Debut album from London-based dance-rock indie band originally mentored by Faithless's Rollo Armstrong. Drawing on unusual life experiences and utilising a range of exotic instrumentation, their epic sound has been compared to Jeff Buckley, Muse and Radiohead. Produced by the legendary Youth (Crowded House, James, Beth Orton), the album includes the singles'Remain', 'Somebody Else' and 'Wicked Soul'. Universal.

不知道大家看过最近的PUMA广告吗,里面的背景音乐就是Mazarin的For Energy Infinite，是一首很欢快的英式摇滚曲.
这只乐队成军于1999年，至今发过三张专辑，这是他们最近的一张。整张专辑曲风基本偏向英式摇滚，但他们却来自美国费城，目前成员包括:
Quentin Stoltzfus - Vocals and Guitar
Mickey Walker - Bass
Ryan Cobb - Guitar
Paul Cobb - Drums
曾经参与过乐队的成员有Brian Mctear，Sean Byrne，Matt Werth，Jason DiEmillio，Jay Laughlin， Kurt Heasley，Eve Miller，Jim Callan，Steve Keller，Marshall Costan，Justin Bailey，Gerhart Koerner，Brian Christenzio，Walter Martin，Don Devore，Kristine Muller，Mike Kennedy，Gerhardt Koerner，Patrick Berkery，Drew Mills，Ben Dickey。

アオキ・タカマサ＆ツジコ・ノリコのコラボレーション・アルバム登場！

スウィートでしなやかなヴォーカルとピュアで甘美なエレクトロニクス、絶妙でファンキーなビート・プログラミングが美しく溶け合った、アオキ・タカマサとツジコ・ノリコによる3年越しのコラボレーション作品「28」が完成！当初大阪に在住していたアオキと、パリ在住のツジコが、オーディオ・ファイルを送り合いながら少しずつトラック制作を開始。結果、アルバム制作には時間がかかることになった（その後、アオキがパリに移住したことでスピードアップ。）現在の2人の年齢「28」がタイトルに冠せられた本作。緻密さ、透明感、細部へのこだわりが繊細に作用し、全てが一緒に溶け合いながらオーガニックにゆっくり流れていく…聴いてるうちに時間の経過が分からなくなるほど、浮遊感を持ったゆらぎとビートで構成された極上の1枚に仕上がっています！

UK version of their 2005 album features four exclusive bonus tracks, ‘I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry’, ‘Everyday’, ‘Black Wave’ and ‘I Wanna Be Taken’. Danish duo The Raveonettes aka Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo return with their new album ‘Pretty In Black’. The follow up to 2003’s ‘Chain Gang of Love’. ‘Pretty In Black’ is virtually fuzz-free, with stunning results. Wagner's deep affection for early rock & roll and girl-group bop comes through bright and clear, as do his glass-sheet harmonies with vocalist and co-founder Sharin Foo. Sony. 2005.

unto ashes是Projekt旗下一支乐队，成立于1997年。乐队名“unto ashes”取自17世纪英国诗人Fulke Greville的一句诗词“To all this glory unto ashes must”，意为世上所有的一切都将腐败、衰亡直至化为灰烬。既富哲理，也代表了该乐队的音乐取向：迷离、忧伤和死寂。
乐队有4位成员：Michael Laird：乐队核心成员，负责众多乐器如各种洋琴、吉他、键盘、鼓及其它打击乐器以及部分vocal；Natalia Lincoln：键盘、vocal、词曲编写，客串洋琴及打击乐器；Ericah Hagle: 乐队主音。客串打击乐器及键盘。Ericah Hagle拥有优美、迂回飘渺的嗓音，可以听听她主音的 "Morte O Merce"、"Serve Me"、 "Glass"等歌曲。Jeremy Bastard: 吉他。
这是一个用全身心去创作音乐的团体，正如Michael Laird所说：“我们必须创作音乐，因为它是我们的祝福、是我们的诅咒、是我们的命运！没有音乐，我们每天都会死去！”…….令人无比敬佩！
乐队成员深受中世纪音乐及挪威黑金影响，其音乐题材采用了大多来源于哲理古诗和幻士诗词、融合了大量民族音乐元素并配以现代化的声响结构，使得其音乐既充满迷离、神秘的气氛，又富有异域风情。unto ashes的音乐由于配器清淡、旋律舒缓优美，所以初听会有点轻快的感觉，但当你静下心来细细品位的时候，你再也不可能找到轻松的感觉，只有颓废、迷茫、忧伤和死寂

关于KYLE RIABKO的中文介绍十分少，也许是大家对他还不甚了解。他是一个吉他天才，也被他的同行许多前辈而称赞，这张专辑BEFORE I SPEAK是他的第一张专辑，也是目前唯一的一张，也是他在高中毕业前发行的，可见他年虽少但才华已经显露无疑。我想应该是你可以去尝试一听的专辑。

This Australian Tour Edition comes with a bonus DVD (PAL, All Region) packed with extra features. Following on from the sporadically pop to relatively somber offerings on their last album Beautiful Garbage, the band have returned to their roots with a harder, faster and more menacing rock sound with Bleed Like Me. The album opener 'Bad Boyfriend' finds Shirley at her most vocally embittered but lyrically playful, providing a rather joyous call-to-arms for anyone who’s ever found themselves in a highly unsuitable relationship. Such reckless behavior is seemingly endorsed by Shirley Manson’s sexually charged delivery and the raucous and unrelenting pop-rock guitars that seem to coax her into such a volatile and apparently excited state. Single 'Why Do You Love Me' finds the band on a rather similar outing of wanton rock ‘n’ roll abuse portraying another scenario of a broken down relationship full of insecurity and doubt. However, Shirley declares 'your sick of all the rules/ well I’m sick of all your lies' as the crescendo builds into an onslaught of a heavy rock guitar battling it out with Butch Vig’s commanding beats and a rumbling bass that transforms Shirley’s acidic sentiments to ones of affirmation. Whilst a harder sound is fully endorsed on the record, Bleed Like Me is still an album of Garbage’s trademarked loops and varied sounds. On 'Metal Heart', the band deliver an gothic orchestral-laced track of Tim Burton proportions, sounding like an industrial version of 'Hammering In My Head' from their Version 2.0 album. 'Boys Wanna Fight' and 'Why Don’t You Come Over' suitably find the band at their most rousing and entertaining, while 'It's All Over But The Crying' and 'Happy Home' find the band at their reflective and mellow best. Although rumors of a temporary split of the band during the recording of 'Bleed Like Me' have been confirmed by Shirley, it's hard to imagine such a fun, enjoyable and carefree album could be the consequence of such negativity between the band. Mind you, as they say, the best thing about fighting is the making up after. Warner. 2005.

With his whimsical, melancholy music, Yann Tiersen has become a sought-after composer, not only for his soundtrack work, but in his own right. Borrowing from French folk music, chanson, musette waltz and street music, as well as rock, avant-garde, and classical and minimalist influences, Tiersen's deceptively simple style has been likened to Chopin, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, and Michael Nyman. This is his 2005 album featuring guest vocalists Liz Frazier, Jane Birkin, Stuart Stapple & Dominique A. EMI.

Indie-kids Athlete return with their exceptional new album 'Tourist', following on from the Mercury Music Prize nominated 'Vehicles & Animals'. This album is a significant step forward for the band, exploring new epic rock territory as previously inhabited by Coldplay & recently Keane, & includes the feel-good anthem 'Half Light' & hit single 'Wires'. Having received an outstanding response across press, TV & radio, those with any sense would place bets on Athlete being one of the biggest bands of 2005. Parlophone.

The Beekeeper is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Tori Amos. It deals with the topics of death, adultery and romantic conflict, and makes brief reference to ancient Gnostic mysticism from the Apocryphon of John. Sonically, it incorporates Celtic choirs, African drums, and Amos's B-3 Hammond organ.

With over 6 million records sold and 2 Grammy’s under their belts, The Wallflowers have released their fifth album and first with producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen). Rebel, Sweetheart is the welcome re-introduction to a grown up rock & roll band with a renewed sense of purpose. The Wallflowers have created an album that yearns for clarity while reflecting the world’s complexity – these are songs written by a man and performed by a band that’s already lived a little. From the powerful expression of hope on the first single "The Beautiful Side Of Somewhere" to the moodily stunning "We’re Already There", Rebel, Sweetheart is poised to be the most focused and accomplished album of their career.

Limited edition pressing of their third includes a bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 0) unavailable on US pressing. The bonus DVD features a short film (approx 11 mins) of the 'making of' the album titled Cities Under Construction, plus a photo gallery (set to an exclusive album instrumental) and the Director's Cut of the video for Black and White Town by acclaimed Director Lynne Ramsay. If the first two Doves albums, Lost Souls and The Last Broadcast, were records that sounded like they were conceived in Glastonbury-like vast open plains, each number a snapshot of the wide open countryside or of the rolling sea, then their third album, Some Cities, paints altogether different pictures. At points it's crunching and urban, sounding like a midnight high-speed joy ride through the industrial beating heart of the city (most noticeably on the turbo charged first single Black and White Town). At others, it's like a long lost soundtrack to some early '60s kitchen sink drama (Someday Soon, Shadows of Salford). Some Cities could only ever have been born in the North of England and is the sound of a full throttle Doves band. It's also the sound of the band at their most relaxed and confident, their most driven and fine-tuned. Some Cities arrives almost three years after The Last Broadcast. Conceived as a shorter, more forceful record than its two predecessors, the record was written primarily in cottages and holiday rents around the UK (Snowdonia, Darlington and Youlgreave in the Peak District) and recorded with Ben Hillier (producer of Blur's Think Tank and Elbow's Cast of Thousands) in Liverpool, Brixton and Loch Ness. EMI. 2005.

挪威的音乐奇才美少女琳恩玛莲（Lene Marlin），曾荣获欧洲MTV大奖，“北欧最受欢迎的艺人”。2005全新新专辑，《Lost In A Moment》（瞬间迷失），一首甜美的流行歌曲《sitting down here》迅速风靡全球，林忆莲的翻场版"我坐在这里"更是让其旋律在亚洲脍炙人口
从第一张专辑开始，来自挪威的小精灵就展现出民谣歌手独乐乐的特质。一个十八岁的音乐奇才美少女，03年以一首甜美的流行歌曲「Unforgivable Sinner」，大大地震撼了挪威的排行榜，不但得到了挪威葛莱美奖的肯定，并且得到排行榜冠军长达五周之久。她的唱片并成为挪威有史以来销售量最高、销售速度最快的单曲。不但如此，欧洲与日本也已经沾染了这波Lene Marlin的热潮。在日本，从今年年初发行至今已有超过二十万张的销量；在法国、意大利及西欧各国的排行榜上，也纷纷拿下冠军。
2岁时就开始唱歌了。15岁开始写歌。临近成年的少女以自己独特的视角和真实世界切入剪辑，不管日落与时事迁移，只是"sitting down here，palying my game"，仿佛所有的都离她远去的。只在吉他和有条不紊的和声中独自吟唱。如今，女孩的成熟仿佛加入了什么的味道，那些侧倾的眼神杀死一串串的惊奇，她在光阴中慢慢转身，成为女人。然而那些曾经让人感动的东西都还在，她的矛盾和怀疑，她的信心和坚定，都换上了另外一种成色，在那些弦线之间微微闪光。
Lene Marlin带着全新专辑《Lost in a Moment》归来。今年5月底就率先推出的单曲"How Would It Be"已经在挪威等北欧国家各大排行榜上得到肯定。同样是一如既往的，在许多情绪的交错十字中央，Lene还是继续波澜不惊的调子。不管是关于离开或想念，关于对所爱的祝福或牵挂，在Lene的淡淡声音之下，它们听起来都有一样的外衣，只是随着编配的不同从各种角度击中听者的内心。人声和bass彼此蔓延前进的《my lucky day》，歌词之中不断的I know和I'm just being me让歌者即使在第一人称的包围下也显得相当冷静。《how would it be》如同精致引擎一般前进的节奏也丝毫不给人压力。《what if》在副歌部分一连串的if出口，这种不确定的情绪，仍然在少女的心事范围之内，干净的《when you where around》之中对爱情的不断陈述和无奈，又流露出一个女人对感情的诸多感触。《hope you are happy》看似慢慢悠悠，声音又好像夹着提亲迫不及待得要揭开下一句，被吉他和弦勾勒出一点蠢蠢欲动的表情。在《never to know》之中提琴又忍不住上了阵，《eyes closed》中乖巧的铃鼓音色，《wish I could》之中的new age片断都给这张专辑贴上了不少生动的色彩，即使并不浓重，却也使得整个唱片生动起来。
清淡的声音有时间的能量，Lene绝对比Jewel更能把握到一个民谣女歌手怎么样利用时间让自己沉淀。放弃诸多花巧不实的手法和技巧堆砌的毛病，民谣女歌手才能在民谣的路上走得更踏实。《Lost In A Moment》和往常一样，是一张自我倾诉的唱片，Lene仍然是带着北欧一路清爽的空气唱得潇洒自在。让都市繁忙的人们忍不住驻步聆听，仿佛是在北国宜人的风光中梳理自己烦乱的心情。

Beck的新专辑《Guero》预定于3月21日正式发行，而最近他也频频接受媒体访问，畅谈有关新专辑的风格走向。

这张《Guero》是他自2002年的《Sea Change》之后的全新创作，内容一共收录了13首歌曲，而Guero是西班牙文，意思是指“白种男孩”之意。
这张专辑是由他与前任的老搭档The Dust Brothers共同制作而成，同时White Stripes的主唱Jack White也前来跨刀相助，在专辑中的一首Go It Alone中负责贝斯的弹奏部分。
对于Beck而言，这张新作《Guero》其乐风相当激进，“我为这张专辑工作了很长一段时间，不过我却是先完成《Sea Change》这张专辑，然后才完成这张作品，一直以来我都很想要做一张有著吵杂吉他弹奏的专辑！”在接受滚石杂志时说道。

4座葛莱美奖、4座全英音乐奖和两张专辑累积全球销售1700万张！
Coldplay酷玩乐队最新大碟X&Y《XY密码》！
主打歌曲：《Speed Of Sound》首播后成为全世界15个电台频道的热点金曲榜首
《X&Y》是一张很大气的作品，歌曲的包容面很广，音乐有时安静沉潜，有时又营造出宏观且涵盖多重层次的声音，这样阔气的音乐架构为Coldplay开创出了新的畛域。歌词内容也涉及到一些范围较大的主题，像是生与死、爱与失去、拥抱世界等等主题，其中也谈到了要接受一些事情永远都没有完整答案的现实：“在数学的领域里，X和Y经常是答案的代号，但是在生活里没有人能有确实的答案。”Chris表示，“对我而言，这张专辑就是在讲那些无解的问题，还有你要怎么接受你不能解出所有未知变项的现实。”
这张唱片中的Coldplay也向人们展示了自己以前从未有过的进取精神，从“Talk”中Kraftwerk似的电子节拍，到“Swallowed In The Sea”中深受Pogues影响的曲风，整张专辑涉猎了丰富的音乐元素，向人们传递出一种厚重迷人、简约却又壮观的Coldplay之声。

GORILLAZ DEMON DAYS 收录苹果ipod全新广告曲Feel Good Inc
由Blur主唱Damon Albarn为主并隐身幕后代言沉寂三年
史上最强虚拟乐团街头顽童全新专辑

《等待黎明Demon Days》是一张带有英国风味的嘻哈唱片，Gorillaz保持了对旋律的忠诚和带着文艺气的傲慢。它把嘻哈与福音、朋克、后摇滚、地下电子以及另类流行串联起来，交织出Oasis的固执己见、Blur的直率癫狂、LinkinPark的气势汹汹，甚至还有BeeGees的得意洋洋。首推单曲《Feelgoodinc》以著名嘻哈歌手DeLaSoul的狂笑开场，充满了派对式的快乐；《Everyplanetwereachisdead》夹杂着布鲁斯的哀怨，爵士钢琴声散落其间，令人想起嬉皮士的茫然；《Allalone》中隆隆的Techno电子节拍，配上说唱更是张牙舞爪；HappyMondays主唱ShaunRyder在《Dare》中挎刀相助，69岁老影星DennisHopper的念诵则成为专辑中最让人意外的声音。