Rhiannon Giddens shares a lyric video for the title track to her 2023 album, You're the One. The song was inspired by a moment Giddens had with her son not long after he was born (he's now ten years old, and she has a fourteen-year-old daughter as well). “Your life has changed forever, and you don't know it until you're in the middle of it and it hits you,” Giddens says. “I held his little cheek up to my face, and was just reminded, 'Oh my God, my children—they have every bit of my heart.'”

Grammy Award–winning singer, songwriter, and musician Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway—Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle, harmony vocals), Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Shelby Means (bass, harmony vocals), and Kyle Tuttle (banjo, harmony vocals)—perform “El Dorado,” the lead track from their 2023 album, City of Gold. Filmed in Nashville, the video is directed and edited by Joshua Britt & Neilson Hubbard. City of Gold follows Tuttle’s acclaimed 2022 record, Crooked Tree, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards and led NPR Music to call her “a female flat picker extraordinaire with agility, speed and elegance who distinctively brings American roots music into the spotlight,” adding that the album “marries the improvisatory solos of traditional bluegrass with singer-songwriter sophistication.”

The video for the title track to Yussef Dayes' debut solo studio album, Black Classical Music, is directed by Barka and edited by Mdhamiri A Nkemi. “What is jazz,” Dayes asks. “Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture, and African rituals. Continuing a lineage of Miles Davis, Rahssan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong—music that is forever evolving and limitless in its potential. The groove, its feeling, the compositions, the spontaneity, with a love for family, the discipline and dedication in maintaining the very high bar set by the pantheon of Black Classical Musicians. Chasing the rhythm of drums that imitated one's heartbeat, the melodies for the mind and spirit, the bass for the core. A Regal sound for this body of music.”

Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares a video for “Resistance Rockers,” a bonus track from the deluxe digital edition of their 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH. “‘Resistance Rockers’ is written for the kid in me who discovered live music at age fourteen and had my life saved by it,” says Segarra. “The video created by Kelly Gallagher features blink-and-you’ll-miss-it footage of little Alynda dancing in a mosh pit in Tompkins Square Park circa 2000. I wouldn’t have survived my teen years without that energy and inspiration. That’s a feeling shared by many, so I hope the song speaks to your same open-eyed younger self.”

Natalie Merchant shares the video for “Big Girls,” one of two duets featuring singer Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), from her 2023 album, Keep Your Courage. Filmed in Brooklyn, the video is directed by Matthew Shattuck and edited by Andrew Pulaski.

Natalie Merchant shares the video for “Tower of Babel,” from her 2023 album, Keep Your Courage. “As much as I had wanted to not let events in the world intrude,” Merchant says of the song, “I couldn’t disregard the prevailing atmosphere of fear and confusion that we have been living in as a result of the pandemic, climate crisis, economic instability, insane politics, violent insurrection, and the shocking fallout from the conservative-stacked reactionary Supreme Court.” The video, filmed in Brooklyn, is directed by Matthew Shattuck and edited by Andrew Pulaski.

Cécile McLorin Salvant shares a live performance video for “Doudou,” from her 2023 album, Mélusine. For the performance, filmed at Clonick Hall at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Salvant is joined by Sullivan Fortner on piano and Weedie Braimah on djembe. The video is directed & edited by Jacob Strauss. Mélusine features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, that tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother.

Natalie Merchant shares the video for “Come On, Aphrodite,” featuring singer Abena Koomson-Davis (Resistance Revival Chorus), from her 2023 album, Keep Your Courage. Filmed in Brooklyn, the video is directed by Matthew Shattuck and edited by Andrew Pulaski. “‘Come On, Aphrodite’ is an invocation to the goddess of love and passion,” says Merchant. “In the lyrics, I list all the clichés we use to describe falling in love: being drunk and blind, over the moon, weak in the knees, and half out of our minds. For the Greeks, when the spirit of love descended, it was seen as a kind of assault; you would become powerless against an all-consuming, sweet madness. Amazingly, humans still crave it, in spite of the perils.”

Cécile McLorin Salvant shares a video for the title track to her 2023 album, Mélusine. The album features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, that tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother.

Brad Mehldau performs “Golden Slumbers” from his 2023 album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles. The live solo album, recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris, features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. The album ends with a David Bowie classic that draws a connection between The Beatles and pop songwriters who followed. An extended version of this live performance video, recorded at New York City’s legendary Village Vanguard, preceded by an introduction by the pianist, may be seen here.