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After a five year hiatus, Edguy mastermind and symphonic metallurgist Tobias Sammet has dusted off his Avantasia nameplate to release the long-anticipated follow up to Metal Opera I and Metal Opera II, the complimentary epics he released in 2001 and ... read more
Counting Crows’ Saturday Nights &Sunday Mornings is just your average brilliant, unsparing rock &roll song cycle about the high life and the low life, about sin and whatever the hell follows. This is an album with two distinct yet deeply related halv... read more
Guilty Simpson was born in Detroit, the son and grandson of the family’s performing musicians in his father and grandfather. At age four, Simpson and his mother began traveling with an aunt in the military, living in California and Birmingham, Alabam... read more
International megastar Janet Jackson, who has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and is the newest signing to the Island Def Jam Music Group, has completed her first new single for the label with hitmaking producer Rodney Jerkins. “Feedback” wil... read more
Growing up in the shadows of super-groups like The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Duran Duran, and Depeche Mode, one can become heavily influenced by a certain type of aesthetic. Fashion, intrigue, and romance become core virtues, and the music is wra... read more
OK Go spent the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans recording with the trombone soul monsters Bonerama, and soon the world will hear the insanely swaggering result: A benefit EP called You´re Not Alone that comes out Fat Tuesday of Ma... read more
Soul singer Raheem DeVaughn is finally back with a new album that's inspired equally by the gospel sounds of the church as the street funk of hip-hop. The DC native built a devoted following on the independent scene, touring and releasing mixtapes be... read more
Sara Melson is an original, an artist intent on expressing complex feelings with a unique emotional honesty and quietly soulful vocal style. On her self-produced full-length debut, Dirty Mind, due out February 26th on Nettwerk Records, she delivers 1... read more
"Fake Noise from a Box of Toys" is the spectacular new record from one of the most admired cult acts in the US... The Autumns. Back in the mid-90s, high schoolers Frankie Koroshec and Matthew Kelly began swapping records and exchanging notes on their... read more
Yellowcard will release a digital live album, entitled Live From Las Vegas At the Palms, exclusively though the iTunes Store beginning January 22nd, 2008. Recorded in October at Las Vegas’ renowned Palms Casino Resort’s intimate Pearl Concert Theater... read more
