We’re Not From Here

In March 2020, Tahiti 80 had a plan to start recording their new album in the studio. That plan, of course, along with everything else in the world, got derailed. But the five-piece group was resilient and resourceful. They quickly shifted to a socially distanced plan B that included file swapping and virtual sessions, all refereed by producer Julien Vignon. The result, due for release in March 2022, is the buoyant Here With You, a collection of eleven upbeat songs that unfold like a prescription for a post-pandemic panacea.

The full story of the incredible Janie Jones recording career, from her first big hit "Witches brew" in 1965 to her 1983 punk comback supported by "The Clash", who wrote "The House of the Ju Ju Queen" specially for Janie (and backed her on the single). As bizarre and eclectic set of singles as you would imagine from the woman dubbed "London's Vice Queen" by the News Of The World and jailed in 1973, this fascinating CD includes all her a and b sides plus several unissued numbers. The CD concentrates on her musical career with the likes of Jimmy Webb, Marc Bolan and others, and includes detailed notes plus loads of great pictures and cuttings, and a discography. The sixties have never swung quite like this before!

The Who's MFSL Gold Discs Collection contains the albums: Tommy (UDCD-533), Live At Leeds (UDCD-755), Who's Next (UDCD-754), Quadrophenia (UDCD 2-550), and Who Are You (UDCD-561).

Generally we are passionate about music because it is the soundtrack of our life, those songs that make us remember our first love, episodes of life, whether happy or sad, in the case of a musician it is a real outlet. The intentions can be multiple, the fact remains that the style with which to set one's intentions to music is approached not only through personal taste, created based on past listening experience, but also through personality. The latter is the key to the evolution of music in a general sense, that is, it brings a change to what we grew up with.

Generally we are passionate about music because it is the soundtrack of our life, those songs that make us remember our first love, episodes of life, whether happy or sad, in the case of a musician it is a real outlet. The intentions can be multiple, the fact remains that the style with which to set one's intentions to music is approached not only through personal taste, created based on past listening experience, but also through personality. The latter is the key to the evolution of music in a general sense, that is, it brings a change to what we grew up with.

Sons Of Kemet are born of many vital elements – including a name that nods to ancient Egyptian culture, and a line-up that comprises some of the most progressive 21st-century talents in British jazz and beyond. Band-leader, composer and sax and clarinet don Shabaka Hutchings (himself named after a Nubian pharaoh-philosopher) brings together his fiery vision alongside London-based bandmates Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford (forming a dynamo duo on drums here) and latest addition Theon Cross (taking over from Oren Marshall on tuba).

A product of New York City's early '70s glam rock scene, Twisted Sister were eager students of the New York Dolls, with Kiss's theatrics, Slade's pop acumen, and the shock rock of Alice Cooper tossed in for good measure. Based out of Long Island and featuring the core lineup of vocalist Dee Snider, guitarists Jay Jay French and Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, bassist Mark "The Animal" Mendoza, and drummer A.J. Pero, the group issued two critically acclaimed, under-the-radar efforts before breaking into the mainstream in 1984 with "Stay Hungry". The LP went multi-platinum on the strength of the monster singles "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". Twisted Sister released two more albums before ceasing operations in 1988…