The French and Italian Renaissance song repertoire, immortalised during the first three decades of the sixteenth century by the printed editions of Pierre Attaingnant in Paris and Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice, invites audiences, and in former times performers, to immerse themselves in a world in which memories of medieval courtly poetry, the austerity (as reimagined in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) of ancient lamentations, and a fully polyphonic narrative style, were all collided and superimposed-a certain sense of conversation can remind us also of the French air de cour as well as the early Italian madrigal form.

Electronic pioneers Propaganda follow up their acclaimed 2024 comeback with Remix Encounters, a broad and brilliant remix album featuring Moby, Tangerine Dream, Rhys Fulber, Schiller, and more. After the widely praised release of their self-titled comeback album in October 2024, Düsseldorf’s legendary art-synth auteurs return with Remix Encounters, a thrilling reimagining of their latest work. Released on Bureau B, this remix collection reflects the enthusiasm Propaganda’s return after three decades of silence has ignited among contemporary artists, who approached the project with fresh energy and creative freedom.

After fifteen years of a career that has been driven at breakneck speed around the world, Zaz has released the album of her dreams. A collection of highly personal songs whose subject matter is sure to reach a universal level, as it contains biographical narratives.

Guitarist Phil Manzanera and saxophonist Andy Mackay (Roxy Music) are set to release a new live album, AM PM Soho Live, recorded in an Intimate venue in Soho with special guest and original Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson. A thrilling combination of deeply instinctive instrumental interplay between saxophone and guitar swathed in ambience and unique textures, it felt impossible to pinpoint. In part classical purity, caressing and inviting, in others a throbbing invitation to an electronic Bossa Nova dance floor. The album features reimagined versions of material from their AM PM studio album alongside previous compositions from Roxy and solo albums that the band debuted during the Soho residency. Engineered by Mike Boddy.

The history of jazz piano resonates from a plumb line whence new developments spring. Pianist/composer Carmen Staaf makes a case for the connection between two brilliant and revolutionary pianists, Thelonious Monk and Mary Lou Williams, exposing the common threads on her new recording, Sounding Line.

Mike Campbell knocked on the dressing room door and brought in a friend to meet Los Straitjackets. It was the late 1990s and through a chance encounter with Campbell, the band found themselves opening a series of shows for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Mike introduced his friend: “You gotta meet these guys. They sound like the early Beatles… if they didn’t sing.”

There is no smooth jazz artist in the music space right now more sought after or who has made more of a new mark on the genre than has keyboardist Nathan Mitchell. He is one of the genres shining lights and his live performances have been considered epic and fully immersive. Just coming off of yet another Billboard #1 with his recent hit single So In Love With You, Mitchell has been hunkered down in full creative mode, riding the high he has been on over the last two years crafting what has now become his latest and by far best work The Legacy Project.

Yusuf / Cat Stevens has released On The Road To Findout: Greatest Hits, a collection of hits from his near six-decade recording career via A&M/UMe.

MIRADOR is a guitar-driven band comprised of the Grammy-winning Greta Van Fleet co-founder, songwriter and lead guitarist, Jake Kiszka and his British counterpart Chris Turpin, guitarist-singer-songwriter of the alt-rock band Ida Mae. 'Feels Like Gold' marks the band's first music release after forming in 2023.

Black Lips return with a brand-new studio album, Season Of The Peach, a 40-minute rock and roll odyssey, tripping through DIY genres where garage rock meets new wave pop, and disgruntled country shakes hands with epic western soundtracks.

In celebration of her 80th birthday, Anne Murray announces Here You Are, her 33rd studio album arriving September 5, 2025. Alongside the news, she shares the previously unreleased single, “Rest Easy (In My Love)”. The album, available now for pre-order via Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company, features 11 never-before-heard songs recorded between 1978 and 1995, showcasing Murray at her vocal peak.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a visionary Lithuanian composer, painter and poet. In his extraordinary work, music, nature and mythology merge into unique artistic expression.

Nine Inch Nails returns with over 70 minutes of new music for the motion picture TRON: Ares, the first soundtrack or score work from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross that will live under the Nine Inch Nails moniker; consisting of all original music, complete at 24 tracks. Reznor and Ross bring their Grammy and Oscar-winning sonic vision to the Grid, crafting a soundtrack that hums with menace, melancholy, and momentum. More than an album, its architecture in sound: pulsating synths, distorted textures, and haunting melodies that rewire the TRON universe from the inside out. It is the collision of analog soul and digital dread—a score that doesn't just accompany the film, it possesses it.

With Unerthed (Hole Erth Unplugged), Chaz Bear surfaces the songcraft of 2024's Hole Erth, his eighth full-length studio record as Toro y Moi. Rearranged for guitar, piano, drums, and strings, the collection adds a curious postscript to Hole Erth's unexpected, inspired, madcap pivot into rap-rock, hyperpop, and Y2K emo. Daring in its own right, Unerthed reveals a deft songwriter unguarded, inhabiting lyrics and instrumentation with uncomplicated poise and clever turns of phrase and melody.

Captured live over three nights at the Knitting Factory in New York City, these performances mark the closing chapter of a 33-year odyssey of radical, independent music-making. Originally issued in tiny quantities with minimal packaging and cryptic artwork - often featuring hand-written labels or Ra's own handmade designs - 'Hidden Fire' was among the most elusive entries in Sun Ra's vast discography.