The House Concert Live Collection, Vol. 42: Locky Chung (live at (yu:l) Haus, Seoul, 2009) Locky Chung, Sung Won Park

After touring across the United States and Europe for much of 1974, in support of their newly released album Deliver The Word, WAR decided to take their laidback West Coast sound to Japan–-bookending their epic tour run with dates across Shizuoka, Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe.

The trailblazing force behind the emergence of the Japanese techno-pop sound of the late '70s, Yellow Magic Orchestra remains a seminal influence on contemporary electronic music – hugely popular both at home and abroad, their pioneering use of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines places them second only to Kraftwerk as innovators of today's electronic culture.

“I always find my role as a pianist very similar to an actor. Fundamentally speaking, we are all interpreters trying to decode a piece of art and transmitting to the audience through our own means.”

Prodigious performer Ken Peplowski puts his voracious appetite for swing on display on this effort recorded at New York's Mezzrow Jazz Club.

Today (1/24), Columbia Records/Sony Music Nashville artist-songwriter Alana Springsteen shares her all-new EP, Alana Springsteen: Live from the Ryman. Recorded LIVE during her first full-band set at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, the seven-song collection fully captures the electrifying power of her live show and serves up hard-hitting standouts like “you don’t deserve a country song (Live from the Ryman).”

The Tragically Hip announce a commemorative boxset of their Diamond-certified debut album Up To Here, the latest installment of special deluxe packages, set to release on November 8.

On the 22nd June 1979, opening the album Rust Never Sleeps, a song was released by Neil Young and his Crazy Horse that history would turn into an anthem. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) contains all the urgency of punk, shaking the establishment at the time, but done in acoustic peacefulness.

Mary Wilson: The Motown Anthology is a two disc collection of music, spanning the career of singer Mary Wilson of the American musical group the Supremes.

Tuscaloosa is an 11-track live album from Neil Young and The Stray Gators, recorded at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on February 5th 1973. The Stray Gators backed Neil occasionally in the ‘70’s and are Tim Drummond, Kenny Buttrey, Jack Nitzsche and Ben Keith. The album was produced by Neil Young and Elliot Mazer and mixed by John Hanlon. It is mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman from the original analogue tapes

Have you ever been so weighed down you almost gave up? // Ever since I was a young singer, I’ve been compared to Paul Robeson. I was asked constantly if I sang his trademark song “Ol’ Man River” and was told my voice reminded people of his. To be honest, I didn’t know much about him at the time and became annoyed that people kept asking me to sing what I considered a minstrel song.