Zeitgeist 2025

An iconoclast with a large, loyal audience and a long, very successful career, Neil Young has explored a impressive range of styles – from acoustic introspection and wistful country rock to blistering hard rock, electronic experimentation, blues, rockabilly, and heartfelt polemics – while sounding entirely like Neil Young at all times, with his engagingly craggy voice, his flinty sincerity, and unique gifts as a songwriter. Young's creative restlessness is a comfortable match for his prolific nature, and he's not averse to dropping his current fascinations for something else on the drop of a dime, which frustrates some fans but also helps keep his music fresh and full of ideas. Even when he's in relatively familiar musical territory (his electric music with Crazy Horse, his rootsy semi-acoustic work, the intimacy of his solo performances, his thematic albums focusing on life experiences and his take on the world around him), there's a spark of unpredictability that fuels his muse and keeps him in the present day despite a career spanning over seven decades.

37 years after the release of her multi-million selling debut album ‘Ancient Heart’ Tanita Tikaram will release the sequel entitled ‘LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right)’. The long-awaited new album reveals the emotional and societal differences between the woman Tanita was at just 18 when she made ‘Ancient Heart’ to the woman she is today, taking in four decades of life experience. ‘LIAR (Love Isn’t A Right)’ is released on 10 October 2025 via Cooking Vinyl.

Seit ihrer Gründung vor über 20 Jahren hat sich Eisbrecher als eine der wichtigsten Größen der deutschen Rockmusik etabliert. Ihre letzten Alben "Sturmfahrt" (2017) und "Liebe macht Monster" (2021) erreichten Platz 1 der Charts und festigten ihren Ruf als titanische Live-Macht. Mit ihrem neuen Album Kaltfront°! leiten sie nun eine neue Ära ein, die sogar die eigene, „arschcoole“ Vergangenheit in den Schatten stellen soll. Mit dem Vorab-Release "Everything is wunderbar" stampfen Eisbrecher die Lethargie der Welt in Grund und Boden und fordern einen mutigen Widerstand gegen den selbstverliebten Hedonismus. Der einzigartigen Mischung aus donnernder Härte, satirischem Zynismus und emotionaler Tiefe bleibt die Band auch auf diesem Werk treu und liefert eine kraftvolle Botschaft. Das Album Kaltfront°! enthält 15 Tracks und erscheint am 14. März 2025 in verschiedenen spektakulären Formaten, darunter als Digipak, Doppel-Vinyl, sowie als limitierte Fanbox mit Beanie, Fanschal, Sticker & Eiskratzer.

This music knows its roots, but it burns brightly in the present. From today's perspective, traditional jazz is set back about 60 years: swing and bebop have been absorbed, the free approach to the material has reached its first high points, the radicalism of free jazz has only just begun. Reflecting this aesthetic, the Maurice Storrer Quartet plays entirely in the here and now.

NYFOS Record’s latest release is Schubert / Beatles featuring baritone Theo Hoffman, pianists Steven Blier and Kunal Lahiry, and special guests soprano Julia Bullock and tenor Andrew Owens. First introduced to NYFOS audiences in NYC eight years ago as a thrilling live concert, this program pairs Schubert songs with Beatles songs on similar themes, and, in Blier’s words, “Lo and behold, the Holy of Holies sits comfortably next to the Oldie of Oldies.” Yesterday and Im Frühling are hymns to lost love, while Der Wanderer an den Mond and She’s Leaving Home tell contrasting stories of young people cast adrift into the world.

Powerhouse German band EISBRECHER returns with the new album 'Kaltfront'!
Eisbrecher has been using its uniquely formidable brand of Neue Deutsche Harte to twist its fingers in wounds that we as a society have inflicted on ourselves. The band remains true to it's unique mixture of thunderous, industrial tinged rock, satirical cynicism & emotional depth on this work to deliver potent messages.

A new Deluxe Edition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s critically acclaimed STARLIGHT EXPRESS album, recorded with the 2024/25 cast of the London production at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre. The Deluxe Edition album contains 8 new, specially-commissioned remixes of some of the show’s most popular tracks, which are released alongside the original cast recording. “Starlight Express’ return to London has been an absolute joy for me. I knew immediately that we needed a cast album to capture this brilliant show. I am particularly pleased that ‘Hydrogen’ is one of our first singles – this a totally new track, written for this production as we reimagined the story of Starlight Express for the zeitgeist of 2024.” - Andrew Lloyd Webber

For generations, the music of Richard Rodgers has been capturing listeners’ ears and imaginations.