Movie Set is the newest instrumental album by celebrated French pianist and composer Jean-Michel Bernard, released on June 20, 2025, via Sony Masterworks (Japan). The album features 19 cinematic tracks that blend Bernard’s jazz-inflected piano style with a film score sensibility. Highlights include “Losing a Puppy,” “Message to Ray,” “Colored Sky,” and “Ange et Gabrielle,” with “The Roundup” featured in promotional materials. Bernard, known for his scores to La Science des rêves, Hugo Cabret, and The Life Aquatic, continues to explore richly emotional and visually evocative music. Movie Set offers a deeply atmospheric listening experience, crafted as if scoring an imaginary film through solo and ensemble arrangements.

Argentinian-born and New York-based vocalist Anita Donndorff presents a richly layered album that bridges jazz tradition with Latin American influence. With a background in classical and contemporary music, Donndorff developed her voice in Buenos Aires' music scene before relocating to New York, where she has continued to evolve as a compelling presence in both lounge and jazz club settings.

Norway-via-Liverpool 5 piece Girl Group release their debut EP Think They're Looking, Let's Perform.

Bloodshot Bill is back with So Fed Up, his brand new album on Goner Records, which will be released on June 13, 2025. He recorded So Fed Up straight to tape at his own SIN Studios, the way he always does it: fast, loud, and in control.

The N.Y.C. Peech Boys were a disco/electro outfit led by Larry Levan and Michael De Benedictis. Larry Levan made his name due to a decade long residence in the famous Paradise Garage club, becoming one of the most respected DJs in the 80’s dance scene of the Big Apple.

Maria Emrik’s upcoming new single “Feels Like Home” is a soul-soothing easy listening smooth jazz piece that gently transports listeners to a place of warmth and belonging. With her signature velvety vocals, the track captures the emotional essence of comfort, nostalgia, and timeless elegance. “Feels Like Home” is the title track from Maria’s upcoming album of the same name, arriving June 20, 2025. Follow Maria Emrik using the links below to get updated about the release.

The album contains popular works of piano literature, which combines the theme of distant reminiscences of lost happiness-expressed directly in the titles of the works or veiled, as in Schubert's Sonata in a major written a few months before his death. It is a tribute to Beethoven's style, but also a typical conglomeration of intimate emotions expressed in lyrical motifs, where brilliant piano playing is in the background, although undeniably present. Janáček's cycles were created in the darkest period of his life.

Jostein Stalheim has written music for orchestra, chamber-ensembles, solo, multimedia and also site-specific productions. Stage music comprises a considerable part of his production; a.o. the opera ”Pr.Warrants Progress” and the ballets; “Watch”, “Volatile”, “Alrekr” and “Kast”. He has worked in theatres both as composer and musician, a.o. The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Hordaland Teater, Den Nationale Scene, The Norwegian National Ballet and Danseteatret/Carte Blanche in Norway. He has received commissions from ensembles both in Norway and abroad.

Few contemporary composers have enriched the choral repertoire quite like Gabriel Jackson, and this recording from the Choir of Canterbury Cathedral is a luminous testament to his singular voice. Rooted in the grand traditions of English sacred music yet infused with a distinctly modern harmonic palette, Jackson's writing revels in soaring treble lines, shimmering textures, and a deep affinity for space and resonance.

Samuel Lord Kalcheim composes in a variety of styles, old and new, and is dedicated to writing music both emotionally and intellectually satisfying, balancing tender lyricism with tight, complex formal architecture. Building on an expertise in 18th and 19th c. styles and forms, Samuel writes expressive new music for today's sensibilities.

"Party, hits, emotions" - with her spectacular arena tour, exceptional artist Andrea Berg inspires fans in Germany, Austria and Switzerland! As a reminder of unforgettable, magical tour moments, the sold-out show in Berlin will be released to 12,000 visitors as a double CD including a booklet with many impressions.

Alissa currently lives in Nashville with her husband and 3 sons and has a new album, Transcendent releasing by Vere Music in June 2025. She started in Los Angeles playing Hotel Cafe with Gary Jules, Waz, Jason Mraz, Meiko and an array of great artists.

Greg Foat and Forest Law (Brownwood, Bongo Joe)collaborate on an epic concept album about Life, Death, Painting and Surfing. Inspired by the art and life of a local Isle of Wight artist and surfing legend Dave Gray. The album philosophically chronicles the many aspects of surfing and surf communities.

Road to Utopia is the thirty-first album by space rock band Hawkwind, released in 2018. It features new acoustic versions of the band's 1970s repertoire with two new compositions. The group's line-up had stabilised for some time with guitarist/singer Dave Brock, drummer Richard Chadwick, singer Mr Dibs and bassist Niall Hone being joined by bassist Haz Wheaton and guitarist Magnus Martin .

Record Store Day 2025. A new collecting of all-star recordings, to benefit Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. A 2 X LP set pressed on baby blue and magenta vinyl. Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who are struggling to make ends meet while facing physical or mental health issues, disability, or age-related problems.