Italy’s Industrial/ Black Metal psychos return! Aborym’s negative energy pulses and flows strongly through every dark circuit of Psychogrotesque. Psychogrotesque powers up the album which features Karyn Crisis (Crisis) and Bard Faust (Emperor/ Blood Tsunami). One of Black Metal’s most original innovators, this will appeal to fans of Mayhem, Abigor, Rammstein and Ministry.

A second album from Manchester's improvising electronic/folk auteur Denis Jones, Red + Yellow = aims to transfer al the ingenuity of his renowned live shows into a studio environment, recruiting a host of additional personnel from across Manchester's live scene.

When Dwight Yoakam burst onto the charts with his first album in 1986, he was the young honky tonk firebrand who set out to remind Nashville of its noble past and celebrate the accomplishments of Bakersfield heroes such as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. The irony is that nearly 20 years later, Yoakam is in pretty much the same boat as the artists he championed in the 1980s – he's a respected veteran of the country scene who still has a loyal audience but lost the interest of the major labels and isn't drawing the attention he used to get. But if any of this troubles him, you'd never guess to listen to 2005's Blame the Vain, which is his sharpest and liveliest set in some time……

William Kearney aka Guitar Shorty keeps it lean, mean and direct on this outing. Recorded in New Orleans, this session features his regular road band, abetted by Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff and some top N.O. players like Buckwheat Zydeco bassist Lee Allen Zeno…..

With the exception of a live version of "Flute Thing" from the Blues Project's 1973 reunion concert included only on the CD version, this compilation is culled entirely from the albums Live at the Cafe Au-Go-Go, Projections, and The Blues Project Live at Town Hall, all recorded and released in the period 1966-1967…..

Ray Reed's story reads like a history of the blues. Born in 1940 to sharecropper parents in a small Texas town, he bought his very first guitar with money he saved from working in the cotton fields. He learned about the blues from his uncle, his granddad, and from listening to records on his grandma's Victrola. 1964 saw him playing gigs all over Fort Worth in a band with his sister, Lady Pearl, and her husband, Clarence Pierce. Raising his 11 children took precedence over playing music, and in the 70's Reed put down the guitar and picked up a set of auto mechanics tools……