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New Music Quarterly Edition 2024
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Timothy Andres CD CLA AND This album comprises of three works by the composer/pianist: the piano concerto The Blind Banister, with Andres as soloist, and Upstate Obscura for chamber orchestra and cello, with soloist Inbal Segev, and the solo piano piece Colorful History, also performed by Andres.
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Rhiannon Giddens CD C&W GID You're The One is singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Rhiannon Giddens' 5th album and first full band release in over 6 years. The album, which is her first album of all original songs (all written or co-written by Giddens), was produced by Jack Splash (St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Valerie June, Solange) and features guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Leyla McCalla, and Eryn Allen Kane.
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Sarah Jarosz CD C&W JAR This 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.
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Willie Nelson CD C&W NEL This album hosts a variety of artists spanning genres and generations who came together with Willie Nelson to celebrate the legend's 90th birthday for a star-studded, once-in-a-lifetime event at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. These artists performed songs from every era of Willie's seven decade career range from Keith Richards, Neil Young and Tom Jones to Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews and Miranda Lambert; Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash and George Strait to Beck, Avett Brothers and The Lumineers; Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow and Norah Jones to Jack Johnson, Leon Bridges and Tyler Childers.
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CD C&W RUC This is Rucker's sixth country studio album, featuring 14 songs including the #1 hit "Beers and Sunshine" and his latest single "Fire Don't Start Themselves." The album title is named after his mother. Rucker embarked on a successful solo career, applying his versatile baritone to acclaimed R&B and country efforts like the platinum-selling Learn to Live (2008) and True Believers (2013).
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CD FOL BLA Equal parts intimate and relatable, this eight track collection finds Forest Blakk writing from deeply personal experience and sharing some of his most vulnerable moments.
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CD HOL BRA A generational talent who is revered by her peers and fans alike, Brandy brings her wisdom and experience to her new holiday album, Christmas with Brandy. A thoughtful, mixed gift bag, the album features Brandy singing original material and bringing new life to classic holiday standards.
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CD HOL CHE Cher's first-ever Christmas album filled with explosive Christmas hits! Come party with Cher and some of her best friends. Are you spending Christmas with Cher?
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Jeff and Sheri Easter CD HOL EAS A holiday album performed by Jeff Easter, Sheri Easter, vocals ; with featured and accompanying musicians.
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Samara Joy CD HOL JOY 2x GRAMMY® WINNER Samara Joy's first collection of holiday material! This release includes holiday staples like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", "O Holy Night" plus "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me" featuring Sullivan Fortner. "The Christmas Song (Live)" features a duet with Samara and her father Antonio McLendon captured live in 2022.
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CD INT DIV 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.
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CD INT FEI Feid is currently Latin music's hottest artist. He has sold out shows in North America and Europe - and has surpassed over 20 billion streams over his artistic career. His highly anticipated sixth studio album - MOR, No Le Temas a La Oscuridad - is a conceptual record that is very much about Feid shining a light in the darkness and continuing the musical evolution of his signature sound.
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CD INT UCH GRAMMY® Award winner Kali Uchis releases her fourth studio album, "Orquâdeas." Marking Uchis' 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, "Orquâdeas" traverses multiple Latin genres including reggaeton, dembow, bolero and salsa furthering Uchis' connection to her Colombian roots.
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CD JAZ G Internationally acclaimed saxophonist and composer Kenny G has announced his new album, Innocence. His first collection of lullabies, these timeless tracks with orchestral accompaniment include "Rock-a-Bye Baby," "Edelweiss," "Over the Rainbow," as well as 7 original songs. A career that spans five decades - with over 75 million albums sold, 1.5 billion global streams, seven Top 40-charting singles and 17 GRAMMY nominations - this is Kenny G's 20th studio album.
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Mary Halvorson CD JAZ HAL The album features eight new compositions by Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis; the improvisatory band that performed on her critically praised 2022 albums Amaryllis and Belladonna comprises Halvorson, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O'Farrill (trumpet).
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CD JAZ LAU Everything I Know About Love is the debut studio album by Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey.
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CD POP BLA Fifteen years after their last album of original music, the Black Crowes are releasing their 10th studio album.
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The Black Keys CD POP BLA The Black Keys' twelfth studio album, Ohio Players—a title inspired by the legendary Dayton, Ohio, funk band of the same name—features several collaborations between band mates Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney with various friends and colleagues, like Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Beck, Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin, and others.
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CD POP BLA Gearing up for another pivotal creative chapter, GRAMMY® Award-winning UK singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer James Blake has released "Big Hammer," the debut single from his forthcoming, 6th studio album Playing Robots Into Heaven. It follows the critically acclaimed Friends That Break Your Heart and will see James return to the electronic roots of his Hessle, Hemlock and R&S records days.
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CD POP BON 20 years since the release of his best-selling album Blues Deluxe, which celebrated "the year of the blues" with unforgettable reinterpretations of classic tracks, Joe Bonamassa is taking stock of how far he and the genre have come with Blues Deluxe Vol. 2. Featuring 2 new originals and 8 new covers of some of the most influential names in the blues, Joe returns to his roots and gives new life to the classic tracks that have informed his own artistry.
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CD POP BRO This is the sixth studio album by American rapper Danny Brown, under Warp Records. It is Brown's solo follow-up to 2019's U Know What I'm Sayin?, and his second album of 2023 following his collaboration with JPEGMafia. The album includes collaborations with Bruiser Wolf, Kassa Overall and Mike, and was preceded by the lead single "Tantor"
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CD POP BUR The seventh studio album by Nigerian singer Burna Boy. The album features guest appearances from 21 Savage, Dave, Seyi Vibez, J. Cole, GZA and RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Byron Messia.
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CD POP CHR With their sixth studio album, Chromeo have a simple message: the funk is back. Their latest includes the tracks (I Don't Need A) New Girl; Funk Yourself; Personal Effects; and Replacements, which features La Roux.
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CD POP CRO Nine-time Grammy Award winner and 2023 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee, Sheryl Crow, will release her 11th full length studio album, Evolution. The album comes as a welcomed surprise after Crow publicly stated that she would not release another full-length album after Threads (2018) and kicks off with her lead single "Alarm Clock," which is perhaps Sheryl Crow's most radio-friendly pop song since "Soak Up The Sun."
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CD POP FUT The latest installment from the American synth-pop band Future Islands returning to the music scene to release their seventh studio album.
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CD POP GAB More than 20 years in the making, I/O is Peter Gabriel's first album of new material since 2002's Up. 12 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.
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CD POP GRA After four years, Ariana Grande is releasing a brand-new album. The latest from the star of the upcoming film adaptation of Wicked includes the single 'Yes, And?'.
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CD POP GRE Saviors is the band Green Day's 14th studio album. 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.
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CD POP HOW There's a double meaning to the title of What Now, the revelatory new album from Brittany Howard. "With the world we're living in now, it feels like we're all just trying to hang onto our souls," says the Nashville-based musician and front woman for four-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Alabama Shakes. "Everything seems to be getting more extreme and everyone keeps wondering, 'What now? What's next?' By the same coin, the only constant on this record is you never know what's going to happen next..."
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CD POP HUM Capturing an early performance by Humble Pie, the album was recorded while Peter Frampton was still in the band.
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IDLES CD POP IDL TANGK is a bona fide pop record in a way we've never heard from IDLES before, that is, something for everyone to pass around and share, communal anthems intended for overcoming our grievances. TANGK was co-produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats, and IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen.
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CD POP JLI Jlin's third album sets a new benchmark in her personal road map, not only since the album features guest appearances from Björk, Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet but for her continued sonic persistence and resistance. Jlin's detailed and meticulous exploration of rhythm's outer reaches has made her one of the most distinctive and recognizable voices within the electronic and classical music worlds. This release is her next step, all these paths have led to this.
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CD POP JUD This is the nineteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest. Announced onstage at Power Trip festival in California, the new record marks the band's first release in 6 years, having recently celebrated 50 years in music and 50 million records sold. Judas Priest is Rob Halford, Ian Hill, Glenn Tipton, Scott Travis and Richie Faulkner.
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Kid Cudi CD POP KID Fresh off his acclaimed, Emmy-nominated album and series ENTERGALACTIC, the multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning rapper/songwriter/producer readies his brand-new album, INSANO. Inspired by time spent with fans on the road during last year's To The Moon World Tour, Cudi delighted fans in postponing retirement to give them an album that reflects the unbridled joy he is experiencing in his life.
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Killer Mike CD POP KIL Killer Mike's Michael marks the celebrated MC's first solo project since 2012's critically lauded R.A.P. Music; and serves as an introduction to the totality of Michael Render, a lifelong rap fiend whose consciousness is steeped in the sounds of community that raised him - multiple eras of southern rap flows, Sunday church service, and barbershop discourse.
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CD POP LOP Jennifer Lopez shares the real story, a piece of her soul, and she is doing it in her own inimitable style. She effortlessly blends R&B, contemporary pop sounds and hip-hop beats. Her signature vocals, combined with intricately crafted lyrics delve into the highs and lows of life, love, and relationships with unflinching honesty and introspection, making this Jennifer Lopez's most honest and personal album yet.
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CD POP MAL In this 2023 collection, global superstar Post Malone holds the record for most RIAA Diamond certified singles in history. The Diamond Collection is a compilation of his top hits to date, including "Congratulations (feat. Quavo)," "Sunflower" with Swae Lee, "White Iverson," and more.
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CD POP MAN This milestone release features iconic collaborations, including new versions of "Whenever I Call You Friend" with Kenny Loggins and "Midnight Blue" with Dolly Parton. Guest artists Gerald Albright and Dave Koz join the symphony of nostalgia and innovation. Immerse yourself in this musical journey where five decades of brilliance converge in a star-studded celebration.
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CD POP MAR Mick Mars, legendary guitarist for Motley Crue, unveils his first ever solo album. It shows that he is still serious musical force to be reckoned with while charting into new sonic territory.
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CD POP MAS What Do We Do Now is the fifth solo studio LP recorded by J Mascis since 1996.
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CD POP MED 2023 release from the Italian electronic trio Meduza, release their big self-titled EP, containing their biggest hits to date alongside their biggest club tracks, which have been favorites from their live sets across all corners of the globe.
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A very "MGMT album" which the band describes as "a group of songs about love and change, first and foremost." Descriptors from the band include: bold, flavorful, playful, sincere, optimistic, perceptive. Loss Of Life was produced by MGMT and Patrick Wimberly (Solange, Lil Yachty, MGMT), with mixing and additional production by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Interpol, Spoon).
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CD POP MIN 2023 release, the fifth studio album from the rap/R&B superstar Nicki Minaj's. This is the first new album in five years that is also the highly anticipated sequel to her 2010 debut album, Pink Friday. The album includes the single Last Time I Saw You.
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CD POP MON A groundbreaking, genre-blurring singer, songwriter, producer, and performer, Janelle Monáe's inventive style melds a refined pop sensibility with an extraordinary postmodern mash-up of soul, funk, and rock 'n' roll. The Grammy Award-winner follows-up 2018's critically acclaimed Dirty Computers with the highly anticipated 2023 album The Age of Pleasure, which comes introduced by the shimmering singles “Float” and “Lipstick Lover.”
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CD POP MON Jaguar II is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Victoria Monét. It was released on August 25, 2023, through Lovett Music and RCA Records. The album was supported by three singles: "Smoke" with Lucky Daye, "Party Girls" with Buju Banton, and "On My Mama".
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CD POP NAT The surprise companion to The National's April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent.
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CD POP NOW 88 NOW That's What I Call Music! 88 is the 88th installment of the NOW That's What I Call Music! Series in the USA.
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CD POP ONE 2023 release, the highly-anticipated sophomore album by 100 gecs. Following their breakout debut album, 1,000 gecs, the anticipation of their next body of work has been high and the band's teases have been plentiful. The album includes previously released singles "Mememe" which was described in the story as "an ebullient carnival of ska-inflected verses that bounce off a chorus of thrash guitars and a squiggling synth line" along with the 90's Alt Rock-inspired "Doritos & Fritos," which The Fadernoted as "unlike any other gecs track before it."
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CD POP PIN 2023 debut album by English musician Pinkpantheress. Heaven Knows is the follow-up to her 2021 mixtape To Hell with It and includes the singles "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" (with Ice Spice), "Mosquito", and "Capable of Love".
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CD POP POL 2023 release. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter and producer Caroline Polachek, and second under her given name. Features the singles "Bunny Is a Rider", "Billions", "Sunset", "Welcome to My Island", and "Blood and Butter".
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CD POP PSY Psyche are a Canadian dark synth-pop band, now based in Germany. They are centered on singer Darrin Huss, who has been the only constant member, with various line-ups including his brother Stephen Huss, later followed by David Kristian, Per-Anders Kurenbach, and Remi Szyszka, all recording albums with Darrin under the name Psyche.
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CD POP RAP Renee Rapp's debut album Snow Angel kicks off her new era of music by putting her heart on full display as she continues to round out her already multidimensional artistry. Executive produced by Alexander 23, the album captures Rapp's ability to unabashedly speak her truth, whether it's through emotional ballads or pop hits. In just a year, Renee has already sold out shows nationwide while netting hundreds of millions of streams, making Snow Angel one of the most anticipated albums of the year.
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CD POP REA Real Estate's sixth full-length album was recorded in an ebullient nine-day spree in RCA Studio A in Nashville with celebrated producer and songwriter Daniel Tashian. In 11 compulsively tuneful songs, they connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest work with the earned perspective of adulthood.
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CD POP ROA The pop singer’s full-length debut is a bold and uproarious introduction, buoyed by sturdy songcraft and steely indifference to good taste.
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CD POP SAD Laetitia issues a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth: we're urged to finally evolve past our countless millennia of suffering and alienation. Her songs score the complexities and harmonies within this directive: organ, guitar, bass, synth, trombone, vibraphone, live and programmed drums, and a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir, working intricate chord/tempo/and dynamic changes, as Laetitia's empathic presence leads the way.
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CD POP SEG A fifteen song cycle that takes a journey to the center of the self. Ty's been on this kind of trip before, so he's souped up a vehicle that's all his own - a sophisticated machine - to take us there this time. The conception of Three Bells arcs, rainbow-like, into a land nearly beyond songs - but inside of them, Ty relentlessly pushes the walls further and further in his writing and playing to cast light into the most opaque depths.
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CD POP SIV Troye Sivan's third studio album, Something To Give Each Other, is a celebration of sex, dance, sweat, community, queerness, love and friendship. Emerging from the tribulations of the last few years, Sivan found himself rewiring with the joy of human connection and dance music.
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CD POP STE Sufjan's first solo album of songs since 2020's The Ascension and his first in full solo singer-songwriter mode since 2015's Carrie & Lowell. Sufjan uses the quietness of a solitary confession to ask universal questions in songs we can share communally.
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CD POP SLE Sleater-Kinney returns with Little Rope, one of the finest, most delicately layered records in the band's 30-year career. On the surface, Little Rope's ten songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that only way to gain control is to let it go.
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CD POP SMI 2024 release. The Smile's album Wall Of Eyes was recorded between Oxford and Abbey Road Studios, and is produced and mixed Sam Petts-Davies. It features string arrangements by the London Contemporary Orchestra. This album is the follow up their 2022 debut LP A Light For Attracting Attention.
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CD POP STA This is a collection of 13 brand-new Static-X songs which contain the final vocal performances & musical compositions of founding vocalist Wayne Static, along with the original Wisconsin Death Trip lineup featuring Tony Campos (bass), Koichi Fukuda (guitars) and Ken Jay (drums).
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CD POP STE The Joker Live in Concert features live recordings of all nine songs from The Joker album, including Sugar Babe; Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma; and the title track. The album was recorded during the band's tours in the mid-2000s.
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Taylor Swift CD POP SWI 1989 (Taylor's Version) is the fourth re-recorded album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is a re-recording of Swift's fifth studio album, 1989, featuring five previously unreleased songs.
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CD POP TOR What an Enormous Room is the sixth studio album by American musician Torres, released on January 26, 2024, through Merge Records. It was produced by Torres and Sarah Jaffe and received positive reviews from critics.
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CD POP USH Coming Home is the ninth studio album by American singer Usher. It was released on February 9, 2024, coinciding with his Super Bowl LVIII halftime show performance.
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CD POP WAX One of the hardest working singer-songwriters in the game is named Katie Crutchfield. She was born in Alabama, grew up near Waxahatchee Creek. On her new album, Tigers Blood, Crutchfield emerges as a powerhouse-an ethnologist of the self-forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses. But now she's arriving at revelations and she ain't holding them back.
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CD POP WIN 7th studio album from popular '80s hard rockers Winger. First new studio album since 2014's Better Days Comin'. Features all four original members + 'new' guitarist John Roth, who has been with the band for an extended period of time.
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CD POP YAR Where's My Utopia? is the follow-up to the Leeds band's critically acclaimed debut record, The Overload, which arrived in January 2022. The new album is a co-production between Yard Act and Gorillaz member Remi Kabaka Jr.
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CD POP YOU 2023 release. Before and After is the 45th studio album by Neil Young. The album features solo acoustic re-recordings of some of his past songs including "Comes A Time," "Mr. Soul," "Birds," "I'm The Ocean," and more.
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CD REL GRA When Jason Gray sets out to craft an album, more often than not, he holds an image in his mind that helps guide the songs. For his latest full-length endeavor, Land of the Living, the critically acclaimed singer/songwriter says he envisioned Ray Charles standing on a stage, arms wide open.
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CD REL POI Point of Grace's brand new album features covers of songs that carry special meaning to each of them.
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CD SHO COL (2) A Star-Studded Musical Journey. Immerse yourself in the harmonious blend of raw emotion and musical brilliance with "The Color Purple (Music From and Inspired By)" album. Boasting an ensemble cast like no other - Golden Globe nominee Fantasia's soulful melodies, Taraji B. Henson's emotive depth, Colman Domingo's captivating energy, Golden Globe nominee Danielle Brooks' powerful resonance, H.E.R's contemporary artistry, and Hallie Bailey's radiant vocals.
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The cast album from the forthcoming Broadway musical, Harmony, with music by Barry Manilow and lyrics by Bruce Sussman.
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CD SHO MAE Yannick Nézet-Séguin/London Symphony Orchestra/Bradley Cooper - "Maestro: Music by Leonard Bernstein (Original Soundtrack)" Deutsche Grammophon is proud to partner with Netflix to release the original soundtrack recording from one of the most anticipated films of the year: Bradley Cooper's MAESTRO. Featuring Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the music of Leonard Bernstein with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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CD SHO MER This first ever Broadway revival of the musical is directed by Maria Friedman, and features music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a book by George Furth, and is based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart. Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Charley Kringas, Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard, and Lindsay Mendez as Mary Flynn, Merrily We Roll Along also features Krystal Joy Brown as Gussie Carnegie, Katie Rose Clarke as Beth Shepard, and Reg Rogers as Joe Josephson.
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CD SHO WIS 2023 release. Wish introduces 17-year-old Asha, the powerful King Magnifico, Asha's pet goat Valentino, and Star, a celestial ball of boundless energy that Asha's wish calls down from the sky.
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