The Silver Cord

Progressive Metal titans Gojira will release their highly anticipated new album, 'Magma'. The follow up album to 2012’s L’Enfant Sauvage, Magma is heralded by the new single “Stranded”. Frontman Joe Duplantier commented, “We are very excited to release our new album Magma. We put everything we had into these songs. This album is our flesh and blood.”

Spike Wilner strides back on to the scene with his latest release "La Tendresse." Jazz fans will surely delight as the Spike Wilner's piano trio navigates steadily through landmarks of the past while carrying tradition forward into fresh realms of modern melodic improvisation. With a captivating musical program that explores aspects of the feminine archetype and the hidden nature of romance, Wilner succeeds in putting forth an emotional performance of uplifting joy and brooding intensity. The message is moving and the statement is solid when Wilner's piano shines brightly and the trio swings sweetly with the able support of bassist Dezron Douglas and the explosive metrics of drummer Joey Saylor.

A highly decorated, retired U.S. Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with eighty-one tourists as hostages on the San Francisco Bay isle. His demand: Restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. The response: An elite Navy SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical-warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists’ defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out. The result: A fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller with a first-rate cast, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.