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På bandets sjunde studioplatta tar de ett stort steg. De har skrivit bättre låtar, de har inte hyrt in någon producent som tar deras sound till ställen de själv inte vill, och de har med sig sin livetrummis, James Barone, vid inspelningen vilket innebär ett mer levande uttryck. De samarbeter en del med Sonic Boom angående ljudbilden - och resultatet är en skiva som kan vara det bästa de gjort. Inspelade hemma i Baltimore, slutmixad av Alan Moulder i Stamford och Los Angeles.

Beach House är ett populärt band - som släppt många plattor som genomgående tagits emot med öppna armar av skivköparen. De har också, under åren, släppt en rad vassa singlar, och på dessa singlar har det funnits låtar som av en eller annan anledning inte släppts som del av något album. När bandet tittade på vilka låtar deras fans med förkärlek för album missat insåg dom<br/>vilket bra album det skulle bli genom att samla alla dessa. Så nu är det gjort. Det är bra, riktigt bra! Första låten är från 2005 - sista från 2014 - tillsammans bildar dom ett finfint album!

Less than three years after their triumphant, chart-storming comeback record (#1 in Sweden, #3 in Germany) Eyes Of Oblivion, Sweden's most consistently great rock outfit is back with another banger of an album. Overdriver was recorded at Strawberry Studio & The Honk Palace and is the first HELLACOPTERS album entirely produced by Nicke Andersson. As you might expect from a HELLACOPTERS album it's filled to the brim with roaring guitars and earth-shattering grooves, fist-raising energy and anthemic choruses, while keeping the variety richer than ever before. The striking cover for Overdriver was created by German illustrator Max Löffler.

Syntpionjärerna som fick enorma framgångar med låtar som Mer jul och Blinkar blå är tillbaka med ett nytt album. Syntarna är utbytta mot akustiska, organiska instrument i livespelade arrangemang, smakfullt producerade och inspelade. "Det här är första albumet med helt nytt material på 16 år!" betonar Tomas Adolphson. " Roligare och intressantare kan det inte bli, att<br/>ihop med skickliga musiker få forma våra nya sånger som vi jobbat intensivt med de senaste åren". "Det finns ett sammahållet tema," lägger Anders Falk till. "Platsen är ett generöst och varmt tivoli som ger sin föreställning på den mörka årstiden när skymningen faller tidigt". Adolphson & Falk har spelat ihop i snart 50 år! "Om tre år firar vi vårt jubileum! Vem hade kunnat tro det 1968" säger duon i unison och välstämd kör.

50 Cent: The massacre 2005 [CD]

Four albums from the McAuley Schenker Group from the late 80s and early 90s. All with bonus material.<br/><br/>After making his debut at a mere 17 years on Scorpions' first LP 'Lonesome Crow' in 1972, guitar maestro and mad axe-man Michael Schenker spent five years as lead guitarist with the inimitable UFO, before forming The Michael Schenker Group (MSG for short) with singer, Gary Barden, in 1979. With four studio albums and two live records under his belt between 1980 and 1984, Michael returned in 1987 with the 'Perfect Timing' album, fronted by former Grand Prix and Far Corporation singer, Robin McAuley, and a change of name to the McAuley Schenker Group - but still conveniently shortened to MSG. The new look MSG released a total of four albums between 1987 and 1992, starting with the melodic 'Perfect Timing' (1987), followed by 'Save Yourself' (1989), 'M.S.G.' (1992) and finally with 'Unplugged Live' (1992).<br/><br/>'Perfect Timing' features three singles; 'Love Is Not A Game', 'Follow The Night' and the US Hot 100 Hit 'Gimme Your Love', and is certainly the most melodic and AOR-friendly of this batch of albums. 'Save Yourself' followed in 1989. 1991's 'M.S.G.' was certainly a harder, grittier affair than the previous McAuley Schenker releases, and includes the single, 'Never Ending Nightmare'. The much harder, guitar-driven sound was possibly a reaction to grunge that was very much in vogue at the time, whereas 'Perfect Timing' was a good reflection of the more commercial, glam sounds and hair-metal that was the height of fashion in the mid-late 1980s.<br/><br/>Thanks in part to MTV's popular Unplugged series of TV broadcasts, albums and videos, going acoustic was certainly very much de rigueur in the early 1990s, which leads us to the fourth and last album in this collection; 1992's 'Unplugged Live'. As well as key McAuley Schenker songs, recorded live in Los Angeles in 1992, the album features three UFO classics; 'Natural Thing', 'Doctor Doctor' and 'Lights Out'. Perfect Timing features the bonus tracks 'Gimme' Your Love' (Edit) and 'Follow The Night' (Edit).<br/><br/>'Save Yourself' is now expanded with 'There Has To Be Another Way' (Instrumental), 'Save Yourself' (Single Edit), 'This Is My Heart' (Edit), 'Anytime' (Single Edit), 'Anytime' (Radio Edit), 'Bad Boys' (Acoustic Version).<br/><br/>'M.S.G.' now features 'When I'm Gone' (Single Edit), 'Nightmare' (Single Edit), 'When I'm Gone' (Acoustic Version), 'When I'm Gone' (Alternative CHR Version) and 'Nightmare' (AOR Version).<br/><br/>Unplugged Live is completed by a take of UFO's 'Only You Can Rock Me', 'Anytime' (Acoustic Version), 'What Happens To Me' (Acoustic Version), 'We Believe In Love' (Acoustic Version) and 'Never Ending Nightmare' (Acoustic CHR Version) taken from the unplugged in the studio Japanese only mini-album 'Nightmare: The Acoustic MSG'.

Hawkins Coleman: Bean's talking again 1949-53 [CD]