On their debut album together, post-punk trio the Messthetics and saxophonist James Brandon Lewis arrived at the same point by following two different paths. Lewis, a player grounded in gospel and post-bop, grew increasingly adventurous in the years after delivering Divine Travels to Sony’s revived OKeh imprint in 2014.
He became a crucial part of New York’s jazz and new-music community, where he met Anthony Pirog, an improvising guitarist who had teamed up with drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally in their post-Fugazi project, the Messthetics. Pirog extended an invitation to Lewis to join the trio onstage in 2019, setting in motion a series of events that led the group to sign to storied jazz label Impulse! Records for its 2024 LP.
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…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.
Staffed by Turkish, Indonesian and Dutch members, 
One can almost imagine the hypothetical 2025 tour reviews: “To hear him in person, you would never imagine Milton Keanes must be pushing age 80. He zips across the keys with abandon like a man half that age, matched by his equally spry bandmates keeping up with every gallop. The trio continually whips up a storm, defying any age and fit for any time.”
In order to escape the world’s pressures, Moby often finds refuge in ambient and neo-classical music, and Future Quiet is one of several ventures into such territory. It isn’t the type of extended meditation session he reserves for his lengthy ambient releases, instead coming a bit closer to his orchestral releases on Deutsche Grammophon.
Compiling music from throughout continental Europe during the height of psychedelia and progressive rock, 
Getting so obsessed with a band that you book a local show just to see them play — we need more freaks like that in the world, and that’s what Merge Records’ Mike Krol did this spring when he put together a bill featuring himself, Shannon Shaw’s new group Voilà!, and this not-so-known New Orleans duo 
It’s nearly nine years since U2 released a collection of original material, 2017’s Songs of Experience. They’ve hardly been idle since: two tours, two films, a 40-date residency at the Las Vegas Sphere, nearly three hours of stripped-down re-recordings of old material on Songs of Surrender, plus Bono’s autobiography, which spawned a solo tour, a stint on Broadway and another film. An impressive workload by any standards.
…digital release with 7 bonus songs.
Violin is a site of adventure for 
Six years after his Grammy-nominated LP5, Sascha Ring – aka Apparat – takes a bold dive into the complexities of life with his sixth studio album.
…MOJO presents a bespoke CD of rare, live and previously unreleased songs from the mod icons, including storming live versions of ‘Whatcha Gonna Do About It’ and ‘Tin Soldier’, alternative takes, never-before-released tracks.
Labeling any music as spiritual can play as a (fiery) double-edged sword for any artist involved, and if that is your debut full-length album, like is the case with Brooklyn’s multi-media artist 
Editions Mego welcomes 
Kaikō is the second album by