Dave Matthews Band helped define the jam-band underground of the 1990s with their energetic, musically and emotionally rich sound and have gone on to become an enduring American musical institution. Steeped in the progressive, multicultural sounds of the '80s – they spliced bar-band college rock with groove-based jazz and worldbeat explorations given slippery life by Matthews' exuberant exhortations and moody introspection – the group built a following through traded cassettes of live performances. 1994's Under the Table and Dreaming was their big breakthrough hit which saw them vault into the mainstream; constant touring and albums like 2009's Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King kept the group there. No matter how many hits or changes in lineup they had, the band remained road warriors, returning to the studio on occasion to release albums like 2023's Walk Around the Moon.An emigrate from South Africa, Dave Matthews settled in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1986. While bartending at a local bar called Miller's, Matthews started to become part of the city's thriving college rock scene. He struck up a friendship with guitarist Tim Reynolds, who encouraged the fledgling singer/songwriter to pursue his muse.

This album charts pianist Alexandra Dariescu’s artistic journey through discovery, memory, and celebration, bringing together canonical works, rediscovered repertoire, and world premieres. The programme opens with Mozart’s Rondo in D major, K. 382, alongside the revived Child’s Dream by Emmy Schäfer Klein and the newly commissioned Humble Birth by James Lee III. Music by Clara Schumann, Nadia Boulanger, Florence Price, Amy Beach, Germaine Tailleferre, Leokadiya Kashperova, and others foregrounds women composers across generations. Personal touchstones, including Bach/Siloti’s Prelude in E minor and Villa-Lobos’ O polichinelo, complement lesser-known youthful works, creating a cohesive narrative of reflection and renewal.

Bill Evans – At the BBC Studios, 1965 is a remarkable never-before-released document capturing the Bill Evans Trio during a pivotal moment in the pianist’s career. Recorded at the BBC Studios in London in 1965, this historic session features Bill Evans (piano) alongside Chuck Israels (bass) and Larry Bunker (drums), offering a revealing portrait of one of jazz’s most influential trios. Transferred from the original BBC tapes and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab.

This is the 14th studio album released in 1982. Following the 1980 release of their previous album, "Conquest," four members, including Ken Hensley, left the band, which had been inactive. This album marks the return of the reformed Uriah Heep, led by the sole remaining member, Mick Box. While the musical style has changed, this album embodies a style that foreshadows what would later be known as melodic hard rock, and is a highly acclaimed masterpiece. This release features a paper sleeve, SHM-CD format, a 2026 remaster, and six bonus tracks!

Friends and colleagues since the late 1970s, Evan Parker and John Zorn are two of contemporary music’s most uncompromising saxophone innovators, and here they collaborate on a surprising and long overdue studio project. Recorded in New York and Britain from 2025 to 2026 "Those Landings" is an achingly beautiful exploration of modern reed music with an ambient touch from two radical musical philosophers who use the saxophone as a sound source. Astonishing!

Thank You is the eighth studio album by the English pop rock band Duran Duran. It was released on 27 March 1995 by Parlophone. Consisting primarily of cover versions, the album performed moderately on the charts, reaching number 12 on the UK Albums Chart and number 19 on the US Billboard 200, but received negative reviews from critics.

Madonna announced today her eagerly anticipated new album Confessions ll is set for release on July 3rd via Warner Records. The new album is the continuation of the iconic counterpart Confessions on a Dance Floor. Ahead of the lead single, Madonna unveils the first taste of music with a trancelike visual teaser. Fans can now pre-order the album + the ultimate curation of expansive vinyl, CDs and cassette offerings on madonna.com. Madonna sums up her new record best by quoting the first few lines of her song, One Step Away, “People think that dance music is superficial, but they’ve got it all wrong. The dance flooris not just a place, it’s a threshold: A ritualistic space where movement replaces language.” Madonna adds “When Stuart Price and I first started working on this record, this was our manifesto”: We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies. These are things that we've been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect—with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It's about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people.Sound, light, and vibrationReshape our perceptionsPulling us into a trance-like state.The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it.Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time. We are now able to release basic assets for you to send to retail immediately.

Santana Arriving at the twilight of the 1960s, Santana were psychedelic pioneers who ushered Latin rock into the mainstream with their first three albums: Santana, Abraxas, and Santana III. Thanks to their appearance at Woodstock, their eponymous album was a smash hit right out of the gate, with its single "Evil Ways" making it into the Billboard Top Ten in 1969. They remained at the top of the charts until 1973, when leader and namesake guitarist Carlos Santana began exploring esoteric, spiritual jazz fusion on his own. Carlos may have wandered away from the band who shared his name, but he always returned to the group, sustaining them through years both productive and fallow.

Jackson Browne’s 1983 album Lawyers in Love, signalled a discernible change from the personal to the political in his lyrics. Political protest however came to the fore in Browne's music in the 1986 album, Lives in the Balance, an explicit condemnation of U.S. policy in Central America. Flavoured with new instrumental textures, it was a huge success with many Browne fans, though not with mainstream audiences. The title track, with its Andean pan pipes and lines like, "There's a shadow on the faces / Of the men who fan the flames / Of the wars that are fought in places / Where we can't even say the names" was an outcry against U.S.-backed wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The song was used at several points in the award-winning 1987 PBS documentary, The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by journalist Bill Moyers, and was part of the soundtrack of Stone's War, a 1986 Miami Vice episode focusing on American involvement in Central America.

EXTRAORDINARY ELVIS C BROADCAST FROM THE 1991 TOUR • Elvis Costello's recording contract with Columbia Records ended after 1986’s Blood & Chocolate. In 1987 he released the compilation album, Out of Our Idiot on his UK label,

By early 1975, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend were in conflict over The Who’s future, and criticised each other via interviews in the New Musical Express. Daltrey was grateful that The Who had saved him from a career as a sheet-metal worker but was unhappy at Townshend for no longer playing well.

By the beginning of 1996, The Cure had released nine studio albums and experienced numerous lineup changes. The band – now consisting of Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Perry Bamonte, Roger O’Donnell and Jason Cooper – had spent the last year finalising the recording of their wildly anticipated tenth LP, Wild Mood Swings (1996), after a period of commercial success and global stardom.

On May 1st, 2005, Joe Bonamassa performed at Schwarzer Adler in Rheinberg, Germany. This performance was recorded from a live FM broadcast. Collects 8 tracks including Takin' the Hit/Jesus Just Left Chicago; A New Day Yesterday; You Upset Me Baby; Burning Hell; and more.

Multi-platinum-selling country artist and STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis releases his new solo album, "Give My Country Back".

Yves Montand was an enormously popular singer in France, his adopted country, from the 1940s until his death. He also gave concerts around the world, but he was better-known internationally as an actor.