Swedish hard-rock risers Velveteen Queen return with their most ambitious statement yet, their sophomore album, The Greater Good, set for release on September 18th via Silver Lining Music. Velveteen Queen are rapidly emerging as one of the most electrifying young acts in the modern rock scene, channeling the grit, swagger, and anthemic power of classic ’80s influences into a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Following the release of their self-titled studio album in 2025 and live album in 2026, St. Paul and The Broken Bones return with a new four-song collection titled PROXY. This four-song collection was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at the historic FAME Studios, giving the release a strong sense of place and craft. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
As the title suggests, Covering Our Tracks: Part 1 collects reinterpretations of classic songs from different eras and genres, all filtered through the band’s raw energy, garage-rock grit, and punk swagger. The EP showcases the band’s evolving creative process while honoring the music that helped shape their sound. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Bassist and singer Kana Ishikawa, who is bringing a breath of fresh air to the jazz scene, is presenting her second album, “Garden”, and will be giving a concert in Tokyo with a full band as part of her album release tour. She took up the double bass in the summer of her first year at secondary school, and a video of her performing “Off the Wall” (Michael Jackson) at the Cotton ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
It's fresh, powerful, emotional, and honest. The 2026 Silos have entered a new era. They have never been more committed. Treasure this album. Salas-Humara, who moved back to New York three years ago after stints in Flagstaff, Arizona, Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles, says the players on the new album mainly come from his East Coast friends, along with a few musicians from the Midwest. His last album, 2022’s Family, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
South African jazz legend Don Laka is opening a new chapter in his celebrated career with Invitation 2, the long-awaited second instalment of his revered Invitations album series.The 24-track album arrives nearly two decades after the original Invitations, which was released in 2007. The project sees Laka bringing his distinctive musical language into a new era while staying rooted ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The charismatic and creative young pianist Justus Eichhorn launches an exclusive collaboration with the Yellow Label with the release of his debut Deutsche Grammophon album The Source. Out on 11 September 2026 and including liner notes by the 16-year-old artist himself, the recording pays tribute to the rich musical history of his birthplace, Weimar. Eichhorn’s carefully curated ...
Composer: Carl Czerny (1791-1857), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
To mark the band’s 25th anniversary, MASSENDEFEKT are releasing their tenth studio album – and making a clear statement with this self-titled work. No ‘best of’, no look back: the 12 tracks represent the band’s here and now – direct, unfiltered and with a clear stance. Balancing a sense of new beginnings, solidarity and self-reflection, the album shows where MASSENDEFEKT stand today. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Mendelssohn: Complete Sacred Choral Works, Vol. 1
Throughout his career, Felix Mendelssohn dedicated himself to sacred choral music. The first part of this complete recording—planned as a two-album set—brings together psalm settings and chorale cantatas composed between 1827 and 1843, offering insight into Mendelssohn’s multifaceted engagement with the texts and chorales of the Lutheran tradition. ...
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Notes from the Living Room reflects the distinctive musical world of Meraki Duo, whose repertoire moves freely between classical, folk, jazz and global traditions. Bringing together music from Jamaica, Trinidad, Japan, Macedonia, France, Britain and the USA, flautist Meera Maharaj and guitarist James Girling have built a programme shaped by curiosity, connection and a ...
Composer: William Grant Still (1895-1978), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Dominique Le Gendre (1960)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The pianist Billy Lester is joined by Marcello Testa and Nicola Stranieri for these 8 interpretations and lone original that are never short on surprises. Lester’s fluid keys open “There Will Never Be Another You”, as Stranieri’s frisky drums and Testa’s bouncy bass enter the classic tune, and “Somebody Loves Me” follows with the animated rhythm section alongside the dancing keys. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Garner releases his 7-song project that brings together his love of country music, Southern storytelling, and the people and places that shaped him. Across the EP, Garner takes on love, heartbreak, family, hometown pride, and the everyday moments that come with growing up in the South. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
A thrilling new voice in R&B today, singer and songwriter Avenoir has released his debut album, Mirage today via LISTEN TO THE KIDS. In celebration, he shares the music video for his track “Lady” directed by Arvin Farsyad. The breathtaking body of work was born from a longstanding collaboration with close friends and peers Maz B and YMX Beats who imagined a striking ....
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Signum Quartett presents the album the earth trembled, recontextualising the visionary string quartets of Leoš Janáček alongside the striking String Quartet Op. 8 by Vítězslava Kaprálová. Janáček’s lifelong engagement with folk traditions shaped these works profoundly; he lays bare an extraordinary spectrum of feeling, exposing the innermost reaches of his psyche with an almost unsettling immediacy, music in which the earth really does tremble. Set against this, Kaprálová’s ...
Composer: Leos Janacek (1854-1928), Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910), Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The album is a 12-track collection and represents his most honest and personal work to date. It was created alongside close friends and collaborators in his hometown of Eastbourne, UK, and produced in collaboration with Manta, Humble the Great, HARGS and Mac Jamieson. It captures the spirit of the people and places that have shaped Sam’s life journey. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Acoustic EP)
Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist Molly Tuttle releases "So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Acoustic EP)", a new companion EP to her acclaimed Grammy-nominated album So Long Little Miss Sunshine. Recorded with touring bandmates Vanessa McGowan and Mary Meyer and produced by Steve Berns, the EP strips back five standout tracks from the album—"The Highway Knows," "Easy," "Old Me (New Wig)," "Story of My So-Called Life,” ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary Folk
50 Years of ACCEPT: 50 A-List Musicians Join Celebratory Manifesto of Metal. German heavy metal legends ACCEPT celebrate 50 years of pure power, bringing together the scene’s A-list musicians for a landmark release. Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 is a definitive statement of the band’s legacy, forged in steel and driven by unmistakable riffs. Arriving September 4, 2026, via Napalm Records, the album delivers some of the most ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Double-Reed Chamber Music, Then & Now, Vol. 1: Beethoven & Roxburgh
In 1719 the aristocratic Schwarzenberg family inherited the huge castle of Český Krumlov in south-western Bohemia, reviving its distinguished but dormant musical tradition with a new ensemble of two oboes, two cors anglais, two bassoons and two horns, active from 1771 onwards. These musicians soon provided the foundation for a wave of chamber music featuring double-reed woodwind instruments that flourished as the instruments improved. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Edwin Roxburgh (1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Inspired by the hard bop tradition and featuring ten original compositions, Hard Bop – For the Record is one of Greg’s most personal and compositionally ambitious projects to date. "I don’t think there’s any guitarist out there as prodigious as Greg Chako; this guy puts out fresh material faster than Dave Roberts pulls pitchers! He’s got a gorgeous tone, bluesy classic style and knows when and when ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Fresh, lively and with a keen sensibility: ‘I wanted to put together a little bouquet, and this is what we’ve put together from 21 songs.’ Alongside ‘floral’ songs such as the one just mentioned and the ‘Mädchenblumen, Op. 22’, the young Austrian soprano Miriam Kutrowatz and the Munich-based pianist, lieder accompanist and cabaret artist Andreas Fröschl draw from the vast repertoire of Richard Strauss’s numerous lieder compositions. ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
