German pop group Fool’s Garden formed in 1991, comprising singer Peter Freudenthaler, guitarist Volker Hinkel, bassist Thomas Mangold, keyboardist Roland Röhl and drummer Ralf Wochele. Debuting in 1993 with the album Once in a Blue Moon, two years later Fool’s Garden issued their sophomore effort Dish of the Day, scoring an Asian chart hit with “Lemon Tree.”
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Fools Garden’s sophomore album, Dish of the Day, this 2025 edition contains the original remastered album along with exclusive bonus tracks, live recordings and demos from 1995.
Originally released at the height of the ’90s alternative pop movement, Dish of the Day established Fools Garden…
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After touring solo for Devils & Dust in 2005 and stomping across stages with the Seeger Sessions Band in 2006, Bruce Springsteen’s 2007 tour with the E Street Band was a welcome return to regularly scheduled programming.
The trek was appealingly normal, in that it was simply a run of shows in support of Bruce and the band’s excellent new album Magic, released in late September. The result was more akin to outings behind Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980) because that’s what artists did/do when they drop a new album. No bigger occasion or overarching circumstances. No multi-night residencies. Just straight up doing the job. One might think the same for 2012 with the release of Wrecking Ball, but that marked…
Made up of an all-star roster (Anna Butterss, Jeremiah Chiu, Josh Johnson, Booker Stardrum, and Gregory Uhlmann), Los Angeles-based quintet SML assemble their recordings from a hybrid of live and in-studio performances.
Small Medium Large introduced their style of fluid, groove-heavy improvisations, and second effort How You Been continues in the same direction, but feels more assured and deliberate. The group’s members have clearly become more in tune with each other, and their chemistry is tighter and stronger. There’s a more natural flow to the rhythms here, as well as a bit more studio polish, making the tracks sound closer to planned-out compositions rather than jam sessions. They’re able to balance blippy, off-kilter…
EarthBall is a collective from Vancouver Island, Canada, which fully improvises their sessions and performances, veering from unhinged psych-rock to noisy, chaotic free jazz.
Outside Over There is their third official album for Upset the Rhythm, not counting several limited cassettes. It arrives mere months after Actual Earth Music, Vols. 1 & 2, a live album featuring recordings from a gig opening for Wolf Eyes, and a date at London’s vaunted avant-garde venue Café OTO that featured legendary improvisers Steve Beresford and Chris Corsano as guests. Outside Over There is a hair-raising, face-peeling effort that bombards and nearly suffocates. It’s loud, raucous, and messy, with even the record’s quieter moments being highly unnerving.
Kings of Leon’s first EP, Holy Roller Novocaine, was the first official release from the Southern rock band who dominated so much of the noughties with their thrilling steel-wire sound. Now, they’re back with EP #2, a four-track romp with a chip on its shoulder and everything to prove.
The cover, a duplicated cherry-print pattern, looks like the sort of late ‘60s design Anita Pallenberg would have had printed on a cotton dress, and yet despite the psychedelia of the record – an attitude especially prevalent on ‘To Space’ – it’s soft; certainly not explicit enough to make EP #2 feel like a summertime album.
There’s a drowsy, skewwhiff stance they take on ‘All the Little Sheep’ that serves as a fault line through the rest of the record. It’s felt in…
The Cranberries performed on MTV’s Unplugged in 1995 in promotion for their sophomore album, ‘No Need to Argue’, but the audio has never been released, until now. Released in the full 9-song, 45-minute performance.
…Recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a string section during the promotion of No Need to Argue, the broadcast featured favorites from the new album (“Zombie,” “Ode to My Family”), the already-sterling “Linger,” a few songs that would appear on their next album, 1996’s To the Faithful Departed (“Free to Decide,” “I’m Still Remembering”), and the fan favorite “Yesterday’s Gone,” which never made any of their albums but was beloved enough to be licensed for inclusion on the last expansion of No Need to Argue.
Following the July release of their first 3 albums, Cherry Red have released the last 3 albums from rock band Be Bop Deluxe. The Albums 1976-1978 featuring the two latter-day studio records, Modern Music and Drastic Plastic, as well as their 1977 live work, LIVE! In the Air Age.
Recorded in June and July 1976 at Abbey Road Studios, Modern Music was the fourth album by Be Bop Deluxe and the second to feature the line-up of Bill Nelson (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Charles Tumahai (bass, vocals), Andy Clark (keyboards) and Simon Fox (drums). A top twenty hit in the UK, the album followed on from the success and critical praise for the band’s previous album Sunburst Finish and was once more co-produced by Bill Nelson and John Leckie.
Circles Around The Sun returns with Interludes For The Dead: Volume 2, ten years since “Interludes For The Dead,” the music that resulted when Neal Casal was asked to create the set-break music for the now-legendary “Fare Thee Well” shows celebrating the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary, and assembled a team of musicians now known as Circles Around The Sun.
Recorded over four days with nothing written or rehearsed beforehand, all of the music was written on the spot and tracked immediately with little to no overdubs and every bit of the energy and verve that’s become CATS’ calling card, and the spirit of the first release.
Volume II was recorded at Dan Horne’s UHF Studios in Los Angeles and was notably conceived…
Since first bursting onto the scene with her classic Number One hit singles ‘Can The Can’ and ‘Devil Gate Drive’, Suzi Quatro has sold over 50 million records worldwide and is recognized as a true rock ‘n’ roll legend and feminist icon. Over her 50-year career, Suzi has inspired countless artists from Joan Jett to Debbie Harry and KT Tunstall. She is also known for her role as the Leather Tuscadero in ‘Happy Days’.
A’s, B’s & Rarities is a collection putting the spotlight on her classic ‘70s singles. Packed with hits including ‘The Wild One’, ‘Devil Gate Drive’, ’48 Crash’ and ‘Can The Can’, alongside the Quatro-penned B-sides which accompanied those iconic rock singles.
Out-of-print on CD for almost two decades…
…Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings partner once again to issue a new deluxe edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s seminal second album from 1968. Retitled simply Bold As Love and available on four CDs or five LPs and a Blu-ray, the box set include the original album in its original stereo and mono mixes, along with a wealth of rare outtakes and live tracks from the period (28 of which are previously unreleased).
With Axis: Bold As Love, Hendrix started to come into his own as a studio visionary. Working again with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the team of producer Chas Chandler and engineer Eddie Kramer behind the boards, the album featured more expansive original…
…Unlike the Wingspan compilation from 2001, this new collection sticks strictly to songs from Wings albums (and Wings non-album singles) and so doesn’t include any solo hits adjacent to this era (such as ‘Another Day’ or ‘Coming Up’) or anything from 1971’s Ram (credited to Paul and Linda McCartney), despite ‘Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey’ being a US No 1 hit single in September 1971.
The 32 tracks on 3LP, 2CD and blu-ray audio formats all feature songs from the seven Wings studio albums (Wild Life, Red Rose Speedway, Band on the Run, Venus and Mars, At the Speed of Sound, London Town and Back to the Egg) along with non-album hits such as ‘Hi Hi Hi’, ‘Junior’s Farm’, ‘Live and Let Die’, ‘Mull of Kintyre’ and ‘Goodnight Tonight’.
Contains bonus tracks ‘Bad Moon Rising (Live)’ and ‘As Long As I See the Light (Live)’ .
Back in June of this year, US president Donald Trump ordered a parade in Washington DC in honour of the 250th birthday of the US Army – and, it was strongly suspected in certain quarters, of the 79th birthday of himself. At one point during what turned out to be a somewhat sullen and half-arsed trudge-past, the speakers blared the unmistakable descending riff of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son”.
This was either splendid mischief or atrocious ignorance on someone’s part. “Fortunate Son”, which first appeared on 1969’s Willy & The Poor Boys, was a none-too-subtle protest song decrying the ease with which the well-connected…
How do you follow the best album of your decade-long career? The one that pulled everything together in impressively fearless fashion? When ‘everything’ means goth rock drama, horror-punk opera and Jim Steinman-esque epics about doomed vampire lovers?
For Creeper, the question is wholly rhetorical. You do it all over again, obviously. Halloween sees the arrival of Sanguivore II – when else? – but really, it would be a disservice to call it the Reload to Sanguivore’s Load. Mostly because it’s even better. The hooks are heavier, the peaks are higher, and the pacing is picture-perfect.
Once again, the Southampton sextet worked with Tom Dalgety (Ghost, Rammstein, The Cult, Opeth), clearly a producer with a knack for capturing…
A new box set from Rhino offer nearly all the studio material of Athens, Georgia alt-rock icons The B-52’s. The Warner Reprise Years brings together the six albums and two EPs the quirky quintet put together between 1979 and 1992 – a period where they went from cult favorites to unlikely hitmakers. The collection feature the group’s 1979 self-titled debut, 1980’s Wild Planet, the 1981 and 1982 EPs Party Mix and Mesopotamia, Whammy! (1983), Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986) – the last album to feature all five original members – plus Cosmic Thing (1989) and Good Stuff (1992).
…The box is a nearly complete chronicle of the group’s output, minus a few major omissions. Some single-only rarities and exclusive material has been released on two compilations by…
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…
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…
