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Lana Del Rey · Interscope Records
Format: Audio CD

All Music Guide - Fred Thomas The maelstrom of hype surrounding self-modeled Hollywood pop star Lana Del Rey's 2012 breakthrough album, Born to Die, found critics, listeners, and pop culture aficionados divided about her detached, hyper-stylized approach...
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Come From Away

David Hein · The Musical Company
Format: Audio CD

Come From Away is the breathtaking new Broadway musical with a propulsive score by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, and direction by Tony nominee Christopher Ashley, in a cast recording co-produced by Grammy winner David Lai. In September 2001, 38 planes with 6,579 passengers were stranded...
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The Fifth Horseman

James Patterson · Books on Tape; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

The members of the Women's Murder Club face an unspeakable menace in the most suspenseful hospital drama since Coma. Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer is shopping with the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, lawyer Yuki Castellano, and Yuki's mother, Keiko, when suddenly Keiko collapses. She's...
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The Spark

Chris Batten
Format: CD

The follow-up to 2015's Mindsweep, The Spark will likely divide fans who skew toward the English rockers' post-hardcore tendencies, as it boasts their most commercial-sounding set of songs to date. A nervy amalgam of the Streets, the Futureheads, Passion Pit, Everything Everything,...
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Haydn Piano Trios

Grieg Trio · Simax Classics
Format: Audio CD

Trio Haydn's originality is particularly evident in such pieces as these trios, conceived primarily for musical friends to play together. The sheer distinctiveness and the accomplishment of his writing is readily and inescapably apparent in this music. The outstanding Grieg Trio reflect...
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John Luther Adams: Become Ocean

Seattle Symphony · Cantaloupe
Format: Audio CD

Awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music and described by the New Yorker's Alex Ross as "...the loveliest apocalypse in musical history," John Luther Adams' majestic orchestral work Become Ocean is a thrilling exploration of depth, turbulence, eerie silence and ultimately...
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Verdi: Aida

Andrea Bocelli
Format: Audio CD

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Behind the Light

Phillip Phillips · Interscope Records
Format: Audio CD

All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine Phillip Phillips belongs to the second tier of American Idol success stories: not as a superstar, not like Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson, but as somebody who found a solid little niche. Phillips' sound is adult...
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We Came Here To Love (Sebastien Izambard)

Sebastien Izambard · Adult/Jazz/Classics - eOne
Format: CD

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It's a beautiful day : c'est une belle journee

Kathy Reid-Naiman · Merriweather Records Ltd.
Format: Music CD

A bilingual CD of songs and rhymes for very young children in English and French. Kathy Reid-Naiman makes children's music so accessible that some adults secretly confess to listening to it just for themselves. Hannah Shira Naiman is a children's music educator, performer, and singer-songwriter...
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NOW 58

Various
Format: Audio CD

1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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DAMN.

Kendrick Lamar · Aftermath
Format: Audio CD

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Lean on Me

Singer-songwriter José James is releasing Lean On Me, a tribute album including 12 of Bill Withers' most undeniable and soulful songs produced by Blue Note president Don Was and recorded in Capitol's legendary Studio B with a dream team band: Pino Palladino (bass) , Kris Bowers (keys)...
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Spencer Sings the Hits

Jon Spencer
Format: CD

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Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration

Joan Baez
Format: Audio CD

On January 27th, 2016, folk icon Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday with a historic performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. The special event honored her legendary 50-plus years in music in an intimate, career-spanning live performance. Baez performed alongside fellow artists...
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