The Tortured Poets Department (colloquially shortened to Tortured Poets) is the upcoming eleventh studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It is set for release on April 19, 2024, via Republic Records. Swift wrote the album with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.Swift announced the album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, after winning Best Pop Vocal Album for her tenth studio album, Midnights (2022). She conceived The Tortured Poets Department shortly after finishing work on Midnights and continued developing the former during the Eras Tour (2023–2024), her ongoing sixth concert tour. With a concept fashioned after the five stages of grief, The Tortured Poets Department is Swift's self-proclaimed "lifeline" album. It consists of sixteen songs, featuring collaborations with the American rapper Post Malone and the English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The physical editions of the album include bonus tracks.

Banana Wind is typical latter-day Jimmy Buffett. Over a laidback, Caribbean-inflected folk-rock, Buffett waxes eloquent over boats, booze, sun, and women. Although the sound of the album certainly is pleasant, there's not a single distinctive song on the record, which means it's good for Parrotheads, but casual fans should let this Banana Wind sail on by.

By the time of his fifth album, Havana Daydreamin', Jimmy Buffett seemed to have established a pattern for what a collection of his songs would be. The best one-word description for the musical style still would have to be "country," but Buffett, and probably his record label, had given up on trying to sell him to the conventional country audience, and instead aimed at a slice of the pop market. That was fair enough, since he had evolved a persona as a Gulf Coast ne'er-do-well in compositions full of sentimentally viewed oddball characters ("Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street," co-written with Steve Goodman, a re-recording of "The Captain and the Kid" from his first album, Down to Earth), self-deprecating self-portraits ("My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don't Love Jesus"), and humorous depictions of life on the road for the working musician ("Big Rig," written by Gregory "Fingers" Taylor, harmonica player in Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, "Kick It in Second Wind," co-written with girlfriend Jane Slagsvol), with plenty of references to alcohol and recreational drugs thrown in. It was perhaps unfortunate that the two best-written songs on the album, each of which ended one side of the LP, were written by others, Jesse Winchester's touching, whimsical "Defying Gravity" and Steve Goodman's road song "This Hotel Room." But that suggested that Buffett was looking for good songs to sing, whether he wrote them himself or not. © William Ruhlmann

While it still lies much closer to Nashville than Key West (like in the boisterous slide guitar solo that lights up "The Great Filling Station Holdup"), Jimmy Buffett's A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean does begin to delineate the blowsy, good-timin' Key West persona that would lead him to summer tour stardom and the adoration of millions of drinking buddies everywhere. "Why Don't We Get Drunk," "Railroad Lady," and "Grapefruit – Juicy Fruit" rightly became crowd pleasers. But Buffett reveals himself a storyteller with the touching sigh of "He Went to Paris," where a slide guitar appears again to lend a subtle gleam to the arrangement, or in the gorgeous, sweetly sad tale of a passed-away poet's unlikely posthumous success. It's in this wide-eyed honesty, as well as the winking sarcasm of the scrambling honky tonker "Peanut Butter Conspiracy" – "We never took more than we could eat/And we always swore if we ever got rich, we'd pay the mini mart back" – that Buffett's flair for easygoing accessibility really emerges.

Die neue Deluxe-Edition von „Der Sommer ist vorbei“ als limited Digipak mit CD + Blu-Ray (VÖ 19.04.2024) mit 3 brandneuen Songs, 2 neue Remixe Roosevelt und TIMTIM und auf Blu-ray HD der 51 min. Konzertfilm Juli Live bei Poparound@bauhaus 2023 mit allen großen Hits. JULI meldeten sich erst letztes Jahr mit ihrem gefeierten Top10 Album „Der Sommer ist vorbei" und ihrer ersten Tour seit über 8 Jahren mehr als eindrucksvoll zurück. Die über 350K Follower:innen und über 1 Millionen monatlichen Spotify Hörer:innen begegneten der Deutschpopformation um Frontfrau Eva Briegel mit purer Euphorie und Liebe. Juli sind nicht nur Kult, sondern hoch-geschätztes Kulturgut aller Generationen. Und so sollte der Ruf von VOX nach Südafrika für SingMeinenSong 2024 nicht lange auf sich warten! Im Zuge dessen legt die Band mit der neuen DELUXE- Edition ihres Albums "Der Sommer ist vorbei" nach und veröffentlicht darauf mit "Im Großen und Ganzen", "Bitte Herz", "Delfine" gleich drei brandneue Songs. Auch Clubfans kommen mit den neuen Remixen "Der Sommer ist vorbei" vom gefeierten Producern Roosevelt und TIMTIM auf ihre Kosten. Abgerundet wird die neue Deluxe Edition mit 51 min. purer Live-Energie von Juli auf Blu-ray HD beim Poparound@bauhaus Konzert aus dem Jahr 2023, wo sie neben neuen Songs wie u.a. "Fette Wilde Jahre“ auch ihre Megahits "Geile Zeit" oder "Perfekte Welle" live auf die Bühne bringen.

Among the many things Eddie Vedder wears on his sleeve is his love of the Chicago Cubs. He was there during the Cubbies' historic World Series win of 2016, singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch of Game 5, an honor for a fan who held the team dear since a child, but earlier in the season, he and Pearl Jam saluted the Cubs with a pair of August concerts at Wrigley Field. Let's Play Two is a concert film documenting that stand and it's accompanied by a live album, which is Pearl Jam's first mass-market live album since Live on Ten Legs.

Emphasis! (On Parenthesis) is an album by the Stanton Moore Trio, released on April 22, 2008. Organist Robert Walter and guitarist Will Bernard, both of whom played with Moore on his previous solo album, III, are featured on the album.

Tracii Guns, Phil Lewis and Co. on a tour de force of rock 'n roll. High-energy hard rock with classic rock influences from the 70s.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Pletnev (born April 14, 1957, Arkhangelsk) is a Soviet and Russian pianist, composer and conductor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). Four times winner of the State Prizes of the Russian Federation (1982, 1993, 1996, 2006).

Iconic UK indie band Flowered Up, seen as London’s answer to Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses, reissue their debut album ‘A Life With Brian’ (from 1991) via London Records. The reissue follows a BFI documentary on the video of ‘Weekender’ and it’s legendary status in UK club culture of the time. The album remastering was overseen by Flowered Up keyboard player Tim Dorney.

The Joni Mitchell Record That Forever Changed the Music and Cultural Landscapes: Blue Is Widely Considered One of the 10 Greatest Albums of All Time. 1971 Landmark Plays with Reference-Grade Detail, Intimacy, and Directness on Mobile Fidelity's Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD.

Aki Takase releases the second album with her commanding band, Japanic. On Forte, the leading figure of European improvisational jazz once again demonstrates her energetic, radiating nature, joined by her distinguished bandmates – Daniel Erdmann, Dag Magnus Narvesen, Carlos Bica and DJ Illvibe –, and two guest artists, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Nils Wogram.

Torchbearers of the Southern California band sound, Local Natives first drew attention in 2009 when their debut album, Gorilla manor, grabbed fans with its vibrant mix of kinetic, complex rhythms and soaring harmonies. The album drew praise for its enthusiastic balance of post-punk urgency and evocative lyricism. In 2013, the group expanded upon that sound, exploring a darker, more introspective aesthetic on their follow-up, Hummingbird (produced by Aaron Dessner of The National). Their third album, Sunlit Youth, arrived in the summer of 2016 via Infectious and Loma Vista Recordings. Its globe trotting writing process found the group experimenting with production techniques and expanding their palette of entrustments. The classic studio setting is juxtaposed on Local Natives’ fourth full-length, Violet Street [Loma Vista Recordings] with modern production and visuals to form a timeless album. The band’s signature soaring 3-part harmonies are augmented by loops of tape, physically spliced and transformed by hand, the result of experimenting in the studio with producer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Kacey Musgraves, The War On Drugs). The band's fifth project Time Will Wait For No One [Loma Vista Recordings] serves as a harmonious return to their roots. Their sixth album, But I'll Wait For You, is a companion piece to the album prior to it. Local Natives are Kelcey Ayer, Nik Ewing, Matthew Frazier, Ryan Hahn, and Taylor Rice.

The most adventurous quartet in contemporary jazz has met its visual match in Peter Max, the legendary pop artist who, as it turns out, is a huge fan of the band. Russell Ferrante and company could probably feel at home naming any of their innovative, loose-spirited albums after one of Max's paintings, but Altered State definitely fits the vibe here – which is all odd meters, emotionally provocative melodic lines, and unexpected harmonies.

Although sometimes grouped with Spyro Gyra, Yellowjackets are actually one of the most creative regular groups in the "rhythm & jazz" genre. Founded in 1981 as an R&B-oriented band, the long-running crossover jazz outfit that has been a Grammy favorite and a top seller since the 1980s.