— Friday, October 26th ——-

Barry Adamson – Memento Mori
Bauhaus – In The Flat Field
Bauhaus – Mask
Jorge Ben – Jorge Ben
Blondie – Heart of Glass The song that burst Blondie out of the streets of the Bowery to #1 on the charts, “Heart of Glass” was the pivotal moment in punk’s choreographed slamdance with the mainstream. Inspired by Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder, Blondie transformed their campy “Disco Song” into a Roland- driven juggernaut and never looked back. Explored and exploded via six distinct versions remastered from the original analog tapes, the history of “Heart of Glass” is documented here in a copious essay and it’s art reimagined by noted American illustrator Shepard Fairey. “With me it’s a psychic thing that has to do with the beat. The 4/4 heartbeat rhythm has a calming effect on the listener. It’s popular because it’s biological.” —Debbie Harry 
David Bowie – Heathen
Boy George & Culture Club – Life
Butthole Surfers – Independent Worm Saloon
Coven – Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Soul We’ve reissued a lot of “cult” albums at Real Gone Music. But of all the releases we’ve put out, this is the cult-iest of them all. That’s because it’s actually an occult album, the first record to bring Satanic themes to rock music. The upside down crosses, the “devil’s horns” hand’s signs that are commonplace with metal bands both past and present…they all started here. Coven even had a bassist named Oz Osborne…and the first track on the album was entitled “Black Sabbath,” for, er, heaven’s sake! So there’s no question that this 1969 album dealt with the devil first. But perhaps a little history is in order… Formed in the mid-‘60s by then-teenaged vocalist “Jinx” Dawson, drummer Steve Ross, and the aforementioned Mr. Osborne in the mid-‘60s, Coven began attracting attention while opening for bands like Alice Cooper, the MC5, and The Yardbirds both for its dark psychedelic sound and for its wholehearted, unrepentant embrace of sex and Satan. During each performance, Dawson—whose vocals are somewhat reminiscent of Grace Slick with a snarl—would extend her fingers in the now-familiar devil’s horns gesture while a roadie would be hung on an upside-down cross. The band caught the eye of Chicago-based producer Bill Traut, who had formed a label named Dunwich (natch…catch the H.P. Lovecraft reference?). Traut brought songwriter Jim Donlinger on board to contribute material, and ushered Coven into the studio to record Witchcraft. The result was a truly one-of-a-kind record. While subsequent bands exploited demonic imagery and occult themes for commercial success and sensationalism, Coven were true (un)believers. Thus, the last track on the album, “Satanic Mass,” is a full Black Mass, the only recording of its kind, while the double-gatefold album jacket—which we have faithfully reproduced—not only displays a picture of a naked Dawson splayed across a ritualistic altar surrounded by hooded members of the band and its associates, but also includes the full text of a Black Mass along with lyrics to the unabashedly Satan-worshipping songs. In the end, Witchcraft was a little too far ahead of its time; coming out in 1969, at the height of hysteria about Satanism whipped up by the Manson Family murders, the album generated a firestorm of reaction, which turned into an inferno when Manson himself was photographed holding a copy of the record. The album was recalled, Dunwich withdrew support, and the band bounced around a couple of other labels before going on hiatus in 1976. But Coven remains a crucial, if under-recognized, influence on hard rock and heavy metal. Now, at last, Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls receives its first-ever legitimate vinyl reissue with full artwork intact and a crimson vinyl pressing limited to 1200 copies. Whether approached as a cultural artifact, a totemic fetish, a camp classic, or just really cool music, it will cast a spell on you.
David Crosby – Here If You Listen
Kyle Dixon – Stranger Things: Halloween Sounds from the Upside Down
Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Filter – Short Bus
Bert Jansch – Just A Simple Soul
The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society 50th Anniversary Edition or Super Deluxe Box Set  This lavishly packaged super-deluxe box set is part of the BMG ‘Art Of The Album’ series, which focuses specifically on high quality, bespoke packaged re-issues of seminal albums within the BMG catalogue, offering the highest spec audio masters and original artwork. The set contains remastered original LPs, CDs of the remastered original albums plus a wealth of unreleased bonus material, reproduced 7″ singles, deluxe hardback photo book with comprehensive notes and new band interviews, and reproduced original memorabilia. Somewhat overlooked upon its release in November 1968, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Created in difficult circumstances by a band who refused to follow fashion, it is an album of timeless, perfectly crafted songs about growing up and growing old, and the decline of national culture and traditional ways. Enduring and unsurpassed, with its wit, sadness, quiet anger, regret and charm, it is generally considered the high point of The Kinks’ outstanding career and Ray Davies’ masterpiece. A calm, nostalgic album which feels like a sweet, hazy dream but with endless layers of musical and lyrical innovation, The Village Green Preservation Society’s defiantly British sensibilities became the foundation of generations of British guitar pop. God Save The Village Green!
Blind Willie McTell – Rough Guide To Blind Willie McTell
Meters – Zony Mash
Mudhoney – Tomorrow Hit Today
NRBQ – All Hopped Up
Janek Schaefer (for Robert Wyatt) – What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing
Ty Segall – Fudge Sandwich
Skinny Puppy – Cleanse Fold & Manipulate
Skinny Puppy – Perpetual Intercourse
Bruce Springsteen – Ghost of Tom Joad
Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch
Bruce Springsteen – Lucky Town
Bruce Springsteen – MTV Unplugged
Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love
Super Unison – Stella
Tangerine Dream  – Sessions 1
They Might Be Giants – Lincoln
Moe Tucker – I’m Sticking With You: An Introduction to Moe Tucker
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – IC-01 Hanoi
Dean Warham – Vs. Cheval Sombre
Wilco – The Album Picture Disc
Thom Yorke – Suspira

— Friday, October 19th ——-

Anthrax – State of Euphoria
Richard Ashcroft – Natural Rebel
Barenaked Ladies – Stunt
Big Black – Songs About Fucking
Wesley Bright & The Honeytones – You Don’t Want Me / Happiness 7″
Broncho – Bad Behavior
Jeff Buckley – Live At Sin-e
Eugene Chadbourne – Solo Guitar Vol 1-3
Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning
Sam Cooke – The Best of Sam Cooke
Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We
Dem Atlas – Bad Actress Growing up in a dysfunctional home in Minneapolis, there were two things Joshua Turner turned to for comfort when his parents fought: the records he’d listen to on a loop to drown out their conflict and the atlas he’d pore over to pretend he was anywhere else. Turner’s all grown up now, but his sources of childhood refuge continue to play an integral role in his life. In his spare time he draws maps for fun, and, under the name Dem Atlas, he’s composing his emotionally complex hip-hop records aimed at listeners who are in need of some sonic solace of their own. His new album, Bad Actress, represents the culmination of a twisting creative path that Turner’s patiently been following since his teens. He was a poet, a painter, and the frontman for a rock band before he found his space in Minneapolis’ prolific rap scene.
Ethiopians – Engine 54
Farro – Pure-O
Greta Van Fleet – Anthem of the Peaceful Army
How To Dress Well – The Anteroom
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Live From The Ryman
Elle King – Shake The Spirit
Yusef Lateef – Phoenix
Furry Lewis  – Back On My Feet Again
Minus The Bear – Fair Enough
Will Oldham – Songs of Love
T.I. – Paper Trail
Tess Parks  & Anton Newcombe – Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe
This is the second full-length album from Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe. The self-titled album contains 9 tracks. “Right On” is the only track that has been released before on the eponymous EP released earlier in 2018. All tracks were recorded at Cobra Studios, Berlin in 2017, the majority of the songs co-written by Tess & Anton.
Primal Scream – Give Out But Don’t Give Up Double vinyl LP pressing. 2018 archive release. After the huge success of Screamadelica, in 1993 Primal Scream went to Memphis to make an album with Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section, which was originally intended to be their ‘country soul’ album, but never saw the light of day. Now, following the recent discovery of these tracks lurking in Andrew Innes’ basement, Primal Scream will release the original studio recordings from Memphis of the tracks that eventually became their 1994 album Give Out But Don’t Give Up. Teaming up with legendary producer Tom Dowd and the Muscle Shoals rhythm section of David Hood (bass) and Roger Hawkins (drums) at Ardent Studios in Memphis, these are the results from those classic sessions. Dowd’s deft production, coupled with the merging of this sublime rhythm section along with the band led to the creation of nine glorious tracks that run the gamut between blues, gospel, soul and country.
R.E.M. – Best Of R.E.M.
Mongo Santamaria – Watermelon Man
William Shatner – Shatner Claus
The Soul Chance – Give Love A Try / The Soul Chance 7″
Steady Hands – Truth In Comedy
Whitesnake – Unzipped
Wu-Tang Clan – Enter Wu-Tang
Soundtrack – Halloween, music by John Carpenter
Soudtrack – Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy
Various Artists – Damaged Goods 1988-2018

— Friday, October 12th ——-

Barrie – Singles
David Bowie – Loving The Alien The LP contains a brand new production of the 1987 album ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN’ by Bowie producer / engineer Mario McNulty with new instrumentation by Bowie collaborators Reeves Gabrels (guitar), David Torn (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), Tim Lefebvre (bass) as well as string quartet with arrangements by Nico Muhly and a guest cameo by Laurie Anderson on ‘Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)’. The fifteen-piece vinyl set is named after the opening track from the ‘Tonight’ album and includes newly remastered versions of David’s most commercially successful period ‘LET’S DANCE’, ‘TONIGHT’, ‘NEVER LET ME DOWN (ORIGINAL and 2018 VERSIONS)’, the live album ‘GLASS SPIDER (Live Montreal ’87)’, the previously unreleased ‘SERIOUS MOONLIGHT’ live album, a collection of original remixes entitled ‘DANCE’ and the non-album / alternate version / b-sides and soundtrack music compilation RE:CALL 4.
James Brown – Say It Live & Loud: Live In Dallas – 8/28/68
Neneh Cherry – Broken Politics
Eric Clapton – Happy Xmas
Cypress Hill – Elephants on Acid
The Fall – I Am Curious Oranj
Fleetwood Mac – The Dance
Fleetwood Mac – Say You Will
Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
John Hiatt – Eclipse Sessions
Peter Holsapple Vs. Alex Chilton – The Death of Rock Newly discovered recordings of early solo Peter Holsapple and Like Flies On Sherbert–era Alex Chilton • Liner notes by Peter Holsapple and author/filmmaker, Robert Gordon. • Previously unseen photos from the collections of Peter Holsapple and Pat Rainer. It’s 1978 at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, TN. Peter Holsapple had rolled into town chasing the essence of Big Star. He hooked up with musician/engineer/friend-of-Big-Star, Richard Rosebrough after approaching, and being turned down by, Chris Bell who Holsapple had hoped might be interested in producing him. Together Richard and Peter started laying down tracks during the off hours at the studio. Chilton meanwhile, was knee deep in the making of Like Flies On Sherbert, also being tracked at Phillips. He told Peter, “I heard some of that stuff you’re working on with Richard . . . and it really sucks.” Alex promised to come by and show Peter “how it’s done.” The results? Alex’s tracks definitely line up with the chaos found on Flies, while several of Peter’s songs found homes on The dB’s albums (“Bad Reputation” and “We Were Happy There”) and on an album by The Troggs (“The Death Of Rock” retooled as “I’m In Control”), so not a loss at all. What we have in these newly discovered tapes, is a fascinating pivot point with both artists moving past each other headed in distinctly different directions. Chilton moved toward punk/psychobilly as he began playing with Tav Falco’s Panther Burns and produced The Cramps debut, Songs The Lord Taught Us, within a few months of these recordings. Holsapple was off to New York to audition for The dB’s and enter the world of “sweet pop.” Liner notes by Peter Holsapple tell the story of these recordings firsthand and author/filmmaker/Memphian, Robert Gordon, helps pull the time and place into focus. Previously unseen photos included in the package are drawn from the collections of Peter Holsapple and Pat Rainer. Produced by Cheryl Pawelski with mastering by Mike Graves at Osiris Studio and Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl/Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, who brings it all right back to where it started.
Jason Isbell – Live From The Ryman
Hank Jones – Arigato
Tom Morello – Atlas Underground Tom Morello is living proof of the transformative power of rock’n’roll. As the co-founder of Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave and Prophets Of Rage, and through collaborations with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Johnny Cash, he has continually pushed the limits of what one man can do with six strings.
But on his latest album The Atlas Underground, he’s transformed his sound into something even he could not have anticipated, blending Marshall stack riff-rock with the digital wizardry of EDM and hip-hop to create the most ambitious artistic effort of his storied career.
The Atlas Underground includes collaborations with Marcus Mumford, Portugal. The Man, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and GZA, Vic Mensa, K.Flay, Big Boi, Gary Clark Jr., Pretty Lights, Killer Mike and Whethan among others. “The riffs and the beats led the way, but the extraordinary talents of the collaborators set my creativity into uncharted territory,” says Morello.
Marissa Nadler – For My Crimes
Tommy McCook – Tommy McCook Re-issue of his debut solo record from 1969
Graham Parker – Cloud Symbols
Nina Simone – Sings Ellington
Steeldrivers – Reckless
Kurt Vile – Bottle It In
Colter Wall – Songs of the Plains

— Friday, October 5th —————-

Atmosphere – Mi Via Local
Blood Orange – Negro Swan
Doyle Bramhall II – Shades
James Brown – Black Caesar
James Brown – Slaughter’s Big Ripoff
Cat Power – Wanderer
Merry Clayton – Merry Clayton
Coheed & Cambria – The Unheavenly Creature
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon
Ron Gallo – Stardust Birthday Party
Thee Headcoats – In Tweed We Trust
Kristin Hersch – Possible Dust
Will Hoge – My American Dream
Madeline Kennedy – Perfect Shapes
L7 – L7 Re-issue of their 1988 debut LP
Mastadon – Once More ‘Round The Sun
Mighty Maytones – Madness
Paper Kites – On The Train Ride Home
Richard Reed Parry – Quiet River of Dust Vol. 1
Pedro The Lion – Achilles Heel
Revered Peyton’s Damned Band – Poor Until Payday
Supersuckers – Suck it!
Sweet Jap – Be My Venus
Toots & The Maytals – Ska Father
Tricky – Maxinquaye
KT Tunstall – Wax
Various Artists – Punk Rock Halloween
Various Artists – Shaolin Soul Episode 4

Tuesday, October 2nd

The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above & Branches Below
Devildiver – Devildiver
Devildiver – The Last Kind Words
Dio – Dream Evil Limited edition green vinyl
Dio – Lock Up The Wolves Limited edition gray vinyl
Faces – Snakes & Ladders Limited edition clear vinyl
Love – Revisited Limited edition red vinyl
The Rutles – The Rutles 40th Anniversary Edition
Television – Marquee Moon Limited double blue vinyl and including “Little Johnny Jewel Parts 1 & 2.”
Soundtrack – The Return of the Living Dead

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Alt-J – Reduxer
Ava Luna – Moon 2
Mickey Baker – Blam
Tim Cohen – Modern World
Dave Grohl – Play
Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer
Mudhoney – Digital Garbage Since the late ’80s, Mudhoney – the Seattle-based foursome whose muck-crusted version of rock, shot through with caustic wit and battened down by a ferocious low end – has been a high-pH tonic against the ludicrous and the insipid. Thirty years later, the world is experiencing a particularly high-water moment for both those ideals. But just in time, vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters are back with Digital Garbage, a barbed-wire-trimmed collection of sonic brickbats. Arm’s raw yawp and his bandmates’ long-honed chemistry make Digital Garbage an ideal release valve for the 2018 pressure cooker. “My sense of humor is dark, and these are dark times,” says Arm. “I suppose it’s only getting darker.” Digital Garbage opens with the swaggering “Nerve Attack,” which can be heard as a nod both to modern-life anxiety and the ever-increasing threat of warfare. The album’s title comes from the outro of “Kill Yourself Live,” which segues from a revved-up Arm organ solo into a bleak look at the way notoriety goes viral. Arm says: “people really seem to find validation in the likes—and then there’s Facebook Live, where people have streamed torture and murder, or, in the case of Philando Castile, getting murdered by a cop. In the course of writing that song, I thought about how, once you put something out there online, you can’t wipe it away. It’s always going to be there—even if no one digs it up, it’s still out there floating somewhere.” Appropriately enough, bits of recent news events float through the record: “Please Mr. Gunman,” on which Arm bellows “We’d rather die in church!” over his bandmates’ careening charge, was inspired by a TV-news bubblehead’s response to a 2017 church shooting, while the ominous refrain that opens the submerged-blues of “Next Mass Extinction” calls back to last summer’s clashes in Charlottesville. Mudhoney’s core sound—steadily pounding drums, swamp-thing bass, squalling guitar wobble, Arm’s hazardous-chemical voice—remains on Digital Garbage, which the band recorded with longtime collaborator (and Digital Garbage pianist) Johnny Sangster at the Seattle studio Litho. The anti-religiosity shimmy “21st Century Pharisees” builds its case with Maddison’s woozy synths, which Arm says “add a really nice touch to the proceedings.” Digital Garbage closes with “Oh Yeah,” a brief celebration of skateboarding, surfing, biking, and the joy provided by these escape valves. “I would’ve really just loved to write songs about just hanging out on the beach, and going on a nice vacation,” says Arm. “But, you know, that probably doesn’t make for great rock.” Mudhoney, however, know what does make great rock—and the riffs and fury of Digital Garbage will stand the test of time, even if the particulars fade away. “I’ve tried to keep things somewhat universal, so that this album doesn’t just seem like of this time—hopefully some of this stuff will go away,” Arm laughs. “You don’t want to say in the future, ‘Hey, those lyrics are still relevant. Great!’”
Os Mutantes – Tudo Foi Feito
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade Picture Disc
Parquet Courts – Wide Awake Remixes
Justus Proffit & Jay Som – Nothing’s Changed
Ural Thomas & The Pain – The Right Time
Uriah Heep – Your Turn To Remember, the Definitive Anthology 1970-1990

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Jorge Ben – Big Ben
Bomb The Music Industry – Vacation
Tina Brooks – True Blue
Chicano Batman – Cycles of Existential Rhyme
Chicano Batman – Joven Navegante
Holly Cole – Temptation
Billy Gibbons – Big Bad Blues
Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up The Girl
Macy Gray – Ruby
Woody Guthrie – I Saw A Sign
Lonnie Holley – Mith
Femi Kuti – One People One World
MC5 – Total Assault Singer Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson came together as the MC5 in 1965. The band performed for several years before making its first record. This set includes Kick Out The Jams (red vinyl), Back In The USA (white vinyl) and High Time (blue vinyl). The albums come in sleeves that faithfully re-create the original releases, including gatefolds for Kick Out The Jams and High Time. All three are housed in a hard slipcase with new art

The set also includes a new essay by Creem magazine founding editor/writer Jaan Uhelszki, who writes: “Turned loose on a bare stage, the MC5 were among the most awe-inspiring perpetrators of sheer bombast and rock and roll brinkmanship alive…They tore through the stuff they heard on the radio with a fierce intensity that transcended the original artists’ intent. Tunes by James Brown, Chuck Berry, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones vibrated at a higher frequency when the Motor City Five tackled them.”
Prince – Piano & A Microphone 1983 Two versions: 1) 180 gram vinyl and 2) limited edition deluxe set which is 180 gram vinyl and a CD plus an exclusive print and booklet.
Thelonious Monk – Blue Monk
Thelonious Monk – Reflections
Nas – Nasir
Pharrell – In My Mind
Marc Ribot – Songs of Resistance 1942 – 2018  Vinyl LP pressing. “Every movement which has ever won anything has had songs,” says Marc Ribot. With his new LP, Songs of Resistance 1948-2018, Ribot – one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed guitar players – set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury. The 11-songs on the record are drawn from the World War II anti-fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement, and Mexican protest ballads, as well as original compositions, and feature a wide range of guest vocalists, including Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius. Over a forty-year career, Ribot has released twenty-five albums under his own name and been a beacon of New York’s downtown/experimental music scene, leading a series of bands including Los Cubanos Postizos and Ceramic Dog. Since his work with Tom Waits on 1985’s Rain Dogs album, though, he is best known to the world as a sideman, playing on countless albums by the likes of Elvis Costello, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones, the Black Keys, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Grammy-winning collaboration Raising Sand.
Sonny Rollins – Way Out West
Slash – Living The Dream
Carla Thomas – Gee Whiz
Throbbing Gristle – Heathen Earth
Throbbing Gristle – Journey Through A Body
Throbbing Gristle – Mission of Dead Souls
Soundtrack – The Norwood Suite, music by CosmoD
Soundtrack – Wild Wild Country, music by Brocker Way

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Aphex Twin – Collapse
Dorothy Ashby – Afro-Harp
Tony Bennett – Love Is Here
Blitzen Trapper – Furr 10th anniversary edition
Dennis Brown – Tracks of Life
Capital Punishment – Roadkill
Chills – Snow Bound
Dick Dale – Singles Collection
Dilly Dally – Heaven
Alejandro  Escovedo – The Crossing On his scorching, cinematic new concept album ‘The Crossing’ (Sept 14 / Yep Roc), Alejandro Escovedo tells the story of two young immigrants – Salvo from Italy, and Diego from Mexico – working in a Texas restaurant in pursuit of the American dream. Mirroring Escovedo’s own experience as the child of Mexican immigrants, and drawing inspiration from his relationship with Italian co-writer Antonio Gramentieri, their journey navigates cultural identity, ancestral weight, minority rights and racism as they realize they have arrived in a different America – one that’s not as open and free as they believed it would be.

Says Escovedo: “Early on I’d play in San Marcos, San Antonio and get all these Chicano kids in denim vests and Iron Maiden patches. I remember thinking they were into us, not necessarily for the music, but for the fact that we were on stage. They loved that we were doing what we were doing.”

Escovedo crossed borders of his own for ‘The Crossing’ sessions, recording outside the US for the first time ever at a farmhouse in Villafranca, Northern Italy with the help of co-producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Gomez, Iron & Wine). Italian all-instrumental group Don Antonio – helmed by co-writer Antonio Gramentiere – bring the record’s narrative to life with their sweeping arrangements, while cameos from Kramer and The Stooges’ James Williamson serve as reminders that Escovedo’s punk ethos burns bright (both bands name are checked in the lyrics as well). Elsewhere on the record, alt-country pioneer Joe Ely features on both the title track and his self-penned “Silver City”, while Peter Perrett and John Perry from UK legends The Only Ones reunite for their first recording in almost 40 years on “Waiting For Me.”
First Aid Kit – Tender
Flaming Lips – Death Trippin’ At Sunrise
Flaming Lips – In A Priest Driven Ambulance
Good Charlotte – Generation RX
Guerilla Toss – Twisted Crystal
Lee Hazlewood – Cruisin’ For Surf Bunnies
Betty LaVette – 1972 Muscle Shoals Session In 1972, Bettye signed with Atlantic/Atco and was sent to the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama to record a full length album. Produced by Brad Shapiro and featuring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, the album was supposed to originally be titled as Child of the Seventies but Atco chose to shelve the project at the time. Years later, after Bettye played her own personal recordings of the sessions for French soul music collector, Gilles Petard, he chased down the master recordings at Atlantic Records where they were thought to have been destroyed in a fire. In 1999 after obtaining the masters, he licensed the material and released it on CD in 2000 as Souvenirs through his Art and Soul label (Rhino Handmade would later reissue Child of the Seventies on CD with previously unreleased 1973 tracks).Now it is available on vinyl on the Run Out Groove label and limited to 2310 copies worldwide.
Betty’s versions of Joe Simon’s “Your Time To Cry” and John Prine’s “Souvenirs” are worth the price of admission.
Lemon Twigs – Go To School
Low – Double Negative To make Double Negative, Low reenlisted B.J. Burton, the quietly energetic and adventurous producer who has made records with James Blake, Sylvan Esso, and The Tallest Man on Earth in recent years while working as one of the go-to figures at Bon Iver’s home studio, April Base. Burton recorded Low’s last album, 2015’s Ones and Sixes, at April Base, adding might to many of it’s beats and squelch and frisson beneath many of it’s melodies. This time, though, Sparhawk, Parker, and bassist Steve Garrington knew they wanted to go further with Burton and his palette of sounds, to see what someone who is, as Sparhawk puts it, “a hip-hop guy” could truly do to their music. Rather than obsessively write and rehearse at home in Duluth, MN, they would often head southeast to Eau Claire, WI, arriving with sketches and ideas that they would work on for days with Burton.
Madonna – The Immaculate Collection
Mogwai – Hawk Is Howling
Willie Nelson – My Way
Robert Pollard – Waved Out
Pharoah Sanders – Thembi
Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Scream
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Superstition
Sleaford Mods – Stick In A Five EP
Richard Thomson – 13 Rivers
Tom Waits – Heartattack & Wine
Paul Weller – True Meanings
Ann Wilson – Immortal
Soundtrack – Batman Forever
Various Artists – Basement Beehive, the Girl Group Underground
Double vinyl LP pressing. Who do we become when we live our dreams? It’s all here- the high hairdos, the dreams and schemes, the tender camp, the wedding bell fantasias and chaste tragedies. Sister acts, studio receptionists, classmates, angelic voices of the 1960s; some legendary, many hidden in the basement of expired rainbows. Gathered on this deluxe double LP  are 28  foiled escape attempts, now free to soar in girl group heaven.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Eric Bachmann – No Recover
David Bowie – Zeroes 7″ pic disc
Gaslight Anthem – Sink or Swim
David Gilmour  – On An Island
Grateful Dead – Pacific Northwest 73-74
Willie Hightower – Out of the Blue
Lenny Kravitz – Raise Vibration regular edition or picture disc
L7 – Hungry for Stink Red vinyl edition, limited to 1700 copies
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same Deluxe 4 LP set on 180 gram vinyl. 15 tracks recorded at Madison Square Garden in 1973 accompanied by a 28-page book. Produced and remastered under the supervision of Jimmy Page.
Paul McCartney – Egypt Station
Mirah – Understanding
Saint Paul & The Broken Bones – Young Sick Camelia
Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion
Paul Simon – In The Blue Light
Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt
Sundial – Science Fiction
Swervedriver – Ejector Seat
Various Artists – Prince In Jazz  Ten tracks listed below:
1 Nina Simone – Sign O’ the Times [Outtake]
2 Bob Belden Project Feat. Holy Cole – the Question of U
3 Clotilde Rullaud – Kiss
4 Angela Galuppo – I Feel for You
5 Ray Lema & Laurent de Wilde – Around the World in a Day
6 Herbie Hancock – Thieves in the Temple
7 Bob Belden Project Feat. Cassandra Wilson & Dianne Reeves – When Doves Cry
8 Heath Brandon – Little Red Corvette
9 Viktoria Tolstoy Feat. Lars Danielsson & Jacob Karlzon – Strollin’
10 Osunlade – Crazy You

Soundtrack – Music From the Motion Picture Go Pressed on “gopaque” yellow vinyl.
Soundtrack – True Romance Limited edition of 1700 pressed on clear with white splatter vinyl.

August 31, 2018

The Band – Music From Big Pink
Black Mirror – Look Into The Black Mirror
Boogarins – La Vem Morte
Alice Cooper – At The Olympia, Paris
Depeche Mode – Speak & Spell The  12″ Singles
Depeche Mode – A Broken Frame 12″ Singles
Fairground Attraction – First of a Million Kisses
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny – Beyond The Missouri Sky
Son House – The Legendary Son House
Iron & Wine – Weed Garden
Jethro Tull –  50th Anniversary Collection
Amos Lee – My New Moon
Nick Mason – Unattended Luggage
Mogwai – Kin
Morrissey – This Is Morrissey
Graham Nash – Over The Years
Lee Perry – Game of Thrones
Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
Pet Shop Boys – Bilingual
Madeleine Peyroux – Anthem
Prong – Cleansing
Saint Seneca – Pillar of Na
Horace Silver Quintet – Doin’ The Thing
Paul Simon – One Trick Pony
Paul Simon – Rhythm of the Saints
Soundgarden – A-Sides
Suicidal Tendencies – Lights Camera Revolution
Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche, Outtakes & Extras from the Illinois Album
Tash Sultana – Flow State
Denis Tek – Lot For Words
Various Artists – Cumbias Psicodelicas Vol. 1

August 24, 2018

Alborosie  – Alborosie Meets the Wailers United – Unbreakable
Dennis Alcapone – Investigator Rock
Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog
Jeff Buckley – Sketches for My Love The Drunk
Cypress Hill – Black Sunday
Mac DeMarco – 2 Demos
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days Demos
Devil Makes Three – Chains Are Broken
Devotchka – The Night Falls Forever
The Frights – Hypochondriac
Grant Green – Grantstand
Roy Haynes – Cymbalism
Thee Hypnotics – Righteously Re-Charged
Interpol – Marauders
Michael Jackson – Bad (Pic Disc)
Michael Jackson – Dangerous (Pic Disc)
Michael Jackson – History (Pic Disc)
Michael Jackson – Invincible (Pic Disc)
Michael Jackson – Off The Wall (Pic Disc)
E.V.Kain – Yes, No, Maybe / Sun’s Holiday 7″
King Curtis – Soul Meeting
The Kooks – Let’s Go Sunshine
Bob Marley – Kaya 40th Anniversary Edition
Ken McIntyre – Looking Ahead
Jackie McLean – Destination …
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Gilbert O’ Sullivan
Ohmme – Parts
Pedro The Lion – Control
TheResidents – I Am A Resident
JimmtySmith – The Sermon
Patti Smith – Outside Society
Candi Staton – Unstoppable
Sunny War – With The Sun
Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams
Bukka White – Early Recordings
White Denim – Performance
The Yardbird – 1966 Live & Rare
Neil Young – Hawks & Doves
Neil Young – Re-Ac-Tor
Neil Young – This Note’s For You
Various Artists – Trojan Ska & Reggae Classics

August 17, 2018

Animal Collective – Tangerine Reef
Bad Religion – The New America
The Beach Boys – With The Royal Philharmonic
Jess Sah Bi  & Peter One – Our Garden Needs Its Flowers
Chic – An Evening With Chic
Julee Cruise – Three Demos
Julee Cruise – The Voice of Love
Death Cab For Cutie – Thank You For Today
Follakzoid feat. J. Spaceman – London Sessions

It should come as no surprise to fans of the Chilean trio Föllakzoid that upon meeting the legendary Jason Pierce a.k.a. J. Spaceman (Spacemen 3, Spiritualized), they discovered they were kindred spirits. Föllakzoid and Spaceman’s projects share a restless drive to explore the outer limits of music, as well as an uncanny ability to lock into a groove until it infiltrates the deepest recesses of the listener’s psyche. When Föllakzoid met Spaceman backstage at a Wooden Shjips gig at London’s Electric Ballroom several years ago, they instantly became friends.

For London Sessions, the Chileans and Spaceman joined forces for new live renditions of “Electric” and “Earth,” two highlights from Föllakzoid’s III. The recordings were made in a private studio in London while Föllakzoid was on tour in Europe in June 2016, and Spaceman’s contributions breathe new life into the songs.

“Jason added a very different harmonic atmosphere to the songs,” guitarist Domingo Garcia-Huidobro explained. “It somehow rearticulated the space and metric that already existed in a way the band never could. These new versions have a different edge.” Originally released in 2017, this is a limited edition vinyl release of 2000 worldwide.

Great Lake Swimmers – The Waves. The Wake
Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
Judas Priest – Ram It Down
Judas Priest – Priest Live
Mark Kozelek – Mark Kozelek
Mitski – Be The Cowboys
Pere Ubu – Cloudland
Scorpions – Taken By Force
Scorpions – Tokyo Tapes
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Join Hands
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Juju
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Tinderbox
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Through The Looking Glass
Thee Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
Toots & The Maytals – Funky Kingston
Why? – Alopecia  Regular version and deluxe edition on tri-colored vinyl and bonus 7″.
Various Artists – Teen Expo: The Cleopatra Label (Numero 074) From a basement in New Jersey, Tommy Falcone remade himself into a DIY Phil Spector. From 1962 to 1970, he founded and ran Cleopatra Records, discovered and mentored young Garden State talent, wrote songs and produced wild studio effects, and quit his day job to promote it all himself. Trained as an accordionist, Falcone had a whirlwind imagination and an omnivorous approach to genre, expressed through acts like the Centuries, the Tabbys, Johnny Silvio, the Inmates, Bernadette Carroll, the Hallmarks, Vickie & the Van Dykes, the Shandillons, Eugene Viscione, the Shoestring, and more. Cleopatra became a time-capsule of every 1960s pop style imaginable—garage rock, psychedelia, surf, girl groups, soul, novelties, exotica, even a crooner—a kaleidoscope of sound in search of the ever-elusive hit record.

August 10, 2018

Amps – Pacer
The Beths – Future Me Hates Me
Kenny Burrell – At The Five Spot
Neko Case – Furnace Room Lullaby
Neko Case – the Tigers Have Spoken
Club Soul – Twisted Wheel
The Easybeats – Absolute Anthology
El Hijo De La Cumbia – Genero Genero
Ethiopeans – Woman Capture Man
The Fall – 458489 A Sides
Giant Sand – Return to Valley Sand
Gladiators – Presenting the Gladiators
Dave Holland – Uncharted
Shooter Jennings – Shooter
Steve  Lacy – Reflections
Litter – Action Woman EP
Litter – Wretch
Mike – Black Soap
Moldy  Peaches – Moldy Peaches
Hugh Mundell – Jah Fire
Gram Parsons – Another Side of this Life
Reggae Roast Soundsystem Featuring Tippa Irie – Real Reggae Music 7″
Clarence Reid – Running Water
Rezillos – Can’t Stand the Rezillos
Rezillos – Mission Accomplished
Walter Salas-Humara – Walterio
ShadowParty – ShadowParty
Shovels & Rope – Predecssors
Judee Sill – Songs of Rapture & Redemption: Rarities & Live
Sun 0))) – White2
Twisted Sister – Live At The Marquee 1983
Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
Gillian Welch – Soul Journey
Weller – Weller
Wu-Tang Clan – Pearl Harbor Deluxe Edition
Warren Zevon – The Wind
Various Artists – Trojan Records Boxset: • 4 vinyl LPs, showcasing the hits, rarities and rare ‘commercial reggae’ tracks • Two 7″ singles, highlighting previously unreleased and brand new recordings • Two 3CD collections, featuring a total of over 130 tracks with 69 make their digital debut • A 100+ page book featuring essays and full scale reproductions of 50 of the most iconic Trojan album sleeves from the past 50 years • High quality Trojan slipmat • Stunning A2 poster • Stylish Trojan patch • Wooden Trojan 7″ single adapter Launched in the summer of 1968, Trojan Records was instrumental in introducing the sound of reggae to the world at large. By the mid-Seventies, the label had enjoyed over 30 significant mainstream chart hits by such illustrious performers as Desmond Dekker, the Maytals, Bob & Marcia, John Holt, Ken Boothe, Dave & Ansel Collins, the Pioneers – and many, many more. Alongside these major successes, Trojan showcased the work of literally hundreds of Jamaican music makers, from artists whose careers remain shrouded in mystery to future international recording stars. Over the years since it’s creation, the iconic label has continued to grow and develop, attracting new fans with each new generation. 2018 witnesses Trojan’s half centenary and to celebrate this most momentous of years comes a super deluxe multi-format box set, which reflects the amazing diversity of the label’s output over the past 50 years. Presented on an array of vinyl and CD titles are all the major UK hits, numerous Jamaican best-sellers, hundreds of rarities that see issue for the first time in decades, and two brand new recordings by British dancehall don, Tippa Irie. In addition, the set includes an array of essential items, including a stunning book on Trojan album sleeve artwork and variety of stylish accessories.
Various Artists – Warner Brothers Records I Wanna Be Sedated: From The Underground
Various Artists – The Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals

August 3, 2018

Jeff Buckley – Mystery White Boy
The Byrds – Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Chameleons – What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Alice Coltrane – Lord of Lord
The Cranberries – Something Else
Chanti Darling – RNB Vol. 1
John David & The Jerks – I Love You Means I’m Lucky
The Doors – Hello I Love You / Love Street 7″ (mono re-issue)
Fugees – Refugee Camp
Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis – Wild! Wild!
Marvin Gaye – Midnight Love
Hampton Grease Band – Music To Eat
Ted Hawkins – Watch Your Step
Monk Higgins – Extra Soul Perception
James – Living in Extraordinary Times
Jim Lauderdale – Time Flies
Little Ugly Girls – Little Ugly Girls Tasmanian noise rockers
Lykke Li – So Sad So Sexy
Lucero – Among The Ghosts
Nas – Nastradamus
Spider Bags – Someday
Various Artists – Lotta Love: Sounds California

JULY 27th, 2018

Atmosphere – Sad Clown Bad Year (#9-#12 Collection) Limited double half black and white colored vinyl LP pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve, includes digital download. The Sad Clown series first started as a string of cassette tapes and CD-R’s for Atmosphere to sell on tour. Since it’s incarnation in 1999, the Sad Clown series has taken on a few forms, including rare 4-track demos, live shows, a DVD, a mixtape, and a pair of 7″ singles. In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of these iconic EP’s, we are releasing a special vinyl edition, packaging all four Sad Clown seasons together for the first time, complete with some added treats to make even the saddest clown smile.
Solomon Burke – Solomon Burke
Baby Dodds Trio – Jazz A’La Creole
Drivin’ N Cryin’ – Too Late To Turn Back Now
Flaming Lips – Hear It Is
Flaming Lips – Oh My Gawd!…The Flaming Lips
Flaming Lips – Telepathic Surgery
The Germs – (GI)
Woody Guthrie – Struggle
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ Hopkins
Howlin’ Wolf – Rarities
Albert King – King Albert
Thelonious Monk – ‘Round Midnight
Pere Ubu – Terminal Tower
The Promise Ring – Very Emergency
Psychedelic Furs – Forever Now
Psychedelic Furs – Midnight To Midnight
Psychedelic Furs – Mirror Moves
Psychedelic Furs – Pyschedelic Furs
Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk
Boz Scaggs – Out of the Blues
The Scientists – Weird Love
Selector Dub Narcotic – Bounce It Out 7″
Dee Snider – For The Love of Metal
Joseph Spence – Bahaman Folk Guitar
Ural Thomas & The Pain – Vibrations 7″
U2 – Achtung Baby
U2 – Best Of 1980-1990
U2 – Zooropa
Muddy Waters – Sail On
Bill Wyman – Stuff
Soundtrack – Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, The Complete Recordings, Music Composed by Howard Shore
Various Artists – Rough Guide to Cambodian Psychedelia
Various Artists – Wanted 60’s British Rock

JULY 20th, 2018

Eric Clapton – Genius Amplified, Life in 12 Bars
Droogettes – Clockwork Girls
Essex Green – Cannibal Sea
Essex Green – The Long Goodbye
Five Finger Death Punch – And Justice For None
John Fogerty – Deja Vu All Over Again
John Fogerty – Eye of the Zombie
Gang of Four – A Bief History of the 20th Century
Goo Goo Dolls – The Audience Is This Way
Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Blank Generation
Hontatedori – Konata Kanata
Lebron Brothers Llegamos
Los Lobos – Will The Wolf Survive
Madonna -Who’s That Girl Soundtrack
Notorious Big – Greatest Hits
Pedro The Lion – Winners Never Quit
Pharcyde – Labcabincalifornia
Ty Segall & White Fence – Joy
Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – April 4th, 1978
Tone-Loc – Loced After Dark
The Lonesome Sound of Hank Williams
Wire – 154
Wire – Chairs Missing
Wire – Pink Flag
Wolf Eyes – Dread
Young M.C. – Stone Cold Rhymin’
Various Artists – Punk Nuggets: Not Good For Your Death 1974-1982

JULY 13th, 2018

Aces – When My Heart Felt Dramatic
Birds In A Row – We Already Lost The World
Body Head – The Switch
Jenn Champion – Single Rider
Jon Cleary – Dynomite
Cowboy Junkies – All That Reckoning
Rodney  Crowell – Acoustic Classics
Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose
Bob Dylan – Dylan & The Dead
Eric B & Rakim – Don’t Sweat The Technique
Eric B & Rakim – Follow The Leader
Eric B & Rakim – Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em
Eric B & Rakim – Paid In Full
Fishbone – Reality of My Surroundings
Ben Folds  Five – Complete Sessions At West 54th
Future – Superfly
Gang of Youths – Go Farther
Gaslight Anthem – 59 Sound
Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun Picture Disc
Jason Isbell – Sirens of the Ditch
Jayhawks  – Back Roads & Abandoned Hotels
Jesus & Mary Chain – 21 Singles
King Crimson – Uncertain Times
Willie Nelson – Things To Remember, The Pamper Demos
Pedro The Lion – The Only Reason I Feel Secure
Rolling Stones – From The Vault, No Security San Diego ’99
Suffers – Everything Here
Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs
Wussy/Paranoid Style – Split 7″ New American Standard / Absolute Cadavers
Various Artists – Trojan 50th Anniversary Picture Disc
Soundtrack – Hellboy, music by Marco Beltrami

JULY 6th, 2018 (a pretty slow week)

A-ha – Hunting High & Low
The B-52’s – The B-52’s
The B-52’s – Wild Planet
The Bamboos – The Bamboos
Johnny Clarke – Creation Rebel
Vince Guaraldi – Oh Good Grief!
Madonna – Like A Virgin
Johnny Marr – Call The Comet
The Pogues – Best of the Pogues
Tiger Army – Dark Paradise 7″ E.P.

FRIDAY, JUNE 29th, 2018

Ryan Adams – Baby I Love You
The Alarm – Equals
Alan Braufman – Valley of Search
Buffalo Springfield – What’s That Sound This premium boxed set includes all three albums released by the band in their three years together between 1966-1968, with stereo and mono mixes of the first two. The music is newly remastered from the original analog tapes, all under the auspices of Neil Young.
John Coltrane – Both Directions at Once, the Lost Album Standard version incorporates seven tracks, two of which are completely unheard original compositions. 2018 archive release. Unknown until 2004 and unheard until now, these recordings by the John Coltrane Quartet are, as Sonny Rollins says in the liner notes, like finding a new room in the Great Pyramid. Featuring the Classic Quartet – John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones – and recorded at the end of a two-week run at Birdland, the music on this album represents one of the most influential groups in music history both performing in a musical style it had perfected and reaching in new, exploratory directions that were to affect the trajectory of jazz from that point forward.
Ray Davies – Our Country Americana Act II
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Greatest Hits
Florence & The Machine – High As Hope
Garbage – Version 2.0
Golden Smog – Down By The Old Mainstream
Gorillaz – The Now Now
Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction
Buddy Guy – A Man & The Blues
INXS – Kick 30th Anniversary Edition
INXS – The Very Best
Jim James – Uniform Distortion
Kid Dakota – So Pretty (Expanded)
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels +Lucinda Williams – Vanished Gardens
The Milk Carton Kids – All The Things That I Did & All The Things I Didn’t Do
Posies  – Dear 23
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Live Fillmore Auditorium February 5, 1967
Happy Rhodes – Ectotrophia
Ari Roar – Calm Down
Social Distortion – Live At The Roxy
Sun Ra – Janus
Junior Wells – Coming At You
Soundtrack – Isle of Dogs, music composed by Alexandre Desplat

FRIDAY, JUNE 22nd, 2018

Lily Allen – No Shame
Archie & The Bunkers – Songs From The Lodge
Jill Barber – Metaphora
Binker & Moses – Alive In The East
Bishop Briggs – Church of Scars
The Cure – Mixed Up
The Cure – Torn Down
Dawes – Passwords
Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
Dio – Dio
Dio – Dream Evil
Dio – Last In Line
Dio – Lock Up The Wolves
Dio – Sacred Heart
Dio – Strange Highways
Roger Eno – Dust of Stars
The 4th Movement – The 4th Movement
Gang Gang Dance – Kazuashita
Paul Gauthen – Have Mercy EP
Margo Guryan – Take A Picture
David Hillyard & The Rock Steady
Little Willie John – Fever
B.B. King – My Kind of Blues
Legendary Pink Dots 0 Shadow Weaver
Kirsty MacColl – Electric Landlady
Kirsty MacColl – Kite
Manic Street Preachers – Resistance is Futile
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
T. Hardy Morris – Dude, the Obscure
Nine Inch Nails – Bad Witch
Panic At the Disco – Pray For The Wicked
Ike Reilly – Crooked Love
Sisters of Mercy – First, Last & Always
Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
Sisters of Mercy – Slight Case of Over Bombing
Sisters of Mercy – Vision Things
The Soft Machine – The Soft Machine
Colin Stetson – Hereditary
STRFKR – Starfucker
Sudan Archives – Sink
Sylvian/Czukay – Flight & Premonition / Flux & Mutability
Tetrak – Let’s Get Started
Kamasi Washington – Heaven & Earth Kamasi Washington’s sophomore album Heaven and Earth not only fulfills its overarching ambition, but illustrates the dialectic between seen and unseen, real and imagined, citizen and culture, self and self, as well as self and other, and does so through the lens of a mature but never jaded revolutionary consciousness. The artist’s own words best convey the inspiration behind this monolith of an album “The world that my mind lives in, lives in my mind. This idea inspired me to make this album Heaven and Earth. The reality we experience is a mere creation of our consciousness, but our consciousness creates this reality based on those very same experiences. We are simultaneously the creators of our personal universe and creations of our personal universe. The Earth side of this album represents the world as I see it outwardly, the world that I am a part of. The Heaven side of this album represents the world as I see it inwardly, the world that is a part of me. Who I am and the choices I make lie somewhere in between.”
Johnny Guitar Watson – Johnny Guitar Watson
Frank Zappa  – Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Various Artist – Revamp, The Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin

FRIDAY, JUNE 15th, 2018

The Aquabats – The Fury of the Aquabats
Tim Armstrong – A Poet’s Life
Bad Religion – No Substance
Donald Byrd – Byrd In Hand
Gene Clark – Gene Clark Sings For You
Ornette Coleman – This Is Our Music
Alice Cooper – Poison
Fantastic Negrito  -Please Don’t Be Dead
Serge Gainsbourg – 1963 Theatre Des Capucines
James – Better Than That EP
Luis Perez – En El Ombligo De La Luna
Protomartyr – Consolation E.P.
Rolling Blackouts  – Hope Downs
Ruen Brothers All My Shades of Blue
State Champs – Living Proof
Matthew Sweet Tomorrow’s Daughter
Tom Waits – Bastards
Tom Waits – Bawlers
Tom Waits – Brawlers
Sondtrack – Kings, Music by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
Various Artists – NorthernSoul  Anthems

FRIDAY, JUNE 8th, 2018

Stiv Bators – Disconnectesd
Beechwood – Inside The Flesh Hotel
Black Sabbath – Supersonc Years: The Seventies Singles Box Set From Black Sabbath’s debut single to their ultimate chart success with “Paranoid” & legendary ban on releasing singles, The Supersonic Years box set documents the band’s run of hit singles during this decade. 10 7″ singles in all.
Blink-182 – Buddha
Khadja Bonet – Childqueen
John Doe – Mammoth Penguins & Friends
DVSN – Morning After
Ana Egge – White Tiger
EPMD – Strictly Business
EPMD – Unfinished Business
Fall – Best of the Fall
Fall – Levitate
The Get Up  Kids – Kicker
Jon Hassell – Listening To Pictures
Sean Khan – Pascoal
Lydia Lunch – 13:13
Harry Nilsson – Sessions -1967-1975
Notorious Big – Greatest Hits
Liz Phair – Liz Phair
Liz Phair – Whitechocolatespaceegg
Serpent With Feet – Soil Limited edition opaque yellow vinyl
Shannon Shaw – Shannon In Nashville
Paul Simon – Songbook
Snail Mail – Lush
Midge Ure – Orchestrated
Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes 35th Anniversary re-issue
Virginia Wing – Ecstatic Arrow
Tom Waits – Small Change
Hilary Woods – Colt Limited blue vinyl edition
Yob – Our Raw Heart
Soundtrack – Hereditary music by Colin Stetson
Various Artists – Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story
Various Artists – BMN Ska & Rock Steady

FRIDAY, JUNE 1st, 2018 –

Chet Baker – For Lover
Chet Baker – In New York
Chet Baker – Jazz At Ann Arbor
Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
Jorge Ben – Jorge Ben
Blind Melon – Nico
James Brown – You’ve Got The Power: Federal & King Hits 1956-1962
Donald Byrd – Byrd’s Word
Neko Case – Hell-On
Gabriel Cohen – Pink Is The Color of Unconditional Love
Ornette Coleman – Shape of Jazz To Come
Bill Evans – Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Sam Evian – You Forever
Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits
Jerry Garcia – Run For The Roses
Johnny Griffin – The Man I Love
Ghost – Prequelle
Dave Harris – Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals
Mickey Hart – Ramu
Billie Holiday – Stay With Me
Living Colour – Stain
Lump – Lump LUMP was born of good timing and predestined compatibility. It began when Mike Lindsay – a prolific, Mercury prize-winning producer – was introduced to Grammy-nominated, Brit award-winning singer-songwriter Laura Marling after her show supporting Neil Young in London. LUMP is a heady blend of wonked-out guitars, Moog synths and pattering drums, set against droning, coiling clouds of flutes and voices. The lyrics are inspired by early-20th-century Surrealism and the absurdist poetry of Edward Lear and Ivor Cutler – a bizarre but compelling narrative about the commodification of curated public personas, the mundane absurdity of individualism, and the lengths we go to escape our own meaninglessness.   The composers are keen to stress that LUMP is a creation that passed through them, and they look upon it parentally. It is their understanding that, now it has come into being, LUMP is the artist, and it will continue to create itself from here on. Lindsay and Marling will assist it as necessary.
Dave Matthew – Under the Table & Dreaming
Mazzy Star – Still
Mobb Deep – Infamy
Mobb Deep – Murda Muzik
Morcheeba – Blaze Away
Alanis Morissette –  So Called Chaos
The Nectars – Sci-Fi Television
Petite League – No Hitter
Natalie Prass – The Future & The Past
Professor Rhythm – Professor 3
Damien Rice – 0
Max Roach – We Insist: Freedom Now Suite
Paul Simon – Graceland: The Remixes Vinyl pressing including digital download. 2018 release. Acclaimed as one of the most iconic records in rock ‘n’ roll history, Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning 1986 album Graceland has received a special 2018 reworking, with the likes of MK, Richy Ahmed, Paul Oakenfold, and Groove Armada all spinning their own unique interpretations across the release – the first time a classic album has been reimagined in it’s entirety. Graceland was the seventh solo studio album by Simon. Graceland features an eclectic mixture of musical styles, including pop, rock, a cappella, zydeco, isicathamiya, and mbaqanga. Simon created new compositions inspired by the recordings made in Johannesburg, collaborating with both African and American artists.
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares For Me
Tower of Power – Soul Side of Town
Walker Brothers – Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore
Muddy Waters – At Newport
Various Artists – Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Paris In The Spring

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018

Joan Armatrading – Not Too Far Away
Jeff Beck – Live At The Hollywood Bowl
Big Black – Headache
A Certain Ratio – I‘d Like To See You Again
Chvurches – Love Is Dead
DAF – Die Kleinen Un Die
DAF – Fur Immer
DAF –  Gold Und Liebe
Bo Diddley – Boss Man
Flamin’ Groovies  – Teenage Head
Graveyard – Peace
Hoobastank – Push Pull
King Curtis & Sunnyland Slim – King Curtis & Sunnyland Slim
Kris Kristofferson – Live From Austin
The Love-Birds – In the Lover’s Corner
Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices – BooCheeMish
Pedro The Lion – It’s Hard To Find A Friend
Prince – Nothing Compares 2 U 7″
Joshua Redman – Still Dreaming
Klaus Schulze – Silhouettes
Skating Polly – Make It All Show
Soccer Mom – Clean
Sting – 44/876
Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots
Thunderpussy – Thunderpussy
Wallows – Spring
Various Artists – Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening, one part jazz, a healthy dollop of conga drums, a sprinkling of bird calls, and a pinch of textless choir. Serve garnished with an alluring female on the album jacket for best results. Exotica! The soundtrack for a mythical air conditioned Eden, packaged for mid-century, tiki torch-wielding armchair safariers. Be it mosquito-bitten torch singers, landlocked surf quartets, fad-chasing jazz combos, mad genius band leaders, D-list actors, or a middle aged loner programming bird calls into a Hammond, Exotica was always more concerned with what geography might sound like over who was conducting. Captured across three albums are 48 (54 on the CD) curious examples of the short-lived genre’s reach, each summoning their own sonic visions of Shangri La, bringing their versions of the Pacific, Africa, and the Orient to the hinterlands of America. Technicolor Paradise is where one makes it, after all.

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018

Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel
Blue Oyster Cult – Spectres
The Buttertones – Midnight In A Moonless Dream
Crown Larks – Population
Erasure – World Beyond
Guru – Jazzmatazz
Low Cut Connie – Dirty Pictures (Part 2)
Paul McCartney – Chaos In The Backyard
Paul McCartney – Thrillington
Pink Floyd – Pulse
Michael Rault – It’s A New Day Tonight
Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics – State of All Things
Venetian Snares & Daniel Lanois – Venetian Snares X Daniel Lanois
Various Artists – Soul Jazz Records Presents Deutsche Elektronische Musik

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2018

Artic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Beach House – 7
Carla Bozulich – Quieter
David Cassidy – I Think I Love You, Greatest Hits Live
Ry Cooder – Prodigal Son
Eminem – Revival
Brian Eno – Music For Installations
Jerry Garcia – Before The Dead
Holly Golightly – Clippety Clop
Jerry Granelli – Dance Hall
Grateful Dead – Cornell 5.8.77
Los Shapes – Los Autenticos
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Loreena McKennitt –  Lost Souls
John Prine – Tree of Forgiveness
Max Romeo – War In A Babylon
Spacemen 3 – Recurring
Tillers – Tillers
Tom Waits – Heart of Saturday Night Limited edition coloured vinyl
Yours Are The Only Ears – Knock Hard

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018

Black Moth Superstar – Panic Blooms
Leon Bridges – Good Thing
THE dynoSPECTRUM – THE dynpSPECTRUM Available for the first time on vinyl. Featuring I Self Divine, Gene Poole, Musab & Slug
Eddie & The Hot Rods – Doing Anything They Wanna Do
Eleanor Friedberger – Rebound In contrast to her lauded 2016 album New View, which Eleanor Friedberger arranged and recorded with her touring band, Rebound was recorded mostly by the artist alone with assistance from producer Clemens Knieper. The resulting collection is an entirely new sound for Eleanor, exchanging live instrumentation for programmed drums, a Juno synthesizer, and muted guitars, creating a sonic landscape where influences range from Stereolab and Suicide to Lena Platonos and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Rebound is the incredible next step in a lauded, brilliant recording career by one of the most prolific, daring independent artists of our time. From her days spent in The Fiery Furnaces, creating melodically off-kilter, idiosyncratic mini-epics, to her three acclaimed previous solo albums, she continues to create exactly what we need to hear when we need to hear it. Always anchored by her plaintive, velvety alto, and Dylan-esque lyrical treatises, Rebound is Eleanor Friedberger at her very best, and a welcome addition to her rich, celebrated catalog.
Lake Street Dive – Free Up Yourself
Damien Jurardo – The Horizon Just Laughed
Malphino – Visit Malphino
Matt & Kim – Almost Everyday
Fred McDowell – Mississippi Delta Blues
Middle Kids – Lost Friends
Parker Milsap – Other Arrangements
Robert Mitchum – Calypso, Is Like So
Van Morrison – Midnight Special: The Bang Recording Sessions
Jimmy Page – Playin’ Up A Storm Limited edition UK record store day release. • FANTASTIC 140 GRAM ORANGE VINYL Before the name Jimmy Page became synonymous with Led Zeppelin and hard rock guitar, the guitarist was a much sought-after session player, appearing on an assortment of artists recordings. Some were well known (the Kinks, the Who, Joe Cocker), others somewhat more obscure, such as this rare album with vocalist Keith de Groot, which additionally features half a dozen of the cream of the crop of British studio musicians, including future Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones, and Nicky Hopkins, later often found tickling the ivories in the company of the Rolling Stones. Jimmy touched upon a variety of musical styles throughout his career, and these fourteen tracks- which he also co-produced- can be effectively placed in the 1960s rock genre.
Liz Phair – Exile In Guyville 25th anniversary edition
Liz Phair – GirlySound of Guyville 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair’s landmark Exile in Guyville album. On May 4th, Matador Records will release Girly-Sound To Guyville, an extensive limited edition box set to celebrate the anniversary. The box set contains the first ever official release of the legendary Girly-Sound songs, which have been restored from their original three cassettes and mastered onto vinyl. It also contains a remastered double LP edition of Exile In Guyville and a 44 page book containing an extensive oral history, essays by Liz Phair and journalist Ann Powers, never before seen photographs, artwork and ephemera. Originally released in 1993, Exile In Guyville is a seminal album and a feminist landmark. Its legendary status has only grown over the years. It’s continually included in countless lists…Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest albums of all time + 100 best albums of the 90s, Pitchfork’s Top 100 albums of the 90s, etc. Numerous essays and think pieces have been written about it and the number of accolades piled on is endless. Since the release of Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair has continued to defy expectation and break barriers. She has released five albums, and is currently working on a new one with Ryan Adams. She has also composed music for television shows and received awards for that work. In November, it was announced that she would be fulfilling a longtime dream to be an author, and she received a two-book deal with Random House. Her first book will be called Horror Stories which focuses on “heartbreak, motherhood, and everything in between.” “A landmark of foul-mouthed, compromised intimacy, a tortured confessional, a workout in female braggadocio, and a wellspring of penetrating self-analysis and audacity.” – The New Yorker “Maybe the greatest work of traditional American indie rock that anyone has ever made. It’s also probably the best road-trip album of its generation and the signal of a rare talent’s arrival. It deserves to be celebrated. Let’s do that.” – Stereogum
Jessica Risker – I See You Among The Stars
Shakey Graves – Can’t Wake Up
Trampled By Turtles – Life Is Good On The Open Road
Frank Turner – Be More Kind
U-Roy – Originator
The Who – Live At The Isle of Wight 2
Soundtrack – Hollow Knight, music by Christopher Larkin

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018

Blue Oyster Cult – On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
Al Church – Night Games
DMA’s – For Now
Dr. Dog – Critical Equation
Elohim – Elohim
Forth Wanderers – Forth Wanderers
Ben Frost – All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated
Godsmack – When Legends Rise
Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco – You’re Driving Me Crazy
Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing
Okkervil River – In The Rainbow Rain
Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse
Leni Stern – :3 with Mamadou Ba & Alioune Faye
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Soundtrack – Bright, The Album

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018

The Amorettes – Born To Break
Black Lips – Black Lips
Brothers Osborne – Port Saint Joe
Gene Clark – Back Street
The Coke Dares – Fake Lake
The Creation – We Are Paintermen
Joshua Hedley – Mr. Jukebox
Tim Heidecker – Too Dumb For Suicide
Lord Huron – Vide Noir
Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
Ashley Monroe – Sparrow
Old Crow Medicine Show – Volunteer
Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant
The Promise Ring – Nothing Feels Good
Slotface – Try Not To Freak Out
Derek Smalls – Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing)
Sufjan Stevens – Tonya Harding 7″
Walter Wolfman Washington – My Future Is My Past Walter Wolfman Washington is a soulful musician of rare talent, as well as a deep thinker and hip philosopher, and his hometown is New Orleans. Walter has cut his teeth for the last 50 years playing everywhere from European festivals to bars that Google Maps will never find. New Orleans is notorious for its wildness, parades, and celebrations. New Orleans is Mardi Gras, but it’s also the uptown class of Allen Toussaint and hip style and language of Dr. John. Walter has always embodied both, but finally we have a set of songs that reflects the yin to Walter’s bring-the-party yang. This is the record that we all have known he has in him. This is the night after that party, or maybe just the after party. He’s been given free rein to express himself, and that’s special. Producer Ben Ellman has assembled a sympathetic group of musicians from keyboardists Jon Cleary and Ivan Neville to a versatile rhythm section of bassist James Singleton and drummer Stanton Moore. Soul Queen of New Orleans Irma Thomas lends her voice to a cut and matches Wolfman note for note. Those two go back a long way. Walter played guitar in Irma’s band in the late 1960s. Can you picture how much fun that might have been? And this is their first recording together. His future is his past indeed. — DAVID KUNIAN, WWOZ New Orleans/ Curator, New Orleans Jazz Museum
Who – Live At the Fillmore East
Widespread Panic – Light Fuse, Get Away
Soundtrack – Death Row Chronicles, Music Featured & Inspired By The Hit BET Show
Soundtrack – Phantom Thread, music by Jonny Greenwood
Various Artists – Folk Festival of the Blues with Muddy Waters
Various Artists – Shaolin Soul Episode 2
Various Artists – Shaolin Soul Episode 3
Various Artists – Strange Angels: In Flight With Elmore James

FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018

David Bowie – ChangesTwo
Eurythmics – In The Garden
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
Eurythmics  – Touch
Bill Frisell – Music Is
Juliana Hatfield – Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John
Jazz Butcher – Brave New Waves Sessions The Jazz Butcher’s Brave New Waves session was recorded on June 5th, 1988 in CBC Studio 13. The recording features cameos by both Kevin Komoda (Rational Youth) and Brent Bambury (the Brave New Waves host). An over the top rendition of “Sex Engine” includes a memorable dig at Skinny Puppy,. The recording is taken from CBC Archives reels and remastered at Grey Market Mastering.
Kacey & Clayton – Bend In The Water / Calgary 7″
King Tuff – The Other
Metallica – Garage Days Revisited Exclusive orange vinyl. Originally released over 30 years ago on August 21, 1987, the collection features the band covering songs by early Metallica influencers such as Diamond Head, Holocaust, Killing Joke, Budgie, and The Misfits. The five songs from the EP were later included as a part of the 1998 multi-platinum releaseGarage, Inc., but the band felt it was time to bring it back in the original format!
Mouse On Mars – Dimensional People
Me’Shell Ndegeocello – Ventriloquism
Place To Bury  Strangers – Pinned
Josh Rouse – Love In The Modern Age After spending the better part of a year touring behind his critically acclaimed eleventh album, The Embers Of Time, Josh Rouse was ready for a change. Trading in his acoustic guitar for a synthesizer, he began experimenting with a new sonic palette, one inspired by everything from 80’s sophistipop and late-career Leonard Cohen to British indie rock and New York new wave. The resulting record, Love In The Modern Age, is an infectious collection that still bears Rouse’s distinct fingerprints, even as it pushes his limits and forges a bold new chapter more than twenty years into his celebrated career. While many of Rouse’s previous albums were recorded with a full band performing live in one room, the tracks on Love In The Modern Age were built up a layer at a time, with Rouse playing most of the instruments himself between studios in Spain and Nashville. The songs are cinematic and enveloping, each creating it’s own entrancing world out of dense synthesizer textures and shimmering electric guitar lines. On the ominous “Salton Sea,” Rouse’s smooth, warm vocals represent a distinctly human element awash in an ocean of manipulated tones, while the Tears For Fears-esque shuffle “Businessman” finds him capturing the loneliness of isolation in an era of constant connectivity, and the winsome title track charts the ups and downs of a relationship that can feel more digital than physical.
U2 – Pop

FRIDAY, APRIL 06, 2018

John Fogerty – Centerfield
Gorillaz – Demon Days
Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off
Jack Kerouac – Blues & Haikus, featuring Al Cohn & Zoot Sims
King Leg – Meet King Leg
Kylie Minogue – Golden Limited edition clear vinyl
Morrissey – My Love, I’d Do Anything For You / Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? 7″ on clear vinyl
Bud Powell – The Essen Jazz Festival Concert
Roots Radics Band – Scientist & Jammy Strike Back
Sarah Shook – Years Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2018 release. Years solidifies the point: Sarah Shook & The Disarmers have moved from getting people’s attention to commanding it. The bands’ new album-with it’s sharpened songwriting, unique perspective, deepened sound and roll-up-your-sleeves attitude-will grab you by the collar and put a defiant finger to your chest. It is resolute, blunt, and unflinching.
Tiny Tim – God Bless Tiny Tim Pink vinyl edition limited to 900 copies
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
Winter – Ethereal
Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs Two versions, limited edition sand & sky vinyl or regular edition with autographs
Soundtrack – Mystery Science Theater 300, The Return Blue-Grey Satellite of Love vinyl, limited to 1000 copies
Soundtrack – Something’s Gotta Give Sea Foam Green vinyl, limited to 1000 copies
Various Artists – I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats. All Hail West Texas

FRIDAY, MARCH 30th, 2018

Amen Dunes – Freedom
Anna & Elizabeth – The Invisible Comes To Us Anna & Elizabeth’s The Invisible Comes to Us taps into their imagination-fueled arsenal to present an extraordinary work of unique, genre-bending storytelling and sonic exploration. Lauded by many well-known musicians and widely loved for their moving minimalist arrangements, Anna & Elizabeth’s partnership pioneers new ways of presenting old songs and stories to modern audiences. Co-producer Benjamin Lazar Davis (Cuddle Magic) and legendary avant-rock drummer Jim White (The Dirty Three, Xylouris White) assist in the duo’s vision of breathing life and new perspective into the crackling and disintegrating recordings and artifacts of the past. Rarely does an album based on traditional folk music resonate so strongly in modern times.
Blue Lab Beats – XOver
Cabbage – Nihilistic Glamour Shots
The Cars – Heartbeat City
The Cars – Shake It Up
Chris Carter – CCCL, Chris Carter’s Chemistry Lesson Volume One Chris Carter’s first solo album in 17 years sees founding member of Throbbing Gristle and one half of the Chris & Cosey / Carter Tutti partnership create an electronic album that evokes an emotional spectrum that is arguably unparalleled.
Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
Cut Chemist – Die Cut
Damnation of Adam Blessing – Damnation of Adam Blessing
The Damned – Stiff Singles 1976-1977 It was the summer of 1976 when Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies and Captain Sensible recruited guitarist and songwriter Brian James, they played their first gig supporting the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club and quickly signed to Stiff Records and began writing the very first chapter of the punk rock history books. Their debut 7” – New Rose – was written by Brian James and backed by a proto-thrash version of The Beatles’ Help. It was recorded by Stiff’s in-house producer, Nick Lowe and set the punk dream alight at exactly 9.00am when record shops opened for business on 22 October 1976, stealing a march on the Pistols by becoming what is widely acknowledged as the very first punk record ever released.The band really came into their own with their second single – Neat Neat Neat – which had two cuts on the B-side, Stab Yor Back and Singalongascabies. Produced, like New Rose, by Nick Lowe, the vinyl had a message from one band member scratched in the run-out groove: “this is your captain speaking…” So what were Captain Sensible’s favourite acts on Stiff, one journalist asked him in 2007? “I wasn’t interested!” he insists. “It was mainly pub rock in the early days, which we despised and sneered at in our young and snotty way…” After a special 7” – Stretcher Case Baby – cut to give away at gigs celebrating the band’s first anniversary, they went back into the studio, this time with Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason at the controls. Third single Problem Child was written by Brian James with Rat Scabies and featured new recruit Lu Edmonds on guitar. An incendiary two minutes of the band in their prime, it failed to crack the UK top 40 but did make number 27 in NME’s alternative singles chart. By the end of 1977, the Damned were ready to part with Stiff, just as Brian James and Lu Edmonds were ready to part with The Damned. Their last single was Don’t Cry Wolf, backed with another Nick Mason-produced track, One Way Love. BMG now proudly present this limited edition set comprising of 5 x 7″ vinyl singles including the famed first ever punk single ‘New Rose’ and all the other early hits from the impressively chaotic punk quartet. All singles have been recreated with their original artwork, including the ultra-rare, previously fan club only ‘Stretcher Case Baby’. These are all packed in a superb box, collaged with original press cuttings from back in the day. Also included is a Damned embroidered patch, exclusive to this box set.
Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers
Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy In This Land
Bettye Lavette – Things Have Changed Double vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release. For her tenth album and first album on a major label in nearly fifty years, legendary soul singer Bettye LaVette takes on the songs of Bob Dylan with the grit and experience that makes her one of the greatest soul singers alive. Things Have Changed is a masterpiece of interpretation of one of the greatest songwriters alive, by one of the greatest soul singers alive. Produced by Steve Jordan, the album spans Dylan’s catalogue and features guest appearances by Keith Richards and Trombone Shorty. Bettye LaVette made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005. Her eclectic musical style combines elements of soul, blues, rock and roll, funk, gospel, and country music
Music Machine – (Turn On) The Music Machine
Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour 2018 release, the fourth album from country music singer/songwriter Kacey Musgraves. Kacey describes this album as having a “trippy” twist, citing the Bee Gees, Sade, and Neil Young as influences. In addition to reuniting with previous collaborators such as Luke Laird, Shane McAnally, and Natalie Hemby, Musgraves sought out pals Ian Fitchuk and the Silver Seas’ Daniel Tashian as her primary co-producers and co-writers. Musgraves wrote and recorded most of the songs from the album throughout 2017; about the writing process she said: “I have a lot more love songs this time around, and I’ve never been one to write a love song and really feel it,”. She continued: “That probably sounds like the most depressing thing ever. [But] I’m coming off getting married and being in this golden hour of my personal life, where all these things are finally coming to fruition. I found myself inspired to write about this person and all these things he brought out in me that weren’t there before”.
Naked Giants – Sluff
No Joy/Sonic Boom – No Joy/Sonic Boom
Steve Reich – Pulse/Quartet
Sons of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile Double vinyl LP pressing. Sons of Kemet is the iconoclastic mix of tenor sax, tuba and double drums. On this third studio album, they bring a genre defying approach that celebrates the restless exploration of identity within the Caribbean diaspora within the U.K. Your Queen is a Reptile was recorded in London with a host of guests spanning the breadth of the U.K. scene including jungle legend Congo Natty and poet Joshua Idehen.
Sunflower Bean – Twenty Two In Blue
Thick Syrup – Living In Leeds
Trace Mountains – A Partner To Lean On
Various Artists – Radio Cramps, the Purple Knif Show

FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd, 2018

Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
Dabrye – Two/Three On Two/Three, the second Dabrye album for Ghostly International, Tadd Mullinix brought together a formidable crew of local and national rap talent to make the statement he’d always intended. With Two/Three Dabrye placed himself at the forefront of hip-hop’s mid-2000s new wave and threw a Molotov cocktail into the rap world as uncompromising as the head-twisting cover art from WK Interact.
Maya Deren – Voices of Haiti
Grateful Dead – Best of the Grateful Dead Live Volume 1: 1969-1977
Guided By Voices – Space Gun
John Lee Hooker – Black Night Is Falling, Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton – Music & Poetry of the Kesh Music and Poetry of the Kesh is the documentation of an invented Pacific Coast peoples (the Kesh) from a far distant time, and the soundtrack of famed science fiction author, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. The ways of the Kesh were originally presented in 1985 as a five hundred plus page book accompanied with illustrations of instruments and tools, maps, a glossary of terms, recipes, poems, an alphabet, and with early editions, a cassette of “field recordings” and indigenous song. Le Guin wanted to hear the people she’d imagined; she embarked on an elaborate process with her friend Todd Barton to invoke their spirit and tradition. For Music and Poetry of the Kesh, the words and lyrics are attributed to Le Guin as composed by Barton, an Oregon-based musician, composer and Buchla synthesist. The Music and Poetry of the Kesh cassette was meant to accompany and enhance the experience of reading Always Coming Home. Presented in this vinyl edition, where only traces of the book linger (the jacket offers some of Le Guin’s illustration, and a letterpressed bookmark featuring the the narrative modes of western civilization and the Kesh valley is included), the music alone breaking the silence of what might be. It can transport-offering a landscape for imagining a future homecoming. One in which we are balanced, peaceful, and tend to the earth and its creatures.
Lou Johnson – Sweet Southern Soul
Led Zeppelin – How The West Was Won Led Zeppelin continue their campaign with a new edition of their celebrated live album How The West Was Won, originally released in 2003, featuring newly remastered audio, which was done under the supervision of Jimmy Page. How The West Was Won highlights the best performances from Led Zeppelin’s legendary concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena on June 25 and 27, 1972. Melded together and sequenced to replicate a single concert from beginning to end, the four-LP collection captures the band at the height of its formidable powers. Standouts include a 25-plus minute version of “Dazed And Confused” and a 21-minute medley based around “Whole Lotta Love.” The performances also capture the band introducing songs from its then-unreleased album Houses Of The Holy, which would be released nine months later.
Bob Marley – Ultimate Wailers Box
Monster Magnet – Mindfucker
Pointed Sticks – Perfect Youth
Porno For Pyros – Porno For Pyros
Preoccupations – New Material
Jeff Rosenstock – Post-
Squirrel Nut Zippers – Beasts of Burgundy
Swampmeat Family – Too Many Things To Hide
Third Bardo – I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time
Erika Wennerstrom – Sweet Unknown
Jack White – Boarding House Reach
Neil Young & The Promise of the Real – Original Music from the film Paradox
Various Artists – Dancing Down Orange Street
Various Artists – Eccentric Soul: The Saru Label The 20th volume of our flagship Eccentric Soul series has all the boxes checked: Gun-toting, skip-tracing record producers, child stars, rip-offs, the “World’s Greatest Bail Bondsman,” swindles, soaring falsettos, and a dwindling rust-belt cityscape offering mere glimpses of hope before the record industry escaped for the coasts. Helmed by the O’Jays Bobby Massey, Saru was a creative vortex that pulled Cuyahoga County’s greatest talent in, making a strong case for Cleveland to contend with Detroit, Philly, and Memphis as America’s soul music’s capital. Includes obscure and unknown sides from the Out of Sights, the Elements, Pandella Kelly, David Peoples, Sir Stanley, the Ponderosa Twins + 1, Ba-Roz, Bobby Dukes, and of course, the O’Jays.
Various Artists – Merritone Rock Steady Vol. 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 16th, 2018

Alarm – Declaration
Decemberists – I’ll be Your Girl
Dungen – Myths 003
Earthless – Black Heaven
Hot Snakes – Jericho Sirens
Durand Jones & The Indicators – Durand Jones & The Indicators
King Gizzard  The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanalan
NRBQ – NRBQ 1969 debut record
Remo Drive – Greatest Hits
Pete Rock – The Original Baby Pa Instruementals
Roxy Music – Roxy Music
Starchild & The New Romantic – Language
Sun Ra – Of Abstract Dreams
Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On There’s a riot going on. You don’t need me, or Yo La Tengo, to tell you that. These are dark times, in our heads as much as in the streets. It’s easy to lose contact with the ground. Confusion and anxiety intrude into daily life and cause you to lose your compass. There are times that call for anthems, something to lift you out of your slump and put fire in your feet. And sometimes what is needed is a balm, a sound that will wrap around you and work out the knots in your neck. For Yo La Tengo, this is a slow-motion action painting. Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew did it all themselves, in their rehearsal studio, with no engineer and no complicated equipment (John McEntire later assisted in mixing). They did not rehearse together beforehand; they turned on the recorder and let things coalesce. Songs came together over long stretches, sometimes as much as a year going by between parts. You’d never guess this, since the layers are joined with such a liquid brush. You’d imagine most of the songs had sprung forth whole, since they will enter your head that way. Within two listens you will be powerless to resist the magnetic draw of “Shades of Blue,” will involuntarily hear “She May, She Might” on your internal jukebox first thing in the morning and “Let’s Do It Wrong” late at night. While there’s a riot going on, Yo La Tengo will remind you what it’s like to dream. The sound burbles and washes and flows and billows. If records were dedicated to the cardinal elements, this one would be water. There are shimmery hazes, spectral rumbles, a flash of backward masking. You are there. And even if your mind is not unclouded–shaken, misdirected, out of words and out of time–you can still float, ride the waves of an ocean deeper than your worries, above the sound and above the Sound.
Soundtrack – Lady Bird, music by Jon Brion
Soundtrack – Star Wars: The Last Jedi, music by John Williams

FRIDAY, MARCH 9th, 2018

Bad Religion – Stranger Than Fiction
Tony Banks – 5
Ken Boothe – Freedom Street
David Byrne – American Utopia
Phillis Dillon – One Life To Live
Dub Narcotic Sound System – Rhythm Record Vol.1
Albert Hammond Jr. – Francis Trouble
Happy Mondays – Best Of: Live In Barcelona
Jimi Hendrix – Both Sides of the Sky
Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers
Hailu Mergia – Lala Belu Capping several successful years traveling the world performing to audiences big and small, Hailu Mergia’s Lala Belu has been a long time coming. It builds on Mergia’s remarkable career resurgence over the past few years. Beginning in 2013 with the reissue of his dreamy Hailu Mergia and His Classical Instrument followed by the enormous success of his seminal Ethio-jazz masterpiece Tche Belew and continuing with last year’s widely acclaimed Wede Harer Guzo, Mergia has received considerable accolades from listeners and press globally, including The New York Times, Pitchfork and The Wire. His old recordings are cherished revelations for Ethiopian music fans; however, Mergia’s return to the stage has been just as inspiring and electrifying. Mergia’s vintage recordings are known for an inherently mysterious and worn-in quality, while his new recordings echo his band’s 21st century live show with modern instrumental interpretations of crucial Ethiopian standards and Mergia’s own original compositions. Tony Buck (drums) and Mike Majkowski (bass), who have backed Mergia on tour throughout Europe and Australia, form the bass-drums trio on the recording. Having played venues from Radio City Music Hall and the Kennedy Center to jazz festivals, rock clubs and DIY spaces all over North America, Europe and Australia, Mergia and Awesome Tapes From Africa want to document this moment in his landmark career with a snapshot of Mergia’s current sound. Since he emigrated from Ethiopia and built a life in Washington, D.C. around 1981—where he remains working as an airport taxi driver when he is not on tour—Mergia’s career has followed a humble trajectory. He made a few recordings in America but they didn’t easily reach fans back home. He kept making music on his own and with friends but after the early 80’s his gigs in the U.S. mostly dried up. It wasn’t until he began working with Awesome Tapes From Africa and putting together bands with the help of booking agents and musicians in Europe and the U.S., that he was able to chart a new path. With a broad audience of young listeners in diverse venues and distant locales, at age 71, Mergia is enjoying his comeback and is not slowing down.
Jeremy Messersmith – Late Stage Capitalism
Ministry – Amerikkkant Limited edition black & grey swirl
Nap Eyes – I’m Bad Now
Of Montreal – White Is Relic / Irrealis Mood
Jaco Pastorius – Invitation
Grant Lee Phillips – Widdershins
Promise Ring – 30° Everywhere
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Tearing At The Seams
Otis Rush – Cobra
Teenage Wrist – Chrome Neon Jesus
They Might Be Giants – I Like Fun
Saint Etienne – The Sound of Water
The Skull Eclipses – The Skull Eclipses
Tom Waits – Closing Time Closing Time is the debut record of Tom Waits and it foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues and folk styles that would come to be associated with the artist. Waits performs enduring classics of his career such as Ol’ 55 (covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking “Martha” and the gentle acoustic folk of “I Hope I Don’t Fall In Love With You”.
Various Artists – The Langley Schools Project, Innocence & Despair
Various Artists – Memphis Rent Party
Various Artists – Reggae Roots Vibrations
Various Artists – The Tarantino Experience Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most exciting and unpredictable directors in modern times. His use of music in his films is as unpredictable as the films themselves, often offering unsettling images to songs we had previously considered innocent and unthreatening. The Tarantino Experience is now available on vinyl for the first time on a limited edition that includes songs from Johnny Cash, Al Green, Dick Dale & The Del-Tones, Wilson Pickett, Duane Eddy, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and more. With fantastic artwork and remastered sound this is another essential addition to your growing 21st Century vinyl collection.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2nd, 2018

The Beach Boys – The Sound of Summer
The Breeders – All Nerve Limited edition 180 gram orange vinyl or standard issue.
The Breeders announce their return to 4AD with the infectious new album All Nerve, the first music to be released by the classic lineup behind the iconic album, Last Splash. “a blurt of jolting joy” – NPR “a classic Breeders bruiser, packed with punchy drums, sugar-rush power chords and lead riffs” – ROLLING STONE “Wait in the Car” runs through all the hallmarks of a classic Breeders song: layered harmonies that manage to sound both euphoric and weary, vacillating between power chords, and a sneering Kim mandate. Though it has been 24 years since these last four recorded together, “Wait in the Car” effortlessly brushes away time” – PITCHFORK
Camp Cope -How To Socialise and Make Friends
Lucy Dacus – Historian
INXS – Kick 30th Anniversary Edition
INXS – The Very Best
Jamiroquai – Synkronized
Janis Joplin – Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits
The Kills – List of Demands (Reparations) / Steppin’ Razor 7″
Annie Lennox – Diva
Annie Lennox – Medusa
Moby – Like A Motherless Child
A Perfect Circle – Doomed / Disillusioned 10″
Pet Shop Boys – Actually
Pet Shop Boys – Introspective
Pet Shop Boys – Please
Prism Tats – Mamba
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async – Remodels
Suuns – Felt
Tracey Thorn – Record
Titus Andronicus – A Productive Cough
Wussy – Wussy
Soundtrack – The Greatest Showman, original songs by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Soundtrack – Paris, Texas, music by Ry Cooder
Various Artists – Disco Rumba & Flamenco Boogie