Category: Music

With nods to their rich history and a fresh eye on the future, the award-winning Native language choir strikes a winning combination by warmly engaging their past - and passionately embracing their future on their seventh album.

The Cherokee Nation has released For Our Future, the latest CD from the award-winning Cherokee National Youth Choir. For Our Future is the choir's seventh album release since their formation in 2002.

"Heart's Ease" is an all-instrumental CD of original works featuring Gunn's instrument of choice, the autoharp.

Celtic American Musician Marc Gunn has released Heart's Ease, an all-instrumental CD of original works featuring Gunn's instrument of choice, the autoharp. Described by Gunn as a "pure labor of love," the CD reflects fantasy themes, Celtic music forms and explores the full range of the unusual instrument.

Best Friends collection double CD release to feature Neko Case, Emmylou Harris, Cyndi Lauper, John Oates and more.

It's been two years in the making and animal-loving fans of diverse contemporary music have waited long enough. Giving Animals a Voice through Music: The Best Friends 25th Anniversary Collection, a double CD release featuring 24 influential recording artists who support animal welfare makes its debut March 11. Proceeds from the sale of the album will go to Best Friends Animal Society, a national animal welfare organization based in Utah, and selected animal rescue groups in Vermont.

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Jackdawg's self titled release on SonicPast Music is previously unreleased recordings from former members of Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Doobie Brothers.

SonicPast Music announces the release of Jackdawg , the self-titled release from classic rock heroes John McFee (Doobie Brothers/Clover), Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival) and the late Keith Knudsen (Doobie Brothers.) The never-before-released album includes 13 original tracks penned by McFee, Cook and Knudsen as well as two covers including Roky Erickson's "Cold Night for Alligators" and Van Morrison's classic, "Wild Night."

Budding label Organically Grown Music serves up "nutrition for your ears" with three albums releasing in 2008; "Remains to be Seen" debuts in Top 100 at New Age radio; label owner-artists Christopher Taylor and Johnny Om launch grassroots performance series.

Christopher Taylor and Johnny Om refer to their label's repetoire as a relaxed, unbuttoned mix of mellow alternative folk/blues sounds. The co-founding singer/songwriters released three albums in the folk rock and new age markets in 2008, including Taylor's Remains To Be Seen and Om's Meet the Beast. Artistic vision, unique voices and a solid approach to business establish Organically Grown Music as an independent label to watch.

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Om andTaylor in the OGM studio.

Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde announce the formation of their new Record Label, TBO Records Ltd., for the release of the concept anthology album "ARK-eology," their first new album in 25 years. Along with long time business associate and music industry veteran Bob Heinlein, TBO Records, the bob organization, was formed to market and distribute the recordings of Chad & Jeremy worldwide.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of their last album for Columbia Records, The Ark, Chad & Jeremy now release ARK-eology, a newly recorded tribute to their legendary classic albums The Ark and Of Cabbages And Kings, favorites long sought after by collectors and fans worldwide. Produced by Chad Stuart, the album is the 25th release of the duo, as they revisit eighteen of the most popular recordings from over a dozen worldwide LP releases in their impressive catalog. The new CD, available now, is the first in a series of new releases planned for the Chad & Jeremy catalog.

A team has been developing music combinations of brainwaves, sonic vibrations, and eastern chakra based medicine. Using these and other methods they create a "tuned" environment for the human mind and body.

Reports from a mother, a student and a medical professional describe the results of the breakthroughs of sound therapy from Meditation DNA.

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CD mixes elements of magical realism, myths, and archetypes into deeply personal confessionals , fusing folk, goth, soul, chamber rock and baroque into a truly eclectic sound.

Boston neo-cabaret band What Time Is It, Mr. Fox? plays with love, identity, sexuality, and alchemy on its latest CD, And Other Stories. The band has been a staple in the Boston underground cabaret scene since the early 2000's, sharing stages with bands like The Dresden Dolls, HUMANWINE (in which members of Mr. Fox moonlight) and in the seminal Boston Burlesque Association. On November 15th, the band will be joined by the high antics of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, the dark romantic Calycadenia and a quintet from the acclaimed string orchestra, A Far Cry. The night will also feature an animated short from award-winning film-maker Ruth Lingford, numerous special guest performers and various fiends in fox masks. The CD is available for sale at performances, CDBaby.com, eMusic.com and iTunes.

A Dalhousie University math professor solves the mystery behind the opening chord to The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" using mathematical principles like the Fourier transform.

It’s the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison’s 12-string Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they sing along to the refrain that follows:

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Math prof Jason Brown and his Ibanez guitar.

Arlo Guthrie teams up with the Dillards to record some of Woody Guthrie's best songs.

Over ten years ago Arlo Guthrie entered the studio in Branson, Missouri, to record a traditional album of his father Woody's most enduring songs. Woody Guthrie was fêted in 1998 by the U.S. Postal Service, having a thirty-two cent postage stamp issued in his honor, and Arlo surmised the timing was ideal for his CD 32¢/Postage Due to be a celebration of that high distinction.