ConTempus Quartet's Strings Intertwined is a newly released 2026 chamber album focused on rediscovering overlooked 20th-century works alongside a contemporary commission.
The ConTempus Quartet is an offshoot of the ConTempus Initiative, a Michigan-based contemporary music collective dedicated to making new music accessible. The group focuses on commissioning new works and discovering unpublished pieces.

Pristine vocals are the ultimate goal of every audiophile listener. You want to hear every breath, note, and nuance of the vocal performance. We've assembled for you on this compilation the greatest collection of audiophile vocal recordings ever made.

CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording) documents the long-awaited Broadway revival that opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 16, 2025 — the first English-language cast recording of a fully staged production of the musical since the original Broadway album of 1988. With music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a substantially rewritten book by Emmy Award winner Danny Strong, the musical sets a politically charged Cold War chess tournament at the center of a love triangle between an American and a Soviet grandmaster. The American champion Freddie Trumper was conceived as a loose portrait of Bobby Fischer, while the Soviet grandmaster Anatoly Sergievsky draws on elements from the careers of Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.

Gillan – 1978-1982 is a 7CD deluxe box set released on 28 February 2025 by Edsel Records (Demon Music Group). It’s the first complete collection of Ian Gillan’s hard-rock band output from their active years (1978–1982), remastered from the original tapes where possible. It gathers all the studio albums, the Japanese-only debut, the Double Trouble live/studio double album (split across two discs here), plus a generous helping of B-sides, singles, outtakes, rarities, and previously unreleased or hard-to-find tracks—totaling 94 tracks.

VA - 100 One Hit Wonders (2012) is a 5-CD compilation album released in 2012 by Cloud 9 Music (Netherlands). It collects 100 tracks from various artists, many of which are classic one-hit wonders (or songs they're best known for) spanning pop, rock, dance, soul, funk, and more from the 1970s onward.

It's a 10-track project clocking in at about 41 minutes, self-released under their own label. The sound leans straight into classic blues territory with gritty, riff-heavy tracks—think devilish themes, telephone-line laments, and swampy grooves.

Grapefruit had strong connections to the era's top rock acts, being signed to the Beatles' Apple Music Publishing company, with John Lennon himself suggesting the band's name . The group's style is often compared to a melodic, slightly psychedelic pop sound reminiscent of The Beatles, The Bee Gees, and The Easybeats . "Deep Water" is often characterized as a "blue-eyed soul" track, a style that marked a shift from their earlier work.

The album features a gritty, road-weary sound—think dark country, biker rock, and classic blues-rock vibes with themes of drifting, reckoning, and open-road introspection (tracks reference places like Albuquerque, Carlsbad, Panhandle, and Lone Star)

Speaking To The Body can refer to any physical form and its relationship to the space it is in, the expectations imposed upon it, and actions that unfold from it. Through the conception of this record, Goldstein battled with overwhelming anxiety and panic disorder, which extended itself into the work in mysterious ways.

Diskette is a collection of tracks and demos created during the sessions for Borderline, Cycles, Movement, Leisure and Departure. Rediscovered and re evaluated, they’re together now for the first time.

Grammy-nominated band The Marías announced their highly-anticipated return with sophomore album Submarine set for release on May 31st. Along with the special announcement, the band released their new single “Run Your Mouth.''Submarine represents themes of solitude and exploration for The Marías, delving into the complexities of human emotion and what it means to choose solitude, and the pain and beauty so inextricably interwoven within it. New single “Run Your Mouth” is just the first introduction into the band’s immersive world inspired by this album. Submarine is a follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed GRAMMY-nominated debut album Cinema(2021), with lead single “Hush” going No.1on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart. Known for delivering striking visuals that compliment their dreamlike songs, the band continues to create a unique and transformative experience for fans and audiences alike.

VA - Disco Fever Italo Disco & Hi-NRG Essentials Vol. 1 is a 2026 compilation album (released January 16, 2026) featuring 10 tracks of modern Italo-Disco and Hi-NRG productions. It's credited to Various Artists, with many tracks involving Victor Ark (as featured artist, remixer, or collaborator), and the label/credits point to Victor Barranqueras

Brussels based Limite embodies a unique blend of contemporay jazz roots with indie alternative rock, no wave, and avant-folk, drawing influences from Blonde Redhead, Big Thief, Daniel Rossen, Joanna Newsom, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Deerhoof, Sonic Youth, Jim O' Rourke.

Fusion is a new album of spontaneous band improvisations recorded live in studio. While this is a departure from most of our studio material, these recordings represent an aspect of what Zen Carnival has always done together, and we’re really pleased to be able to properly record some of these experiences and share them with the world!

Emeralds, the second album by Ohio's Parlor Greens, proves that the funky jazz organ trio is an idea that never gets old. The musicians have clearly logged lots of time marinating in the sounds of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott, Charles Earland, Baby Face Willette, et al, but they've found a middle ground between honoring their influences and putting a fresh spin on a style that's been around longer than they've been alive.