NOW Music is thrilled to present NOW – Yearbook Extra 1977, a spectacular 3CD collection partner to the NOW – Yearbook 1977, showcasing more fantastic hits from an unforgettable year in music.

Kronos Quartet's groundbreaking 2002 collaboration with composer Terry Riley, Sun Rings, is available as a recording for the first time via Nonesuch Records on August 30, 2019.

"Four top-league jazz musicians who just enjoy playing and who love good pop music," was how ZDF Heute Journal (German national TV news) introduced a feature about 4 Wheel Drive. “A jazz Olympics four," wrote the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The group’s studio album spent four months at the top of the official German jazz charts, and now a new live album is being released.

Limited edition CD boxset containing 20 iconic original albums from the Jazz great in mini LP replica sleeves, presented in a rigid case lift off lid box with a 30 page booklet and discography. Includes the albums 'Round About Midnight Miles Ahead, Miles, Porgy And Bess, Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Someday My Prince Will Come, Seven Steps to Heaven, Miles in Berlin, ESP, Miles Smiles, Nefertiti, Filles de Kilimanjaro, in a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, a Tribute to Jack Johnson, on the Corner, We Want Miles, Star People and Decoy. Sony.

As the title implies, this McCoy Tyner release is a low-key, after-hours affair. Far removed from the intensity of work with then-boss John Coltrane, Tyner stretches out on a fine mix of standards and bebop classics. The pianist, of course, always had his own fleet and rich way with ballads, in spite of the galvanizing marathon solos he became known for on live dates and his later experimental recordings with Coltrane. His ballad style is even touched with a bit of sentimentality, which thankfully is kept in check by a bevy of tasteful lines. Backed by the topnotch rhythm tandem of bassist Steve Davis and drummer Lex Humphries, Tyner finds the room to develop classic statements on highlights like Monk's "'Round Midnight," Ellington and Strayhorn's "Satin Doll," and Parker's "Star Eyes." On more easeful tracks like "For Heaven's Sake," Tyner utilizes his block chord approach to meditative and romantic effect…

This brand-new 3CD compilation is guaranteed to get your foot tapping, hips moving and the whole room grooving with 60 of the top dance floor filling hits from the 80s. Boasting a huge range of legendary superstars including Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Chic, Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, alongside timeless tunes including ‘Ain't Nobody’ from Rufus & Chaka Khan, ‘Let’s Groove’ from Earth Wind & Fire, ‘Walking On Sunshine’ from Rockers Revenge with Donnie Calvin and ‘Just The Two Of Us’ from Grover Washington Jr. with Bill Withers.

Present From Nancy (1970). 2008 digitally remastered and expanded edition of the Dutch Prog Rock quartet's debut album, originally released in 1970. Featured on the soundtrack of the film Control (the Ian Curtis/Joy Division bio-pic), interest in the band is at an all time high. Led by keyboardist Robert Jan Stips (later of The Nits), Inspired by the work of Soft Machine and Caravan, the group recorded a quartet of master works. Eccentric, accomplished and unique, Supersister could run circles around almost any other band of the era.
To the Highest Bidder (1971). First ever UK CD release for this classic album from the masters of Dutch prog rock. Remastered from the original tapes, with four bonus tracks. Recently featured in the soundtrack of the film Control about Joy Division, Supersister were one of the most original groups to emerge in Holland in the late 1960s…

The Quireboys started their career in the mid-1980s at London's Marquee Club and quickly built up a steadily growing fan base in London and the surrounding area. It was only when the organizer of the prestigious Reading Festival announced in 1987 that the band would only be allowed to perform if they changed their name that The Queerboys finally became The Quireboys.In 1989, they performed at the Hammersmith Odeon before Guns N' Roses and made a name for themselves beyond London with joint performances with Hanoi Rocks and Yngwie Malmsteen. Without having released a single album, the band soon played their own headlining shows.

2012 collection from the New Wave icons compiled by German Electronic duo Blank & Jones. Features remixes and album versions of their biggest hits including 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me', 'Miss Me Blind', 'Karma Chameleon' and many others.
Few new wave groups were as popular as Culture Club. During the early '80s, the group racked up seven straight Top Ten hits in the U.K. and six Top Ten singles in the U.S. with their light, infectious pop-soul. Though their music was radio-ready, what brought the band stardom was Boy George, the group's charismatic, cross-dressing lead singer. George dressed in flamboyant dresses and wore heavy makeup, creating a disarmingly androgynous appearance that created a sensation on early MTV…

"The addition of Barney Kessel took a lot of pressure from Ray and myself…we have the effect of three different voices, three different approaches to jazz in the trio…" - Oscar Peterson

Phoebie Briggers makes a decision to come! Grammy Award 4 Division Nomination & Best Album Total Name. The Japan Tour Edition of the Punisher is the most acclaimed masterpiece album in 2020. Love has a huge impact on our life, personality and priority, but Phoebe Bridgers don't write so much. The Punisher is associated with this theme as a second album for her 4th release. Saying she is writing a song about lossing is going to sell her sad wisdom. Saying she is writing a song about pain will disappear all her whimsical pleasure of music. With the release of "Punisher" she became one of the smartest, softest, and most prolific songwriters of our times. Bridgers is a rare artist with a humor that you don't want to dismantle his popularity in an instant. The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Pitchfork, The Fader, The Los Angeles Times and many more, the media has acclaimed her, but she is interested in debating with twitter, leaving her unexpressive meditations on the disruptive process of being a person. She presents a cute and funny reverse to the amazingly sad song she wrote. Punisher is a full of tension that is difficult to recognize and is a completed album. The only talent of Bridgers is where it brings intense curiosity to uncomfortable and painful. Until you can find a beautiful or unlawful answer, or faithfully report the fact that there is no answer.

Sash! burst onto the scene in the mid-‘90s and quickly became a worldwide force in trance and Eurodance. With his signature mix of high-energy beats, infectious melodies, and multilingual vocals, Sash! lit up clubs and charts around the globe. It all started with “It’s My Life”, the underground anthem that laid the foundation. But it was 1997’s “Encore Une Fois” that changed everything, an explosive French-vocal trance classic that hit #2 in the UK and made Sash! a household name. The hits kept coming: “Ecuador” (feat. Rodriguez), “Stay” (feat La Trec), “La Primavera”, and “Mysterious Times” (feat. Tina Cousins), all Top 5 UK smashes that helped define a generation of dance music. By the late ’90s and early 2000s, Sash! was untouchable. From the reggae-infused “Colour the World” with Dr. Alban to the hard-hitting “Adelante”, the emotional “Just Around the Hill”, and a surprise collab with Boy George on “Run”, he proved again and again his sound could evolve while staying true to the rhythm. This cd is the only CD including Sash’s most recent hit “Rock My Body” (with R3hab & Inna) which did a quarter of a billion streams. With over 22 million records sold, Sash! remains one of the most iconic dance acts of all time. This 30th anniversary edition celebrates the legacy with only full-length and re-mastered extended mixes that brings the energy of the original era straight back today’s dancefloor.

Gov't Mule has been synonymous with the jam band scene since it began. Their sound is a meld of bluesy, hard rock riffing and songwriting, and virtuosic improvisation. Originally a power trio comprised of guitarist Warren Haynes, bassist Allen Woody (both formerly of the Allman Brothers Band), and drummer Matt Abts, the band recruited all-star guests for live performances after Woody's death in 2000. Keyboardist Danny Louis joined in 2002 and bassist Jorgen Carlson became permanent in 2009. The band has also released charting collaborative sets with jazz-funk guitarist John Scofield (Sco-Mule) and reggae legend Toots Hibbert (Dub Side of the Mule). Five of their albums have landed inside the Top 100, including 2017's Revolution Come… Revolution Go. 2021 saw the release of the Grammy-nominated Heavy Load Blues, a back-to-basics set that included six Haynes originals and seven covers of tunes by legends.

Fifty-three years since he delivered the bolt-from-the-blue of Roxy Music’s debut LP as his calling card, Ferry’s latest project is just as startlingly unexpected an arrival. On the one hand, Loose Talk is his first album of new music since 2014’s Avonmore. On the other, little here, from the sounds and shapes of that music, to the uses it gets put to, resembles any previous Bryan Ferry album. Then again – on the third hand – it’s also a piece that is deeply rooted in his past half-century of work. “A conversation between two artists,” is how Amelia Barratt, one of the artists involved, describes Loose Talk. “Something we’ve created together that neither could do on our own,” adds Bryans Ferry, her interlocutor in the creative exchange. “And, for me, it seems to have opened up a whole new chapter for my work.”

The Beatles So much has been said and written about the Beatles – and their story is so mythic in its sweep – that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. To start with the obvious, they were the greatest and most influential act of the rock era, and they introduced more innovations into popular music than any other group of their time. Moreover, they were among the few artists of any discipline who were simultaneously the best at what they did and the most popular at what they did. Relentlessly imaginative and experimental, the Beatles grabbed hold of the international mass consciousness in 1964 and didn't let go for the next six years, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity and never losing the ability to communicate their increasingly sophisticated ideas to a mass audience.