New Releases This Week

Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). The crucial subtitle missing is that this is the best of Tower of Power on Columbia, not a career-spanning anthology that takes in their material with other labels. ...

Einsturzende Neubaten's full-length forays into industrial sound had become progressively less frequent by 1993's TABULA RASA. Assorted members were increasingly called away on side projects, most notably Blixa Bargeld, who had taken on a role as Nick Cave's loyal sideman. ...

The name "Taylor" is like royalty in the R & B/Soul world. Thanks to one Johnnie Taylor- one of the most respected, copied and best selling artists of the modern era. When he passed in 2000 many wondered who would ...

Track Listing: Don't End Up Like Me; Everything Gon' Be Alright; Mississippi Girl; I Can Deal With The Leaks; I'm Stayin'; The Best Time I Ever Had In My Life; Workin' On The Building; Put'em Down On The Table; When ...

Because He Lives is a collection of the most popular songs from Bill and Gloria Gaither as sung by such CCM and contemporary gospel artists as Reggie Smith, Guy Penrod, Janet Paschal, Mark Lowry, Ben Speer, Jake Hess and Danny ...

This is the very essence of bop: Diz in the late '40s forging ahead with a new sound that opened up an ocean of possibilities. Myriad masters join him on A Night in Tunisia; Manteca; Anthropology; Cubano Be/Cubano Bop; Two ...

Old pros since childhood, Hanson long ago shed the exuberance that characterized the records of their youth, yet they've never switched their pop blueprint. They still pledge allegiance to classic rock, rooted in the '60s but seen through the prism ...

Hawkwind's fifth studio album found the band enjoying a rare oasis of stability after the multitudinous personnel shifts of the past five years. Only the recruitment of a second drummer, Alan Powell, disturbed the equanimity of the lineup that created ...

As Kiss approach 40 years of ridiculous rock & roll fun, it makes sense that their 20th studio album, Monster, is more self-referential than anything. Following 2009's Sonic Boom, the album marks the second set of tunes by a revamped ...

Track Listing: Checkin' Out; Catch a Groove; Getting There; World In Change; My Glow; I Know I Know; Rock Hard; She Gets Me; Cyclone; Like Your Love; Things I Won't Forget; End of the Day; Got To Get Better In a Little While;

After experiencing a worldwide hit with the title track of their 2009 album, Walking on a Dream, Empire of the Sun did the sensible thing and made a follow-up album that capitalizes on the glossy, sunny pop of that song. ...

According to Delbert McClinton, Blind, Crippled and Crazy has been discussed between him and singer/songwriter Glen Clark for a decade. The pair recorded two terrific records in the early '70s: Delbert and Glen in 1972 and Subject to Change in ...

Recording information: Sherwood Studios. Photographer: Lazslo Szabo. Personnel: Roye Albrighton (vocals, guitar); Ron Howden (vocals, drums); Klaus Henatsch (keyboards). Audio Mixers: Roye Albrighton; Billy Sherwood.

(2-CD set) Da Bang! was recorded in February 2011, just two months before the master violinist Billy Bang succumbed to cancer. In this final session, the Billy Bang Group featured one extended composition by Bang, "Daydreams," as well as compositions ...

Digitally remastered edition of this 1978 album from the Southern Rock band. Includes the hit single 'Imaginary Lover'. Beat Goes On. Once part of Roy Orbison's backing band and contributors to Georgia's thriving studio scene, the members of the Atlanta Rhythm ...

If his debut found J. Cole bringing the sound of Drake down to the streets, the Roc Nation rapper's sophomore effort finds him going for the full Illuminati and attempting an ambitious, multi-faceted album in the style of his label ...

Photographer: Tom Row. Arranger: Masterplan. Personnel: Rick Altzi (vocals); Roland Grapow (guitars); Axel Mackenrott (keyboards); Martin "Marthus" Skaroupka (drums). Audio Mixer: Roland Grapow.

The long running Jazz/Funk group Shakatak throw off the shackles of electricity with this acoustic greatest hits collection!

Deluxe Album, 3 bonus audio tracks. 11 tracks total. 6 panel softpak with 3 pockets and a lenticular cover. Produced by Rick Rubin (seven-time Grammy winner, two of those as Producer of the Year), 13 will be released on Vertigo/Republic ...

Track Listing: Pulse; Light; Ancient Aquifier; Breath;

Track Listing: Irresistible; Give Me Time; Romantica; Why Not Us; Forever & Ever; If Only This Song Could Be Heard; Angel; High-Strung; Athena; This Time; Little Green Bag;

There's a lot of pressure involved with being the rulers of the underworld, and nobody knows it better than Black Sabbath in 2013. Inarguable legends and at least partially responsible for creating heavy metal as we know it with their ...

Jazz pianist Kenny Barron celebrates the music of Brazil on his 2013 studio album, Kenny Barron & the Brazilian Knights. Here, Barron performs a variety of songs from the late Johnny Alf, as well as composer/harmonica player Maurício Einhorn, who ...

Photographers: Roy Cox; Jun Kyeung. Recording information: Bass Hit Recording Studios, NY; CDS Studios, Wallingford, CT; London; New York; Night Flight Studios, Fort Washington, MD; Unsung Studio, Sherman Oaks, CA; Westlake Studios, Los Angles, CA.

Deluxe edition includes four bonus tracks. 2013 release, the sophomore album from this band led by former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher and featuring former Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock plus former Kasabian guitarist Jay Mehler. The ...