TUESDAY, MARCH 29th
Juvie – You Ain’t Gonna Rock & Roll No More
The Pinsch – Mini Skirt 7″ EP
The Replacements – The Sire Years Box Set
FRIDAY, MARCH 25th
Eric Bachman – S/T Solo LP from the front man of Archers of Loaf and Crooked Fingers
The Band – Stage Fright
Blackrain – Released
Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken (Re-issue)
Cherry – Gloom 7″
Billy Dankert – Sleep Late
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters – Father’s Day
John Fahey – Blind Joe Death
John Fahey – Dance of Death
John Fahey – Days Have Gone
John Fahey – Death Chants
John Fahey – Transfiguaration of Blind Joe Death
From Indian Lakes – Wanderer
Jesse Fuller – Working On The Railroad
Jeff Healy – Heal My Soul
John Lee Hooker – The Galaxy Sides
Parker Millsap – Very Last Days
Bob Mould – Patch The Sky
Khun Narin – II
Night Moves – Pennied Days
Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Primal Scream – Chaosmosis
Mobb Deep – Imfamous
Pete Rock – All Souled Out
Secret Space / The Flats – Split 7″
Soundtrack – Fright Night
The Sun Days – Album
The Thermals – We Disappear
Turnover – Humblest Pleasures 7″
Various – Senegal ’70 Sonic Gems
Walls of Jericho – No One Can Save You
We Are The Willows – Picture (Portrait)
FRIDAY, MARCH 18th
All Time Low – Don’t Panic: It’s Longer Now
James Brown & The Famous Flames – Roots of Revolution, Classic Federal Recordings 1956-1960
Denise Darlington – Feel So Good/Rightful Rebel 7″
Alton Ellis/Dub Specialist – Alton’s Groove/Dub Creation 7″
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – The Rarity of Experience
Lefty Frizzell – Time Out For The blues
Gaylads – Africa/Congo Rock 7″
Laura Gibson – Empire Builder
George Jones – When MyHeart Hurts No More
Glenn Jones – Fleeting
Damian Jurado – Visions of Us On The Land
Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose 2005 Best Country Album Grammy Winner. 2005 Best Country Collaboration With Vocals Grammy Winner. Featuring members of The Greenhornes, The Raconteurs, and Blanche. For fifty years now, Loretta Lynn has fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful—and as culturally significant—as any female performer you’d care to name. Except it was her song craft that established a sweet, clever, and combative lyricism that, when paired with her effortless melodies, inevitably helped define any and all relevant country music that emerged in its wake. Her music has duly confronted many of the major social issues of her time and ours, while her life story is a rags-to-riches tale familiar to pop, rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner’s Daughter—the tag refers to a hit single, an album, a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning film, and to Lynn herself—has journeyed from the poverty of the Kentucky hills to Nashville superstardom, to her current status as an honest-to-goodness American icon. Her most recent album, the Jack White-produced Van Lear Rose, has reminded the world yet again of Lynn’s power as a vocalist and her prowess as a songwriter. As she puts it on “Story of My Life,” the new album’s closing track: “Not half bad for this ol’ KY girl, I guess… Here’s the story of my life. Listen close, I’ll tell it twice.”
Jackie Mittoo – One Step Beyond/See A Man’s Face
Grant Lee Phillips – The Narrows
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Elliott Smith – Heaven Adores You Soundtrack
Soul Asylum – Change of Fortune
Garry Tallent – Break Time
Various – Punk 45: Chaos in the City of Angels & Devils
Various – Wayfaring Strangers: C0smic American Music Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became “the dominant American rock style of the 1970s,” as Peter Doggett’s comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre’s real Wild West – America’s one-off private press label substructure.
Violent Femmes – We Can Do Anything
Walker Family Singers – Panola County Spirit
Chelsea Wolfe – Hypnos/Flame 7″
FRIDAY, MARCH 11th
Davie Allan & Joel Grind – S/T
Joe Bonamassa – You & Me
Born of Osiris – Soul Sphere
Jeff Buckley – You & I
CA Quintet – Trip Thru Hell
Charlatans – Limit of the Marvelous Limited 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing. NOT to be confused with Britpop band The Charlatans (AKA The Charlatans UK). With the 50th anniversary of the American band the Charlatans’ debut, Big Beat are celebrating with this carefully conceived deluxe vinyl edition of the original line-up’s best recordings, The Limit Of The Marvelous. The iconic quintet are widely acknowledged with kickstarting the San Francisco 1960s renaissance. The Charlatans presented a blend of Americana-infused popular styles, encompassing country, swing, bluegrass, 50s rock ‘n’ roll and olde English folk. The band’s image radiated class that few of their hirsute, tie-dyed peers matched. The Limit Of The Marvelous distils the best cuts from Big Beat’s essential Amazing Charlatans CD to approximate the long-player the group should have issued at their peak in 1966. It juxtaposes idiosyncratic folk-rock ‘Codine Blues’ and ‘Alabama Bound’ with dustbowl-dry originals from the pen of guitarist/drummer Dan Hicks, including the first recording of his signature number ‘How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away’. Housed in a Globe Propaganda-approved sleeve complete with copious illustrations of this most photogenic of outfits, The Limit Of The Marvelous is a fitting reminder in their anniversary year of the continuing magic of the Charlatans.
Church of Misery – And Then there Were None
Brian Fallon – Painkillers
Feelies – Only Life
Feelies – Time For A Witness
Gaslight Anthem – Sink or Swim
GZA – Beneath the Surface
Litter – $100.00 Fine
Lucius – Good Grief
Various – God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson
Wild Feathers – Lonely Is A Lifetime
Pete Yorn – Arranging Time
FRIDAY, MARCH 4th
Cub Sport – This Is Our Vice
Day Wave – Headcase/Hard To Road
Floggin Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Re-Issue on colored vinyl)
Blaze Foley – The Dawg Years
Gogo Penguin – Man Made Object
Carly Ray Jepson – Kiss (Picture disc)
Ray Lamontagne – Ouroboros
Greg Laswell – Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet
Lionlimb – Shoo
Loretta Lynn – Full Circle
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Ultimate Wailers Box
Charles Mingus – John Cassavetes’ Shadows
Polica – United Crushers
Shovels & Rope – Busted Jukebox Volume 1
Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution
Thao & The Get Down – A Man Alive
Twerps – S/T Re-issue of the 2009 debut LP
Various Artists – International Vicious Society Volume 4
Various Artists – New York Noise
Various Artists – Rough Guide To Sahara Blues
Wall of Death – Loveland
M.Ward – More Rain