Nonesuch Records releases the debut album from the electric duo of Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana,Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, on January 14, 2014. The two have been performing for several years, including a brief U.S. tour this fall, with Mehldau playing Fender Rhodes and synthesizers and Guiliana on drums and effects, as they are on the record. Mehliana comprises 12 original tunes—six written by the duo and six written...
On February 7, 1964, The Beatles arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, greeted by scores of screaming, swooning fans who rushed the gate to catch a glimpse of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as they took their first steps on American soil. Two nights later, on Sunday, February 9, 74 million viewers in the U.S. and millions more in Canada tuned in to CBS...
Moribund Records announces March 4th, 2014 as the release date for Profezia's Oracolo Suicida. The long-running Italian black metallers' first album for Moribund and third overall, Oracolo Suicida displays Profezia as masters of high drama and windswept mysticism, evincing the moonlit melancholy so inherent to classic Italian black metal (mainman Kvasir also doubles in Moribund cult Abhor) yet here led by eerily beautiful violin. Open your eyes to Oracolo Suicida...
Cult Italian black metal enigma Hrizg announces the completion of Individualism, the band's new album for Moribund Records. Individualism shall be Hrizg's third album to date, and second for Moribund, who released the critically acclaimed Anthems to Decrepitude in 2011. As mainman Erun-Dagoth reveals, "All I can say is that Individualism is a kind of mixture between my two previous albums and the best effort I have done as a solo instrumentalist. As for lyrics,...
The 2014 Grammy nominees were revealed on Friday, December 6th, 2013. Two titles released on VP Records, Beres Hammond's One Love, One Life and Sizzla's The Messiah, are in the running for the Best Reggae Album category.
Known to many as the "Otis Redding of Reggae," Beres Hammond has been producing and pouring out his smoky-sweet vocals over every kind of riddim track for almost 40 years. VP Records released his latest Grammy-nominated,...
Columbia Records is thrilled to announce a new partnership with GRAMMY® Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Pharrell Williams. The internationally renowned artist’s new single “Happy,” featured on Despicable Me 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), will also be featured on Williams’ forthcoming Columbia Records full-length debut, set to be released in 2014.
Just last month, Williams released the world’s first 24 hour music video for “Happy,” which is presented as an interactive clock, featuring...
Sak Noel is the author of global hits, like Loca People o Paso (Nini Anthem) - recent and iconic songs that became instant smash hits in US, UK or Mexico and remained as part of popular culture. Sak Noel has taken a short break from his big world tour to work in the studio. The result is his new single “I Am The Law” - a song that once again reveals the most irreverent...
2013 has been a huge year for Satin Jackets, one of Germany’s most notable indie dance protagonists.
Satin Jackets and Sydney based singer KLP have joined forces on this one. They met in Berlin and performed together at Oval Space in London, this first collaboration was their logical next step. ‘For Days’ has that lush production that has characterized Satin Jackets for quite some time now. Exquisite harmonies combined...
R. Kelly, the Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum selling singer/songwriter/producer, is set to release his highly anticipated 12th studio album Black Panties on December 10th (RCA Records) - The standard and deluxe editions.
Combining sexual innuendos and witty word play on such tracks as “Cookie,” “Genius” and “Legs Shakin’,” Kelly harkens back to a style that has undoubtedly embedded him into the fabric of contemporary R&B music over the past two decades. ...
After the banging ‘Phosphenes’ and ‘Titan’ EP’s, Jägerverb is now back on Lektroluv to present for your aural pleasure the trio of sonic delights that is the Septimus EP.
Conceived at a carnival in central São Paulo, Jägerverb was exposed to the infectious grooves of rhythm and melody from the earliest stages of his foetal development. However, the child was not born on Brazilian soil. Instead, Jägerverb entered into the...
Modek has been busier than ever since the release of his ‘Haunt’ EP on Lektroluv - that got played by everyone from Digitalism and Mixhell over Cassius to Boris Dlugosch and Porter Robinson. Apart from touring like a madman he did remixes for Make The Girl Dance and Fukkk Off. This ‘Clown In My Kitchen’ EP is now his 6th release on Lektroluv and we're very proud to...
