FEBRUARY 23rd, 2018
David Bowie – “Heroes”
David Bowie – Lodger
David Bowie – Low
David Bowie – Scary Monsters
David Bowie – Stage
S. Carey – Hundred Acres
Dessa – Chime 
Duke Ellington – The Cosmic Scene
Duke Ellington – The Money Jungle
Esquivel – To Love Again
Bill Evans – At Shelly’s
Stan Getz – Jazz Samba
Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul
Jimi Hendrix – Lover Man
Jazz Butcher – Bath of Bacon
B.B. King – King of the Blues
Marah – If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry
Thelonious Monk – Monk’s Dream
Monochrome Set – Maisieworld
Mouse on Mars – Idiology
Screaming Females – All At Once
Johnny Thunders – L.A.M.F. The Lost ’77 Mixes
FEBRUARY 16th, 2018
Laurie Anderson & The Kronos Quartet – Landfall
Het Baker – Chet Baker Sings
Bardo Pnd – Volume II
Courtney Barnett – A Nameless, Faceless 7″
Beach Boys – Surfin’ Safari
Belle & Sebastian – How To Solve Human Problems Box set of all three EPs
Belle & Sebastian – How To Solve Human Problems Part 3
Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy
Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. He never did complete the work. Not really. Never could square his grand ambitions against his mechanical limitations. Listen to his first attempt, recorded at nineteen on a cheap laptop, and you’ll hear what Brian Eno fondly calls “the sound of failure” – thrilling, extraordinary, and singularly compelling failure. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record it. Early next year, on the heels of the smashing success of Teens of Denial, Car Seat Headrest will release a new version of Twin Fantasy. “It was never a finished work,” Will says, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” He has, now, the benefit of a bigger budget, a full band in fine form, and endless time to tinker. According to him, it took eight months of mixing just to get the drums right. But this is no shallow second take, sanitized in studio and scrubbed of feeling. This is the album he always wanted to make. It sounds the way he always wanted it to sound. It’s been hard, stepping into the shoes of his teenage self, walking back to painful places. There are lyrics he wouldn’t write again, an especially sad song he regards as an albatross. But even as he carries the weight of that younger, wounded Will, he moves forward. He grows. He revises, gently, the songs we love so much. In the album’s final moments, in those apologies to future me’s and you’s, there is more forgiveness than fury. This, Will says, is the most vital difference between the old and the new: he no longer sees his own story as a tragedy.
Johnny Cash – With His Hot & Blue Guitar
Ray Charles – Ray Charles
Chocolate Watchband – The Inner Mystique
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman – John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Hollie Cook – Vessel of Love
The Cuckoos – The Cuckoos
Myley Cyrus – Younger Now
Pete Drake – The Fabulous Steel Guitar Sound Of Pete Drake
The Dwarves – Take Back The Night
Bob Dylan – Greatest Hits
Richie “Dick” Garcia – A Message From Garcia
John Lee Hooker – The Great John Lee Hooker
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’
Barney Kessel – Live At The Jazz Mill 1954, Vol.2
Roland Kirk – Third Dimension/Triple Threat
Mark Kozelek & Sean Yeaton – Yellow Kitchen
Kendrick Lamar – DAMN, Collector’s Edition
Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Wembley or Bust
John Mayall – Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
Leon McAuliff – Swingin’ Western Strings
H.C. McEntire – Lionheart
Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus
Karen O – Yo’ My Saint
Orquestra Akokan – Mambo Rapitido 7″
Ought – Room Inside The World
Lee Scratch Perry – Black Ark Classic Songs
Pianos Become Teeth – Wait For Love
Shannon & The Clams – Onion
Horace Silver – Six Pieces of Silver
Skids – Burning Cities
Songs: Ohia – Travels In Constants b/w Howler
Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense & Peppermints
Sun Kil Moon – Ghosts of the Great Highway
Superchunk – What A Time To Be Alive
Tosca – Boomboomboom
John Trudell – Trudell: Original. Provocative. True. DVD
U-Roy – True Born African
U.S. Girls – A Poem Unlimited
Jim White – Waffles,Triangles & Jesus
Little Roy Wiggins – The Fabulous Steel Guitar Artistry of Little Roy Wiggins
Marlon Williams – Make Way For Love
Soundtrack – Chasing ‘Trane, music by John Coltrane
Various Artists – Jazz For Hi-Fi Lovers
FEBRUARY 9th, 2018
Eddie Cochran – Fools Paradise: Early & Rare Eddie
Dr. John – Professor Bizarre’s Funknology
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending A triumphant recasting, Franz Ferdinand’s Always Ascending is as exuberant as it is euphoric, bursting with fresh ideas born of what Alex Kapranos calls “aggressive sonic experimentation.” With the help of producer Philippe Zdar (Cassius, Phoenix, Beastie Boys), Kapranos and co. took a knife to their old canvas, producing an album that is so foreign in its familiarity it could only be current. A sound the singer refers to as “simultaneously futuristic and naturalistic.” These are the louche tales of the Parisian night, the exhilaration of an Italian car racing down the autobahn; a feeling of euphoria so pure it could only exist on a knife’s edge. As such, best to press play expecting nothing more than a good time. “I hope that when you listen to it you feel exhilarated,” Kapranos says, “Until you fully absorb the lyrics.”
Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus
Insects & Robots – They’ll Kill Yaa
Joan As Police Woman – Damned Devotion
Montero – Performer
Palm – Rock Island
Rahman, A.R. – Essential A.R. Rahman
Ramones – Leave Home
Ramones – Live At The Roxy, August 12, 1976
Ramones – Ramones
Ramones – Rocket To Russia
Shovels & Rope – Busted Jukebox Voluem 2
Nina Simone – Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles
The Soft Moon – Criminal
Ringo Starr – Ringo
Sunwatchers – II
Thin Lizzy – The Collected Thin Lizzy
Twin Peaks – Sweet ’17 Singles
Unwound – New Plastic Ideas
Wishbone Ash – Raw To The Bone
Wishbone Ash – Twin Barrels
Soundtrack – The Bomb, music by The Acid
Various Artists – America’s Hardcore Volume 4
Various Artists – Joe Meek, Hits from 304 Holloway Road
FEBRUARY 2nd, 2018
Bat Fangs – Bat Fangs
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – New World
Anna Burch – Quit The Curse
Kyle Craft – Full Circle Nightmare
Fuzztones – Bad News Travels Fast/Brand New Man 7″
Groovie Ghoulies – World Contact Day
Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers – Big Road
Hookworms – Microshift
James Hunter – Whatever It Takes
L7 – Wireless
Joni Mitchell – Second Fret
New York Dolls – Butterflyin’
Simple Minds – Walk Between Worlds Regular & Deluxe editions
The Stooges – Electric Circus
T. Rex – At The Chateau d’Herouville
Spencer Wiggins – The Goldwax Recordings
Soundtrack – Last of the Mohicans, music by Trevor Jones & Randy Edelman
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Tegan and Sara’s classic 2007 album, The Con, Warner Bros. Records will release The Con X: Covers. The new album features 14 of Tegan and Sara’s favorite artists, each interpreting a song from the original album.
Seven-LP collection features original mono mixes for all of the singer’s studio albums, but not the post-humously released LPs, The Immortal Otis Redding or Love Man. All of the LPs replicate the original packaging, from the sleeve artwork down to small details like the original record labels (Volt and Stax) and catalog numbers, all housed together in a side-loading slipcase. Several of these albums are long out-of-print and back on vinyl in mono for the first time in years.
The new DELUXE EDITION offers up eight unreleased bonus tracks that feature an early version of “Outtasite (Outta Mind)” and “When You Find Trouble,” which is the last studio recording made by Uncle Tupelo. In the album’s liner note, Stirratt writes “Listening back to records 15 to 20 years later, I’m always taken with the confident but guileless quality of bands in their 20s, that strange mixture of innocence and conviction, and this is one of those records—we were barely a band at that point, just trying to make some noise.”
skillfully remastered from original board tapes, demos, and session masters, this collection is an authoritative chronicling of the wellspring and maturation of Grant Hart, Greg Norton and Bob Mould – three Minneapolis teenagers who’d go on to become the most heralded trio of the American punk underground. Follow the Hüskers to their earliest gigs in 1979, through extensive road dog touring, and to the start of their partnership with West Coast tastemaker SST in 1983. This primitive stage in the fabled career of Hüsker Dü is presented as a deluxe box set and packaged with a hardbound book crammed full of never before seen photos, flyers, and a sprawling essay with participation from the band. Spread across four LPs or three CDs, 47 of the 69 songs compiled here are previously unissued. Also included are Statues/Amusement, In A Free Land, Everything Falls Apart, and an alternate recording of the Land Speed Record set.
Considered one of the best Rock N Roll Christmas albums and ranked #9 on Rolling Stone’s 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time list, Soul Christmas was originally released as a compilation on Atlantic’s sub label, Atco Records back in 1968. It is a terrific collection of holiday songs featuring R&B legends Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, Clarence Carter, William Bell, King Curtis, and Booker T. & The MGs. This title will get the high-class ROG treatment with the album coming in a tip-on single pocket sleeve from Stoughton, mastered from the best possible source and lacquers cut at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis. For this title, fans will get the opportunity to vote between several different color-way options for the vinyl: solid red, solid green, solid white or clear with a mix of red, white, and green.
Widely considered to be both The Smiths’ finest work and one of the greatest albums ever made, ‘The Queen Is Dead’ has cast a significant influence over subsequent generations since it was first released in the summer of 1986. Now Warner Bros. Records can confirm details of a newly mastered and expanded 5LP box – featuring the 2017 master of the album, additional recordings and the ‘Live In Boston’ recording.
As the hippie movement hurdled towards its emanate demise, bad vibes infiltrated the rock world. Tainted LSD, loud motorcycles, and a series of brutal deaths spawned inspiration for guitar-wielding teenagers across the globe. Implementing deafening fuzz and satanic screams to create their proto-metal monstrosities, short-lived stoner bands pressed their lysergic experiments in microscopic quantities before blacking out entirely. Lifted from the ashes of the acid rock hell fire are 18 distorted tales of dope fiends, pill poppers, and the baddest of trips. Deluxe 2LP comes housed in a blacklight poster-style jacket, replete with flocking and lysergic neon. 24 pages documenting the creeping existential dread of the hard rock underground are tucked into the gatefold pocket alongside two dead dinosaur-heavy LPs.
record ever. To make a gigantic rock record but with Greg Kurstin’s sense of melody and arrangement… Motorhead’s version of Sgt. Pepper… or something like that.” So speaks Grohl of the mission statement made manifest in Foo Fighters’ ninth epic, the aptly-titled Concrete and Gold. The album was written and performed by Foo Fighters, produced by Greg Kurstin and Foo Fighters, and mixed by Darrell Thorp. Initial writing sessions only involved Grohl, who continued being in seclusion from the band, although he initially struggled, feeling “out of practice” and “creatively atrophied” due to his longer than usual break from music. After twelve or thirteen rough ideas were mapped out, he ran them by the band, who shared Grohl’s belief that he was on the right track with the material.
One of the most revered figures in late 20th century American blues and roots music, by 1974 Taj Mahal had devised a unique style drawing on a huge variety of sources. This superb set typifies his eclectic approach and mastery of the guitar. The entire WLIR-FM broadcast is included here, digitally remastered, comes with background notes and images
Originally released in 1972 ‘Bright Phoebus’ combined the incredible song writing of siblings Lal & Mike from the folk revival Waterson group. Its release was greeted with derision & its initial pressing of 2000 LPs has long since fallen out of print. Since then the album has become a legend, its scarcity not hindering generations of music fans falling for its beguiling atmosphere. A quick peek online finds only one copy on Discogs for sale at the cost of $200. This release will be the first time that the album will be widely available. Not only that but under the supervision of David Suff (Topic/Fledling) & Marry Waterson (daughter of Lal) we’ve been able to remaster the album from the original master tapes. It’s tempting to say that it was a record ahead of its time, but actually, Bright Phoebus is a record that exists outside of its time. A journey into a world where beauty and hardship are intertwined: a world of pagan sacrifice and stillborn children; a world where fairytale endings are frustrated by the demands of mere survival; where even the visiting “magical man” passing through the town seems to carry with him a faint air of menace. (Notes taken from the WEA website)
SQÜRL is: Jim Jarmusch, Carter Logan and Shane Stoneback. An enthusiastically marginal rock band from New York City who like big drums & distorted guitars, cassette recorders, loops, feedback, sad country songs, molten stoner core, chopped & screwed hip-hop, and imaginary movie scores. SQÜRL began in 2009 when Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan teamed with producer Shane Stoneback to record some original music for the film The Limits of Control. Echoing the varied Spanish landscapes captured in the film, the three emerged with a set of slow-motion psychedelic rock instrumentals (releasing them as Bad Rabbit). Following these scoring sessions Jim, Shane, and Carter continued to record new originals while also exploring the back-alleys of American country, noise, and psychedelia. SQÜRL released a series of 3 EPs, recorded over a 3 year period by Shane at Treefort Recording in Brooklyn, NY. Jarmusch and Logan’s collaboration continued as a duo with SQÜRL’s acclaimed score for Paterson, and a trio with Stoneback for EP #260.
Produced by Sean Lennon at his studio compound in upstate New York throughout 2016, the album is the group’s most musically evolved to date, while still staying true to their original blistering take on fuzzy, dirty rock n’ roll.
The debut album from the former frontman of the late 70’s UK band The Only Ones. Perrett, whose incisive songcraft and sardonic drawl made him one of the most distinctive voices of the Seventies hasn’t released music in over 20 years. Bearing in mind his most famous song began “I always flirt with death” (‘Another Girl, Another Planet’), this is one comeback that nobody saw coming. Produced by Chris Kimsey (The Rolling Stones), Perrett’s intuitive feel for words; his flair for idiosyncratic metaphors and his deadpan wit are all still as sharp as ever.
Award winners Blondie’s 11th album. “Pollinator” has been two years in the making and follows on from 2014’s 40th anniversary celebrations and the subsequent release of “Ghosts Of Download”. Alongside original band members Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and drummer Clem Burke, the album also features contributions from: Johnny Marr, Sia, Dev Hynes, Charli XCX, Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio), Nick Valensi (The Strokes) and The Gregory Brothers.
by sparse, sprinkled piano and elegiac, mournful violin courtesy of longtime friend Claudia Chopek. (TV On The Radio, Last Shadow Puppets)
