Written and recorded over the course of 2020, YEAR OF LOVE sees the Wilmington, NC-based duo – Benjamin “Ben” Mabry and Brent Holloman – taking a moment to breathe in life’s simplest inspiration and, ultimately, urging everyone else to do the same. The album collects songs first featured on Beta Radio’s ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Variations on a Melancholy Theme
Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme will be released June 11, 2021, on Nonesuch Records. The recording features the pianist/composer and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; ...
Composer: Brad Mehldau
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
New remaster! "Sabotage" is the sixth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in July 1975. It was recorded in the midst of litigation with their former manager Patrick Meehan. The stress that resulted from the band's ongoing legal woes infiltrated the recording process, ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Classical Piano Essentials (Chopin, Schumann, Mozart, Satie, Bach, Beethoven)
Ron Adelaar is a Dutch-based pianist and composer of neoclassical, meditative piano compositions. Besides that he is A&R manager at Andante Piano, sublabel of Disruptive Records run by his son Ivo Adelaar. Ron had an early introduction to piano music, as he started his career at the age of 13 ...
Composer: Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Erik Satie, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
“For my project, “The Mozart Nyman Concert”, I chose two tremendous and highly esteemed composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Michael Nyman. Both have accompanied and fascinated me since my youth. Mozart’s piano compositions occupy a large and important place ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Michael Nyman (1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Little Girl Blue (2021 - Stereo Remaster)
Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her up-tempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
Mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile’s Laysongs will be released on Nonesuch Records on June 4, 2021. The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Los Angeles based alt-pop act “Royal & the Serpent” is pure thrill and worthy of addiction. With boundary-pushing lyrics and palpable energy, her onstage spirit is infectious. The duality she expresses makes her both relatable and captivating, as she unapologetically shares a full spectrum of experience – from royal soul to luring serpent. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
22-year-old singer, songwriter, and guitarist Quinn Sullivan is set to release WIDE AWAKE, his new studio album, via Mascot Label Group. A rare artist who's always sounded older than his years, Sullivan has been touring the world since he ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
For The Culture is the name of the new album from musician, producer, and dub master Alborosie. The double A side feature, Never Let Me Down is Alborosie's latest nod to "420" and the global celebrations (each April 20th) around the legalization and use of marijuana. A lyric video dubbed a ‘visual-i-Jah’ ...
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Our Meanings and Our Feelings (Remastered)
France reedman Michel Portal has the unique position of being one of the architects of modern European jazz and having a hand in some of the most significant shifts in modern classical music. Portal, along with pianist Francois Tusques, trumpeter Bernard Vitet, drummer Charles Saudrais and tenorman Barney Wilen, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Dvořák: Serenade, Op. 44 - Gounod: Petite Symphonie (Remastered)
Born in London of Italian-French parents, Sir John Barbirolli (1899–1970) trained as a cellist and played in theatre and café orchestras before joining the Queen’s Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood in 1916. His conducting career began with the formation of his own orchestra in 1924, and between 1926 and 1933 ...
Composer: Charles Gounod, Antonín Dvořák
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
As a conductor, curator and arranger, Robert Ames has been a key exchange agent between the classical tradition and contemporary music. co-Founding the London Contemporary Orchestra fresh out of the Royal Academy of Music, Robert went on to work like; conducting Jonny Greenwood’s Oscar Nominated score for the film Phantom ...
Composer: Robert Ames (1985)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
It all begins with an idea. Next thing you know a needle is dropping on a piece of vinyl and beautiful sounds are emitted. The Juno-winning Canadian songwriter, artist, author and OG MuchMusic VJ has revisited and revamped his most recognizable number — a slow-burning rock shuffle originally penned in 1988 for Alannah Myles ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Canada’s favourite shaggy rockers The Sheepdogs are back with their first new music in 3 years; the single, “Keep on Loving You“. A vintage stomp-and-sway T-Rex inspired track, “Keep on Loving You” is the first offering from the band’s forthcoming EP No Simple Thing scheduled to drop May 28 ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Mit dem Album "Krone der Schöpfung" feiern die Prinzen ihr 30-jähriges Band-Jubiläum. Dazu sagt Sänger Sebastian Krumbiegel in einem Statement: "Wir haben ein sehr breites Spektrum, aber ich glaube, dass unser Erfolg auch mit Haltung zu tun hat. Es ist wichtig drei Harmonien zu können, ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Chase Rice is releasing The Album on May 28. The project will combine The Album Part I and The Album Part II, both released in 2020. The Album includes all 11 songs from the two previous installments, including the top-10 hit “Lonely If You Are,” and his collaboration with Florida Georgia Line on “Drinkin’ Beer. Talkin’ God. Amen.” ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
Four years after the release of their last album Jump On Board which reached #1 in the French charts, the mythical Scottish band with more than 40 million albums sold is back with 'Hi', their tenth studio album - an event to be released on May 28th. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
