"Carnival of Sins: Live" is a 2-CD live album by Mötley Crüe released in 2006, featuring the Grand Rapids, Michigan performance from their 2005-2006 Carnival of Sins reunion tour. Carnival of Sins is also available on DVD featuring the album in its entirety. Wal-Mart also released the 2 discs individually as Carnival of Sins vol. 1 and vol. 2. Other than a few vocal and guitar overdubs to fix some wrong notes/vocals from the concert, it is mostly an unoverdubbed live album with the usual edits to make it a two-CD live album.

New Tattoo is the eighth studio album by the American hard rock band Mötley Crüe released in 2000. Artistically, New Tattoo shows the band going back to their sleazy glam metal sound that gave them commercial success in the 1980s. Long time drummer Tommy Lee left the band a year before, and was replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo on the album. The song "Hell on High Heels" was released as a single for the album and charted at number 13 on the Mainstream rock charts.

The word operetta itself means „little opera” ; as a form it is a comedy which prospered in the second part of the XIX. Century and the beginning of the XX. Century. Overtures, songs , interacts and many chattering are typical for its content.

The Quireboys are an English hard rock band formed in 1984 in London, England. "Bitter Sweet & Twisted" is The Quireboys's second studio album, released in 1993. The album was released on EMI and went into the UK Albums Chart at #31.

XYZ were an impressive hook-laden power metal band. They were considered the unofficial house band of the Los Angeles nightclub The Whiskey in the mid 80's, but major success eluded them.
XYZ began in Los Angeles, California, with members Terry Ilous (vocals), Bobby Pieper (guitar), Patt Fontaine (bass) and Joey Pafumi (drums). An early development deal with Atlantic records led to the recording of their debut album which quickly got shelved - and wouldn't see the light of day until Rainy Days was released in 2005. After that false start Ilous and Fontaine regrouped with new members Marc Diglio (guitar) and Paul Monroe (drums). Don Dokken produced the debut that included the killer single "Inside Out," but unfortunately few people seemed interested.

John Lee Hooker was born in the deep south, in Clarksdale, Mississippi and had stays in several other important blues cities such as Memphis before he came to Detroit, where he became the preeminent bluesman of the city with his 1948 release Boogie Chillen'. Afterwards Hooker would record under various aliases so he could use different labels without legal trouble and be able to release his huge stash of songs quickly.

His output during the 50's and 60's was remarkable, both as a solo act (like Boogie Chillen') and with bands, as evidenced by his hit "Boom Boom". In the 70's Hooker recorded with the LA blues band Canned Heat in Hooker 'n Heat, a cross-generational collaboration that worked because Canned Heat were electric imitatator's of Hooker's boogie style.