21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN (SPECIAL EDITION)

This special edition features a brick-embossed pattern with 52 perfect-bound pages of full colour text and imagery exclusive to the special edition. This album follows 2004's critically acclaimed American Idiot. Regarding the pressure, Billie Joe Armstrong said, "We could take a sideways step or go back to our roots. We chose to move forward."

FUNHOUSE

Pink is gearing up to release her fifth studio album Funhouse - which includes the Max Martin (Kelly Clarkson, NSYNC) produced "So What” and 12 other tracks

HYMN TO THE IMMORTAL WIND

While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO's music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO's strongest virtue - save for perhaps their uncanny ability to sound every bit like a plane crashing into a Beethoven concert.

TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE (2CD & DVD DELUXE EDITION)

In a conversation with music journalist Bill Flanagan, published on Bob Dylan's official website, Flanagan suggested a similarity of the new record to the sound of Chess Records and Sun Records, which Dylan acknowledged as an effect of "the way the instruments were played."