The NOW That's What I Call Music folks have come up with the perfect soundtrack to listen to while you're out cruising on your boat this summer: a collection of Yacht Rock classics.
The Baltimore group release As Long As You Are, their sixth studio record, via 4AD. As Long As You Are looks to the past as well as the future, confronting old ghosts and embracing a new hope. It is an album about trust, full of honesty, redemption and “letting go”, allowing old wounds to heal and bringing painful chapters to a close. As Long As You Are also signals a new era for Future Islands. Drummer Mike Lowry officially joins as a fully-fledged member and songwriter bolstering the founding trio of William Cashion, Samuel T. Herring and Gerrit Welmers. Together, the four-piece took on official production duties for the first time, co-producing As Long As You Are with engineer Steve Wright at his Wrightway Studios in Baltimore. Their brand of new wave synth-pop full of bright melodies and heavenly choruses is as euphoric and uninhibitedly joyful as anything the band has done in their 14-year career.
Re-release of the second album from Epic & Power Metal pioneers Virgin Steele. Remixed, remastered and 3 bonus tracks were addded. 41 years ago this album was released and hit like a bomb in the Metal scene. These men of Steele have been busy! Hot on the heels of last summer’s brand new Bombastic Epic release “The Passion of Dionysus” coming this summer in addition to the re-release of the very first Virgin Steele album, the second Virgin Steele album, “Guardians Of The Flame”, will also be re-released in tandem with the first album, on August 23, 2024, via Steamhammer/SPV in a very special edition, as a digi-CD and as a Gatefold Double Vinyl LP, and also in digital format.
Re-release of the second album from Epic & Power Metal pioneers Virgin Steele. Remixed, remastered and 3 bonus tracks were addded. 41 years ago this album was released and hit like a bomb in the Metal scene. These men of Steele have been busy! Hot on the heels of last summer’s brand new Bombastic Epic release “The Passion of Dionysus” coming this summer in addition to the re-release of the very first Virgin Steele album, the second Virgin Steele album, “Guardians Of The Flame”, will also be re-released in tandem with the first album, on August 23, 2024, via Steamhammer/SPV in a very special edition, as a digi-CD and as a Gatefold Double Vinyl LP, and also in digital format.
The new Sorrentino's TV series is already a success and, as usual, the choice of the soundtrack is profound and extraordinary. The Young Pope soundtrack mixes classics with electronic music, forgotten Italian songs (Nada "Senza un perchè" / Roberto Murolo "Era di Maggio") with Jeff Buckley, Max Richter, John Adams, Bela Bartok, Antonello Venditti, Jefferson Airplane and Domenico Modugno. A mystic experience.