Polly Paulusma bares all amidst a collection of textured acoustic guitars and rich, layered melodic flourishes. 'Wildfires' is mellow and cozy in its production, but its honesty is bittersweet - an intimate and reflective rumination on love's many guises, the easy parts as well as the hard. As always, Paulusma's articulate and emotive lyrics, and her ability to convey the deepest vulnerability with vivid, sometimes nostalgic, imagery is astounding here. The album, as filled with delicate earworms as it is with expressive poetry, burns slowly but no less fiercely, and like love, it can be gentle, it can envelope one completely, and occasionally it can be heart-wrenching.

Austrian vocalist Udo Jürgens is best known as the winner of the 1966 Eurovision Song Contest. But a career that spans over four decades has established him as one of the European mainland's most popular performers; his combined international sales exceed over 100 million units. Jürgens was born on September 30, 1934, in Klagenfurt, Austria. He was just 16 when he won an Austrian radio songwriting competition with "Je T'Aime." His success built from there over the next decade and, in 1961, he scored his first international hit when his composition "Reach for the Stars" was recorded by Shirley Bassey. Three years later, Matt Monro was similarly successful with Jürgens' "Walk Away" – a song that the Englishman first encountered at the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, where Jürgens, representing Austria, performed it in its original language as "Warum Nur Waru." Jürgens finished fifth in the 1964 Eurovision event; the following year he finished fourth with "Sag Ihr, Ich Lass Sie Grüben." The third time proved the charm: he sang "Merci Chérie" to glory in 1966. (English singer Vince Hill promptly scored a U.K. hit with an English-language version of the song.)

When you start listening to Folk Bitch Trio's debut album, the references come flooding in like memories, from Crosby, Stills & Nash, Fleet Foxes, to the idea of a heavenly choir. This music feels like it's played in the clouds, carried by vocal harmonies that stretch like a trailing sky. And yet, the band hails from Down Under, specifically Melbourne in southeastern Australia. Formed just a few years ago by three high school friends, they began crafting folk songs with more voices than instruments. After a few singles and rare gigs on this side of the equator, Folk Bitch Trio released their debut album on the esteemed American label Jagjaguwar, and it couldn’t make more sense.

Paradise Slaves craft hypnotically heavy rock anthems steeped in atmosphere and emotion. The Boston-by-way-of-Anchorage quartet cements an uncanny union between vocal powerhouse Brock Lindow (36 Crazyfists), solo artist and guitarist Tyler Stroetzel, guitarist Jon Kita (Diecast), bassist Brad Horion (Diecast), and drummer Ryan Manning (Blitzkid, Pentagram). As the story goes, Killswitch Engage guitarist Joel Stroetzel shot a text over to Brock mid-Pandemic.

Das Programm des Albums Schönheit & Staatsversagen mit dem Ensemble Almanach reichert die Musik von Lindpaintner, Schumann, Lachner und anderen mit Texten an und erzählt von einer sehr vertrauten und doch auch völlig fremden Welt: Bayern um 1800. Im Mittelpunkt stehen große menschliche Gefühle und die Realitäten des Lebens in zwei Welten – Stadt und Land, reich und arm, klassische Bildung und traditionelles Analphabetentum. Für das heutige Publikum halten die Kompositionen und Erlebnisberichte eine ganze Fülle an Neuentdeckungen bereit, vor allem in dieser Kombination.

Mit Bach’s Horns präsentiert Solomon’s Knot ein originell konzipiertes Album, das drei Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs in ein neues dramaturgisches Verhältnis setzt – ohne dabei den historischen Geist oder musikalischen Anspruch zu verlieren. Im Zentrum steht die sogenannte „Jagd-Kantate“ (Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208), flankiert von der feierlichen Messe in F-Dur (BWV 233) sowie dem 1. Brandenburgischen Konzert in F-Dur (BWV 1046), das hier auf faszinierende Weise sowohl als klanglicher Auftakt als auch als integraler Bestandteil der Kantate erklingt.

Grammy Award winning conductor Michael Repper leads the Washington D.C. based National Philharmonic in a celebration of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – an album of world-premiere recordings commemorating the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Joining the party is Grammy nominated violinist Curtis Stewart who contributes his own arrangements of S C-T’s works. AVIE Records was at the forefront of resurrecting the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, with the world-premiere recording of his Violin Concerto released in 2004. This album features new performance editions of Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ballade Op. 4, and the Suite from ‘24 Negro Melodies'.

Mansur Brown shares his truest, most honest album to date, Rihla, which means journey in Arabic. Embarking on this voyage, you’re hearing an artist in full flow – bucking trends and freely making music that isn’t confined by genre.

For more than 25 years, Nestor Munt has worked on the design, construction and setup of a diverse array of projects (stage scenery, industrial machinery, cars, hydraulics, wood and glass fibre). He has access to infrastructures is able to provide the logistics necessary to develop future projects.

Der Trompeter, Komponist und Arrangeur Frederik Köster - Jahrgang 1977 - ist einer der herausragenden Musiker der deutschen Jazzszene. Was ihn besonders auszeichnet, ist sein offenes Ohr für den Rhythmus, die Melodie und Struktur erzählerischer Literatur.

Listening, in its truest sense, is a dying art, but it's one The Wood Brothers are committed to practicing and upholding as a virtue. In fact, it's the secret to the mélange of joyful sounds and musical styles on Puff of Smoke, the American roots trio's ninth album of original music. Indeed, through the near two decades spent together in the studio and on the road, the Grammy Award-nominated trio have honed their interconnected, singular voice to telepathic proportions.

Morgan Wade has never been one to mince words or play coy, a fact that she underscores repeatedly on her new album The Party Is Over (recovered). The follow-up to 2024’s acclaimed Obsessed, Wade continues the intense exploration of her psyche’s recesses across 11 songs that she again wrote solo.

Crematory is a German metal band formed in 1991. The band became recognizable in the mid-1990s, performing on tour as an opening act for such bands as My Dying Bride, Tiamat and Atrocity. The band started with a traditional death metal style, then adopted industrial and gothic metal styles in the recordings of later albums.

Bite Me is the upcoming second studio album by the American singer Reneé Rapp. It is set to be released on August 1, 2025, by Interscope Records. It follows her debut album, Snow Angel (2023), and it is supported by the release of singles "Leave Me Alone", "Mad", and "Why Is She Still Here?".

Greg Chako's new album, titled "Comfort Food," is scheduled for release on August 1st, 2025. The album is described as a "blue plate special of standards" and features an organ trio, according to jazzweekly.com. Chako, a Cincinnati-based guitarist, often incorporates his culinary interests into his music, as seen in his "Cooking with Jazz" posts on Instagram. He collaborates with Wayne Yeager on keyboards and Todd Remmy on drums for this project.
The album is available for purchase as a hard copy CD or digital download on his Bandcamp page. It can also be streamed on platforms like Qobuz. "Comfort Food" is Chako's 22nd album