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Winterhawk was formed in Chicago in 1977. Don't confuse them with the San Francisco based band of the same name.
This their second studio album was recorded in 1992 but it didn't get a release until 2003. More»


Welcome To The Neighbourhood is created as a concept album as all the tracks are ordered to tell a story about a relationship throughout the years. The album was a follow-up to the mega hit Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell. The 2011 Collectors Edition includes additional 4 bonus tracks and a 2nd bonus disc recorded Live In Concert at the Beacon Theatre, New York 1995 (except track 10 & 11 recorded Live 1989). More»


Night After Night is the first release of all new material since 2009’s Speed Of Life and a followup to their 2022 project, Dirt Does Dylan. Night After Night was produced by Jerry Douglas and features longtime band members Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, and Bob Carpenter joined by Jaime Hanna, Ross Holmes, and Jim Photoglo. More»


"Cruel And Gentle Things" is the fifth album released by Charlie Sexton. The album was released 10 years after his previous album "Under The Wishing Tree". During this period Charlie Sexton had played with Bob Dylan at his Austin, Texas concert in 1996 and in 1999 Sexton was hired by Dylan to replace Bucky Baxter. More»


In 1987 Patty Smyth released her first solo album. The album was never supposed to be a solo record; it was meant to be a record by Scandal Featuring Patty Smyth, but the band had dissolved after the tour of the Warrior album. Though she would later have success as a songwriter, Smyth cowrote only the album's first and last tracks. The first, the title track, a slightly rewrite of the song with the same title from The Hooters self-titled debut, and the closing track of the album. More»


In April 2019 The Black Bullets announced they had decided to dissolve the band. Since the bands formation in February 2012 at Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom they have released at least 6 EP's and several singles. Lead singer Billy Tee has since joined The Suicide Notes. More»


This album has since it's release been regarded as a solo album from Chris Buck. Essentially this is not correct. It is true that the album is a follow-up to the 2008 album "Progasaurus", but 3 Crows is in fact a joint project founded in 2011 by Chris Buck, Brett Garsed and Virgil Donatti. The self-titled debut was recorded with various additional members including Marco Minneman (drums), George Whitty (keyboard solos), Chris Taylor (guitar, keyboards) and Andy Kodiwein (guitar). More»


Van Halen Taps into a mean streak on Fair Warning: The darkest and fiercest album of the band's career the double-platinum 1981 record sounds unrelenting on Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition Hybrid SACD: the audiophile reissue plays with stunning dynamics. More»



A Universe of Pop: Fleetwood Mac’s Tango in the Night Features Meticulous Production. Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Tango in the Night presents the 1987 record in audiophile sound for the first time. Everything co-producers Buckingham and Richard Dashut sought to instill in the music, More»


Fleetwood Mac-Mirage. Numbered edition Hybrid SACD. Plays with absorbing clarity and insightful detail. Fleetwod Mac delivers soft-rock bliss on album featuring addictive pop hooks and three Top 25 hits! Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition Hybrid SACD presents Mirage in reference sound. The efforts co-producers/engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut went to capture the splintered albeit formidable band can be heard with stunning accuracy, range, depth, and detail. More»


Tow Truck formed in 1998 in the town of Rothsay Minnesota. Rothsay is a small farming community, population 450, and is located about 200 miles south of the Canadian border. The band didn't let that stop them from writing the kind of music that has influenced and inspired them. We are talking about music from the real south, with sounds of harmony guitars, solid drums and driving bass. More»


Tom Petty’s estate have teamed up with Third Man Records to release a vinyl-only live set for the first time. The Gennaro Tapes (Live In Edinburgh 1982) is a triple album capturing a set at the Edinburgh Playhouse in Scotland at the close of 1982, just about a month after “Long After Dark” hit record store shelves. The set was captured on cassette from the soundboard by one of the band’s most loyal road crew members, house mixer Gennaro Rippo, and “has not been touched since the day it was captured, pressed directly from cassette to vinyl.” More»


Dreamzfate is an American heavy metal / power metal band from Tampa, Florida. Formed In 1999, The band released their debut self-titled CD in June 2001. This release has received great reviews from many parts of the world. The Band released their second CD entitled “Pound That Rock”, a four song EP in 2003 and their third effort "Rize" in 2007. More»


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