IRMA records was founded in Bologna in 1988, it all started by an idea that Umbi Damiani had in partnership with Massimo Benini.During those years in Italy, the independent labels started their activities and the style then called Italo House was gaining attention in the Record industry. IRMA's early productions, immediately focused on this genre. Among them, Double Dee worldwide dance hit Found Love, which reached the top of dance sales charts around the world, including the Billboard Dance Chart in USA.

(Melvins frontman) King Buzzo is back with his first solo album release on AmRep since 2014's This Machine Kills Artists 10". His latest is Six Pack & is joined by Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle / Fantomas / Tomahawk / Melvins Lite. If you guessed the title of the album would be a clue to how many tracks there were, you nailed & they are…

"I do not read newspapers, they are troublemakers," sings Morrissey on the title track of I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, echoing the sentiment he laid bare on "Spent the Day in Bed," the first single pulled from 2017's Low in High School, which was his last album of original material prior to this 2020 set. Morrissey is working once again with Joe Chiccarelli – the pair struck up a collaboration back in 2014 with World Peace Is None of Your Business – and picking up the threads they left hanging on Low in High School, pushing the sounds and ideas that hovered in the margins into the center.

"Whatever Pure Reason Revolution produces is going to echo the back catalogue, but it cannot help but be a progression." - Chloë Alper

Concert-recording from 2015 at the Meisenfrei Blues Club in Bremen / Germany.

While the Nashville chapter of Lennon's career may have come to a close, another is beginning with her now focusing on where she started: music. She has emerged from the series (and the city of Nashville, where she still resides) as a budding pop singer-songwriter, not unlike her character on the show — grounded and willing to be vulnerable, with all the longings and fears of an 18-almost-19-year-old.

Worriedaboutsatan is the electronica/post-rock project of Gavin Miller, based in Bradford, UK. "Crystalline" is Worriedaboutsatan’s sixth full-length album. Crystalline’s dreamy soundscapes take the listener on an immersive journey, showcasing the brilliant trademark sound of the very first worriedaboutsatan releases. worriedaboutsatan skillfully blends together haunting guitar melodies, warm pads, deep bass lines, hypnotic beats, minimal electronic elements and distant indistinct vocals, provided by Sophie Green of Her Name Is Calla, resulting in an emotive album that balances between post-rock, ambient and electronica.

While the world is slowly shutting down and governments are urging people #StayHome and practice social distancing in order to contain the spread of COVID-19, commonly referred to as the Coronavirus, more and more artists are jumping on-board with streaming performances right into your living room, and German techno/hardcore legends Scooter are one of them. On Friday the trio streamed a massive performance right into the living room to urge people, practice social distancing with the tagline ‘I WANT YOU TO STREAM !!!‘.

Manu Dibango was Cameroon's, and perhaps Africa's, best-known jazz saxophonist. Starting in the 1950s, he became a globe-trotting musician, living and performing in France, Belgium, Jamaica, Zaire, and Cote d'Ivoire, as well as in Cameroon. In 1960, Dibango was one of the founding members of the Zairean band African Jazz, with whom he spent five years. Dibango earned the world's attention with 1972's Soul Makossa, a work that actually had precious little of the makossa sound in it; he scored later hits with Seventies and Ibida. Dibango's output was prodigious and multi-faceted. He worked with musicians as diverse as Fela Kuti, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Don Cherry, and the Fania All-Stars.

In 1738 the acclaimed violinist and composer Michele Mascitti (1664-1760) published in Paris his ninth collection of sonatas. The seventy-four-year-old Neapolitan musician was at the end of his long and celebrated career, but not of his creative powers. Dedicated to the Crozat family, which was to be Mascitti’s patron until the end of his life, the twelve sonatas for violin and bass op. 9 are fine examples of the graceful blend of Italian and French styles that made this composer so popular in France. With the world premiere of Mascitti’s op. 9, the Quartetto Vanvitelli carries on the rediscovery of this music that Hubert Le Blanc likened ‘to the warbling of the nightingale’.

Niccolò Jommelli was one of the most sought after composers of his time, but finally accepted to become musical director at the court of Stuttgart in 1753. Three years later he composed his Requiem to commemorates the recent death of the Duchess von Württemberg, mother of his patron, the Duke Carl Eugen.. Despite the fact that Jommelli owed his fame almost exclusively to his operas during his lifetime, the Requiem became his most famous work after his death; the almost one hundred handwritten and printed copies of the entire work or fragments of it that have survived in some seventy libraries throughout Europe, some also in the USA, bear witness to this. Whilst the score and parts of the first performance have been lost, we can still form a reasonably good idea of the original instrumentation thanks to a surviving list of payments made to the musicians. We know that there were eight singers (one female and seven male) in addition to Jommelli.

After her acclaimed PENTATONE debut with Transfigured Night, Alisa Weilerstein returns with a complete recording of Bach’s Cello Suites. These pieces present the highest mountain to climb for any cellist, and one of the most transcendent and rewarding experiences for listeners alike. With his suites, Bach crafted — essentially without direct precedent — a body of solo cello music that forever defined the genre and brought the Baroque cello on par with its more popular cousin, the viola da gamba. Since Pablo Casals put them in the limelight again after 150 years of relative oblivion, Bach’s suites have become the alpha and omega for generations of cellists. To Weilerstein, the joy of this music — vibrant, contemporary, unquestionably alive — is the joy of discovery. Having heard and studied these pieces for years, she now entrusts her interpretation to the listener.

Little do most people know that Hoest and V. Einride has worked together for nearly a decade, and still to this day are bonded by blood and chained through hearts. It was a natural thing to do this split, aptly named ‘Pakt’, a title they agreed upon whilst touring in South America. At the table a young gentleman named Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal found himself drawn towards the project, as he has done nearly all Whoredom Rife artworks to date. Both bands feature two tracks each, Taake with an exclusive track plus a cover of none other than Sisters of Mercy. Whoredom Rife continues to trample down the classic Norwegian Black Metal-path, delivering two exclusive tracks which will make you taste the Norwegian mountains and fjords through violent Black Metal of the highest order.

Mit Beethoven um die Welt: Das Quatuor Ébène mit zwei Rasumowsky-Quartetten Als das Quatuor Ébène im Jahre 2014 in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall mit einem Beethoven-Zyklus begeisterte, blieben zwar musikalisch keine Wünsche offen – aber Hoffnungen gab es dennoch: Wann würde das Weltklasseensemble so etwas wiederholen? Und wann steht der Name des großen Klassikers endlich einmal auf der Trackliste eines seiner neuen Alben? Nun hat sich das Quartett nach vielen innovativen Recitals und Alben genau den richtigen Startpunkt für ein weiteres Beethoven-Kapitel ausgesucht: Das Beethovenjahr 2020, in dem das Quatuor Ébène gleichzeitig 20. Geburtstag feiern wird. Als Auftakt erscheinen nun zwei der drei Quartette op. 59, die die Formation im Juni 2019 in Wien aufgenommen hat.

The newest project by pianist Lara Downes, SOME OF THESE DAYS is a musical reflection on social justice, progress and equality. In this time of global unrest and upheaval, Downes turns to freedom songs and spirituals that invoke our human capacity for optimism, activism, and unification in the face of crisis. In Lara’s words: “We are strong. We are resourceful. We have come through darkness into light, over and over again. Let’s lean on our ancestors and the lessons they have taught us about hope, courage, and above all unity.”