Ultimate Rarities is a 2CD bootleg by Queen guitarist Brian May. It highlights many of the works he has done since the late 1960's and the many side projects he did in the 80's and 90's. This was released by Tucis.

Michael: The last studio I worked in was a supertech palace in upstate New York and it was minus ten outside. So here I am in a shed with a sod roof, annoying wildlife and helicopters in the warmth of a Cornish spring and miles from my comfort zone. We are so different, the two of us: a perfectionist and a gambler, a planner and a chancer. We might need a referee. This record has been meticulously planned, but I haven’t even heard the songs. I like it that way. The precision and sophistication of the writing and playing blows me away. I am so glad to be involved.

The Early Days contributes to a musical niche with a compilation that serves as a testament to songs that should remain as they soundtracked numerous brilliant nights out.

Terence Trent D'Arby had a difficult 1990s, the nadir of which was probably the desperate mating call Supermodel Sandwich with Cheese from his 1995 album Vibrator. But he has started the new century with a clean slate, changing his name to Sananda Maitreya and launching his own label. The artful blend of soul, rock and funk is reassuringly familiar, though. D'Arby/ Maitreya still exercises a Prince-like control over songwriting, arrangement and production, rendering it a one-man show, but that's no bad thing with an artist of his ability. Drivin' Me Crazy packs enough lust into three funky minutes to satiate his most ardent fans (or "lightbeings", as he calls them), and the outstanding Suga Free pairs dark balladry with an operatic choir. Even the banjo-plinking O Divina comes good in the end, swelling into a Motownesque chorus. A snazzy comeback.

Cut during the fall of 1972, Electric Light Orchestra II was where Jeff Lynne started rebuilding the sound of Electric Light Orchestra following the departure of Roy Wood from the original lineup. It was as personal an effort as Lynne had ever made in music, showcasing his work as singer, songwriter, guitarist, sometime synthesizer player, and producer, and it is more focused than its predecessor but also retains some of the earlier album's lean textures. Lynne, drummer Bev Bevan, bassist Mike D'Albuquerque, and keyboardist Richard Tandy comprise the core of the band, with two cellists and a violinist sawing away around them.

Playing your favorite classic rock, blues and dance songs! ReknRoad is a harmony driven band that delivers hit after hit along with original rock and blues. We are available to play a variety of venues ranging from small wine bar settings with a lower volume acoustic set, to larger parties, bars, and festivals with the full band. We are based in San Jose, CA and travel with all of our own equipment or fit easily into a local sound system. We each have over 25 years of experience. We will work to fit your event needs.

Four years ahead of their second album Shake Electric the Swedish Spiders have spawned another absolutely wonderful classic rock inspired album. Killer Machine is a heavy rock symposium riffing on the swinging sixties within a societal context. It’s making me believe that Rock is the Country music of Gen X, and you know what, it’s honest and sincere; it’s cool and seriously rockin’. Much of Killer Machines’ appeal comes from its excellent rhythm. It’s got groove and splendor with riffs that compliment the pacing through melodic enchantment while now and then dabbling in the odd pastiche to artists gone by. Using pedals and effects to the tune of creating an otherworldly sound scape. Killer Machine has got a rich and detailed texture that feels substantial.

"[The Knells'] lyrics ponder cosmic conditions and cycles — time, space, dissolution, regeneration — and they are sung by three women, often in cascading counterpoint that can invoke Renaissance polyphony or Minimalism. The songs aren't verse-chorus-verse; they sweep ahead, through passages of tolling solo electric guitar, of elegiac vocal melodies and harmonies, of note-bending quasi-Indian strings and guitar, of progressive-rock processionals. The classical training and female harmonies can make the Knells similar to Dirty Projectors, but this band looks toward Europe and tone poems rather than Africa and pop. Instead of hooks there are sustained dramatic arcs, meticulous and serpentine." ~ The New York Times

Alexandra Alden (23) is a Maltese musician who is currently residing in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she is studying Jazz music at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (CODARTS). Alexandra's family moved to Germany when she was two and they lived there until she was age nine - afterwards moving back to Malta until she left to pursue music in The Netherlands at age nineteen.

Following the release of one full length album (Home) and two EP's (The Midnight Underground, Good To Be Alive), Old American Junk began writing and recording new music in the winter of 2015. The end result of that process is the new full length album "Dissolution", which both expands and continues to exemplify the sound of Old American Junk. "Dissolution" includes many new collaborating musicians to Old American Junk and their musical personalities can be heard in each track.

Glymjack is an English folk act led by singer-songwriter Greg McDonald. Throughout 2018, Glymjack tour as an acoustic trio with Greg joined by fiddle virtuoso Gemma Gayner and bassist Dickon Collinson, delivering a high energy, harmony-rich set of hard-hitting originals, English folk songs and fiddle tunes. Featuring Show of Hands legends Phil Beer, Steve Knightley and Miranda Sykes, Glymjack’s debut album Light the Evening Fire is out in April 2018. The term “Glymjack” is Victorian criminal underworld slang for a street child who led strangers through the streets of London at night with a lantern.

It's about time these early Canned Heat albums were made available once again! Thanks in part to their appearance in the Monterey Pop and later Woodstock festival films, these two albums, especially Boogie With Canned Heat, built Canned Heat's reputation as a top-notch white blues band of the late '60s. The self-titled disc from 1967 features a rough mix of originals and blues standards, including "Catfish Blues," "Rich Woman," and "Big Road Blues." Boogie was released the following year and actually contained a hit single, "On the Road Again." The other tracks on the album, especially "Fried Hockey Boogie" and "Amphetamine Annie," became staples of early FM underground radio. Canned Heat would rarely sound this together as a working unit in the studio again.

British rock band Marillion, founded in 1979, have become one of the most commercially successful neo-progressive rock bands of the 1980s and are still one of the most outstanding representatives of their genre. Throughout a celebrated career that has spanned almost four decades they have released 18 studio albums and sold over 15 million copies worldwide. On October 13, 2017, Marillion played at the Royal Albert Hall for the very first time.

First Concept Album by Renato Moretti, guitarist and composer from Catania (Italy). A pure mix of powerfull guitar's riff, big drums and great vocals, all in the style of the Italian Prog Rock from 70s!

Spend a moment in his presence and you’ll know it’s a passion that runs deep. Music is in his blood. Originally from Orillia Ontario, singer songwriter Shane Cloutier first picked up a guitar at the age of 12 and never looked back. His uncle Brent provided his initial musical enchantment, introducing him to bands like Motorhead, Iron Maiden, and Ozzy Osbourne. He was hooked! Shane pursued his education in music in Toronto before finding his home in Collingwood, Ontario.