This sleeper-fan-favorite from Lou Reed and Velvet Underground is getting its first reissue on vinyl in over 40 years. This 2LP is comprised of two late-in-the-year dates at End of Cole Ave in Dallas and at the Matrix in San Francisco, all sourced from fan tape recordings, the two-track mixdown straight from the live console, or from acetate copies.
The fact that few recordings of Velvet Underground exist from before 1970 has made this compilation a treasured gem amongst fans. The tracks on this 2LP showcase a stripped-down and vulnerable Lou Reed accompanied by a band at arguably their creative zenith, and each song offers a fresh perspective on their respective studio versions.

Released in 2014 by Decca Records, Unrepentant Geraldines marked Amos' return to pop and rock music after several releases in the classical genre. The album features a stripped-back, acoustic sound with many of the songs' arrangements consisting solely of Amos's vocals and piano. Deluxe Edition 2 LP set features 3 new tracks: "Dixie," "White Telephone To God," and "Forest Of Glass."

Three of the biggest instrumental pop hits ever recorded were by trumpeters Hugh Masekela, Herb Alpert, and Chuck Mangione. Botti's fourth album comes equipped with more than enough catchy and light melodies to compete with that legacy, but it will probably be "All Would Envy," one of the two vocal tunes on Night Sessions, that will help this disc dent radio and sales charts. It's a song given an irresistible Brazilian lilt by its composer, Sting, who Botti has toured with, and sung hauntingly by Shawn Colvin. Most of the other tracks consist of Botti's crisp clear tone cutting through the kind of atmospheric, heavily padded keyboard music that has gotten him on smooth-jazz radio and Hollywood soundtracks.

After a life of horrible eyesight, dryness, infections, astigmatism, harsh blurs, migraines, expensive and heavy glasses, discomfort with the ocean, and other seemingly benign minor grievances, I caved and got Lasik in the fall of 2021.

GRAMMY-nominated, Platinum-certified singer-songwriter Cassadee Pope has announced her plan to release a deluxe edition of her recently released full length, Hereditary paired with the release of new single, “Bad Decisions.”

The Balcony is the debut studio album by Welsh indie rock band Catfish and the Bottlemen. It was released on 15 September 2014 in the United Kingdom and 15 January 2015 in the United States. On 20 March 2015, The Balcony was awarded a Gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry.

Have you ever been so weighed down you almost gave up? // Ever since I was a young singer, I’ve been compared to Paul Robeson. I was asked constantly if I sang his trademark song “Ol’ Man River” and was told my voice reminded people of his. To be honest, I didn’t know much about him at the time and became annoyed that people kept asking me to sing what I considered a minstrel song.

Berlin bassist, composer, studio musician and sought-after sideman Thomas Stieger releases his solo debut album "Choices". Stieger's first album as a bandleader surprises with guest appearances by well-known musicians such as trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassists Will Lee and Tim Lefebvre, drummer Wolfgang Haffner, as well as rising stars singer Alma Naidu and keyboardist Simon Oslender.

With a reputation for championing Denmark’s most special emerging creative voices to the world, April Records is home to many of the country’s finest contemporary musicians and composers. This Autumn the label proudly presents the contemplative debut release from ‘Blåly’, a brand new trio motivated by the transformative and healing powers of music.

Our first live album in 16 years, recorded in front of sold out crowds over two nights. Aaron Lieberman, Liviu Pop and myself and special guest bassist Jessie Williams (on five tracks) had a blast playing new and old tunes and stretching out the way you can only do when you are playing "live"! The band was at the top of its form and it's all recorded on this album!

In popular mythology Haydn’s name is far less closely associated with the piano sonata than with the string quartet or symphony. Though a more than competent pianist (one writer in London described his playing of the brilliant fortepiano solo in the Symphony No 98 as ‘neat and distinct’), he was by his own admission no ‘wizard’ on the keyboard, and unlike Mozart and Beethoven never wrote sonatas for his own performance. Yet the keyboard remained central to Haydn’s creative process. His morning routine would invariably begin with him trying out ideas, for whatever medium, on the clavichord, the harpsichord or, from the 1780s, the fortepiano; and he composed prolifically for keyboard through most of his adult life, beginning with the harpsichord works he produced for aristocratic pupils during his ‘galley years’ in Vienna and culminating in the three great sonatas (Nos 50–52 in Hoboken’s catalogue) inspired by the sonorous Broadwood instruments he encountered on his London visits.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of the father of musical modernism, we, in collaboration with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Fabio Luisi, announce our plans to record the most extensive edition of Schoenberg's works for and with orchestra that has ever been produced. The project, which will include over ten hours of music, will be released in a loose sequence until the end of the decade. This recording project makes it possible to rediscover a fascinating composer in the overall picture, who concerns us more than ever and whose music touches and enriches us.

This popular North Mississippi singer-guitarist is a master of dirty juke-joint blues. But Burnside was a farm hand when these late ’60s recordings captured him developing his staples "Goin’ Down South," "Jumper On the Line," "Poor Black Mattie," and "Long Haired Doney"–and his playing style–in bare-boned acoustic form. Burnside practically cries over the roiling John Lee Hooker-influenced guitar lines of the heartbroken "Like a Bird Without a Feather," which he’s never again recorded, winning sympathy until he admits that he murdered his lost lover. In "Skinny Woman," covered recently by the North Mississippi Allstars, he offsets the rippling picking style associated with John Hurt by beating his knuckles against his six-string’s body.

Voices is a studio album by American bassist Gary Peacock featuring drummer Hiroshi Murakami, percussist Masahiko Togashi, and pianist Masabumi Kikuchi. The album was recorded in Tokyo in 1971 and released via Sony Records label.

Fernando Sor, an unparalleled figure in the classical guitar world, revolutionized guitar composition by emulating the rich textures of orchestral music. Educated at the prestigious Escolania de Montserrat and guided by Father Anselm Viola, Sor’s works reflect his profound understanding of counterpoint and polyphony, reminiscent of Haydn’s influence. His innovative techniques, from the use of natural harmonics to polyphonic textures, transformed the guitar into an instrument capable of producing a spectrum of orchestral sounds.