Today sees Avalon Emerson & The Charm dropping their self-titled debut album. “Karaoke Song” muses on the fluid nature of intimacy.

Naming themselves Psyché , after both the ancient Greek for ‘soul’ or ‘mind’ and their love for psychedelic funk, this extraordinary Neopolitan band serves up a burner of a debut single. “Cumbia Mahàre” is an instrumental romp that dives deep into their Mediterranean roots and beyond. (Fun fact: the term “mahàre” was used in Southern Italian dialects to indicate witches.)

Five-time Grammy Award winner, Country Music Hall of Famer, and all around good guy Marty Stuart is back with his first album in six years, Altitude. Stuart may be “Sitting Alone” on this track, but he’ll be busy this summer hitting the road with Chris Stapleton and making a pit stop at Stagecoach this coming weekend.

79.5 is so dedicated to their sound that they named their band after an imaginary eclectic radio station that you might have heard growing up in NYC, blending everything from 70’s underground disco to acid jazz. If you’re looking for something sweet with a beat, turn to “Our Hearts Didn’t Go That Way” (Feat. Durand Jones ).

June McDoom takes a unique approach to her style of dreamy folk music. Featuring vintage analog experimentation, “On My Way” has an overall tender yet supernatural, cinematic quality from an emerging singer-songwriter.

An icon of the ‘80s world music boom, Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal plunges into stiff electronic production combined with a modern African sound on “Freak Out,” featuring The Very Best.

“It became a song about being careful what you put on the internet,” Baaba Maal tells us. “It might seem funny or popular when you do it, but it might have consequences, and you will have to live with those all your life.”

Mesmerizing and hypnotic, Chula Vista/Tijuana queer artist Jackie Mendoza found her voice when she began playing the ukulele and singing in school musicals. “Pedacitos,” or “little pieces/bits” in Spanish, pays tribute to loss.

Written and recorded in Greece during the pandemic, Hydranism is the title of the debut album by Paris-based trio Oracle Sisters . Tapping into the timeless space we were once suspended in, “RBH” or "Right Beside Her" came together quickly while the group was jamming and borrows a verse from James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”

A godfather of improvisational creativity, Lonnie Holley transcends struggle and hardship by making art and music. Holley takes a thoughtful approach to music making, building his songs like sculptures. He flows through stream-of-consciousness lyrics on “Kindness Will Follow Your Tears,” featuring none other than Justin Vernon’s Bon Iver.

Influenced by Western Noir, the sibling duo Ruen Brothers create a brooding cinematic vibe replete with ricochet effect on “Slow Draw,” a sonic reference to the triggers at the brink of a relationship’s end.