It is the second concept album that they will release, after releasing The Emptiness in 2009.

In a May 2011 interview Enya's manager said that she is working on a new album and will likely tour to support it, with part of the recording taking place in Abbey Road studios in London.

American avant-garde composer John Zorn released an album called Grand Guignol by Naked City in 1992, in a reference to " the darker side of our existence which has always been with us and always will be ".

Teases from is yet to be titled album will be featured along with his hits, while he does his narrations.

Asked in a November 2011 interview with Examiner. com if Mötley Crüe will be making another album in 2012 or plan another Crüe Fest tour, Vince Neil replied, " We're looking at another Crüe Fest.

The band have been chosen by Animal Collective to perform the album ' Up on the Sun ' live in its entirety at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they will curate in May 2011.

Robyn stated to Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper site, that she wanted to start recording a new album in the beginning of 2009 and that she will work with producers such as Kleerup (" With Every Heartbeat ") as well as Klas Åhlund who she worked with on Robyn.

She also said that the album will be very personal, like a diary.

Photek's forthcoming album will be released on the 15th October 2012.

They announced that as of April 20, the band had completed the recording of their untitled seventh album and will release it later this year.

I would love to think it will be the most beautiful album we've done.

On November 3, They Might Be Giants sent out a newsletter stating " The Avatars of They ", a set of sock puppets the Johns manipulate for shows, will have an album in 2012, suggesting another kids album.

The album, titled Gold Dust, will be released in October 2012 through Deutsche Grammophon.

Rubin will be producing the next album, and it has been reported that the band will be aiming to move back to their pre-80s La Grange sound.

* November 10 – The Bee Gees release the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, which will go on to become the then best selling album of all time.

He will also make a 78-RPM record album of the classic story, which will later be released on LP.

A slideshow can also be shown for a specific album, and each photo in the album will be shown full screen.

The article went on to state that the reunion with Chambers hadn't worked out and that the material that Williams is working on with Jankel will form the basis of his next studio album.

This will probably be the last Williams album released by EMI.

" Following months of speculation Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams confirmed they have been recording a new studio album as a five-piece, which they will release in November.

In June 2011 Robbie Williams revealed that he has been working with Gary Barlow on a new solo album, that will be produced by Barlow.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

A group chosen to be on the BOCA album earns much credibility among the a cappella community.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

Years later, Lead Me On would be chosen as the greatest Contemporary Christian album of all time by CCM Magazine.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

Sarah Martin later stated in the Q & A section of their website that it would be a 14 track album.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.

In music, a concept album is an album that is " unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

The album was scrapped before completion, only to be revived in November 2011.

In the early 2000s Beck released what is considered to be his Magnum opus, his eighth studio album Sea Change.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

" Run From Love " was subsequently released in a remix form on the Bronski Beat album Hundreds & Thousands, a collection of mostly remixes ( LP ) and b-sides ( as bonus tracks on the CD version ) as well as the hit " I Feel Love ".

A 2003 compilation album, Classic Masters, was released only in the US, while 2005 saw the release of the album She Will Have Her Way, a collection of cover versions of Crowded House, Split Enz, Tim Finn and Finn Brothers songs by Australasian female artists.

The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.

On 5 November 2006 the Groninger Museum opened an exposition devoted to Herman Brood's life and work, comprising paintings, lyrics, and poetry, portraits by photographer Anton Corbijn, a collection of private pictures ( from the family album ), and concert photos and videos.

Rather than being a loose collection of individual, insular songs, the record is an expansive, interlocking work unified by lush strings, acoustic guitars and lyrical content often based on the group's name and album title ( when the words ' Love Forever Changes ' are connected in that order ).

An album is a collection of related audio recordings, released together to the public, usually commercially.

The first collection of records to be called an " album " was Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, release in April 1909 as a four-disc set by Odeon records.

Sessions with Davis and Evans in 1962 resulted in the album Quiet Nights, a short collection of bossa novas that was released against the wishes of both artists: Evans stated it was only half an album, and blamed the record company ; Davis blamed producer Teo Macero, whom he didn't speak to for more than two years.

* Mickey Hart at The Music Box – A collection of concert reviews, album reviews, and interviews

* Canada ( Quebec ), 1991 – 1992 ( Past material in a " collection album " with Croc, another Quebec humor magazine );

This collection was followed by a remix album, The Rest of New Order, featuring a selection of old remixes and newly-commissioned mixes of classic New Order tracks.

Orbison's first collection at MGM, an album titled Goodnight, sold fewer than 200, 000 copies.

His childhood stamp album is in the collection of the British Postal Museum & Archive.

After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits " Best of " album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of " Jersey Girl " and the otherwise unreleased " Mr. Henry ", as well as an alternate master of " Whistlin ' Past the Graveyard " and a live performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking ".

Waits's new emphasis on experimenting with various styles and instrumentation continued on 1985's Rain Dogs, a sprawling, 19-song collection which received glowing reviews ( the album was ranked # 21 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.

The only collection of exclusively Waits-performed material of 1991 appeared when Waits composed and conducted the almost exclusively instrumental music for Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth, which was released as an album the following year.

During her tenure with Epic Records, Amos also released a retrospective collection titled Tales of a Librarian ( 2003 ) through her former label, Atlantic Records ; a two-disc DVD set Fade to Red ( 2006 ) containing most of Amos's solo music videos, released through the Warner Bros. reissue imprint Rhino ; a five disc box set titled A Piano: The Collection ( 2006 ), celebrating Amos's 15 year solo career through remastered album tracks, remixes, alternate mixes, demos, and a string of unreleased songs from album recording sessions, also released through Rhino ; and numerous official bootlegs from two world tours, The Original Bootlegs ( 2005 ) and Legs & Boots ( 2007 ) through Epic Records.

Their second album Go 2, released later in 1978, featured a typewriter-text cover ( designed by Hipgnosis ) and early pressings were accompanied by a bonus disc Go +, a collection of dub mixes of songs from the album.

Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch in 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from her back catalog by various artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Antony, DJ Spooky, Porcupine Tree and Peaches, released in February 2007, along with a special edition of Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band.

Rolling Stone commented " It's not just her first album in 10 years, it's her finest collection of songs since the Eighties ", which mirrored the reception from most other critics and music industry members.

The album is a collection of Blur songs remixed by artists such as Thurston Moore, William Orbit and Moby.