Panini America's partnership with The Rolling Stones to create a career-spanning trading card set is a significant moment for both music and collectibles fans.
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On August 11th, 1994, 21-year-old Dan Kohn made history by selling the album "Ten Summoner's Tales" by Sting for $12.48 plus shipping to a man in Philadelphia.
It's been a whopping 50 years since the release of "Rush," marking a significant milestone in the band's illustrious career. Rush made its debut on March 18, 1974.
Now available in paperback with seven additional song commentaries, the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller pays homage to the musical brilliance of Paul McCartney.
The Stax Christmas collection is a delightful assortment of 12 timeless Christmas classics, featuring some of the most renowned artists of all time.
Andy Cowan presents an extensive compilation of over 500 flips in an A-Z format, showcasing the covert impact of B-Side shows in transforming the pop music scene.
Dolly Parton has revealed all the details about her long-promised “rock album,” titled “Rockstar,” including a 30-song track list, a November 17 release.
Galactic Empire, the galaxy’s favorite metal band, is unleashing the Force with their new metal single version of “The Imperial Suite”.
Bobbi Kelly Ercoline became a silent iconic symbol of the Woodstock generation after featuring on the front of the festival's 1970 soundtrack album, has died.
Ever want to play guitar but do not know where to begin? The folks of reallysimpleguitar.com will teach you how to play guitar the right way. Get rocking!
Kate Bush has become once more relevant ever since Stranger Things. Faber is publishing a paperback of 'How To Be Invisible: Selected Lyrics', by Kate Bush.
Kings Theatre announced today that the iconic venue will host the world premiere of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Live in Concert.
Iggy Pop is blessing us with a whole new album for early 2023. The new album titled "Every Loser" promises a return to his old rock and roll roots.
Mad Magazine: What, Me Worry? MAD occasionally dabbled in spinoff musical projects; this unique compilation anthologizes its earliest such excursions.
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
If you ever wondered if Bon Scott sang Back in Black, you would have to look no further but to Joe Lynn Turner's version on his album The Sessions.
The year 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of Aqua's debut album "Aquarium" and iconic global hit "Barbie Girl". The album will be re-released on September 9th.
Peter Jackson’s acclaimed documentary, The Beatles Get Back, is finally going to be released on Blu-ray. Collectors' cards are included in the box.
A-Z Record Shop Bags by Jonny Trunk features over 550 graphically arresting record-shop bags, plus informative, humorous histories of the stores and their famous staff, this book reveals a previously undocumented side of British popular culture
The title ‘SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story’ refers to the book’s 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for ‘SURRENDER’ which will appear throughout the book. Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has Bon’s written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times.
On November 19, UMe and Eagles Of Death Metal’s Jesse “Boots Electric” Hughes join forces to gift us all with Eagles of Death Metal Presents A Boots Electric Christmas, a six-track EP sure to bring much needed holiday cheer to the ears and hearts of every little girl and boy. The EP will be available on CD and in all digital formats.
Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colorful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the '80s and '90s.
The latest installment in Grapefruit's acclaimed series of 3-CD, four-hour celebrations of a specific calendar year in British pop history. 1965 saw the beat/R&B revolution of the previous two years twisted into new, more ambitious shapes as British pop reached a shattering crescendo of sound, with feedback, fuzzboxes and (in Graham Bond's case) the Mellotron adding to the sonic mix. The year was a dizzying melange of visceral Pretty Things/Kinks/Small Faces garage band raunch, blue-eyed club soul (courtesy of mod-favored groups like The Action), Searchers-derived jingle-jangle folk-rock and Zombies/Poets-style minor chord introspection.
In this follow-up to our “Come On Let’s Go! Power Pop Gems From The 70s & 80s” compilation, we have extended the timeframe to cover the 90s and even include one outlier from the 2000s. There was just too much great power pop being made beyond the 70s and 80s for us to ignore. Another change to this volume is that we look beyond American shores and include selections from the UK and Australia. As before, we take a broad view of power pop and you will find elements of punk, new wave, garage and various other sub-genres within. However, we can guarantee that all our selections are top-notch songs delivered with all the jangling guitars, catchy hooks, banging beats and snappy tunes that make power pop such a blast.
Get out the disco balls, disco is back! Foo Fighters have announced that they will be releasing a new album next month under the moniker the Dee Gees. They just covered the Bee Gees' "You Should Be Dancing" during a BBC Radio 2 session a few months ago. I really like this version, I am really ashamed to say that this could be Foo Fighter's best song ever in a long time. Did grunge bring back disco? The disco-inspired album called ‘Hail Satin’ will be available on July 17. The album will include four Bee Gees covers.
Cherry Red is to release Pop Don’t Stop: Greatest Hits, a new Kim Wilde box set that includes five CDs and two DVDs. Kim Wilde needs no introduction, having registered a staggering 30 hits on the UK charts since 1981, and selling over 30 million records globally. The Cherry Pop label is dedicated to interesting poptastic catalogue releases from records that originally came out in the 1980’s & 90’s.