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This is a compilation of bands under the Noise Records label from 1988. It's an interesting piece of metal history back when thrash was still very popular in Europe. No song really stands out from the next, but when there's Helloween, Celtic Frost, and Voivod all on the same album, there's definitely a lot of variety in styles...

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This inspiring video captures Chicago's Koko Taylor - an internationally-known Grammy Award-winning superstar - who has won more prizes than any other female blues singer. Koko Taylor: Queen of the Blues presents an unvarnished visual biography of this dynamic, hard-working performer. Filmed live at the renowned Legends nightclub, her gutsy growl is heard as she performs with blues greats Willie Dixon and Buddy Guy to perform her most memorable hits. Spliced into this electrifying condert is an intimate on-the-road video that reveals Koko's hard climb from her Tennessee plantation life to the streets of Chicago and her world-wide acclaim.....

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Although this CD is titled Hokum Blues, all but two of the eight groups actually predate hokum (which came of age in the fall of 1928), although all have some aspects of the good-time music. The performances are quite obscure, with two titles apiece by Ukulele Bob Williams, the Two of Spades, Louise Ross, Feathers and Frogs, and Swan & Lee (the only recordings by any of these performers). In addition, there are four songs apiece from Ki Ki Johnson and the team of Danny Small & Ukulele Mays, plus seven numbers (including two instrumentals) by the Pebbles. Listening to this early acoustic music, the performances both look forward to hokum and even swing in spots, while hinting strongly at its early roots in string music and minstrel shows. Collectors will want this one. -- by Scott Yanow

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If you are lucky you might have had the pleasure of hearing a guitarist play and lead a band into a space where spirit and feelings merge into one.Listening to The Colin John Band do their thing live should be a lesson to many that, yes, it can happen live with three people ready to lay down some real hard Voodoo Vibes that have roots and a heritage in the soul of anyone who likes to hear the wailing and screaming tones of a guitar used in anger.....

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Vibraphonist Cal Tjader took a brief vacation from playing Afro-Cuban jazz to record this fine straight-ahead bop set. The 1997 CD reissue matches Tjader with the underrated but always swinging pianist Gerald Wiggins, bassist Eugene Wright (shortly before he joined Dave Brubeck's Quartet) and drummer Bill Douglass.

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The second son by Johann Sebastian Bach’s first wife, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a prolific and often original composer by the conservative standards of the times. Admired by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, he developed the style known as empfindsamer Stil (sensitive style), which was remarkable for unconventional and quirky harmonies, emotional intensity and a fine command of melody. With their sudden changes of mood and pace, the Sonatas and Rondos are in many ways more forward-looking than those of Haydn and Mozart.

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'One of the most purely pleasurable releases of the year so far. The playing is intelligent, persuasive, loving, and the music reaches far beyond the standard boundaries of fin de siècle French salon style. Four outstanding discs' The Independent

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The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, the second since their 2005 reunion. The album features the tracks "Hollow" and "Stone".

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Altoist Sadao Watanabe is considered one of Japan's top jazzmen. Some of his recordings are quite commercial but this particular one finds him paying tribute to Charlie Parker with what was called "the great jazz trio:" pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams. The seven selections (four Bird compositions and three standards often played by Parker) are all given strong treatment by the quartet. Watanabe's true love is bebop and his solos here are very much in that tradition yet displaying a personality of his own.

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Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi; May 3, 1934 – May 23, 2013), was a French singer-songwriter of Greek origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, simplicity and composer of romantic songs. He has written songs for Édith Piaf (including "Milord"), Dalida, Françoise Hardy, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, and Cindy Daniel...

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FSM presents the Miklós Rózsa Treasury (1949-1968), a 15CD set celebrating one of the giants of film music. In this single package FSM makes available virtually every surviving, as-yet-unreleased note from the composer’s fertile and productive association with M-G-M. The three clamshell cases come in a deluxe box with a 48-page booklet containing a short essay and complete track listings. Online you will find free extensive notes in the finest FSM tradition by FSM regulars Lukas Kendall and Al Kaplan, plus Rózsa Society members Frank K. DeWald and John Fitzpatrick. There are also original LP notes and a few surprises. This is a set to be loved and cherished by Rozsaphiles past, present and future. With only 2,000 being pressed, it is sure to become a collector’s item.

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The German metal force returns with their 14th album! Led by the inimitable Udo Dirkschneider, of course, 'Steelhammer' is full of everything fans have come to love about this German institution.

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In The Key Of G was Gilbert s ninth album and his first since winning the groundbreaking legal case against former manager Gordon Mills in 1982. Featuring the singer songwriter in characteristic form, it was recorded over a period of five years in parallel with other projects and originally released in 1989. Highlights include the great lost singles "So What" and "At The Very Mention Of Your Name", along with "Lost A Friend", his heartfelt songwriting response to the death of John Lennon. The distinctive album cover features Gilbert trudging down a cobbled street with a piano under his arm. As resonant an image of the resolute singer/songwriter you're unlikely to find; Gilbert, the unbowed English troubadour.