The Lumineers’ co-founder, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Fraites and ambient musician and sound artist Taylor Deupree have teamed up and release today Northern (Redux). Out via Dualtone Records/Mercury KX, Northern (Redux) is a complete reimagining of Deupree’s acclaimed 2006 album featuring new piano contributions written and recorded by Fraites along with renewed versions of the original tracks composed by Deupree. The result is a hypnotic, majestic album filled with sweeping atmospheric melodies and rich, transformative soundscapes.

Originally released back in 1980, at a time when traditional country artists seemed to be struggling to understand where their sound would fit in with the newly polished production of the time, his eight-song collection The Real Thang was only released on vinyl and met with mixed reviews when it came out. Listening to it now, it's odd to think that the album's blend of White's signature swamp rock sound and smooth late 70s disco was so cruelly overlooked, because it feels totally in step with a lot of other things that were happening in country in the early 1980s.

SFJAZZ proudly releases "Collective Imagery", by the 2024-25 edition of SF Jazz Collective, the distinguished organization’s flagship group since it launched in 2004 with a mandate that, annually, each band member create a fresh arrangement of works by a modern master and a newly commissioned piece. On Collective Imagery, for the first time, SFJC eschews arrangements and presents a program of entirely original music, upholding a remark by its first putative leader and musical director, Joshua Redman, that it is “a true composer’s collective.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony deliver a commanding new interpretation of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, released on SFS Media. With precision, power, and crystalline clarity, Salonen illuminates the rhythmic vitality and architectural brilliance of Stravinsky’s post-war masterpiece. The orchestra’s dynamic range and refined textures bring fresh urgency to the work’s angular energy and cinematic scope, capturing both its modernist bite and emotional depth. Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements stands as a testament to Salonen’s deep affinity for 20th-century repertoire and the San Francisco Symphony’s world-class artistry.

Following on from Amadeus and Ludwig, the Zaïde Quartet continues its exploration of the great masters’ repertoire with Franz, an opus devoted entirely to Schubert. True to their original and daring approach to recording, the four musicians paint a striking portrait of the Austrian composer through one of his greatest masterpieces: Death and the Maiden. This masterpiece is framed by transcriptions of two lieder: ‘Le Roi des Aulnes’ and a sublime aria from the opera ‘Fierrabras’. The Schubertian universe is expressed here in all its existential depth, with a permanent duality between light and darkness, gentleness and blackness, life and death, leading to a final redemption of overwhelming beauty.

Far and away the season's best cabaret show… Sometimes, something remarkable can grow from the most unexpected juxtapositions. At 28, Marissa Mulder has a voice like a spring morning and a face to match. Her singing frequently puts experienced cabaret-goers in mind of Blossom Dearie's little-girl innocence, and therefore the least likely material she could tackle would be the gin-soaked, hard-luck, grimy inner-city stories of Tom Waits. No, she doesn't take the easy step of addressing the songwriter's lighter material, nor does she try to brighten up any of Mr. Waits's infamously dark, rumpled anthems. Instead, she takes his darkest and most profound songs and looks them straight in the eye. Complementing Ms. Mulder's starkly honest interpretations is pianist Jon Weber, who helps her extract the majestically dysfunctional beauty of texts like "Broken Bicycles" without merely prettying them up.

Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli is cut from the cloth of true New York bebop. Magnarelli has a lyrical, searching voice and plays a program of Monk, standards and some originals. With the legendary Mulgrew Miller on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass and Jason Brown on drums, this is a top-flight New York City jazz group captured live at Smalls for an exciting and gratifying set of music.

New York's ace trumpeter Joe "Mags" Magnarelli's third outing on SteepleChase is condensed to a quartet format with trumpet as the sole frontline giving the leader new dimension and depth to define his voice.

Deluxe re-issue of Girls At Our Best!’s seminal Post Punk album ‘Pleasure’. Including additional A and B sides of their singles, two unissued 1981 live concerts plus legendary 1981 BBC sessions for John Peel and Richard Skinner and a 1981 interview. And a previously unreleased 1978 demo ‘Atribute’ by James Alan and Judy Evans’ band The Butterflies who metamorphosised into Girls At Our Best! plus ‘Boys At Our Best’, a demo from their final recording session.

Saxon, those seminal British Heavy Metal Heroes hailing from Barnsley release Carpe Diem through Silver Lining Music. Ten titanic tracks bristling with still-clad riffery and proud intent, Carpe Diem is the statement which reminds heavy metal fans worldwide who the true masters of British Metal are, drawing on a variety of ingredients from their career to forge what is Saxon’s most dynamic release in many a year.

The Zigzag Manoeuvre might be the description of Ping in 2014, navigating their way out of the ashes of their studio/rehearsal room for thirteen years. When the dust had settled, most of the instruments were immolated, but crucially, all unpublished pieces of music survived. The song “A Hammer Falling from the Sky”, which can be heard on the album, was recorded just two days before the studio went up in flames. A long and arduous process later, with a slight change of personnel, Ping now re-emerges with a roller coaster record, destined to inspire or dull the masses. Expect hiccups and downs, mental order and disorientation, out-of-tune harmonics, as well as motivating and unsettling lyrics.

“The Science of Sound is about exploring how sound can communicate across genres, cultures, and traditions,” says Everett. “It’s a collaborative work that honors the strengths of every artist involved, while serving a larger musical vision.”

Milan Records will release the official score album for the biographical drama Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. The album features the film’s original music composed by Jeremiah Fraites (of the folk band The Lumineers) (The Long Walk). The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, October 24 and will be available to stream/download on all major digital music services, including Amazon. As previously reported, Columbia Records will release a separate soundtrack featuring the songs from the movie on December 5. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is written and directed by Scott Cooper and stars Jeremy Allen White in the title role of Bruce Springsteen, alongside Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young, Stephen Graham, Paul Walter Hauser, Marc Maron, Gaby Hoffman and David Krumholtz. The drama premiered at this year’s Telluride Film Festival and is being released in theaters nationwide this weekend by 20th Century Studios.

“Quattro Racconti” is a new version of the debut solo album from Wobbler’s Lars Fredrik Frøislie - This time in Italian, with Stefano “Lupo” Galifi from the legendary Museo Rosenbach on vocals! “Fire Fortellinger” became a great success when released in 2023, and when the opportunity for Lars to do one of the songs in Italian with Galifi, he did - and the 10” release of “Un Posto Sotto il Cielo” came out. And later, when Wobbler played a festival in Italy in 2024, Frøislie went to visit Galifi and to record vocals for the rest of the album. The result is stunning!

Produced by Nashville’s Grammy-nominated Dave Brainard (Brandy Clark, Jamey Johnson), Cutting Through the Noise weaves together songs that explore the full spectrum of nostalgia – from its shadowy corners to its brightest moments – along with themes of love, loneliness and deep-rooted authenticity.