The Pink Mountaintops - Peacock PoolsPink Mountaintops' first new album in eight years features 12 songs sparked from Stephen McBean's magpie like curiosity for a wild expanse of cultural artifacts: David Cronenberg, Disney Read Along Records from the '70s, early Pink Floyd, mid career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos. Featuring counterculture icons like Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Dale Crover (Melvins), Peacock Pools alchemize those obsessions into a

with Emmylou Harris saying she has not has the attention she deserves and Dolly Parton citing her as an early influence

Lev Oborin - Russian Piano Tradition - Igumnov School

Mark Ivester

Clutch and Queens of the Stone Age

Bach's second son was the key figure of Empfindsamkeit (Sensibility)

among them new-to-CD tracks by the Three Bells

This release tries to capture the soul of such a complicated intellectual relationship

But when more bodies turn up

the Philadelphia Orchestra

and Franz Schubert

Float Along - Fill Your Lungs

British guitarist Martin Simpson