Japanese only SHM Pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. Warner. 2009.

The Lucky Ones is the ninth album by the band, Mudhoney, a grunge band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. They have been an inspiration and influence on many grunge and alternative rock musicians, most notably Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. Mudhoney's career is chronicled in Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad, a study of several important American underground rock groups. 2008.

MGMT is a psychedelic synthpop group formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, NY. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Andrew VanWyngarden (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Ben Goldwasser (vocals, keyboards, synths, drums), both alumni of Wesleyan University.
Electronic Indie Dance Rock began as a thesis project from music majors at Wesleyan University. They used to be known as “the management” with songs about not quite growing up and a lot of nonsense. They are known for playing shows with only an ipod and some mics.
Andrew Vanwyngarden, one of the MGMT figureheads, is currently collaborating with of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes, with plans to release a record in 2008 under the name Blikk Fang. MGMT was on tour with Of Montreal late in 2005 and VanWyngarden has been appearing on stage during some performances on Of Montreal’s summer 06 tour.
MGMT are currently touring the US with Yeasayer.

UK two track CD pressing of the second single lifted from their 2008 debut album Oracular Spectacular. 'Electric Feel' is the cool, sharp, vivid pop song, razor-sharp and already a live favorite and bold album highlight. It strikes up and flies through the '70s and '80s, before becoming the sound of MGMT right now. Columbia.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Lady Gaga announced today that she will release The Fame Monster, a re-package of her 4 million-selling album The Fame. The album will include the entire breakthrough album The Fame, along with eight entirely new songs. The Fame Monster (Streamline/KonLive/Cherrytree/Interscope Records), deals with the seamier side of fame, as experienced by Gaga over the course of her last history-making year. The new version will be released on November 24, 2009.
Says Lady Gaga, "On my re-release The Fame Monster, I wrote about everything I didn't write on The Fame. While traveling the world for two years, I've encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new record: my 'Fear of Sex Monster,' my 'Fear of Alcohol Monster,' my 'Fear of Love Monster,' my 'Fear of Death Monster,' my 'Fear of Loneliness Monster,' etc."
"I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial/Goth beats, 90's dance melodies, an obsession with the lyrical genius of 80's melancholic pop, and the runway. I wrote while watching muted fashion shows and I am compelled to say my music was scored for them. I also composed a ballad for the album, 'Speechless,' a song for my father, and it's my favorite work of all. I wrote every piece on the road - no songs about money, no songs about fame. I wrote it for my fans, so I wrote everything in between."
The first club-banging single, the RedOne-produced "Bad Romance," will be released in early November. Other collaborators on the new tracks include Teddy Riley, Rodney Jerkins, Ron Fair and Fernando Garibay.
Lady Gaga is also in the process of planning her next tour after her co-headlining tour with Kanye West was canceled last week.

Wonders of the Younger is the sixth album by the band Plain White T's. It was released on December 7, 2010. The album's concept has exerted such force that Higgenson built and decorated the recording studio in the basement of his Chicago home with Wonders of the Younger entirely in mind. The CD was produced by Ian Kirkpatrick. The collection of the songs was designed to evoke the feeling of awe and the yearning for adventure remembered from youth. On September 09, the album art was revealed on the bands official MySpace account. On September 13, the album finished up with mastering engineer Brian "Big Bass" Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering in Hollywood.

'The Young Machines' is a ten-song encapsulation of a year on the edge & Her Space Holiday's most complete & personal release. Mush Records. 2003.

Debut album from this Palm Beach indie pop band. Recorded in their University of Florida dorm room.

可以说the Strokes是当代美国最出色的独立摇滚乐队之一。不过与绝大多数美国摇滚乐队不同的是，他们的音乐更多的带有英国摇滚乐的特点。纽约的许多成功的地下摇滚乐队对the Strokes在音乐道路上有着重要的影响，而朋克乐队Television和Iggy Pop的乐队对他们的音乐风格也产生了一定的影响，对于乐队核心Julian Casablancas而言，甲壳虫乐队的巨星John Lennon对他的影响则是无可替代的，这也基本上是乐队英国情结的根源，而他们在很年轻的时候最为崇拜的乐队也是来自英国。
the Strokes的几名成员很早的时候就是相互之间最好的朋友，乐队的雏形最早成立于1998年，Julian Casablancas的是一名模特公司老板的儿子，他和吉他手Nick Valensi，以及在上小学以前就已经开始练习敲鼓的鼓手Fabrizio Moretti一起参加了曼哈顿一家学校的活动。不久之后，缺乏贝司手的他们找到了Nikolai Fraiture，并且很快就把他吸引入队弥补了空缺。随后，来自洛杉矶的小Albert Hammond也被Julian Casablancas邀请加入了这支还没有名字的乐队，小Albert Hammond的父亲是老牌的歌手兼词曲作者Albert Hammond，老Albert Hammond还曾经在1987年获得过奥斯卡最佳原创歌曲奖的提名。1999年，Julian Casablancas的乐队正式把名字叫做the Strokes。
在the Strokes乐队成立之初，他们只能通过一些小型的演唱会来展示自己，他们在一些酒吧，俱乐部，夜总会演出。经过了将近两年的不稳定生活之后，他们已经在纽约的一定范围内有了比较大的名气。2001年对于the Strokes乐队是具有转折意义的一年，1月，Rough Trade唱片公司为他们发行了一张只有三手单曲组成的EP试音唱片《The Modern Age》，但是这张专辑居然出人意料的引起了相当大的关注，随后的签约争夺战中RCA唱片公司拿到了合约，the Strokes乐队的声名也通过8月27日在Rough Trade唱片公司发行的首张专辑《Is This It》的英国版迅速跃过了大西洋传到了英伦三岛上，并且取得了相当了得的成绩，但是唱片封面上，一只带着黑皮手套的手放在了一名裸露的女人臀部，因而在保守的英国引起了不小的争议。但是争议归争议，通过在英国场场门票售尽，歌迷爆满的巡演，the Strokes乐队在英国的拥趸数量与日俱增，他们开始成为一股强大的摇滚势力冲击着英国乐坛。9月25日，《Is This It》的美国版本才姗姗来迟，不过专辑封面倒是换成了相对“稳妥”的图案，同时由于专辑是在9·11事件发生仅仅两周之后发行，因而撤掉了原来英国版中3分36秒的单曲《New York City Cops(纽约城巡警)》而改为了2分57秒的单曲《When It Started》。经过大规模的全美巡演之后，音乐风格与众不同的the Strokes乐队逐渐发展为了美国最重要的乐队之一，他们的音乐不仅得到了乐迷们的追捧，跟难能可贵的是还得到了一向苛刻的评论界的大量的赞誉之辞，他们独特的音乐风格的到了一致的认可。
2002年，the Strokes乐队展开了贯通全年的漫长巡回演出，并且还和另一支有布鲁斯风格的独立摇滚乐队the White Stripes一起演出，经过巡演之后，乐队的影响力日益增大。进入2003年，着名的《滚石》杂志在10月底把the Strokes乐队作为了杂志的封面人物，一句标题“The new kings of rock cut loose”足以说明他们所取得的成就了。同时，the Strokes乐队也完成了他们倍受期待的第二张专辑《Room on Fire》的录制工作，2003年10月21日，第二张专辑《Room on Fire》正式发行。 　---　上述简介均来自网络

Limp Bizkit是美国最著名的说唱金属乐队，他们于1994年成立与美国佛罗里达州东北部的港口城市Jacksonville。最初由现在的主唱Fred Durst和他的朋友贝斯手Sam Rivers组建，后来Sam Rivers拉来了他的表兄弟John Otto担任鼓手，不久又请来了吉他手Wes Borland加入乐队，形成了基本阵容，不过后来乐队又添加了DJ Lethal。与许多乐队一样，不仅要有不懈的努力，更要有机遇才能成功。Limp Bizkit的机遇在1995年来到了，当时著名的乐队Korn正在Jacksonville地区做巡回演唱会，而这支乐队的贝斯手Fieldy想要做纹身，他到了一家纹身小店，而这家纹身店的主人正是Fred Durst，他是当地一名小有名气的纹身师，结果由于出色的纹身手艺使两个人成了朋友，当Fieldy听到Fred Durst给他的Limp Bizkit自己录制的磁带的时候，Fieldy被打动了，他把这盘磁带交给了他们的制作人Ross Robinson，在Ross Robinson的大力引荐和帮助之下，Limp Bizkit终于顺利的和Interscope唱片公司签约。
1997年，Limp Bizkit发行了第一张专辑《Three Dollar Bill Y'All》，并且利用随后和其他歌星和乐队举行的一系列巡回演出的机会使自己乐队的声势不断壮大，也拥有了自己的铁杆歌迷，这张专辑的销量也超过了200万张。而在第二张专辑《Significant Other》于1999年发行之后，Limp Bizkit俨然已经成为了美国金属说唱界一个巨星。这张专辑很快成为了Billboard 200排行榜的冠军，并且销量很长时间保持很高的位置，迄今为止的销量已经超过700万张。这期间，精明的乐队主唱Fred Durst还成为了Interscope唱片公司的高级副总裁。在上世纪末和本世纪初，在乐队主唱Fred Durst的提拔和帮助之下，包括Staind乐队在内的很多乐队都顺利的在美国摇滚乐界占据了一席之地。
1999年8月，由于乐队所取得的巨大的成功，使他们受邀参加了举世闻名的伍德斯托克(Woodstock)摇滚音乐节。在这个疯狂燥动的音乐节中，由于Limp Bizkit在演出的时候，刻意煽动和挑衅已经近乎疯狂的歌迷，并且怂恿他们做过激动作，而直接导致在他们演出时的现场发生了多起强奸案，性侵犯案更是难以累计，同时还造成了相当大量的歌迷受伤。在这一事件中，Limp Bizkit和Fred Durst受到了前所未有的指责，Limp Bizkit从此也声名狼藉。在这之后的巡演中，Fred Durst又因为多次和巡演合作者发生冲突，而再次引起了人们广泛的争议。自从这之后，Fred Durst就被认为是美国音乐界最大嘴，最没事找事的人之一，评论界的措辞也一落千丈，他们也再没有获得过评论界哪怕是一丁点赞誉。但是由于这些过火的事件，人们反而对这支乐队更为感兴趣，他们露面和被谈论的次数也越来越多了。
2000年，Limp Bizkit乐队发行了第三张专辑《Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water》，这张专辑首周的销量就达到了惊人的一百万张。但是之后，乐队的重要成员，吉他手Wes Borland离开了乐队，这使得乐队花了很长时间去寻找一名新的吉他手，最终他们选择了前Snot乐队的吉他手Mike Smith加入进来。2001年又发行了重新录音的专辑《New Old Songs》。2003年9月23日，第五张专辑《Results May Vary》正式发行。(CatCobain)

Their first full-fledged rock 'n' roll album, 'The Complex', features guest appearances from Dan The Automator, Tracy Bonham, Esthero, Dave Matthews, & others. 14 tracks including the single, 'The Current', featuring Gavin Rossdale. Lava. 2003.

This is not a video DVD. It is the "Audio" Album recorded in 5.1 Surround Sound for listening, including a 15th Bonus Track. It does, however, contain some video footage of interviews, some still images (explaining the instruments of the Blue Man), and the video from Cat Video. The DVD is double sided - One side contains the Video, the other contains the Audio.

When the Runaways debuted in 1976 with this self-titled LP, aggressive female rockers were the exception instead of the rule. With this album, the Runaways made it crystal clear that women (or specifically, adolescent girls) were more than capable of playing intense, forceful hard rock that went directly for the jugular. Produced by Kim Fowley. 10 tracks & a fold-out sleeve with extensive liner notes, photos & other memorabilia. Cherry Red Records. 2003.

UK reissue of the all-girl foursome's 1979 album. Nine tracks including covers of The Beatles' 'Eight Days A Week' & Slade's 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now', both with Joan Jett on vocals. Anagram.