'After The Landslide' is his biggest, most ambitious, most personal record yet. With nods to both Bon Iver, and Springsteen, it’s a record that approaches some of The Big Themes in our lives – love, loss, grief, and the power it takes to get through it all. Matt’s piano-rooted melodies ally themselves to lyrics that speak plainly, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Andrea von Kampen’s "That Spell" is an emotionally evocative powerhouse. It’s cinematic and sweeping- with literary references, reflections on nature and above all the ability to transport you to a memory, a place in time or somewhere you saw in a dream with vivid lucidity. Like a film director, she works as an aural auteur building scenes ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
The Apple Drop is the 10th studio album from Liars. Recorded in Australia with avant-garde jazz drummer Laurence Pike and multi-instrumentalist Cameron Deyell, mixing their raw, organic live instrumentation with Angus’s solo tinkering at the computer, resulting in an album that blurs boundaries between ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
For her tenth Deutsche Grammophon release, pianist Alice Sara Ott returns to the music of Frédéric Chopin. She approaches Chopin’s 24 Préludes op. 28 from a fresh perspective, finding a personal thread that parallels the music’s dramatic arc and wide-ranging moods. The pianist frames the Préludes within a contemporary ...
Composer: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), György Ligeti (1923-2006), Nino Rota (1911-1979), Arvo Pärt (1935), Francesco Tristano (1981), Chilly Gonzales (1972)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
CREEPER are back! The new EP ‘American Noir’ represents an epilogue to the narrative told in their critically acclaimed, Top 5 album ‘Sex, Death and The Infinite Void’ and is released almost a year to the day of the album’s first anniversary. ‘American Noir’ is a requiem to the album’s central character Roe, which explores his partner Annabelle’s grief ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Fresh off of a remix for Grimes' "My Name is Dark", producer Julien Bracht has been powering through CV19 studio seclusion on full-power, with a distinct vision for brighter days ahead. Bracht's new album, "Now Forever One," an emblem of dark analog synthwave, is set to drop June 11. Bracht's first solo album under his own namesake ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
Hail Satin - Foo Fighters - Live
Fresh off the release of Medicine At Midnight earlier this year, Foo Fighters have announced their next studio effort. However, the band’s 11th album won’t be another bevy of alt-rock tunes, instead, the Dave Grohl-led outfit will take a hard detour into the world of disco. The next album by the Foo Fighters ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Silver Lining Music release the first project by Saxon's Biff Byford and son Seb Byford of Naked Six. On July 23rd 2021, there’s going to be a new rock ‘n’ roll sheriff in town, and as their name suggests, Heavy Water aren’t for the light-hearted. Soaked in gritty, riff-baked blues, yet rich with ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
Composer Martin Scherzinger releases his second album with New Focus, Scherzinger Etudes, focusing on his piano etudes. Performed here by pianist Bobby Mitchell, Scherzinger describes these works as "a topological study of found musical sound," taking existing music by composers such as Brahms, Schumann, and Paganini, ...
Composer: Martin Scherzinger
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
'Jaime' – the first solo album from Brittany Howard – has been reimagined by an astonishing cross-section of the five-time GRAMMY winner’s peers. Featuring fresh takes and remixes of the album’s 11 songs. “Making Jaime was so much fun for me because I was able to explore so many different genres of music. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
The Aquanaut (Special Edition)
PolyStereo are two great musicians working together to create some awesome sounds. Handmade Electro Pop meets funk with jazzy elements, which arise an urban yearningly feeling. This outstanding piece of art is surfing from Venice Beach via London to Berlin with a complex voice surrounded by warm synthesizer sounds from the analogue world. ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electro-Pop
The Night We Couldn't Say Good Night
Winner of the 2021 JazzTimes Readers' Poll: The Vancouver-based Canadian singer Angela Verbrugge publishes her first record. With a seducing tone of voice, Angela Verbrugge knows how to highlight the lyrics of a standard. Her practice in theater must certainly be helpful for that. She plays with ease with melodies and makes them her own, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Call Of The Wild (Deluxe Version)
POWERWOLF - a name that fills every disciple of traditional melodic heavy metal with joy and stands for a successful quintet that needs no more introduction after 15 years of steep ascent. The anniversary was celebrated with a best-of release in 2020, which united the highlights ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Extending the concept initiated with his critically-acclaimed Jazz Composer’s Orchestra Update album, described by Down Beat as “pretty fantastic”, Michael Mantler radically reworks music from several phases of his career. On Coda he shapes favourite pieces – a personal “best-of” ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Multi-platinum band Barenaked Ladies will release their 16th studio album "Detour de Force". Produced by JUNO and Grammy award winner Eric Ratz and Mark Howard, the eagerly awaited album features 14 newly minted tracks including “Flip,” the buoyant and sonically adventurous debut single and BNL’s first new music ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
POWERWOLF - a name that fills every disciple of traditional melodic heavy metal with joy and stands for a successful quintet that needs no more introduction after 15 years of steep ascent. The anniversary was celebrated with a best-of release in 2020, which united the highlights ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Get ready for a second helping of auditory delights from the Out To Dinner ensemble, as they keep the kitchen open after hours and “Play On.” Featuring a musical menu of inspired selections, Posi-Tone producer Marc Free has assembled this volume of performances to prompt listeners to expand their sonic palettes ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Posi-Tone Records rolls out a second volume of "New Faces" with a musical message that stays focused on "New Sounds." This group of "New Faces" (trumpeter Brandon Lee, alto saxophonist Markus Howell, tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, pianist Caili O'Doherty, bassist Adi Meyerson and drummer Cory Cox) was assembled ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Brit and Ivor Novello award winning songwriter, plus platinum-selling, chart-topping artist Tom Odell's fourth album, 'Monsters'. After a dark period of mental health stalked most of his 2018 and 19. Slowly but surely, Odell alchemised that experience into a new album. He also realised his broader lyrical horizons needed to be matched ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
“We’ve all been fans of each other from the start,” says Jimmie Dale Gilmore, “but the thing that’s always struck me about The Flatlanders is that, first and foremost, it’s a band rooted in friendship. Beyond the music, we just connect with each other in these deep and personal ways, and that’s been a lifelong treasure.” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Traditional Country
