FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018

David Bowie – “Heroes”
David Bowie – Lodger
David Bowie – Low
David Bowie – Scary Monsters
David Bowie – Stage
S. Carey – Hundred Acres
Dessa – Chime
Duke Ellington – The Cosmic Scene
Duke Ellington – The Money Jungle
Esquivel – To Love Again
Bill Evans – At Shelly’s
Stan Getz – Jazz Samba
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul
Jimi Hendrix – Lover Man
Jazz Butcher – Bath of Bacon
B.B. King – King of the Blues
Marah – If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream
Monochrome Set – Maisieworld
Mouse on Mars – Idiology
Screaming Females – All At Once
Johnny Thunders – L.A.M.F. The Lost ’77 Mixes

FEBRUARY 16th, 2018

Laurie Anderson & The Kronos Quartet – Landfall
Het Baker – Chet Baker Sings
Bardo Pnd – Volume II
Courtney Barnett – A Nameless, Faceless 7″
Beach Boys – Surfin’ Safari
Belle & Sebastian – How To Solve Human Problems Box set of all three EPs
Belle & Sebastian – How To Solve Human Problems Part 3
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it. Early next year, on the heels of the smashing success of Teens of Denial, Car Seat Headrest will release a new version of Twin Fantasy. “It was never a finished work,” Will says, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. According to him, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound. It’s been hard, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger, wounded Will, he moves forward. He grows. He revises, gently, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments, in those apologies to future me’s and you’s, there is more forgiveness than fury. This, Will says, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy.
Johnny Cash – With His Hot & Blue Guitar
Ray Charles – Ray Charles
Chocolate Watchband – The Inner Mystique
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Hollie Cook – Vessel of Love
The Cuckoos – The Cuckoos
Myley Cyrus – Younger Now
Pete Drake – The Fabulous Steel Guitar Sound Of Pete Drake
The Dwarves – Take Back The Night
Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits
Richie “Dick” Garcia – A Message From Garcia
John Lee Hooker – The Great John Lee Hooker
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’
Barney Kessel – Live At The Jazz Mill 1954, Vol.2
Roland Kirk – Third Dimension/Triple Threat
Mark Kozelek  & Sean Yeaton – Yellow Kitchen
Kendrick Lamar – DAMN, Collector’s Edition
Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Wembley or Bust
John Mayall – Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
Leon McAuliff – Swingin’ Western Strings
H.C. McEntire – Lionheart
Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus
Karen O – Yo’ My Saint
Orquestra Akokan – Mambo Rapitido 7″
Ought – Room Inside The World
Lee Scratch Perry – Black Ark Classic Songs
Pianos Become Teeth – Wait For Love
Shannon & The Clams – Onion
Horace Silver – Six Pieces of Silver
Skids – Burning Cities
Songs: Ohia – Travels In Constants b/w Howler
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense & Peppermints
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
Tosca – Boomboomboom
John Trudell – Trudell: Original. Provocative. True. DVD
U-Roy – True Born African
U.S. Girls – A Poem Unlimited
Jim White – Waffles,Triangles & Jesus
Little Roy Wiggins – The Fabulous Steel Guitar Artistry of Little Roy Wiggins
Marlon Williams – Make Way For Love
Soundtrack – Chasing ‘Trane, music by John Coltrane
Various Artists – Jazz For Hi-Fi Lovers

FEBRUARY 9th, 2018

Eddie Cochran – Fools Paradise: Early & Rare Eddie
Dr. John – Professor Bizarre’s Funknology
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending A triumphant recasting, Franz Ferdinand’s Always Ascending is as exuberant as it is euphoric, bursting with fresh ideas born of what Alex Kapranos calls “aggressive sonic experimentation.” With the help of producer Philippe Zdar (Cassius, Phoenix, Beastie Boys), Kapranos and co. took a knife to their old canvas, producing an album that is so foreign in its familiarity it could only be current. A sound the singer refers to as “simultaneously futuristic and naturalistic.” These are the louche tales of the Parisian night, the exhilaration of an Italian car racing down the autobahn; a feeling of euphoria so pure it could only exist on a knife’s edge. As such, best to press play expecting nothing more than a good time. “I hope that when you listen to it you feel exhilarated,” Kapranos says, “Until you fully absorb the lyrics.”
Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus
Insects & Robots – They’ll Kill Yaa
Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion
Montero – Performer
Palm – Rock Island
Rahman, A.R. – Essential A.R. Rahman
Ramones – Leave Home
Ramones – Live At The Roxy, August 12, 1976
Ramones – Ramones
Ramones – Rocket To Russia
Shovels & Rope – Busted Jukebox Voluem 2
Nina Simone – Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles
The Soft Moon – Criminal
Ringo Starr – Ringo
Sunwatchers – II
Thin Lizzy – The Collected Thin Lizzy
Twin Peaks – Sweet ’17 Singles
Unwound – New Plastic Ideas
Wishbone Ash – Raw To The Bone
Wishbone Ash – Twin Barrels
Soundtrack – The Bomb, music by The Acid
Various Artists – America’s Hardcore Volume 4
Various Artists – Joe Meek, Hits from 304 Holloway Road

FEBRUARY 2nd, 2018

Bat Fangs – Bat Fangs
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – New World
Anna Burch – Quit The Curse
Kyle Craft – Full Circle Nightmare
Fuzztones – Bad News Travels Fast/Brand New Man 7″
Groovie Ghoulies – World Contact Day
Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers – Big Road
Hookworms – Microshift
James Hunter –  Whatever It Takes
L7 – Wireless
Joni Mitchell – Second Fret
New York Dolls – Butterflyin’
Simple Minds – Walk Between Worlds Regular & Deluxe editions
The Stooges – Electric Circus
T. Rex – At The Chateau d’Herouville
Spencer Wiggins – The  Goldwax Recordings
Soundtrack – Last of the Mohicans, music by Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman