Live in Hyde Park

Live in Hyde Park Review

Having finished the biggest UK live outdoor event of 2004, and playing to over half a million people across the country, the Red Hot Chili Peppers release Live in Hyde Park. This by-popular-demand double CD is made up from the best takes from the three sh

Complete Village Vanguard Sessions

Complete Village Vanguard Sessions Review

A lavish nine-disc boxed set that contains all 45 uninterrupted takes from Art Pepper's legendary stay at the Village Vanguard! Any Pepper fan will find a lot to treasure here: A Night in Tunisia; You Go to My Head; These Foolish Things; Labyrinth; My Friend John; Valse Triste; But Beautiful; Caravan; More for Les ; a solo sax rendition of Somewhere over the Rainbow ; radically-different alternate takes; witty between-song banter and spoken introductions, and more, plus an essay in the liner notes tells the whole sordid tale of Pepper's odyssey from prison to a halfway house to a late-1970s rebound that brought about some of his best music.

Cheap Trick: Sgt. Pepper Live

Cheap Trick: Sgt. Pepper Live Review

SGT PEPPER LIVE - DVD Movie

Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard

Saturday Night at the Village Vanguard Review

audio cd - jazz - post bop. live quartet key players Art Pepper (Sax) George Cables (P)

No Shame

No Shame Review

Lending a hand to the southern California sound of No Shame, Nick Hexum (311), Tony Kanal (No Doubt), and Paul Leary (Sublime/Butthole Surfers) all produced tracks for the album, Pepper's follow-up album to their 2004 debut Kona Town.

Pink Crustaceans

Pink Crustaceans Review

Pepper returns with their 2008 album Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations, their fifth studio album and follow up to the Atlantic Records Release No Shame. This album sees the band at their most eclectic and captures the essence of the Kona Boys arriving in California as seasoned veterans of Rock!

Uplift Mofo Party Plan

Uplift Mofo Party Plan Review

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (2003 US 14-track CD album - reissue of the bands third album originally released in 1987. Includes the singles Behind The Sun & Fight Like A Brave plus 2 bonus tracks Behind The Sun (Instrumental Demo) and Me And My Friends (Instrumental Demo) presented in a full picture sleeve with minor deletion mark to the spine)

Californication [Vinyl]

Californication [Vinyl] Review

1999 German exclusive 15-track vinyl 2-LP set, including the title track plus 'Get On Top' and 'I Like Dirt', sealed picture sleeve. Track Listings Disc 1 1. AROUND THE WORLD 2. PARALLEL UNIVERSE 3. SCAR TISSUE 4. OTHER SIDE 5. GET ON TOP 6. CALIFORNICATION Disc 2 1. PORCELAIN 2. EMIT REMMUS 3. I LIKE DIRT 4. THIS VELVET GLOVE 5. SAVIOR 6. PURPLE STAIN 7. RIGHT ON TIME 8. ROAD TRIPPIN'

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits Review

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits Feature

• RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS GREATEST HITS

ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS : The Modern Rock #1s are "Give It Away," "Soul To Squeeze," "My Friends," "Californication," "Otherside" and "By The Way" (also Top 40 Pop). The Top 20s are "Higher Ground" and "Suck My Kiss."

Straight Life

Straight Life Review

As Art Pepper readied himself to die--or further pushed himself toward the brink of death--he seemed determined to say everything possible, quickly and forthrightly. In doing so, he created an explosive ream of albums for the Galaxy Records label, most of them featuring Pepper with only the slender backing of a piano-bass-drums setup. He was all over the sessions, picking ripe old tunes and letting fly on them, spinning his silken lines into adventurous nuggets that curbed and then redirected his playing. On Straight Life and on several of the Galaxy sessions (collected in their blessed entirety on the 16-CD The Complete Galaxy Recordings), he has the rhythmic backing of Billy Higgins on drums. Like Pepper, Higgins can whisper his parts and then shout them out with clapping power. These are all tunes Pepper fans will know but they're tremendously fresh, as is their interpreter--who would die less than three years later. --Andrew Bartlett

Sgt. Pepper Live

Sgt. Pepper Live Review

American pop group Cheap Trick, in a reprisal of their widely successful sold-out concerts, salute the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' seminal Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album with a dynamic track-by-track rendition that features the New York Philharmonic orchestra, an Indian music ensemble and an array of very special guests. At the helm is none other than the legendary Geoff Emerick, who engineered the Fab Four's definitive album in 1967, and brings an exciting authenticity to the celebration. Cheap Trick genuinely infuse their brand of Beatlesque power pop into a live tribute that pays homage to their musical influences, by capturing the essence of an album that changed music history.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle Review

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live at Slane Castle Feature

• By The Way Scar Tissue Around The World Universally Speaking Parallel Universe Zephyr Song Throw Away Your Television Havana Affair Otherside Purple Stain Don't Forget Me Right On Time Can't Stop Venice Queen Give It Away Californication Under The Bridge Power Of Equality

Live concert filmed on location at a stunning outdoor venue in Ireland.

Sgt. Pepper With a Little Help from His Friends

Sgt. Pepper With a Little Help from His Friends Review

This UK release contains The Beatles' classic Sgt. Pepper album re-imagined for Mojo Magazine by a dozen of the publication's favourite acts. The much-acclaimed Psychedelic masterpiece re-engineered as an Alternative Rock opus including Simple Kid, Circulus. Stephanie Dosen and Fionn Regan.

By the Way [Vinyl]

By the Way [Vinyl] Review

By the Way [Vinyl] Feature

• 1 - By the way
• 2 - Universally speaking
• 3 - This is the place
• 4 - Dosed
• 5 - Dont forget me

When the Red Hot Chili Peppers first appeared smeared in neon body paint with socks dangling precariously from their wieners, even the most faithful funk-metal convert couldn't have conceived they would be around some 20 years later, carrying on in much the same fashion. Despite a long history of tragedies and personnel upheavals, the California quartet's eighth album is mostly business as usual--and business, as usual, is quite good. The title track, "By the Way," is a powerful, bruised piece of slap-bass and intermediary white-boy rapping. "Universally Speaking" pays sweaty, soulful tribute to singer Anthony Kiedis's hometown of Grand Rapids. And "Lemon Trees on Mercury" sounds eerily like it could have been lifted from 1984's Freaky Styley. The band's reliable eclectic side, meanwhile, surfaces on the Latin-flavored "Cabron" and moody "Venice Queen." But the biggest surprise is "Tear," a masterful homage to the Beach Boys that suggests the Chili Peppers' perpetual state of arrested development may someday lift. --Aidin Vaziri 2002 album.

Winter Moon

Winter Moon Review

Alto saxophonist Art Pepper, a link from Los Angeles' burgeoning Central Avenue jazz scene in the '40s to the post-bop ferment of the '60s, was a survivor of his own hell-bent instincts and the general chaos of the jazz milieu when he enjoyed a heartening comeback in the late '70s. Like Charlie Parker, in whose shadow he had often labored, Pepper was a brilliant, often furious improvisor with a sentimental streak expressed in his fragile, moving ballads. This autumnal album fulfilled a desire shared with Bird--to set the smoky, elegiac timbre of Pepper's most carefully shaped lines against the clean foil of strings. 1980's Winter Moon establishes and sustains a middle-of-the- night atmosphere by hewing strictly to moody ballads, and giving Pepper a spare but plush backdrop of strings that allow him and a smartly chosen small group to shine on a mix of originals and covers culminating in his reading of the Hoagy Carmichael title song. --Sam Sutherland

Kona Gold

Kona Gold Review

Recorded in Boulder, CO in August 2008, "Kona Gold" is a live performance of Pepper's career pioneering 2002 full-length debut, "Kona Town". Driven by the spirit of aloha and the inspiration of the Hawaiian Islands, that album remains the cornerstone of Pepper's catalog. "Kona Gold" features all the cardinal tracks, including 2005's alternative radio hit, "Give It Up" (#34 Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks), and fan faves like "Stone Love", "Tradewinds", and "Stormtrooper".

Vol. 5-Unreleased Art: Stuttgart 2 disc Set

Vol. 5-Unreleased Art: Stuttgart 2 disc Set Review

Direct from The Widow: Praised by Audiophile Audition magazine, Listed by jazz critics internationally as one of 10 best reissues/historical (tho previously unreleased). Soulful, lively, romantic, and did we say soulful? One of the best.