play 84-minute CD includes 28 complete selections, meticulously restored from the original discs with no artificial enhancements, and a 128-page hardback book by renowned scholars Ted Olson and Tony Russell, telling in detail the fascinating story of the 1925 Asheville Sessions with dozens of rare photographs, a complete discography, song lyrics, color reproductions of all original labels, and biographies of all session participants. Also available as a vinyl 2-LP set.
Tracklist:
[2:41] I'm Going Back to North Carolina
[2:46] I Never Had the Blues (Until I Left Old Dixie Land)
[2:38] Devil in the Wood Pile
[2:33] Sherman Valley
[2:56] St. Louis Tickle
[3:47] John Hardy
[3:08] When the Redeemed Are Gathering in
[2:55] Royal Clog
[2:45] the Cackling Hen
[2:43] a Married Man's Blues
[3:52] the Wreck on the Southern Old 97
[3:29] I Have No Mother Now
[3:07] Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
[3:10] Rose of the Nile
[3:06] Arkansas Traveler
[3:05] Whistlin' Rufus
[2:47] the Sailor's Song
[2:48] Medley: Dill Pickle - Turkey in the Straw - Swanee River
[3:12] Lovesick Blues
[2:47] Fate of Santa Barbara
[3:44] Blue Eyed Ella
[3:20] Let Your Shack Burn Down
[2:24] They Always Pick on Me
[2:54] All I've Got's Gone
[2:33] You're Just the Girl for Me
[2:56] Collegiate
[2:58] American and Spanish Fandango
[2:56] Peg and Awl
UPC: 620953702228Label: RivermontRelease Date: 12.12.25Format: CD
Tracklist:
Moonbow
Claw and Fang
Kontio
Hunt
Mire
Turning of the Tides
Across the Waters
Last Vestige of Old Joy
UPC: 301660566036Label: Avantgarde MusicRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
CD. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-formed in 1966 as a Long Beach, California jug band that scored it's first charting single in 1967 and embarked on a very successful self-propelled ride through folk, country, rock 'n' roll, pop, bluegrass, and Americana-is currently on the second year of it's All The Good Times: The Farewell Tour. Released digitally on October 24, 2025, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Night After Night EP was recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Tractor Shed Studio in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and was mixed by Sean Sullivan alongside the band's cofounder Jeff Hanna and Jerry Douglas. The new EP is a family affair for Hanna who co-wrote three of the new songs. "Nashville Skyline" was co-written by Hanna, his wife and celebrated songwriter, Matraca Berg, and his son and bandmate Jaime. While Jeff Hanna takes on lead vocals on three of the five tracks, Jaime steps up to the center microphone on the other two.
Tracklist:
Night After Night
Nashville Skyline (Feat. Matraca Berg)
If You Hang Around Long Enough
Peace and Quiet
For All the Good It Did
UPC: 843563198889Label: Ngdb RecordsRelease Date: 1.9.26Format: CD
Noah Gundersen has been writing and recording music since he was 13, working his way from teenage hardcore to indie rock to the creation of his own distinctive strain of bold, genre-busting songcraft. Noah takes vulnerability to a new level on his album 'Rites of Spring,' produced by Andy D. Park (Medium Build, Joseph, Pedro the Lion, Death Cab For Cutie.)
Tracklist:
Rites Of Spring
You & Me
Die Young
Driving With My Eyes Closed
Heaven
Signs & Wonders
Good Guy
Scene By Scene
Tidal Wave
Tired Tonight
Circles
UPC: 732388028986Label: Noah GundersenRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Cico Mangual
Guaneco Pie
Mama, Cuidame a Belen
Cachon Dice Elena
Sueno, Sueno
Si Te Preguntaran
Mi Marido Quiere
Tacita de Oro
Salustiana
Zoila
Costa Sur
Luis Cante
Antonia y Carlos
Palo'e Bandera
Don Julio
UPC: 712136200529Label: Ashe RecordsRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
"Sumatra" is a powerful Folk-Americana collection that blends blues, gospel, and folk influences into a rich acoustic tapestry, featuring collaborations with the Blind Boys of Alabama, Valerie June, Josh Neumann, and James Falzone. Steeped in storytelling, the album explores themes of aging, love, loss, ancestry, humor, and hope, beginning with a Gregorian chant and culminating in an emphatic rendition of "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round." Timely and thought-provoking, "Sumatra" offers a countercultural message of grace and shared humanity, inviting listeners to reflect on what connects us in a divided world.
Tracklist:
Sumatra (Feat. Members of the Evensong Choir of Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral)
Bard of Vietnam
Route 66
Still Grateful
Note to Quinn
Traces of You (Feat. Josh Neumann)
Wasting Young Man
Airline Boogie
The Snow It Melts the Soonest (Feat. James Falzone)
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (Feat. the Blind Boys of Alabama ; Valerie June)
UPC: 195269393274Label: Boggs MediaRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
"Penguin Cafe continues to occupy a unique place in music: nothing else has ever sounded quite like it. Eccentric, charming, accommodating, surprising, seductive, warm, reliable, modest and unforgettable: it's a true friend." - Brian Eno - Erased Tapes are proud to re-issue The Red Book by Penguin Cafe, with an expanded vinyl track list which now includes the previously CD and digital only "And Yet..." plus two tracks from the limited-edition Umbrella EP. This new edition will be available on limited translucent vinyl and CD, both with updated art from Studio Torsten Posselt utilising the original drawing from renowned British sculptor and Simon Jeffes' partner Emily Young. Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes' legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. Following the release of A Matter of Life shortly after founding, The Red Book was released in 2014 to critical and fan acclaim.
Tracklist:
Aurora
Solaris
Black Hibiscus
Bluejay
Radio Bemba
Catania
1420
And Yet
Moonbo
Odeon
(The Roaring of a) Silent Sun
Close Encounter (Bonus Track)
The Track of the Dull Sun (Bonus Track)
UPC: 3700551786886Label: Erased TapesRelease Date: 7.17.26Format: CD
Pharis & Jason Romero's seventh studio record, These Are The Days That Turn In To Years, is a songwriter's deep exhale, replete with stories, love, and nostalgia. It's four years after the duo's banjo-heavy last release, and recorded in the same eclectically restored riverside barn in Horsefly, British Columbia. With Pharis' love of storytelling as a base for the duo's artistic connection, the songs are lush and saturated with their lives: incidental touring, raising two kids, making banjos, and playing this music because they must. The songs are created as much from ideas - from being on the tops of mountains and phone calls with aging loved ones to insomnia, meditation and family feuds - as they are from the joy of playing and recording with a stellar band: fiddle, bass, piano, and percussion. Two people in the thick of their lives, reveling in the music, words, and community.
Tracklist:
Big Time World
Last Call
Hey Babe
Always Losing Track
Last Night
Left My Home
Cannonball
I Got Away From Myself
Everybody Wants
Georgie
These Are The Days
UPC: 780518790722Label: Lula RecordsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
With Tender Mercies, AM Higgins reaches a new chapter in the duo's artistic journey. Born from today's turbulent political climate, the album answers anger with another form of resistance: tenderness. Across twelve songs divided into PROTEST and PEACE, Annie Meredith Higgins celebrates empathy, open-heartedness and the women whose compassion quietly transformed the world. Recorded in just eight days in the French Pyrenees, the album embraces an organic, deeply human production, enriched by the contributions of My Brightest Diamond and Nadine Khouri. More than a political record, Tender Mercies is an invitation to keep our hearts open in a world that too often asks us to close them. UPC: 3770026616192Label: KuronekoRelease Date: 10.16.26Format: CD
‘Love And All Its Wares’ is the second studio album by Irish band Amble.
Produced by Philip Weinrobe, the album marks a major sonic evolution - moving from the simpler, dream-like quality of 'Reverie' to a bigger sound exploring a wider spectrum of emotion. Themes of love and idealism are paired against the exhaustion of a non-stop touring schedule and a chaotic existence on the road.
While 'Reverie' was tracked by Robbie, Ross & Oisín live in various rooms across Ireland in 2023/2024, 'Love And All Its Wares' came together in a single three week creative outpouring in Grouse Lodge Recording Studios, Westmeath in April of 2026. UPC: 093624814894Label: Warner RecordsRelease Date: 1.29.27Format: CD
Ani DiFranco’s 1995 masterwork Not a Pretty Girl was more than just an album - it was a mission statement that defined the DIY ethos for independent artists everywhere. Originally released on Righteous Babe Records, it serves as a fiery declaration that artists can maintain creative autonomy while achieving massive cultural impact.Now for the 30th anniversary, Not a Pretty Girl is back in print on vinyl and cd, reverently repackaged for both formats by Grammy Award winning art director Brian Grunert, showcasing photography of Mark Dellas, and brushstroke flourishes contributed by Ani. Each copy of the vinyl includes a special limited edition art photo print of Ani.Double Vinyl - 30th Anniversary Edition• New 2025 vinyl remastering• Heavy stock vertically oriented gatefold w/ soft touch matte finish• 12-page booklet• 12" art photo print of Ani shot by Mark Dellas• 2 standard weight purple translucent vinyl
Tracklist:
Worthy
Tip Toe
Cradle and All
Shy
Sorry I Am
Light of Some Kind
Not a Pretty Girl
The Million You Never Made
Hour Follows Hour
32 Flavors
Asking Too Much
This Bouquet
Crime for a Crime
Coming Up
UPC: 748731700768Label: Righteous BabeRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: CD
On her new album, Neon Summer Skin, Bedouine, the project of Azniv Korkejian, explores this feeling of safety long before one can fully understand the concept. Written with vivid, honest and intimate imagery after visiting her family in Saudi Arabia, it tells the story of family and upbringing, and mourns the end of her childhood. There is a singular resonance and newfound heft in this music previously unheard in Bedouine’s discography.Bedouine is known for making gentle, lilting folk songs that build fingerpicked guitar melodies into tsunamis of emotion. Her masterful songwriting and timeless melodies have earned her praise from publications like Pitchfork, who said her music “boasts a surreal calm and lived in glow,” and Rolling Stone, who lauded her “humble folk-pop brilliance,” plus an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, and tours with the likes of Fleet Foxes and Father John Misty.While working on the record, Bedouine realized the pain of displacement, of searching for home, has been a throughline in her family history. Other relatives have also experienced this sense of loss as they’ve migrated between Armenia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. “I felt so frustrated about the places that I'm from becoming war torn or difficult to return to,” she says. “My family has been split apart time and time again.” This realization prompted her to document and honor her parents’ lives and stories.
Tracklist:
On My Own
Long Way to Fall
Always on Time
One Thing Right
Neon Summer Skin
Canopies (Intro)
Canopies
Deghma Cheega
Na Na Na
White Patent Leather
Canopies (Piano Solo)
UPC: 732388025084Label: Bedouine Music IiRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Bernie Taupin -""The Sea Has No Mercy"" Bernie Taupin presents The Sea Has No Mercy, his first-ever entirely self-written album and most personal work to date. Across 10 reflective, atmospheric folk songs, Taupin distills 76 years of life experience into stories that are intimate, vivid and deeply revealing. Inspired by his acclaimed memoir Scattershot, the album was recorded in Nashville with producer Frank Liddell and features guest appearances from Brandi Carlile, Lee Ann Womack and Georgey Taupin. Warm, thoughtful and richly cinematic, The Sea Has No Mercy stands as a late-career masterpiece from one of music's greatest storytellers. Digipak CD includes 12-page booklet of lyrics.
Tracklist:
Fisherman
Old Church Road
Sea Has No Mercy
Elephant Boy
Ghosts of Greater Men
Joker
Come on California
Favor
Old Dog
One Hundred Ways
UPC: 881061018940Label: McaRelease Date: 10.23.26Format: CD
Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions brings together all three volumes of Billy Bragg and Wilco’s celebrated interpretations of previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics PLUS 16 previously unreleased tracks, including rare demos, alternate takes and live recordings. New liner notes by Bob Mehr.
Tracklist:
Walt Whitman's Niece
California Stars
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
Birds and Ships
Hoodoo Voodoo
She Came Along to Me
At My Window Sad and Lonely
Ingrid Bergman
Christ for President
I Guess I Planted
One by One
Eisler on the Go
Hesitating Beauty
Another Man's Done Gone
The Unwelcome Guest
Airline to Heaven
My Flying Saucer
Feed of Man
Hot Rod Hotel
I Was Born
Secret of the Sea
Stetson Kennedy
Remember the Mountain Bed
Blood of the Lamb
Aginst Th' Law
All You Fascists
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again
Meanest Man
Black Wind Blowing
Someday Some Morning Sometime
Bugeye Jim
When the Roses Bloom Again
Gotta Work
My Thirty Thousand
Ought to Be Satisfied Now
Listening to the Wind That Blows
Go Down to the Water
Chain of Broken Hearts
Jailcell Blues
Don't You Marry
Give Me a Nail
The Jolly Banker
Union Prayer
Be Kind to the Boy on the Road
Ain'ta Gonna Grieve
Tea Bag Blues
I'm Out to Get
California Stars (Live)
Against Th’ Law (Alternate Version)*
All You Fascists (Alternate Version)*
I Guess I Planted (Alternate Version)*
She Came Along To Me (Alternate Version)*
Hesitating Beauty (Solo Version)*
Joe DiMaggio Done It Again (Demo)*
Psalm (Demo)*
Hot Rod Hotel (Demo)*
Christ For President (Solo Version)*
Give Me A Nail (Demo)*
Long & Hard (Demo)*
I Was Born (Demo)*
At My Window Sad And Lonely (Solo Version)
Birds And Ships (Demo)*
The Unwelcome Guest (Demo)*
Airline To Heaven (Solo Version)
Hesitating Beauty (Woody Guthrie Demo)*
UPC: 888072790957Label: Craft RecordingsRelease Date: 12.11.26Format: CD
Brewing Up with Billy Bragg is the second album by Billy Bragg, originally released in 1984.This long overdue vinyl reissue comes in a gatefold sleeve and was remastered by John Webber at Air Studios using high-resolution transfers made from master tapes in Billy's archives. There will also be a limited edition run of coloured vinyl albums.Following the DIY punk minimalism of his debut album 'Life's A Riot (With Spy vs Spy)' ('83), Brewing Up with Billy Bragg has a similar sonic palette. Opening with an attack on the tabloid press in 'It Says Here', and closing with some soulful Hammond organ on 'A Lover Sings' via some beautiful trumpet on 'The Saturday Boy'., 'Brewing Up...' was produced by Edward de Bono and made Top 10 in NME's 1984 albums of the year.
Tracklist:
It Says Here
Love Gets Dangerous
The Myth of Trust
From a Vauxhall Velox
The Saturday Boy
Island of No Return
St. Swithin's Day
Like Soldiers Do
This Guitar Says Sorry
Strange Things Happen
A Lover Sings
UPC: 711297150766Label: Cooking VinylRelease Date: 11.27.26Format: CD
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