New Music CDs

Aaron Watson's thirteenth studio album, and seventeenth album overall, since his debut in 2000. His last four studio albums have debuted in the top ten on the Billboard country album chart. To say that he is prolific as a writer and an artist is an understatement. Recorded just days before the COVID-19 shutdown, the 10 tracks take the listener on a journey of love, heartbreak, nostalgia, and pride.

Further establishing his signature sound, Morgan Wallen's highly anticipated sophomore album includes a strong arsenal of writers and features More Than My Hometown, a countrified version ofthe triple-platinum Diplo collab Heartless, and more.

A collection of vocal songs performed by Yoko Takahashi and Megumi Hayashibara as heard in the hit anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion and the 2009 film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance. Neon Genesis Evangelion originally ran from 1995 to 1996 and is credited with the big global spread of Japanese animation due to the popularity of the series.

A Mad Menagerie of Grindhouse Go-Go Grooves! It is Ted V. Mikels' (The Corpse Grinders) homage to the time tested 'small town girl moves to the big city to become a go-go dancer' story. From the odd psych rocker 'Do You Want To Laugh Or Cry,' to a frenetic barrage of country soul. It's got some solid harmonica groovers, an odd Christmas song, and of course the banger of a title track!

The Highlights is the second greatest hits album by Canadian singer the Weeknd. It follows the release of his fourth studio album After Hours

Includes previously released singles Rescue Me; Somebody to Love: and Wanted.

ITZY is a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment, consisting of members Yeji, Lia, Ryujin, Chaeryeong, and Yuna.

Biographical and musicological certainties may be in short supply in the life and work of Josquin, but there's no gainsaying the magnificence of the music. The program of shorter works, from The Brabant Ensemble and Stephen Rice, most in unusual guise, celebrates his 500th anniversary.

Strut presents the brand new album from Alostmen, led by Stevo Atambire, a band at the forefront of kologo music in Ghana.

This project sees Femi and Made Kuti, respective eldest son and grandson of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, come together to release two albums: one from each, but unified together. It is the Kuti legacy: the musicianship and history passed down three generations, from Fela, to Femi, to Made.

An album of music from Netflix’s newest original film about ‘Mother of the Blues’ Ma Rainey. The album features score music by critically acclaimed saxophonist, instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and educator Branford Marsalis, as well as newly recorded covers of popular Ma Rainey tracks and blues and jazz standards from the era. The multi-Grammy Award winner brings over four decades of experience across stylistic boundaries to the project, imbuing the film with an authentic 1920s Chicago soundscape.

Foo Fighters pack nine new songs into a 37-minute album. This collection includes the smoldering new single, Shame Shame.

A melodic and playful adventure score conveys Quill's story in Moss from her perspective by employing small and intimate-sounding instruments, flute, oboe, Celtic harp, English hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitar, and classical violin, all composed, arranged and produced in a pastoral soundscape with enchanting Waltz-esque flair.

Music is a 2021 American musical drama film directed by singer-songwriter Sia. The film was co-written by Sia and children's book author Dallas Clayton and stars Kate Hudson, Maddie Ziegler and Leslie Odom Jr.

Originally released in 1977 on Flying Fish Records. After recording the minimalist Mark Twang, Hartford returned to the studio with a band. The new material leaned more toward country-rock than bluegrass, which he would continue with 1977's Dillard Hartford Dillard collaboration and All in the Name of Love. The instrumental ‘John McLaughlin’ is a tribute to the jazz/fusion guitarist.

Since the days of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, visionary tone scientists have convened the guitar/bass/drums trio as a laboratory for music of primal power and tonal subtlety. This release features three such players. Together, the sounds brought into being by these three improvisers are at once grounded in a deep inquiry of traditions that span space and time while cracking open a window onto eternal radiance.

Having written purely orchestral scores for the past 30 years, Allan Pettersson decided to incorporate a choir and a text. Pablo Neruda had received the Nobel Prize in 1971, and acknowledging the poet’s ‘deeply felt compassion for the outcasts of society’, Pettersson selected nine poems from the huge collection Canto general for his new work.

Recorded during the Served Cold World Tour, which traveled the USA, UK and Ireland before the live music industry was shut down by the pandemic, Served Live is a full concert set list taped at iconic and beloved venues, from London’s Brixton Academy and Denver’s Mission Ballroom to The Belasco Theatre in LA. Featuring new material from the JUNO Award winning album Sugar & Joy, alongside the band’s top charting, global viral hits from previous records, Served Live puts you in the front row in your own home, where we hope you’ll stay safe.

One of the pivotal and bloodiest battles of sixteenth-century Europe, the four-month siege of Malta by an Ottoman armada of some 200 ships, from which the local population led by the Knights of Malta emerged victoriously, was an extraordinary episode of heroism overcoming overwhelming odds. Alexey Shor’s orchestral cycle Images from the Great Siege allows his signature lyrical expressiveness free rein in a suite of romanticized impressions.

Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, begins with the creation of the world, from a duck's egg, and goes on to relate a series of tales of magic and adventure. One of the most memorable characters is Kullervo, a flawed hero whose tragic story is told in the course of six songs or runos. These describe multiple murders, rape, incest, and finally suicide, a powerful brew that has inspired several Finnish artists.

2 Chainz’s newly released album “So Help Me God!” is full of new unique beats. The 15-song album features Rick Ross, Skooly, Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef, Kevin Gates, Mulatto, Kayne West, Brent Faiyaz, Lil Duval, Lil Wayne and YoungBoy Never Broke Again.

The first of many artistic and image changes for David Bowie as he went from the world of mod rock to fanciful folk rock. Along with the title track, the album includes the songs Janine; and Memory of a Free Festival.

The band came into being when a young trumpet player named Daram Karanga offered to assemble a group to entertain the workers at a copper mine in the Zimbabwean town of Mhangura. During the next five years, the band would relocate from their small mining town to the capital city, go through numerous line-up changes and pay a few more visits to the recording studio, without ever losing the raucous urgency that had transformed them from popular entertainers into titans of Zimbabwean culture.

Dale Ann Bradley has always expressed in her recordings the boundlessness of bluegrass music and its musicians and vocalists by incorporating songs from all styles into her shows and albums. The success of her formula is undeniable, as evidenced by two Grammy nominations, an induction into the Kentucky Hall of Fame, and five IBMA Awards for Best Female Vocalist.

Treasure Epilogue: Action to Answer is the fourth extended play by K-Pop boy band Ateez

Live concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena celebrating the songs of icon Willie Nelson, featuring performances by Nelson, The Avett Brothers, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Eric Church, George Strait, Jack Johnson, Jamey Johnson, Jimmy Buffett, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack, Lukas Nelson, Norah Jones and The Little Willies, Sheryl Crow, and many more.

In a heart-warming situation, Poulenc was spending time with the granddaughter of one of his cousins. Noting that she became bored with the music he was playing, Poulenc put Brunhoff’s Babar on the piano and began to improvise, to the great delight of the young girl. The musical ideas born that day were to simmer away at the back of Poulenc’s mind until he completed the work in 1945. It was premiered on French radio the following year.

The songs on Rainbow Garden are bright, bouncy, and rock n' roll in just the right places.

David Gibb and Brady Rymer present a transatlantic family adventure through music, song, and friendship. Three-time Grammy nominee Rymer and UK BBC Folk Award nominee Gibb present a collaborative album about making new friends, sharing unexpected discoveries, and creating joyful music together!

Jim Valley's fifth album contains songs of courage, hope, ecology, and culturality. Tapping deep into the rich reservoir of Native American and South American cultures, Jim and his Rainbow Planet friends offer up a truly world-class musical experience. From the pan flutes of the Andes and Amazon to the drums of Africa and North America, Jim ranges far and wide in search of the things that matter for people and the planet in this modern world.