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Filmed at Sydneys Hordern Pavillion in July 2003, and initially released last November as a CD/DVD pack, Coldplay Live 2003 is now a stand-alone DVD at mid-price, and is sure to create excitement amongst the many fans that are yet to purchase a copy of this amazing DVD.Includes a 40 minute 'Tour Dia...ry' filmed on their world, 'Multi angle' camera action and many more bonus features.Simply a must have for any Coldplay fan, or DVD fanatics that want to see the format at its best.

This 19-track greatest-hits collection provides a satisfying overview of one of the most popular heavy-rock acts of the mid-1990s. In the post-grunge era, when "alternative" became a byword for sincere, hard-hitting music with a thunderous guitar attack, Live dominated the charts by blending alt-rock muscle with the brainy, melodic sensibility of bands like R.E.M. and U2. AWAKE represents the band's best moments and, since it gives equal shrift to each of their six albums, serves as an economical career retrospective as well.

Although the late-1990s rap-metal craze that Limp Bizkit helped to spawn was long gone by 2005, the band issued this GREATEST HITZ collection in the fall of that year. While the compilation does feature some of the group's hip-hop-infused tracks (the cred-building "N 2 Gether Now," featuring Method Man) it also showcases its more straightforward rock side (the brooding, neo-headbanger "My Way"). And for the Bizkit completist, the collection includes three previously unreleased tunes, including the angst-ridden acoustic number "Why" and a cover of the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony."

SOLACE is Sarah McLachlan's sophomore effort, and while it would take one more album (FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY) to fully break into the US market, this disc caused a considerable ground swell in North America, particularly McLachlan's native Canada. This was largely due to the second track on the disc, the triumphant, Sinead O'Connor-influenced single, "Into the Fire."

Picking up where the band's previous hits compilation, 1982's THEMES FOR GREAT CITIES left off, 1995's GLITTERING PRIZE compacts five albums into 12 tracks. Because they were bigger critical and commercial successes, 1982's NEW GOLD DREAM, 1984's SPARKLE IN THE RAIN and 1985's ONCE UPON A TIME are better represented than 1989's STREET FIGHTING YEARS and 1991's REAL LIFE. Those two albums are well enough represented by the few tracks contained here that their purchase may now be unnecessary for all but the most devoted Simple Minds fan.

Ireland’s reigning queen of rockabilly, the truly unique Imelda May, is back with a brand new album, entitled Tribal.   Since the release of her raucous debut, Love Tattoo, back in 2009, Imelda has been one of the most strikingly original talents in the music arena, taking her infectious blend of rockabilly, jazz, blues and torch songs from the back rooms of Dublin pubs to the biggest festivals in the world.

COLLECTED is the first Massive Attack best-of anthology, and as such is a welcome addition to their catalogue. In fact, COLLECTED does a more than effective job of supporting the general belief that Massive Attack were not only one of the most groundbreaking groups of the 1990s, but that their influence has been pervasive, in electronica, R&B, and pop, in the years since.

Together for the first time on DVD, Every Breath You Take The DVD features the original videos of the songs that have stormed the charts throughout the world from 1979's Roxanne to the 1986 version of Don't Stand So Close To Me via the controversial Invisible Sun and the classic Every Breath You Take

Legendary bluesman B.B.King's glittering career has seen him lauded as one of the all-time greats of the genre. This program presents a chance to see King performing live, with footage taken from two nights--one in Memphis, the other in Nashville--of sessions at his own clubs. King performs with a full backing band as he delights his audience with renditions of classic tracks such as "When Love Comes to Town," "The Thrill is Gone," and "Ain't That Just Like a Woman."

Ice Cube's ferocious frown is familiar now from multiple big and small screen appearances, but as this collection reminds us, he's still first and foremost the thinking street thug's rapper, one of the original gangstas. GREATEST HITS isn't sequenced chronologically, jumping frantically from 1998's "Pushing Weight" to 1994's "Check Yo Self" with its "Message" backing track, to 1990's furious Public Enemy-influenced "Jackin' For Beats" (Ice Cube's departure from P.E.'s rivals N.W.A. presaged his hooking up with the Bomb Squad, Public Enemy's production team).

Definitive 2 CD Collection, Digitally Remastered!   The Velvet Underground: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar); Nico (vocals); Sterling Morrison (guitar, bass guitar, background vocals); Doug Yule (bass violin, organ, bass guitar); John Cale (viola, piano, celesta, bass guitar, background vocals); Maureen Tucker (drums).

With 2006's A PUBLIC AFFAIR, Jessica Simpson's first major studio release since her divorce from Nick Lachey, the singer/actress parlays her newfound single-superstar status into an energetic dance-oriented album. Clearly feeling a sense of liberation, the Texas-born performer evokes the carefree spirit of Madonna's "Holiday" on the funky, club-ready title track, while "B.O.Y." makes the most of a brief Cars sample to create a slinky synth-pop number. In addition to a lively cover of Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," A PUBLIC AFFAIR includes the similarly 1980s-inspired "If You Were Mine," and even many of the disc's quieter moments (see "The Lover in Me") feature a beat-driven groove backing Simpson's emotive vocals. Opting for a sophisticated, night-on-the-town aesthetic over a more blatantly sexual look, Simpson stays true to her amiable model-next-door image, resulting in a highly entertaining set that has more in common with Kylie Minogue than Britney Spears

Huey Lewis & The News: Johnny Colla (vocals, guitar, saxophone); Chris Hayes (vocals, guitars); Sean Hopper (vocals, keyboards); Bill Gibson (vocals, drums); Huey Lewis (vocals, background vocals); Mario Cipollina (bass instrument).   Additional personnel: Stef Burns (vocals, guitars); Rob Sudduth (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Ron Stallings (tenor saxophone); Marvin McFadden (trumpet); John Pierce (bass instrument).

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For the five albums prior to the release of GREATEST HITS, Kravitz doggedly mined the influence of late-1960s/early-'70s icons Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, Sly Stone, and Curtis Mayfield, churning out groovy, guitar-heavy music that updated those classic sounds without necessarily reinventing them. But all of this, ironically, is to his credit, because it is the overwhelming familiarity of Kravitz's sound that holds such powerful appeal.