Folk Rock CDs

Marking his 17th studio album, 'Wrecking Ball' features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau. A special edition of 'Wrecking Ball' will also be available and include two bonus tracks and exclusive artwork and photograp...

'Sigh No More' is the eagerly anticipated debut album from London four piece, Mumford And Sons. Formed from the same West London scene that has given rise to the likes of Laura Marling, Jay Jay Pistolet and Noah and The Whale, yet with a much broader and wider spread appeal.

Releasing the 'Neil Young Archive Performance Series', 'Dreamin Man' is the second of the series to be released. Dreamin' Man is a revisiting, containing different solo performances of his 1992 album 'Harvest Moon', before it had even been released. The mellower tracks like 'From Hank to Hendrix' an...

Following Jackson Browne's acclaimed 2008 studio album comes a wonderful new live set - the first title released under the co-billing of Jackson Browne & David Lindley - drawn from recordings made during the 2006 world tour from Jackson and his old mate. On record and in performance, J...

Here Lies Love is an upcoming concept album made in collaboration between David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, about the life of the former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos and her relationship with a servant from her childhood. The album will feature 22 guest vocalists and it is scheduled to be ...

Anika Moa is back with her fourth studio album “Love in motion” due for release on April 5th 2010.  “Love in Motion” showcases the next phase of Moa’s musical growth as she substitutes acoustic pop melodies tinged with blues as exhibited in previous releases (d...

Personnel: Ben Harper (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, dobro); Suzie Katayama (cello); Richard Cook (Uillean pipes); John McKnight (accordion, bass); Gail Deadrick (piano); Rock Deadrick (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jelani Jones, Kevin Williams, Clyde Allen, Clarence Butler, Clabe...

'Live in London' is Leonard Cohen's first concert collection to be released since 2001's 'Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979'. This 2CD set was recorded live on July 17, 2008 at London's 02 Arena, one of Europe's largest indoor venues, capturing the extraordinary show that earned Cohen more than 80...

The Civil Wars is an enigmatic duo comprised of California-to-Nashville transplant Joy Williams and her Alabaman partner, John Paul White. The band are a raw and unique talent whose heartbreakingly sparse and beautiful melodies sit perfectly with their two agonisingly restrained individual voic...

Our Version of Events is the upcoming debut studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé. The album is currently set for release in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2012 through Virgin Records. Work on the album began in early 2010 following Sandé's signing with Virgin, with the song "He...

Auckland songstress Lydia Cole releases her debut album (she first caught attention and ears with her Neil Finn endorsed debut 2009 EP Love Will Find A Way.) A live reputation cemented on tour with Brooke Fraser and appearances at Parachute, Rhythm‘n’Vines, and on the Winery, Acoustic Church and ...

The Bang Years is a new compilation documenting the early years of Neil Diamond’s career from 66 – 69. Album highlights Neil’s origins as a singer/songwriter and are re-mastered and presented in original mono. Features some of the most loved songs including ‘C...

Columbia To Simultaneously Release 'The Promise' Double CD Complete Songs From Darkness On The Edge Of Town's Lost Sessions.

Columbia To Simultaneously Release 'The Promise' Double CD Complete Songs From Darkness On The Edge Of Town's Lost Sessions.

The Witmark Demos features 47 Bob Dylan songs recorded by the artist - accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, harmonica and occasionally piano - for his first music publisher, Leeds Music, in January 1962, and for his second publisher, M. Witmark & Sons, between 1962 and 1964. Listening to th...

After four decades as "three together," the creative partnership of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash is one of the most enduring and influential in contemporary music. 12-song collection of previously unreleased demos from 1968 – 71. While a number of demos feature...

Order this and be in the draw to win one of 3 exclusive LP versions of the album! In a hostile sea of disposable, throwaway singles, BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7 have made a true album. White Lies For Dark Times is a timeless rock record, with a cohesive collection of music that is as raw, unrelent...

The great English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg releases a further four of his most acclaimed albums - dating from 1988 to 2002 - on second box set ‘Billy Bragg Volume 2’. The box set features eight CDs and one DVD with a wealth of rare and previously unreleased tracks. The bonus DVD &l...

The third album from kiwi five piece Goldenhorse. Their debut ‘Riverhead’ went triple platinum and the follow up ‘Out Of The Moon’ has almost reached double platinum status Features the new single ‘Jump Into The Sun’.

This digitally re-mastered, special package of the long awaited re-issue of both 'Traveling Wilburys' albums comes with a DVD, bonus tracks, plus a 16-page booklet with photos and detailed liner notes. The DVD boasts a 24-minute documentary and five music videos. The Wilburys formed in 1988 after...

The wonderfully titled We All Raise Our Voices To The Air is 20-track live double-album culled from the band's 2011 tour supporting their Billboard chart-topping, Grammy-nominated album The King Is Dead. With songs spanning their entire first decade as a band-from their debut EP 5 Songs through each...

Zach Condon's music often parallels the exotic mysteries of world travel. Since Beirut's last album, 2007's The Flying Club Cup, sang a love-letter to France (with a 2009 stop-off in Mexico for the March of the Zapotec EP), many asked where his songs would voyage next, but few predicted the inward j...

This two CD set includes two classic albums from The Beach Boys, including their 1965 albums 'Today' and 'Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!)'.

The Sami Sisters are Madeleine, Anji and Priya Sami. Three singing, Guitar playing, coffee coloured songstresses of Irish and Indian descent born and bred in Auckland, New Zealand. After nearly two years in the making, recorded in bedrooms and lounges, between studios and day jobs, The Sami Siste...

 Discovered recently in the archives of noted music writer and Rolling Stone coIfounder Ralph Gleason,  was the Bob Dylan Brandeis University 1963 concert tape.   After sitting on a shelf for more than forty years, Bob Dylan fans can now experience the very rare  recording fo...

Bob Dylan described his early folk years as "a Woody Guthrie jukebox", acknowledging his huge influence, while Pete Seeger founded the first real protest group the Almanac Singers back in 1940.

Raven presents a multi-label career overview of the legendary Los Angeles rock band SPIRIT. Spirit offered a truly innovative approach and presence with a blend of rock and jazz mixed with blues, folk and psychedelic elements.

Eric Hutchinson looks like the kind of guy you can trust – honest, approachable, some-how familiar. There’s just something about him that invites you to give up your innermost thoughts. Sounds Like This was released in the US initially on Hutchinson’s own label, Let’s Break R...

Little Honey is Williams' ninth studio album and easily her most eclectic in a recording career that began in 1978. After 30+ years of writing, performing and recording, Williams is in the middle of her most prolific period to date. In February of 2007, Williams released the Grammy-nominated and cri...

No longer does “to go the way of the dodo” denote becoming an obsolete thing of the past. Instead, Meric Long, chief songwriter and guitarist of San Francisco-based duo the Dodos gives the phrase a fresh new  meaning, playing psychfolk- pop music. Long’s fleeting, intricate an...

Cooder produced the album and wrote or co-wrote all the songs. He sings and plays mandolin, guitar, and bass on the album, along with Mariachi Los Camperos; Joachim Cooder and Jim Keltner on drums; Rene Camacho on bass; Francisco Torres on trombone; Ron Blake and Jon Hassell on trumpet; Anthony Gil ...

This is the definitive 2 CD best-of collection from cult Anglo-Australian folk-pop group The New Seekers, best known for their international smash hit "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". Between 1970-74 The New Seekers were one of the biggest bands in the world, selling over 25 million records...

Annabel "Bachelorette" Alpers is still a space case, but since her last album she's definitely come back down to earth a bit. The tunes are still soaring high though. Take a trip up to the skies with her latest release, the self-titled Bachelorette. The project of Christchurch, New Zea...

Dirt Poems is the debut solo album from Wellington artist Tessa Rain, produced by longtime collaborator Age Pryor (Woolshed Sessions, Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra) & engineered by the famed Lee Prebble. Dirt Poems is a spacious, solitary beauty; dedicated to the roads of the Sou...

It has been more than ten years since Turin Brakes released their Mercury Prize nominated debut album ‘The Optimist LP’. Now, with their 6th full length record, ‘Outbursts’, they have rediscovered the working practices that got them started in the first place, and with it, th...

Lightspeed Champion, the incredible brain child of former Test Icicles guitarist Dev Hynes, has returned with his second album, Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You. The follow-up to 2008's Falling Off the Lavender Bridge is an epic collection of twelve pop songs, two instrumental intermissions and one p...

Cocoon is the male‐female duo of Mark Daumail and Morgane Imbeaud, self described (and perhaps with tongues‐in‐cheek) as a folk‐pop version of The White Stripes. Their close harmonic, heartfelt and charming sound echoes the refrains of singer‐songwriters Nick Drake and Elliot Smith, with a nod to th...

MIDLAKE, one of America's most successful and celebrated acts make their long-awaited return their extraordinary third album."The Courage Of Others". It's ironic that Midlake's new album is titled "The Courage Of Others" because, if anything, the courage is all theirs. Namely...

‘Mo Beauty’ is the debut solo release from celebrated singer / songwriter Alec Ounsworth, who has earned acclaim of late with his band Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah. Ounsworth has crafted a collection of songs that pick up where Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah left off. ‘Mo Beauty’ ...

Story of A Heart is an album which returns to the musical roots of ABBA legend Benny Andersson. For the past 20 years he has been leading The Benny Andersson Band, a group of 16 exceptional musicians and singers who share his passion for the Swedish folk tradition, not to mention big band, Bach, pol...