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Dido - Safe Trip Home
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Recorded in Los Angeles and London, Safe Trip Home is produced by Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kanye West, Rufus Wainwright, Eels), Ark—the new production company founded by Rollo Armstrong (Faithless), and Dido. It includes smoldering, soulful songs that feature Dido playing guitar, piano, bells and the trusty recorder she toured Europe with as a prodigious pupil of London’s Guildhall School of Music. She’s even responsible for some of the album’s drums (most notably on the sumptuously melancholy “Quiet Times.”). The record also includes “Grafton Street,” a song Dido co-wrote with Brian Eno.
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Femi - Sweet Water Soul EP
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FEMI has established her musical presence in the Bay Area with powerful vocals, passionate poetic song writing and sultry production. Her music has been defined as neo-funk & soul but its roots go much deeper with an infusion of Afro-Latin/Caribbean rhythms, jazz, hip-hop, salsa and rock, all blended perfectly to create a unique sound. FEMI has toured throughout the US in venues from Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and her hometown of the Bay Area. She has worked with and opened for international recording artists like the Black Eye Peas, Ledisi, Goapele, Mystic, Martin Luther and Les Nubians.
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The Who - At Kilburn: 1977 DVD
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Newly mastered in high-definition with state-of-the-art sound, the December 15, 1977 Kilburn show at the Gaumont State Theater in North London was recorded before a select audience for Jeff Stein’s hit film about The Who, The Kids Are Alright, but only a few brief selections of what would prove to be legendary drummer KEITH MOON’s public swan song were ever seen in the finished feature. Captured on 35mm with six cameras and a 16-track audio recorder, the complete Kilburn show features Moon and the rest of the band’s classic line-up -- singer ROGER DALTREY, guitarist/singer PETE TOWNSEND, and bassist JOHN ENTWISTLE--in top form with many of their biggest hits. Also included in this release is another never-before-seen show and one of the band’s favorites, their 1969 London Coliseum performance, which comes with a wealth of additional bonus tracks and boasts the first-ever full live recording of their groundbreaking rock opera, Tommy. With a total of 29 classic The Who songs, this pivotal release has long been at the top of rock fans’ wish lists and has been regarded as a lost “holy grail” for followers of The Who since Moon’s passing.
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Genesis - 1970-1975 Box Set
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This box set presents five of the band's studio albums as CD/DVD sets featuring new stereo mixes of the original albums on CD, along with a DVD that includes the original album in 5.1 DTS (96/24) and Dolby Digital Surround Sound, plus bonus videos and new interviews with band members filmed exclusively for these reissues. The set contains hours of previously unreleased video as well as photo galleries featuring rare pictures and tour memorabilia. One of the top-selling recording artists of all time, Genesis has sold more than 150 million albums so far. This 7-CD/6-DVD set collects some of the band's most adventurous and ground-breaking albums, covering Peter Gabriel's tenure with the group. GENESIS: 1970-1975 spotlights five albums - TRESPASS, NURSERY CRYME, FOXTROT, SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND and THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY, plus EXTRAS 1970-1975, a newly assembled compilation only available with this collection.
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Smashing Pumpkins - If All Goes Wrong
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This two DVD set contains a 105-minute documentary, also titled If All Goes Wrong, plus The Fillmore Residency, a full concert filmed in late July and early August of 2007 over five of the 11 sold-out nights at the famed Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, CA. The concert disc was captured in 5.1 Surround Sound and state-of-the-art high definition from 12 cameras and features seven all new tracks not available anywhere else, along with new versions of fan favorites and a selection of Pumpkins rarities.
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Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
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The Grammy-nominated band’s fifth studio album was recorded throughout the Summer of 2008 in Hansa Studios in Berlin (where Bowie recorded “Low,” “Heroes” and “Lodger”) and at Grouse Lodge deep in the Irish countryside. Written by Snow Patrol, the album was produced by Garret “Jacknife” Lee (Bloc Party, REM, U2). The album is preceded by the single “Take Back The City”, which comes with a video shot in East London courtesy of acclaimed video director Alex Courtes (White Stripes “Seven Nation Army”).
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Keane - Perfect Symmetry
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Keane are back. After over 8 million sales of Hopes And Fears (2004) and Under The Iron Sea (2006) combined, sold-out arena tours, awards, plus an undeniable collection of hits including Is It Any Wonder?, Everybody’s Changing, Crystal Ball and Somewhere Only We Know, one of Britain’s best-loved bands are about to surprise and thrill all over again. The album is available in regular and deluxe CD packages.
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Boz Scaggs - Speak Low
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Five years after his first volume of standards, But Beautiful, debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Jazz chart, GRAMMY award winning musician Boz Scaggs offers his second volume of standards and ballads, aptly titled Speak Low (out September 30 on vinyl and wide release on October 28th via Decca). The album was recorded at Skywalker Sound, a state-of-the-art studio that’s part of filmmaker George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch complex. The room is massive, a soundstage big enough to fit an orchestra. Yet Speak Low sounds like it was made in someone’s cozy living room.
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Rod Stewart - The Definitive Rod Stewart
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With an estimated 250 million in album and single sales, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart arguably possesses one of rock’s greatest and most distinctive voices. This career-spanning set includes a two CD Compilation of Rod’s hits with a previously unreleased track. Along with the two CD set the deluxe edition also includes a bonus DVD with rare and never-before-seem videos. As one of Billboard magazine’s most successful chart artists of all time, the newly assembled collection offers 30 of his greatest, showcasing not only his unmistakable rasp, but also his evocative songwriting and unique ability to inhabit a song.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - All Six Albums Reissued
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In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Creedence Clearwater Revival, all six of the band’s albums (Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy & the Poor Boys, Cosmo’s Factory and Pendulum), have been reissued in expanded editions and contain an array of rarities: B-sides, unreleased studio and live material, even a summit between the band and Booker T & the MGs. “Although they sounded like no other band,” critic BenFong-Torres notes, “They redefined rock and roll. They showed, in the most entertaining way possible, how the music could embrace and was, in fact, founded on elements of R&B and the blues, country, folk, and jazz, as well as a world of other musical forms. Creedence were pioneers in the fusion of rock and country. They were roots before ‘roots’ took hold as a music genre.”
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Shiny Toy Guns - Season Of Poison
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The highly anticipated sophomore album from Shiny Toy Guns. The album is the follow up to their critically acclaimed Grammy nominated debut record We Are Pilots which was released in 2006. The band spent the better half of 2 years on and off the road progressing their dance/rock and electronic roots. Once again producing the album by themselves, founding members Chad Petree (vocals, guitar) and Jeremy Dawson (synthesizer, bass) used 2008 technology to marry dynamic late-70's style synthesizer programming with face-erasing stoner rock; gently spreading this over layer upon layer of ethnic and tribal rhythms.
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Santana - Multi Dimmensional Warrior
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Every track was personally selected and sequenced by Carlos Santana to create an engaging journey through a soundscape of moods and feelings. Disc one comprises 14 vocal performances chosen from albums spanning the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s, while disc two comprises 14 instrumental performances from albums covering the same years. This is the first anthology to include tracks from the band’s three major label associations: Columbia, Polydor/ PolyGram, and Arista/BMG. With just three exceptions, all of the albums represented on disc one are different than the albums represented on disc two.
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The Beatles/Cirque Du Soleil - All Together Now DVD
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The documentary details the story behind the unique partnership between The Beatles and Cirque du Soleil that resulted in the creation and 2006 launch of LOVE, the stage production still playing to packed houses at The Mirage in Las Vegas, and the experimental Beatles soundscape album of the same name which garnered two Grammy Awards for producers Sir George and Giles Martin. The film is dedicated to the memory of Neil Aspinall, former CEO of Apple Corps and an Executive Producer of the DVD. ‘All Together Now’ faithfully recounts how the LOVE project came into being, borne from the personal friendship between George Harrison and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte. George saw how the twin talents of The Beatles’ music and the artistry of Cirque du Soleil’s artistry and could be fused into something new and totally original.
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Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year
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"I've got myself a new mantra," Ani DiFranco shares on her new studio album. "It says `Don't forget to have a good time.'" This attitude has clearly influenced the dozen tunes on Red Letter Year, which celebrate existence, profess love and tackle thorny political issues with an infectious sense of glee. It's one of Ani's most joyous records to date. And it has been a long time coming. Red Letter Year was sculpted over the course of two years, a period in which Ani continued to hone her songwriting, performing and recording skills, all the while balancing her new role as a mom. "I think I sorely needed to be slowed down, and finally a little person came along powerful enough to do it," Ani reflects. The end result is an album of focused, layered, panoramic music.
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Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
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The new album was written and recorded over the course of nearly two years, going into the studio whenever inspiration struck. As a result, leader Andrew McMahon describes the album as “a bizarre balance between present and past. I was trying to use the music to sort through and reconcile with the adversity of my past.” While The Glass Passenger is essentially autobiographical, the album is not meant to serve as a direct description of McMahon’s life. “My past is my past and a lot of this record is about that,” he says “but it’s also about trying to write myself out of it. This is a record about trying to get well. It’s about getting out from underneath something. I want people to receive the music for what it is and not have to contextualize it against my own personal battle.”
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The Grateful Dead - Rocking the Cradle: Grateful Dead, Egypt 1978
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This is from their legendary September 1978 run at the Sound & Light Theater, outside Cairo, nestled in the dunes just a short mummy-walk from the Great Pyramid and the mysterious Sphinx. The set includes two exceptional music CDs and a DVD with over 95 minutes of concert footage from the Egypt shows (plus an impressionistic “Vacation Tapes” mini-documentary that shows the band and Dead family at play).
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Tuck & Patti - I Remember You
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Tuck & Patti are global jazz icons - a duo of love, whose music has for three decades inspired romance, happiness, joy and a reason for embrace. This fall, Tuck & Patti will continue to warmly inspire audiences across North America, with a few dates set aside for a return to Europe, where they have just completed an extensive tour. The performances will feature songs from their new studio album, I Remember You, as well as their most-requested songs from their repertoire.
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War - Greatest Hits Live!
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WAR: What is it good for? Only some of the most memorable hits of all time! WAR’s first new release in 14 years will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and double CD. The Greatest Hits Live package was recorded at a sold-out performance at The Grove in Anaheim, CA and includes their hits “Low Rider”, “Why Can’t We Be Friends” and “Cisco Kid” among others. The sets also contain a fold-out poster of the band.
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Tori Amos - Live At Montreux CD/DVD
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The performances took place just a year apart from each other in July 1991 and July 1992 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. It is almost like a “before and after” snapshot. The ’91 gig came only months before her Little Earthquakes debut had catapulted her into an instant icon, the ’92 appearance shortly thereafter. The progression in both performance and audience receptivity is appreciable. Material includes most of her stellar debut but also tracks from her indie EPs and some notable covers (Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” and “Thank You” as well as Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”).
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James Taylor - Covers
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"An album of other peoples' music is something I've been wanting to do for years," says Taylor. "I've enjoyed performing these songs over the years but to record them live in a room with these incredible musicians was just extraordinary." The album was recorded last January when James Taylor gathered his 'Band of Legends' for a rare 10-day recording session in a converted barn on his property in western Massachusetts. Band arrangements of material featured on the album include covers of Big Mama Thornton's version of "Hound Dog," Junior Walker's "(I'm A) Road Runner" and "Wichita Lineman," (one of the most revered country songs penned by Jimmy Webb). These songs were improvised on the spot and recorded live with some of the best players in popular music.
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Natascha Sohl - Dirty Little Word
Natascha is a super talented UK singer/songwriter (think Alanis Morissette) that is starting to make some big waves here in the US. A little background…6 of Natascha’s songs have been played on MTV’s shows The Hills, Legally Blonde and Newport Harbor. She is also a featured artist in the promotion for US clothing chain Steve & Barry’s DEAR range of clothing. This album was written and recorded in New York at the invitation of A-list song-writer/producer Russ DeSalvo and his team and has brought Natascha support in the New York, Los Angeles and Nashville music scenes.
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Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners
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Released in the spring of 1971, Graham Nash’s emotionally charged solo debut followed in the wake of a temporary split with his bandmates, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and a permanent break with his love, Joni Mitchell. The album was a decisive hit, peaking at #15 on Billboard and spawning the Top 40 hit “Chicago.” Rhino remasters this legendary musician’s first album for a CD/DVD reissue that features 5.1 Surround Sound and High Resolution mixes of the original, along with a 2008 interview with Nash, photos and lyrics.
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Tina Turner - Tina! Her Greatest Hits
This is a new 18-track CD and digital collection of Turner’s top hits, rare live recordings and two exclusive new tracks. In addition to featuring all of the hits, including “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” “Private Dancer,” “Better Be Good To Me,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome),” “Proud Mary” (1993 version), “Nutbush City Limits,” and “River Deep Mountain High,” among others, Tina! features two new, exclusive tracks, titled “It Would Be A Crime” and “I’m Ready.” Four concert recordings are also featured, including “I Can’t Stand The Rain,” recorded live at Amsterdam Arena (1996), “Addicted To Love,” recorded live at London’s Camden Palace (1986), and two that have never before been released on CD, “The Best,” recorded live at London’s Wembley Arena (2000) and “Let’s Stay Together,” recorded live at Amsterdam Arena (1996).
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UB40 - Greatest Hits
For more than 25 years, UB40 has been one of the world’s premiere pop-reggae acts, with several international chart-topping singles and global sales totaling more than 70 million albums. Included on UB40: Greatest Hits are the group’s first #1 smash, 1984’s “Red Red Wine,” and their reggae-splashed hit versions of “Here I Am (Come and Take Me),” “(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You,” and “The Way You Do The Things You Do.” Also included are two songs featuring The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, “I Got You Babe” and “Breakfast In Bed.” "Swing Low", the official anthem for the England rugby team's triumphant 2003 World Cup campaign in Australia, was the group's 49th UK chart single.
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Elvin Bishop - The Blues Rolls On
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Contest winners: Christine Groce (Columbus, OH), Pat Connors (Alton, NH), Dorothy Davidson (Troy, IL), Lynn Marler (Chico, CA), Erica Gonzalez (Chicago, IL)
"The Blues Rolls On" harks back to Elvin Bishop's roots, paying tribute to the musicians who inspired him and who also helped give him his start. Supported by an all-star cast of blues royalty featuring B.B. King, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, George Thorogood, James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Tommy Castro, John Németh, Angela Strehli, plus many more; Bishop leads the way through a smoldering set of searing blues and rollicking R&B. As Elvin says "The Blues Rolls On is about what a beautiful thing it is how the blues continues to flow from one generation to the next."
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B. B. King - One Kind Favor
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One Kind Favor, produced by T Bone Burnett, features covers of old blues songs from B.B. King’s early influences. Recorded at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, the album is meant to sound like an album recorded in the 50s. To get this sound Burnett and King replicated the kind of blues band King had back in the day by bringing in some of the greats – Dr. John on piano, Nathan East on stand up acoustic bass and Jim Keltner on drums, to name a few. Studio conditions of the time were reproduced. The result is a vintage sounding album filled with the songs that influenced King in his early days as an artist.
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Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies
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Contest winner: Christopher Harner (Elk Grove, CA)
By turns achingly melodic and startlingly visceral, Sunshine Lies swirls with poetic emotion and stark attitude, bringing into play the entire gamut of Sweet's stylistic experience. Flowing with ease, Sweet’s uniquely personal songwriting never fails to delight, and he has described the album as "very direct, but seen through the eyes of nature, or rather modeled on its beauty, chaos and freedom, something like a stab at sonic art nouveau." The album will also be released as a 2 LP set including four previously unreleased bonus tracks not available on the CD. For customer convenience, a CD will be included with purchases of the LP.
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Todd Rundgren - Arena
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This is his first full-length album of original studio material in 4 years. He says "I found myself just going out and doing this sort of guerilla guitar quartet thing around the country and around Canada, so when it came time to make a record, I thought maybe I’ll just continue in that vein and write something that is appropriate to the guitar, since the fans seem to be enjoying it so much. So when I decided to write a new album, I knew beforehand it was going to be this kind of old-school guitar-rock record.”
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Candlebox - Alive In Seattle
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The Platinum-selling Seattle rock band returns to the town that made them famous! Experience the new show that brought them home with their original lineup for the first time in over a decade, performing all their hits songs: "Arrow," "Simple Lessons," "Change," "Blossom," "Don't You," "No Sense," "Understanding," "You," "A Stone's Throw Away," "Sometimes," "10,000 Horses," "Best Friends," "Happy Pills," "Far Behind," "Cover Me," and exclusive DVD bonus track: "Rain".
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Music News: Capitol/EMI has launched a “From the Capitol Vaults” vinyl campaign with eight classic albums. These are remastered titles with original artwork and packaging. Six of the newly remastered, limited edition albums are presented on 180-gram LPs, while two albums initially released as double 10” 140-gram LPs have been reissued in their original configuration. Included in the vinyl launch are A Perfect Circle’s Mer de Noms, Coldplay’s Parachutes and A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Radiohead’s OK Computer, Kid A (two 10” 140-gram LPs), Amnesiac (two 10” 140-gram LPs), and Hail To The Thief, and Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits 1974-78. U.S. vinyl sales have increased by more than 80% in the past year alone, and the format is still on the rise, appealing to fans of all ages now discovering or rediscovering its appeal. Additional titles include Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, and more.
Contest winner: Megan Savage (Cambridge, MA)

Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
A musical love letter from Southern California, That Lucky Old Sun shimmers with sun-dappled choruses and arrangements that swell and swirl as if carried by the Pacific tides. One of the songs, “Midnight’s Another Day,” has been described by MOJO magazine as “glorious.” The album is narrated in transitional interludes spoken by Wilson as ‘That Lucky Old Sun,’ the storyteller. The narratives, cameos on life and the heartbeat of Los Angeles, propel the album’s musical story. This new album by the former Beach Boy is being released on CD, CD/DVD, limited edition vinyl and digitally.
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Trapt - Only Through The Pain
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Contest winners: Jean Morrison (Lavellette, NJ), Mihaela Day (Laurel, MS), Vicki Wurgler (Fargo, ND)
With Only Through The Pain, the most ambitious album yet from Platinum rockers Trapt, the band have returned to form. The L.A. based group returned to Co-Producer Gggarth Richardson's Vancouver studio to rekindle the magic that helped propel its 2002 eponymous debut past two million in sales. Trapt is currently on the Crüe Fest tour alongside Motley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach and others.
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Donavon Frankenreiter - Pass It Around
Listen to: Life, Love, and Laughter
Contest winners: Melissa Butler (Cornelius, NC), Kim Conklin (Lacrosse, WI)
The songs incorporate some of the acoustic and electric elements of his past recordings but infuse them with the musical wisdom he has gained along the way, plus the production of two-time Grammy Award-winner Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Frank Zappa). Frankenreiter even approached the songwriting process in a new way by co-writing for the first time. Donavon collaborated with the likes of Mike Daly (Whiskeytown), Grant Lee Phillips, Steve McQuien (Unamerican) and Thad Cockrell, to name a few. The result is an album filled with soulful melodies, uplifting grooves and some lessons for life.
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Rehab - Graffiti The World
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Contest winners: Michael Capp (Kalamazoo, MI), Edward Rodberg (Oxnard, CA), Edna Williams (Smyrna, DL)
This is the band's bid to cover the world with special sounds, seeking the dark and light within, asking questions and perhaps, sometimes, finding the right answers. Hmm. It's a unique blend of funk, hip-hop, rock and country.
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