(2-LP set) His second release for the Dreamworks label, and fifth overall, Figure 8 is a lush and beautifully melancholy collection of pop songs. Gone is the intimate lo-fi feel of his Kill Rock Stars albums, replaced by intricate arrangements and orchestration. One gets the feeling that the sound of his earlier work was not by choice but …
“Darkness was my ‘samurai’ record,” Springsteen writes, “stripped to the frame and ready to rumble. But the music that got left behind was substantial.” For the first time, fans will have access to two discs containing a total of 21 previously-unreleased songs from the Darkness recording sessions, songs that, as Springsteen writes, “perhaps could have/should have been released …
The definitive single-CD “best-of” for rock’s sardonic king! Quite a span is offered here, his best Asylum, Virgin, Giant/Reprise and Artemis cuts from 1976-2002: his hits Werewolves of London and A Certain Girl ; gems like Excitable Boy and Lawyers, Guns and Money ; his cover of Raspberry Beret with the Hindu Love Gods (with members of R.E.M.); …
Dark Horse was the label George set up during the mid ’70s to put out his solo work, this deluxe boxed set includes all of George’s long-unavailable solo albums ( Thirty-Three & 1/3, George Harrison, Somewhere in England, Gone Troppo, Cloud Nine and a hybrid Super Audio CD version of the double Live in Japan album), with bonus …
2009 release from the American singer/songwriter, the follow-up to his hit album Nothing Left to Lose. City Of Black & White is an album informed by the traveling, performing and adventuring the Oregon-born, Nashville-based singer did while supporting that breakthrough album. An open-hearted album of self-discovery, City of Black & White is a chronicle of the people he …
Kid Rock will release his 8th studio album, ‘Born Free,’ on November 16th via Atlantic Records. The record was produced by Rick Rubin and mixed by Greg Fidelman. The first single from the album will be, appropriately, ‘Born Free’ which hits radio September 14th. ‘Born Free’ is in many ways a transformational album for Kid Rock. While there …
From our master singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen, here are ten new songs that mine the heart, shake the body and break the boundaries as everybody knows only Leonard can do. A signature of our time, Leonard’s baritone holds us like the voices of Hank, Frank and Ray. These are songs that nobody knows and everyone will treasure.Fans were given …