New Music CDs

Throughout its 12 tracks, Black Mona Lisa takes listeners on a journey influenced by an era when house, disco, and dance music reigned supreme.

After six years, Alkaline Trio is back with a new studio album. Along with the title track, the album includes the tracks Shake with Me; Broken Down in a Time Machine; and Teenage Heart.

The cult classic fuses new-age electronics with indigenous vocals and Amazonian rhythms. It is beautiful and unique and takes you on a journey through different moods, textures and ethereal planes. Through the sounds Maria created, you join her on a timeless voyage gazing into the future whilst embracing her powerful roots.

The Dead South grow more adventurous and assured with each new album. For their fourth album they have recorded 13 songs full of plot twists, family trees, grudges, insurance scams, bacon, burials, banjo riffs, and more.

Usher has changed music, culture, and countless lives. The multiple Grammy Award-winning, diamond-selling international megastar, actor, dancer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist inspires change yet again in 2023 and beyond. Selling over 80 million records worldwide and collecting dozens of awards, he has simultaneously lit up the small screen on NBC's The Voice and the big screen in blockbusters such as Hustlers. The album was mainly recorded in Atlanta with many of the area's hottest producers, including Sean Garrett, Lit John, the Avila Brothers, Mel & Mus, Tricky Stewart, Rico Love, The-Dream, Jermain Dupri, and D Mile, among many others.

"This is how I want to make music!" That was Avi Avital's reaction when he first saw Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini play live in Jerusalem. Now famed worldwide for his own charismatic and passionate performances, the mandolinist is delighted to be joined by this exciting period-instrument ensemble and its conductor and co-founder on his latest album.

In the realm of modern reggae music, few labels have left an indelible mark quite like Irie Ites. With more than two decades of relentless dedication to the genre, they have steadily climbed the ranks to become one of the leading international record labels. Their latest offering, "Cream of the Crop 2023" is not just an album; it's a testament to their legacy of excellence.

As Cut Worms, songwriter Max Clarke's contemporary vision of American heritage rock-n-roll is both pristine and askew. He's been called a modern Buddy Holly and Everly Brothers. Since 2016, this vision Nick Lowe, Norah Jones, Wilco, and other notable powerhouse artists. And on his self-titled third album, We find Clarke refining his craft down to its most crucial elements. Produced and performed almost entirely by Clarke, it's both a return to Cut Worms home-recorded debut EP 'Alien Sunset' and imbued with all the hi-fi lessons learned during the Memphis sessions of his epic, 2020 2xLP 'Nobody Lives Hear Anymore.' Declarations of love, vitriol for our crazy-making culture wars, a love letter to the late Bobby Fuller, all with a reverb spring, brass swing and pureness of heart that reject our post-modern hall of LED mirrors. It's all executed so very well it almost feels otherworldly. Clarke's voice is truly singular in the year 2023: disarming and timeless.

Since its digital release in 2023, Maluma's latest album has spent multiple weeks on the charts. Now, the hit release makes its way onto CD, complete with chart -topping single Según Quién.

The band began writing and recording End of World in 2018, during their 40th anniversary tour. After The Great Pause, the band regrouped in the studio and "there was just this massive explosion of ideas," Lydon says. The result finds PiL set to release 13 of the best tracks they have ever written. "Hawaii" is the most personal piece of songwriting and accompanying artwork that John Lydon has ever shared. The song is a love letter to John's wife of nearly 5 decades, Nora, who passed away, following a battle with Alzheimer's. A pensive, personal yet universal love song that has resonated with many since it's release, the song sees John reflecting on their lifetime well spent and in particular one of their happiest moments together in Hawaii. Celebrating their 40-year anniversary in 2018, the band is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential bands of all time.

The six-track release offers new takes on four of his biggest hits along with two new tracks and includes appearances by an all-star group of performers.

The Jonas Brothers bring together all of their hit singles in a collection that also includes tracks from DNCE and solo tracks from Nick Jonas. It serves as a companion piece to their world tour.

Everything but the Girl returns in 2023 after a 24-year hiatus. Written and produced by Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn over the spring-summer of 2021, this is a modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the mid-'90s. Thorn's affecting and richly textured voice is once again up front in Watt's glimmering landscape of sub-bass, sharp beats, half-lit synths, and empty space, and as before, the result is the sound of a band comfortable with being both sonically contemporary yet agelessly themselves.

Buzz Brass presents an array of important works for brass by composers Victor Ewald, Axel Jørgensen, and Oskar Böhme, who have left a rich legacy of chamber music for brass. All the works on the program were composed specifically for brass instruments at the beginning of the 20th century and showcase their beauty and virtuosity.

Country music superstar Jason Aldean releases his 11th studio album, Highway Desperado. Produced by longtime collaborator Michael Knox, the album features the reigning ACM Artist of the Decade’s chart-topping Hot 100 #1 single, “Try That In A Small Town," and follows the success of his double album Macon, Georgia and back-to-back No. 1s “Trouble With A Heartbreak” and the GRAMMY & CMA Awards-nominated and ACM and iHeartRadio Award-winning "If I Didn't Love You" with Carrie Underwood.

More than 20 years in the making, this December finally sees the release of i/o, Peter Gabriel's first album of new material since 2002's Up. During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly every four weeks, each track has been allowed to find its own time and space, to enjoy its own orbit. Now it's time to stand back and admire the final, completed creation. And what a creation. Twelve tracks of grace, gravity and great beauty that provide welcome confirmation of not only Peter's ongoing ability to write stop-you-in-your-tracks songs but also of that thrilling voice, still perfectly, delightfully intact. Throughout the album the intelligent and thoughtful, often thought-provoking, songs tackle life and the universe.

One of his last projects, this sees the late Robbie Robertson collaborating with director Martin Scorsese for the 11th time. This emotional score is partly inspired by Robertson's childhood on the Six Nations Reserve.

As a young boy, Grammy-winning children's artist Dan Zanes was drawn to the music of Lead Belly in all of its magic, imagination, and mystery. This discovery completely changed his view of the world and his place in it. Zanes now presents a fresh vision of Lead Belly's music for a new generation with a little help from his friends. Experience Lead Belly's songs through a new lens as Dan Zanes, Valerie June, Chuck D., Billy Bragg, Aloe Blacc, and many others celebrate an American musical icon.

Taylor Swift revisits her hit 2014 album and creates new interpretations of all the tracks. There are also five 'From the Vault' tracks that were originally written for the album but left off.

One More Time... is the highly anticipated new album from blink-182, featuring the group's iconic lineup together again. Mark Hoppus (bass, vocals}, Tom DeLonge (guitar, vocals), and Travis Barker (drums). The trio recorded One More Time... over the course of 2022 and 2023 in the midst of their blockbuster reunion tour, which sold out arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums across the world. Features seventeen new songs that capture the band at the top of their game, layering in themes of tragedy, triumph, and most importantly, brotherhood.

Grammy Award winner Kali Uchis releases her fourth studio album. Marking Uchis's striking return to Spanish-language music, the project features a superstar lineup with Karol G, Peso Pluma, El Alfa, and JT. Inspired by the sensual allure of Colombia's national flower, the orchid, it traverses multiple Latin genres including reggaeton, dembow, bolero, and salsa, furthering Uchis's connection to her Colombian roots.

Italian piccolo virtuoso, Francesco Viola, presents this highly personal album of concertos for his instrument by Eastern European composers. Baksa's Grande concerto piccolo and Viola's arrangement for piccolo of Hida's Oboe Concerto are both world premiere recordings. Viola is accompanied by the Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim conducted by Salvatore Percacciolo.

Nick Minaj's first new album in five years is also the highly anticipated sequel to her 2010 debut album, Pink Friday. The album includes the single Last Time I Saw You.

Polaroid Lovers is the 7th studio album from four-time GRAMMY winner Sarah Jarosz. Produced by Daniel Tashian, Polaroid Lovers is a bold, creative statement that sees Jarosz exploring new sonic territory. The 11 songs on the album, all co-written by Jarosz with songwriters including Tashian, Jon Randall, Ruston Kelly, and Natalie Hemby, touch on themes both personal and universal: love, longing, and finding one's place in the world.

The celestial opening notes of Pre-Code Hollywood transport listeners to a complex sonic world that celebrates classic pop of a bygone era, while experimenting with the avant-garde in a way that is distinctly modern. The album, the fifth from New Zealand-based artist Jonathan Bree, exudes a nostalgic charm reminiscent of a John Hughes movie soundtrack. A producer and musician best known for his cinematic brand of orchestral pop, Bree’s deep baritone and musical arrangements—which often feature sliding strings and chamber instruments such as the celeste, harp, and timpani—draw inspiration from classic artists like Lee Hazlewood and Serge Gainsbourg, but are reborn as something entirely his own.

Crowned as the winners of the 2023 MTV VMAs Best K-Pop, Stray Kids are back with a brand-new album titled ROCK-STAR.

Since their last album, No Good Left to Give debuted at number three on the Alternative chart in 2020 : Movements' streams have doubled with over 2Q0M in the U.S. alone. The band's third full-length sees the quartet taking their sound to expansive and sometimes unexpected places. Produced by longtime collaborator Will Yip (Turnstile), the album fuses post-hardcore and punk influences with a healthy dose of pop songcraft to create an album that defies scene conventions in favor of something unique.

Amazingly, Saviors represents Green Day's 14th studio album, yet somehow this enduring power trio - Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool, and Mike Dirnt - remains devoted to the defiant craft that has fueled their career-long destruction of every boundary bestowed on the genre, and landed three East Bay punks in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The album was recorded in both London and Los Angeles under the audacious ear and rock prowess of Green Day's longtime friend and collaborator, Rob Cavallo.

Doja Cat's fourth studio album introduces a new era for the Grammy Award-winning global superstar that represents a rebirth in her career sonically and creatively. Scarlet shows the artist's versatility as a rapper, being completely written by Doja Cat throughout. The 15-track collection includes the worldwide hit Paint the Town Red.

With its driving energy and spirited flair, the son has held the essence of mariachi music for more than 150 years. Even today, the modern mariachi dips into the son repertoire to punctuate its performances, evoking boisterous yells and percussive zapateados from its listeners. In Sones de Mariachi, multi-Grammy-winning Mariachi Los Camperos makes its mark on the son legacy, powered by the group's lauded signature sound and leader Jesús 'Chuy' Guzmán's uplifting arrangements. This meticulously curated mix of popular and lesser-known sones rooted in the western Mexican heartland of mariachi tradition is played with the typical virtuosity, superb vocals, and rhythmic precision of one of the world's greatest mariachis.

The album that accompanies the DreamWorks Animation film of the same name. Multi-award-winning artist Justin Timberlake returns as the soundtrack's executive music producer alongside Grammy award-winning producer/songwriter Mike Elizondo. Timberlake wrote and performed new original music for the film, which also includes music from the cast and some of today's top artists including Kid Cudi, Camila Cabello, Troye Sivan, Anna Kendrick and more. It is a collection of fourteen tracks, that stays true to Trolls' signature psychedelic joy-bomb of new and classic pop hits. The album also includes *NSYNC's first song together in two decades, "Better Place."

Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl's most iconic children's book and one of the best-selling children's books of all time, "Wonka" tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. Starring Timothée Chalamet in the title role, this irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time-proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you're lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible. Starring alongside Chalamet and featured on the soundtrack are Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant. Wonka features all-new original songs by Neil Hannon and score by Joby Talbot.

Twentieth anniversary album of all new material, including a new original song, by globally renowned classical crossover group II Divo. First album with new member Steven LaBrie, after the passing of founding member Carlos Marin in 2020. II Divo takes flight in 2024 with their tenth full-length album. Once again, they leap forward creatively, expanding the style and vision all at once.

The new self-titled album from singer-songwriter-producer Zach Bryan is an expansive yet intimate 16-track set that explores the Grammy-nominated artist's Oklahoma roots as well as his vast and varied confluence of musical and literary influences.