FRIDAY, APRIL 29th, 2016
Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber – The Family Album
Bo-Keys – Heartaches By The Number Featuring Percy Wiggins and Don Bryant on vocals
Bobby Blue Bland – Further On Up The Road: The Duke Recordings 1955-1962
Clark – The Last Panthers
Guy Clark – Dublin Blues
Comets on Fire – Avatar
Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
The Commons – Psychedelic Cumbia Punk 10″
Kyle Craft – Dolls of Highland Kyle Craft grew up in a tiny Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi, where he spent most of his time catching alligators and rattlesnakes instead of playing football or picking up the guitar. He’s not the product of a musical family, and bands never came through town. It was only a chance trip to K-Mart that gave him his first album, a David Bowie hits compilation that helped inspire him eventually to channel his innate feral energy into songwriting and rock and roll. That self-made talent drives every note of Dolls of Highland, Craft’s exhilarating, fearless solo debut. “This album is the dark corner of a bar,” he says. “It’s that feeling at the end of the night when you’re confronted with ‘now what?’” Craft knows the feeling well–Dolls began to take shape when everything he took for granted was suddenly over, including an eight-year relationship. “All of a sudden I was left with just me for the first time in my adult life,” he says. He ventured far away from the ghosts of his home in Shreveport, Louisiana to make a new life for himself in Portland, Oregon, living under a friend’s pool table while he demoed new songs and tried to determine what came next. The album was tracked at a home studio in Shreveport, where Craft briefly returned for an intensely-productive reckoning with his past. “I dedicated the album to Shreveport and called it Dolls of Highland for all the girls and ghosts in town who influenced it so strongly.” Craft then returned to Portland, where Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of The Helio Sequence helped move the album from its DIY beginnings to a more fully realized work. Craft played most of the instruments on the album, and the record captures the power of his live performance. And then there’s Craft’s unforgettable voice – “I’m fully aware that I have a very abrasive, very loud voice, but Bob Dylan is the one that taught me to embrace that,” says Craft. Craft’s talent and singular creativity move the conversation into new and unpredictable places. And this album is very much about moving forward. “After everything fell apart, it didn’t take very long for me to learn who I was and what I should be doing,” says Craft, who is walking out on the other side with Dolls of Highland.
Andra Day – Cheers to the Fall
Brian Eno – The Ship
Everything But The Girl – Language of Life
Ilhan Ersahin Istanbul Sessions
Frontline Assembly – State of Mind
David Hilyard & The Rocksteedy 7 – United Front
Ilian – Love Me Crazy
The Jayhawks – Paging Mr. Proust
King Gizzard & The Giant Lizard Wizzard – Nonagon Infinity
New Madrid – Magnetic King Magnetic Queen
Pity Sex – White Hot Moon
Rats on Rafts – Some Velvet Morning 7″
Red House Painters – Old Ramon
The Relatives – Goodbye World
Johnny Thunders – In Cold Blood
Various – Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches From Traditional Mali
Various – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Live, Volume 1 Featuring the Prince/Petty/Lynne/Winwood/Harrison version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Wire – Nocturnal Koreans
Rob Zombie – The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser Limited edition lenticular album cover.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22nd, 2016
Candlebox – Disappearing In Airports
Captain Beefheart – Clear Spot
Captain Beefheart – Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Captain Beefheart – Spotlight Kid
Lita Ford – Time Capsule
Greys – Out Heaven Limited Edition white vinyl with download card
Petra Haden – Imaginary Land
Petra Haden – Sings The Who Sell Out
Isley Brothers – This Old Heart of Mine
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds – La Arana Es La Vida
Sean McCaul – Midnight In The Purple Palace
Ennio Morricone – Paura
Motorhead – Bad Magic Issued in gold, red and green vinyl
New Mastersounds – Nashville Session
New Order – Singularily 12″
Picadilly Lane – The Huge World of Emily Small
Soundtrack – Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL – Deadpool
Soundtrack – Thomas Newman – Spectre
Vivid Low Sky – II
Yes – Drama
Various Artists – Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 5
Various Artists – Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 6
FRIDAY, APRIL 15th, 2016
Battle Me – Habitual Love Songs
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – Love Letter For Fire
Bear Hands – You’ll Pay For This
Black Randy & The Metrosquad – “Pass the dust, I think I’m Bowie.”
Bombino – Az El
Glen Campbell – Ghost On The Canvas
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II
Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend
Danger Mouse & Sparkle Horse – Dark Night of the Soul
Dixie Chicks – Dixie Chicks
Dixie Chicks – Home
Dixie Chicks – Taking The Long Way
East of Venus – Memory Box
The Frames – Longitude
Free Cake For Every Creature – Talking Quietly Of Anything With You
Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 1
Awalom Gebremariam – Desdes
Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex – Denver
Glen Hansard – A Season On The Line
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Party
Hestina – Blossom Talk
Bill Hicks – Rant In E-Minor Variations
Cate Le Bon – Crab Day
Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
Metallica – Ride The Lightning
Graham Nash – This Path Tonight
Augustus Pablo – Original Rockers
Pinact – Stand Still & Rot
Prism Tats – Prism Tats
Professor Longhair – Live In Chicago
Rich Robinson – Through A Crooked Sun
Rich Robinson – Woodstock Sessions Vol. 3
Santana – IV Santana, Rolie, Schon, Shrieve & Carabello
Ashley Shadow –Ashley Shadow
Sturgill Simpson – A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
Strawberry Girls – French Ghetto
Suuns – Hold/Still
A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of the Rhyme
Johnny Thunders – Critic’s Choice/So Alone 10″
Two Inch Astronaut – Personal Life
VA- Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea: Madang/Windim Mambu
TUESDAY, APRIL 12th, 2016
RL Burnside – Sound Machine Groove
Francoise Hardy – Et SI Je M’En Vais Avant Toi
Francoise Hardy – La Question
FRIDAY, APRIL 8th, 2016
Cotopaxi – Having All The Fun
Dandy Warhols – Distortland
Deftones – Gore
Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Front Line Assembly – Fallout
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Call It What It Is
Mayer Hawthorne – Man About Town
Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Heliocentrics – From The Deep
High Violets – Heroes & Haloes
Janet Jackson – Unbreakable
Jack Johnson – Sing-A-Longs
Lights – Midnight Machines
Lumineers – Cleopatra
M83 – Junk
Miracles – I’ll Try Something New
Of Mice & Men – S/T
Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Sonic Youth – Sister
Soundtrack – Brad Fiedel – The Terminator
Soundtrack – Harry Manfredini – Friday the 13th Part 3
Soundtrack – Henry Mancini – Experiment in Terror
Ronnie Spector – English Heart
Houston Stackhouse – Houston Stackhouse & Friends
Ronnie Stone & The Lonely Riders – Motorcycle Yearbook
Supremes – Meet The Supremes
Traditional Fools – Fool’s Gold
Ben Watt – Fever Dream
Hank Williams – Ramblin’ Man
Woods – City Sun Eater In The River of Light
O.V. Wright – Live
FRIDAY, APRIL 1st, 2016
Audacity – Hyper Vessels
Beau – That Thing, Reality
Black Crowes – Warpaint Live!
Black Mountain – IV
Black Stone Cherry – Kentucky
Bleached – Welcome The Worms
Boulevards – Groove
Loren Connors – The Red Painting 7″
Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing
Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness
Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
Grimes – Halifaxa
The Heavy – Hurt & The Merciless
Buddy Holly – Holly
Wanda Jackson – Lovin’ Country Style
Mike & The Melvins – Three Men & A Baby
Operators – Blue Wave
Panic At The Disco – Death of a Bachelor
Pet Shop Boys – Super
Ray Rocket – Do You Wanna Go To Tijuana?
Slobberbone – Bees & Seas: The Best of Slobberbone
Soundtrack – Amy
Soundtrack – Vinyl, Music from the HBO Original Series Vol. 1
Mavis Staples – Livin’ On A High Note
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise
Tancred – Out Of The Garden
Tacocat – Lost Time
Teen Suicide – It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir The Honeypot
Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones – Little Windows
Unified Highway – Unified Highway
The Used – Live & Acoustic At The Palace
Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes
Weezer – Weezer (the White Album)
Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye