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Clockwork Angels has been a long time coming. Rush foreshadowed it in 2010 by releasing "BU2B," and "Caravan" to radio. The next single, "Headlong Flight," didn't appear until 2012. Co-produced with Nick Raskulinecz (who also worked on 2007's Snakes & Arrows), Clockwork Angels is a return to the concept album by the band that perfected it on 2112 in 1976. It centers on a loose narrative about a young man following his dreams. He struggles with inner and outer forces of order and chaos; he encounters an expansive world where colors, images, territories, and characters are embodied by pirates, strange carnivals, rabble-rousing anarchists, and lost cities. His enemy is the Watchmaker, a ruthless authoritarian presence who attempts ...

Ozzy Osbourne's tenth studio album was originally called Soul Sucka before fans shut the working title down. The resulting Scream may not win any awards for brain cell power as far as titles go, but the 11 tracks contained within find the Prince of Darkness in fine form. People who only know the metal legend from watching him mumble and baby step around his house in sunglasses and a track suit on reality television can hardly be blamed for steering away from his music, but it only takes one chorus of opener "Let It Die" to suggest otherwise. Like 1980's Blizzard of Ozz (Randy Rhoads), 1983's Bark at the Moon (Jake E. Lee), and 1988's No Rest for the Wicked ...

Like Jeff Beck before him, * is a superstar guitarist who can't sing a lick -- a situation that poses a considerable problem when it comes time to record a solo album, which apparently is whenever his band collapses under the preening ego of a lead singer. When combing through the wreckage of GNR he decided to form a band whose singer almost seemed like an afterthought, but he took a different route after the meltdown of Velvet Revolver, choosing to follow Santana's Supernatural blueprint, hauling in a different singer for each track. Of course, Supernatural was designed with the intention of having Santana cross over to a new audience, but *, with the exception of Fergie howling "Beautiful Dangerous,"...

*'s Snakepit is Guns N' Roses with a different bass player and singer, which means Guns N' Roses without its resident punk-rock fan and its hyper-dramatic rock-epic voice. Which leaves a classic two-guitar hard-rock band, steeped in Southern boogie and fronted, appropriately, by a singer whose role models are such '70s gravel-mouths-with-soul as Rod Stewart and Paul Rodgers. This is a classic-rock homagerie, a proudly unoriginal band that can coil around a classic riff as quickly and dangerously as snakes around prey. On "Dime Store Rock," they're the ghosts of ZZ Top; on the compact "I Hate Everybody (But You)" they're a monument to melodic hard-rock guitar; and on "Beggars & Hangers-On" they're the lost Southern rock balladeers that the...

This musical release from hard rock supergroup Velvet Revolver captures a live performance recorded in Houston, Texas in 2005 to promote their album Contraband. Some of the tracks featured in the concert include "Sucker Train Blues", "Do it for the Kids", and more. This concert by Velvet Revolver was filmed in Houston, Texas in 2005 during the tour in support of their bestselling and Grammy Award winning debut album "Contraband". The full length live tracks are intercut with snippets of interview with the various band members talking about how Velvet Revolver came into being. The set list naturally focuses on that debut release but is complimented by two tracks from the Guns 'n' Roses catalog and two tracks from Stone Temple ...

The Deluxe version comes with 2 bonus tracks and a DVD which includes 22-min behind-the-scenes/mini-documentary on the band. * is widely considered one of the greatest rock guitar players of all time. He has received countless accolades and awards including his forthcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame set for April 2012. An original member of iconic rock band Guns N' Roses, the Grammy-winning * helped the band create signature sounds like the guitar riff of #1 hit "Sweet Child o' Mine" and "Welcome To The Jungle." * recently landed on the top of the charts with his first true solo album, *. In addition, * was honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce who named him...