Little Earthquakesis the debut solo album of singer/songwriter Tori Amos, featuring the singles "Silent All These Years", "China", "Winter" and "Crucify".

Australia's The Radio Sun have been very busy since they formed in 2012. With past members from the excellent Square One and some of Melbourne's best local musos, The Radio Sun are about catchy rocking songs with an emphasis on layered vocal harmonies somewhere in between Rick Springfield, Nelson, Firehouse and The Marvelous 3.

Steve Tilston is acknowledged as one of the folk music's finest guitarists as well as being an outstanding singer/songwriter. He has been performing and touring regularly worldwide since the mid-1960s and has made a host of critically and publicly-lauded albums during the period. Life By Misadventure was first released in 1987 on the Run River label…

If Fleetwood Mac, Humble Pie, and Foghat were never formed, Free would be considered one of the greatest post-Beatles blues-rock bands to date, and Fire and Water shows why. Conceptually fresh, with a great, roots-oriented, Band-like feel, Free distinguished itself with the public like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple did (in terms of impact, only) in 1970…

Salute is the new project from Last Autumn's Dream vocalist Mikael Erlandsson (voice: melodic, gritty and raspy, with strength and range) Sweden's best answer Bryan Adams. On board with him is fine guitarist and producer Martin Kronlund (DogFace, Gypsy Rose, White Wolf). If you dig anything and everything from LAD, you will love Salute's debut Toy Soldier. Toy Soldier is well composed and performed solid melodic hard rock from two individuals who know how to do it.

Brilliant Classics continues its famous Composer Edition series with one of the giants of the Baroque, George Frideric Handel, the celebrated German who settled in London. Having absorbed the German and Italian styles of his time he formed his own distinctive musical language, which, while following the current fashions and audience preferences, retained his own deep humanity and inner power.

Alicia Keys was good when she represented lesbian gangsta chic. The moment she stepped out of that, partly due to the hype machine of Clive Davis, her music went downhill from that point on. With hit songs such as "Fallin'", "Girlfriend", "A Woman's Worth", "You Don't Know My Name" and "Karma", Keys was a powerhouse but getting the pop dollar moved her out of being worthy and talented on her own terms. Her first two CD's focused on what she was like before pop success ruined her and maybe she was aiming for this the entire time.