Where will new musicians gain their experience? Alden Hellmuth, a saxophonist and composer based in New York City, offers one compelling answer: by forging her own path. A graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, she was awarded the 2025 German Jazz Prize for Debut Album of the Year and has appeared internationally at major venues and festivals, including the NYC Winter Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, the Blue Note Jazz Festival, and International Jazz Day events in Morocco and Abu Dhabi.
Hellmuth’s discography charts a clear artistic trajectory — from acoustic, texturally nuanced jazz toward increasingly exploratory and experimental terrain. Tiny Windows (2022), released with the Focusyear Band on the German…
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Few archival releases feel as genuinely worthwhile as this newly expanded edition of The Autumn Stone. Originally assembled and released by Immediate Records in 1969 without the band’s involvement, the compilation has long occupied an unusual place in the Small Faces catalogue. While it introduced listeners to some of the group’s finest work, it never truly reflected how the band wanted its music to be presented. More than five decades later, that finally changes.
Curated by drummer Kenney Jones to mark the 60th anniversary of Immediate Records, the 2025 deluxe edition transforms The Autumn Stone from a posthumous compilation into a thoughtfully restored retrospective. Rather than simply remastering the original album…
Amigos has been beloved for decades by both long-time and recent Santana admirers, with multiple generations of fans drawn in by the record’s contagious blend of R&B, Latin, rock, and funk elements. As well as its immense accessibility. Coming off a series of albums that heavily leaned into jazz fusion, the band returns to the more dynamic and concise approaches of its earlier works without losing the sense of adventurousness, craftsmanship, and virtuosity that turned it into a juggernaut embraced by both the mainstream and experimentally minded communities.
The enhanced aural perspectives extend not only to Carlos Santana’s intoxicating fills and solos, but to the rich tapestry of the rhythmic, melodic, and vocal elements that help Amigos…
Nick Hakim is one of those artists you’ve come across whether you realize it or not. From his extensive collaborative history with the likes of Show Me the Body and Pink Siifu to his own solo output that seemingly set out to expand the mind, the multi-instrumentalist / producer / singer / songwriter has built one impressive, undeniable career. The self-reliant renaissance man is capable of conceiving and executing every portion of the creative process at its highest level, allowing Hakim to build these psychedelic sonic universes that are welcoming to the exploratory mind. His solo material and collaborations have never dabbled in the conventional, yet sought to change that norm, with Hakim’s innate experimental tendencies colliding with a natural knack…
Following a hiatus of nearly three years, Tramp Records return to their acclaimed Can You Feel It series with a fifth edition, resuming their treasure hunt through the oft-overlooked depths of the late 1970s disco and modern soul landscape.
As ever, the focus falls on long-lost private-press obscurities, unreleased recordings and neglected dancefloor cuts, with Bill Deal & The Rhondels sharing space with Ryjel’s ‘Heart’s On Fire’, Avatar’s ‘Been Thinkin’ About You’ and King Perkoff’s ‘When You Live In Marin’. Including bonus 7″ of a very rare disco single!
From extremely rare tracks to easily accessible ones and even unreleased material-this release has everything to make a collector’s heart race. Once again, these songs will get you…
The story of EJ & the Echoes represents a remarkable chapter in Michigan’s music history and the early American soul scene. Its origins date back to the late 1950s, when Everett J. “EJ” Gronda was already active as a young musician. While studying at Central Michigan University in the early 1960s, he met the talented vocalist Manuel “Manny” Holcolm. Together with other musicians, they formed vocal groups that soon performed throughout the state and even recorded near Detroit’s legendary Motown studios.
In 1963, Gronda founded EJ & the Echoes, a band that quickly gained popularity at dances, clubs, and weddings across Michigan. With Manny Holcolm as lead singer, the group developed a distinctive harmony-driven sound…
Foreigner released its new live album, In the Eye of the Storm, via Green Hill/Sun Records/Virgin Records. The album serves as the official soundtrack to the band’s concert film, recorded September 6 and 7, 2025 at Ellis Island and the Dumbo House in Brooklyn, and features original members Lou Gramm and Al Greenwood alongside former vocalist Kelly Hansen and current lead singer Luis Maldonado.
A video for ‘I Want to Know What Love Is,’ featuring performances from Gramm, Greenwood, and Hansen, was also released alongside the album.
The project marks part of Foreigner’s 50th anniversary, with a feature film produced by Vertigo Live Productions set to arrive in theaters worldwide in fall 2026.
Josh da Costa imagined his solo debut album New Wave Graveyard as a “greatest hits from a parallel universe, classic songs from an alternate reality.” He says, “Instead of trying to home in on one specific vibe or sound and capturing it over the course of, say, a month of my life, I chose to sort of chameleon my way through my own taste and record collection and try out different approaches to songwriting – as if I were more than just one artist.”
Anyone who’s witnessed Josh DJ around LA or checked out his Confusing Mix radio show on NTS will be familiar with his curious blends of music – Brussels micro-labels, Flying Nun favorites, and leftfield post-punk – and how they all somehow make sense together.
REZN create psychedelic music both retro and modern, occasionally experimental but largely streamlined. It’s space rock and stoner rock with hints of Americana and prog; Sky Valley-via-Sacramento with a not-so-final destination of Live at Pompeii, though the band is from Chicago. If 2024’s breakout album Burden sounded like an ominous transmission from the cosmic depths, then Cycles in the Infinite Dream trades outer space for inner space, recalibrating those hostile frequencies in favor of a heaviness that registers as more organic, more human.
REZN guitarist/vocalist Rob McWilliams leads the way with smooth vocals somewhere in the rarefied air between Chino Moreno and Failure’s Ken Andrews. His high-flying melodies on…
A gritty, veteran soul singer backed by a 12-piece band replete with blaring horns and background singers is your perfect summer soundtrack. You’ll be moving and grooving to What Can We Do?, the debut of The Anthony Paule Soul Orchestra (APSO) on Nola Blue. This is a follow-up to the band’s 2024 multi-BMA-nominated What Are You Waiting For? The APSO has a tradition of being fronted by great vocalists. After all, the band was initially formed to back the late Frank Bey. Willie Walker and Terrie Odabi have served as vocalists. The band is now featuring Willy Jordan, who built his reputation working with Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio and John Lee Hooker.
You may have gathered that the APSO is a Bay Area entity due to Jordan’s background.
Arvo Pärt’s four symphonies occupy a distinctive place within his output. Written over a span of 45 years, they chart not so much a linear evolution as a series of aesthetic ruptures, from the serial experimentation of the 1960s to the austere spirituality of the Fourth Symphony. By bringing together the complete cycle on a single recording, Eva Ollikainen and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra offer a compelling survey that emphasizes the striking contrasts between the works rather than imposing an artificial sense of continuity. The album joins a still relatively modest discography, long dominated by the various recordings from the Järvi family and Tõnu Kaljuste’s complete cycle. From the opening bars of the First Symphony, Ollikainen adopts an approach…
Can you say where you are from after many years living in a country not your own? Can you belong to more than one place at the same time? These are the questions Curió Curió, a Brazilian-German duo, attempts to answer on their debut album.
Actress and singer Luiza Monteiro moved out from her hometown of Rio de Janeiro nine years ago to pursue a career in Europe. There she met Dustin Braun, a German producer, best known for his work with Berlin-based Turkish alternative musician Peki Momés, forming Curió Curió. After almost a decade abroad, Monteiro felt she was “not the same person she’d been in Rio,” but not fully from her new home, either. To address this ambiguity, Braun wrote music that is definitely Brazilian — elegant, groovy, sensual,…
Remastered at Abbey Road, Ask Me Tomorrow (1995), Out of Tune (1998), Excuses for Travellers (2000), Spoon and Rafter (2003), and Puzzles Like You (2006) are available on standard black LP and CD, as well as in a 4AD exclusive slipcase featuring all five albums on clear vinyl, complete with an 8×10″ print. Ask Me Tomorrow features newly updated artwork with photographs by Colin Gray, while all of the other albums retain their original artwork.
Born from the ashes of Slowdive in 1995 by former members Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell, and newly acquired drummer Ian McCutcheon, Mojave 3 began by recording six sparse, acoustic, vocally-driven tracks that stripped away the swirling guitar distortion that had once cloaked…
It doesn’t seem that long ago that singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry’s former group, The Stray Birds, was charming audiences.
Yet that ended in 2018, and de Vitry has been prolific since, issuing her fifth solo album, All My Faith. The album is self-produced and comes on her own independent label, Mad Maker Studio. She originally hails from Lancaster, PA, but has resided in Nashville for nearly a decade. Her crystalline voice is the essence of beauty, while her songwriting continues to grow in personal expression and imagery.
The album embraces folk music, folk-rock, and alt-country influences. Simply put, she’s leaning more toward country here than on her previous releases. The project, recorded in three…
All India Radio’s sixth studio album and the first to be released on vinyl back in 2010. The new vinyl and digital version features gorgeous new artwork from Ryan T Hancock. This repress uses the original 2010 vinyl master by Tony Mantz which was flawless.
The Silent Surf features the voice of Professor Don Gurnett, famous for his NASA ‘space sounds’ (also used by the Kronos Quartet on their famous Sun Ring recordings) and a cameo (on ‘The Bomb’) by The Church’s Steve Kilbey (Under The Milky Way). “Since the turn of the 21st century, All India Radio has mashed the ambient-hop signatures of DJ Shadow, Tortoise and Thievery Corporation with the instantly recognizable guitar soundtracking of Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti.
A founder of the jazz rock group Isotope, Gary Boyle embarked on a solo career in 1977 and recorded his debut album ‘The Dancer’ later that year. The recording sessions saw Boyle joined by such celebrated alumni as Robin Lumley, Rod Argent, Dave MacRae, Morris Pert and Simon Phillips. The resulting album was first released on Gull Records in 1978 and is now regarded as a classic in the jazz rock genre.
Boyle’s follow-up album was ‘Electric Glide’ and saw him joined by special guest guitarist Gary Moore (then with Colosseum II), along with contributions from Robert Awhai, Simon Phillips, John Giblin and Pete Jacobsen. ‘Electric Glide’ was met with acclaim and rightfully placed Gary Boyle among the great jazz rock players.
…features twelve new songs widely available for the first time: stripped-back versions of songs written before the recording of ‘I Don’t Know How But They Found Me!’ had finished, live favourites heard on McRae’s recent headline tours and festivals appearances, a new version of “Mother Wound” featuring Maisie Peters as well as new tracks elsewhere featuring contributions from Brandi Carlile and Brittney Spencer.
Ever since the release of her stand-out ‘Who Hurt You?’ EP back in 2021, Jensen McRae has been marked out as a special songwriter. Even in that early foray, the Californian managed to effortlessly distil an array of powerful emotions into its six tracks in a way that felt, in moments, truly heartbreaking. So it feels more than…
Discover is the breakthrough third album by Gene Loves Jezebel. Originally released in 1986, Discover captures Gene Loves Jezebel at a watershed moment, propelling the band to an international audience. This 40th Anniversary expanded edition has been remastered at Abbey Road and expanded across a double LP with updated artwork. The second LP contains Glad To Be Alive, a live recording from a 1986 Nottingham show, pressed to vinyl here for the first time since it’s original release.
Recorded live at Nottingham’s Rock City on March 17, 1986, Glad To Be Alive was originally issued as a limited edition 8-song bonus album with initial UK vinyl and cassette copies of Gene Loves Jezebel’s 1986 album, Discover.
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60th anniversary edition of Four Tops Live! offers even more from the two dates at Detroit’s Roostertail club which comprised the original LP. Now expanded with 10 tracks not featured on the original album, the concert features all of the quartet’s most scintillating hits for the label (“Baby I Need Your Loving,” “I Can’t Help Myself,” “It’s the Same Old Song,” “Ask the Lonely,” “Reach Out I’ll Be There”) plus a selection of popular favorites (Tony Bennett’s “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” The Sound of Music‘s “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” The Beatles’ “Michelle,” folk standard “If I Had a Hammer” and Getz/Gilberto/Jobim masterpiece “The Girl from Ipanema”) and even a take on The Supremes’ then-new “You Can’t Hurry Love.” (The single topped the Billboard Hot 100…
Corey King brings a spellbinding, cross-genre fluidity to his third album, 2026’s Change the Wind. A trained jazz trombonist, King is also a singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with a diverse array of artists including José James, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, and Iggy Pop. He also took home a Grammy for his co-writing and production work on singer/bassist Esperanza Spalding’s Songwrights Apothecary Lab. He brings all of this experience to bear on his solo work, crafting a holistic blend of alt-R&B, indie rock, and electronica. The follow-up to 2019’s A Loveless Sunken Sun, Change the Wind is a deeply personal production that finds King once again revealing his many-textured sound. The album was also written and…