CD Universe Top Future Releases

The big task for Alice in Chains on their 2009 comeback Black Gives Way to Blue was to prove they could carry on battered and bruised, missing Layne Staley but still in touch with their core. They had to demonstrate ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: End Of The Beginning; God Is Dead?; Loner; Zeitgeist; Age Of Reason; Live Forever; Damaged Soul; Dear Father; Methademic Deluxe Disc; Peace of Mind Deluxe Disc; Pariah Deluxe Disc; DISC 2: Methademic; Peace Of Mind; Pariah;

On Wrote a Song for Everyone, John Fogerty walks through his back pages with a lot of help from his friends. He's enlisted all manner of musicians here, from classic rock peers like Bob Seger to new country superstars Brad ...

Track Listing: Every Praise; Break Every Chain; I Feel Your Spirit; More Than A Conqueror; Lead Me To That Rock; Breakthrough; Grace; Amazing; Work In Your Favor; No Greater Love;

Track Listing: Always There; Got to Get You Into My Life; Rise; So Very Hard to Go; Hot Fun in the Summertime; Take Five; 25 or 6 to 4; Reasons; I Got You; You Haven't Done Nothin'; God Bless the Child; Summer Horns;

Track Listing: Mississippi Road House; That's a Pretty Good Love; Don't Want Lies; Search and Destroy; Can't Get Enough of Loving You; Honey Bee; Rockin' In The Free World; Talk To Me Baby; Only Teardrops Fall; Word Game;

Mississippi Bluesmen is a decent three-CD set highlighting 51 classics of the genre. Along with favorites by B.B. King, Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and Robert Johnson, are less than obvious inclusions by Eddie Boyd, Big Joe Williams, James ...

Track Listing: Slave To the Empire; Sweet Unknown; Tooth and Nail; It's Not Love; Rhythm of the Soul; When Eagles Die; Into the Fire; Alone Again; Mind Control; Kiss of Death; Jesus Train; Access Denied;

Track Listing: All Hell Breaks Loose; Bound for Glory; Kingdom of the Lost; Bloodshot; Kissin' the Ground; Hey Judas; Hoodoo Voodoo; Valley of the Stones; Someday Salvation; Before the War; Blues Ain't So Bad;

As the final reunion album from the Monkees -- and the first one featuring Mike Nesmith, who produced the record -- Justus isn't bad. Nesmith occasionally steers the group toward country-rock, but the record is largely comprised of nondescript pop/rock ...

On Beautiful Africa, Malian songwriter and guitar slinger Rokia Traoré unleashes the fiery rocker she's been nurturing since her teens. On four previous offerings she established herself as a wildly inventive and diverse songwriter, most notably on 2008's Tchamantché. She ...

The very face of classic Southern soul is Otis Redding, whose incendiary and passionate singing and stage presence came as close as anyone's to transferring the energy, explosiveness, and drive of Southern gospel into the secular pop world of soul. ...

Track Listing: Na; Blanco y Negro; Expuesto; Corazon Partio; Solo; Tiburon a la Vista; Botella de Veneno; Little Mamacita; You Are My Everything; I Effing Love You;

Recording information: Kongresshaus Zurich (05/01/1960). Personnel: Nat King Cole (vocals, piano); Porter Kilbert, Jerome Richardson, Phil Woods, Sahib Shihab, Budd Johnson (saxophone); Lenny Johnson, Floyd Standifer, Roger Guerin , Benny Bailey (trumpet); Julius Watkins (French horn); Jimmy Cleveland, Ake Persson, Melba ...

Track Listing: Active; White T's; Say a Prayer 4 Me; Listen 2 Da Gun Sound; Late Nite; Hip Hop Hostage; Catching the Chain; Gangsta Chronicles/Life of a G; Back Then; Caught Up; G'Ed Up; Change; Watch, Pray, Live Holy.; Only ...

Recording information: Sound Mountain Studios, Green Valley, CA. Personnel: Oni Logan (vocals); George Lynch (guitars); Scott Coogan (drums); Robbie Crane (background vocals).

Track Listing: Introduction; Hideaway [Alternate Version]; Mean Town Blues; 44 Blues; You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now; It's My Life Baby; Manic Depression;

The 2011 winners of Britain's The X Factor TV show, four-piece girl group Little Mix deliver a slick, high-energy mix of dance-oriented pop music with their debut full-length album, 2012's DNA. Working with a bevy of big-name producer/songwriters including Steve ...