Universal music will be releasing a limited edition Elton John box set, Classic Album Selection (1970-73), on July 9th comprising five classic Elton John albums recorded between 1970 and 1973. The Box set contains five albums – ”Elton John”, ”Tumbleweed connection”, ”Madman across the water”, ”Honky chateau”, and ”Don’t shoot me I’m only the piano…
Universal Music have released a new Motorhead collection – this one though isnt a best of type compilation but is instead six of the bands albums released in a box set. The albums included are the six albums originally released on Bronze records between 1979 and 1983 – Overkill, Ace of spades, No sleep till…
Universal Music Catalogue’s new “Re-presents” label takes well known and loved albums from decades gone and releases them in a new form. This release is Swing Out Sister’s 1987 album ”It’s better to travel”. The album spent 21 weeks in the charts and reached the number one spot. The album contained two top ten hit…
Ben Glover comes from Glenarm, Co Antrim, a small coastal village 30 miles from Belfast, Northern Ireland and splits him time between there and Nashville, Tennessee, where he recorded his latest album. This new album (his fourth) was originally planned to be a five song EP, but the sessions went so well that more tracks…
Blackmore’s Night is the medieval folk rock band formed by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his singer wife, Candice Night. Playing folk rock and taking medieval influences such as stage outfits as well as traditional songs, the band blend these with an electric guitar based rock sound which gives the bands quite a distinct sound. Ritchie…
”The Kinks at the BBC” is as the name suggests, an album of material by The Kinks that has been primarily taken from the BBC archives. It’s a pretty impressive collection – Five CD’s, one DVD and a book, and at just under £40 is pretty good value when you look how much is included….
Hard rock n’ roll, or American punk/pop-rock influence? Its not easy to exactly draw the line in the music of Solity. Solity’s first album came out in this april, but despite the fact that its the debut disk of these guys, in the style there is an explicit feeling of determinism and professionalism. Soft melodies…
Zahed Sultan is a music producer from Kuwait. He released his debut album, Hi Fear, Lo Love in 2011 and attained success with his single, I Want Her But I Don’t Want Her. Parisian DJ, Stephane Pompougnac, featured the single on the internationally acclaimed Hotel Costes 15 compilation. Prior to this, world-renowned house music label…
This self titled album is the debut UK album release from Russian Punks Biting Elbows. Citing influences including The Clash, The Misfits, Rancid and Violent Femmes they have a real punk sound and attitude. The album was recorded in five separate studios in Moscow as the band kept getting moved on from the places they…
Gadi Caplan is an Israeli guitarist and composer based in Boston USA. He originally trained as a classical pianist from a young age, before switching to guitar where he devloped a love of Blues and Rock. He’s also studied the Sitar and Indian music, Jazz, fusion and funk, so has a very diverse musical background….
It’s ten years since Maroon 5 released their debut album, the Multi-Platinum selling ”Songs about Jane”, which yielded five hit singles – ‘Harder to Breathe’, ‘This Love’, ‘She Will Be Loved’, ‘Sunday Morning’ and ‘Must Get Out’. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, this deluxe edition is being released. It’s been a busy year for singer…
Lesbian Bed Death are a UK band who combine punk and hard rock influences that have been around since 2004. Since then they’ve been through various lineup changes. Their debut album (I use my powers for evil) was released in 2006. Their second album (Designed By The Devil, Powered By The Dead) was released on…