The Staple Singers entered the public consciousness in the early 1950s and over the course of their influential career changed the way listeners experienced gospel music.

Consuelo "Chelo" Pérez Rubio (born 18 January 1944), is a Mexican singer, songwriter, and actress who was the former vocalist of the cumbia group Chelo y su Conjunto until she launched her solo career in the ranchera genre and began acting in movies.

Andra Day is over putting up with men’s crap. One of her methods for shaking off romantic dilemmas is calling out her suitors’ mess on her latest album. “This season of my life, it’s just like, kiss my ass, bro,” she says with a sneering grin. “But I’m also trying to be accountable.” Fittingly titled Cassandra (Cherith)—after her birth name, Cassandra Monique Batie—the singer-actress’s first solo record since 2015’s Cheers to the Fall is her most personal soul and R&B outing yet.

Gabrielle is back with her new studio album 'A Place in Your Heart' - 10th May 2024 on Tag8/BMG. From her early hits 'Dreams' and 'Rise' to her recent accolades from both Adele and Stormzy, Gabrielle retains her place as one of the UK’s most successful and beloved artists.

“Collaborating with a composer who is iconic was something else,” marvels Paul Leonard-Morgan of working with Phillip Glass on Amazon’s “Tales From the Loop.” The two composers tinkered around with musical ideas while Leonard-Morgan visited Glass in New York and “it was just an organic place from there.” The music for the series set in Mercer, Ohio, where residents live above “the loop” (which when unlocked, explores the secrets of the universe), soundtracks the town’s increasingly strange events, its sonic palette deftly avoiding sci-fi tropes.

In 2022, at the end of a series of performances dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Claudio Cruz (violin), Adonhiran Reis (violin), Gabriel Marin (viola), and Alceu Reis (cello) from the award-winning Carlos Gomes Quartet, decided to record the entirety of Mendelssohn’s string quartets. In this project with the Azul Music label, the first volume is the album Mendelssohn: String Quartets No. 1, 2 & 3. The second one is dedicated to String Quartets Nos 4-6.

Adelmo Fornaciari, more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero, is an Italian rock singer and Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. His music is largely inspired by gospel, soul and rock music, and alternates between ballads and more rhythmic boogie-like pieces. Zucchero's voice is gritty and textured, but he sings with a great sensitivity and lyricism, and these same qualities are mirrored in his songwriting. By blending blues, pop, and adult contemporary, Zucchero's music can be quite affecting. He is credited as the "father of Italian blues", introducing blues to the big stage in Italy. Zucchero is one of the few European blues artists who still enjoy great international success.

The Fall Guy is our favorite kind of movie - it's a love story not only between the film’s two leads, but also a love letter to cinema. Its also a love letter to the people who risk their lives to tell us stories. That it's scored like a stadium rock anthem also helps. Dominic Lewis' has produced a soundtrack that makes you want to stand up and cheer in the theater, but also one that you'll also want to blast at full volume at home.

Kevin Mahogany's decision to cover Motown hits in a jazz setting stems from his desire to not only increase the audience for jazz, but to add new material to the music's repertoire, in addition to the established standards. The results are ear-opening, particularly for those who never seriously listened to the likes of Marvin Gaye or Smokey Robinson.

A mysterious opera, an historical piano, two singers, and four instrumentalists. Ensemble Hexameron presents a rich variety of instrumental and vocal music, thus painting a musical portrait of Paris at the dawn of the nineteenth century; a time when different cultures and genres were at crossroads, and when Mozart was yet to be truly discovered as a composer in France.

Third album from American-Idol Winner (2011) Scotty McCreery. Artist shares that the 13-song album, “reflective of me and the country music I love”, is “my favorite album I’ve made yet”. Over 1.9B lifetime streams across platform. Wrapped his North American tour earlier this year. Grand Ole Opry induction on April 20th.

Widely regarded as the greatest gospel singer of all time, Mahalia Jacksom made her impact felt across several musical genres. This album was originally released in 1955, her first Christmas album, but would be reissued six years later to great success.

James Walter "Jimmy" Castor was an American pop and fun disco/funk saxophonis. As leader of The Jimmy Castor Bunch in the 1970s, and also as a solo artist, he released several successful albums and singles. "Supersound" is The Jimmy Castor Bunch's 1975 album released by Rhino Atlantic Records. The record features lively titles "King Kong", "A Groove Will Make You Move", "Bom Bom" and the title track "Supersound".

Gerald Byrd became known as Jerry Byrd, was the legendary Hawaiian steel guitar master. In fact, his plaque in the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame proclaims him to be "The Master of Touch and Tone". Although his initial interest was Hawaiian music much of his work was Country. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1978 as # 1 and his Rickenbacker lap steel is housed at the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 1950, Jerry did his first solo steel guitar recordings under his name. Before he finished, he had recorded over 280 sides and had 25 albums released on eight labels. This is his 1966's album, recorded for the Monument label.

The group were finishing off a huge US tour that had roared down the east coast then across the Midwest and by the time they hit LA, as Brian recalls the group was performing at their height.
The show opens with a hyper fast version of 'Beginning Again' due to drummer Steve Ferrone being almost an hour late and running high on adrenaline, Brian remembers thinking “I don’t even know if I can play it that fast!”. Fortunately, he and the Oblivion Express including stellar vocalist Alex Ligertwood rise to the challenge and the result is akin to some frenetic jazzy drum & bass but also pushes the group onto another level altogether for the rest of the show. Across both volumes there are no fillers and the highlights are many, but especially the epic version of 'Maiden Voyage' which Mos Def sampled on his 1997 'If You Can Huh! You Can Hear', and both DJ Mitsu in 2004 and 2017 Crimeapple both dipped into Live Oblivion to sample that fire for their own projects.