Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – Guess For Thrills (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight – Guess For Thrills (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 468 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Dreampop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Joyful Noise Recordings
A “pop savant of the first order” (AllMusic) who “projects an outsize persona from the stage” (Pitchfork), Mike Adams has created a singular homespun entertainment universe since 2011’s Oscillate Wisely. He’s an appealingly confident showman on his cable access-style variety show (The Mike Adams Show), and an affably humble Hoosier touring musician on his podcast (Tan Van Tour Talk). As Mike Adams at His Honest Weight, he’s a hooky songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with a knack for embodying contradictions. The latest in a prolific stream of recordings, Guess for Thrills gets deep, blending 70’s-inspired pop songs with synthesizer-driven atmospherics and emerging with a wild and searching album that treats ambiguity as a place of discovery.
Read moreMichelle Cann & Thomas Mesa – Our Stories: Contemporary Works by Black and Latinx Composers (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:37 minutes | 833 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
Featuring cellist Thomas Mesa and pianist Michelle Cann, OUR STORIES from Navona Records aims to raise the voices of composers and performers from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in classical music. Made possible by PARMA Recordings and a Sphinx MPower Grant, this release musically conveys a diverse mixture of themes and topics, from the intricacies and curiosities of human communication to fear-inducing information prevalent in the media, reflections on the acceptance of life’s inevitable changes and losses, and more. Dive in and explore the masterful contemporary works of Andrea Casarrubios, Carlos Carrillo, Kevin Day, Sebastian Quesada, and Mario Oyanadel.
Read moreMark Tremonti – Mark Tremonti Christmas Classics New & Old (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:37 minutes | 357 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JMM – Take A Chance For Charity
With the commercial and critical success of his tribute to Frank Sinatra on his album Tremonti Sings Sinatra, Mark Tremonti returns with an album of holiday standards – Christmas Classics Old & New. The album features numerous holiday favorites as well as an original Christmas song penned by Tremonti – a first in the immense musical catalog of the GRAMMY® award winning songwriter/singer/guitarist. “Christmas Morning” – the original composition from Mark – talks about the excitement of waking up on Christmas morning and fits in perfectly alongside any traditional holiday classic. Songs like “Jingle Bells,” “The Christmas Song” and “O Holy Night” find new warmth behind Mark’s unique vocals and original musical arrangements. The album presented an opportunity for Mark to reunite with his Tremonti Sings Sinatra orchestra. These orchestra members have performed with legends such as Frank Sinatra, Buddy Rich, Aretha Franklin and Frank Sinatra Jr to name a few. Christmas Classics Old & New will be a welcome addition to any holiday celebration as presented in the style that only Mark Tremonti can.
Read moreMariah the Scientist – To Be Eaten Alive (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:55 minutes | 332 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic Records
After inking a new deal with Epic Records, Mariah the Scientist has dropped her first album through the label, To Be Eaten Alive. For the Atlanta-born rapper, who released her debut album in 2019, the new record feels like it’s been a long time coming. Over her years in the music industry, Mariah’s experimentation with R&B, songwriting and composition has never failed to impress. On To Be Eaten Alive, however, the songs are decidedly more thoughtful, reflective and representative of her growth as an artist.
Read moreMaria Callas – Bellini: Norma (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:41:32 minutes | 3,20 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
This 1960 Norma represents Maria Callas’s final complete documented version of her signature role. Seven recordings of the opera exist with Callas (1950-60), plus numerous snippets and scenes captured between 1949 and 1965. With 89 performances, Norma is Callas’s most performed part; certainly no other 20th-century diva is more closely associated with the role, and no one since has even remotely eclipsed Callas in the perception of opera lovers. Countless moments, too numerous to catalogue here, raise this Callas Norma to the level of genius. From a haunting ‘Casta Diva’ to a final scene of incomparable grandeur and sweep, in every startlingly brilliant detail, Callas is Norma.
Read moreMaisie Peters – The Good Witch (Deluxe) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:34 minutes | 848 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atlantic Records UK
The Good Witch is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Macy Peters. It was released on June 23, 2023 by Gingerbread Man Records and Asylum Records.
When creating the album, Peters drew inspiration from Greek mythology and described it as a “perverted version” of a breakup. She wrote the album for a year while on tour and said that the chronological track listing is a reflection of her career ups and personal downs.
Read moreMagnolia Park – Halloween Mixtape II (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:40 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epitaph
MAGNOLIA PARK, the Florida based genre-bending alternative rock band who play more than 200 shows a year, are releasing their third album, entitled HALLOWEEN MIXTAPE II. The band’s following has grown substantially in the past year (with over 710k TikTok followers/ 63M views, 187k Instagram followers), as they move from opening slots on tours with everyone from Sum 41 to Simple Plan, to sold out headline tours and top slots at festivals including When We Were Young (LV /Oct 23), Reading (UK/Aug 2023) and Leeds(UK/Aug 2023). It’s no secret that Epitaph Records has been the breeding ground for some of the most legendary bands in existence and MAGNOLIA PARK carry on in that tradition. Since forming in Orlando, Florida, in 2019, the five-piece actvocalist Joshua Roberts, guitarists Tristan Torres and Freddie Criales, drummer Joe Horsham and keyboardist Vincent Ernsthave released two albums, three EPs, and a handful of singles, bringing their upbeat brand of alt-rock to the masses. While MAGNOLIA PARK’s music is at times lighthearted, the ethnically diverse band are also serious about spreading a message of inclusivity and inspiring other kids like them to start bands as a form of creative expression. “Our goal when we’re together is to make sure the next generation doesn’t have to face as much racial backlash for being a rock band,” Torres explains. “In the industry, people look at us a certain way and try to impose things on usand we want to make sure the next generation of rock bands don’t have to go through what we’ve been through.”
Read moreMaddie & Tae – We Need Christmas (Extended Version) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 28:12 minutes | 348 MB | Genre: Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mercury Nashville
CMA Award-Nominated Duo Adds Three New Tracks to Fan-Favorite Holiday Project.
NASHVILLE, TENN. (October 6, 2023) – Multi-Platinum country duo Maddie & Tae are sparking the holiday spirit with We Need Christmas (Extended Version), out October 27 and available to pre-order/pre-save now. Three additional Christmas classics – “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,” “The Christmas Song” and “White Christmas” – round out the track list for the nine-song project, that features both holiday favorites and festive original songs.
“We had so much fun making and releasing We Need Christmas, we decided to extend it! We hope y’all feel the joy and spirit,” shared Maddie & Tae.
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