Tag Archives: 2025

Christian McBride: Without Further Ado, Vol. 1

On August 29, 2025, “Mack Avenue Records” label released “Without Further Ado, Vol. 1”,  the 20th Christian McBride album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Blue Engine Studios”, “Sear Sound” and “The Power Station” in New York City, “Rocky Mountain Recorders” in Denver, and was produced by Christian McBride.

Personnel:

  • Christian McBride – acoustic and electric bass
  • Rodney Jones – guitar
  • Xavier Davis – piano, electric piano, clavinet
  • McClenty Hunter Jr. – drums
  • Andy Summers
  • Sting
  • Jeffrey Osborne
  • Samara Joy
  • José James
  • Cécile McLorin Salvant
  • Dianne Reeves
  • Antoinette Henry

Track listing:

  1. Murder by Numbers – Andy Summers, Sting
  2. Back in Love Again – Len Ron hanks, Zane Grey
  3. Old Folks – Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robinso
  4. Moanin – Bobby Timmons
  5. All Through the Night – Cole Porter’
  6. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Gerald Goffin, Carole King
  7. Come Rain or Come Shine – Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen
  8. Op. 49 – Cold Chicken Suite 3rd Movement – Christian McBride

Brad Mehldau: Ride Into The Sun

On August 29, 2025, “Nonesuch” label released “Ride into the Sun”, the 46th Brad Mehldau album. It was recorded in January 2025, and was produced by Brad Mehldau and Dan Coleman.

Personnel:

  • Brad Mehldau – piano
  • Daniel Rossen – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and resonator guitar 
  • Chris Thile – lead and backing vocals, mandolin
  • Felix Moseholm – acoustic bass
  • John Davis – acoustic and electric bass, engineer, mixing
  • Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion, screams
  • Orchestra
  • Jessica Han, Alex Sopp – flute
  • Agnes Marchione – clarinet
  • Adrian Morejon – bassoon
  • Eric Reed – horn
  • Christina Courtin, Ellen DePasquale, Laura Frautschi, Joanna Maurer, Derek Ratzenboeck, Austin Wulliman – violin
  • Mario Gotoh, Dov Scheindlin, Nadia Sirota – viola
  • Michael Haas, Sophie Shao , Caitlin Sullivan – cello
  • David Grossman – bass (orchestral)
  • Dan Coleman – conductor 
  • Jill Dell’Abate – contractor
  • Jackie Thompson – copyist

Track listing:

All tracks by Elliott Smith except where noted.

  1. Better Be Quiet Now
  2. Everything Means Nothing to Me
  3. Tomorrow Tomorrow
  4. Sweet Adeline
  5. Sweet Adeline Fantasy – Brad Mehldau
  6. Between the Bards
  7. The White Lady Loves You More
  8. Ride into the Sun Part I – Brad Mehldau
  9. Thirteen – Chris Bell, Alex Chilton
  10. Everybody Cares, Evetbody Understands
  11. Somebody Cares, Somebody Understands – Brad Mehldau
  12. Southern Belle
  13. Satellite
  14. Colorbars
  15. Sunday – Nick Drake
  16. Ride into the Sun: Conclusion – Brad Mehldau

Casiopea: True Blue

On August 27, 2025, “Hans Unlimited” label released “True Blue” the 37th Casiopea album. It was recorded in 2025, and was produced by Issei Noro, Jun Abe, Yoshihiro Naruse and Yoshihiro Imai.

Personnel:

  • Issei Noro – guitar
  • Jun Abe – keyboards
  • Yoshihiro Naruse – bass
  • Yoshinori Imai – drums

Track listing:

  1. Sky So High
  2. The Light from Future
  3. Destinations
  4. Zero Point Field
  5. Time Flies By
  6. Miracles Happen
  7. Caravel
  8. New Directions
  9. Eagle Fly Around
  10. Dedication

Superchunk: Songs In The Key Of Yikes

On August 22, 2025, “Merge” label released “Songs in the Key of Yikes”, the thirteenth Superchunk studio album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Sonark” in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Personnel:

  • Mac McCaughan – vocals, guitar, additional recording, inner album photography
  • Jim Wilbur – guitar
  • Laura Ballance – bass, shouting
  • Laura King – drums, percussion, backing vocals, shouting
  • Rosali Middleman – additional vocals, additional guitar, shouting
  • Bella Quinlan – additional vocals
  • Holly Thomas – additional vocals
  • Betsy Wright – additional vocals
  • Paul Voran – recording
  • Eli Webb – recording
  • Mike Montgomery – mixing
  • Steve Wethington – mixing assistant
  • Matthew Barnhart – mastering
  • Scott Reeder – cover art
  • Alex Cox – studio photography

Track listing:

  1. Is It Making You Feel Something
  2. Bruised Lung
  3. No Hope
  4. Care Less
  5. Climb the Walls
  6. Cue
  7. Everybody Dies
  8. Stuck in a Dream
  9. Train on Fire
  10. Some Green

Arcadea: The Exodus Of Gravity

On August 22, 2025, “Relapse Records” label released “The Exodus of Gravity”, the second Arcadea album.

Personnel:

  • Core Atoms – guitar
  • Brann Dailor – drums
  • João Nogueira – performer
  • Tom Tapley – recording, mixing
  • Jaime Gomez Arellano – mastering

Track listing:

  1. Dark Star
  2. Exodus of Gravity
  3. Fuzzy Planet
  4. Lake of Rust
  5. Gilded Eye
  6. 2 Shells
  7. Galactic Lighthouse
  8. Starry messenger
  9. Silent Spores
  10. The Hand That Molds the Milky Way
  11. Sparks
  12. Planet Pounder

Pino Palladino & Blake Mills: That Wasn’t A Dream

On August 22, 2025, “Impulse!” label released “That Wasn’t a Dream”, album by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills. It was recorded in 2025 at “Sound City Studios” in Los Angeles.

Personnel:

  • Pino Palladino – bass
  • Blake Mills – guitar, mixing
  • Dory Bavarsky – piano, keyboards
  • Rocco Palladino – bass
  • Sam Gendel – saxophone
  • Abraham Rounds – drums
  • Chris Dave – drums
  • Steve Jordan – drums
  • Joseph Lorge – mixing
  • Patricia Sullivan – mastering
  • Daniel Krieger – lacquer cut
  • H. Hawkline – artwork, layout
  • Gabi Zecchetto – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, except where noted.

  1. Contour – Chris Weisman additional writing
  2. I Laugh in the Mouth of the Lion
  3. Somnambulista
  4. Taka
  5. What Is Wrong with You
  6. Heat Sink
  7. That Was a Dream

Stephen Bishop: THIMK

On August 15, 2025, “Life’s a Bish Records” label released “THIMK”, the twentieth and final Stephen Bishop album. It was recorded at “Man Cave Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Marcus Eaton.

  • Stephen Bishop – lead and backing vocals, guitar
  • Marcus Eaton – guitar, bass, backing vocals, string arrangements, sampling
  • Eric Clapton – slide guitar
  • Christopher Cross – guitar
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
  • Greg Phillinganes – keyboards
  • Steve Porcaro – piano
  • Jimmy Webb – piano
  • John Jarvis – piano
  • David Benoit – piano
  • Michael McDonald – piano, backing vocals
  • Nathan East – bass
  • Leland Sklar – bass
  • Sean Hurley – bass
  • Mai Leisz – bass
  • Nic Collins – drums
  • Jake Reed – drums
  • Steve Gadd – drums
  • Jack Tempchin – harmonica
  • Graham Nash – vocals
  • Sting – backing vocals
  • Art Garfunkel – backing vocals
  • Kenny Loggins – backing vocals
  • David Pack – backing vocals
  • James Lee Stanley – backing vocals
  • Gerry Beckley – backing vocals
  • Dewey Bunnell – backing vocals
  • Marilyn Martin – backing vocals
  • Liz Lieber – backing vocals
  • Marcus Eaton – engineer, editor
  • Billy Centenaro – mixing
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering
  • Liz Kamlet – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Stephen Bishop, except where noted.

  1. Now That I’ve Hit the Big Time
  2. Only the Heart Within You
  3. She’ll Always Be My Girl
  4. In the Limelight (alternate version)
  5. The Money Girl
  6. Liz (So in Love with You)
  7. Really Wanting You
  8. One More Night
  9. You Don’t Need My Love
  10. It Might Be You – Stephen Bishop, Dave Grusin, Alan and Marilyn Bergman
  11. Under the Rainbow
  12. A Message from Stephen

Racing Mount Pleasant: Same

On August 15, 2025, “R&R” label released the self-titled second Racing Mount Pleasant album.

Personnel:

  • Sam DuBose – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Tyler Thenstedt – bass, slide guitar, backing vocals
  • Connor Hoyt – alto saxophone, flute, backing vocals
  • Callum Roberts – trumpet, guitar, backing vocals
  • Casey Cheatham – drums, backing vocals
  • Kaysen Chown – strings, harmonium, synth guitar, backing vocals
  • Samuel Uribe Botero – tenor saxophone, piano, synth, backing vocals, engineer
  • Ben Lafo – trombone
  • Ian Eylanbekov – electric guitar
  • Emelia Piane – additional engineering
  • Wes Millhouse – additional engineering
  • Gavin Ryan – additional engineering
  • Collin Dupuis – mixing
  • Felix Davis – mastering

Track listing:

All lyrics by Sam DuBose.

  1. Your New Place
  2. Tenspeed (Shallows)
  3. Heavy Red
  4. Emily
  5. Seminary
  6. You
  7. You Pt. 2
  8. Racing Mount Pleasant
  9. Call It easy
  10. Outlast
  11. 34th Floor
  12. Seyburn
  13. Your Old Place

The Black Keys: No Rain, No Flowers

On August 8, 2025, “Easy Eye Sound” and “Warner Bros” labels released “No Rain, No Flowers”, the thirteenth Black Keys (The) studio album. It was recorded in 2025, at “Easy Eye Sound” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney and Rick Nowels.

Personnel:

  • Dan Auerbach – lead vocals, guitar; claps, bass; drum machine, drums; kazoo, bass synthesizer, bass drums, glockenspiel, shaker, tambourine
  • Patrick Carney – drums, cymbals, stick percussion, guitar, percussion, tambourine, cowbell, shaker, synthesizer
  • Sam Bacco – tambourine, shaker, bongo drums, cymbals, woodblock, cowbell, percussion, chimes, congas, timbales, maracas, wind chimes, güiro, bass drums, claves
  • Andy Gabbard – guitar, backing vocals
  • David Levita – guitar
  • Tom Bukovac – guitar, piano, Rhodes piano
  • Rick Nowels – Wurlitzer; acoustic guitar, horn, Juno synthesizer, Mellotron, organ, strings, synthesizer, piano
  • Via Mardot – theremin
  • Daniel Tashian – mellotron, bass; organ, piano, congas, shaker, woodblock; guitar, vocoder, backing vocals
  • Scott Storch – bass synthesizer, organ, piano; clavinet, clavichord 
  • Jake Botts – alto and baritone saxophone
  • Ray Mason – trombone
  • Leon Michels – bass synthesizer, tambourine, Moog, organ; percussion, piano, synthesizer
  • Tommy Brenneck – acoustic guitar, guitar, bass
  • Mike Rojas – bass synthesizer; clavichord, glockenspiel, organ, vibraphone
  • Zac Rae – mellotron, organistrum, organ
  • Austin Corona – bass
  • Blake Espy – violin
  • Emma Kummrow – violin
  • Gared Crawford – violin
  • Luigi Mazzocchi – violin
  • Natasha Colkett – violin
  • Tess Varley – violin
  • Jonathan Kim – viola 
  • Steven Heitlinger – viola
  • Glenn Fishbach – cello 
  • Larry Gold – strings arrangement 
  • Ashley Wilcoxson – backing vocals, claps
  • Leisa Hans – backing vocals, claps
  • Nicole “Lady” Wray – backing vocals
  • Pat McLaughlin – backing vocals
  • Desmond Child – backing vocals
  • Mireya Ramos – backing vocals
  • Shae Fiol – backing vocals
  • M. Allen Parker – engineer
  • Dom Tenaglia – additional engineering
  • John Christopher Fee – additional engineering
  • Josh Ditty – additional engineering
  • Henry Bright – engineering assistant
  • Jonny Ullman – engineering assistant
  • Tyler Zwiep – engineering assistant
  • Henry Bright – engineering assistant
  • Matt Ciccini – additional strings engineering
  • Dean Reid – additional engineering, mixing
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Aidan Thillmann – mixing assistant
  • Ramiro Fernandez-Seoane – mixing assistant
  • Trey Station – mixing assistant
  • Ryan Smith – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, with additional writers as noted.

  1. No Rain, No Flowers – Rick Nowels
  2. The Night Before – Daniel Tashian
  3. Babygirl – Scott Storch, Daniel Tashian
  4. Down to Nothing – Tommy Brenneck, Pat McLaughlin, Leon Michels
  5. Oh Repeat – Rick Nowels
  6. Make You Mine – Desmond Child, Scott Storch
  7. Man on a Mission – Daniel Tashian
  8. Kiss It – Rick Nowels
  9. All My Life – Daniel Tashian
  10. A Little Too High – Tommy Brenneck, Pat McLaughlin, Leon Michels
  11. Neon Moon – Tommy Brenneck, Leon Michels, Daniel Tashian

Joe Bonamassa: Breakthrough

On July 18, 2025, “J&R Adventures” label released “Breakthrough”, the seventeenth Joe Bonamassa studio album. It was recorded at “Black Rock Studios” in Santorini, Greece, “Ocean Way Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, “Sunset Sound” in Hollywood, and was produced by Kevin Shirley.

Personnel:

  • Joe Bonamassa – lead vocals, guitar, slide guitar
  • Josh Smith – guitar
  • Reese Wynans – keyboards
  • Calvin Turner – bass
  • Stephen Mackey – bass 
  • Greg Morrow – drums
  • Lemar Carter – drums, percussion 
  • Jade MacRae – backing vocals
  • Danielle DeAndrea – backing vocals
  • Kevin “Caveman” Shirley – mixing, photography
  • Austin Atwood – engineer
  • Kostas Kalimeris – engineer
  • Nate Haessly – engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Brian Lee – mastering
  • Bob Jackson – mastering
  • Hugh Syme – art direction, design, illustrations
  • Roy Weisman – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. Breakthrough – Joe Bonamassa, Tom Hambridge
  2. Trigger Dinger – Joe Bonamassa, Tom Hambridge
  3. I’ll Take the Blame – Joe Bonamassa, Gary Nicholson
  4. Drive by the Exit Sign – Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley, James House
  5. Broken Record – Joe Bonamassa
  6. Shake this Ground – Joe Bonamassa, James House
  7. Still Walking with Me – Joe Bonamassa, Tom Hambridge
  8. Life After Dark – Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley
  9. You Don’t Own Me – Joe Bonamassa, Kevin Shirley
  10. Pain’s on Me – Joe Bonamassa, Tom Hambridge