Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists. AOR evolved from progressive rock radio in the mid-1970s, using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal.

The Renaissance Rock Orchestra – The Ice Age Cometh – 2023, FLAC+MP3, CD w/ Scans

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Genre: Prog Rock / Arena Rock / Classic Rock / AOR
Disc (release) country: UK
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Escape Music
Country of performer (group): International

Tracklist:
1. In My Loving Arms (5:31)
2. The Ice Age Cometh (6:59)
3. Here We Are Again (4:55)
4. Secrets In The Sand (7:35)
5. Circus Life (05:06)
6. My Lonely Heart (06:21)
7. The Universal Dance (06:46)
8. J.S. Rock (4:08)
9. A Song Of Hope (7:33)
10. The Author Of Mystery (5:09)
11. Long Live Rock And Roll (5:08

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Pride Of Lions – Dream Higher – 2023, FLAC +MP3, CD w/ Scans, Japan Edition

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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of the performer (group): UK

Tracklist:
1 Outbreak (0:38)
2. Ready To Go (4:04)
3. Someday (04:38)
4. Hardest Heart To Break (5:3)
5. Good Time Music (3:47)
6. All Fall Down (4:07)
7 Girls Gone Wild (3:46)
8. Beginning Of The End (4:51)
9. Raise the Dead (3:59)
10. It’s Not Me It’s You (05:33)
11. Like There’s No Tomorrow (3:53)
12. Only A Matter Of Time (4:23)

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Midnite City – In At The Deep End – 2023, Japan Edition,FLAC+MP3 , CD w/ Scans

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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disk (release) country: Japan
Publication year: 2023
Publisher (label): Avalon
Country of the performer (group): UK

Tracklist:
1 Outbreak (0:38)
2. Ready To Go (4:04)
3. Someday (04:38)
4. Hardest Heart To Break (5:3)
5. Good Time Music (3:47)
6. All Fall Down (4:07)
7 Girls Gone Wild (3:46)
8. Beginning Of The End (4:51)
9. Raise the Dead (3:59)
10. It’s Not Me It’s You (05:33)
11. Like There’s No Tomorrow (3:53)
12. Only A Matter Of Time (4:23)

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Veer – Soft Machines 2023

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VEER hopes that rock fans appreciate their new album, which is chock full of heavy riffs, catchy choruses and thought-provoking lyrics.“The title, ‘Soft Machines,’ which comes from a line in our song ‘Red Tide,’ is just another phrase for people,” Ronald said. “We’re all just soft, fleshy machines, toiling about on this pale blue dot.”

01 – Science
02 – Red Tide
03 – All the Same
04 – Astronaut
05 – Photograph
06 – Na Na Na
07 – Carry O

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Tony Mitchell (Mitchell’s Kiss Of The Gypsy) – Discography – 2011-2023 – (8 Albums), MP3

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Country: UK
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock | hard rock
Year of publication: 2011-2023

2011 – Far Away From Home – 01.01.17
2018 – Beggars Gold (Deluxe Edition) – 01.09.17
2020 – Church Of A Restless Soul – 01.03.41
2021 – Hot Endless Summer Nights – 00.56.59
2022 – Tales From The Christmas Inn – 00.41.10
2023 – Radio Heartbeat – 00.53.05

Mitchell’s Kiss Of The Gypsy – 2022 – Unfinished Business – 00.43.15
Mitchell’s Kiss Of The Gypsy – 2022 – Unfinished Business (Deluxe Extras) – 00.41.33

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Ian Moss – Rivers Run Dry 2023, MP3+FLAC

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Genre: Melodic Rock
Year of publication: 2023-07-21
Publisher-Label: Mosstrooper/Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Artist country: Australia

01. Rivers Run Dry (4:49)
02. Nullarbor Plain (03:31)
03. State Of My Emotion (3:48)
04 Bury Me (04:14)
05. Open Your Eyes (3:44)
06. Miss You In The Night (3:51)
07. Hold On (The Sun Will Rise Again) (06:22)
08. The Wish (3:47)
09. What Can I Do (5:18)
10. The Last Time (4:08)
11. I’m Going Back (05:31)
12. Blame It On The Sun (3:22)

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Grand Design – V – 2020, FLAC+MP3, CD w/ Scans

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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Disk (release) country: Sweden
Year of publication: 2020
Publisher (label): GMR Music Group
Country of the performer (group): Sweden

Tracklist:
01. Right Away (04:12)
02. I Won’t Cry Over U Tonite (04:24)
03. Stranded (Trapped In A Heartbreak Zone) (04:45)
04. Wut Are U Waiting For (04:52)
05. Shame On U (04:03)
06. Walkin’ The Wire (03:52)
07. Gimmie the Fire (04:05)
08. Take Me To Yer Heaven (04:11)
09. I Dunno Wut To Say (04:34)
10. The Warrior (04:03)
11. Guilty of Luv In The 1st Degree (04:06)

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Franke & The Knockouts – Makin’ The Point – 1984, FLAC

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Genre: Melodic Rock/AOR
Disk Country: UK
Year of publication: 1998
Publisher (label): Escape Music
Country: U.S.A

Tracklist:
1 Outrageous – 4:49
2. You Don’t Want Me (Like I Want You) – 4:23
3. Come Rain Or Shine – 3:41
4. You’re All That Really Matters – 4:56
5. Carrie Why? – 3:13
6. So Cool (Nobody’s Fool) – 3:40
7. One Good Reason – 03:34
8 Blame It On My Heart – 4:03
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Rod Stewart – Live In Tokyo, Japan [1981, DVD]

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Released: 1981
Duration: 48:33
Genre: Rock

01. Give Me Wings
02. Sweet Little Rock n’ Roller
03. Hot legs
04. You’re In My Heart
05. (I Know) I’m Losing You
06. Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight
07. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?
08. I Was Only Joking

Simply amazing concert, not bad quality for a bootleg, excellent set-list… Only the Japanese, for some reason on more or less slow songs, gave their translation titles… hmmm… But the shooting is simply wonderful! Like in the good old 70s…The only downside to this great video is some crackling in the right channel…

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YES – Keystudio [The 1995-1996 Studio Sessions] , MP3+FLAC

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As requested, here’s the somehow ‘lost’ YES studio album: “Keystudio“.
In 1995, guitarist Trevor Rabin and keyboardist Tony Kaye left the group which marked the return of former members Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman, thus reuniting them with vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan White, a line-up that had last performed in 1979.

The group relocated to San Luis Obispo, California to make a new album and to promote their reunion with three shows at the Fremont Theater, in March 1996. These shows were recorded and released on two live albums; ‘Keys to Ascension I’ (1996) and ‘Keys to Ascension II’ (1997).
But both releases also included the new studio material the band was working on

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DARE FORCE – Firepower [20th Century Music remaster +4 bonus] (2023)

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DARE FORCE is a cult hard rock / metal band that was initially formed in Minneapolis in the late 1970s. Dare Force released three albums in the 1980s, and performed in concert with numerous national acts such as KISS, Ted Nugent, Triumph, Kansas, UFO, Joe Perry Project, Ratt – just to name a few – as well as headlining in venues throughout the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, and South America. The band also had several songs that received heavy airplay on rock radio stations throughout the US in the ’80s.

Dare Force released its third CD, ”Firepower” with a reformed version of the band in 1989. It’s perhaps their most celebrated record, with a melodic hard rock radio friendly approach. Now it’s being reissued

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Jukebox Heroes – Jukebox Heroes 2023 REAL Remastered 2 CD Edition Pride & Joy Music w/ 6 bonus tracks, MP3+FLAC

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In 1989, a promoter located in Milwaukee, WI, reached out to five unconnected regional gunslinger musician/vocalists with the concept of creating an AOR-Rock band with a fresh sound. After meeting each other, JUKEBOX HEROES took the stage “literally” five weeks later to an oversold house at Starz on 100 in Milwaukee with a waiting line out the door.


The tour began, and soon JUKEBOX HEROES was in demand throughout the Midwestern US. The schedule had the group sharing the stage with the likes of 38 Special, Starship, Georgia Satellites, Styx, Kansas, REO, Survivor, ELO, and many more, some on multiple occasions. The group headlined a stage at Summerfest, the largest music festival in the US located in Milwaukee, on multiple o

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