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. 

Rachael & Vilray—the duo of singer/songwriter Rachael Price (Lake Street Dive) and guitarist/singer/songwriter Vilray—share a video for “Any Little Time,” from their 2023 album, I Love a Love Song!, that features Vilray on vocals. Filmed in Studio A at United Recording in Los Angeles, the video is directed and edited by Jacob Blumberg.

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs “D’un feu secret,” Michel Lambert’s 1660 air de cour, from 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. Video animated by Amanda Bonaiuto in Brooklyn, NY, with assistance by Kohana Wilson. 

A visualizer for Sam Gendel’s version of 112’s “Anywhere,” featuring Meshell Ndegeocello on vocals, from Gendel's 2023 album, COOKUP. Comprising interpretations of R&B and soul hits originally released between 1992 and 2004, COOKUP “marks another chance to convene with my good friends Phil Melanson and Gabe Noel,” says Gendel. “For this occasion we hovered over a particular flavor: jams that we grew up with. We sculpted in sound our collective memories of this music. Meshell Ndegeocello took the 112 to another dimension (shoutout wayne12). Listen to Ginuwine, listen to 100 covers of Ginuwine on YouTube, listen to COOKUP.”

Vagabon, the moniker of Lætitia Tamko, shares a lyric video for “Carpenter.” The single, which was co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Clairo, Maggie Rogers), is her first newly created solo music since her 2019 critically acclaimed self-titled album. “‘Carpenter’ is about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward thinking, and evolved,” Tamko explains. “It’s about being confronted with your limitations. It’s about that a-ha moment, when a lesson from the past finally clicks and you want to run and tell someone who bore witness to the old you, ‘I finally get it now.’”