Melbourne-born, New York City-based saxophonist and composer Stephen Byth returns with Growth in Stasis, an emotionally expansive album exploring the tensions that define contemporary life. Joined by a formidable New York quartet - Yessai Karapetian (piano, synthesizers), Simon Willson (bass), and Angus Mason (drums) - Byth presents music that balances lyrical beauty with searching intensity, drawing together contemporary jazz improvisation, cinematic orchestration, electronic textures, and open-ended collective interplay. Recognised as "a compelling new voice in Australian jazz," Byth continues to refine a deeply personal musical language that embraces uncertainty, transformation, and presence.

Ella Thompson is standing up for feeling. Standing up for joy and pain and all the messy, confusing, beautiful details that make life worth living. Soulful and timeless, her songs tell stories of the heart, finding universal truths in the honesty of personal experience.

Roeland Jacobs, Jan Vereecke, Rob van Weelde and PIAS Netherlands/Belgium cordially invite you to attend the world première of the album "THE SEVEN SYMPHONIES", a classical tribute to Beach Boys Music. This concerns newly arranged compositions that were recorded by the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra.

Star Feminine Band, hardest working women in Beninese show business, are releasing their third album on Born Bad, who went all out for their first. Some get malaria at the sight of that sticky world label : rest assured, the world is all they deserve after nine years of hard work. These eight young women, from a village that even Beninese can't quite place, started out in hard mode. They had to convince themselves that it was worth a shot, but also their family, their village and an entire continent.

Monumental power, intimate reflection and the shared energy of the concert hall. On this new Hungaroton release, pianist Balázs Demény joins the Danubia Orchestra and conductor Máté Hámori in a performance recorded live at the Grand Hall of the Liszt Academy, Budapest, on 23 April 2026.

In the landscape of the later French nineteenth century, César Franck occupies a singular position, almost a sonic threshold between the severity of the contrapuntal tradition and the harmonic fever of modernity. Born within a cultural geography that cannot be reduced to a single national affiliation, he brought to musical Paris an idea of composition founded upon architectural patience, inward fervour and the pursuit of unity. His figure does not coincide with that of the worldly virtuoso, nor with that of the elegant salon musician. At the centre of his world stand the organ, counterpoint, improvisation, the memory of Bach and a conception of form in which the theme is a seed destined to transform itself, to return, to recognise itself under different countenances.

What first drew me to the study of Schumann’s Sonatas, and not only from a strictly pianistic perspective, was the desire to understand why the German composer so often altered the first versions of his works. This line of enquiry began with Op. 14, which I studied as a boy, and gradually led me to search for the material connected with the many compositions written during the 1830s. It was a journey that brought me to pages whose very existence I had not known: the unfinished Sonata No. 4, for instance, of which only a few bars of a first movement survive, together with a somewhat more substantial fragment of a fourth movement, full of marvellous ideas but sadly left incomplete; or the first Finale of Op. 14, likewise unfinished; or again an earlier version, and one quite different from the version normally performed today, of the first movement of the Sonata in G minor.

Robinson believes the songs on Appalachia are the best she’s ever written — she sings about her grandmother slipping into dementia, a cash-only saloon full of characters, and gratitude for life, despite its hardships. The album features a duet with Grammy winner John Paul White that celebrates the kind of love that comes with scars and age, and a hymn for anyone who’s ever failed or fallen short.

No height is too steep for STONED JESUS to climb. After 15 years of exploring everything from doom metal and psychedelia to grunge and art rock, the heavy progressive trailblazers hit the road in search of even more expansive creative peaks. With ‘Songs to Sun’, frontman Igor Sydorenko and his bandmates launched their ambitious album trilogy onto best of 2025 lists. Now, just one year later, they're cycling into their next phase with ‘Songs to Moon’.

The French-Congolese singer-songwriter—who has already amassed over 30 million streams worldwide—recorded the album inside a basement studio in Soho, London, alongside core collaborators Quin Oulton and James Alexander Vincent. Moving away from writing songs completely isolated in her room, Isaki describes the album as an intimate body of work born out of a place of loneliness, but brought to life through a deeply collaborative community.

Critically acclaimed guitarist TOBIAS GRIM, based in Gothenburg, now has a genre-blending album that reflects a rich journey across cultures and continents. It weaves together compositions with influences from Sweden, Senegal, North America & Brazil. In a time of uncertainty, Tobias explores whether music can unite us—offering an expressive, hopeful reflection shaped by a profound love for sound & human connection. Now featuring musicians: Olli Rantala (Finland), Danilo, Armand van Wijck (Holland), Lamine Cissokho (Senegal) and Karolina Vucidolac.

Today, MULTI-PLATINUM powerhouse K. Michelle releases her first-ever Country album "Jesus & Whiskey". Produced by Kristian Bush, Jesus & Whiskey marks the first full-length exploration of K. Michelle’s deep-seated Country roots. With its hypnotic fusion of timeless storytelling and Southern soul, the nine-song project fearlessly explores faith, heartbreak, redemption, and love lost and found. Set for release via Real Outlawz Records, Inc. under exclusive license to This Is Hit, Inc. d/b/a BBR Music Group, Jesus & Whiskey fully realizes the uncompromising artistic vision she’s steadily shaped since making her Country debut last summer with the fierce and fiery “Jack Daniel’s.”

In 2026, Kanaan celebrates 10 years as a band with their tenth album, simply and aptly titled Kanaan. It felt only natural for this album to be self-titled, given that it is built upon a solid musical foundation the band has crafted over a decade. And that foundation rumbles powerfully. With Kanaan, we’re approaching earthquake territory.

‘60s teen mayhem that poured the foundation of Twin Cities Punk! Their first ever LP?!? All their coveted singles plus 10 additional cuts from the vaults that make their debut here! A keystone to Twin City music culture, driving the garage scene and now you can witness their mind-bending journey into psych! Includes lost takes on cuts from The Who, Sam Cooke, Beau Brummels, and more! Influential? Not just to Minny rockers, hell, three of them were among the earliest to hold the purple reigns! Includes an extensive liner note insert.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Zach Bryan releases his eight-track "Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs" EP features Lana Del Rey on Lies and Turnpike Troubadours on Plainsman. The release follows Bryan’s sixth album, With "Heaven on Top", which arrived in January. The collaboration with Lana Del Rey is going to be fascinating to hear. The Turnpike Troubadours are a popular country music group. That's not anything that is shocking or unusual. Bryan is adored for his stripped-back production and blunt, emotional songwriting. He’s built a career on songs that feel personal without being overly polished, helping him stand out in a saturated modern country scene and gain mainstream appeal.