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NOW Music is pleased to announce the latest addition to the numbered series – NOW That’s What I Call Music! 118 – Out on July 26th! 47 huge tracks across 2 CDs celebrating the hottest hits from the Sales and Airplay Charts.

NOW Music is pleased to announce the latest addition to the numbered series – NOW That’s What I Call Music! 118 – Out on July 26th! 47 huge tracks across 2 CDs celebrating the hottest hits from the Sales and Airplay Charts.

Waterloo - First Battle (1970) {Vogue–Musea FGBG4281.AR rel 1999}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 372 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 156 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 173 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1970, 1999 Disques Vogue / Musea Records | FGBG4281.AR
Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Progressive Rock

Belgian band Waterloo's only album, First Battle, was originally released in February of 1970, a crucial time of transition for European rock; this was the tipping point where the expansive sounds of psychedelia lost some of their trippiness and began moving toward a technically complex progressive rock style. Though King Crimson and Yes had released their first albums by this time, prog was still very much in its infancy, and First Battle falls squarely under the proto-prog umbrella, retaining trace elements of psychedelia but definitively leaning into a more sophisticated, classical-influenced realm.

The Stanley Brothers - The King Years 1961-1965 (2003) {4CD Collector's Box Set, King Records KG-0950-2}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 1.64 Gb | MP3 @320 -> 671 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 105 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1961-65, 2003 King Records | KG-0950-2
Bluegrass / Country / Traditional Bluegrass

Virginians Ralph and Carter Stanley, the Stanley Brothers, took the traditional Appalachian string band songs of their home and updated them into a traditionally rooted modern bluegrass sound that was singular for its authentic tone, no-frills simplicity, and at times haunting and astonishing beauty, the very model of the high lonesome sound. This expansive four-disc, 111-track box covers the later part of the middle period of their recording career, collecting virtually every side the brothers recorded for the King record label between 1961 and 1965. That's a whole lot of Stanley Brothers, but the musical quality, integrity, and execution of this storied duo never waver here, and indeed, they never really did waver one bit any time the two of them stepped in front of the microphones.

Holly Golightly originally made her name as a garage rock chanteuse, working in Billy Childish's orbit as a member of Thee Headcoatees before branching into a solo career. But she began traveling in a rootsy direction when she founded Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, a duo that mined country, blues, and folk influences for inspiration.