Songs from Black Mountain - Live

April 11th, 2006

After making music together for more than half of their lives, touring their way around the world, numerous hits and selling over 20 million records, Songs From Black Mountain marks a new beginning for the groundbreaking band Live. Containing 12 rich and well-crafted songs including their new hit single ‘The River’, Songs From Black […]

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Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not - Arctic Monkeys

April 11th, 2006

Hot on the heels of their shock UK No. 1 single “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not confirms Sheffield’s Arctic Monkeys as the UK underground’s most proselytizing young preachers of the DIY gospel. Marrying nervy, caffeine-and-cigarettes indie clatter to conversational, pretense-free lyrics and […]

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Black Magic Show - Elefant

April 11th, 2006

Elefant frontman Diego Garcia leveraged a privileged upbringing to indulge his taste in Bowie and the ’80s UK Ian Curtis/Robert Smith/Morrisey pantheon via his workhorse NYC-based club band. The three years of heavy touring that followed their well received Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid debut has toughened up Elefant’s sonic hide considerably on this follow-up, […]

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Hosannas from the Basement of Hell - Killing Joke

April 11th, 2006

“As a teenager when I started this group, we sat around and we said: ‘What do we want to achieve out of all this?’” Jaz Coleman. “The answer to the question was that we wanted to inspire other people,” he says. “We had this idea that Killing Joke is a mirror, and what you […]

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Greatest Hits - Chris Isaak

April 11th, 2006

Chris Isaak begins his third decade as one of the most distinctive recording artists—and the epitome of modern cool—with his first career-spanning retrospective. Best Of Chris Isaak CD features every hit, led by “Wicked Game,” and including many fan favorites such as “Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing,” plus four previously unreleased tracks: an […]

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Holy Diver Live - Dio

April 11th, 2006

Captured live in front of a sold-out London crowd, Ronnie James Dio delivers a truly memorable performance on this truly memorable night. Dio has been hailed as one of the finest voices in Heavy Metal for over 30 years now and for good reason. Due to his stints in Rainbow, Black Sabbath and as […]

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Ten Silver Drops - Secret Machines

April 11th, 2006

As you might expect from a band whose primary interests include psychedelic space-rock jams and song titles like “It’s A Bad Wind That Don’t Blow Somebody Good,” the Secret Machines are in no particular hurry. So don’t be put off by the fact that the tracklist for the Texas-born, New York-based band’s second full-length […]

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Paris - Putumayo Presents

April 11th, 2006

Very traditional in its sound, chanson was rediscovered and revamped in the late 50s and early 60s before it once again became passé with younger audiences, who embraced rock and pop as the sound of their generation. Now, forty years later, a new school of musicians has given a fresh voice to this vintage […]

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Harry On Broadway Act 1 - Harry Connick Jr., Kelli O’Hara

April 11th, 2006

This special Harry Connick Jr. release features two distinct albums, packaged in a unique slip case.
One album includes the original cast recording from the Broadway hit “The Pajama Game.”
The second album includes a selection of new recordings from “Thou Shalt Not” featuring Kelli O’Hara. All of these songs were written, arranged and orchestrated by […]

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Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living - Streets

April 11th, 2006

The new Streets album The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, out April 25th, is a completely autobiographical record that covers everything that has happened to Mike over the past few years since he’s become a well known figure in the UK. There’s love, loss, scandal, violence, sex, drugs and a whole load […]

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Gillan’s Inn - Ian Gillan

April 11th, 2006

Nothing sums up Ian Gillan more, than Gillan’s Inn! Having decided to re-visit the classic songs by Deep Purple and his own solo career, Ian invited several of his friends to guest on the album including Joe Elliot (Def Leppard); Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath); guitarist Joe Satriani; Janick Gers (Iron Maiden); Uli Jon Roth […]

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Louder Now - Taking Back Sunday

April 11th, 2006

Taking Back Sunday—-which now includes lead vocalist Adam Lazarra, guitarist-vocalist Fred Mascherino, guitarist Eddie Reyes, bassist Matt Rubano, and drummer Mark O’Connell—-have captivated fans with their powerful and inventive pop-tinged anthems, dueling vocals and twin guitar assault. In July 2004, the band followed up the half-million selling release with Where You Want to Be, […]

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Hoot - Hoot

April 10th, 2006

Hoot, the film version of Florida author Carl Hiaasen’s Newbery award-winning novel will be in theatres April 21, 2006. Hoot is produced by Jimmy Buffett and Frank Marshall, directed by Wil Shriner and stars Luke Wilson, Logon Lerman, Brie Larson, and Cody Linley. The movies soundtrack, which will be released on Jimmy Buffett’s Mailboat […]

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Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs

April 10th, 2006

The Raconteurs are a new band made up of old friends, consisting of Jack Lawrence (bass), Patrick Keeler (drums), Brendan Benson (guitars, vocals, keys) and Jack White(guitars, vocals, keys). The seed was sewn in an attic in the middle of a hot summer when friends Jack White and Brendan Benson got together and wrote […]

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