One of the 80s best young hard rock/hair metal acts was the wildly underrated Danger Danger. The band’s first two albums were so completely infectious and buoyant that you couldn’t pry the melodies from your head without the jaws of life. One of the essential ingredients to the band’s addictive success was the voice of Ted Poley. So many voices in heavy music these days are generic, but Poley stands among perhaps a dozen or so notable singers whose voice cannot be confused with anyone else’s. His style, sound, and intonation simply set him apart, and his generally happy-go-lucky demeanor makes him a hard voice to ignore. And really, who wants to? This spring Ted Poley returns with his third solo album, Beyond the Fade, his first in nearly a decade.

Not long after You're Gonna Get It, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' label, Shelter, was sold to MCA Records. Petty struggled to free himself from the major label, eventually sending himself into bankruptcy. He settled with MCA and set to work on his third album, digging out some old Mudcrutch numbers and quickly writing new songs. Amazingly, through all the frustration and anguish, Petty & the Heartbreakers delivered their breakthrough and arguably their masterpiece with Damn the Torpedoes…

Anybody who was a little dismayed by the pop inclinations of The Game would have been totally distressed by Queen's 1982 follow-up, Hot Space, an unabashed pop and dance album. The band that once proudly proclaimed not to use synthesizers on their albums has suddenly, dramatically reversed course, devoting the entire first side of the album to robotic, new wave dance-pop, all driven by drum machines and colored by keyboards, with Brian May's guitar coming in as flavor only on occasion…

This is the definitive Kansas recording and includes their most famous tune, "Dust in the Wind." The band is in peak form and also churned out the single "Point of Know Return," which is still played daily on classic rock stations. While their pop-oriented approach and standard rock guitar sound helped define the classic rock sound of the '70s, careful listening reveals that this band's talent goes beyond colleagues such as Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Boston…

Protest Songs was recorded by Prefab Sprout in 1985 in the wake of the masterful Steve McQueen/Two Wheels Good, but shelved in favor of the subsequent From Langley Park to Memphis; it finally surfaced to little fanfare in 1989, appearing almost as mysteriously as it was abandoned four years earlier. It's a wonderful record, but perhaps too close in sound and spirit to Steve McQueen for comfort – From Langley Park, for all its flaws, is a much more adventurous effort, and with the benefit of hindsight, it seems reasonable to assume that Paddy McAloon wished not to stick with the tried-and-true but instead attempt something new and different, successful or not…

Genre-bending avant-garde folk-metal with hints of prog, baroque & ragtime. Emme aims to raise the standard for female musicians with boundless creativity. Emme is a 28 year old female multi-instrumentalist, wannabe composer hermit type who has been playing & writing for over a decade. Mostly staying indoors and keeping to herself, Emme has recently decided to unleash the fury of her madness onto the world with her first album "Dispelling Differences," which is part one of a four album series on life.

Tedd Graves was born at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Tellico Plains TN, and now resides in Friendsville TN. During his years as a professional entertainer, Tedd has performed at many well known venues such as Billy Bob's in Ft. Worth, TX, headlined at Boulder Station Casino in Las Vegas, Carter Fold in Hiltons VA, The Bijou Theater in Knoxville TN, and has been a guest on the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree on WSM Radio in Nashville. Tedd was an integral part, both as headlining performer and promoter, of the 52 year long running Tennessee Valley Barn Dance, for the last 8 years of it’s run!

The celebrated blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield performs a variety of blues, R&B, and ragtime classics, including "Cherry Red," "Don't You Lie to Me," and "Walking the Floor Over You," on this accomplished and wide-ranging set. He's accompanied by the pianist Mark Naftalin and a skilful rhythm section, and though singing was never his strong point, his consummate guitar playing carries him through.

Let us travel many years back in time to a lonely place shrouded in heartbreak, isolation, narcissism & nihilism. A foul, fetid place where impish abominations writhe up from the abyss, give name to nameless and overwhelm the senses with illusionary bliss. Make believe vortices give birth to numb complexities; Meanwhile, the psyche, starving for identity, becomes stuck in a circular state of reverie, reminiscing ‘round and ‘round until remembering the memories so incessantly dismembers the memories until they become sheer lunacy.

In 1986, Paul Smith signed with DaySpring Records a division of the Word Records. Live and Learn was a successful album in the Christian music marketplace. He only recorded three albums on this label. By 1990, the record label StarSong pulled away from Word Records and became part of Sparrow Records. Many artists including The Imperials had left Word and signed with StarSong, and Smith also made the move. Human Touch was released in 1991. It would be his only album released on that label.

Smith began his musical career in 1981 with The Imperials, following the departure of Russ Taff. Smith was familiar with the group through his booking them for concerts at Baylor University where he was attending. Smith finished out the "Priority tour" and rapidly earned the respect of The Imperials' fans. For the 1982 album Stand by the Power, Smith co-wrote the title track and the hit "Lord of The Harvest." He also co-wrote the 1980s, Larnelle Harris hit "How Excellent Is Thy Name."

Paul Charles Smith is a Contemporary Christian Music performer and songwriter. He is best remembered for his early years with influential gospel group The Imperials. Smith spent four years with that group, recording four albums and one live video. Smith was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame as a member of The Imperials. He has recorded five solo albums and is an award-winning songwriter.

Subtitled Live at the Mistake in Cleveland and released as volumes eight and nine of Voiceprint's Bananamoon Obscura series, this is not the original Divided Alien Playbax LP released in 1982, but a crudely recorded live performance from August 7, 1980. The sound is thin (audience recording, probably), but the good mastering job makes the album enjoyable, albeit a fan-only item (and a collector's item, too, since all volumes in this series are limited to 1,000 copies). In 1980, Daevid Allen toured America solo, singing, reciting and playing guitar over pre-recorded tapes. These playback tracks were put together from the 1980 New York Gong album About Time (featuring a completely revamped Gong lineup that included Fred Maher and Bill Laswell).

Carie and the SoulShakers deliver sultry soul, blistering blues, infectious funk and irresistible originals. Their original style evokes New Orleans and Memphis. Their covers include rare gems from Allen Toussaint, Willie DIxon, Fats Domino, Johnny Taylor, Stevie Wonder, and Taj Mahal.

This is Music: The Singles 92–98 is a singles compilation album by the English alternative rock band The Verve. The compilation was released in November 2004 and included two previously unreleased tracks: "This Could Be My Moment" and "Monte Carlo". The album was named after a track by the same name off their 1995 album A Northern Soul. The album cover is based on the cover of their 1992 single, "She's a Superstar".