Headless Cross (2024 Remaster)
"Headless Cross" is the fourteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released in April 1989, it was the group's second album to feature singer Tony Martin, the first to feature drummer Cozy Powell, and the only album with session bassist Laurence Cottle. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Nobody would have predicted such a comeback for Tony Iommi and his men, but the last two albums "The Eternal Idol" and "Headless Cross" almost gave rise to a new Sabbath mania. The expectations for the follow-up album "Tyr" were therefore not exactly low, and the band once again succeeded in producing a ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
Cross Purposes (2024 Remaster)
"Cross Purposes" is the seventeenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released through I.R.S. Records on 31 January 1994. The album marked the return of Tony Martin as the band's lead vocalist, after the second departure of Ronnie James Dio. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
"Forbidden" is the eighteenth studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released on 5 June 1995. This recording saw the reunion of Black Sabbath's Tyr-era line-up from 1990, with the return of Neil Murray and Cozy Powell. It was the last album to feature Tony Martin on vocals and Geoff Nicholls on ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Metal
The setting of the opera Cavalleria Rusticana by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (based on the novella of the same name by Giovanni Verga), is regarded as the birth of a new style in Italian opera, "verismo", which gained great popularity throughout Italy from its premiere in May 1890. In terms of content, Italian ...
Composer: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), Franco Alfano (1875-1954), Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893), Umberto Giordano (1867-1948), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Every year, the Fondation Gautier Capuçon offers one or more of its prizewinners the opportunity to record an album with Warner Classics / Erato. After a first recording with the young French pianist Kim Bernard, a second album followed with a trio of the Italian pianist Martina Consonni, the French violinist Sarah Jégou-Sageman and ...
Composer: Fazil Say (1970), Myroslaw Skoryk (1938-2020), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912), Arvo Pärt (1935)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
After the surprise release of giddy single 'Oh Hi', New Zealand legends Crowded House have revealed a new album is on the way. Gravity Stairs is the band's eighth long player and comes after Crowded House secured a deal for the album's release through BMG. "We’re delighted to work with the good people at BMG who we already know love music and hold us in high regard", ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Cage² is the title of Bertrand Chamayou's new album - he calls it the twin brother of his most recent Letter(s) to Erik Satie - both recorded at the Miraval studios. CAGE² is also the title of a performance Bertrand Chamayou conceived with dancer and choreographer Élodie Sicard, featuring 12 pieces composed by John ...
Composer: John Cage (1912–1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"Eine wahre musikalische Metapher für den Selbstmord Europas, der der Große Krieg war, Apotheose und Apokalypse zugleich. Wir hören auch Anklänge an Schubert, Liszt, Mahler und Kreisler, die alle von einer Art Nostalgie durchdrungen sind, die nur zu dieser mythischen Stadt gehört." (Aurélien Pontier) ... “A veritable musical metaphor for the suicide of Europe that was the Great War, both apotheosis and apocalypse. We also hear evocations of Schubert, Liszt, Mahler and Kreisler, all imbued with a kind of nostalgia that belongs only to this mythical city.” (Aurélien Pontier) ...
Composer: Alfred Grünfeld (1852-1924), Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938), Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), Sergej Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
In This City They Call You Love
Richard Hawley will release new album ‘In This City They Call You Love’ on May 31st. The Sheffield songwriter is on a roll, with his musical Standing At The Sky’s Edge gaining outstanding reviews. Recently switching to a prominent venue in the West End, the new London run is scheduled for last for six months. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Grammy-nominated band The Marías announce their highly-anticipated return with sophomore album Submarine set for release on May 31st. Submarine represents themes of solitude and exploration for The Marías, delving into the complexities of human emotion and what it means to choose solitude, and the pain and beauty so inextricably interwoven within it. ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Chris Breheny aka Moncrieff was into music, sure, but if you’d told him that a few years down the line even Elton John and Avicii would be into his tunes, he wouldn’t have believed a word of it. After all, music wasn’t a given where he was from, in fact, it was almost sneered at. “I was a bit afraid to pursue it, because in that part of Ireland, in the countryside where I ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Twenty One Pilots new album, Clancy, which will be released May 17th. The alternative pop-rock duo, made up of vocalist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun, have long been candid about anxiety and depression, themes often represented in Joseph’s lyrics as he sings, raps and occasionally screams while Dun drums at an incredible pace. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Meistersaal Sessions / Vol. 1: Romantic Chamber Music
the legendary Meistersaal Berlin, conducted by Joolz Gale. The series starts with arrangements of Schönberg, Strauss and Mahler. In collaboration with British photographer Gavin Evans, these club-concert sessions come ...
Composer: Gustav Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Timeless. Explosive. Romantic. Inspiring. How else could you characterise "Blue Electric Light", Lenny Kravitz's twelfth studio album? Kravitz's mastery of deep soul rock has long been an established fact. As a tireless creative force - musician, writer, producer, actor, designer - he remains a dynamic global ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Introducing the awesome singer-songwriter who’s making waves with his music worldwide, Alec Benjamin. With his third studio album, “12 Notes,” just around the corner, there’s so much excitement as we eagerly await the next chapter in his musical journey. In this super exclusive interview, we’re going dive deep into what ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Multi-platinum alt-rock trio Wallows release their highly anticipated third studio album, Model. The John Congleton-produced album arrives via Atlantic Records. Wallows (composed of Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole Preston) have been best friends since the age of 11. They began playing music together in the LA ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Dynamic indie-rock band PARK RD are buzzing to announce the release of their debut album, The Novel. Formed by five high school friends from Tāmaki Makaurau, PARK RD have quickly established themselves as one of NZ’s most exciting new bands off the back of a series of well-received singles and EPs and their killer live shows. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Commemorating the 45th Anniversary of Mixer's Lab! Fifth in the Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band "BIG BAND SOUND" series produced by Mixer's Lab! 10 songs selected from Jazz and Latin masterpieces of the past! The famous performances by the Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band were recorded, mixed and produced by recording engineer Eiji Uchinuma (Chairman ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Big Band
