Owls Head — Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams (Reprise CD, 64:47). I think a 10-year wait between albums is a bit long, especially when you have material as strong as  Nicks presents here. In fact, the first single and opening track, “Secret Love,” was written in 1976, when Fleetwood Mac was opening for Peter Frampton at the time. It is about a forbidden relationship, but not one with Frampton, Nicks said.

Nicks’ last album of new material was the Grammy-nominated “Trouble in Shangi-La” 10 years ago. It was written and recorded at her Los Angeles home and is co-produced by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, Nicks and Stewart (ex-Eurythmics with Annie Lennox) co-wrote seven of the 13 songs. Former bandmate Lindsey Buckingham sings and plays guitar on “Soldier’s Angel,” a highlight track that easily could have fit on Fleetwood Mac’s smash “Rumours” album. Mick Fleetwood himself contributes drums to the album. However, the core group that made the album was Nicks, Stewart, her longtime friend and musical director Waddy Wachtel and her girls, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks.

Among the strong album’s many highlights are the travelogue “New Orleans”; “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream),” inspired by the “Twilight” series; the orchestrated seduction of “Italian Dreams”; the rocker “Ghosts Are Gone”; and “Annabel Lee,” a 6-plus-minute delight inspired by the 1849 Edgar Allan Poe piece and a meditation on love and death. In one song, she sings, “I’m just a dreamer; I’m just a storyteller,” while in another the 63-year-old singer (her birthday was Thursday) admits her desire to “wear feathers and lace.” Grade: A

The Cars: Move Like This (Hear Music/Concord CD, 37:47). The reformed band, which plays the House of Blues in Boston May 26, last released an album in 1987, but truly the band sounds as if it never stopped, except for the absence of its second voice, bassist Ben Orr, who died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. The band includes singer Ric Ocasek (seven solos albums but perhaps most success away from The Cars as a producer), guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson. Just as they did in their heyday (“Just What I Needed,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” “Good Times Roll,” “It’s All I Can Do” among the hits), the band mixes guitar-based rock with synth-based pop, and a tad of punk’s minimalism.

In the fall of 2009, Ocasek was ready to record his next album, his first since 2005 and, while trying to decide how to record it, he realized the best option was with his old Cars mates. “I just thought, it’s been a long time since I played with these guys,” Ocasek said in the press release, “but they’re the ones that will do the best job. They’re the ones I won’t have to explain things to. They wouldn’t have to get used to the way I write; they’re already inundated with all that.” So all the songs are written by Ocasek this time.

The album opens with the bouncy synth and nice beat of “Blue Tip,” although the lyrics are a bit dour. Highlight “Too Late” follows with its hook chorus and compulsive beat. “Keep on Knocking” is a rocker, followed by the lesser ballad “Soon.” My favorite on the album is “Sad Song,” whose title is actually ironic as it is a very poppy number, complete with electronic handclaps. Another strong song, “Free,” follows, with both bounce and stop-and-go guitar riff. After “Drag on Forever,” with its heavier guitar, the very melodic “Take Another Look” and the bigger-sounding rocker “It’s Only” hit only positive buttons, before the closing “Hits Me.” Grade: A-

Heaven & Hell: Live 2007 Radio City Music Hall (Eagle Vision, Blu-ray or standard DVD, NR, 159 min.). When I saw Black Sabbath perform in Portland, Maine in 1982, Ronnie James Dio was the lead singer, with guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Vinny Appice (Bill Ward having been sacked in 1980). As Black Sabbath, they recorded two studio albums, “Heaven and Hell” and “Mob Rules,” and the live album, “Live Evil.” Then, Dio, who had fronted Rainbow originally, left the band, taking Appice with him. When Rhino Records decided to release the compilation “Black Sabbath: The Dio Years” in 2006, they reunited to record three new songs and eventually went out on the road as Heaven & Hell. This Blu-ray disc captures their celebratory return on March 30, 2007. Sadly, it also serves as a testament to Dio, who dies of stomach cancer May 16, 2010.

This 116-minute concert originally was released on Rhino DVD, but now makes its Blu-ray debut with added bonus material. From Butler’s opening bass line on “E5150,” the band is in fine, cranking form. Tracks include “Mob Rules” from their Black Sabbath days together; “Children of the Sun,” the first song they wrote together,” the very good “I” and “Sign of the Southern Cross”; and the melodic “Heaven and Hell,” with the crowed singing along and a red light of Dio’s face during the story verse, before flames erupt. Iommi has a highlight moment with his solo that leads into “Die Young.”

The extras include “Road Movie” (19:14), a behind-the-scenes look at the 2007 tour; a look inside the chemistry between the band mates; a feature on the fans; a tour of Radio City Music Hall; and additional interviews with Dio that are exclusive to this limited-edition Blu-ray. Grade: A-

Glee: The Music Presents The Warblers (Columbia CD, 42:11). In only two season, “Glee” has spawned 11 albums, of which this is the 10th. All have debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, showing the power of the franchise. The Warblers is the glee club of the fictional Dalton Academy in the TV show. It is led by Darren Criss as Blaine Anderson (and yes he does most of the solos) and had Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel transfer to the school to escape bullying. The actual background vocals are recorded by the Beelzebubs, an all-male a cappella group from Tufts University in Somerville, Mass. (The producers had thought of using the Beelzebubs in the show, but decided transporting them back and forth from Los Angeles would prove too much.)

The Warblers were first introduced doing a wonderful cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream,” a version that even topped Perry’s. Other early highlights included Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister,” “Destiny Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills,” Robin Thicket’s “When I get You Alone” and Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know.” Criss and Colfer share vocals on  Neon Trees’ “Animal” and Hey Monday’s “Candles.” Two tracks are exclusive, having not appeared in the series. They are “What Kind of Fool,” originally a duet by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb, and Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.” There are two Beatles related songs, covers of Wings’ “Silly Love Songs” and Colfer’s solo of “Blackbird.” Most of the arrangements are excellent and this is a really refreshing album. Grade: A-

Glee: The Music Volume 6 (Columbia CD, 64:53). These are 18 songs from the second half of the TV show’s second season, including three original songs, among them “Light Up the World,” co-written by Swedish songwriter Max Martin and featured as one of the songs sung by New Directions at Nationals. The other song from Nationals was the duet “Pretending.” (A quick note, my copy of the disc played fine through “Bella Notte,” but I could not get the last three tracks to play, including  “As Long As You’re There,” sung by guest Charice. They were all excellent in the episode, however.)

The disc opens with one more song by Gwyneth Paltrow, “Turning Tables,” originally recorded by Adele. The highlights include four songs from Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” album, including guest Kristin Chenweth  and Matthew Morrison (teacher Will) on “Dreams,” Naya Rivera (Santana) on “Songbird,” Lea Michele (Rachel) on a rocking “Go Your Own Way” and Chord Overstreet (Sam), Dianna Agron (Quinn), Cory Montith (Finn) and Michele on “Don’t Stop.” Jonathan Groff returns as Jesse to sing a very fine “Rolling in the Deep” with Michele, and Rivera and Amber Riley (Mercedes) have a fun time with Abba’s “Dancing Queen.” Riley also is strong on “Try a Little Tenderness,” the Otis Redding hit. Broadway is represented with a mash-up of “I Feel Pretty” from “West Side Story” with TLC’s “Unpretty,” Chris Colfer’s thrilling “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from “Sunset Boulevard” and Michele’s “My Man” from “Funny Girl.” From the funeral episode is a very nice “Pure Imagination,” first heard in the film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Grade: A-

NKOTBSB: NKOTBBSB (Columbia/Jive/Legacy CD, 55:02). The ungainly name refers to the new Uber-band’s makeup, a mash-up of New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys, a decade their juniors. In their time, I liked both bands, with a decided edge to Backstreet Boys, but I have to say that I think their time is past. This collections features five songs by each band as voted on by their fans. New Kids on the Block are represented by  “Step By Step,” “You Got It (The Right Stuff),” “Please Don’t Go Girl,” “Hangin’ Tough” and “I’ll Be Loving You (Forever).” In alternating tracks, Backstreet Boys are represented by “I Want It That Way,” “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back),” “As Long As You Love Me,” “Larger Than Life” and “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart).”

There are two new tracks by the combined groups: the ho-hum ballad “All in My Head” and the first single, the better “Don’t Turn Out the Lights,” which has more of a buzz with its synthesizers. The final track is called a mash-up, but it really is only snippets of several songs by both bands strung together -- no real imagination used here. The bands, or band, are touring and will play Boston’s TD Garden on June 4 and Fenway Park on June 11. Thankfully, the old songs hold up, but it seems overall that more effort could have been put into this. Grade: B+

Soundtracks update: I always like it when there is a score soundtrack album as well as one with songs featured in the film. There have been two such double releases recently. “Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil” is represented by both a score album of veteran Murray Gold’s music and a soundtrack that features Wayne Newton (“Living in a Fairy Tale With You” and “Look Out Shorty”), actress Hayden Panettiere (“I Can Do It Alone” and the opposite-themed “Inseparable”), Dan Myers (“Little Squirrel, Forage for Your Love,” two other versions of the Newton songs, and “Big City”), Ceej, Lavay Cole and Andrea Remanda, and a version of “Kung Fu Fighting” by Theo Blackmann.

The other double is from “No Strings Attached,” the romantic comedy’s score by John Debney on one disc and a soundtrack album that features songs by Color Me Badd, Elvis Presley, Robbie Nevil, Plain White T’s and others. All four are on Lakeshore Records.

“The Tree of Life” just won a big award at the Cannes Film Festival and the score album also is out on Lakeshore. The music is by Alexandre Desplat, who has scored “The King’s Speech” and both parts of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The music actually was written and recorded before the film was edited, as requested by director Terrence Malick. The idea was to “convey the river-like motion of life, a fluid stream from birth to death,” writes Desplat in the CD notes.