How the hell can you go wrong with Aretha Franklin. She's produced some of the best, some of the most foot stomping, the most head shaking incredible music of all time. Music to make you think, dance and sing. Music to make you shout and music to make you cry....

Ep or mini album. Where is the dividing line. This delightful disc has all of 7 songs. Its a collaboration between two of the brightest lights of alternative country today, Calexico and Iron & Wine. As an added bonux there is an appearance by Salvador Duran, a Mexican tenor on...

Warner have recently put out some very high quality reissues on vinyl and we should be thankful for this. Others in the series include Donald Fagen's Morph the cat Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms (reissue on two discs) and the soon to be released Red Hot Chilli Peppers's Stadium Arcadium Of these four, three are...

After 12 years of waiting Kate Bush fans finally get their hands on an album of new material. A double album-sized helping of new songs should keep most fans happy with 16 tracks to delve into. Disc one is a varied set of numbers which mainly centre around her...

The biggest dance track of 2004 was Drop the pressure, an electronic monster from some bloke who callsed Mylo. Any nightclub, trendy or not, dropped this track st some point(or more than once) and as the momentum builds in the track the club would go ballistic. It is magnificent and there's...

I was in a nightclub when I heard a track which was very familiar yet brilliantly different. It had all the heartache and tension of the original and yet managed even more soaring melancholy. It was the Thin White duke mix of Mr. Brightside by the Killers. A track which...

To quote from the sticker on the front... The new highly anticipated Thievery Corporation LP containing 16 original compositions including special guest appearances by David Byrne, Perry farrell and the Flaming Lips. A kaleidoscopic swirl of pyschedelia, club, Indian, rock, Brazilian, easy-listening and other worldy influences. Well I can't say I was...

When you first hear this record you really will be impressed. The sound is beautifully presented. The vocals and instruments are crystal clear. Every guitar pluck, every spoken word rings out in its own vast space. B&W are a speaker company and seem to have taken it upon themselves to...