CDs

"You wouldn't have bet on a two-man drums and bass outfit to be a goer, when the UK music industry was gearing up to sell one blue-eyed soul singer (Sam Smith) to the Americans while waiting for an album from another (Adele). A lower-than-low end...

"Robert Plant didn't change the formula much for his sophomore solo album, at least on the surface. 'The Principle of Moments', released on July 11, 1983, found him once again writing and/or performing with a core group featuring Robbie Blunt, Jezz...

"John Frusciante returns and the Red Hot Chili Peppers hand over the reins. The result? Doo-wop harmonies, less funk, and critical acclaim. If 1999’s 'Californication' was The Red Hot Chili Peppers' album that catapulted them to superstardom,...

"For many young people around the country, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were a gateway band — a popular group through the ’90s alt-rock boom from whom you could trace the paths back to different progenitors than those of their peers. (Plenty...

"'Brand New Eyes' is a great record, finding Paramore more mature, better songwriters, and frontman Williams an increasingly formidable force ...the band was at the top of their game for its majority. It’s a shame it was the last to feature the...

"'Paramore' is both the band’s most polished and messiest album, which somehow pays off. If it’s grown-up and professional sounding... it takes that tack in service of the songs, and does so in balancing out an explosive shot of styles and...

"There is no question that the most commercially successful metal album of the ’90s was Metallica’s “Black Album,” which at last count, is approaching 17 millions copies sold (in the US alone). But it could be argued that the best...

"As far as pure song-craft goes, it's hard to beat this 1979 offering from Neil Young & Crazy Horse. By the end of the '70s, Young, Talbot, Molina and Sampredo had refined their crushing sonic assault to the extent that they could bludgeon the...

"'Live Rust', released in 1979, documents songs from Young’s Rust Never Sleeps tour in the fall of ’78... the album is split into two distinct parts, acoustic during the first half and raw electric during the second half. Actually, it’s...

"Neil Young’s classic fourth studio album, 1972’s Harvest – magical, mystical, tremulous, myth-building... 'Harvest' was America’s best-selling album of 1972, but it was viewed (not least by Young himself) as too...

"The tracklist features 16 songs from his 35-year career, ranging from 1969's "Down by the River" to 1991's "Harvest Moon". Young's stubborn integrity extends beyond his politics-- which inform all of his songs, but only define a few like "Ohio" and...

It's 2021 and a pandemic is strangling the world - and no one seems to be having fun. Seemingly tireless music freak Peter Tägtgren couldn't care less as he hits the jackpot with - pardon the harsh language – a fucking catchy... well, party...

This is Muse's 5th album. It was released in 2009, and in the immortal words of Pitchfork:"Muse are back, with an LP of all-caps, no half-stepping ART-ROCK that closes with a three-part epic so shameless about its size it's billed as a "Symphony.".....

'Origin of Symmetry' is the second studio album by English rock band Muse, released in 2001. Its title and theme comes from a concept put forward by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku in his book Hyperspace. 'Origin of Symmetry' was a critical and...

"Pretty much every song on 'The 2nd Law' sounds like a concept track, based around re-imagining a genre. This is less an album, and more like a mixtape filled with mini meditations of musical movements. It’s like they had some rapid-fire...

"An album packed with a smorgasbord of sonic styles and arrangements, 'Black Holes and Revelations' originally sounds very modern and electronic, but deceptively finds its way to some fundamental rock and roll structure. This fourth studio album by Muse...

"Linkin Park consider their third album to be such a departure from their nu-metal core values that the CD booklet explains each track's conception. For example, the pop-metal moanfest What I've Done "is intended to work on many levels, including...

'Hybrid Theory' is the debut studio album by Nu-Metal heroes Linkin Park. Released in 2000, the album's lyrical themes deal with problems lead vocalist Chester Bennington experienced during his adolescence, including drug abuse and the constant fighting...

'Meteora', Linkin Park’s ground-breaking second album, was released in March 2003 and included the global hit singles “Somewhere I Belong”, “Faint”, “Numb”, “Breaking The Habit” and “From The...

'Pyromania' is the album that launched the band into the big league, and was released in 1983. It contains the hits 'Photograph' and 'Rock Of Ages', both huge singles all over the world. It reached no.2 in the US charts and has been certified Platinum...

Celebrate the music of Bruce Springsteen next month with a collection of original songs spanning his storied 50-year recording career, from 1973's 'Greeting from Asbury Park, NJ' to 2020's 'Letter To You'. 'Best Of Bruce Springsteen' includes...

Municipal Waste are an American thrash metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, in 2001. The band is known for their fast-paced, aggressive sound and humorous lyrics, often focusing on themes like partying, skateboarding, and pop culture references. They...

Crownshift – born as a longtime idea of four friends, is a new high standing metal act from Finland. The members familiar from the ranks of Finland’s finest export titans like Nightwish, Children Of Bodom & Wintersun, are thrilled to start a new journey...

This is the  2011 Steven Wilson Stereo Remix. Steven Wilson is musician and producer and is well known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree.  "The leap from 1970's 'Benefit' to the...