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The German superstar and his band filmed at the closing night of the 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival. Style: Pop

Bandstand, from 1972, is Family's best known and most successful album and contains the band's biggest hit, Burlesque, and the classic ballad, My Friend The Sun. The last album to feature John Wetton, prior to his departure to King Crimson, Bandstand feat Record Label: Madfish Style: Rock/Blues

Limited deluxe special edition: Double CD in 8 page 7" (!) special format digipak. Bonus CD containing five special live tracks featuring extraspecial guest Ally on violin. 48 page special booklet (184 x 184 mm), high-grade art print on high-quality 170g art paper with lavish Singer® sewn signatures. The booklet contains all of the lyrics and additional artwork. Foldout poster (561 x 374 mm approx) designed by Timo Würz and also on high-quality 170g art paper. All printed parts have been semigloss laminated for a high-quality finish. Enclosed in an open-ended slipcase. Strictly limited to 3999 copies worldwide Record Label: Trisol Music Group Style: Rock

Songs as armour – the ‘GeistErfahrer’ EP consists of six new ASP pieces dealing with the impending end of the world. ASP are a phenomenon in the German music scene. For years now they have been tirelessly, with blazing passion, winning themselves an audience far beyond any scene boundaries. At the same time they are true to themselves and their music and regularly manage to achieve high positions in the official German music charts – completely without currying favour with the mainstream. Fans of challenging lyrics and profound rock music have long since been aware that songs of great strength and soothing melancholy are hidden away behind the gruesome make-up and the often-alarming content. Up to now, hardly any band has managed to deliver entertaining content which doesn’t shy away from socio-critical topics and yet be able to incorporate it so skillfully into the atmospheric cosmos of a project such as this. But this time around Asp Spreng doesn’t deliver an overall concept, in contrast to the successful album ‘fremd’, which was exceptionally interconnected, both musically and in terms of its content. He delivers an EP with six previously unreleased songs, each of which stands up in its own right and tells its own sombre story. Granted, on first hearing you definitely wouldn’t regard these pieces as thin gruel. However, when you come to get to grips with the compositions, their complete dramatic beauty slowly and inevitably unfolds. Six songs about the impending end of the world, whether in a global context or in the totally intimate spheres of private fear and loss. In six new songs, ASP swim against the rampant societal illness of superficiality both musically and lyrically and don’t baulk from presenting themselves in a vulnerable light which wasn’t hitherto present. A CD with a playing time of nearly 40 minutes which carries you off into a world full of musical extremes. And yet once again, ASP manage to create something whose strong melodies lend the whole a definite hit sensibility. The furious title track would be just as suitable for a single as the driving wave rocker ‘Carpe noctem’, which could be classified as one of the most beautiful ASP songs of all time. In the eccentric and tragic piece ‘In Sack und Asche’, delicate, fragile piano melodies alternate with metal sounds. With ‘Weichen[t]stellung’, the band finally once more deliver a genuine electro-rock-club firecracker which drives its way mercilessly into the legs and the heart. In ‘ÜberHärte’, the band successfully balance doom metal guitar riffs and tongue in cheek elements borrowed from Neue Deutsche Härte, a genre generally frowned upon by the band. And for the conclusion, the band leaves the listener perplexed and smitten with the epic ‘Danach’, which offers almost ambient-like expanses and delicate acoustic guitar arrangements. Afterwards there is a vacuum which can only be filled by immediately listening to the CD once again before fear of the void, the horror vacui, devours everything anew. These songs creep slowly but inexorably into your ears and heart. And if that wasn’t cruel enough, Asp Spreng’s lyrics are of a quality which is seldom found in popular music of any stripe. Six brand new and pitch-black pieces from ASP, which should be understood with a wink in the eye: more than ever, ASP are ein wahrer Satan who once again playfully and viciously allow their listeners to geisterfahren (English: to drive down a road in the wrong direction). With this release he doesn’t just embark on the kind of gothic pop songs that are currently in vogue, but quite clearly demonstrates how thrilling and multifaceted sombre music can be. Record Label: Trisol Music Group Style: Rock

The brilliance and longevity of Dexys work was recognised in 2003 when they received the Classic Songwriters Award at the 14th Annual Q Awards. Dexys subsequently reformed and embarked on a tour of UK theatres featuring, alongside Kevin, original member Pete Williams, long-term member Mick Talbot (Merton Parkas/Style Council) and new recruit Lucy Morgan on violin. Filmed on November 7th 2003 at The Liverpool Royal Court Theatre, Kevin and Pete share the vocal duties on many of the best known and loved Dexys songs. Kevin's fine vocal form and new suave and sophisticated style prove that Dexys still have the power to captivate their audience in this intimate and highly entertaining show. Features two previously unreleased tracks Manhood & My Life in England. DVD 156 Minutes playing time, in DTS & 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound. Record Label: Audio Visual Style: Pop

Thirst' is the debut album from Somerset based Waves Of Fury. Having already made an excellent early impression with taster single 'Businessman's Guide To Witchcraft', earning them a Guardian New Band Of The Day & Q Track Of The Day in the process, this 10 track debut long player sees Carter Sharp (vocals), Bim Williams (horns), Fil Ward (guitars/vocals), James Macphee (drums) and Jamie Bird (pianos/ vocals) take up the rhythm & blues blueprint and filter it through a 40+ year historical path that encompasses everything from Motown & Stax to The Stooges, Sex Pistols, Spiritualized & The Mary Chain. It's a sonic blast of an album, and a welcome breath of fresh air. Prior to the album being recorded at PJ Harvey's Bristol studio, Waves Of Fury spent several weeks touring the southern states of America. Style: Garage Rock

Record Label: Spiral Groove Style: Rock

Record Label: Particles Style: Rock

LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY!! 12" + mp3 download cards included! Brisbane's King and Queen of country'. The duo's third album was recorded over six days with ARIA winning producer Magoo at his Applewood Lane studios and is by far and away their best and most creative album yet, exploring folk, alt-country and soul and coming out of the tunnel with a timeless record. For the first time the pair took a dedicated band into the studio, with Brisbane pro rhythm section Myka Wallace (drums) and Joe Muller (upright bass) periodically turning the regular Texas Tea sit-down affair into a stand up stomp. GENRE: alt country folk. Style: Garage Rock

This is the shit, mate! Boris Sujdovic did it again! Here you have a brutal sonic attack and then your ears blow due to an O.D. of fuzz and distortion where Scientists, Suicide, Stooges, Velvet Underground and early Jesus & Mary Chain mix and burn. Boris Sujdovic is not exactly a newy. His background and present at Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon and Dubrovniks put him at his place. But here he does what he wants, wild and free. Side A of this LP is only guitar, while side B is only bass. All of it sublime, melting amps and speakers. Too much. NOTE: Don't miss the previous release "fuzz machine" on CD and vinyl EP where the sonic O.D. started Style: Garage Rock

How many great songs do you know about Halloween? Well, rest assured, you'll soon be adding Chuck Prophet's "Castro Halloween" at or near the top of your list. Tis the season, let's get festive with a limited edition 7" on pumpkin-orange vinyl. "Castro Halloween" is the first physical single from Chuck's latest album, "Temple Beautiful", the much lauded ode to his hometown of San Francisco. The B-Side, "I Gotta Get Back", was recorded during the Temple Beautiful sessions, but didn't quite fit with the album's theme. However it does fit well into Prophet's cannon of great rock n roll songs Style: Rock

The LEGENDARY PRIMEVALS are out on Beast Records! 'Heavy War' is a 11 tracks full-lenght vinyl record, 11 pure gems! The Primevals are a Glasgow rock group formed in 1983, who were influenced by the MC5, The Stooges, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, The Gun Club, The Cramps and 1960s US garage rock. GENRE: high energy garage punk swamp rock!! Style: Garage Rock

Record Label: Pristine Style: Stoner Rock

Record Label: Kismet Style: Rock