FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 2016
Dim Mak – Any Means Necessary
Fuzztones – Monster A-Go-Go!
Greyhounds – Change of Pace
Jack Lee – Anthology: Bigger Than Life
Lumineers – Cleopatra (Premium double 180g vinyl pressed on slate coloured wax)
Sharon Jones – Soundtrack to Miss Sharon Jones
Prince – Rasperry Beret 12″
Radiohead – Moon Shaped Pool Deluxe Edition
Rumer – This Girl’s In Love, A Bacharach – David Songbook
Various – Brazil Classics: O Samba
Various – New Orleans Funk Vol. 4
Various – Polyvinyl Plays Polyvinyl
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, 2016
Beatles – Live At The Hollywood Bowl
James Bernard – Nosferatu
Andrew Broder – Wertheimer EP
Broken Social Scene- Feel Good Lost
James Brown – Think
Crystals – He’s A Rebel
Neil Diamond – Acoustic Christmas
Electric Six – Fresh Blood For Tired Vampyres
Flat Five – It’s a World of Love & Hope
Fugees – Blunted By Reality
Cory Hanson – The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo
Hurry – Casual Feelings
Bert Jansch – It Don’t Bother Me
Major Stars – Motion Set
The Manson Family – The Manson Family Sins the Songs of Charles Manson
Metallica – Hardwired to Self-Destruct Free Metallica slip mats and stickers while supplies last! Come on in and listen to the new Metallica at noon on Friday.
Moby – These Systems Are Failing
Papa M – Highway Songs
Wilson Pickett – I Don’t Want No Part Time Love; The Early Years
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – A Little something More From Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
The Silence – Nine Suns, One Morning
Sleaford Mods – Live at SO36
Jay Som – Turn Into
Soundtrack – Stranger Things 2 – Kyle Dixon
Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic: 20th Anniversary Edition
Toy – Clear Shot
Various Artists – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Live Volume 3
Various Artists – Trenchtown Rock
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11th, 2016
Alejandro Escovedo – Burn Something Beautiful
Bad Plus – It’s Hard
The Band – The Last Waltz 40th Anniversary Edition 
54 tracks on six 180 gram vinyl records including the entire concert, rehearsal performances and a 12 page booklet. While supplies last we have a limited edition poster free with purchase.
Lou Barlow – Apocalypse Fetish
David Bazan – Christmas Bones
David Bazan – Dark Sacred Night
Black Market Brass – Cheat & Start A Fight
Chasm – On The Legs of Love Purified
Dead Can Dance – Garden of Arcane Delights
Dead Can Dance – Toward The Within
Dead Can Dance – Within The Realm of the Dying Sun
The Faint – Capsule: 1999-2016
Dizzy Gillespie & Friends – Concert of the Century
Hold Steady – Almost Killed
Hold Steady – Separation
The Jam – About The Young Idea
Sonny Knight & The Lakers – Sooner or Later
Little Walter – Boom Boom
John Lennon / Yoko Ono – Two Virgins
John Lennon / Yoko Ono – Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions
LNZNDRF – Green Roses / Salida 12″
Marching Church – Telling It Like It Is
The Men – Devil Music
Yoko Ono – Plastic Ono Band
Pink Floyd – Cre / Ation 1967-72 (This is CD only)
Iggy Pop – Search & Destroy: Live In Chicago, 1988
Rolling Stones – Havana Moon
Roots – Illadelph Half Life
Britney Spears – Glory
Skizz Cruise Control
Sleigh Bells – Jessica Rabbit
Sting – 57th & 9th
Luke Temple – A Hand Through The Cellar Door
Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Ghosts of Christmas Eve
Uniform – Ghosthouse 12″
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – In The Beginning (Quality Records Pressings Editions)
Muddy Waters – Elevate Me Mama
Soundtrack – Lost Highway
Various Artists – 15 Years of Dualtone
Various Artists – Killed By Deathrock Volume 2
Various Artists – Shanghai’d Soul, Episode 4
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, 2016
Bon Jovi – This House Is Not For Sale
Bright Eyes – Fevers & Mirrors
Bright Eyes – Lifted or the Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground
Dr. John – Gumbo (Quality Record Pressing edition)
Ibrahim Ferrer – Buenos
Lee Fields – Special Night
Mitch Hedberg – The Complete Vinyl Collection
Lambchop – Flotus
Mother Love Bone – On earth As It Is: The Complete Works
Nada Surf – Peaceful Ghosts
Panic At The Disco – Vices & Virtues
Pert Near Sandstone – Discovery of Honey
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Placebo – A Place For Us To Dream
Queen – Queen On Air
Chris Robinson – If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now
Hope Sandoval – Until The Hunter
STRKFR – Being No One, Going Nowhere
Tad – 8 Way Santa
Tad – God’s Balls
Tad – Salt Lick
Henry Threadgill – In for A Penny, In For A Pound
Johnny Thunders – I Think I Got This Covered
The Tom Tom Club – The Tom Tom Club
Toro Y Moi – Live From Trona
Undertones – Hypnotised
Undertones – Undertones
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Couldn’t Stand The Weather (Quality Record Pressing edition)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Soul To Soul (Quality Record Pressing edition)
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood (Quality Record Pressing edition)
Various Artists – Classic Christmas, The 80’s
Various Artists – The Wonderful Sounds of Christmas (Quality Record Pressing edition)
1970s. A melange of community elders and emboldened youth spill from the brightly lit confines of Sanlé’s Volta Photo into the dimly lit nightclubs of Upper Volta’s cultural capital. Accompanying this hardbound monograph are dozens of rare and evocative recordings spread over three discs by Bobo-Dioulasso’s musical titans: Volta Jazz, Dafra Star, Echo Del Africa, and Les Imbattables Léopards.
Limited Edtion of 5,000 on 180g vinyl. This set Includes, Nothing’s Shocking (1LP), Ritual de lo Habitual (2LP), and the vinyl debut of Live from the Palladium (1990) (2LP). It also contains Selections from Kettle Whistle (demos and rarities) (1LP) and original art by Ernesto Yerena.
The rock we need meets the rock we deserve, with popular music to keep spririts (and bias) high for the coming stretch of unexplored darkness wasteland ahead.
In a culture obsessed with content, saturation, and continual exposure, it’s rare to find artists who prefer to lurk outside of the public eye. Thomas Pynchon is perhaps the most notable contemporary recluse—a virtually faceless figure who occasionally creeps out of hiding to offer up an elaborate novel steeped in history and warped by imagination—but for crate diggers and guitar mystics, Sweden’s enigmatic GOAT may qualify as the greatest modern pop-culture mystery. Who are these masked musicians? Are they truly members of the Arctic community of Korpilombolo? Are their songs part of their isolated communal heritage? Their third studio album, Requiem, offers more questions than answers, but much like any of Pynchon’s knotty yarns, the reward is not in the untangling but in the journey through the labyrinth. Western exports may have dominated the consciousness of international rock fans for the entirety of the 20th century, but our increasing global awareness has unearthed a treasure trove of transcendental grooves and spellbinding riffage from exotic and remote corners of the planet. GOAT’s previous albums World Music and Commune were perfect testaments to this heightened awareness, with Silk Road psychedelia, desert blues, and Third World pop all serving as governing forces within the band’s sound. But GOAT’s strange amalgam isn’t some cheap game of cultural appropriation—it’s nearly impossible to pinpoint the exact origins of the elusive group’s sound. The fact that they pledge allegiance to a spot on the periphery of our maps bolsters the nomadic quality of their sonic explorations. With Requiem, GOAT continue to rock and writhe to a beat beholden to no nation, no state. GOAT’s only outright declaration for Requiem is that it is their “folk” album, and the album is focused more on their subdued bucolic ritualism than psilocybin freakouts. But GOAT hasn’t completely foregone their fiery charms—tracks like “All-Seeing Eye” and “Goatfuzz” conjure the sultry heathen pulsations that ensnared us on their previous albums. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of Requiem comes with the closing track “Ubuntu”. The song is little more than a melodic delay-driven electric piano line, until we hear the refrain from “Diarabi”—the first song on their first album—sneak into the mix. It creates a kind of musical ouroboros—an infinite cycle of reflection and rejuvenation, death and rebirth. Much like fellow recluse Pynchon, rather than offering explanations for their strange trajectories, GOAT create a world where the line between truth and fiction is so obscured that all you can do is bask in their cryptic genius.
Dwight developed a love for bluegrass music at an early age, and for years has wanted to record an all bluegrass album. The songs for this album are new interpretations of classic Dwight songs plus a John Prine track that Dwight loves, and a very unique cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain.” The album includes four of Dwight’s past Billboard Top 100 Country tracks: “These Arms,” “Gone,” “Guitars, Cadillacs,” and “Please Please Baby,” all reimagined with a bluegrass treatment.
Four vinyl LP set containing a quartet of historic 1976 concerts by Sex Pistols. Live ’76, officially sanctioned by the band themselves, features the first full release of the recordings, which have been mastered at Abbey Road Studios. They include the band’s famed gig of 4 June, 1976 at Manchester’s Lesser Free Trade Hall, which was set up by future Buzzcocks members Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, with such future luminaries as Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Morrissey in the audience. The second disc contains the Midnight Special concert of 29 August that year at the Screen on the Green in Islington, north London, where the Pistols were supported by Buzzcocks themselves and The Clash. Pistols set Disc three, from 17 September, is the performance at Chelmsford Maximum Security Prison, the only one of these four gigs to be recorded officially, by Pistols soundman Dave Goodman. The concert on disc four is one that’s been well-known to fans as a bootleg but is now making it’s official, full live release debut, from the band’s appearance at the 76 Club in Burton-on-Trent on 25 September. The set includes photographs from the era and a facsimile of an original Sex Pistols Glitterbest press kit.
The boxed set, which is named after a track recorded in 1974 but not officially released until the 1990s, includes Diamond Dogs, David Live (in original and 2005 mixes), Young Americans, and Station To Station (in original and 2010 mixes) as well as The Gouster, Live Nassau Coliseum ’76, and a new compilation entitled Re:Call 2, which is a collection of single versions and non-album b-sides. “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me” from Re:Call 2 will be offered as an Instant Grat track with all digital pre-orders.Exclusive to the boxed set is The Gouster. Previously unreleased as a complete album, it was recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia in 1974 and produced by Tony Visconti. The album was mixed and mastered before David decamped to New York to work with John Lennon and Harry Maslin on what became the Young Americans album. The Gouster contains three previously unreleased mixes: “Right,” “Can You Hear Me,” and “Somebody Up There Likes Me.”The boxed sets’ accompanying book, 128 pages in the CD box and 84 in the vinyl set, features rarely seen and previously unpublished photos by photographers including Eric Stephen Jacobs, Tom Kelley, Geoff MacCormack, Terry O’Neill, Steve Schapiro, and many others as well as historical press reviews and technical notes about the albums from producers Tony Visconti and Harry Maslin.
Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2016 collection. Chapter And Verse is the audio companion to Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, Born to Run. Five of the album’s eighteen tracks are previously unreleased. Springsteen selected the songs on Chapter And Verse to reflect the themes and sections of Born to Run. The compilation begins with two tracks from The Castiles, featuring a teenaged Springsteen on guitar and vocals, and ends with the title track from 2012’s Wrecking Ball. The collected songs trace Springsteen’s musical history from it’s earliest days, telling a story that parallels the one in the book, and is a must for any Bruce Springsteen fan.
180gm vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Ian Hunter’s latest studio album, Fingers Crossed unveils ten new, self-penned songs including his much-anticipated homage to David Bowie, ‘Dandy’. Recorded at HOBO Studios in New Jersey, and co-produced by Hunter and Andy York, the record features his magnificent Rant Band and is the follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed ‘When I’m President.’ As leader of ’70s British rock legends Mott the Hoople and as a hugely influential solo artist, Ian Hunter is widely revered as one of rock’n’roll’s most compelling performers and one of it’s most articulate songwriters. As author of such immortal anthems as, ‘All The Way From Memphis,’ ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’ and ‘Cleveland Rocks’ and the voice of such landmark albums as, ‘All The Young Dudes,’ ‘Mott,’ ‘Ian Hunter’ and ‘You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic,’ he remains a hero to fellow musicians and fans around the world. The compositions on Fingers Crossed see Hunter covering typically wide-ranging subject matter. ‘Dandy’, his fond tribute to David Bowie reflects on a relationship cemented in 1972 when Bowie produced Mott’s album All the Young Dudes and penned it’s hit title track. Even prior to this, with Mott, Hunter recorded four iconoclastic albums – ‘Mott The Hoople,’ ‘Mad Shadows,’ ‘Wildlife’ and ‘Brain Capers.’ The band’s artistic and commercial success continued with ‘Mott’ and ‘The Hoople,’ between them, containing the hits, ‘All The Way From Memphis,’ ‘Honaloochie Boogie,’ ‘Roll Away The Stone’ and ‘The Golden Age Of Rock ‘n’ Roll.’ On their final tour, they took out a then little known band, Queen, who would have a hit single with a song about their experiences, ‘Now I’m Here.’ It would be the only time Queen would open for anyone and the band members would stay long term friends with Ian, contributing backing vocals to his ‘All American Alien Boy’ album. Mott have also been credited by John Lydon (Sex Pistols) and Mick Jones (The Clash) as being one of the pioneers and inspirations behind the burgeoning punk / new wave movement. Later on, Ian would go on to produce Generation X’s ‘Valley Of The Dolls’ album and The Clash would play on Ian’s ‘Short Back ‘n’ Sides’ release. ‘Fingers Crossed’ continues Ian’s phenomenal run of Five Star critically acclaimed records following ‘Rant’ (2001), ‘Shrunken Heads’ (2007), ‘Man Overboard’ (2009) and ‘When I’m President’ (2012). Alongside Proper Records 30-Disc anthology box set, ‘Stranded in Reality’ due on 2 September, 2016 will be quite a year for Mr Hunter.
The formula was simple: marry bubblegum and soul to the absolute sincerity of an enthusiastic child, cross your fingers and pray for airplay. But while the youthful sums of that formula may have grown up and walked away from their illusions of stardom, their permanent records remain. A decade removed from our acclaimed Home Schooled compilation comes a fresh batch of talent show titans. With enterprising parents, neighbors, and teachers turning play dates into recording dates, groups like Magical Connection, Little Man and the Inquires, and Five Ounces of Soul emulated the Jacksons, who’d made grade-school stardom appear easy as ABC. Afterschool Special: The 123s Of Kid Soul contains 19 tiny tunes ranging from bilingual D.A.R.E. anthem, to James Brown bio, to young love and life beyond the playground.
On Calico Review, Allah-Las weave their dreamy version of west coast psychedelia with advanced songwriting and exquisite production detail. The California quartet’s third album, Calico Review, focuses on both the outer trappings of their home and surroundings, and the through line of darkness that suffuses life in L.A. county. Bearing the mark of four students becoming the teachers and sharing the sentiments of the town they call home, there’s a lot to learn from Allah-Las. 
With Teens of Denial, his first real “studio” album with an actual band, Will Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement, Jonathan Richman, Wire, and William Onyeabor. Teens of Denial refracts Toledo’s particular, personal story of one difficult year through cultural touchstones such as the biography of Frank Sinatra, the evolution of the Me Generation as seen in Mad Men and elsewhere, plus elements of eastern and western theology. The whole thing flaunts a kind of conceptual, lyrical, and musical ambition that has been missing from far too much 21st-century music. Horns, keyboards, and elegant instrumental interludes set off art-garage moments; vivid vocal harmonies follow punk frenzy. The selfish captain of the capsized cruise liner in the Mediterranean in 2013 becomes a metaphor for struggles of the individual in society, as experienced by one hungover young man on the verge of adulthood. The album was produced by Steve Fisk (Nirvana, Beat Happening, Soundgarden) at his studio in Seattle, July-September 2015. This is the first full album of new music from Car Seat Headrest released on Matador.
iconic album, I See A Darkness – Will Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy retreated to his family’s farmhouse with the majority that I See A Darkness lineup in tow to record a half dozen covers of some of Oldham’s favorite songs. The track listing is, as expected, inspired and eclectic: John Phillips, PJ Harvey, Bill Withers, The Renderers, John Holt, and Tim McGraw. Bonny Billy’s renditions are equally inspired and eclectic, ranging from slow-burning uneasiness to uncharacteristic jubilance. Originally released exclusively on limited edition CD in the pre-MP3 era, More Revery was gone before iTunes existed, and has not been available in any format since. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Temporary Residence Ltd., we are honored to reissue this essential piece of the Bonny Billy canon – now expanded to include rare live versions of the entire album!
King Gizzard & The Giant Lizard Wizzard – Nonagon Infinity
songs interpreted simply, recorded live, solo or with a small group of friends celebrates my relationship between music, songs, the written word and legacy. Blues and Ballads celebrates the American oral tradition of blues and folk songs, not only being passed down and evolving but being transcribed (the original recording technique) and entered into the discipline of written sheet music and songbooks. I represent the Memphis underground and the mid-south region’s music. This art is not for the masses. It is meant to wither and fade and then rise from the ashes again and again, evolving and mutating. – Luther Dickinson 2015
stretching from the hard ground to the bright stars. The follow-up to 2012 s critically-acclaimed Dark So Gold, the album’s distinctly Midwestern texture and song sensibility present 10 new originals exhibiting the lyrical richness, sweeping instrumentals, and darkly beautiful collaborations that have won the band fans worldwide. Recorded in Iowa and St. Paul, MN, Above the Prairie explores the space between the vastness of the plains and the interstellar world, exploring the isolated farms and small towns of the prairie and the dignity of those who choose to remain. A highlight is a haunting guest appearance by Native American legend John Trudell. Written and recorded in a matter of weeks, Above the Prairie is a journey from the Aerial Ocean to the hidden places. Where Something Wild Still Grows, from Villisca and Lost Nation all the way to Sleepy Hollow. With a beauty equally ominous and tender, The Pines have provided a sonic backdrop to the thin veil that separates our home on the land and our home in the cosmos.
by Kay Kasparhauser, a ukulele shredder (?!) who writes some of the sharpest lyrics in the indie pop world right now, with Lulu Prat’s bass and vocal harmonies bringing serious rock muscle into the equation. Funs Cool shows that the Prettiots have impressive sonic and thematic range, with songs ranging from sweet to playful to triumphant to dark and near-distrubing: from “Suicide Hotline,” which, according to NPR Music, “like many Prettiots songs, couches stunning barbs of insight between sweet, fun harmonies and playful ukulele strums”; the biting breakup song/urban studies essay “Move To LA”; album opener “18 Wheeler,” a candid post-mortem on a failed relationship; and a cover of the Misfits’ “Skulls,” which turns the heavy classic into a pretty and plangent ballad. Refreshingly unconcerned with gloss and perfection, The Prettiots are about honesty as much as they’re about hooks; unflinching in their willingness to present all colors of the emotional spectrum, they have created, with Funs Cool, a thoughtful, funny, and catchy-as-hell state of the union address from young women watching life unfurl in fits and starts before them, and letting us watch them figure out where they belong within it.