Prolific multi-diamond artist and producer SYML invites listeners into an intimate space with his new live album, Paris Unplugged.
Recorded while in Paris, France, this past summer at Le Consulat, the album distills his emotional songwriting into an unfiltered performance that feels deeply personal and universally moving.
Accompanied by Brian Eichelberger, Zawadi Morrow, and Kyle Moore, the songs are stripped of excess production, revealing the fragile heart at the center of his music and offering fans a chance to experience the closeness of his live shows-where silence, melody, and emotion intertwine. This is SYML at his most human: present, unguarded, and profoundly connected to those listening.
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Any list of the greatest jazz artists of all time includes the legendary Charles Mingus. Bassist, composer, outspoken jazz pioneer, Mingus was an innovator whose legacy continues to inspire us. Over a 100 years after his birth year, we still celebrate his genius.
This tour de force live performance from the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival captures Mingus at the top of his form and the height of his powers. Out of print for more than 40 years, this landmark recording was originally released on Mingus’ own Jazz Workshop in 1966.
This explosive set features career-defining performances of “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk,” “Meditations on Integration,” and a searing Duke Ellington tribute medley.
For more than four decades, Grammy® Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar has been one of rock music’s most dynamic and prolific artists. From his breakthrough with Montrose to a multiplatinum solo career and his years fronting Van Halen, Chickenfoot, The Circle, and now The Best of All Worlds Band, Hagar has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and delivered anthems like “I Can’t Drive 55,” “Right Now,” and “Why Can’t This Be Love.”
The Residency, the electrifying new live album from GRAMMY® Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar and The Best of All Worlds Band featuring Michael Anthony (bass, vocals), Joe Satriani (guitar), Kenny Aronoff (drums), and Rai Thistlethwayte (keyboards, guitar, vocals)…
…Remastered from the original analog files, the special anniversary release sees a wealth of brand new material including seven unreleased tracks from the album’s multitrack sessions, mixed by Paul Humphreys. The release also comes with two demos, an alternative mix, four never-before-heard songs, plus non-album b-sides and extended or 12” mixes.
First released on June 17, 1985, the band’s sixth album took OMD across the pond and became their breakthrough record in the United States. Spearheaded by the single “So in Love,” which entered the Billboard Top 40, and radio smash “Secret,” the album received acclaim in the U.S. and also saw success in the UK and Europe. It peaked at No.13 on the UK Official Album Chart.
Formed in January 1969, Humble Pie soon became one of the best-loved, hardest-rocking live acts of the 1970s. In Steve Marriott, the one-time Small Faces frontman, “The Pie” had the best showman & biggest voice in the business. Peter Frampton, the “Face of ’68” with The Herd had a new role – guitar hero extraordinaire. And with hard-hitting powerhouse drummer Jerry Shirley & ex-Spooky Tooth bassist supreme Greg Ridley, Humble Pie quickly developed into a sophisticated studio unit where tough riffs, rustic rock & bursts of blissed-out psychedelia earned the band instant chart success & critical acclaim.
As Safe As Yesterday Is was their debut album for Immediate Records on 1 August 1969, reaching no. 32 in the UK charts.
One of the strangest phenomena of early ’80s pop is that U.K. pop duo Naked Eyes – who stormed the Top 10 in America in the summer of 1983 with a thunderous synth version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Always Something There to Remind Me” – completely missed the chart at home. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that a forthcoming expanded edition of their debut, featuring three unreleased demos and a fistful of non-album tracks, takes its cues from the American version of the album.
…the newly deluxe edition of Naked Eyes, mastered by Phil Kinrade at AIR Mastering, offers the album as it was released by EMI America in 1983, not long after a slightly…
9-disc box set featuring their groundbreaking first two albums alongside a wealth of previously unavailable material.
Everything is Now – Vol. 1: 1978-1982 collect the band’s first two LPs, Journeys to Glory (1981) and Diamond (1982); collections of 7″ and 12″ material from each album on CD; a rare full remix of Diamond issued on a 12″ box set edition of the album; two discs of BBC sessions and concert recordings (including an unissued 1982 set at the Paris Theatre in London); stereo and instrumental remixes of select tracks by Steven Wilson.
…Formed by guitarist/keyboardist Gary Kemp, his brother Martin on bass, singer Tony Hadley, saxophonist Steve Norman and drummer John Keeble, Spandau Ballet represented…
Recording for the Fantasy label, his singles regularly scaled the upper reaches of Billboard’s club chart, truly breaking through with the ecstatic Top 40 crossover hits “Dance (Disco Heat)” and “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real),” both of which drove the 1978 album Step II to a gold certification.
Sylvester’s genre-defining disco album Step II arrives on CD for the first time ever, as a bonus-filled Deluxe Edition featuring Tonic Funk’s never-before-heard “Space Funk” Club Mix of “Dance (Disco Heat)”, plus Bright Light Bright Light’s fresh take on “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)”, and new liner notes from Joshua Gamson. Described by Pitchfork as “a formative record in the queer canon,” Step II took Sylvester’s from a Bay Area icon, to a national disco superstar whose…
Don’t you just love an album with a fascinating back story? Well, this album has one and is quite different to the norm because of it. Laura Veirs is a singer-songwriter, based in Portland, Oregon, but that’s by no means the full story. Veirs is also an author, writing a book; Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten, published in 2018 it was aimed at children. It tells the story of Cotten, an influential musician, a self-taught left-handed guitar player, who played a right-handed guitar upside down, and developed a style of playing which has influenced many players since. Veirs is a long-term fan of Cotten’s work. Additionally in 2018, she launched a weekly podcast with tales of working musicians who are also parents; the podcast…
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats release their tenth anniversary of their breakout self-titled debut album through a very special vinyl reissue. The 10th anniversary edition offers fans an additional album’s worth of demo recordings. The album also offers fans a similarly special glimpse into the band’s creative origins.
“I had always loved the southern sounds of Soul from the Stax record catalog, and at the same time was listening to The Band and falling in love with their twangy approach to Rock’n’Roll. I wondered what it would sound like if Sam and Dave were in The Band.” – Nathaniel Rateliff
This monumental self-titled album in Rateliff’s career was the catalyst for a journey that has only gained momentum over the last decade.
As a musical curator, Coco Maria has an ear for color. The third compilation in her Club Coco series, Coco Maria Presents: New Dimensions in Latin Music, offers a broad and brightly-hued sonic palette of sounds from across the global Latin diaspora and beyond. Born in Saltillo, Mexico, and now based in Amsterdam after stints in Berlin and London, Coco María is well acquainted with the vastness of the scene, whose titular dimensions she explores here.
She serves us a sampler that leans into the more playful possibilities of eclecticism, presenting the cutting edge with a sense of fun so often missing from visions of the avant-garde. What Coco knows — and shares with us in her virtual club — is that experimentation is better when…
To listen to a new release from Geneva-based label Bongo Joe is to have a twofold reaction. On the one hand, the Bongo Joe catalog is so eclectic that each new direction it takes is a surprise. On the other hand, the albums that come out of it tend to be so good that it seems only logical for the latest interesting release to be a Bongo Joe production. An inarticulate harmony and a tasteful eclecticism hold their discography together.
Now, the imprint celebrates its first full decade with a vivid compilation that makes the extent of the Bongo Joe palette clear. In 23 tracks, 2015-2025: Les Disques Bongo Joe – 10 Years of Sonic Explorations tells the story its subtitle promises, moving through space and time with an ear for quality. It’s unquestionably…
Groove of ESSR III marks the next chapter in highlighting the musical heritage trapped behind the Iron Curtain during the Soviet occupation.
The tracklist curated by Henrik Ehte and Ingvar Kassuk spans recordings from 1971–1983 by Estonian artists, most of whom were born under a foreign regime after the war. Nevertheless, they had relatives in the West and antennas tuned in to Finnish radio signals. In a closed-off world, they had the courage to explore the groove without borders.
Many performers and songwriters became the most sought-after players throughout all of Soviet Russia, not because they blindly followed the communist party’s canon. On the contrary, the sheer brilliance of their compositions,…
…In 1977, John Williams composed three film scores – and you’d be forgiven for not remembering the third, compared to the other two. While Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind made him one of Hollywood’s heaviest hitters (earning an Oscar, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and five Grammys between both scores), his first offering that year was the suspenseful music to Black Sunday, a taut political thriller directed by John Frankenheimer and based on the novel of the same name by The Silence of the Lambs author Thomas Harris. In it, Robert Shaw plays an agent of Mossad in a race to stop a crazed blimp pilot (Bruce Dern) and a Black September operative (Marthe Keller) from detonating a bomb in the air above the Super Bowl. Featuring stunning footage of…
Alhaji K Frimpong’s 1977 Highlife masterpiece, melding traditional Ghanaian musical forms with experimental instrumentation and innovative arrangements.
Opening with the urgent, call-and-response drive of “Hwehwe Mu Na Yi Wo Mpena” and closing with the 15-minute odyssey of “Adam Nana,” the record stretches highlife’s rhythmic and structural possibilities. Its sinuous guitar lines, clavinet vamps, layered vocal phrases and hypnotic percussion evolve with a looseness and freedom that echo the experimental spirit found in 1970s jazz and funk — a Ghanaian counterpart to many of the African-influenced sounds being shaped across the Atlantic.
…The Black Album expands the electronic…
…expanded edition features 14 tracks of alternate versions and studio takes.
When Sun Ra released his debut Saturn release in 1957, he signaled the Arkestra’s mission for the future. The cover declared the album a “21st Century Limited Edition.” The compositions on Supersonic Jazz conveyed optimism and hope, bringing a message auguring the World of Tomorrow. Ra declared this the first dimension of a fresh art form, as he set about evolving a new American music — a composite of the past and future, the known coalescing with the unknown. The album, not very well received upon release, reveals a vibrant universe of sound, with highly developed arrangements and sophisticated musicianship, especially Ra’s…