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Since the early 90s Hames House primarily worked as a songwriter collaborating with artists like Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Danny O'Keef and many others. Songwriters Serenade is his second album of songs written in collaboration with some of the industry's biggest names. More»


Blues rock guitarist Cliff Stevens is an award-winning artist from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has played the blues and toured for several decades all over the world. In 2009 he released his first album. The self titled album was reissued in 2013 renamed "Feelin' The Blues" with a different track order and omitting 4 tracks from the original release. More»


Rock Star is a 2001 American musical comedy-drama film starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston. It tells the story of Chris "Izzy" Cole, a tribute band singer who ascended to the position of lead vocalist of his favorite band. The singing voice for Wahlberg's character was provided by Steelheart frontman Miljenko Matijevic for the Steel Dragon Songs. More»


6CD box set of previously unreleased BBC recordings consisting of 5 CDs of live shows recorded 1990-1994 and a 6th CD of acoustic live sessions recorded 1992-1995. The recordings were remastered by Andy Pearce. More»


With bands like the Killers, Interpol, and Franz Ferdinand breaking through in 2005, former Cars guitarist Elliot Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes got to thinking. With all this '80s-influenced music appearing on the pop charts, perhaps it was time to revive the Cars and reconnect with music fans. More»


After the announcement in 2020 of the reformation of Black Spiders they released the 4 track EP Deaf Proof in February 2021. In March they released their self-titled album which would reach No. 7 at the UK Independent Albums Chart. More»


Prizoner was formed in 1980 by Tim Keyes, Paul Hoffman, Chuck Campbell, and Bill Parsons in a garage in northeastern suburbs of Cincinnati. Shortly thereafter Paul was replaced by Billy’s friend Scott McCroby. Tim got an offer and left to join the regionally successful “Powerplay” where he met drummer Stephen Schwarz. More»


Second album from the Canadian new wave / glam rock band. Kenny MacLean joined the band in time for the album, which went quintuple platinum, the group's high-water mark of success. Hits from the second album included "Situation Critical", "Crying Over You", "Somebody Somewhere", and "Hungry Eyes". More»


Expanded and remastered version of the classic album. Disc one is a remaster of the original 1975 album mix with an addition of 8 bonus tracks of which 4 tracks are previously unreleased recordings. Disc two is the new Steven Wilson remix of the album with the addition of 5 bonus tracks including 2 previously unreleased versions. More»


2 CD set anthologising all the recordings made by the legendary STRAY for Pye Records and its imprint Dawn Records between 1975 & 1976. After five remarkable albums and tours with some legendary names in rock such as Black Sabbath, The Groundhogs, Status Quo and Ten Years After, Stray signed to the Pye Records label in 1975. More»


Herbs, Roots, Barks, Etc. is the second album release from the Helen Turner fronted blues rockers. Since their first album Andy Jones has left the band and the duties on the drums has since 2019 been handled by Steve Weaver (Bad Boy Boogie, Tote Perello). More»


The Rat mansion EP would turn out to be the last release from Sheffield based Black Spiders before their break-up announced in 2016. Their last performance was at Sheffield Corporation on 16 June 2017. In September 2020, the band announced that they have reformed and would be recording new material and playing live again with new drummer Wyatt Wendels. More»


Australian guitarist / keyboardist / composer / vocalist Ben Craven continues on a mission to bring his music to the ears of progressive rock audiences far and wide. On the track “Spy In The Sky Pt. 3” Ben enlists the help of spoken work recording artist and Star Trek legend William Shatner and Yes member Billy Sherwood on a track finished in L.A. More»


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