2007 - The Eagles - Long Run Out Of Eden !!

• 20 new recordings ! 2 Discs !
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• Six years in production, 'Long Road Out Of Eden' is the seventh studio album from country rock mainstays The Eagles
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• Recording began a full 22 years after the release of their previous opus with a tweaked line-up (following Don Felder's dismissal in 2001) and some instrumental augmentations.
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• Lead single 'How Long' adheres to the musical templates the band is known for, but album tracks such as the ten-minute epic title track showcase the wider scope of earlier successes suchas 'Hotel California'.
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• Eagerly anticipated by their aging fanbase, 'Long Road Out Of Eden' is a worthy continuation of the Eagles story.
  

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2007 - Backstreet Boys - Unbreakable !!

This follow-up to the Backstreet Boys' successful 2005 comeback marks their sixth studio effort, and probably the most varied presentation of material in their canon. The trademark harmonies are still in full, glorious effect (minus one voice, that of Kevin Richardson, who left the group to pursue an acting career), enriched by a more rocking sound and the presence of live instrumentation instead of programmed keyboards and beats. The first single, "Inconsolable," is a piano-laced weeper that already charted high before the release of the album.

In stores for Halloween !

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1991 - Yes - Union !!

While Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe went their own way, Yes were working on their follow-up to "Big Generator". The band had been shopping around for a new singer in case Anderson would not be involved. They worked with ex-Supertramp Roger Hodgson, and songwriter Billy Sherwood of World Trade. Hodgson enjoyed working with the group; but thought it unwise to attempt to pass off the music as Yes. Other names were being mentioned as possible replacements, most notably Steve Walsh of the band Kansas. However Walsh was almost immediately dropped from consideration as it was felt that his vocal styling would not mesh with the current sound that the band was trying to produce at the time.

Arista, ABWH's new label, encouraged ABWH to seek outside songwriters, and Trevor Rabin ultimately sent a demo. Predictably, Arista sensed the commercial possibility of a union of Yes and ABWH. This would lead to the end of Yes having new albums released by Atlantic Records after more than 20 years of their initial recording contract.

Throughout early 1991, phone calls were made, lawyers soothed, and agreements were struck, with Yes joining ABWH for the Union album. Each group did its own songs, with Jon Anderson singing on all of the vocal tracks, and Steve Howe contributing a trademark acoustic guitar solo. Chris Squire sang backing vocals on a few of the ABWH tracks (with Tony Levin doing all the bass on those songs). None of the songs on "Union" featured all eight members at once.

The collective work of both factions yield a tour de force. These fourteen songs far exceed anything that the individuals involved, solo or otherwise, have recorded since "90125". The record has something for everyone: arena-scale rockers that outperform anything on "Big Generator", complex arrangements that succeed where the first ABWH album failed and individual contributions that ooze with atmosphere.

Steve Howe's inspired guitar licks (including another acoustic solo piece, "Masquerade"), Bill Bruford's off-kilter drumming, the decision to allow Tony Levin's bass to fill the same space as Chris Squire once did, Trevor Rabin's dead-on hooks, and Jon Anderson's voice paired once again with Squire. "Union" really does represent the best of both worlds. Where "Big Generator" sounded mechanical, "Union" feels organic; where the ABWH experiment lacked direction, here it is focused like a high-powered laser. Each of the fourteen tracks is a miniature treasure for fans, but even so some moments rise to the top: "Lift Me Up", "Saving My Heart", "Miracle of Life", "Silent Talking", "I Would Have Waited Forever", "Shock to the System" and "Dangerous (Look in the Light of What You're Searching For)" belong with their best tracks from the '80s and '90s.

If Yes seemed to take its heritage lightly with "Drama", "Union" settles the score with fans. As a further treat, the entire lineup supported the album with a live tour.

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2007 - Feist - The Reminder !!

Feist is the solo project of Canada's Leslie Feist, a prolific artist who has also played in one capacity or another with Broken Social Scene, Kings of Convenience and half a dozen other bands. The Reminder, her third release, comes from the same well of quiet, appealing songwriting, and delicate vocalizations that made 2004's Let It Die such a sweet treat. This one is a bit more hushed and ballad heavy, closer to Cat Power than Peaches (with whom Feist has also worked with in the past) but maintains an indie-minded blend of confessional pop, jazzy folk, and lo-fi torch songs. The comparatively upbeat single "My Moon My Man" splits her voice off into unexpected harmonies, just dissonant enough to stick in your head. It's hard to predict where her melodies are going to end up; "Brandy Alexander" starts with a simple snap-pulse, and gradually unfolds into a cathartic chorus of sweeping vocal overlays. Throughout, the record profits from a simple, unfussy aesthetic that keeps the production minimal and the emphasis squarely on Feist's cracking, wistful vibrato. Everything sounds deliberate, but not obsessed over, like an e-mailed wedding invitation. It's a low-pressure vibe, welcoming and content to linger. And linger you will.

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2007 - Orson - Culture Vultures !!

2007 UK pressing of the sophomore album from the L.A. band who had to travel overseas to make a splash in the music biz. Culture Vultures promises Orson’s default Pop spirit while leaning towards a more raw, live sound. 'We wanted this record to reflect our shows,' says singer, Jason Pebworth. 'There’s been this idea that we’re a bunch of guys who were brought together to make a studio album, and for some people, that’s a really bad thing. The reality is that we’ve been a loud, dirty rock band with noisy guitars and heavy drums for eight years now. It's a ballsy, foot to the floor, party record that comes dappled with pop hooks and shower-friendly melodies. This is, after all, what Orson do best. Features the single 'Ain't No Party'.

In stores October 23 !

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2007 - Santana - Ultimate !!

Undoubtingly, when it comes to great music these days, we really don't seem to hear anything good on the radio. Back in 1999, we were reminded of what great music was like to a whole new generation. When santana, returned to the airwaves with his smash collaborations comeback album, Supernatural, many listeners were introduced to a guitar legend who has thrived for over 4 decades of great music. Yet, there have been so many different hits collections that really have shown Santana in many ways, but there hasn't been one that shows the best of his recent comeback era. That answer has been called for on this new hits collection that reintroduces the old, and expands the anew.

The 2007 Ultimate Santana brings in his four decades of great rock music, blending Carlos Santana's blend of Rock that spans as a nice reintroduction to his greatest works. The collection mainly focuses in on his comeback period from 1999's Supernatural to today. The collection is all about his collaborations here, including some new recordings that continue to try to capture his spiritual light. The collection includes some of his classics like Evil Ways and Black Magic Woman from his first era, while his second era includes great collaborations including the smash Smooth with Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Put You Light On with ex-rapper Everlast, and the upbeat and down to Earth The Game Of Love with Michelle Branch, and a never-before heard rendidition of that song with Tina Turner. The collection also brings in some new blood with collaborations with Jennifer Lopez on This Boy's Fire, and Chad Kroger from Nickelback on Into The Light, which are fair but not anything to rave over.

While the album does overlook Santana's 80's period, and a few great songs like I Feel For You with Michelle Branch, Ultimate Santana is a welcoming greatest hits album for new fans as well as those who just want the die hard hits. It works as a great hits package for your music collection, and I still enjoy listening to Carlos and his guitar soul, and that is Smooth.

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2007 - Norah Jones - Not Too Late !!

Although the music of Norah Jones continues to blend pop, soul, folk, and country with a seasoning of jazz, her third album for Blue Note is the first where she's written (or collaborated on) all the material. Beneath the smooth surface lie darker strains on the album-opening "Wish I Could" (about a boyfriend lost to war), intimations of mortality in "The Sun Doesn't Like You," and the post-election horrors of "My Dear Country." The last seems to channel the inspiration of Brecht/Weill, while the equally bleak "Sinkin' Soon" is set to a jaunty Dixieland rag. Throughout, Jones's vocal intimacy and melodic warmth remain as disarmingly understated as ever. The soulful "Thinking of You," the countryish "Wake Me Up," and the syncopated "Be My Somebody" reflect the captivating style of her previous work. Although too much in the same midtempo mode becomes a dreamy lull, cut by cut, Jones's voice is irresistible.

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2007 - Enigma - Inspired and Remixed !!

In late March 2007, a special "Private Lounge Remix" album version of A Posteriori was released on the Apple iTunes music store. This compilation includes 12 new remixed tracks from the album by artists such as Boca Junior, Tocadisco, etc. Some of these tracks were available previously on the original A Posteriori iTunes album and on the abovementioned DVD release.

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2007 - R.E.M. - R.E.M. Live !!

R.E.M. Live is a live album from R.E.M., recorded at the Point Theatre, Dublin on February 26 and February 27, 2005, the closing nights of the winter European leg of the Around The World Tour in support of their thirteenth studio album Around the Sun released in late 2004. It is slated for release in the UK on 15 October 2007 and in the US a day later as a two-CD audio set and a DVD. The performance was filmed by Blue Leach.

R.E.M. Live features rare performances of "I Took Your Name" from 1994's Monster and "Ascent of Man" from Around The Sun as well as the previously unreleased "I'm Gonna DJ."

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2007 - Radiohead - In Rainbows !!

As you've, no doubt heard by now, Radiohead are releasing In Rainbows, their seventh studio album, in two different formats: a basic DRM-free download version that costs whatever you want that's available October 10th, and a deluxe boxed version that includes a double vinyl disc, a book, eight bonus tracks and two CDs, out the first week of December (it also comes with a DRM-free download that actives on October 10th).

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2007 - Katie Melua - Pictures !!

2007 album from the UK singer/songwriter, her third album overall. Equal parts Pop, Folk and Blues, Pictures builds upon Katie's successes as one of Britain's finest female artists and shows her experimenting and growing as a songwriter extraordinaire. 12 tracks including the first single 'If You Were A Sailboat'. !!

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2007 - Acoustic Alchemy - This Way !!

Acoustic Alchemy are the British acoustic guitar duo of Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale, and with "This Way" they are celebrating a remarkable two decades since their debut with 1987's Red Dust. For all this time they have been a quiet phenomenom, constantly topping the jazz charts in the USA, being nominated for GRAMMY's and touring the world. Following the pop-soul vibe of 2005's "American English", the duo have delivered their most aggressive and swinging, hard rocking and artfully jazzy disc to date. The regular touring/recording band of Terry Disley, Snake Davis, Fred White, Julian Crampton and Greg Grainger are joined by guests such as the buzz-of-today pianist Neil Cowley, trumpeter Rick Braun, saxman Jeff Kashiwa and, on the reggae-tinged Ernie, the great Specials Trombonist, Dennis Rollins. Just two tracks, "Out of Nowhere" and "This Way" feature only the duo - the rest are a fine mix of old-school soul/jazz, funk, reggae, and rock with a mixture of electric guitars, acoustic guitars and the horn section all combining to create a smooth but completely passionate album of classy jazzy guitar music.

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2007 - Chicago - The Best Of Chicago !!

Formed in its namesake city in 1967, Chicago is the first American band ever to chart albums in Billboard®’s Pop Top 40 in five consecutive decades. In 2002, Rhino entered into a long-term partnership with this extraordinary group to restore their extensive, genre-defying catalogue as well as develop new projects (such as 2006’s XXX, their first new studio album in a decade). Now Rhino adds to Chicago’s legacy and salutes their 40th anniversary with a newly compiled 2-CD collection that spans their entire recording history, from the stellar 1969 debut LP Chicago Transit Authority to Chicago XXX. With a career encompassing five consecutive #1 albums, 13 platinum albums, 21 Top 10 singles, and many other laurels, Chicago is among the most successfully charting American groups of all time.

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2007 - Loverboy - Just Getting Started !!

After more than 35 Million records and soundtracks sold worldwide, multiple platinum and gold albums from around the world including “Working for the Weekend,” “Turn Me Loose” and “When It’s Over”. Loverboy is one of Canada’s most successful bands and is “JUST GETTING STARTED” with their first studio album in over a decade with ten new original tracks produced by some of today’s hottest hit makers in North America. Teamed up with the RockSTAR Music Corp. record label and collaborative efforts of the biggest names in the industry, including DEF LEPPARD, Steve Kipner (Natasha Bedingfield, Christina Aguilera, Chicago), Eddie Schwartz (Rascall Flatts, Pat Benatar), and the RockSTAR team who have collectively sold over 200 million records worldwide with artists including Jessica Simpson, The Corrs, Kool & The Gang,Luther Vandross, George Clinton, Rosette, and 98 Degrees, Loverboy is back and stronger than ever! It won’t take long before LOVERBOY proves again why they are one of the biggest bands of all time. From their very first radio spin of the new single“The One That Got Away”, reported radio station phones and message boards have been lighting up with anticipation for the new critically acclaimed album !

In record stored in Canada late October and in the States sometime in November !!

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2007 - Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton !!

After a busy year filled with a world tour, an epic guitar festival and a highly-anticipated autobiography, comes the ultimate career CD retrospective for the artist known as Slowhand. Complete Clapton will be a 2-disc career-spanning album released by Reprise Records on October 9, 2007, the same day as Clapton, The Autobiography is released to bookstores nationwide. This will be the first time the full breadth of Clapton's musical works are contained in one set.

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2007 - Marc Cohn - Join The Parade !!

GRAMMY® AWARD WINNER MARC COHN RETURNS WITH HIS FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN NEARLY A DECADE MARC COHN Join The Parade It has been nearly a decade since American singer/songwriter Marc Cohn last released a studio album. It has been fifteen years (1992) since he won the Grammy® Award for Best New Artist. Best known for his colossal hit "Walking In Memphis," Cohn returns with a new, passionate and poignant recording JOIN THE PARADE, to be released on October 9th. JOIN THE PARADE is the product of a personal journey. A recording of 10 songs that share a common theme woven from both Cohn's empathic observations after Hurricane Katrina and from a 2005 incident during which the singer found himself the victim of a carjacking in Denver, which left him with a gunshot wound to the head. JOIN THE PARADE is introspective. It is one man's look at the beauty of life through its fragility--spiritually moving and inspirational. Co-produced by long-time guitarist and Bob Dylan band member Charlie Sexton, the album was recorded over a period of a year both in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. JOIN THE PARADE is a long overdue album that serves to solidify Cohn's already well-known reputation as a great American songwriter.

In stores October 9 !!

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2007 - Kid Rock - Rock and Roll Jesus !!

Rock Is Back. After 22 million records sold in the US and a three year hiatus, Kid Rock is back with the brand new album 'Rock N Roll Jesus'. Kid Rock hustled in the Detroit underground for over ten years before he burst into the mainstream in 1999 with the timeless rock anthem "Bawitdaba." Other hits like "Cowboy" and "American Bad A**" followed while ballads like his "Picture" duet with Sheryl Crow and "Only God Knows Why" helped to propel him forward as one of the greatest artists of our time. His latest offering Rock N Roll Jesus is no exception, running the gamut from hard rock to hip-hop to country and soul. Of the album, which Rock co-produced with Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, My Chemical Romance), he says: "I am proud of every single song on this record. It works from start to finish."

In stores October 9 !!

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2007 - Genesis - Turn It On Again - The Hits !! (IMPORT)

2007 Special Double CD Edition of the Anthology of the Former 1970's Progresssive Rock Band who in the 1980's Became One of the the World's Biggest Selling Pop Bands. This Edition was Created to Celebrate the Group's 2007 World Reunion Tour that Brings the "...and Then There were Three" Trio Back Together Once Again. The Second Disc of this Special Set Includes One off Singles Like "Paperlate" and "Pigeons" (From the UK "Match of the Day EP"), as Well as "Follow You, Follow Me", "Misunderstanding", "Many Too Many" and the Ray Wilson Lead "Congo".

In Stores October 8 !!

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2007 - Hard Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West !!

Hard-Fi are approaching a dramatic new apex in their career. Critically acclaimed, commercially successful and tower block tall, the West London four-piece continue to reinvigorate music with raw sounds and instant, merciless beats. Neither bound by musical restriction or industry expectation, they follow their blazing, genre-defining Number 1 U.K. debut ‘Stars of CCTV’ with the eagerly anticipated ‘Once Upon A Time In The West.’ The album sees the British band returning with a fully loaded arsenal of category-defying pop grenades, melding genre-hopping beats, Motown hooks, and rock ‘n’ roll swagger into its own indefinable, undeniable sound. In short, Hard-Fi are the sound of now.

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2007 - Pet Shop Boys - Disco 4 !!

Disco 4 is the eighteenth album by Synth Pop legends The Pet Shop Boys it is also the fourth in the duo's very own 'Disco' series. This is a compilation of remixes of their own songs and remixes of other artists. Yoko Ono, Madonna and David Bowie are some of the lucky few to get remixed on this series. It also includes the 'Maxi-Mix remixes of songs such as 'Sorry' by Madonna and 'I'm With Stupid' which was only available on the Japanese release of the album Fundamental. So, come and join Neil and Chris at your local disco and expect to have a hell of a time! Eight tracks. EMI.

Get It In Stores October 15 !

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2007 - Dave Gahan - Hourglass !!

Best known as the iconic frontman of Depeche Mode, Dave Gahan continues his impressive career with a blazing new album produced by Dave with Christian Eigner & Andrew Phillpott. Sonically, Hourglass cuts across a range of influences and styles with grace. Decidedly more electronic than his previous solo work, he has seamlessly swapped the guitar of Paper Monsters for the synthesizer he epitomizes so well.

Buy it in Stores October 23 !

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2007 - Matchbox Twenty - Exile on Mainstream !!

After 28 million records sold worldwide, 5 Grammy nominations,
and more #1 hits and weeks at #1 than any other artist in history
at Adult Top 40 and Modern AC, Melisma/Atlantic recording group
matchbox twenty is overdue for a Greatest Hits package. In order to
create something truly special for their fans, the band returned to the
studio to record their first new material in five years. Grammy-winning
producer Steve Lillywhite oversaw the sessions in L.A., marking the
band s first work with the renowned producer - whose credits include
the likes of U2, The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews Band, Peter
Gabriel, Talking Heads, and many others. Out of the session came
six brand-new songs, turning the package into a new EP with a
bonus of 11 matchbox twenty hits. The new tracks also mark their
first recordings as a foursome.

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