► Mannheim Steamroller to honor Veterans and share America's favorite Christmas music with troops overseas. The band is donating a Christmas CD to troops, Veterans & their families for every purchase of Mannheim Steamroller’s new Christmas CD. This includes any purchase retail purchase of the new Christmas album at any store or online from now through November 25th!
The CD, which features guest vocalists Olivia Newton-John and Johnny Mathis, Mannheim Steamroller: Christmas Song includes 12 holiday classics and new original compositions. The album, already at platinum status, is the first new Mannheim Steamroller Christmas studio release since the multi-platinum Christmas Extraordinaire in 2001.

 ►  A Swingin' Christmas, an album of yuletide hits sung by multi-platinum Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Michael Bolton with the bang of a big band orchestra behind him, has hit stores!

 ► As Cy Curnin still sings in The Fixx, “one thing leads to another,” and what better way to celebrate one’s life at 50, than to self-release your second solo album—The Returning Sun—and to climb Mount Everest with 40 people for charity and get in the Guinness Book Of World Records for putting on a rock concert at the highest elevation in history?

► Five for Fighting will release their first ever live CD "Back Country" today. The CD is also available as a DVD, as well as, a DVD/CD combo pack.

 ► A CD/DVD special edition of Paul McCartney's Memory Almost Full wil be released.

► Rob Garza will release the album Dust Galaxy in stores today.

 ► Blackmore's Night - the duo of award-winning singer/songwriter Candice Night and legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore - will celebrate their 10th anniversary by releasing Paris Moon, a long-form CD/DVD set shot on September 20th, 2006 in Paris.

 ►  Barenaked Ladies release Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan, their first ever live DVD today. The release is simultaneous with a new CD with the same title. This release will also be available as a CD/DVD combo. Recorded on June 15th of this year, the concert highlights some of the band's biggest hits, including "One Week" and "If I had $1,000,000."

 ►  Angels and Airwaves will release I-Empire today.

 ►  Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who and Amazing Journey: Six Quick Ones are two exhilarating feature-length films that will be released on DVD about The Who, one of the seminal and most influential rock bands in history.

► The world's best-selling multi-artist album series, NOW That's What I Call Music!, will ring in the holiday season with the November 13 release of two scorching collections of today's hottest tunes. NOW Thats What I Call Music! Vol. 26 features 20 chart-topping Pop, Modern Rock, Rap and R&B smash hits, and NOW That's What I Call Party Hits! celebrates with 20 of the hottest roof-raising tracks from a who's-who of today's top artists.

► Celebrate the holiday season with Johnny Cash! On November 13th, Shout! Factory will release two Johnny Cash Christmas Special DVDs from 1976 and '77. This marks the first time in 30 years that these famous specials will be seen.

► Hear Music will release James Taylor's One Man Band on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at all Starbucks Company-operated locations and traditional retailers in the U.S and Canada. One Man Band will be released globally at traditional retail on November 26, 2007. One Man Band, a new CD/DVD set, marks a return to an earlier, simpler style of performance for the quintessential singer-songwriter. The DVD, produced and directed by Don Mischer and executive produced by Sydney Pollack , helps tell the stories behind some of Taylor's most beloved hits through exclusive interviews, rare multi-media footage, home movies and photographs from Taylor’s personal archives. The result is an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind portrait of an iconic American artist, his renowned repertoire and the personal stories behind the songs.

►  Queensrÿche pay tribute to some of their favorite songs with an adventurous collection of covers that range from Black Sabbath and The O'Jays to Italian opera and Broadway musical. Singer and chief songwriter Geoff Tate, guitarists Michael Wilton and Mike Stone, bassist Eddie Jackson, and drummer Scott Rockenfield put their stamp on 11 classic tracks with Take Cover.

►  Rhino Entertainment is excited to announce the release of Led Zeppelin's Mothership, a two-CD comprehensive collection on November 13, 2007, as well as the release of The Song Remains The Same on DVD and the accompanying soundtrack, on November 20, 2007. Don't forget Led Zeppelin will be reuniting for the first time in 20 years on November 26, 2007 at the O2 Arena in London, England, in honor or Ahmet Ertegun.

 ►   Ayo will release her debut album "Joyful" today. Also starting in December, Ayo will appear in a PBS special on over 300 affiliate stations.

► "The Joshua Tree will prove a braver and better record than anything else that's likely to appear in 1987" - NME
U2's The Joshua Tree has been meticulously remastered from the original analog master tapes to mark 20 years since its release.

 ►  Keith Sweat, the celebrated master of the slow jam, unwraps his first-ever holiday music collection, proving there’s no one better qualified to deliver a Yuletide disc titled A Christmas Of Love. The R&B and soul superstar's new album of newly recorded contemporary Christmas songs will be available November 20th. The album's nine songs spotlight the Harlem-born singer's signature mix of smooth vocals coupled with warm, supple groove. Sweat puts his unmistakable mark on the classic "The Christmas Song," as well as "Under The Tree," "Once A Year" and "It's Christmas Again"-a trio of songs Sweat cowrote. With "Point Of Christmas," the religious artist pays tribute to the "reason for the season."