Pop, Rock & Punk

Larsson Zara: Midnight sun 2025 [CD]

Ny skiva med Weeping Willows, som tror det eller ej firar 30 år som band i år.<br/>Bandet befinner sig nästan konstant på turne, och i år är såklart inget undantag!

Buckingham Nicks is the only studio album by the iconic duo of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Produced by Keith Olsen, the album was released in September 1973, just a year prior to the pair joining forces with Fleetwood Mac on New Year's Eve 1974.<br/>Buckingham Nicks has achieved legendary status despite, and perhaps due to the fact, that it has never been remastered, reissued, or officially released digitally. Until now. This was the album that caught Mick Fleetwood's attention and led them becoming one of the most successful bands of all time.<br/><br/>LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM: "I met Mick right before New Year's Eve in 1974. Stevie and I were living in LA. We'd done an album on Polydor as a duo, which had come out without making much of a splash, and we were trying to figure out what the hell to do next. Anyway, we were doing demos of new tunes one day at Sound City studio in the San Fernando Valley. At one point I walked towards the control room. I heard a song of ours, "Frozen Love", being played very loudly and I saw this giant of a man standing up, grooving to a guitar solo of mine. I thought, "What is goin' on?", and left them to it. That man was Mick.<br/>When he heard my guitar something obviously clicked in his mind, because after their guitarist Bob Welch left, I got a call from Mick asking if I wanted to join Fleetwood Mac. Originally they weren't looking for a duo, but I said Stevie and I were a package deal."

In the twenty-five years since The Hives exploded around the world, they have sold out stadiums and shared stages with everyone from AC/DC to The Rolling Stones. SPIN calls The Hives "the best live band on the planet" and Howlin' Pelle "the greatest frontman in rock," and the BBC dubbed the band "a force of nature." Rolling Stone named Veni Vidi Vicious one of the Top 100 Albums of the decade and "Hate To Say I Told You So" earned a spot on Pitchfork's Top 500 Songs of the 2000's. They have sold millions of albums world-wide with multiple RIAA Gold-certifications. In the time since Lex Hives, the band has released 2019's double A-side "I'm Alive"/"Good Samaritan" as well as a live album via Third Man Records, and embarked on a series of global tours. The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons marked a true renaissance for the band in 2023 hitting #1 in Sweden, #2 in the UK and worldwide touring. If that was THE COMEBACK, The Hives new record is all set to be THE TAKEOVER!

Poco: The forgotten trail 1969-74 [2 CD]

MAYHEM blandar den eklektiska energi som först fängslade hennes fans med en djärv, orädd och konstnärlig vision, och markerar en triumferande återgång till Gagas poprötter. Albumet utforskar teman som kaos och transformation, och hyllar musikens kraft att förena, provocera och läka.<br/><br/>"Albumet började med att jag mötte min rädsla om att återvända till den popmusik som mina tidigaste fans älskade", säger Gaga. Långt ifrån en nostalgisk tillbakablick återuppfinner MAYHEM hennes tidiga sound med ett kalejdoskopiskt tillvägagångssätt som bygger på hennes expansiva musikaliska bibliotek samtidigt som hon anammar ett nytt och rått konstnärligt perspektiv. Gaga beskriver den kreativa processen som att "sätta ihop en krossad spegel: även om du inte kan sätta ihop bitarna perfekt kan du skapa något vackert och helt på ett nytt sätt."<br/><br/>I det 14 spår långa projektet - som innehåller de tidigare släppta låtarna "Disease" och "Die With a Smile" - hittar vi producenterna som består av Gaga, Michael Polansky och Andrew Watt, Cirkut och Gesaffelstein.<br/><br/>"Disease" hyllades av The Independent som "hennes bästa på länge", medan The Guardian berömde dess "fräsande, förvrängda synthar"och "dunkande, lätt industriella beat". Rolling Stone lyfte fram dess "grottliknande synthlinje" och "klassiska Gaga shout-along-refräng". Musikvideon till "Disease", regisserad av Tanu Muino, hyllades av Vogue som "en av årets bästa videor", medan W firade dess "filmiska, nästan teaterliknande upplevelse".

På albumet "Sommarland" har Darin jobbat med bland andra William Forsling och Petter Alfredsson (Molly Sandén, Leksell, Newkid) och titelspåret sätter tonen för albumet med sin solkyssta inbjudan att njuta av livet.