Jim Jones All Stars once again unleash upon us all their intense, high-octane and evangelical fusion of hard driving rock’n’roll, garage rock, gritty rhythm and blues and gospel through the release of their new live album, Get Down ~ Get With It. And there is no question at all that this electrifying and explosive collection of songs perfectly documents the sound of a band who are pioneering the revival of an age-old rock’n’roll spirit and supercharging it to a whole new and unprecedented level.
It was back in 2022 when the first seeds were being sown for the new rock’n’roll venture by Jim Jones with a batch of new songs being recorded in Memphis, resulting in the release of the first single, It’s Your Voodoo Working, in October of that year. This heralded the birth of Jim Jones All Stars…
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Few guitarists can transform a single note into a melody that sings, burns and heals the way Carlos Santana can. This special collection of live performances-captured from rare and legendary radio broadcasts spanning key moments of his career-offers a front-row seat to the artistry of one of music’s true visionaries.
From the opening bars, Santana’s unmistakable tone pours out like liquid fire, blending Latin rhythms, rock urgency and jazz-inflected improvisation. Backed by his ever-evolving ensemble of world-class musicians, he turns each performance into a journey, shifting effortlessly from hypnotic grooves to soaring, transcendent solos. These recordings showcase the very heart of his genius: the ability to communicate…
…Super Deluxe Edition collects more than 100 tracks across four CDs, including the original mono and stereo mixes of the album, plus newly created stereo mixes and alternate mono mixes. Two additional discs trace the album’s creative arc with demos, outtakes, and backing tracks sourced from the original session reels
1967’s Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. found Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork taking advantage of the hard-won freedom they’d earned with Headquarters. Sessions began in April 1967, less than two weeks after Headquarters had been completed and the second season of the group’s sitcom had begun filming. The result was one of their most musically varied albums – possibly their most varied…
Extensive seven-CD box set following the career of English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore. Covering her recordings from 2008 to 2015.
Released in 2008, ‘Liejacker’ was Thea Gilmore’s eighth album featuring contributions from Joan Baez, Dave McCabe, and Erin McKeown. Following in 2009 was Gilmore’s first live album, ‘Recorded Delivery’, with recordings taken from UK shows during 2006 and 2008, with the first half of the album being acoustic and the second half electric, with a full band.
Gilmore rounded out 2009 with the release of an album of winter-themed songs, ‘Strange Communion’, featuring eight originals penned by Gilmore with Nigel Stonier, as well as two cover versions – Yoko Ono’s ‘Listen, the Snow…
Bugge Wesseltoft’s solo piano album It’s Snowing On My Piano (1997) is one of the most successful albums that the ACT label has ever released. For many people – especially in Germany and Norway – this music, made with such care and love by the affable and generous-spirited Norwegian, has become an essential part of their holiday season. And yet, for a Christmas album, it is anything but typical. From the very first note, the meditative strength of the music is palpable. Wesseltoft creates a locus of peace and tranquillity – a state of being which seems even more precious today than it did when the album first appeared. In the intervening years, Bugge Wesseltoft has played the music from the album many times in concert. Each time, he reinterprets the music…
In 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded a true oddity. Accompanied by her son Kuljit on an early Roland synthesiser and drum machine, the pair laid down nine tracks of Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody.
Only 500 copies of the resulting album, Punjabi Disco, were pressed; it was released to confusion from a diaspora audience used to the bombast of bhangra. In the decades since, rare LPs have appeared on resale sites, but Kuljit’s recent rediscovery of the master tapes has now made the record widely available for the first time.
The blipping electronic toms and rattling shaker of opening number ‘Disco Wich Aa’ set…
…features remastered audio by Heba Kadry.
Originally issued as a 45 rpm 12″ on Restless Records, You Must Be Certain of the Devil was, at the time, Diamanda Galás‘ most song-oriented and rockish release and would remain so until her collaboration with John Paul Jones.
Though inconsistent, at its best it reveals her as a remarkably strong and effective regular singer (if that term may ever be applied to her), delivering bluesy, hook-filled songs with drive and conviction. This is seen both in her chilling, re-worded version of “Let My People Go” and, most effectively, in the remarkable “Let’s Not Chat About Despair,” possibly the most piercing, eyes-wide-open song about AIDS, its symptoms, and societal prejudice against sufferers ever recorded.
After a 2+-year break, Neil Young is continuing his Official Release Series with new box sets on both CD and LP rounding up another four albums from the 1990s. ORS Vol. 6 arrives on the Reprise label with newly remastered editions of Harvest Moon (1992, ORS Disc 26), Unplugged (1993, ORS Disc 27), Sleeps with Angels (1993, ORS Disc 28), and Mirror Ball (1995, ORS Disc 29).
…Following the heavy rock of the Crazy Horse collaborations Ragged Glory, Arc, and Weld – the latter an experimental sound collage – Young cooled down with a return to the mellow milieu of 1972’s chart-topping Harvest. Young picked up his acoustic guitar and reteamed with co-producer/guitarist Ben Keith for Harvest Moon. Though the songs had been written over…
Dave’s Picks Vol. 56, the fourth and final Dave’s Pick of 2025, feature two nearly complete shows recorded March 20, 1981, and March, 21, 1981, at the Rainbow Theatre in London. The shows were the opening two nights of a four-night stand at the venue.
The concerts, which were the first time The Dead returned to Europe in seven years, feature performances of such Dead classics as “Friend of the Devil,” “Scarlet Begonias,” “Fire on the Mountain,” “Althea,” “Truckin’” and “Alabama Getaway.”
“These London shows are right up there with the best,” Dead archivist David Lemieux says in a video shot in front of Big Ben. “Some really, really wonderful, wonderful music to end the year.”
Pete Namlook, one of the most influential figures in the history of electronic music, passed away in 2012, leaving behind a vast sonic legacy. Yet Air remains his most poetic, organic, and emotionally resonant project. Created between 1993 and 2006, the Air series is a five-part symphony of ambient, ethnic, jazz, neoclassical, and cosmic electronic elements.
Now, nearly two decades later, we proudly present the long-awaited reissue of the entire series – for the first time ever as a complete 5CD boxset. From the wind-kissed sensuality of Air I, through the abstract voyages of Air II, the rich instrumental palette of Air III, the stylistic fusion of Air IV, to the deeply personal and introspective Air V – this collection stands as a milestone in ambient…
Heavy Metal and Punk Rock! It’s fair to say that these two noisy tribes now have a great deal in common, often melding together to produce bastard offspring of their own. But it wasn’t always this way. Indeed, there was a time when fists were more likely to be thrown than bumped, and beers more likely to be hurled than shared, except when it came to Motörhead. That was the one band all could agree on. The one band that was truly ours! But while Motörhead’s impact on metal has long been acknowledged, their influence on punk, particularly the post-Sex Pistols second wave shouldn’t be underestimated. Cause and effect: It’s that simple. And such is the case with hundreds, thousands, of other bands, all made faster, dirtier, louder, better, by Motörhead.
Recorded and filmed October 5, 2024, before a sold-out crowd at London, England’s historic Islington Assembly Hall, Lighthouse: Live from London sees McKagan and his band performing songs from throughout the iconic musician-songwriter’s legendary career, including stellar renditions of tracks originally found on his critically acclaimed third solo album, 2023’s ‘Lighthouse’.
Lighthouse Tour ’24 saw McKagan lighting up sold-out houses across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom, joined by his murderer’s row of musicians, guitarist Tim DiJulio, guitarist/keyboardist Jeff Fielder, bassist Mike Squires, and drummer Michael Musburger, with live sound engineered by longtime collaborator Martin Feveyear.
California’s The Neighbourhood are on a mission to make goth R&B a touchstone in the musical lexicon. It’s a sound they championed on their debut album, 2013’s I Love You, and continue to explore on their sophomore effort, 2015’s Wiped Out! Once again working with producer Justyn Pilbrow, the Neighbourhood expand upon the moody synth, heavy bass, and echoey guitar-based style of I Love You with a collection of tracks that, while not mind-blowing, will pleasingly remind most fans of the group’s 2012 breakout track, “Sweater Weather.” While other artists have flirted with the darker side of R&B, including Lana Del Rey, the xx, and Halsey (who also worked with Pilbrow on her similarly inclined 2015 debut, Badlands), the Neighbourhood commit to…
With Fur & Gold, Bat for Lashes – aka Natasha Khan – brings a fairytale quality and air of mystery to her music, performing a delicate balancing act between everyday emotions and the power of fantasy. As the title suggests, there’s something gorgeous but raw about her songs, which fly from spare British chamber folk to shades of lavish rock, pop, and dance as she throws herself into stories that update the traditions of other iconic female artists. She’s a warrior princess of the moors with only her steed to keep her company on “Horse and I,” a song whose dramatic sweep would do Kate Bush proud; on the fable-like sensual duet “Trophy,” Khan sings “creatures of mercy/shoot them down and set me free” with Björk-like urgency. Despite Fur & Gold’s unabashedly mystical vibe, Khan emphasizes…
Originally released in 1999, No Exit marked a bold and fearless reinvention — bridging Blondie’s punk roots with a contemporary pop sensibility that resonated across generations.
The album was their first for 17 years at the time and features what was, frankly, a surprise UK number one single in ‘Maria’ along with its less successful follow-up, ‘Nothing Is Real But the Girl’. The new deluxe edition features a remastered version of the standard 14-track album on the first disc while CD 2 offers Japan-only bonus track ‘Hot Shot’ (with additional production and mix by David Wrench) along with a selection of seven remixes (from the many that were issued back in the day).
…“It’s been an idea that’s been hatching for a while, but it’s only just come to fruition now,”…
…This edition adds six unearthed home demos, including unheard songs ‘Hold Me Up’ and ‘Don’t Blow Your Wind’, alongside early versions of favourites like ‘Tangerine’, ‘Summer’, ‘Kitchen Door’ and ‘Clobbered’.
Put Sleepy Eyed in your CD player, hit play, and prepare to be amazed — “Tangerine,” the lead-off cut, signals the brief but welcome return of “Dinosaur Jr. Jr.” with two-and-three-quarters minutes of charging neo-grunge guitars and galloping drums, the likes of which you haven’t heard from this band since Birdbrain. But, of course, Buffalo Tom sound a lot tighter, stronger, and more confident when they dig into the big shaggy dog rock than they did five years previous, and while they never get quite as…