Audio Mixer: Scott Horscroft. Recording information: Studios 201, Byron Bay, Australia; Thornbury, Ontario, Canada. Photographers: Erica Robinson; Mark Jones ; Dean Bradshaw; Gaby Neylon; Jennifer Rose ; Xavier Rudd.

Track Listing: I Love You So; Number One For Me; Mawlaya; My Little Girl; Forgive Me; One Big Family; Assalamu Alayka; Paradise; Masha Allah; Radhitu Billahi Rabba; Freedom; So Soon; Muhammad; Guide Me All The Way; Mawlaya; Assalamu Alayka; Radhitu Billahi Rabba;

If you're looking for 23 songs that represent much of the Smiths' best work, 2001's The Very Best of the Smiths will do, since it does contain all the group's anthems without a misstep. It's better than the first two ...

When Layne Staley died from a drug overdose in 2002, it had already been several years since most Alice in Chains fans stopped hoping for a new album. The singer had become a recluse since the late-`90s, and there was ...

On their sixth studio album, Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation), the Counting Crows offer up 15 cover version of some of their favorite artists' tunes, ranging from the ubiquitous to the obscure. This album marks ...

This Montreal ensemble's fiery debut is marked by surging guitars, soulful strings, driving drums, brilliant bass lines, and the quavering vocals of married couple Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. The group's song structures careen through a vast territory of musical ...

Following the release of their 1996 debut CHESHIRE CAT, Blink 182 returns with a satisfactory sophomore effort. Clearly influenced by the likes of Green Day and Weezer, Blink 182 provides fast, aggressive punk that is also melodic and fun. The ...

PURPLE includes "12 Gracious Melodies," an uncredited hidden track at the end of the record. Stone Temple Pilots' second album, PURPLE, meshes guitar rock with grunge, and forges deeper into hard rock territory. Lurching out of the speakers with aggressive bottom-heavy ...

Recorded live at The Church Of The Holy Trinity, Toronto, Canada on November 27, 1987. Formed in Toronto by siblings Micheal, Peter, and Margo Timmins, The Cowboy Junkies purvey a surreal brand of moody, slow motion country music. THE TRINITY SESSIONS ...

IN UTERO was nominated for a 1994 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. "All Apologies" was nominated for 1995 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal and for Best Rock Song. Personnel: Kurt Cobain (vocals, ...

THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance. "Hurt" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Recorded at Le Pig, Beverly Hills, California; The Record Plant A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California. Engineers: ...

The Shins' first studio album in five years is the first to be released through James Mercer's own Aural Apothecary label, and features an all new backing band that includes fellow songwriters Jessica Dobson and Richard Swift, Modest Mouse drummer ...

Moving on from the breakthrough emo-pop sound the band showcased on 2010's Brendan O'Brien-produced Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place, Anberlin's 2012 effort, Vital, features a heavier metal and electronica-infused sound. Once again centered around the passionate, resonant ...

This album previously contained the track "Cop Killer", but does not anymore. All songs by Ice-T and Ernie C. except "The Winner Loses" and "C Note" (Ernie C.). Divorced from the controversy that surrounded its release, Body Count's self-titled debut is a ...

"Iris" was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. "Black Balloon" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance ...

Who on earth could have imagined that without founding father and vocalist Glenn Danzig, the Misfits could come back almost 20 years after their breakup with not one, but two killer albums? As difficult as it is to believe, FAMOUS ...

Fiona Apple previewed three songs from her upcoming fourth studio album, which boasts a typically enigmatic title in The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever ...

As far as debut albums go, this eponymous release is a surprisingly accomplished effort from the Nottingham-born teenager Jake Bugg. Although he stares out from the album cover like a younger, long-lost cousin of the View or the Enemy, while ...

This set, the Lone Bellow's debut album, is a gem. Full of haunting, passionate songs that breathe with country soul and a kind of autumnal grace, most of them written by lead singer and guitarist Zach Williams, the album has ...

MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. "Unwell" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. In between his commitments to ...

Risking arriving a little too late to the party, Devon-born 23-year-old Ben Howard is yet another young troubadour whose sound appears indebted to the '70s pastoral folk of John Martyn and Nick Drake. His debut album, Every Kingdom, therefore, has ...

"What It's Like" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance. The former frontman for House of Pain sheds the hip-hop-only mode and steps out into the world of rock with this release. Tapping into the ...

"Kryptonite" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The success story of 3 Doors Down starts typically enough. An aggressive and unrelenting phone campaign to radio stations for their breakaway single "Kryptonite" snowballed into a showcase at ...

Seether reveal a new side to their sound with "One Cold Night," a cd/dvd combination package recorded and filmed live at Philadelphia's Grape Street on Feb. 22, 2006. Includes hits from their gold albums "Disclaimer" and "Disclaimer II," along with ...

The album that found the band sandwiched between being an important cult band on the verge of major success and being the world's most successful rock band of the 90s. A tricky situation, but this album made the breakthrough and ...