Oakland/San Francisco-area bluesman Tucker sings in a manner undeniably derivative of Bobby "Blue" Bland, and he stands in this style quite strongly. A horn section adds extra juice, but it is the pianist/organist Bill Heid who really provides the spark that powers this full bodied authentic blues machine….

Broadway: Mississippi to Monterey album by John "Broadway" Tucker was released Oct 12, 1999 on the Messaround label. West Coast blues singer goes back to his roots & pays tribute to some of his early influences on this eclectic acoustic blues recording - he's joined by S.F. Bay Area harpist Gary Smith, among others; Tucker's soulful voice & persona shines through on 10–by cduniverse

Gold Dust is the thirteenth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos

Resident Evil: Retribution OST (2012)
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Genre: Soundtrack

Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth chapter is the successful Resident Evil franchise. Following the success of the previous soundtrack to Afterlife, this new chapter is again scored by composing duo, Tomandandy. The soundtrack will also feature the exclusive end credit song produced by dub step heavyweight, Bassnectar featuring Chino Moreno (of the Deftones) on vocals.

Second album from this Swedish Death Metal outfit. Some of the best, most crushing old-school Swedish death out there right now.

Dethklok present Metalocalypse: Dethklok Dethalbum III, the highly anticipated follow up that fans have been begging for.Metalocalypse, Dethalbum III Deluxe Edition offers 12 tracks that are more brutal than ever before. Prepare for an onslaught of bone-crunching Nordic riffs that will force you to your knees. The Metalocalypse has begun.

Sharrie Williams has a powerful voice, with a range that can reach and rattle the castle tower one minute, while soothing the soul of a crying child the next, she possess an unaffected nature, which gives her grace and a sensibility that pays homage to the great female artist of rock and blues without ever being imitative, in short, Sharrie Williams is the real deal, a true original. She brings you in, by singing her insides out, hearing her is a pure delight, but seeing her perform will make you a believer.

Pancrace Royer's First Book of Harpsichord Pieces demonstrates how much the harpsichord tried to change to meet the challenge of the upstart pianoforte. These works push the instrument to its technical limits, showing an astonishing variety and quality of music.

Alexander Bryce

Joe Sample is a master to his own. His inspiration motives are always enrooted in the joy of living; that's why his interpretative freshness and constant innovation. As he states in the inner pages of the album: "In the ashes of the endangered species, the only way out is rebirth." All the CD is mesmerizing. With special emphasis on the tracks: Ashes to ashes, The road less traveled, the dreamy Phoenix and obviously the exquisite I 'll love you.

Monuments Emerge chronicles the work of Asian-American composer Nicholas Vasallo (b. 1979). Fusing Western classical music, Asian classical music, and heavy metal, Vasallo's work plumbs the inner depths where these traditions unite, finding their roots in order to draw them out into vast sonic landscapes. Vasallo is pulling threads together, even as he seeks to push at the boundaries that have traditionally separated musical traditions.

Impressionistic, jazzy, expressionistic, and composed by a Jewish Communist in l932, Flammen didn't stand a chance with the Nazis. But it's a marvelous work—inventive, entertaining, possibly unique. The libretto is only 38 pages long; more than a third of the music is orchestral. Don Juan is at the opera's center, but here he is condemned to passion and life—he can find no eternal rest. He travels from time to time and place to place; his conquests give him no joy despite the fact that he wreaks havoc wherever he goes. (…) John Mauceri leads a tight, riveting performance, and Decca allows us to hear this hallucinatory score in all its glory.

— Robert Levine, ClassicsToday.com

The Symphony of Sirens. In 1922 Arseni Avraamov composed and conducted a visionary public sound event, activating the entire port city of Baku: its factory sirens, the ships horns of the entire Caspian flotilla, two batteries of artillery, several full infantry regiments, trucks, seaplanes, 25 steam locomotives, an array of pitched whistles and several massive choirs. Constantly referenced but forever lost, this extraordinary event is here painstakingly reconstructed and spatialised to approximate the original experience.

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