…includes three new acoustic versions of previously released songs as well as two entirely new tracks including previously released single ‘Pity,’ and fun, rocking indie folk anthem, ‘Fell in Love (Couldn’t Get Out)’ featuring Cat Clyde.
Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in front of them is your regular cow poking country singer whose life dream is to end up in some Nashville studio leading her/him to Billboard country charts.
Yet in these modern times, classic country (and western) is just one stream, and country pop, roots, Americana, and Canadiana are not only the terms in vogue, but very real genres or…
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Tears may well up for those with endearing memories of organ master Joey DeFrancesco’s live performances. DeFrancesco sounds so warm and convivial in his stage banter, and the music is compelling and superb throughout. It’s a shame that this is a posthumous release, made just weeks before his untimely passing at age 51 in August 2022. He just seemed so full of soul and musically alive! Fittingly, jazz legend Todd Barkan, owner of Baltimore’s Keystone Korner, booked this searing date, which is not only a lasting memory for DeFrancesco but perhaps one of his best albums: Live at the Keystone Korner.
In his late career, the ever-restless DeFrancesco had long taken up the trumpet and, more recently, the tenor saxophone. He led a versatile…
Chicago has always been one of the prime movers as far as all things jazz are concerned, from all the ‘classic’ jazz forms to those that border on other musical genres or go in any experimental direction you can imagine.
So it might be no wonder a prospective composer, drummer and producer like Jeremy Cunningham would move from Cincinnati to Chicago, collaborating and working with a myriad of different artists, and covering the complete musical ground that had even a remote connection with jazz. That covers his complete work so far, from early singles since 2015 to formally his first solo album, The Weather Up There, released in 2020, and A Better Ghost, that followed in 2022. For Passing Fires, his latest, you could…
Released in 1974, Zuckerzeit marks a clear turning point in Cluster’s work, introducing shorter formats and a more defined rhythmic framework. The increased use of drum machines and structured sequencing sets it apart from the duo’s earlier, more diffuse recordings, while maintaining a focus on texture and tone. Developed in close proximity to Michael Rother and under increasingly independent production conditions, the album establishes a more direct and accessible approach without simplifying its underlying ideas. This standard edition makes the album available again on CD and vinyl following the previous limited anniversary release. A key recording in Cluster’s catalogue, capturing a pivotal moment of transition and refinement.
The Art of Space Disco (1977-1978) presents Space’s most iconic tracks and sums up two fruitful intense years of musical innovation.
The French synth-pop band Space had international hits with their 1977 dance numbers “Carry on Turn Me On” and “Magic Fly,” leading to a deal with Casablanca Records and gold records for the band’s songwriter and leader Didier Marouani. The dance group was formed by keyboardist Marouani in 1977. The group’s biggest international success came later that year with the previously mentioned singles, both appearing on charts in a number of countries. Space toured and recorded for the next few years and continued to make well-received records, although no singles duplicated the success of “Magic Fly.”
…The deluxe version of Appalachia includes 6 live tracks recorded at a sold-out show in April 2026 at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, North Carolina.
When it was time to record her new album — the follow-up to 2021’s excellent American Siren — country-folk singer-songwriter Emily Scott Robinson chose to do so at Dreamland Recording Studios, housed in a 130-year-old church sanctuary hidden in the trees outside of Kingston, New York. But the setting and the spiritual center of her work can be found hundreds of miles to the southwest of that location: “Oh, my heart for Appalachia/ Oh, my heart for these blue hills,” Robinson sings in “Appalachia,” the album’s bluegrass-y title track. “Oh, my heart forever captured, beating still.”
Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart at the Ryman is a 3LP set that captures one legendary night in bluegrass. On January 8, 2022, in the aftermath of a Nashville blizzard, Béla Fleck was joined by three generations of renowned players who together brought the fire: Sam Bush, Michael Cleveland, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Edgar Meyer, Justin Moses, Mark Schatz, Billy Strings, Bryan Sutton, Tony Trischka, and Molly Tuttle.
The celebrated banjo virtuoso and musical adventurer has both dug deep into his instrument’s complex global history and unlocked the breadth of its possibilities. He has earned 19 Grammy awards, and his acclaimed studio album My Bluegrass Heart, was a homecoming in sound. The music Fleck composed for his GRAMMY…
Beirut City Pop brings together ten tracks from Lebanon’s private press cassette scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, when short-lived bands and studio projects moved freely between disco, pop, soul, jazz, bossa, rock and AOR.
Many of the musicians belonged to the same extended circle around Ziad Rahbani and his Bypass Studio, rehearsing, recording and contributing to one another’s projects. Often copied at home and circulated among friends and musicians, many of these recordings remained within small local circles. This limited distribution was closely tied to the fragmentation of Lebanon during the civil war, when movement between neighbourhoods and different parts of the country was often difficult. Some tapes existed in…
The 2LP set pairs the original album with a specially curated collection of B-sides, showcasing the depth and creativity surrounding the 1977 era. Highlights include “Day Of The Triffids,” “Luther Ingo’s Star Cruiser,” “Astra Conversations with Toulouse Lautrec,” “Cantina Band,” “5am Eternal,” “Gimme Some Truth,” “Sneaker,” “T Rex,” and more – essential tracks that cemented Ash’s reputation as one of the most exciting bands of their time. Pressed on green & black InkPlosion vinyl in gatefold jacket.
CD1 features the original album – 12 tracks of high-voltage power-pop that still sound as urgent and melodic as ever (from the adrenaline rush of “Lose Control,” to the widescreen closer, “Darkside Lightside”), plus 4 new tracks…
Hootie & the Blowfish mark the 30th anniversary of their multi-platinum sophomore album, Fairweather Johnson, with a digital deluxe edition via Rhino/Atlantic Records. The release includes the band’s MTV Unplugged concert.
Released in 1996, multi-platinum Fairweather Johnson was Hootie & the Blowfish’s second studio album. The album, which followed Cracked Rear View, the best-selling debut album in U.S. history and one of the top 10 best-selling albums of all time, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and featured fan favorites including “Old Man & Me,” “Tucker’s Town” and “Sad Caper.”
The digital deluxe edition expands the album with rare archival material. A centerpiece of the release is the band’s April 19, 1996…
…features nine previously unreleased tracks and demos.
Throughout history, most religions and cultures have a rough idea about how the world might end. Abrahamic ones, like Christianity, Judaism and Islam prophesy their own individual doomsdays, fronted by damning omnipotence, while Dharmic religions, like Hinduism and Buddhism believe a new world will replace ours when it kicks the bucket. For Sleaford Mods, though, the world has already been diagnosed as terminal.
This decline is precisely what drives Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn’s latest studio album, The Demise of Planet X. In Britain’s slow pitch drop towards the £9 meal deal, don’t expect any large-scale Armageddon, nor a spiritual…
The guitars gather like a thundercloud, buzzing with electricity, threaded through with the sweet smirk of melody. On their fifth full-length, the loud but tuneful San Francisco outfit known as Pardoner attempts the same balance of hard and soft/heartfelt and sarcastic as Hüsker Dü, Pavement, Teenage Fanclub, and Ovlov.
Bandcamp Daily called Came Down Different, “their sharpest, most enjoyable record yet, and one that feels refreshingly smart-ass, even for a group as seemingly dedicated to mocking their own existence as Pardoner.” It’s hard to decipher lyrics since both vocalists, Max Freeland and Trey Flanigan, are singing against a deafening assault of guitars/bass and drums, however, Target Practice feels a bit more earnest, a bit less…
Arborist is the alias used by Belfast-based singer songwriter Mark McCambridge for his musical projects, something he has pursued for the best part of the last decade.
His songs broadly exist in an alt-folk/alt-country space although carry enough individuality to make categorisation difficult. His music may have existed on the periphery of any scene or genre but he’s attracted the attention of some big names in music over the years.
His 2015 debut single featured the vocals of Kim Deal and An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeroes, his 2023 Northern Irish Music Prize winning third album, was recorded at SpaceBomb Studios in Virginia with musician and producer Matthew E White. The KLF co-founder…
Over previous solo albums, collaborations with the Bamboos, her indie pop outfit Dorsal Fins, and cosmic funk duo GL, Melbourne-based soul singer Ella Thompson has established herself as a primary artist at home. Deeply inspired by the example of her mentor, Australian soul queen Renee Geyer (whose influence also extends to Hiatus Kaiyote), Thompson offers a work of compelling immediacy. Triumph & Sadness draws inspiration from Geyer surely, but also Curtis Mayfield and early Nina Simone, wedding sweet and Northern soul without relying on nostalgia for support or inspiration. In this music, she offers polished melodic lyricism and sophisticated spontaneity that deliver emotionally mature takes on connection, love, longing, and vulnerability. Thompson co-wrote…
Exclusively reissued on CD for the first time in over twenty years, presented in Deluxe 7” sized packaging with 2CDs featuring the album newly mastered, plus a comprehensive selection of the best of the original era remixes. Also features brand new sleeve notes written by author Kevin Sampson, The Farm’s former manager.
To celebrate National Album Day and the 2026 theme of ‘Icons’, Demon Records are proud to present the reissue of the Number One debut album from The Farm featuring the Top 10 singles ‘All Together Now’ and ‘Groovy Train’ on it’s 35th anniversary. The Farm had long been flying the flag for terrace chic, anthemic street poetry, training shoes and street fashion for many years since the mid 1980s, before the music press…
New Orleans’ guitar slinger Eric Johanson’s fifth studio set of originals is the first he produced. It’s also the debut for his own label, Levee Ward Records. As such, he proudly takes complete responsibility for every aspect of this recording. And since he has been at it for nearly a decade, he is experienced enough to know what he wants and how to get it.
That’s made clear in the pre-release notes where he states “With this record, I didn’t explain anything. I followed the ideas all the way through.”
The basic tracks were laid down in just three days, between live shows, with his tight touring bass and drums duo. That yields a rawer, less structured ambiance, helped enormously by mixing pro Bill Skibbe whose work with…
Brighton folk-rockers Levellers have been one of Britain’s most enduring and best-loved bands for nearly 40 years. And part of that incredible success has been built on the timeless anthems that comprised their platinum-selling, second album Levelling the Land, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2026.
Recorded at Ridge Farm studios in Surrey over the summer of 1991, it was produced by Al Scott, who was charged with translating the band’s incendiary live performances into something more refined within the recording environment. Featuring the huge hit singles ‘One Way’, ‘15 Years’ and ‘Far From Home’, Levelling The Land redefined the UK’s musical landscape providing the soundtrack for a society fed up with the twin…
Inspired by the MaddAddam trilogy of Margaret Atwood, Max Richter’s latest is based on a score of his third collaboration with ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor following Infra (2008) and Woolf Works (2015), and is a representation of a world becoming devoured by industrial technology and commercial hostility.
In this developing dystopia, the survival of human emotions and of the natural environment are in doubt, but Richter’s emphasis on the evolution of a new humanity in response to mechanised terror is clear and heartening.
The opening track, “Wave After Wave”, stresses the notion of transformation as the beautiful theme from “Europe, After the Rain” from his first album, Memoryhouse (2002), is — nearly…