CREED singer Scott Stapp will release his fourth solo album, "Higher Power", on March 15, 2024 via Napalm Records. The LP will arrive just a month before the iconic frontman returns to the stage with CREED for the first time in ten years. Stapp's upcoming ten-track triumph turns the rockers experiences on the razors edge into an acknowledgement of ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Trapped By A Thing Called Love
Denise LaSalle’s seminal debut album for Westbound Records, released in 1972, introduced the world at large to a storming force in blues. At Westbound, Denise refined her Chicago Blues roots and recorded Trapped By A Thing Called Love, adding contemporary and soulful arrangements to her flawless songs. ...
Genre: R&b
Subgenre: Soul
Laurence Jones follows up 2022's 'Destination Unknown' with brand new album 'Bad Luck & The Blues'. Refining his sound and returning with a trio, the new record showcases Laurence at his rawest, showcasing his virtuoso guitar talents and remaining faithful to his blues roots. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
Abel: Pieces for Viola da Gamba
Even though Abel left behind a sizable oeuvre, including many symphonic works, he is maybe best remembered for his extraordinary compositions for the “queen of all instruments”, as he called it: the viola da gamba. Having been a true celebrity in the second half of the 18th century, Carl Friedrich Abel has since been largely ...
Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The French classical crossover stars go back to their roots and revisit the repertoire they loved growing up. Dans nos yeux is an enticing assortment of lean-back repertoire, including Hans Zimmer’s "Now We Are Free” (from the movie ...
Composer: Vittorio Monti (1868-1922), Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky (1840-1893), Paul McCartney (1942), John Lennon (1940-1980), David Popper (1843-1913), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Stephane Grappelli (1908-1997), Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Hans Zimmer (1957), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
This album hums and growls, it whispers very delicately and causes a pleasant feeling again and again. It is the warm, deep and full tone of the double bass that has taken hold of the young Viennese soloist Dominik Wagner. This is already the fourth album he is releasing on the label Berlin Classics. As on the three ...
Composer: Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901), Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ghosts is a collection of songs the Cowboy Junkies began working on while on tour in support of the band’s brilliant 2018 album All That Reckoning. Margo, and Peter Timmins lost their mother two months after that album was released — the songs on Ghosts process the emotional upheaval of her death. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Lise Davidsen, the most in-demand soprano in the world right now, releases her new album, "Christmas From Norway". Hailed as “The living, breathing meteor of the current opera world” (The i Paper), Lise’s forthcoming album presents a delightful and personally-selected collection of traditional Norwegian Christmas music and classic festive favourites, spreading the warm ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Temple Balls is an energetic hard rock band from Finland and "Avalanche" is the aptly titled fourth album from the quintet. It’s a rocking and energetic tour de force that sees the band members pushing their musical boundaries even further. Once again under the care of producer Jona Tee (H.e.a.t, Crowne, New ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
When Jellyfish released their second album, Spilt Milk, in February 1993, critics didn’t know what comparison to make of the band. The band had released their first album, Bellybutton, to rave reviews and even had a Top 40 hit with the catchy “Baby’s Coming Back,” which wasn’t even one of the better tracks. The melodies flowed, and the harmonies shook ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
With his new double album "Baroque Colours", Martin Stadtfeld presents a unique palette of colourful baroque works. And in a very special form: For the first part, he selected 19 wonderful little original pieces by Bach, Rameau or Handel, among others, but also by lesser-known composers such as Johann Kuhnau or Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer. ...
Composer: Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722), Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1705-1755), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
“Rome has something to say.” This is the message trumpeter Francesco Fratini delivers on his sensual, cool-as-can-be debut EP Homemade that dropped on March 11, 2022. The Italian native cut his teeth during a years-long residency in New York, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Joshua Tree, California. A place where rock ‘n’ roll mythology is made, for better and worse. It was under these same burnished skies that Gram Parsons’ stolen body was set ablaze. Where U2 announced their bid for global infamy. And as Ghalia Volt reminds us, exactly thirty years ago, it was here that near-mythical ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
Stanford: 3 Motets & Other Choral Music
A programme spanning the variety and sheer emotional range of Stanford’s Anglican choral music (with a notable contribution from Owain Park in the Fantasia and Toccata for organ). You are unlikely to hear quite so stirring a rendition of ‘St Patrick’s Breastplate’ for some time to come …
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas (Remastered)
"Sound, ye drums! Ring out, ye trumpets!" In his Leipzig years, Bach liked to remind people that he was not only Kantor of St Thomas’s, but also the city’s director of music. It was in this capacity that he wrote these sumptuous secular cantatas, in honour respectively of the university professor Kortte ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
J.S. Bach: Trauerode, BWV 198 (Remastered)
Two odes to death and the soul's salvation: Whatever the occasions for which they were written (a tribute to a dead queen, or a chorale cantata), the two works on this recording have one subject in common: death and the soul's salvation. Performed in 1727 in memory of the sorely mourned Christiane Eberhardine, Queen ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), André Messager (1853–1929)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Formed in 2016 between Plymouth, Devon and Cornwall, Haunt the Woods skilfully weave together alt-rock, folk, prog and pop with an epic level of pomp and poetic elegance that suggests a far longer existence than their younger years suggest. Borrowing from Queen and Muse on the one hand, Jeff Buckley or Radiohead and with a touch ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
