New Music

Urbantramper is a 3 piece electricUTOPIA band from Wellington, New Zealand. The band features Lake (vocals, bass, keys, etc), Andy Hoy (drums, midi triggers), and Phil Jones (keys, backing vocals, bass, etc). Internet Freedom is Love is an album dedicated to the sharing of sentiment and ideas ...

Winter Deluge formed in 2005 and quickly began to get recognised in the underground New Zealand metal scene. After playing several shows across the North Island as well as releasing the EP "Vehement Visions of Nihilism"in 2006, Winter Deluge had become a strong name in New Zealand’s underground Blac...

Rachael Yamagata has reunited with Happenstance producer, John Alagia (Dave Matthews Band, Jason Mraz, Liz Phair) for her third studio album Chesapeake, the follow up to her heralded 2 CD Set Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart. Praised by critics for her intimately confessional songwriting and ...

Originally started down a Hackney back alley as the backing band for B-movie goddess and Faster Pussycat Kill Kill star Tura Satana’s latest film, The Dustaphonics have now cemented themselves as fixtures on London’s live music scene. And with members of Thee Headcoats and The Wildebeests and fronte...

Personnel: Leonard Cohen (vocals, guitar); Jennifer Warnes (vocals); Sid McGinnis (guitar); Kenneth Kosek (fiddle); Ron Getman (harmonica, background vocals); John Lissauer (piano, keyboards, background vocals); John Crowder (bass, background vocals); Richard Crooks (drums); Lani Groves, Erin Dickin...

Much anticipated authorised re-issue of Stanshall's best album which was originally released in 1974 on Warners.

During the 1990s, "The Bristol Sound" became a global phenomenon with albums from Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky regularly placed high in polls of the best albums of the decade or indeed of all time. But for those in the know, "The Bristol Sound" had been defined at the tail end of the eighti...

Auckland-based band Invader Cain formed in 2009 and quickly established themselves on the local scene with their first EP, THIS IS THE MOMENT. Invader Cain's 2012 EP FEELING THE TREND BUT THINKING AGAIN includes latest singles 'Burning' and 'Back of Your Mind' along with two new tracks. 'Burni...

November Zulu has evolved over the last year with 3 new members coming on board. With Geordie Meade anchored on lead vocals, Mike Tahaafe/Dan Jones on guitars, Jamie Anderson on Bass, and Adam Tobeck on drums, the new line up was complete and the focus was now on new material. The band wrote/r...

Harper recorded most of Give Till It’s Gone - his first solo record since 2006’s Both Sides of the Gun - at the Los Angeles studio of Jackson Browne, who harmonizes with him on the wistful ”Pray That Our Love Sees The Dawn.” The album also features two tracks co-written with Ringo Starr - the exuber...

Survival of the Fittest continues to be rediscovered by new generations of listeners and musicians. As jazz-fusion-funk expert Christian Genzel writes in his liner notes for the new issue of this classic album: “Survival of the Fittest is the ultimate space-funk album. Even 36 years after its releas...

Following his award-winning, hugely acclaimed 2009 album ‘Truelove's Gutter' and more recently recording with the Arctic Monkey's on their track ‘You And I', Richard Hawley will release his sixth studio album, ‘Standing At The Sky's Edge' ‘Standing At The Sky's Edge' marks a seismic shift in dire...

The best folk hits.

"Wow, what can I say about this party in Cordoba earlier this year to do it justice? The crowds in Argentina never disappoint and are always up for a great night but this party took things to a whole new level for me. It was the first time the venue, TRES AGUAS had been used for an event like this w...

With its use of banjo, accordion, lap steel, and stand-up bass and its songs about creaking pine porches, shallow graves, prison shoes, and big horses, 16 Horsepower would seem to be drawing from the same ancient wells of Americana as the Band. The Band, however, handled this tradition from a wor...

The Best Of compilation Thirteen of these tracks are gathered from Gretchen's past albums, with two bonus tracks "Don't You Know" and "Nobody's Girl" previously unreleased.

Kingston sounds present a sixteen track compilation of classic Jamaican Ska hits! Basically a Skatalites album (well they were the best) and features their classics such as "Nuclear Weapon", "Ali Pang", "Alley Cat" - plus tracks from Johnny Moore and Roland Alphonso!

Tedeschi Trucks Band present 'Everybody's Talkin'', their sophomore album in their second full year as a band. As the lengthy 2011 Revelator World Tour wound down, the band decided to record their October concerts in the highest quality possible, and their foresight paid off as the group turned in s...

Magdalena Kožená’s silken mezzo delivers definitive interpretations of this luscious and enchanting orchestral-song repertoire. Magdalena Kožená, Sir Simon Rattle, and the Berliner Philharmoniker seduce in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, stir and awe in Dvorák’s austere Biblische Lieder, and render to the f...

Cover Drive are a band on a mission to bring the sunshine and sounds of their native Barbados to the world. The young quartet has already ignited the UK charts twice. Debut single Lick Ya Down reached the Top 10 last year, while its fabulous follow-up Twilight shot straight to No.1 at the tail end o...

Widely considered to be one of the quintessential Glam Rock releases, Electric Warrior features two of T-Rex's most popular songs "Get It On" (Known as "Bang a Gong (Get it On)" in the US) and "Jeepster" and we now celebrate its 40th anniversary. Originally released in September 1971, sparked a move...

Strangeland is the upcoming fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Keane. It will be released from 4 May 2012 through Island Records. It is their first full length album since Perfect Symmetry (2008), as well as the first to feature bassist Jesse Quin as a permanent official member.

"In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull" is the 5th studio album by English trio, The Cribs (twin brothers Gary and Ryan and younger sibling Ross Jarman). Writing for this album began in November of 2010 when the band were on an unofficial break. Gary had set up a home studio in Portland and Ryan came out ...

The Temper Trap are super excited to announce the details of their second album, ‘The Temper Trap’. The new album was recorded at the famed Sound Factory in Los Angeles, with producer Tony Hoffer, who’s worked with the likes of Beck, M83 & Phoenix. It’s their first album as a five-piece, after they ...

Dr Dee, a new studio album by Damon Albarn, will be released May 4 by Virgin Records. Dr Dee is an 18 track work inspired by the life of John Dee (1527–1608), mathematician, alchemist, philosopher and advisor to Elizabeth I. Dee is a singular enigma: an Englishman so influential that he defined h...

In this delightful collection, I Salonisti has gathered together a variety of pieces from the White Star Line Songbook, a compilation of overtures, waltzes, marches and even sacred music used for the shipping company's "Olympic Class Liners," the most famous being the ill-fated Titanic. Not simpl...

Hope: Classic Songs of Inspiration is a multi-artist album of uplifting music and spoken word emanating both from within and also outside the Christian faith. Produced by musical director for the stars, Chong Lim, the album represents a groundbreaking partnership between ABC Music, Universal Music ...

Following years of tearing up shady house parties in Melbourne, the duo are expanding their horizons and stretching the globe. Their debut long player, entitled Bloodstreams, will be a 12 track attack on the senses.

Bahamas is the musical pseudonym of Toronto-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Afie Jurvanen, whose disarmingly forthright, captivatingly melodic songs have already earned him both a devoted fan base and a significant amount of critical acclaim on both sides of the border. On the second Bahamas al...

If you look up the expression 'Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse', there is surely to be a picture of Hollywood based rapper Mickey Avalon right next to it. Avalon’s life story plays out like an episode of VH1's ‘Behind The Music', marred by personal tragedy, triumphs and intense ...

‘Diamond Mine’, the critically acclaimed debut collaborative album from King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, is getting the deluxe version treatment. The original, Mercury Music Prize-nominated album is augmented with extra material including all three tracks from the ‘Honest Words’ EP, B-side ‘Missionary’ ...

British rock institution Feeder return with ‘Generation Freakshow’ - their 8th studio album on April 23rd. Classic Feeder with an updated twist, the album is twelve tracks of masterfully-crafted, fresh sounding strong songs, drawing from metal, grunge, punk and classic rock - absorbed and melded ...

Deluxe two CD 10th Anniversary edition of the Scottish singer/songwriter's landmark album. Disc One features the original album, now with the legendary hard to find stand alone debut Domino single `The Lang Toun'. Disc Two is a collection of `Moving Up Country' demos, including never heard before de...

Nootropics (pronounced No-eh-tro-pics) is the second album from Lower Dens. It's an ambitious work, and it delivers — heavily metaphorical, the symmetries and concordances of the lyrics run deep; the luminous lines of the music converge at a point in a future just out of view. Lower Dens has made mu...

Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the Country legend: Walker's Collectibles (1974) and Ridin' High (1975). Most widely known as the writer of the oft-covered and immensely popular 'Mr. Bojangles', Walker came to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the progressive "ou...

"Released in 1982, 'The Nightfly' was pianist / composer / producer Donald Fagen’s first album project post-Steely Dan (well, before they reformed anyway). Lyrically, it was a considerable departure from his earlier work, eschewing that outfit’s ironic distance in favour of autobiographical intim...

STORM CORROSION is the long-discussed and highly anticipated collaboration between two of the current music scene's most innovative and multi-talented artists; Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth. The pair have been friends since the early '00s, when Wilson co-produced Opeth...

The ground-breaking new band out of Montreal called Skip The Foreplay have perfected a unique and exhilarating new genre of music. The sound is a high energy raucous sound merging the heaviness of metal, earth-shaking hardcore breakdowns and the massive irresistible beats of electronic dance music t...

A blend of soul, gospel, rock, funk, disco, punk, passion and rebellion, Gossip is comprised of vocalist Beth Ditto, guitarist Nathan Howdeshell, and drummer Hannah Blilie. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington in 1999, Gossip first garnered attention in the UK with the release of their 2006 brea...

Then Sings My Soul The Best of the Priests is a compilation of The Priests' most beloved recordings from their self-titled debut album and their second album, Harmony, plus a newly recorded track, "Danny Boy." It is not only an album of awe-inspiring music, but a celebration of faith, spirituality, ...