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 ).

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

The album is produced by Varsity Vocals, which also produces the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

His album Nederlands Grootste Nachtmerrie ( Holland's Biggest Nightmare ) won Best Album Award in 2007 and was fully produced by Dr. Dre's right hand man Focus ...

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

In 1985, Andersson produced and released an album with brother and sister Anders and Karin Glenmark, featuring new songs by Andersson / Ulvaeus.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

In 1993, he executive produced Got ' Em Running Scared, an album by Ichiban Records group Chief Groovy Loo and the Chosen Tribe.

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

* Theatres des Vampires, an Italian extreme gothic metal band has produced a video single called " Carmilla " for its album Moonlight Waltz

The band released one album, 2003's Handheld Torch, which was produced by Seymour.

The album, Intriguer, was produced by Jim Scott who had worked on The Sun Came Out by Neil's 7 Worlds Collide project.

However, Brian Wilson has stated that the idea of the record being a " concept album " is mainly within the way the album was produced and structured.

Yes also produced concept albums during the ' 70s, most notably Tales from Topographic Oceans, which would become a defining album of prog rock, but its critical backlash would lead to the genre's decline in popularity and the rise of punk rock.

Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes and her husband David Ellingson wrote and produced Kenny Rogers's 1980 album " Gideon ", which was based on the theme of a Texas cowboy.

The album was played as two continuous pieces of music on the two sides of the vinyl and produced the band's two biggest hit singles, " Kayleigh " and " Lavender ".

The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.

He left RCA in 1982 and signed with Columbia Records, for whom he produced a debut album in 1983.

The album is a compilation of previously unreleased recordings produced by Day's son, Terry Melcher, prior to his death in 2004.

Also in 1994, Parton contributed the song " You Gotta Be My Baby " to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Deicide then released their self-titled debut album, also produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound, in 1990.