Herbert von Karajan (5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. Karajan is generally considered one of the greatest conductors of all time. His obituary in The New York Times described him as "probably the world's best-known conductor and one of the most powerful figures in classical music". He is the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records during his career. Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra for 35 years.

This is the debut album of original music from one of the original turntablists, the longtime DJ for Madlib and the late J Dilla, and our pick for world’s greatest hip-hop DJ. But this is not a “DJ album”. Not a “beat album”. Not a mix tape. This is an original work of instrumental hip-hop … electronic music … dance music … smoke tracks … assorted cold rock stuff. J. Rocc first made his name as co-founder of The World Famous Beat Junkies in the 1990s with Rhettmatic, Melo D, DJ Babu and Shortkut, becoming a seminal force in the rise of turntablism and instrumental hip-hop. He went on to host The Fantastic Four Radio show on L.A.’s Power 106, perform as the third member of Madlib & J Dilla’s Jaylib, and tour the world as a solo artist, DJ and producer.

'The Phantom Forest' is the fourth studio release from Norwich based art-rockers Bearsuit. Since their well received 2007 release 'OH:IO' the band have undergone an extensive line-up change, swapping violins and horns for emboldened guitars and dirty synths, resulting in a bigger, creative sound. Alongside these changes producer Gareth Parton (The Go Team, Foals) was enlisted and quickly uncovered the band's pop capabilities that single 'A Train Wreck' exudes.

Made in New York City and inspired by the intersections between the natural world and the human world, Green and Grey continues Julia Kent's solo career as a maker of highly personal music. Using looped and layered cello, electronics, and recordings of natural sounds, she explores in this new instrumental record the melding of the technological and the organic, the patterns and repetitions that exist in nature and are mirrored in human creations, and the complexity and fragility of our relationships with one another and with the natural world. Without collaborators–other than the insect, weather, and wind sounds that create a sort of exoskeleton for the music–she has created an intensely personal landscape that references the way nature, however subverted and endangered by our modern world, still retains its power.

All the News That's Fit to Sing was a fit title for the debut album by a 1960s folk protest singer who some liked to call a "singing journalist." Recorded and released in early 1964, it was done at a time when Ochs's generation of young adults was getting more socially conscious and politicized. The Cold War had almost brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in the Cuban missile crisis, the Civil Rights Movement was heating up, and American military intervention in Vietnam was starting to rise from a grumble to a roar. Ochs addressed all these subjects and more on his first LP, which immediately established him as one of the foremost authors of topical song in American folk music. - Richie Unterberger