The fox is on the run again - Mark Fox is back together with SHAKRA! Chris von Rohr said the following after former singer John Prakesh left the band in early 2014: “Let’s bring back together what belongs together”. That being said, it took a while till the early disputes had been put aside but in late summer of 2014 it was clear to everyone that it’s time to do it again! Since that point of time, the whole band shed blood, sweat and tears to finish their new album “High Noon” which will be out on January 29th 2016. SHAKRA have signed with Universal Music for Switzerland while AFM will continue to release the album in the rest of the world.

Stepping away from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens teams up with producer T-Bone Burnett for her 2015 solo debut, Tomorrow Is My Turn. Giddens previously worked with Burnett on Lost on the River, an album where musicians added new music to lyrics Bob Dylan left behind during The Basement Tapes, and she also appeared in a concert he shepherded for the Coen brothers' folk revival opus Inside Llewyn Davis – two projects steeped in history, as is Tomorrow Is My Turn…

Tom Waits' debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within the apparently narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits and producer Jerry Yester manage a surprisingly broad collection of styles…

For much of the 2000s, a revitalized Saxon catered to accepting European power metal audiences with a traditionally rooted but thoroughly modern-sounding heavy metal production; but there's something different about the veteran band's first effort of the 2010s and 19th studio album overall, 2011's Call to Arms…

The Angels is the first album by Australian hard rock band, The Angels, which was released in August 1977. It was produced by Vanda & Young (AC/DC) at Sydney's Albert Studios. It included a re-recorded version of their debut single, "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again" (March 1976) and provided their second single, "You're a Lady Now", in July 1977…

VA - German Top 100 Single Charts (15.02.2016)
MP3 VBR 320 kbps | Tracks: 100 | 05:58:55 | 827 Mb
Genre: Dance, Club, Pop, Rap, Hip-Hop, Rock, R'n'B | Label: VIMN Germany

The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry). Media Control GfK International is the provider of weekly Top-100 single/album, Compilation, Jazz Top-30, Classic Top-20, Schlager Longplay Top-20, Music-DVD Top-20 and the official-Dance (ODC) Top-50 charts.

VA - Now That's What I Call Music! 57 (2016)
MP3 VBR 320 kbps | Tracks: 22 | 01:17:49 | 181 Mb
Genre: Pop | Label: EMI

2016 release. NOW That's What I Call Music! 57 features 16 major current hits from today's hottest artists including Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, Ellie Goulding, Selena Gomez, Flo Rida, The Weeknd, Alessia Cara, Taylor Swift, Daya, DNCE, Andy Grammer, Coldplay, X Ambassadors, Charlie Puth, and Thomas Rhett. NOW 57 also includes a new installment of NOW's enormously-popular "What's Next" developing artist initiative, debuting six free new music preview tracks from up-and-coming stars of tomorrow including The Young Wild, Ben Rector, The Score, Frankie, Transviolet, and Nicky Davey. Now That's What I Call Music is the most successful compilation album series in the history of recorded music. With over 96 million units of the series scanned to date in the US, and a variety of new genre extension, NOW numeric pop albums continue to debut among Billboard's top selling albums four times a year.

This boxed set is a veritable treasure trove, an embarrassment of riches, a golden hoard - you come up with the cliché and I’ll accept it. Released along with other sets to celebrate her 70th birthday it is a remarkable musical record of fabulous achievement packed with superlative performances that simply take the breath away.