Caravan Palace is the debut studio album by the electro swing group Caravan Palace, released on 20 October 2008. The album performed best in the band's native France where it reached a peak chart position of No. 11 in August 2009, and remained on the French albums chart for 68 consecutive weeks. In 2009 it was awarded a gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association.

Best show of the tour so far. Band is definitely getting tighter and Jack is getting more and more enthused. Jack singing an Alison Dead Weather song is a first and lets hope it continues. Great vocals all round tonight.

Hammond's debut recording from 1964 - much of which remains in his live repertoire to this day.
John Hammond, Jr. is one of a handful of white blues musicians who was on the scene at the beginning of the first blues renaissance of the mid-'60s. That revival, brought on by renewed interest in folk music around the U.S., brought about career boosts for many of the great classic blues players, including Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, and Skip James. Some critics have described Hammond as a white Robert Johnson, and Hammond does justice to classic blues by combining powerful guitar and harmonica playing with expressive vocals and a dignified stage presence. Within the first decade of his career as a performer, Hammond began crafting a niche for himself that is completely his own: the solo guitar man, harmonica slung in a rack around his neck, reinterpreting classic blues songs from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s…

Originally recorded in Paris at a pair of two-day sessions in 1977 and then released as a BarClay Records LP that same year, this fine duo set features the sturdy soul-jazz organ of Rhoda Scott paired with Kenny Clarke on drums, and together they create a remarkably full sound. It is worth noting that two of the best numbers here are Scott originals, "Bitter Street," which opens the album, and the funky "Toe Jam."

The late '60s and, most especially, the 70s have inspirited the music and the rock from all over the place, so that it evolved all the way up to contributing to the appearance of the most prestigious and prodigious ensembles. Locomotiv GT is a band that's legendary in the Hungarian Rock scene, but also in the Occident, lighting up an irresistible and torrential rock, in a way that made them classic. For the culture of rock, Locomotiv GT marks moreover an independent and styled breath than something typical and inspiring - nevertheless, it goes as a defining reference.
Locomotiv GT processed, during the classic period, all the fantasy and the asperities of hard and blues rock. Yet, in almost the same general way, their music consistently caught a much more artistic brightness (and all sorts of jazz, pop, melodic, lyrical and experimental accents)…

Starry Sky is something for those who likes quieter sounds. The listener on this album is not really new to sounds, but the music sounds somehow still quite. The best is to take off and relax. The three long parts are identical by their design. Dominating gentle harmonies, punctuated with a subtle percussion. As said, it all sounds very nice, but it also has about a thousand times heard. Relaxation is flooding the market every year. Even at this point, "Starry Sky" a good recommendation for all those looking for relaxing music, for sure, this album is well made.

'Four disc (three CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) pressing. A Very British Synthesizer Group is a sound and vision anthology of multi-million-selling synth pioneers The Human League. Bringing together all of the hits as well as previously unreleased demos and edits it covers the entire history of the band from their emergence as futuristic outriders of a new post-punk sound, through the phenomenon of Dare and '80s chart dominance, their incredible '90s renaissance and ascendance to their current position as one of the most glorious and glamorous live acts in the country. Of the hit singles on CDs One and Two, seven appear as previously unreleased DJ edits, while Disc Three is comprised entirely of 17 exclusive and previously unreleased mixes. The DVD contains 21 promo videos from this most visual of bands, plus 24 BBC performances, many previously unreleased, from Top Of The Pops, Wogan and Later With Jools. The box set also comes with a 58-page hardback book featuring a new essay from Bowie/Kraftwerk biographer David Buckley, memorabilia and rare photos. The art direction and sleeve illustrations come from renowned Sheffield artist Pete McKee.

Em meio a uma legião de bandas grunge e alternativas que surgiram na década de 90, o Pearl Jam se destacou e se consolidou como a maior banda estadunidense da época e do movimento. A banda foi formada em 1990, quando o rock era dominado pela ironia e, por isso, se destacou com a sinceridade e com o carisma do líder Eddie Vedder. O primeiro disco, Ten, de 1991, se tornou um clássico do grunge, com canções como Jeremy, Black e Alive. Ao longo da década de 90, vieram outros cinco álbuns, ajudando a popularizar a banda em meios que não estavam habituados ao rock alternativo. Os shows explosivos que seguem perfeitamente a receita do rock de arena também colaboraram para a manutenção do status e a banda segue ativa até hoje, com mais cinco discos de inéditas lançados neste século, o último deles Gigaton, de 2020.

Journey Não pare de acreditar! Uma das bandas de maior sucesso no início dos anos 1980, o Journey voltou às paradas em 2009 graças à inclusão da música “Don’t Stop Believin” na série Glee. Criado em San Francisco em 1973, o grupo conquistou um contrato com a gravadora Columbia no ano seguinte. Em 1975 foi lançado o primeiro álbum de estúdio, autointitulado, com uma sonoridade que mesclava o jazz e o rock progressivo. No fim dos anos 1970, a banda mudou seu som e incluiu elementos de pop e hard rock, o que fez com que seu quarto disco, Infinity, vendesse mais e chegasse ao 20º lugar da Billboard 200. Em 1981, o Journey lançou seu álbum mais popular, Escape, com os hits “Who’s Crying Now” e “Open Arms”. Entre diversas mudanças de formação, a banda lançou 16 álbuns, sendo Freedom, de 2022, o mais recente.

As an improviser of unsurpassed lyricism and technique Fred Hersch is at his most intimate and revealing in a solo setting. With 'Solo', the pianist kicks off a creatively fecund yearlong celebration of his 60th birthday with a definitive statement of his solo artistry. In many ways, 'Solo' distills the essence of Hersch's pianistic expression. Recorded in a jewel-like Catskills church at the 2014 Windham Chamber Music Festival, the set evolves with a compelling internal emotional logic all its own, flowing through Hersch's familiar solo touchstones (Jobim, Ellingtonia, Monk, originals) that turn into vessels for his supremely graceful invention. His 10th solo recording, 'Solo' joins an illustrious collection of albums that started with his riveting 1994 addition to Concord Jazz's Live at Maybeck series.

Ry Cooder's exceptional Paradise and Lunch takes a popular precept – music as the common denominator across all languages and styles – to extremes few artists have envisioned let alone fulfilled. Considered by many diehards to be the California native's finest hour, the 1974 set unfurls with rarified levels of joyousness, ingenuity, and sophistication. A prime contender for any Desert Island list and an album that repeatedly restores your faith in the inimitable effects experienced upon listening to special performances, Paradise and Lunch is an eternal "musicians' musician" record – an adventurous, ambitious, soulful leap down roads well-traveled and paths less known. Such eclecticism, virtuosity, and ebullience resonate with unmatched verve on our hybrid SACD. Mastered from the original master tapes and strictly limited to 2000 numbered copies, this audiophile reissue boasts dead-quiet surfaces, superb transient response, front-to-back soundstaging, and an organic immediacy that heightens the enjoyment, character, and craft of the arrangements.

Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen once said he intended to make an album with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector with vocals like Roy Orbison's, a nifty summary of many, but not all, of his artistic ambitions and a key to his appeal. Unlike any other singer/songwriters saddled with the appellation of "the new Dylan" in the early '70s, Springsteen never hid how he was raised on '60s AM radio. He loved rock & roll, whether it was the initial blast from the '50s or the mini-symphonies from the days before the Beatles or the garage rockers that surfaced in the wake of the British Invasion, and all this could be heard within his wild, wooly collective E Street Band, a group who debuted on his second album, 1973's The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, and who would support him throughout most of his career.

The exact relationship between Henry (T-Bone Burnett) and Howard Coward (Elvis Costello) remains ambiguous. They often referred to themselves as “One and a Half Brothers,” which might hint at their height difference or imply they were not actually siblings but were involved in an elaborate ruse. Their musical partnership, known as The Coward Brothers, was initiated by Smiley “Doc” Snipson, who discovered Henry Coward in 1956 and signed him for a UK tour. The brothers' hit single, “My Baby Just Squeals (You Heel),” was followed by less successful records and a controversial Cold War-themed song. To preserve their fading fame, Snipson orchestrated their supposed death in a plane crash, but they were actually in hiding on a Caribbean island, secretly recording music and sending it back to Snipson.

Japanese reissue. Universal. 2021. Incl. 7 bonus tracks.

Bon Jovi's 40th anniversary year ends with an all-time best album of songs selected by Japanese fans. Features the high-fidelity SHM-CD format. The booklet includes never-before-seen photos taken during past performances and promotions in Japan (subject to change). Commentary by Masanori Ito. Includes lyrics and bilingual translation. Japan-only release. Comes with a trading card randomly selected from 15 kinds.