Udo Dirkschneider has done a very cool thing and recreated the classic Accept album Balls to the Wall to celebrate it’s 40th anniversary with the help of some excellent friends, and it’s pretty damn amazing. Let’s start with Joakim Broden of Sabaton’s duet on the opener “Balls to the Wall”; what a great remake with a darker vocal style. The music is very faithful to the original recording, with precision heavy guitars, bass and drums punching hard, and great vocal duets.

Nothing is the third album from DARKSIDE: nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas to mold into what became the revered Psychic(2013) and Spiral (2021). But Nothing reflects a search for form borne out of spontaneous elliptical jams, acoustic riffing, and digital levitations. And in a fundamental shift from their first dozen years as a band, the duo recruited their longtime friend and collaborator, the drummer and instrument designer Tlacael Esparza, to become a full-time member.

Though Bob Wills has long been heralded as a country-music icon (an inspiration for artists from Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson through Lyle Lovett and Asleep at the Wheel, and toasted by Waylon Jennings in "Bob Wills Is Still the King"), the Texas fiddler considered himself more of a jazz bandleader. The Texas Playboys' signature dance-floor style of Western swing encompassed blues, jazz, country, and pop standards, with a sophistication at odds with the era's image of "hillbilly music."

After nearly two years, Okonski returns with Entrance Music — an album that finds the trio at the height of their improvisational prowess and celebrating the spontaneous and meditative.

Doctor Dark (alternatively stylized as Dr Dark or Dr. Dark) is an upcoming studio album and "modern theater piece/opera" by The Residents, scheduled for release on CD and vinyl on February 28th 2025 by Cherry Red Records, MVD Audio and New Ralph Too, with two limited vinyl editions also expected from Psychofon Records.

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men release new album Yeah Man, Howell's ninth album overall. The Mighty Men include Howell, acoustic and electric guitar and vocals; Chris Michaels, electric guitar and vocals; Dave Hoffpauir, drums and vocals; and Jason Weinheimer, electric bass, organ and vocals.

A Classical—Jazz Crossover Masterpiece by Alex Sino and Taras Kutsenko "Domus Solis", R. Gliere 12 duos for two violins, Romantic Symphonies edited by Leonard Bernstein, and The House of Dreams are on the ballots of 67th GRAMMY® Awards Nominations.

The Oaks return for their sophomore release for Columbia records. Sky High is equally as good as 1974's self-titled offering. On the plus side, this album branches out and features all four members on lead vocals.

Powerful works of art have traditionally sprung from some source deep within an artist and, if they strike the right tone, resonate with an audience to leave a lasting mark. But what if that equation were reversed: what if an artist were to draw their inspiration from deep within their audience, and use that to reflect those ideas, emotions, hopes, fears, pains and aspirations back to us?

With his 9th piano concerto, composed in 1777, Mozart entered a new world. The traditional long orchestral introduction is dispensed with, and the soloist enters after the second bar. Nothing as audacious as this would happen in a concerto until Beethoven's 4th, where the soloist starts the work.

Fire was recorded in 2002 and 2003 at White Room Studios and Ghetto Recorders in Michigan with additional work at Abbey Road and Olympic Studios in London. The first single from the album, “Danger!

Live at Smalls is a live album by American jazz pianist Ethan Iverson's quartet. The band consisted of Iverson on piano, Reid Anderson on double bass, Jeff Williams on drums, and Bill McHenry on tenor saxophone.

Lakeshore Records will release The Agency—Original Series Soundtrack digitally on February 28, featuring a score by Ivor Novello and BIFA-nominated composer Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (All of Us Strangers). The music blends intense percussion, atmospheric analog synths, and extended string techniques to reflect the show's psychological tension and high-octane action. Starring Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Richard Gere, The Agency is streaming now on Paramount+ with Showtime. Levienaise-Farrouch aimed to create a unique sonic identity for the series, balancing driving pulses with emotional warmth.

Anton Bruckner was undoubtedly Sergiu Celibidache’s favourite composer and with the Munich Philharmonic, the great maestro had created the perfect orchestra for his musical ideas.

When Medusa’s head was cut off, that’s when she became most powerful. When Marie Antoinette laid her head on the block, it started a revolution. When one thing violently ends, more often than not, something else dramatically begins. Change often demands savagery and Banks seems to know that well on Off With Her Head.