So it was 1995 at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam. Herbert Grönemeyer also made music history with the very first non-English-language MTV Unplugged. And now, exactly thirty years later, the devices are being unplugged again.

Hege received lots of good feedback as a young jazz vocalist, but it is now, many years later that she is finally making her own jazz album. It contains standard songs and a tribute to the journalist Randi Hultin, composed by Phil Woods.

Jillian Rae is a Minneapolis-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose authentic and powerful, genre-transcending music is pioneering a new wave of music in the Midwest.

The distance traveled on William Prince’s new album, Further From the Country, is generational, aspirational, and metaphysical. Expansive and declarative, Further From the Country is the work of an artist who meets the challenge of putting incisive and enduring words to this age of uncertainty. William Prince’s perspective - a songwriter who carries great legacies of family and songcraft forward - is singular and significant. Further From the Country, his fifth LP, is an extraordinary work of observation, reflection and ambition, a work that will leave its mark on listeners for its humanity and its potency.

With Classical Dance – Simply the Best, Alex Christensen and The Berlin Orchestra continue their celebrated success series, in which iconic dance and pop hits are reinterpreted in a lavish, classical guise. Since the very first installment, Christensen has shaped a unique style with his blend of orchestral grandeur, club beats, and cinematic dynamics – and with Volume 6, he once again delivers a collection of tracks that combine nostalgia with goosebump moments.

Biohazard are one of those bands that held my interest and affection, but only for a small window of my life (1992 through 1996).

Lynden Cranham's very earliest memories of Bach were overwhelming, sitting in the huge, resonant space of Westminster Cathedral listening to an organ recital.

Minimal and nuanced, Diary of a Candle is a consoling, melodic suite from acclaimed experimental composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan. On this album Faten uses counterpoint as a narrative tool to create music that is mysterious, smudgy, and deeply melodic. From the repetitive structures of modern minimalism and early music/baroque influences - to more languid textural ebbs and tides, there's a warmth in her use of synthesizers that gives her work a curiously timeless feel. Composing intuitively, her music creates its own world - one that isn't easily categorised.

Deux marks a bold evolution in the brother duo’s sound. Written between 2022 and 2024, these nine meticulously crafted tracks deepen their exploration of heavy progressive rock with greater ambition and intensity than ever before. What makes this special: Two brothers, no guitars — just vintage organ, thunderous drums, and hypnotic call-and-response vocals creating massive soundscapes. Rooted in 1970s prog, hard rock, and heavy psych, Moundrag channel icons like Deep Purple, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and Uriah Heep, while drawing parallels to modern acts like Motorpsycho and Hällas. Yet Deux is no nostalgia trip — it’s a fiercely contemporary manifesto, blending dystopian fantasy, sci-fi, and Celtic myth into lyrics that challenge archaic norms and imagine a freer world.

Antonio Nola was a minor figure among the Neapolitan composers who collaborated with musicians from the church of the Girolamini, which included Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Scipione Dentice (nephew of Fabrizio Dentice), Giovanni Maria Sabino, Giovanni Salvatore, master of the royal chapel Filippo Coppola and, foremost among them, Erasmo di Bartolo ("Padre Raimo") author of the monumental Mottetti per le quarant' ore. His only recorded work, in comparison with the Magnificat a 5 composed in the same year by his colleague Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704), shows a less sophisticated compositional level.

Steve Hauschildt returns after 6 years with a new album titled Aeropsia. After a transcontinental relocation from the US to Tbilisi, Georgia, the electronic composer emerges from a personal and global transformation to explore themes of perceptual distortion, disconnection, and renewal.

As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the World Soundtrack Awards, Film Fest Gent presents Craig Armstrong: Music for Film, an expanded reissue of its very first official album (originally released in 2007). Consisting of studio recordings now available internationally for the first time, the album features highlights from Craig Armstrong's film works, performed by the Brussels Philharmonic and Vlaams Radiokoor and conducted by Film Fest Gent music director Dirk Brosse.

AURORA - out now, we've been working on this album for two years and we're so happy to finally share it with you! Some of the songs have been featured on the live gig, others are brand new acquaintances even for the most well-informed listeners.

Otis Taylor is one of the few musicians in the world who bring depth and honesty to the topics of his songs and the passion of his voice and playing. He grew up in Denver, CO, but was born in Chicago in 1948. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include the guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and vocals. He was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame in 2019.

Some Like It Hot is a 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon about a group of rogue musicians on the adventure path. It is funny, sexy, rambunctious and evergreen – a showcase of a triple-threat cast at full-throttle. Some Like It Hot is also the new album, out October 17th 2025 via Matador Records, by London three-piece bar italia. Certain parallels are perhaps not accidental. It pulses with romance, intrigue, self-discovery and rapture over lustful rockers, spellbinding folk pop, punch-drunk ballads and undefinable moments that sneak up on you like a burst of 5pm sunshine. The record is the culmination of the joint inner world of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton – three singer-songwriters who have transcended their underground roots to embrace a bold, widescreen horizon.