Polish singer/songwriter Natalia Safran recently released her debut pop album, High Noon. The album provides her fans with a unique sound for every one of her tracks.

Thanks to the site Sellaband, a crowdfunding music community, Safran raised $50,000 to produce her album in record time and shot to the top of over 10,000 artists on the site. She recorded the 12 tracks from her album in the U.S. and Poland.

Safran performs her music with her brother, Mick Jaroszyk. His vocals are featured in many songs on High Noon, including “Say Goodbye” and “The One For Me.”

The sound of Safran’s music has been called “rocker chill,” according to her website. Each track on the album sounds different from the next, but still maintains Safran’s excellent vocals.

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You have to see it to believe it. The Gala of the Royal Horses show, now touring in the U.S. for the first time, features stallions trained to gracefully trot and jump to music. Flamenco dancers will join them to complete the show—check out tour dates here.

Wondering how these horses learn to dance? Riding master and tour creator Rene Gasser, who comes from a family that’s worked with horses for seven generations, answered our questions about how these graceful animals are trained and cared for.

What is the training process like? What are the steps of training a horse a new movement?
Very much like a child going to school, we teach the horses the ABC’s; then when they have learned the basics, we move them onto [more difficult] movements. The horses are trained systematically. We start with very easy movements first, and as soon to they react what we ask them, we immediately reward them with a carrot or other treat. We make a big deal out if small movements as soon as the horses do it, so they know that they will be rewarded. Ask for a lot, be content with a little, and reward often.

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When people think of great rock voices, Steve Perry (Journey) and Freddie Mercury (Queen) are some of the names that come to mind. Take their vocal styles, add to them the sublime sounds of great operatic composers such as Puccini and Verdi, and “Voilà” you have Alexander Kariotis, breathing new life into the rock opera-genre.

“There’s room for both rock and opera, even in the same song,” Kariotis explains. And this phenomenal singer does just that throughout his debut album, Alexander Kariotis and the Rock Opera Orchestra (VMG – SONY/Red), released in June 2014, exclusively on Amazon.com.

The iconic jazz saxophonist David Sanborn joins Kariotis in a beautiful jazz/opera fusion song Ho Bisogno Di Te. Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of RUN DMC joins Kariotis in a hip hop/opera collaboration of a remix of Alexander’s original composition called Vesti la Giubba – Hide the tears.

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