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The Spirit of Rory: Live From Cork (Blues)
The Spirit of Rory celebrates Irish guitar hero Rory Gallagher through a rapturous live tribute by Joe Bonamassa. Playing to devoted fans, Bonamassa honors Gallagher with deep respect, passion, and virtuosity, delivering a rare "unicorn" performance showcasing Rory's legacy and Bonamassa's brilliance.
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Here Come the Waterworks (Childrens)
The debut album is a collection designed to soundtrack slow mornings, calm afternoons, restorative naps, and dreams, featuring gentle repetition, wandering melodies, and layered instrumentation including Wurlitzer, strings, horns, and electronics. The album draws from meditative and ambient musical traditions, combining organic sounds intended to support restful listening and imagination.
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Monk Meditations (Classical)
On Monk Meditations (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 3), multi-Grammy® and Oscar® winner Jon Batiste expands introspective short form compositions by Thelonious Monk into longer form piano works imbued with classical structure and quiet grandeur.
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The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales (County)
The Outlaw Cherie Lee is a cinematic outlaw revenge story with a tragic love at it's center.After watching her sheriff father murdered by the Bootcut Boys, Cherie Lee abandons the badge and hunts the gang down one by one. In the middle of her vengeance, she falls for one of the outlaws - not the killer, but guilty by association. He believes loving her can redeem him; she hopes loving him can quiet her darkness. They're both wrong.When the real killer resurfaces, her lover kills him in her name, proving that violence doesn't end - it evolves. In the final act, Cherie chooses blood over love, killing the man who loves her most and fully becoming what she set out to destroy.
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Union Made (Folk)
Grammy Award winners Old Crow Medicine Show's new album is rooted in the people, places and pulse of America. It features special guests such as Ray Benson, Evan Felker, Del McCoury, Lee Oskar, Maggie Rose, Molly Tuttle, Jesse Welles, and more. It has ten new OCMS songs and two classic covers: Buffalo Springfield's For What It's Worth and Merle Haggard's Rainbow Stew.
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After Hours (Jazz)
Richard Marx's 'After Hours' reimagines the Great American Songbook for a new generation. Recorded entirely live with a 24-piece orchestra, the album features Marx's original compositions alongside classic standards -- all performed in complete takes, just as Sinatra and Martin once did. Featuring collaborations with Rod Stewart, Kenny G, and Chris Botti, "After Hours" showcases Marx's timeless vocal prowess in a bold creative departure from his four-decade pop/rock legacy.
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Dios Bendiga (Latin)
Hip-hop legends Cypress Hill were the first Latino-American hip-hop group to achieve platinum and multiplatinum success. In partnership with HYBE Latin America, they present the first, fully Spanish-language album of their career. The album includes all new music, written and performed by the band entirely in Spanish. This is a deeply personal and spiritual project for the group that highlights their Latin roots and reconnects directly with their cultural heritage.
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Aurora (Pop/Rock)
Legendary progressive rock band YES return with their 24th studio album ‘Aurora’. When Yes first began sketching out ideas for what would become ‘Aurora’, the process was loose and exploratory. There was no preconceived concept at the start, just a collection of musical fragments that gradually began to find one another and take form. Among these early sketches was a piece titled “Aurora,” and it quickly became clear that the name carried certain gravity. It suggested light, emergence, and a sense of vastness, qualities that resonated deeply with the band. As Steve Howe explains: “Making this record was joyful, a chance to play, explore and give everything to the music. It's always been about collaboration, somebody can write a song, but until everybody puts their contribution in it isn't really a Yes song. We’re not trying to echo the past; we’re carrying the spirit of Yes forward and turning it into something new”. With their 24th studio album, Yes demonstrate not just longevity, but a sustained curiosity, a desire to keep exploring, keep refining and keep discovering their capacity to create.eteran progressive rock band Yes return with their 24th studio album, created through an open, exploratory process that allowed musical fragments to organically connect. Embracing collaboration, play, and curiosity, the band focuses on discovery rather than nostalgia. The result reflects themes of light and emergence, carrying the spirit of Yes forward while reaffirming their creative vitality and enduring desire to explore new musical ground.
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Philadelphia's Been Good to Me (Pop/Rock)
Kurt Vile's album captures his deep affection for Philadelphia, the city where he lives and records most of his work. The collection highlights his signature jangly guitar sound, expansive instrumental moments, and songwriting that balances playful humor with heartfelt sentiment, reflecting both the spirit of the city and his personal connection to it.
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The Fall-Off (Rap/Hip-Hop)
The Fall-Off is J Cole's 7th studio album, presented as a 24-track, 2-CD set. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, his 7th chart-topping release. Featuring appearances from Burna Boy, Erykah Badu, Future, Morray, Petey Pablo, PJ, and Tems.
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Kehlani (R&B)
The self-titled project marks a defining moment in her career - an intimate and fearless body of work that reflects her clarity, confidence, and creative freedom. A self-titled album is often an artist’s most personal statement, and Kehlani is no exception. The project captures her at her most honest, blending soul-baring storytelling with the lush, genre-bending sound that has made her one of modern R&B’s most influential voices. Exploring themes of love, transformation, vulnerability, and growth, the album presents Kehlani fully in her element - raw, reflective, and unapologetically herself.
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Spatial, No Problem (Reggae)
After the passing of Lee "Scratch" Perry, a deluge of recordings appeared claiming to be the "final" project of the Jamaican icon. These came from musicians and producers from an incredible range of genres-trip hop, dub, ambient, rock, reggae. However, his last official album project took him to Berlin, Germany where he landed on the doorstop of electronic pioneers Mouse on Mars (aka Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma). If he was coming, which one of his personae would arrive? The Upsetter, Pipecock Jackxon, The Super Ape? Maybe Inspector Gadget? Behind these masks was Rainford Hugh Perry, often described as one of the single most important figures in the history of Jamaican music. Producer, engineer, label owner, performer, his impact traced ska to rocksteady to roots reggae, to sound systems, to dub, to Bob Marley and Junior Murvin and Max Romeo and The Congos and so many other legends. Generations passed through him and his ears. And beyond them his influence included punk, funk, electronic music, hip and trip hop as well as his own uncategorizable career as explorer of words, sounds and esoteric concepts. Mouse on Mars are recognized as one of Germany's most defining and versatile electronic music projects. Across more than 3 decades, they've released over 10 albums including Niun Niggung (1999) and Idiology (2001) - the former was declared the Album of the Year by The Wire - several EPs, and an imagined film score for Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana. They're also known for their work with Stereolab, Bon Iver, Tyondai Braxton, The National, Matthew Herbert, Modeselektor, Tortoise. Spatial, No Problem. Is the story of what Lee "Scratch" Perry left behind in Berlin in his encounter with Mouse on Mars. It's a story of spaces mixing, and cultures morphing towards a different kind of future. After the passing of Lee “Scratch” Perry, a deluge of recordings appeared claiming to be the “final” project of the Jamaican icon. These came from musicians and producers from an incredible range of genres—trip hop, dub, ambient, rock, reggae. However, his last official album project took him to Berlin, Germany where he landed on the doorstop of electronic pioneers Mouse on Mars. Spatial, No Problem. is the story of what Lee “Scratch” Perry left behind in Berlin in his encounter with Mouse on Mars. It’s a story of spaces mixing, and cultures morphing towards a different kind of future.
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