The Wilding soundtrack was produced in partnership by the English electronic musician Jon Hopkins and Icelandic soundtrack composer Biggi Hilmars. Hopkins‘ contributions mix electronically generated and/or processed sound effects, while Hilmars tends to emphasise orchestral textures, with both occasionally collaborating and blending their sounds. Wilding’s 13 short tracks form the ambient soundtrack to a 2024 documentary film of the same name, which tells the story of the wilding of 3,500 acres of English farmland, letting land that was once intensively farmed be recolonised by its flora and fauna.
…In the six-minute-long album opening “Wilding Theme”, Hopkins electronically processes his voice to sound “like a strange kind…
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Formed in the 1980s, IQ is comprised of Martin Orford, Paul Cook, Mike Holmes, Peter Nicholls, and John Jowitt. This prolific band has released 14 albums, beginning with 1983’s Tales From the Lush Attic. They followed two years later with The Wake and Living Proof was also released in 1995. The next year saw the group release Nine in a Pond Is Here and Nomzamo came out in 1987. It was two years before they would release another disc, Are You Sitting Comfortably? and after another two years, IQ released J’ai Pollette D’arnu. 1993 saw the release of Ever and it would be three years this time until the world would see another album by IQ, Forever Live, released both in standard form and as a box set. The following year the group released Subterranea and Seven Stories Into ’98…
Counterfeit Blues, originally released in 2014, was met with critical acclaim and remains a shining example of what Corb Lund’s longtime band, The Hurtin’ Albertans, are capable of. “My old friend Joel Stewart cooked up the idea for this record. Joel was one of the key people responsible for a lot of the successes we had when we first started out and has been a great supporter for many years. He was working at CMT Canada at the time, in his subversive way, and decided he wanted to grab a band and make a live off the floor documentary/recording at Sun Studios in Memphis. Same room Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis used,” said Lund. “He told us that of all the bands he worked with we were the most capable of pulling it off, which is…
Cabin Fever returns to print and reclaims its place as one of Corb Lund’s most defining records. Originally released in 2012, the album still sounds tough, grounded, and alive, capturing the moment when Lund’s songwriting reaches beyond borders and starts connecting with a truly global audience. Now expanded with an acoustic bonus disc, this reissue gives the record new space to breathe while preserving its grit.
The album leans into a raw, organic sound built on dusty rhythms, twangy guitars, and stories that feel pulled straight from the road. Fan favorites like “Gettin’ Down On The Mountain” and “Bible On The Dash” continue to stand out as live staples, songs that thrive on their simplicity and swagger. They move easily between humor and hard…
Losin’ Lately Gambler returns to print as part of a renewed celebration of Corb Lund’s extensive catalog, and it lands with the same grit, humor, and lived-in storytelling that define his best work. Originally released in 2009, the album still feels stubbornly timeless, rooted in dust, whiskey, and the hard edges of working-class myth.
The record moves forward on a galloping stand-up bass and the lonesome cry of steel guitar, giving the songs a restless, road-worn momentum. Lund sings in Jack London-like yarns about down-and-out cowboys, ranching life, and late-night barroom philosophy, painting scenes that feel less like fiction and more like stories overheard at the end of a long shift. The production stays raw and unfussy, letting the groove and the narratives…
Continuing Pet Shop Boys’ infrequent series of remix collections, Disco 5 mainly focuses on the duo’s own remixes and productions for other artists, like Disco 4 did, rather than outside remixes of their own material, like the first three volumes. Of course, when the pair remix or produce a song for another artist, they pretty much turn it into a Pet Shop Boys song, and considering that the majority of Disco 5 consists of material created during the 2020s, it’s close to being a PSB album that happens to have a lot of guest vocalists on it. Two of the set’s highlights are minor rarities that hadn’t appeared on a PSB collection until now. The duo produced several selections on the soundtrack to the 1993 film The Crying Game, including Boy George’s hit title track, but…
Portland folk singer Jeffrey Martin releases one full show, Alive July 25, 2025, recorded at Portland’s The Showdown, with 16 tracks, unedited, overdub-free, and unsequenced. Sam Weber (Madison Cunningham, Anna Tivel, Bahamas) joins Martin on acoustic and electric guitars. Weber also recorded and mixed the record. Only five of these songs appeared on his acclaimed 2023 Thank God We Left the Garden. The others are selected from his sixteen-year recording career, along with a cover of Neil Young’s “Out on the Weekend,” along with a new song, ‘1519.”
Martin opens with “I Know What I Know,” in one sense an anthem of the well-informed, as Martin articulately points out that hate survives on a lack of information; it can’t function without it.
…New Year’s Eve 1993, Live at Worcester Centrum captures what was then the biggest headlining concert of the band’s career, and the first in a long line of elaborate NYE shows to come.
Phish had played four New Year’s Eve shows before, but none like this. As the band wrapped the second of three sets with “You Enjoy Myself”, Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, Page McConnell, and Mike Gordon put on wetsuits during the vocal jam. This complemented the aquarium stage set the band used for its four-night New Year’s run through D.C., New Haven, Portland, and Worcester.
To start set three, underwater sound effects accompanied the band as the members “dived” into the aquarium setup and climbed into the giant clam, which snapped shut on them.
Mojo Presents The Best of 2025 offers a carefully curated snapshot of a year that feels both restless and creatively rich. Compiled by the editors of MOJO, the CD brings together a diverse selection of tracks that reflect the magazine’s long-standing taste for depth, craft, and personality over hype.
Rather than chasing chart trends, the compilation highlights artists who shape the musical conversation in quieter but more lasting ways.
The tracklist moves fluidly between established names and emerging voices, blending indie, rock, folk, soul, and alternative textures into a cohesive listening experience. It plays less like a random playlist and more like a guided tour through the year’s most compelling sounds.
In an age dominated by algorithms…
In March 2025, Berlin’s legendary Frannz Club became the setting for an unforgettable night as Mitch Ryder delivered a blistering live performance. That evening now forms the backbone of Songs from the Road, a brand-new live release that captures the raw power, emotion and urgency that have defined Ryder’s career for more than fifty years.
While the audio recordings were captured in Berlin, the accompanying DVD footage was filmed a month earlier in Lindewerra, Thuringia home base of Ruf Records. Two different locations, united in one compelling release, give Songs From The Road both its sonic punch and visual intimacy.
The album brings together electrifying performances of Ryder’s classic repertoire…
Remastered by Mark Beazley.
On The Boy and the Tree, Susumu Yokata continues the trajectory of ambient albums formed by Sakura and Grinning Cat. Like Sakura, The Boy and the Tree is gentle and buoyant, but for the most part Yokata leaves guitars behind for odder instrumentation — plinks, clacks, gurgles, gongs, and bells. The result, especially on tracks like “Live Echo,” sounds like Brian Eno crossed with the ancient and pastoral. “Fairy Link” dances through a dreamy repetition until it floats into even less grounded territory, “Secret Garden” employs hushed, indiscernible vocals that suggest some magical twilight realm, and “Red Swan” finds an exotic, sparkling Middle Eastern groove. “Thread Leads to Heaven,” possibly the best track on…
Craft Recordings mark the tenth anniversary of The Record Company’s Grammy®-nominated debut with an expanded deluxe edition of Give It Back to You. The reissue pairs the original 10-track album featuring the chart-topping “Off the Ground,” alongside fan favorites “Rita Mae Young” and “On the Move” with a newly unearthed live document: the band’s legendary Living Room concert, recorded in bassist Alex Stiff’s Los Feliz home in 2013.
Heard today, Give It Back to You still lands with the same immediacy that helped launch the band a decade ago. The songs are built on tight interplay, gritty textures, and a lived-in blues-rock feel that favors momentum over excess polish. There’s a directness to the writing and performance that makes the album easy to return to-hooks…
Historic 4 hours of previously unissued 1959 live Art Pepper recorded at Vancouver, Canada’s legendary jazz club The Cellar.
The release of Art Pepper’s Everything Happens To Me: 1959 – Live at the Cellar is the stuff music archivists can only dream of finding. Recordings by an historic and important jazz artist, at a storied venue, at a time when the artist was making some of their most essential work. In this case, catching Pepper on tape at The Cellar in 1959 finds him in the midst of creating and straddling landmark releases like, Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (1957), Modern Art (1957), Art Pepper + Eleven (1959) and Gettin’ Together (1960). Though Pepper was going through a down time, Vancouver, Canada’s jazz club, The Cellar was in full swing…
Third Man Records have released the first-ever live anthology from Ann Arbor, MI–based noise rock legends Laughing Hyenas.
That Girl – Live Recordings 1986–1994 collects 18 ferocious tracks, painstakingly compiled by founding member John Brannon from his personal archive of cassette tapes, then transferred, mixed, and mastered by Grammy® Award–winning producer Bobby Emmett (known for his work with Sturgill Simpson, Jack White, and The Sights).
The collection captures the band’s full-on sonic groove assault in its purest, most unadulterated, and gloriously abrasive form. Highlights include such hard-hitting classics as “Here We Go Again,” recorded live for NYC’s famed WNYU in 1990.
If ever a band deserved an LP of live material…
Tori Amos’ daring 2001 concept album Strange Little Girls returns February 20 in an expanded edition that adds rarities and previously unreleased recordings. The Grammy® Award-nominated album finds Amos reinterpreting a dozen songs written by men, shifting them to a female perspective and performing each through one of 12 personas she created for the project. Strange Little Girls (Expanded Edition) combines the original album and B-sides with two unreleased covers from the sessions.
Celebrating 25 years, Strange Little Girls remains one of Amos’ most striking and conceptually ambitious works. To bring the concept to life, she collaborated with renowned makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin, who helped transform her into 12…
…Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and RCA Records release the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, a collection of 27 recordings heard in the upcoming film, featuring updated mixes of iconic live performances alongside new remixes and medleys of classic Elvis recordings.
…A follow-up to director Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic of the singer starring Austin Butler in a star-making, Golden Globe-winning turn as the late singer, EPiC is sourced from scores of long-vaulted material utilized for film research. Warner Bros. Pictures unearthed unseen footage and outtakes from Elvis’ concert documentaries That’s the Way It Is (1970) and Elvis on Tour (1972)…
