This perfectly plotted ride on the Chili Peppers’ road to superstardom follows them from their funk-punk roots to their mastery of the melodic. Anthony, Flea and the boys deliver the goods again and again: “Under the Bridge; Give It Away; Suck My Kiss; Californication; Higher Ground; My Friends; Breaking the Girl; Otherside; By the Way; Scar Tissue”16 red-hot …
Weaned on John Lee Hooker, Curtis Mayfield, and Snoop Dogg, Clark fuses his deep rock, R&B and blues influences with a love of classic soul and contemporary hip-hop beats that has already put critics on notice. Rolling Stone s Best Of Rock issue pegged him as “Best Young Gun, ” while The Wall Street Journal opined that Clark …
Albums like this don’t come along often: violent, visceral and courageous, Skills In Pills is a listening experience like no other. The final revelation is that this album was never meant to happen: it was only ever supposed to be a throwaway collaboration between two friends. As Tägtgren explains: “This is the result of a year of fucking …
JT’s work for Apple, Warner Bros. and Columbia/Sony in one place! Includes Fire and Rain; You’ve Got a Friend; How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved by You); Handy Man; Shower the People; Your Smiling Face; Carolina in My Mind; Sweet Baby James; Long Ago and Far Away; Country Road; Something in the Way She Moves; Mexico; Don’t …
My Favourite Faded Fantasy is Damien Rice’s first collection of material in eight years and was produced by Rick Rubin and Rice himself. It is a selection of songs, which Rice says are “sung straight into the metaphorical mirror.” Intimate, frank and revitalized by making music again, My Favourite Faded Fantasy is a record that accepts one’s faults …
The Red Hot Chili Peppers of the quadruple-platinum smash Blood Sugar Sex Magic are back – revitalized and reunited – with their first album in four years and perhaps their most anticipated album ever. Most importantly, Californication marks the homecoming of guitarist John Frusciante, a key ingredient in the group’s most successful albums. His return signals the energized …
ZZ Top – The Studio Albums 1970 – 1990 is a 10 CD boxset of the band’s classic studio albums from their Warner Bros. years. This compact, clamshell boxset features each album in a mini, vinyl replica card sleeve with original artwork, including replicated original gatefold sleeves for Tres Hombres and Tejas. Most importantly the original …
Enya’s elusive combination of classical inspiration, Celtic atmosphere and pop sensibility is evident throughout ‘The Very Best Of’ as it revisits some of the most exemplary moments from an astonishing career. From her world-conquering international breakthrough ‘Orinoco Flow’ to the sad serenity of ‘Only Time’ that was adopted as a comforting anthem of hope in the face of …
Jason Derulo is gearing up for the release of a new album due June 2nd. Fans can pre-order the fourth studio album Everything Is 4 from the Miami hit-maker at http://smarturl.it/EverythingIs4 and instantly receive a brand new track, “Get Ugly.” The album is led by the Ian Kirkpatrick-produced “Want To Want Me” which became the most added track …
Royal Blood is a mixture of anguished vocals, ferocious drumming and bass that provides intricate detail as well as a rumble of rhythm. The sound is a result of a lineage that stretches from present day heroes Queens of the Stone Age to the influential Led Zeppelin, and all the way back to early blues pioneers… yet this …