Chiaroscuro is a term from fine art, the skillful play of the artist with light and shadow, giving the figures on the canvas volume.

The Avett Brothers once again team up with Rick Rubin on "True Sadness", the band's fourth consecutive collaboration with the producer. Sonically, the album is as multidimensional as its makers. The same could be said of its long list of influences: from Queen to Jimmie Rodgers, Tom Petty to Nine Inch Nails, Gillian Welch to Aretha Franklin and Walt Disney to Pink Floyd. There are moments of undeniable celebration and camaraderie, others of quiet and lonely exhalation.

AMERICAN EPIC, a film series produced by Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson and Director Bernard MacMahon, explores the pivotal recording journeys at the height of the Roaring Twenties, when music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology captured the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world. The recordings they made of all the ethnic groups of America democratized the nation and gave a voice to everyone. Country singers in the Appalachians, Blues guitarists in the Mississippi Delta, Gospel preachers across the south, Cajun fiddlers in Louisiana, Tejano groups from the Texas Mexico border, Native American drummers in Arizona, and Hawaiian musicians were all recorded. It was the first time America heard itself.

"A Man Called Shenandoah" is an American western series that aired Monday evenings on ABC-TV from September 13, 1965, to September 5, 1966. This album is not exact soundtrack to that series. It's a great collection of covers of popular western themes, performed by starring actor Robert Horton, who was a fine singer…

Sunny & The Sunliners infused 1960s R&B with tejano and mariachi, making them an instant crossover success and bridging Chicano and mainstream American pop audiences. The songs on Mr. Brown Eyes Soul were written between 1966 and 1972 and are collected here in a lovingly restored digital reissue.

Niin kuin Ismo Alanko laulaa: ”Rakkaus on ruma sana, kaipaus soi kauniimpana”.

Er ist der erfolgreichste deutsche Künstler aller Zeiten im Ausland und steht auch in Deutschland mit bisher 14 #1-Erfolgen in den Airplay-Charts an der Spitze.

Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 1879 – 8 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras.

Gary Numan is a pioneer, and his influence on so many artists is unmistakable and grand

Relics (subtitle: A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios) is a 1971 compilation album by English progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

The only sad thing about Lizzo's fourth studio album is that it didn't come out weeks earlier to light up the summer even faster.

Paladin were a British progressive rock band that released two albums during their short existence (1970-1973).

As to the music, these orchestral arrangements by Arthur Harris are all boisterously spirited, almost driving into coarseness on some occasions, but each are quite different from one another, providing a well-rounded program.

"Ballbreaker" is the 13th studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It was the band's twelfth internationally released studio album and the thirteenth to be released in Australia.

Northern Lights – Southern Cross is the sixth studio album by Canadian-American rock group the Band, released in 1975. It was the first album to be recorded at their new California studio, Shangri-La, and the first album of all new material since 1971's Cahoots. All eight songs are credited as compositions of guitarist Robbie Robertson. The album was well-received critically: Rolling Stone declared that The Band had kicked "a field goal", and, while he was put off by the sentimentality of the lyrics, Robert Christgau wrote "the pure comeliness of every melody on this album led to an immediate infatuation".