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  • Locked Down

    Dr. John

    Locked Down

    Storied musician and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dr. John—Mac Rebennack—releases Locked Down, a startling album that marks a significant departure from his recent efforts. The new album, produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, is an entirely new approach for the iconic Dr. John, featuring as it does his collaboration with Auerbach and a band of young musicians Auerbach hand-picked to make Locked Down at his Nashville studio. The CD is due out April 3; the vinyl follows on April 21. Pre-orders for both include an exclusive print of Dr. John and Auerbach.

  • Who's Feeling Young Now? [LP] + Coasters

    Punch Brothers

    Who's Feeling Young Now? [LP] + Coasters

    Completed over three weeks at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Who's Feeling Young Now?, the follow-up to 2010's Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic, was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) and features ten songs written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes, plus the group’s take on Radiohead’s “Kid A” and the Swedish group Väsen’s “Flippen.” The LP comes on two discs of 140-gram, audiophile-quality vinyl and includes four additional Punch Brothers–penned tunes. Pre-orders include an instant download of the album track "Movement and Location" and an exclusive set of five custom Punch Brothers paper coasters illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, signed by the band.

  • Ode

    Brad Mehldau Trio

    Ode

    The Trio—"a graceful powerhouse, equally savvy about groove and harmony" (New York Times)—performs 11 previously unreleased songs composed by Mehldau. Many of the songs on the new album were written as tributes, or “odes,” to real and fictional people, such as the late saxophonist Michael Brecker (“M.B.”), a character from the film Easy Rider (“Wyatt’s Eulogy for George Hanson”), and the guitarist Kurt Ronsenwinkel (“Kurt Vibe”). Pre-orders include an instant download of the title track.

  • Live at Carnegie Hall

    Caetano Veloso + David Byrne

    Live at Carnegie Hall

    In 2004, Caetano Veloso curated a week of special concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall and invited his longtime friend and collaborator David Byrne to join him for the show captured here. Each performs an acoustic set of his own songs and also perform together. "Side by side," said the New York Times, "they were both songwriters with surreal imaginations, a fondness for the exotic and the syncretic, a sense of humor and a way of placing grand ambitions in colloquial terms."

  • Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia

    Krzysztof Penderecki + Jonny Greenwood

    Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia

    Works by Krzysztof Penderecki—"Poland's godfather of the musical avant-garde" (Independent)—are paired with the works they inspired by composer/guitarist Jonny Greenwood: Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and Polymorphia (for 48 strings), which inspired Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver and 48 Responses to Polymorphia, respectively.

  • Leaving Eden

    Carolina Chocolate Drops

    Leaving Eden

    On Leaving Eden, the Carolina Chocolate Drops follow their Grammy-winning album Genuine Negro Jig with a record of original compositions, covers, and traditional songs produced by Buddy Miller (Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant, Patty Griffin, Solomon Burke). Pre-orders include an instant download of the track “Country Girl," which NPR named a Song of the Day.

  • Who's Feeling Young Now? + Coasters

    Punch Brothers

    Who's Feeling Young Now? + Coasters

    Completed over three weeks at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Who's Feeling Young Now?, the follow-up to 2010's Grammy-nominated Antifogmatic, was produced by Grammy Award winner Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse) and features ten songs written by Punch Brothers, with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes, plus the group’s take on Radiohead’s “Kid A” and the Swedish group Väsen’s “Flippen.” Pre-orders include an instant download of the album track "Movement and Location" and an exclusive set of five custom Punch Brothers paper coasters illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, signed by the band.

  • Dougou Badia [EP]

    Amadou & Mariam

    Dougou Badia [EP]

    This digital EP includes "Dougou Badia," the first song off Amadou & Mariam's forthcoming album, Folila. Santigold, who co-wrote the song with Mariam, joins her on vocals. Also included are an alternate mix of the song by Danger Mouse cohort Kennie Takahashi; the album track “Oh Amadou” (with Bertrand Cantat); and a live version of “Wily Kataso” from Eclipse, a show staged in complete darkness at the 2011 Manchester International Festival.

  • Einstein on the Beach

    Philip Glass

    Einstein on the Beach

    Glass's career-making 1976 opera, a collaboration with avant-garde impresario Robert Wilson, was revolutionary then, revered now. "It's not (just) an artifact of its era, it's timeless," says the New York Times. "Einstein must be seen and re-seen, encountered and savored ... an experience to cherish for a lifetime." This "properly hypnotic" 1993 recording, says the Washington Post, is "more complete than the first recording and superior in both performance and sound." The three-CD set was reissued in January 2012 to coincide with Glass's 75th birthday and a rare international tour of the opera.

  • Music of Vladimir Martynov

    Kronos Quartet

    Music of Vladimir Martynov

    This album includes three works written for Kronos Quartet by the contemporary Russian composer Vladimir Martynov and features a special guest performance from former Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud on a piece the Times of London describes as "something to treasure" and the Los Angeles Times calls a “masterpiece. The performance, exquisitely recorded, is radiant."

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