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Who’s up for a three-hour long opera about the relatively unknown pharaoh Akhnaten? With the singing in Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian? With no surtitles? Based on the music of minimalist composer Phillip Glass? And with an entire troupe of jugglers? Us, that's who.

i/o - The Tour will see Gabriel playing new material from his forthcoming album i/o, as well as delving into his peerless catalogue of music, with hits, fan favourites and the unexpected. For the shows, Gabriel will be joined by regular band-mates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché. Full details on the i/o album will follow.

Between 2012-2017, BUZZCUT Festival built a home for experimental, radical performance and Live Art from across the UK, Europe and North America. Following in the footsteps of Glasgow's National Review of Live Art (1980-2010), the Festival was founded by artists to support true experimentation of what performance can be, look & feel like.

Telex are getting set to release a box set collating the long-awaited remastered reissues of their 6 studio albums, Looking for Saint-Tropez (1979), Neurovision (1980), Sex (1981), Wonderful World (1984), Looney Tunes (1988) and How Do You Dance? (2006). Remastered and newly mixed from the original tapes by Dan Lacksman and Michel Moer.

On Friday, March 24, 2023, composer Robert Honstein will release a portrait album of works for percussion, Lost and Found, on New Focus Recordings.

The EP includes “Pakmoväst” from their debut, “Tour De France” (this track pre-dates Kraftwerk’s by 3 years), the single “Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before” (a songwriting collaboration with Ron & Russell Mael aka Sparks), “Temporary Chicken” (from the aptly titled album Looney Tunes) and their take on Canned Heat’s ’68 classic “On The Road Again”.

Millennium Stage will offer free live community performances, streamed live, plus online programs and film screenings, Wednesday–Sunday each week throughout our campus.

The band offers a second glimpse into the forthcoming EP, with a brooding reimagining of the 1980 Stephanie Mills R&B classic “Never Knew Love Like This Before” released now.  The EP also includes covers of Aldous Harding, The Japanese House, The Associates and Dusty Springfield.

The additional track of the cut barbershop quartet song, IT’S YOU is a real bonus and so is the extra extended cut of Jackman and Shuler Hensley’s clowning fun on THE SADDER BUT WISER GIRL FOR ME.

On Friday, November 18, 2022, composer and guitarist David Leisner releases his new album, Letter to the World, on Azica Records. Featuring four song cycles - Confiding, Das Wunderbare Wesen, Simple Songs, and Of Darkness and Light - Letter to the World includes four vocal compositions from different stages of Leisner's career: two from the 1980's, one from 2002, and one from 2011.

Vocalist, songwriter, and musician D Train is set to release his seventh studio album entitled 'D Train - The Other Side of the Tracks', on September 29, 2022.

“Belinda Says” pays homage to pop icon Belinda Carlisle referencing her iconic 1980’s hit “Heaven Is A Place On Earth.” The song, whose lyrics reference the album title (“blue rev behind the rink”), is nostalgic and brimming with brightness, showcasing the band’s knack for creating stadium ready indie-rock. Plus, check out upcoming tour dates!

Chris Connelly will be releasing a long-player paying tribute to the iconic Nico. Originally planned as 10 tracks featuring Connelly’s versions of her songs, once recorded, he decided to write a parallel album of his own compositions, spanning the life of one of the most unique, tragic and misunderstood female artists in the history of music.

With his latest album 'The Dream is Free' out, the Crack The Sky bassist has now released a 2nd bonus single, 'When You're Smiling At Me.'

Album track “Ain’t a Day Goes By” breaks your heart, then mends it again in the universal longing for a loved one now gone on. Backed up by Hammond B3 organ (John Pahmer), the emotion is punctuated by the gospel-style harmony stylings of Kyshona Armstrong, Nickie Conley, and Maureen Murphy.

The result of those one month marathon recording sessions is this album, unheard by the outside world until now and appropriately titled The Lost Album.  The Smithereens’ take no prisoners sound, reflecting their Garden State roots, has resonated with fans worldwide over the course of 17 albums and 2500+ live shows. Plus, check out tour dates!

The 14-track album features guest artists such as 2x-GRAMMY Award-winner Mike Mattison (Tedeschi Trucks Band, Derek Trucks Band), multiple-Maple Blues Award-winning guitarist Paul Deslauriers, Juno Award-nominee Alison Young and 3x-Blues Music Award nominee Jarekus Singleton.

The 10-track set includes GRAMMY® Award winners Jorge Callandreli and Vince Mendoza, as well as vocal arrangers including Amanda Taylor of säje, to revisit their biggest hits from throughout the decades, including new arrangements of “Chanson D’Amour,” “Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone” and “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul.” Plus, tour dates!

Joe is known as the original bassist for the progressive rock band Crack The Sky. Joe was a member of Crack The Sky from 1975–1980 and 2004-2009. Joe has also worked with The B. E. Taylor Group, Wild Cherry, King Friday, Jim Croce, David Sanborn, The Brecker Brothers, Marie Osmond, Keith Green, Clint Brown, and others.

The band’s debut album is politically incendiary while also wholly musically adept – provocative and often idiosyncratic agit prop lyrics bouncing off of careening, adrenaline-infused musicianship. So it’s only natural that the 40th anniversary re-release of this classic album is revisited by the GRAMMY winning mix engineer Chris Lord-Alge.

On Friday, July 1, 2022, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn (SOB) will release its new album, enfolding, on New Focus Recordings. The album features the world premiere recordings of Scott Wollschleger's Outside Only Sound and Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti's with eyes the color of time, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

Chris Antonik, the blues-rock guitar wielding singer-songwriter from Canada, has just gone through a five-year process of personal growth and self-compassion building — and he wears his stories on his sleeve across the 14-track Morningstar (via Second Half Records, in partnership with Moon Dog Music).

Los Angeles-based post-punk band Savage Republic will release their new album Meteora in North America via Mobilization Recordings. In anticipation of Friday's release date the band is sharing the official video for the album's title track. Watch the music video for the new track now!

The one-off show will see the Dutch electro pioneers perform a 44 minute assault of classic songs, performing 8 minute versions of tracks from their second studio album. Minny Pops will also be joined on the night  by Finnish electronic music duo Pihka Is My Name, and cyberpunk pop-star Huxlxy.

Very early on a morning in June 2021, in the hills of northwest Connecticut, a unique ensemble of musicians gathered in the hayloft of a barn to perform a special livestream concert in celebration of the summer solstice. The album of this music, entitled Concert in the Barn, is by the seven-time Grammy-winning Paul Winter Consort.