Chapter Two (50th Anniversary Edition) (2021 Remaster)
50 years ago this month, Roberta Flack released her sophomore album, an LP which – despite failing to match the crazy commercial success of her debut, FIRST TAKE, with mainstream audiences – still packed a solid emotional punch and served to cement her superstar status on the R&B and jazz charts. ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Etta James: The Montreux Years Live (Remastered)
Etta James: The Montreux Years is a treasure trove of timeless classics, powerful and electrifying performances and raw, soaring vocals by one of the greatest ever female vocalists. The collection, featuring recordings from James' Montreux Jazz Festival concerts in 1977, 1978, 1989 1990 and 1993, ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre:
Quiet Fire (50th Anniversary Edition) (2021 Remaster)
Quiet Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records. Beginning with her debut, First Take and continuing with the followup Chapter Two, Flack created a path for herself that danced between all the raindrops. She eschewed the full bore gospel attack of Aretha Franklin, ...
Genre: R&B
Subgenre: Soul
Nina Simone: The Montreux Years Live (Remastered)
Nina Simone’s story from the late sixties to the nineties can be told through her legendary performances in Montreux. Taking to the Montreux stage for the first time on 16 June 1968 for the festival’s second edition, Simone built a lasting relationship with Montreux Jazz Festival ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
Blue 50 (Remastered Demos & Outtakes)
Joni Mitchell celebrates 50th anniversary of ‘Blue’ with new demos. The album’s new tracks include demos for ‘California’ and an early version of ‘A Case Of You’ that features different lyrics from those heard on the final album. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Adult Contemporary
“Rarities” is a retrospective collection of 20 songs spanning Goo Goo Dolls’ career from 1995 to 2007 – a prolific period during which the band released several chart-topping hits, ascended to mainstream stardom and cemented their footing as one of the most influential rock bands in recent memory. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Chill-Country superstar Brian Kelley is pledging he’s a “Florida Boy Forever” with his debut album, SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND. “They say write what you know and this is the first time I really wrote for me. These songs are my babies, y’all,” shares Brian Kelley. “This project came from a real place – my experiences ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Country Pop
The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
On The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, the Los Angeles-based band dreams up their own cinematic experience in album form, as its songs cycle through stories of love, danger, and impossible triumph. Eras are ever-changing - Love, desire, and our quest for significance remains constant. ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) Live (50th Anniversary Expanded Edition Remaster 2021)
The Grateful Dead's self-titled 1971 live album is getting a remastered expanded edition for its 50th anniversary. Known by fans as Skull & Roses due to its iconic cover art (and as Skull Fuck, the band's proposed title, which was promptly rejected by the record company), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Centering around the Icarus myth, William Fitzsimmons' seventh album sees him debark on a slightly different sound aesthetic, yet still his distinctive voice holds it all together. For fans of Bon Iver, The National, Sufjan Stevens and Jose' Gonzalez. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
Vocalist, violinist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw returns with a new album "Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part" alongside her frequent partners in music, the trailblazing Sō Percussion. The musicians, who have known each other since their student days, were presented with three days of gratis studio ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
With A Little Help From My Friends (Live)
The performance captures one special night on November 21, 2020 when Steve Lukather, Joseph Williams and David Paich appeared with the new line-up of TOTO for a global event originating from Los Angeles, CA. Joining Lukather, Williams and Paich for this next chapter in their indelible history are new band members bassist ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Stripping down the ballad to just Janson’s voice and a grand piano, the country singer coos out the powerful message while captivating viewers with its black-and-white aesthetic.
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) Live (Remaster 2021)
The Grateful Dead's self-titled 1971 live album is getting a remastered expanded edition for its 50th anniversary. Known by fans as Skull & Roses due to its iconic cover art (and as Skull Fuck, the band's proposed title, which was promptly rejected by the record company), ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
O.S.T. (Original Soundtrack) features the full score of original music composed by Jimmy LaValle AKA The Album Leaf for the feature documentary, Ovarian Psycos (2016), a film which explores the origins of an women Latinx bicycle brigade ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Ambient
3022 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Originally formed in 1999, The Album Leaf went from a solo project of Jimmy LaValle (while he was spending time in San Diego area bands Tristeza, The Locust, Swing Kids, and Gogogo Airheart) into a full-fledged live band, and has been making ...
Genre: Soundtrack
Subgenre: Film
Mixing his indie-folk roots with pop hooks and sparse, airy production, Nashville-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul Johnson shoots for the stars with Constellation, his second album as Canyon City. Just as he did on that career-launching record, Johnson wrote, performed ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: New Acoustic
Ravel: String Quartet - Stravisnky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Historical recordings: The ensemble's confidently-chosen name made it clear from the outset that the Quartetto Italiano saw itself not simply as an Italian string quartet among many, but as the authoritative one. The ensemble was soon recognized as a pioneer of Italian chamber ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel , Igor Stravinsky
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Schumann: String Quartet, Op. 41 No. 3 - Mozart: String Quartet No. 3, K. 156
Historical recordings: The ensemble's confidently-chosen name made it clear from the outset that the Quartetto Italiano saw itself not simply as an Italian string quartet among many, but as the authoritative one. The ensemble was soon recognized as a pioneer of Italian chamber music culture ...
Composer: Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
UK singer-songwriter veteran Joan Armatrading is releasing her 22nd studio album in June. The record label describes Armatrading's new album in a press release as an "intrinsically intimate" look at "love in it's many guises," something we hear in the invigorating-yet-vulnerable single "Already There. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
