Five more CDs of Connie Francis, picking up right where Bear Family's earlier White Sox, Pink Lipstick set left off, in 1960 – although its 300-plus minutes of music only cover the period of 1960 to 1962. By this time, Connie Francis was established as one of the top female vocal talents of her generation, and she was ready to experiment – you hear her successful move into country music, wonderful outtakes, and never-issued songs from her early-'60s sessions…

Upcoming Christchurch rock band Decades are proud to announce the release of their debut album THE TRUTH AND OTHER PEOPLE, out via Warner Music NZ on July 14th.

Multi-Award Winning Singer-Songwriter Seth Swirsky is back with his long awaited, 3rd solo album, ''Circles and Squares''. Swirsky, one part of the highly acclaimed pop duo The Red Button, wrote, played and produced the entire 17-song album of newly-minted, pop gems…

The place to begin discussing “The Devil’s In The Detail” is, oddly perhaps, right at the end. Because the last minute and nine seconds of this is a hidden song called “Ode To Idiots” in which Ryan Hamilton takes internet trolls to task on the snottiest country punk this side of Jason and the Scorchers. He ends it with the gleeful line: “I know you live with your mum and I’ll be seeing her again…” and in so doing shows why he just might be the best writer of pop rock songs with incredible hooks that we have right now. He showed this on “Hell Of A Day” his solo record from a couple of years ago, and now in his new band with The Traitors, he underlines it, dots the I’s crosses the T’s and delivers something approaching a classic.

Flamboyant British icons of the 1970s whose nasty fusion of heavy metal, glam rock, and sneering cynicism influenced many punk bands. Collection includes: 'Mott The Hoople' (1969); 'Mad Shadows' (1970); 'Wildlife' (1971); 'Brain Capers' (1971); 'All The Young Dudes' (1972); 'Mott' (1973); 'The Hoople' (1974); 'Live' (1974) 30th Anniversary Edition 2004; 'Rock And Roll Queen' (1974); 'Drive On' (1975); 'Greatest Hits' (1976); 'Two Miles From Heaven' (1980); 'The Ballad Of Mott: A Retrospective' (1993); 'Fairfield Halls, Live 1970' (2007).

Slade may have never truly caught on with American audiences (often narrow-mindedly deemed "too British-sounding"), but the group became a sensation in their homeland with their anthemic brand of glam rock in the early '70s, as they scored a staggering 11 Top Five hits in a four-year span from 1971 to 1974 (five of which topped the charts)…

Despite the rather ominous-looking album cover featuring a placid girl dressed up in what can only be described as a jester’s outfit and full clown makeup, Matthew Sweet’s newest record, Tomorrow Forever, is upbeat and in no way menacing. The album, which will be entirely funded by Kickstarter, a method that is being used by other musicians like Amanda Palmer and De La Soul, is Sweet’s first release in seven years and is filled with power pop and catchy hooks.

Original Hits: 70s is a decent six-disc set, highlighting 111 pop singles released in that decade. Along with the original versions of radio classics by Al Stewart, Blondie, the Knack, KC & the Sunshine Band, and Dr. Hook, are less-than-obvious inclusions by Peter Tosh, XTC, the Move, and Benny Hill!

While Chris Bell is best known for his posthumous classic "I Am The Cosmos," and as a founding member of the legendary Big Star, his story did not begin there. Looking Forward: The Roots Of Big Star featuring Chris Bell delivers the origins of his incredible, infl uential and far too short career. This 22-track collection is the fi rst of its kind to chronicle music made by and with Bell before Big Star's iconic #1 Record—from bands with imaginative names like Rock City, Christmas Future, Icewater, The Wallabys, and more.

Cheap Trick is an indisputable American institution, beloved around the globe since 1974 for their instantly identifiable and hugely influential brand of pop rock n roll. Recording for 4 decades, We're All Alright! marks the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees 18th studio album. Having an excess of 20 MILLION sales and more than 40 GOLD and PLATINUM certifications for their multi-award winning catalog, this quartet continues their reign as the top progenitors of power-pop.

A DVD compilation featuring television appearances from some of the leading acts of the Glam Rock movement! Glam Rock’s emergence into popular music couldn’t have come at a better time…

The 1970 s brought us the most diverse decade of music with Disco, Funk, Soul,Rock, Pop, Electronic and experimental music If the 60 s was the decade that gave birth to modern pop music then it was the 70 s that had it all- from bubblegum to disco to hard rock…

2017 release. Within seconds of starting to listen to I Don't Wanna Grow Up, one gets the feeling of being in good hands: an AP course in power-pop, delivered by Matthew Melton, with the confidence and consistency of your favorite late night diner. Familiarity works as a curious device - this is directly in Melton's wheelhouse, no sonic surprises whatsoever, yet somehow these odes to teenage love and heartache are brand new, catchy and vital. His twists and turns utilizing the same tools are astounding in their continued freshness.

By 1973's Tanx, the T. Rex hit-making machine was beginning to show some wear and tear, but Marc Bolan still had more than a few winners up his sleeve. It was also admirable that Bolan was attempting to broaden the T. Rex sound – soulful backup singers and horns are heard throughout, a full two years before David Bowie used the same formula for his mega-seller Young Americans…

Fronted by the affable, spectacled Jordan Hudkins, Rozwell Kid write massive, gritty, excitable power-punk songs. After more than two years on the road, the band, completed by guitarist Adam Meisterhans, bassist/vocalist Devin Donnelly and drummer Sean Hallock, hadn't quite hit a dead end, but they needed to regroup, rethink and re-find their identity. All of those questions are thankfully answered by the twelve songs that make up Precious Art. It is a quintessential Rozwell Kid album and something entirely new at the same time.