Challenging times called for something desirous. The COVID-19 pandemic lead soprano Katharine Dain (US) and pianist Sam Armstrong (UK) to immerse themselves deeply into the excessive musical world of Messiaen, Debussy and three robustly related other composers: Dutilleux, Delbos and Saariaho.

The gorgeous new holiday album featuring folk legend Judy Collins joined by Norwegian singer-songwriter Jonas Fjeld and North Calina bluegrass revivalists Chatham County Line!

Meyerbeer had already won renown in Italy before conquering Paris with a sequence of much-acclaimed grand operas.

From two magnetic tapes restored by Pedro Félix, Amália Rodrigues ' reissue plan, coordinated by Frederico Santiago, now takes us to rehearsals and creative work, in her home or in the studio

With his blond hair, dark sunglasses and frail, moody vocal style, Keith Relf brought a mystique to the Yardbirds that was a huge element of their image and sound. That cool, cerebral, soulful, approach continued with the music he made after the Yardbirds, all the way up until his tragic death in 1976 at the age of just 33. ALL THE FALLING ANGELS is a carefully selected collection of Keith’s work as a solo artist and in collaboration with fellow Yardbird Jim McCarty and his sister Jane Relf. It includes previously unreleased demos from Keith’s personal tape archive, along with rare tracks.

I tell you what - everything has its shelf life. Except these insatiable obsessive fragments of spirit that we cant shake and make us do stupid things like devote serious time to an unserious pursuit like amateur music making. I just try to not think and see what comes out, then you hear you are meant to be a fascist editor once the basic form is there, and, well, that part is a dog chewing on its own innards. But here it is, something kind of childish, angry but middle age frustrated too. Political but selfish and powerless. Before the editorial faculty arrived, it was meant to be about hidden power and about a protagonist i guess is someone i wish i had met, to help them make sense of things. But in the end, its just me.

I tell you what - everything has its shelf life. Except these insatiable obsessive fragments of spirit that we cant shake and make us do stupid things like devote serious time to an unserious pursuit like amateur music making. I just try to not think and see what comes out, then you hear you are meant to be a fascist editor once the basic form is there, and, well, that part is a dog chewing on its own innards. But here it is, something kind of childish, angry but middle age frustrated too. Political but selfish and powerless. Before the editorial faculty arrived, it was meant to be about hidden power and about a protagonist i guess is someone i wish i had met, to help them make sense of things. But in the end, its just me.

This original series soundtrack to new Amazon Original Series The Wilds features the darkly brilliant indie pop gem “Broken”, written and performed by LA-based singer-songwriter Empress Of for the series, alongside 20 new score tracks written by acclaimed composer Cliff Martinez.

Pioneering all-female Sixties band Ace of Cups have announced the new release date and track list for their sophomore studio album, Sing Your Dreams. The 12-song set drops on September 18th, one month after it was originally scheduled, via High Moon Records.

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit held a concert in Salt Lake City, Utah, 2019.

Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit held a concert at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York on Saturday night. The singer-songwriter and guitarist would cover Jimi Hendrix to close out his set.

Born in Nishinomiya (Japan), moved to Düsseldorf (Germany) with her family at the age of 5, where she started to study piano under Kyoko Sawano.

Yannic Seddiki come back with a trio to offer his new album: E-life. E-life is the story of duality. A modern hyper-connected world turning its back on the traditions and human fraternity, so dear to the artist.

The four works on this album, all composed in the 1940s, embrace the lingering end of one musical tradition and the vigorous upsurge of another. Mellifluous, retrospective and playful, the Duet Concertino and Prelude to Capriccio were works of Richard Strauss’s Indian Summer – an old man’s refuge from the barbarism of war and its aftermath. What the public thought of them was incidental, even irrelevant.

The a cappella outfit Earcandy was born in 2020 through an online video streaming site. With their renditions of pop songs garnering massive streaming figures, they issued their debut album, the holiday-themed An Earcandy Christmas. With their first video in July 2020 – a rendition of Lily Allen's "Smile" – the group, which consisted of Jonathan Tilkin, Sri Ramesh, Anthony Gargiula, Taylor Edlin, Kavya Borra, Ryan Narciso, Jilaine Marie Orton, Naomi Joy Turner, Nina Ann Nelson, Lyric Slaughter, and Lyn Lapid, had each found a spotlight with their own social media accounts before being brought together to perform.