NEW RELEASE VINYL JULY 2016

June 30th, 2016

JULY 29, 2016

Bevis Frond – Any Gas Faster
Bevis Frond – London Stone
Bouncing Souls – Simplicity
Sharon Chatom – Fantasy
Alice Cooper – Last Temptation
Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
Descendents – Hypercaffium Spazzinate (Limited edition coloured vinyl)
Derrick Harriott – Rock Steady
Gary Hoey – Dust & Bones
Hole – Live Through This
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’s Boogie
Judas Priest – Battle Cry
Modest Mouse – Night On The Sun
My Morning Jacket – Okonokos
Owen – The King of Whys
Pan Sonic – Atomin Paluu
Tom Petty – Greatest Hits
Pylon – Pylon Live
R.E.M. – Dead Letter Office
R.E.M. – Eponymous
R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant
Pete Shelley – Cinema Music & Wallpaper Sounds
Soundtrack – Joe Renzetti, Basket Case 2
Soundtrack – Theodore Shapiro, Wet Hot American Summer
Soundtrack – Mark Strettenfeld, Prometheus
Soundtrack – John Williams – Star Wars III
Spiders From Mars – Spiders From Mars
Tiny Tim – Tiny Tim’s America
Various Artists – Last of the Garage Punk Vol. 7
Various Artists – Last of the Garage Punk Vol. 8
Various Artists – Rough Guide to African Jazz
Various Artists – Rough Guide To Psychedelia

JULY 22, 2016

Joe Bataan – Call My Name
Get Up Kids – Something To Write Home About
Earl Hooker – 2 Bugs & A Roach
The Jaguars – The Way You Look Tonight
Phil Ochs – Live Again!
Pup – The Dream Is Over
Nina Simone – Broadway, Blues, Ballads
Nina Simone – High Priestess of Soul
Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
Nina Simone – Let It All Out
Nina Simone – Nina Simone In Concert
Nina Simone – Pastel Blues
Nina Simone – Wild Is The Wind
Tesla – Psychotic Supper (25th anniversary edition)
They Might Be Giants – Why?
XTC – Skylarking
(Limited boxed set anniversary edition)

JULY 15, 2016

Ariel Pink – Ku Klux Glam
Bjork – Vulnicura Live
William Burroughs – Let Me Hang You
The Church – Sometime Anywhere
Thee Headcoats – Messerchmidt Pilot’s Severed Head
Hiatus Kaiyote – Calebration
Mance Lipscomb – Texas Sharecropper
Fred McDowell – 2
Soundtrack – Napoleon Dynamite
Alan Vega & Martin Rev – Suicide

JULY 8, 2016

75 Dollar Bill – Wood
Avalanches Wildflower
Badbadnotgood – IV
Beef Jerky – Tragic
Calypso Rose – Far From Home
Car Seat Headrest – Teens of Denial744861109105.sml
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.
The Cave Singers – Banshee
Chevelle – North Corridor
Cibo Matto – Stereotype A
Miles Davis – Miles Ahead
Dead Can Dance – Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance – Into The Labyrinth
Dead Can Dance – Spllen & Ideal
El Michels Affair – Sounding Out In The City
Frameworks – Smother
Gone Is Gone – Gone Is Gone
Gordi – Clever Disguise
Howlin’ Wolf – Howlin’ Wolf
The Julie Ruin – Hit Reset
Kaytranada – 99.9%
Frankie Lee – American Dream
Los Mirlos – Cumbia Amazonica
John Mayall – Live in 1967
Minus The Bear – Interpretaciones Del Oso
Misfits – Friday The 13th
Modest Mouse / 764-Hero – Whenever You See Fit 12″
Recorded  Feb.14, 1998 in Washington State
Moon Bros – These Stars
My Dying Bride – Thrash of Naked Limbs
Rogue Wave – Descended Like Vultures
Tanbou Tanjou Lou – Haiti 1960-1981

JULY 1, 2016

Bat For Lashes – The Bride3377783
Blink 182 – California
Blink 182 – Enema of the State
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Bout De Doigts 10″
James Brown – The Amazing James Brown & The Famous Flames
John Carpenter – Halloween/Escape From New York
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

Clint Eastwood – Cowboy Favorites
The Fall – Dragnet
Ella Fitzgerald – Ella In Berlin
Bert Jansch – From The Outside
King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizard – Nonagon Infinity
Die-cut picture disc
Bunny Lee & Friends – Tape Rolling!
MC5 – High Time
Melvins – Basses Loaded
Thelonious Monk – In France The Complete Concert
Monkees – Live 1967
The Move – Message From The Country
Oasis – Don’t Believe The Truth
Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Thee Oh Sees – Live In San Francisco
Orb – Birth
Charlie Parker with Miles Davis – the Early Years
The Posies – Solid States

Question Mark& The Mysterians – Action
Raging Fyah – Everlasting
Sonny Rollins – Brass/Trio
Silver Apples – S/T
1968 debut record re-issued on coloured vinyl
Soundtrack – Cliff Martinez – Neon Demon
Submerged vs. Bill Laswell – After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness
Suicide – Suicide
The Zombies – The Zombies

NEW RELEASE VINYL JUNE 2016

May 31st, 2016

FRIDAY, JUNE 24th:

Aggrovators – Dubbing At King Tubby’s
Aggrovators – Dubbing At King Tubby’s Volume 2
Albert Ayler – First Recordings 2
Miles Davis – Blue Moods
Deerhoof – The MagicDeerhoof-The-Magic-640x640-640x640
DJ Shadow – Mountain Will Fall
Ella Fitzgerald – Mack the Knife, Ella In Berlin
Mick Harvey – Delerium Tremens
John Holt – Memories By The Score
Kinks – Best of the Kinks 1964-1970s
Little Feat – Feats Don’t Fail Me Now
Little Feat – The Last Record Album
Jimmy Smith – Root Down
Soundtrack – Heartworn Highways
Sublime – Robbin’ The Hood
Sublime – Second Hand Smoke
Sublime – Stand By Your Van
Sublime – Sublime
Various Artists – Rough Guide to Latin Disco
Various Artists – Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cumbia

FRIDAY, JUNE 17th

Big Deal – Say Yes
David Bowie – Santa Monica 1972bowie
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust & The Spider From Mars Motion Picture Soundtrack
John Carpenter – Assault On Precinct 13 / The Fog
John Carpenter – Dark Star
John Carpenter – Halloween / Escape from New York
Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle – Colvin/Earle
Anthony D’Amato – Cold Snap (Includes Download Card)
Booker Ervin – That’s It
James Brown – It’s a Man’s Man World
FAWNN – Ultimate Oceans (Splatter Vinyl)
Goo Goo Dolls – Boxes
Peter Green – In The Skies
Hum – You’d Prefer An Astronaut
Low Anthem – Eyeland
Madonna – S/T
Madonna – Like A Virgin

Mitski – Puberty
Mogwai – Atomic
Mumford & Sons w/ Baaba Maal – Johannesburg
Night School – Blush
RedHot Chili Peppers – The Getaway

Sonic Youth – Spinhead Sessions
Swans – Glowing Man
Thelonious Monk – Big Band & Quartet In Concert (2-LP)
Parlour – Parlour
Radiohead – Moon Shaped Pool (Limited edition white vinyl)
Tragically Hip – Man Machine
Walter Trout – Alive In Amsterdam
Weaves – Weaves (Pink Vinyl)
John Williams – Star Wars The Force Awakens Soundtrack
Bernie Worrell – Retrospective
Various Artists – Eccentric Soul Sitting In The Park (Numero Group collection)
Various Artists – Lost Train Blues
VHS – Gift of Life

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 10th

808 State – Ex:el Re-issue with 4 bonus tracks. Limited to 750 copies. Pressed on yellow vinyl. Individually numbered
Air – Twentyears
American Hi-Fi – Acoustic
Band Of Horses – Why Are You OK
Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
50th anniversary mono & stereo pressings
Barbecue Bob – Rough Guide To Blues Legends
Blue Mountain – Dog Days
Remastered with bonus tracks. First time on vinyl.
Brandy Clark – Big Day In A Small Town
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love & Hate
John Coltrane – The Atlantic Years In Mono
Death Valley Girls – Glow In The Dark
Deslondes – Tres Grand Serpent/What Are They Doing In Heaven Tonight 
Limited edition 7″ single
Diarrhea Planet – Turn To Gold
Mike Doughty – Haughty Melodic
Purple vinyl pressing with a bonus 7″ featuring two previously unreleased tracks
Flying Saucer Attack – Mirrors
Flying Saucer Attack – New Lands
Garbage  – Strange Little Birds
Goo Goo Dolls – Boxes
Klickitat – Bed
Kongos – Egomaniac
From the sons of John Kongos
Leapling – Suspended Animation
Let Live – If I’m The Devil
Pressed on trans-clear vinyl
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers 40th anniversary edition limited to 1000 copies. Individually numbered
Van Morrison – It’s Too Late To Stop Now Volume 1
Motorhead – Clean Your Clock
Winfield Parker – Mr. Clean: Winfield Parker At Ru-Jac
Esme Patterson – We Were Wild
Peter Bjorn & John – Breakin’ Point
Pink Floyd – London 1966-1967
First ever recordings by Barrett, Mason, Waters & Wright. Contains the original 16:46 version of “Interstellar Overdrive.”
Red Daughters – Dealer
Steve Reich – Four Organs – Phase Patterns
Rival Sons – Hollow Bones
Sioux Falls – Rot Forever
Soundtrack – Color of Money
Soundtrack – Hail Caesar! Music by Carter Burwell

Allen Toussaint – American Tunes Toussaint’s final LP is a double vinyl collection of American Standards produced by Joe Henry with guests Bill Frissell, Rhiannon Giddens, Charles Lloyd & Van Dyke Parks.allentoussaint
Allen Toussaint – The Bright Mississippi

TUESDAY, JUNE 7th

The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs 180 gram re-issue
The Smiths – Rank 2LP
180 gram re-issue
The Smiths – World Won’t Listen
180 gram re-issue

FRIDAY, JUNE 3rd

After The Burial – Dig Deep
William Bell – This Is Where I Live
David Bowie – A Reality Tour
Casket Girls – Night Machines
Dancing Cigarettes – Dance Dog Dance
Deftones – B-Sides & Rarities
Robert Ellis – Robert Ellis
Fear of Men – Fall Forever
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Soulrocker
Dexter Gordon – Body & Soul
Black Lion re-issue
Lukas Graham – Lukas Graham
Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines
Hippo Campus – Suicide Saturday
Freddie Hubbard – Straight Life
King Khan – Children of the World / Gone Are The Times 7″

The Kills – Ash & Ice Indie store deluxe LP:

o    Limited edition version of the album on 2xLP coloured vinyl (blue swirl / red swirl)

o    Housed in a wide spine jacket with gold foil imprint

o    Includes 2 x 24”x24” fold-out posters

o    Includes 2 x printed inner sleeves and MP3 download card

Kinks – Everybody’s In Showbiz
Ladyhawke – Wild Things
Linkin Park – Living Things
Linkin Park – Reanimation
Keb’ Mo’ – Live, That Hot Pink Blues Album
Brad Mehldau Trio – Blues & Ballads
Mourn – Ha,Ha,He.
Pink Floyd – Music From the Film “More”
Pink Floyd – Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd – Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma
Psychic Ills – Inner Journey Out
Xenia Rubinos – Black Terry Cat
Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger
Regina Spektor – Begin To Hope
Regina Spektor – Soviet Kitsch
Tegan & Sara – Love You To Death
Train – Does Led Zeppelin II
Traveling Wilburys – The Traveling Wilburys Collection
William Tyler – Modern Country
Featuring Glenn Kotch frmo Wilco & Darin Gray who played with Tweedy.
T-Bone Walker – Sings The Blues
Andre Williams – I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City
White Zombie – It Came From N.Y.C.
Whitney – Light Upon The Lake
Nico Yaryan – What A Tease
Young Moon – Colt
Xeno & Oaklander – Topiary

NEW RELEASE VINYL MAY 2016

May 3rd, 2016

FRIDAY, MAY 27th, 2016

Chet Baker – Sings & Plays (Re-issue)
Chuck Berry – After School Session
(Re-issue)
Big Thief – Masterpiecebigtheif
Catfish & The Bottlemen – Ride
John Coltrane – Bye Bye Blackbird
(Re-issue)
The Crickets – The Chirping Crickets
(Re-issue)
Miles Davis – Everything’s Beautiful
Fruit Bats – Absolute Loser
Goat – I Sing In Silence / The Snake of Addis Ababa 7″
Holy Fuck – Congrats
Buddy Guy – First Time I Met The Blues
(Re-issue)
John Lee Hooker – Burning Hell
(Re-issue)
B.B. King – Can’t Kick The Blues
(Re-issue)
Kristin Kontrol – X-Communicate
Kendrick Lamarr – Untitled
Zack Lopez – Bloodlines
Madlib – Beat Konducta
The Muffs – Blonder & Blonder
My Morning Jacket – It Still Moves
(Re-issue)
Beth Orton – Kidsticks
Rogue Wave – Delusions of Grand Fur
Daniel Romano – Mosey

Gwen Stefani – This Is What The Truth Feels Like
Sunny & The Sunsets – Moods Baby Moods
Suns of Thyme – Cascades

Travis – Everything At Once
Various Artists – Lost In Mali
Various Artists – Tribute To Pet Sounds
T-Bone Walker – T-Bone Blues
(Re-issue)
Hank Williams – Ramblin’ Man
(Re-issue)


FRIDAY, MAY 20th, 2016

Eric Clapton – I Still Do
Deep Street Soul – Come Alive
Bob Dylan – Fallen Angels dylan

John Lee Hooker – Alone 1
John Lee Hooker – Alone 2
Junjo – Junjo Presents Heavyweight Dub Chanpion
Legendary Pink Dots – Pages
Mudcrutch – 2

Mutual Benefit – Skip A Sinking Stone
Radiohead – Re-issues of Amnesiac (10″), Hail To The Thief, Kid A (10″) and OK Computer
Terry Reid – Other Side of the River

Various – Angola Prison Spirituals
Wallflowers – Bringing Down The Horse
Peter Wolf – Cure For Lonliness


FRIDAY, MAY 13th, 2016

David Bazan – Blanco
The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Re-Issue
Eagulls – Ullages
Ghostface Killah – More Fish
Limited double vinyl LP pressing. More Fish is the sixth studio album by rapper Ghostface Killah, released on December 12, 2006 through the Def Jam label. The album’s name derives from Ghostface’s earlier 2006 release, Fishscale. The album features several appearances from the members of Theodore Unit (Cappadonna, Shawn Wigs, Trife Da God and Ghostface’s teenage son, Sun God), as well as from Redman, Sheek Louch, Killa Sin, Kanye West and singers Amy Winehouse, Eamon, Ne-Yo and Mr. Maygreen. Production comes from Jim Bond, Hi-Tek, Kool-Aid & Peanut, Madlib, MF DOOM, Mark Ronson, Lewis Parker, Xtreme, Fantom of the Beats, and Ghostface himself.
David Grubbs – Prismrose
Head Wound City – A New Wave of Violence
Junjo Presents: Big Showdown 1980
Booker Little – Far Cry
John Malkovich – Illuminate
Modern Baseball – Holy Ghost3330128
Thelonious Monk – Himself
Nothing – Tired of Tomorrow
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits
Red Krayola – Baby & Child Care
Twin Peaks – Down In Heaven

Mike Vickers – Dracula A.D.
Wolf Parade – Apologies To The Queen Mary
Olivia Wyatt & Bitchin’ Bajas – Sailing A Sinking Sea
Yes – Fragile

FRIDAY, MAY 6th, 2016

Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker Deluxe Edition
Albert Ayler – My Name Is Albert Ayler
Jaye Bartell – Light Enough
Jaye Bartell’s move to Brooklyn, NY in 2013, as well as the work Spalding Gray and Eileen Myles, heavily influence the content presented on his latest record, Light Enough. Bartell spent about a year secluded in his Greenpoint bedroom, piecing together the intricate tunes and gentle melodies that furnish his new record. The songs on Light Enough encompass the processes of aspiration, pursuit, and fulfillment, if only to find that “[P]eople don’t change. They only stand more revealed,” as Charles Olson writes in Maximus Poems. In the album opener, “G & Me,” Bartell sings of the joyful illusions of escape, “a whole new life” that’s recognized, without bitterness as a “whole new lie.” “Light Enough” is a declaration of sufficiency, as if to say, Let this be enough then, and if it isn’t now, then it never will be: “I’m ready to come down,” he sings. The record as a whole takes as a kind of informal edict a line from Eileen Myles’ Chelsea Girls: “I have waited all my life for permission. I feel it growing in my breast. A war is storming and it is behind me and I am moving my forces into light.”
Julianna Barwick – Will
Exclusive rose-gold vinyl
Bonny Billy – More Revery
In the year 2000 – shortly after releasing what would become his most billyiconic 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!
Dave Brubeck – Time Out: The Stereo & Mono Versions
Cactus – S/T
Re-issue of their 1971 debut LP
Cars – Best of the Cars
Cheap Trick – Bang Zoom Crazy Hello
Clarabelle & The Creeps – The Modern Sound of Muscle Shoals Soul
Clientele  Strange Geometry
Chris Cohen – As If Apart
John Coltrane – Dusseldorf March 28th 1960
Loren Connors – Departing of a Dream Volume V
Michael Daves – Violence & Orchids
Destroyer – My Mystery 10″
Dick Diver – Calendar Days
Dick Diver – New Start Again
Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
Steve Earle – Exit 0
Steve Earle – Guitar Town
Steve Earle – The Hard Way
Ezra Furman – The Year of No Return
Generation X – Live At Sheffield
Generation X – Sweet Revenge
A Giant Dog – Pile
AGD is raucous ear candy culled from the hook-driven melodies of Slade, the glammy swagger of Marc Bolan, the morbid fantasy of Killer-era Alice Cooper, and the unpredictable wit of Sparks.
Helado Negro – Island Universe Story
Island Universe Story is a limited edition of clear, tinsel vinyl compilation of previously released Helado Negro cassette releases. The previously released cassette EPs have been serving as a subnarrative behind the showcased broadcast of the fulllength release schedule. They are the subconscious whisperings, deep labyrinth of dot-connecting and cartography for the diligent listeners into the innerworkings. There are many collaborators on Island Universe Story, including Laetitia Sader (Stereolab), Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco), and many more. This active and frenetic collaboration embodies the spirit of the Island Universe Series: that music, like an island, has many points of entry. Asthmatic Kitty Records is releasing particular iteration of Island Universe Story on limited edition clear vinyl, which has been stamped with the tinsel used in Helado Negro’s recent live performances.
Hot 8 Brass Band – Sexual Healing 12″
Sheila Jordan – Portrait of Sheila
Junjo Presents: The Evil Curse of the Vampires
Diana Krall – Stepping Out
Mary Chapin-Carpenter – The Things That We Are Made Of
Kacy & Clayton – Strange Country
Pasteur Lappe – African Funk Essentials
Cyndi Lauper
Detour Get a limited edition 7″ single of “Funnel of Love” b/w “Misty Blue” with purchase of her new album.


Little Scream – Cult Following
Lush – Blind Spot
Blue Mitchell – The Thing To Do
Moreland & Arbuckle – Promised Land or Bust
Of Montreal – Chinese Rocks b/w Either Way I Lose “7
John Patton – Let ‘Em Roll
Robert Pollard – Of Course You Are
Primal Scream – Mantra For A State of Mind 12”
Ike Quebec – Blue & Sentimental
Psychic Temple – III
Sam Rivers – Fuchsia Swing Song
Horace Silver – Six Pieces of Silver
Sorority Noise – Forgettable
Soundtrack – Jean-Luc Godard, Bandes Originales 1953-1963
Soundtrack – Mississippi Grind
Soundtrack – Return of the Living Dead
Limited edition translucent green vinyl
Sun Ra – The Saturn Singles Vol.1 1954-1958
Tenniscoats – Music Exists
Tops – Tender Opposites
Various – An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014
White Lung – Paradise
Yoni & Geti – Testarossa

NEW RELEASE VINYL APRIL 2016

March 29th, 2016

FRIDAY, APRIL 29th, 2016

Aesop Rock – The Impossible Kid
Matthew Barber & Jill Barber – The Family Album
Bo-Keys – Heartaches By The Number
Featuring Percy Wiggins and Don Bryant on vocals
Bobby Blue Bland – Further On Up The Road: The Duke Recordings 1955-1962
Clark – The Last Panthers

Guy Clark – Dublin Blues
Comets on Fire – Avatar
Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
The Commons – Psychedelic Cumbia Punk 10″

Kyle Craft – Dolls of Highland Kyle Craft grew up in a tiny Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi, where he spent most of his time catching alligators and rattlesnakes instead of playing football or picking up the guitar. He’s not the product of a musical family, and bands never came through town. It was only a chance trip to K-Mart that gave him his first album, a David Bowie hits compilation that helped inspire him eventually to channel his innate feral energy into songwriting and rock and roll. That self-made talent drives every note of Dolls of Highland, Craft’s exhilarating, fearless solo debut. “This album is the dark corner of a bar,” he says. “It’s that feeling at the end of the night when you’re confronted with ‘now what?’” Craft knows the feeling well–Dolls began to take shape when everything he took for granted was suddenly over, including an eight-year relationship. “All of a sudden I was left with just me for the first time in my adult life,” he says. He ventured far away from the ghosts of his home in Shreveport, Louisiana to make a new life for himself in Portland, Oregon, living under a friend’s pool table while he demoed new songs and tried to determine what came next. The album was tracked at a home studio in Shreveport, where Craft briefly returned for an intensely-productive reckoning with his past. “I dedicated the album to Shreveport and called it Dolls of Highland for all the girls and ghosts in town who influenced it so strongly.” Craft then returned to Portland, where Brandon Summers and Benjamin Weikel of The Helio Sequence helped move the album from its DIY beginnings to a more fully realized work. Craft played most of the instruments on the album, and the record captures the power of his live performance. And then there’s Craft’s unforgettable voice – “I’m fully aware that I have a very abrasive, very loud voice, but Bob Dylan is the one that taught me to embrace that,” says Craft. Craft’s talent and singular creativity move the conversation into new and unpredictable places. And this album is very much about moving forward. “After everything fell apart, it didn’t take very long for me to learn who I was and what I should be doing,” says Craft, who is walking out on the other side with Dolls of Highland.
Andra Day – Cheers to the Fall
Brian Eno – The Ship
Everything But The Girl – Language of Life
Ilhan Ersahin  Istanbul Sessions
Frontline Assembly – State of Mind
David Hilyard & The Rocksteedy 7 – United Front
Ilian – Love Me Crazy
The Jayhawks – Paging Mr. Proust
TheJayhawks_PagingMrProust_COVER-758x758 King Gizzard & The Giant Lizard Wizzard – Nonagon Infinity
New Madrid – Magnetic King Magnetic Queen
Pity Sex – White Hot Moon
Rats on Rafts – Some Velvet Morning 7″
Red House Painters – Old Ramon
The Relatives – Goodbye World
Johnny Thunders – In Cold Blood
Various – Every Song Has Its End: Sonic Dispatches From Traditional Mali
Various – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Live, Volume 1
Featuring the Prince/Petty/Lynne/Winwood/Harrison version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
Wire – Nocturnal Koreans
Rob Zombie – The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
Limited edition lenticular album cover.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22nd, 2016

Candlebox – Disappearing In Airports
Captain Beefheart – Clear Spot
Captain Beefheart – Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Captain Beefheart – Spotlight Kid
Lita Ford – Time Capsule
Greys – Out Heaven
Limited Edition white vinyl with download card
Petra Haden – Imaginary Land
Petra Haden – Sings The Who Sell Out
Isley Brothers – This Old Heart of Mine
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkeybirds – La Arana Es La VidaKID CONGO BOOKLET FRONT
Sean McCaul – Midnight In The Purple Palace
Ennio Morricone – Paura
Motorhead – Bad Magic
Issued in gold, red and green vinyl
New Mastersounds – Nashville Session
New Order – Singularily 12″
Picadilly Lane – The Huge World of Emily Small
Soundtrack – Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL – Deadpool
Soundtrack – Thomas Newman – Spectre
Vivid Low Sky – II
Yes – Drama
Various Artists – Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 5
Various Artists – Last of the Garage Punk Unknowns Vol. 6

FRIDAY, APRIL 15th, 2016

Battle Me – Habitual Love Songs
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – Love Letter For Fire
Bear Hands – You’ll Pay For This
Black Randy & The Metrosquad – “Pass the dust, I think I’m Bowie.”
Bombino – Az El
Glen Campbell – Ghost On The Canvas
John Carpenter – Lost Themes II
Coathangers – Nosebleed Weekend
Danger Mouse & Sparkle Horse – Dark Night of the Soul
Dixie Chicks – Dixie Chicks
Dixie Chicks – Home
Dixie Chicks – Taking The Long Way
East of Venus – Memory Box
The Frames – Longitude
Free Cake For Every Creature – Talking Quietly Of Anything With You
Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 1
Awalom Gebremariam – Desdes
Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex – Denver
Glen Hansard – A Season On The Line
PJ Harvey – The Hope Six Demolition Party
Hestina – Blossom Talk
Bill Hicks – Rant In E-Minor Variations
Cate Le Bon – Crab Day
Metallica – Kill ‘Em All
Metallica – Ride The Lightning
Graham Nash – This Path Tonight
Augustus Pablo – Original Rockers
Pinact – Stand Still & Rot
Prism Tats – Prism Tats
Professor Longhair – Live In Chicago
Rich Robinson – Through A Crooked Sun
Rich Robinson – Woodstock Sessions Vol. 3
Santana – IV
Santana, Rolie, Schon, Shrieve & Carabello
Ashley ShadowAshley Shadow
Sturgill Simpson –  A Sailor’s Guide To Earth
Strawberry Girls – French Ghetto
Suuns – Hold/Still
A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of the Rhyme
Johnny Thunders – Critic’s Choice/So Alone 10″
Two Inch Astronaut – Personal Life
VA- Sacred Flute Music From New Guinea: Madang/Windim Mambu

 

TUESDAY, APRIL 12th, 2016

RL Burnside – Sound Machine Groove
Francoise Hardy – Et SI Je M’En Vais Avant Toi
Francoise Hardy – La Question

FRIDAY, APRIL 8th, 2016

Cotopaxi – Having All The Fun
Dandy Warhols – Distortland
Deftones – Gore
Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
Front Line Assembly – Fallout
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Call It What It Is
Mayer Hawthorne – Man About Town
Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Heliocentrics – From The Deep
High Violets – Heroes & Haloes
Janet Jackson – Unbreakable

Jack Johnson – Sing-A-Longs
Lights – Midnight Machines
Lumineers – Cleopatra
M83 – Junk

Miracles – I’ll Try Something New
Of Mice & Men – S/T
Parquet Courts – Human Performance
Sonic Youth – Sister
Soundtrack – Brad Fiedel – The Terminator

Soundtrack – Harry Manfredini – Friday the 13th Part 3
Soundtrack – Henry Mancini – Experiment in Terror
Ronnie Spector – English Heart
Houston Stackhouse – Houston Stackhouse & Friends
Ronnie Stone & The Lonely Riders – Motorcycle Yearbook

Supremes – Meet The Supremes
Traditional Fools – Fool’s Gold
Ben Watt – Fever Dream
Hank Williams – Ramblin’ Man
Woods – City Sun Eater In The River of Light
O.V. Wright – Live

FRIDAY, APRIL 1st, 2016

Audacity – Hyper Vessels
Beau – That Thing, Reality
Black Crowes – Warpaint Live!
Black Mountain – IV
Black Stone Cherry – Kentucky
Bleached – Welcome The Worms
Boulevards – Groovemavis
Loren Connors – The Red Painting 7″
Frankie Cosmos – Next Thing

Explosions in the Sky – The Wilderness
Robbie Fulks – Upland Stories
Grimes – Halifaxa
The Heavy – Hurt & The Merciless
Buddy Holly – Holly
Wanda Jackson – Lovin’ Country Style
Mike & The Melvins – Three Men & A Baby
Operators – Blue Wave

Panic At The Disco – Death of a Bachelor
Pet Shop Boys – Super
Ray Rocket – Do You Wanna Go To Tijuana?
Slobberbone – Bees & Seas: The Best of Slobberbone
Soundtrack – Amy

Soundtrack – Vinyl, Music from the HBO Original Series Vol. 1
Mavis Staples – Livin’ On A High Note
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise

Tancred – Out Of The Garden
Tacocat – Lost Time
Teen Suicide – It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir The Honeypot
Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones – Little Windows
Unified Highway – Unified Highway
The Used – Live & Acoustic At The Palace

Veruca Salt – Ghost Notes
Weezer – Weezer (the White Album)
Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye

NEW RELEASE VINYL MARCH 2016

March 4th, 2016

TUESDAY, MARCH 29th
Juvie – You Ain’t Gonna Rock & Roll No More
The Pinsch – Mini Skirt 7″ EP
The Replacements – The Sire Years Box Set

FRIDAY, MARCH 25th

Eric Bachman – S/T Solo LP from the front man of Archers of Loaf and Crooked Fingers
The Band – Stage Fright
Blackrain – Released
Neko Case – The Tigers Have Spoken (Re-issue)
Cherry – Gloom 7″
Billy Dankert  – Sleep Late
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters – Father’s Day
John Fahey – Blind Joe Death
John Fahey – Dance of Death
John Fahey – Days Have Gone
John Fahey – Death Chants
John Fahey – Transfiguaration of Blind Joe Death
From Indian Lakes – Wanderer
Jesse Fuller – Working On The Railroad
Jeff Healy – Heal My Soul
John Lee Hooker – The Galaxy Sides
Parker Millsap – Very Last Days
Bob Mould – Patch The Skymould
Khun Narin – II
Night Moves – Pennied Days
Margo Price – Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Primal Scream – Chaosmosis
Mobb Deep – Imfamous
Pete Rock – All Souled Out
Secret Space / The Flats – Split 7″
Soundtrack – Fright Night
The Sun Days – Album
The Thermals – We Disappear
Turnover – Humblest Pleasures 7″
Various – Senegal ’70 Sonic Gems
Walls of Jericho – No One Can Save You
We Are The Willows – Picture (Portrait)

FRIDAY, MARCH 18th

All Time Low – Don’t Panic: It’s Longer Now
James Brown & The Famous Flames – Roots of Revolution, Classic Federal Recordings 1956-1960
Denise Darlington – Feel So Good/Rightful Rebel 7″

Alton Ellis/Dub Specialist – Alton’s Groove/Dub Creation 7″
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – The Rarity of Experience
Lefty Frizzell – Time Out For The blues

Gaylads – Africa/Congo Rock 7″
Laura Gibson – Empire Builder
George Jones – When MyHeart Hurts No More
Glenn Jones – Fleeting

Damian Jurado – Visions of Us On The Land
Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose 2005 Best Country Album Grammy Winner.
2005 Best Country Collaboration With Vocals Grammy Winner. Featuring members of The Greenhornes, The Raconteurs, and Blanche. For fifty years now, Loretta Lynn has fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful—and as culturally significant—as any female performer you’d care to name. Except it was her song craft that established a sweet, clever, and combative lyricism that, when paired with her effortless melodies, inevitably helped define any and all relevant country music that emerged in its wake. Her music has duly confronted many of the major social issues of her time and ours, while her life story is a rags-to-riches tale familiar to pop, rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner’s Daughter—the tag refers to a hit single, an album, a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning film, and to Lynn herself—has journeyed from the poverty of the Kentucky hills to Nashville superstardom, to her current status as an honest-to-goodness American icon. Her most recent album, the Jack White-produced Van Lear Rose, has reminded the world yet again of Lynn’s power as a vocalist and her prowess as a songwriter. As she puts it on “Story of My Life,” the new album’s closing track: “Not half bad for this ol’ KY girl, I guess… Here’s the story of my life. Listen close, I’ll tell it twice.”
Jackie Mittoo – One Step Beyond/See A Man’s Face
Grant Lee Phillips – The Narrows
Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression
Elliott Smith – Heaven Adores You Soundtrack

Soul Asylum – Change of Fortune3097875
Garry Tallent – Break Time
Various – Punk 45: Chaos in the City of Angels & Devils
Various – Wayfaring Strangers: C0smic American Music
Twang reigned, the shitkickers kicked shit, and the vaguely western-sounding guitar records piled up. Country-rock became  “the dominant American rock style of the 1970s,” as Peter Doggett’s comprehensive Are You Ready for the Country put it much later. Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music picks up and dusts off golden ingots from the dollar-bin detritus of that domination, to reconstruct events as seen from the genre’s real Wild West – America’s one-off private press label substructure.
Violent Femmes – We Can Do Anything
Walker Family Singers – Panola County Spirit
Chelsea Wolfe – Hypnos/Flame 7″

FRIDAY, MARCH 11th

Davie Allan & Joel Grind – S/T
Joe Bonamassa – You & Me
Born of Osiris – Soul Sphere
Jeff Buckley – You & I
CA Quintet – Trip Thru Hell
Charlatans – Limit of the Marvelous Limited 180gm colored vinyl LP pressing.
NOT to be confused with Britpop band The Charlatans (AKA The Charlatans UK). With the 50th anniversary of the American band the Charlatans’ debut, Big Beat are celebrating with this carefully conceived deluxe vinyl edition of the original line-up’s best recordings, The Limit Of The Marvelous. The iconic quintet are widely acknowledged with kickstarting the San Francisco 1960s renaissance. The Charlatans presented a blend of Americana-infused popular styles, encompassing country, swing, bluegrass, 50s rock ‘n’ roll and olde English folk. The band’s image radiated class that few of their hirsute, tie-dyed peers matched. The Limit Of The Marvelous distils the best cuts from Big Beat’s essential Amazing Charlatans CD to approximate the long-player the group should have issued at their peak in 1966. It juxtaposes idiosyncratic folk-rock ‘Codine Blues’ and ‘Alabama Bound’ with dustbowl-dry originals from the pen of guitarist/drummer Dan Hicks, including the first recording of his signature number ‘How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away’. Housed in a Globe Propaganda-approved sleeve complete with copious illustrations of this most photogenic of outfits, The Limit Of The Marvelous is a fitting reminder in their anniversary year of the continuing magic of the Charlatans.
Church of Misery – And Then there Were None
Brian Fallon – Painkillers
Feelies – Only Life
Feelies – Time For A Witness
Gaslight Anthem – Sink or Swim
GZA – Beneath the Surface

Litter – $100.00 Finelitter100
Lucius – Good Grief
Various – God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson
Wild Feathers – Lonely Is A Lifetime
Pete Yorn – Arranging Time

FRIDAY, MARCH 4th

Cub Sport – This Is Our Vice
Day Wave – Headcase/Hard To Road
Floggin Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Re-Issue on colored vinyl)
Blaze Foley – The Dawg Years
Gogo Penguin – Man Made Object
Carly Ray Jepson – Kiss
(Picture disc)
Ray Lamontagne – Ouroboros
Greg Laswell – Everyone Thinks I Dodged A Bullet
Lionlimb – Shoo
Loretta Lynn – Full Circle
Bob M
arley & The Wailers – Ultimate Wailers Box
Charles Mingus – John Cassavetes’ Shadows
Polica – United CrushersPolicaUC_Cover_01
Shovels & Rope – Busted Jukebox Volume 1
Esperanza Spalding – Emily’s D+Evolution
Thao & The Get Down – A Man Alive
Twerps – S/T
 Re-issue of the 2009 debut LP
Various Artists – International Vicious Society Volume 4
Various Artists – New York Noise
Various Artists – Rough Guide To Sahara Blues
Wall of Death – Loveland
M.Ward – More Rain

NEW RELEASE VINYL FEBRUARY 2016

February 4th, 2016

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Horace Andy – In The Light
Anthrax – For All Kings

David Bowie – Aladdin SanebowieZig
David Bowie – Bowie At The Beeb
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World
David Bowie – Pin Ups
David Bowie – The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie – Space Oddity
Breeders – Last Splash
Tav Falco’s Pantherburns – My & My Chauffeur Blues / whistle Blow Blues 7″

Ben Folds – Suburbs
Bill Frisell – When You Wish Upon A Star
Funkadelic – Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow

Greenleaf – Rise Above The Meadow
John Lee Hooker – House of Blues

E.V. Kain – Edition 7″
Lily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Steve Mason – Meet The Humans
John Mayall – Find A Way To Care
Quilt – Plaza
Puscifer – Money Shot
Bonnie Raitt – Dig In Deep
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Greatest Hits
Emitt Rhodes – Rainbow Ends
Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Revenant Soundtrack
Rum River North – Drinking From A Salt Pond
Sonic Youth – Dirty
Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
Soundtrack – Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Supersonic Blues Machine – West of Flushing, South of Frisco
Various – Best of Buena Vista Vol. 2
Waco Brothers – Going Down In History
Ween – Chocolate & Cheese

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Morrissey – Bona Drag
Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Arthur Alexander – You Better Move On
Roy Ayers – Everybody Loves The Sun Shine
Animal Collective – Painting With

Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Bobby Bare – The Moon Was Blue
Lou Donaldson – Midnight Sun
Bill Evans – Blues & Abstract Truth
Foo Fighters – Saint Cecilia
King Mud – Victory Motel

Lake Street Dive – Side Pony
Lightstorm – Creation
Little Walter – Just A Feeling
Love – Reel To Reel

Marching Church – Coming Down: Sessions in April
Mastodon – Mastodon
Jackie McClean – It’s Time
Jackie McClean – Long Drink of the Blues
Lee Morgan – Lee-Way
Lee Morgan – Vol.3

Michael Nau – Mowing
New Move – S/T
Nights – Whisper
Paper Kites – Twelvefour
Horace Parlan – Up – Down
Madeleine Peyroux – Careless Love
Neighborhood – Wiped Out
Ra Ra Riot – Need Your Light
Rangda – Heretic’s Bargain
Roxy Music – Live

Shivas – Better Off Dead
Soundtrack – Rubble Kings

Teen – Love Yes
Various – John’s Old Time Radio Show featuring R. Crumb
Various – not The Same Old Blues Vol. III

Various – Why The Mountains Are Black, Primeval Greek Village Music: 1907-1960
Wild Nothing – Life of Pause
Wolfmother – Victorious

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Cocorosie – Heartache City
Alice Coltrane – World Gala
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
John Coltrane  – Ascension
Cramps – Gravest Hits
Donkeys- Midnight Palms
Electric Six – Bitch Don’t Let Me Die
Flowers – Everybody’s Dying To Meet You
Marvin Gaye – Easy
Marvin Gaye – In The Groove
Marvin Gaye – M.P.G.
Marvin Gaye – Moods of Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye – Take 2
Marvin Gaye – That’s The Way Love Is
Marvin Gaye – United
Marvin Gaye – You’re All I Need To Get By
Charlie Haden – Liberation
Chris Isaac – Greatest Hits
The Jive Turkeys – Bread & Butter
Jurassic 5 – Power In Numbers
L.A. Witch – Drive Your Car
Furry Lewis – Good Morning
Lissie – My Wild West
Orgone – Beyond The Sun
Pinegrove – Cardinal
Record Company – Give It Back
Pharoah Sanders – Karma
Surefire Soul Ensemble – S/T
Gabor Szabo – Sorcerer
Sun Ra – Space Is The Place
Them – Angry Young Them
Them – Them Again

Various – Glen Brown / Boat To Progress, The Original Pantomine Vocal Collection 1970-74
Various – Glen Brown / Check The Winner, The Original Pantomine Instrumental Collection 1970-74
Various – Glen Brown / Dubble Attack, The Original Pantomine Dee-Jay Collection 1972-74
Amy Winehouse – Frank

Wynonna & The Big Noise – Wynonna & The Big Noise

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Beat Connection – Product 3
Leon Bridges – Louisiana Sun 10″EP
The Cult – Hidden City
Luther Dickinson – Blues & Ballads, A Folksinger’s Songbook: Volumes I & II
  This acoustic collection of 607396512010.smlsongs 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
Dr. Dog – Psychedelic Swamp The Psychedelic Swamp is Dr. Dog’s ninth album, and third studio release with ANTI- Records. Most of the songs were among the first ever written together by Scott McMicken and Toby Leaman and an assemblage of friends and musical cohorts that would evolve as Dr. Dog over the years. This early endeavor of writing a concept album helped shape their creative process as they became a label-defying multi-hyphenated indie-psychedelic-rock-folk-Americana-basement-touring band. The Psychedelic Swamp could very well have been Dr. Dog’s first album. It could have been their only album; or it could have never been made at all. It’s either a refined culmination of 15 years of collaborative music-making or the raw instrument on which they cut their teeth. This chicken vs. egg debate will be for historians to decide; fact is that if The Psychedelic Swamp was half-baked back in 2001, it has been reborn in 2016, fully baked.
Field Music – Commontime Limited edition double orange 180 gram vinyl
Game Theory – Lolita Nation Remaster of their 1987 LP on double green vinyl.
Grimes – Geidi Primes Re-issue of the debut LP.
Hanz – Reducer
James Hunter Six – Hold On
Elton John – Wonderful Crazy Night

Milk ‘N’ Cookies – 3 LP Box Set Milk ‘n’ Cookies are the stuff of legends – or would be legends. Forming in the early 70s in Long Island, New York, this power pop group was originally signed to Island Records and seemed destined for greatness. Yet, through many cases of “wrong place, wrong time,” the band never managed to break. The core line-up of the band was made up of Ian North, Justin Strauss, Sal Maida and Mike Ruiz and, in their time, they played classic NYC venues like CBGB’s and Max’s Kansas City. They shared bills with everyone from Talking Heads to The Ramones and have amassed a cult following, influencing the likes of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Debbie Harry (Blondie). After working extensively with the band members, Milk ‘n’ Cookies is a lavish reissue of the group’s entire recorded output. Housed in a deluxe slipcase is the band’s original legendary LP, a 2xLP featuring rare and unreleased tracks, as well as a book that chronicles the full history of the band’s wild ride through the music biz – as told by the band themselves, through accounts from their many (in)famous admirers and through never-before-seen photographs.
Nap Eyes – Thought Rock Fish Scale Recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, on the North Shore of Nova Scotia, Nap Eyes’ quietly contemplative sophomore record refines and elaborates their debut, offering an airier, more spacious second chapter, a bracing blast of bright oceanic sunshine after the moonlit alleys of Whine of the Mystic (PoB-20). But the briny, cold Atlantic roils beneath these exquisite, literate guitar pop songs, posing riddles about friendship, faith, mortality, and self-doubt. For fans of The Only Ones/England’s Glory, The Modern Lovers, The Clean, The Verlaines, The Go-Betweens, Bedhead, and all things Lou Reed. With lyrics, color inner sleeve, and download code.
Obscura – Akroasis
The Pines – Above The Prairie Above the Prairie arrives like a harvest moon over the Great Plains, a sonic palette3009023 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.
Prettiots – Funs Cool With their debut album, Funs Cool, The Prettiots reveal themselves to be a powerhouse: led 11183_JKTby 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.
Prong – No Absolutes
Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony

Lucinda Williams – The Ghosts of Highway 20

NEW RELEASE VINYL JANUARY 2016

January 8th, 2016

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th, 2016

Basement – Promise Everything
Chuck Berry – After School Session
Clan Nugent – Night Fiction

Phil Collins – Face Value
Phil Collins – Take A Look At Me Now
Crooked Fingers – S/T
Crooked Fingers – Bring On The Snakes

Doom – Born Like This Featuring Raekwan & Ghostface Killah
Benji Hughes – Songs In the Key of Animals
Charlotte, North Carolina’s Benji Hughes fronted a rock band in the nineties. He’s written commercial jingles (“Got a Little Captain in You?” for Captain Morgan rum). He’s made music for film and television (Walk Hard, Eastbound & Down). He released 2008’s A Love Extreme, his excellent double-LP debut record. But these ventures aren’t different hats Hughes wears. They’re not different paths traveled. This isbenji Hughes playing in different keys. Now, for his first record on Merge, Benji Hughes is playing Songs in the Key of Animals. Recorded over two years mostly at Frisbie studios in New York , the album is 41 minutes of pop-music exploration. Hughes was working on three other albums as Songs in the Key of Animals started to take shape. “The songs on this album were being written as they were being recorded—on-the-spot, stream-of-consciousness magic.” The listener can hear that sense of discovery and playfulness all over the record. It gives the album its cohesion even as it bounces from, say, the funky hooks of “Freaky Feedback Blues” to the gauzy and bittersweet “Magic Summertime,” Hughes’ reworking of an Eleni Mandell song. Although Hughes has been described as being meticulous, the spontaneous feel of the record comes out of Hughes’ approach. “You just let the tracks happen to you,” he says. “If you’re in tune with what you’re doing, these things will continue to happen. You’re not overlording magic.” And there is something magical about Songs in the Key of Animals. Hughes played most of the music on it, but the album is still full of collaboration. You can hear the chemistry between Hughes and the female vocalists he sings with on this record. One of those singers happens to be Meshell Ndegeocello (who also plays bass on many of the tracks). If Hughes is our host, there are still plenty of guests invited to the party. “Waiting for the muse is a boring and lonely approach,” says Hughes. “Collaboration is where it’s at!” For a while, Hughes hadn’t planned to bring that party to a label. He was going to continue to make music available as a “renegade maverick” until Merge came calling. “I love Merge,” he says. “Who hasn’t vibed out to some of those records? Also, I happen to do a wicked Stephin Merritt impression, so it’s perfect.” And just like that, through Hughes’ love of records like 69 Love Songs, his new album had a home. Though the record runs well short of its predecessor A Love Extreme’s playing time, the CD version of the album will come on two discs. “It feels like the best way of letting people know how I intended the album to be experienced,” Hughes explains. “Two different vibes, the two discs are meant to represent the two sides of a record that gets flipped. It’s really that simple.” As much as Hughes talks about spontaneity and of the two-experience format being “really that simple,” Songs in the Key of Animals is deceptive in its depth. It’s a double-sided album in so many ways. It’s got a summertime immediacy but an evergreen resonance (see “Longshot”). It’s clever but too deep for punchlines (check the excellent back and forth of “Picnic”). It is sincere (“Girls Love Shoes”) yet heartbreaking (“Song for Nancy”). It’s eccentric but never forced in its strangeness. It’s the kind of record that reminds us music can be fun without being empty. It’s an album full of peacocks and sharks and zebras and tigers, but ultimately, it’s about us. “People are animals,” Hughes says, “even if some people don’t want to admit it.” Songs in the Key of Animals taps into something beyond just intellect or trend or taste. It’s all about the feel, the connection between the player, the music, and the listener.
Buddy Miller & Friends – Cayamo Sessions At Sea In 2012, Cayamo veteran Buddy Miller brought along some recording gear and set up a studio in the ship’s library where he and his Sirius XM co-host Jim Lauderdale recorded episodes for their Buddy & Jim Radio Show. Buddy thought the radio show recordings sounded really good so, in 2014, he brought more gear, an engineer and some great musicians. They took over the Bliss Lounge where Buddy set up a temporary recording studio between the lanes of the bowling alley. For two days and nights, guest artists came to record and fans came to watch. It was so much fun, they did it all again in 2015. The audio presented on this release comes from those sessions. It is with great pleasure that New West Records presents Buddy Miller & Friends, Cayamo Sessions At Sea.
Nevermen – S/T Nevermen is Faith No More’s Mike Patton, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Doseone.
Simo – Let Your Love Show The Way The song is a blueprint for reinvigorating the fusion of jazz improvisation, downhome blues and classic R&B, as well as these genres’ psychedelic Brit Invasion and countrified Southern-rock manifestations. The rest of the record follows suit, a souped-up vehicle transporting the band on a deeply satisfying, off-the-cuff musical journey. Cut entirely live in full, unbroken takes—vocals and solos included—the sound is primal,simo sweltering and immediate. “We live and die by the take,” says singer-guitarist JD Simo. “We don’t edit, and if there are overdubs, they’re minimal. I want it to be unaffected and pure. For me, the music that always resonates most is when a performance is captured. That’s what I love, and that’s what we go for.” The first album ever recorded at Macon, Ga.’s Big House—the communal home of the Allman Brothers Band during their late ‘60s/early ‘70s heyday—Let Love Show the Way finds SIMO not just reveling in the hallowed space’s unique mojo and history, but taking it to a fresh and inspired place. As a musical unit, Simo, his longtime drummer Adam Abrashoff and bassist Elad Shapiro have an undeniable chemistry, taken to even greater heights with JD playing Duane Allman’s 1957 gold-top Les Paul for every track on the record. This is the same six-string heard on the first two Allman Brothers LPs, the same storied guitar that delivered the unforgettable riff on Derek & the Dominoes’ “Layla.” JD is now part of an elite group of artists—including Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes and Wilco’s Nels Cline—who share the rare honor of having wielded this talismanic instrument.
The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional
Your Friend – Gumption

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd, 2016

Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast The Hour of Bewilderbeast surely isn’t a traditional pop album, but a continually beguiling trip through lo-fi postmodern folk that draws as much from Harry Nilsson as Beck. This is the 3 LP deluxe edition.
Besnard Lakes – Coliseum Complex Museum
Limited edition colored vinyl
Best Friends – Hot Reckless. Totally Insane.cactus
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Deluxe 2LP 180 gram edition
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
Deluxe 2LP 180 gram edition
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Deluxe 2LP 180 gram edition
Black Sabbath – Past Lives
Deluxe 2LP 180 gram edition double live LP sourced from recordings between 1970-1975
Marc Bolan – Love & Death
Bonnie Prince Billy Pond Scum
Cactus Blossoms – You’re Dreaming
John Cale – M: Fans A complete reworking of the 1982 masterpiece Music For A New Society. John Cale re-contextualizes the original songs into radical new forms to resonate with the digital age. Contains a new recording of a previously lost track from the original session ‘Back To The End.’
The Church – Starfish
Re-issue on translucent green vinyl
Fourtet – Pink
Dizzy Gillespie – Have Trumpet, Will Excite
Half Japanese – Perfect Half Japanese is one of the most influential bands in rock history. Founded by brothers Jad & David Fair in 1975, the band is credited with pioneering the DIY and lo-fi movements and influencing everyone from Sonic Youth and Neutral Milk Hotel to Daniel Johnston and Kurt Cobain (who asked the band to open some of the dates on Nirvana’s In Utero tour.) Known for dismissing conventional music basics like melody, song structure and chords (and for Jad’s famous line “the only chord I know is the one that connects the guitar to the amp”), Half Japanese operated under the premise that rock music should be accessible to anyone who wanted to play. On January 22nd, Joyful Noise will release Half Japanese’s new full-length album, Perfect, a collection of songs that feature otherworldly sounds, chaotic rhythms, and weird time signatures, topped off with Jad’s brash vocals and oddball lyrics. Its tracks run the gamut from sweet love songs with overtly sincere lyrics to manic, almost abrasive tracks that seem to end before you can 714270689079.smlfully wrap your head around them. With Perfect, Half Japanese manages to combine elements of every genre imaginable into one strange, unpredictable, and undeniably-catchy package.
High Llamas – Here Come The Rattling Trees
Iggy & The Stooges – Sadistic Summer Live 2011
Lizzo – Big Grrrrl Small World

Savages – Adore Life
Ty Segall – Emotional Mugger

Del Shannon – Runaway With Del Shannon
Shirelles & King Curtis Give A Twist Party
Louis Smith – Here Comes Louis Smith
Stanley Turrentine – A Chip Off The Old Block

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 2016

It’s RHINO Tuesday! Cool re-issues of some classic vinyl! Get a free Rhino calendar while supplies last with a purchase of one of the following albums. Start your “ear” off right.

Bad Company – Rock & Roll Fantasy, The Very Best of Bad Company The definitive collection from 1974-1982 on 180gram double vinyl plus there are two previously unreleased tracks!
Blue Man Group Giacometti 7″
The Cars – S/T Classic 1978 debut LP on translucent blue vinyl
Cibo Matto – Viva! La Woman
Devo – Freedom of Choice
35th Anniversary edition on red, white & blue vinyl.
Grateful Dead – Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967
Three LP set, 180gram vinyl, limited to 6700 pressings.
The Monkees – Cereal Box Record Set
4 cardbord 7″ singles mimicking the cereal box 45s of the past. One title per disc, “Last Train to Clarksville,” “Words(TV Mix),” “I Never Thought It Peculiar (TV Mix)” and “Valleri (TV Mix).”
The ReplacementsThe Twin/Tone Releases This time, sold individually, not in a box…“Sorry Ma, Forgot R1_773761LetItBe_Jacket.inddTo Take Out the Trash,” “Stink,” “Hootenanny,” and “Let It Be.”
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra – Some Kazoos 7″ Featuring Whole Lotta Love
The Velvet
Underground – Live At Max’s Kansas City Expanded remaster of the August 23rd, 1970 performance. 2 LPs on 180 gram vinyl and 15 tracks!
Soundtrack – Jackie Brown 180 gram yellow vinyl

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15TH, 2016

All Them Witches – Lightning At The Door
Johnny Cash – Original Sun Sound

Tommy Castro – Method To My Madness
Cows – Cunning Stunts
Cranberries – Bury The Hatchet

El-Vy – Return To The Moon
Randy Rogers Band – Nothing Shines Like Neon
Rolling Stones – From The Vault: Roudhay Park, Live In Leeds July 25, 1982

Rush – Feedback Re-Issue
Rush – Snakes & Arrows
Re-Issue
John Sangster –
The Sunsets – The Hot Generation Soundtrack Session
Mike Watt – Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
Re-Issue
Wavves & Cloud Nothings – No Life For Me

FRIDAY, JANUARY 8TH, 2016

Alberta Cross – S/T
Anthrax – Anthems A seven-song EP of covers including Cheap Tricks’ “Big Eyes,” Thin Lizzy’s “Jailbreak,” Boston’s “Smokin’,” plus more.
Bjork – Vulnicura
David Bowie – Blackstarblackstar
James Horner – The Amazing Spider-Man
Gregory Isaacs – More Gregory
Re-issue
Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse Re-issue
Gregory Isaacs – Out Deh Re-issue
Gregory IsaacsSoon Forward Re-issue
Move – Move Long sought after by collectors and originally released in 1986 by a small independent label, this stellar full-length is driven by sharp post-punk guitars, tribal rhythms, and ghostly synthesizers, following the UK coldwave and post-punk tradition. Reflecting the realities of life in a city like Rome in the political landscape of the early ’80s in Italy, Move also released a couple of tapes and a split 12′ with Gronge before dissolving into obscurity. The history of Italian post-punk begins around 1979, in some specific areas of the country. The productions come out of Pordenone and Bologna, with The Great Complotto (SPITTLE 048LP, SPITTLE 060LP) and Italian Records influencing the surrounding area. In a less organic way, something began to arise in other parts of Italy, especially in the center-north where Florence, Turin, Milan, and Rome played a crucial role. Move is a forgotten classic, reissued here for the first time and highly recommended for fans of Joy Division, New Order, Section 25, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, Gang of Four.
Nelly – Country Grammar Re-issue
Art Pepper – Smack Up Re-issue of the 1961 classic.
Rush – Grace Under Pressure
Soundtrack – Hateful Eight

Soundtrack – Straight Outta Compton
Suicidal Tendencies – Controlled by Hatred
Translucent yellow vinyl edition limited to 2000 worldwide.
Various Artists – Soho Scene ’63, Jazz Goes Mod Jack McDuff, Charles Kynard, Ronnie Ross, Hank Crawford and more!
Paul Weller – Pick It Up 7″ single

NEW RELEASE VINYL DECEMBER 2015

December 1st, 2015

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2015
Funkadelic – Shake The Gate

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2015

Baroness – Purple
Black Crowes – Amorica
Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
(Re-Issue)
Clutch – Psychic Warfare
Deafheaven – New Bermuda San Francisco’s Deafheaven found massive critical success when their 2013 album deafhavenSunbather was an unexpected crossover hit, earning the band a 92/100 Metacritic score and ending the year as the best reviewed album of 2013. No one could have anticipated a band that drew from equal parts Weakling and My Bloody Valentine ascending to such heights, and that incomprehensibility added to the band’s singularity and allure. Two years later, founding members George Clarke and Kerry McCoy began working on their ANTI debut, New Bermuda, with a new perspective. Says Clarke: “Sunbather yearned for something better. New Bermuda focuses on the idea of false promise, achieving something and wondering if it’s what you really wanted in the first place.” McCoy shares that sentiment: “Sunbather sounds like people who have nothing but are satisfied with life. There’s an uplifting quality to it. But New Bermuda is a very tense record.” McCoy cites death metal demigods Dissection and Morbid Angel, the blackened death pioneers Behemoth, and Cliff Burton-era Metallica as influences on the new album. As New Bermuda progresses, Deafheaven travels further outside of their comfort zone, feasting on other niches of underground metal and offsetting the blunt force of their feral rage with more complex and nuanced beauty. A sophisticated and subdued pop element kicks off “Baby Blue”, before the band abruptly shifts into an amalgam of NWOBHM’s anthemic urgency and thrash metal’s racing chugs. There’s a brief comedown where the band veers into the musique concrete soundscapes and hushed melodrama of early Godspeed You! Black Emperor before “Come Back” resumes the band’s merciless assault of stampeding drums and vitriolic guitar harmonies, only to shift mid-song into the somber territories of 4AD’s early catalog. Which is not to say that Deafheaven have softened their approach; New Bermuda offers the most punishing music of the band’s career in the wake of their greatest success.
FKA Twigs – M3LL155X
Chris Isaak- Forever Blue  (Re-Issue)
Modern Baseball – The Nameless Ranger 10″
Modern Baseball / Marietta – Couples Therapy 7″
New Order – Tutti Frutti 12″
Pantera – 1990-2000 the Complete Studio Album

Phish – Siket Disc
Son Little – Son Little
Saint Seneca – Such Things
Tinariwen – Live In Paris
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Harmlessness
Yoko & The Oh No’s – S/T
Yoko & the Oh No’s are three kids from Chicago – Max Goldstein on vocals, Max ohnoLoebman on guitar, and Stef Roti on drums – a raging trio fueled by Taco Bell, rock & roll myths, and pilfered booze. It doesn’t quite add up how kids this young (Max L. just graduated high school) managed to tap into a vibe this classic. The band’s self-titled full-length debut, out July 31 on Autumn Tone, is crammed with classic rock riffs, swinging beats, and up front, the sassy, done-up style of Max G. emoting loosely and widly like a young David Johansen fronting the New York Dolls, possessing a crooner’s voice and a taste for style. Dolled up in flashy get-ups, Max G.’s voice is a growly, beefy thing, a rangy tenor that belies his taste for soul shouters. The prevailing mood in modern indie garage rock is one of stylistic indifference, but that’s not how Yoko & the Oh No’s come across; these kiddos don’t just care, they care a lot. Listen to the crashing classic rock chorus of “Heart Attack,” the sneering “She Knows It,” and the distorted R&B groove of “Nobody Wants to Know.” “Talking over radio/on the moonlit drive/We listen to VU/Jane says close your eyes.” Yoko & the Oh No’s S/T album is their first for Autumn Tone Records, which has a knack for finding raw young bucks (turn up records by the Orwells, Twin Peaks, and Modern Vices as a testament). Yoko & the Oh No’s are currently on tour with likeminded rock & roll weirdos The Growlers, blowing minds and connecting with crowds across the Midwest.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015

K180 – That Place Where Pain Lives

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2015

Ryan Adams – 1989
adamsBeach Boys – Beach Boys’ Party Uncovered & Unplugged The original album stripped down plus unreleased album sessions
Curt Cobain – Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings 31 track 2-LP soundtrack to the documentary
D’Angelo – Live At The Jazz Cafe, London
Grimes – Art Angels
Josh Groban – Noel
Jennylee – Right On!
Right on! is the debut solo album from jennylee, a.k.a. Jenny Lee Lindberg of Warpaint. While right on! retains some of Jenny’s signature Warpaint groove, she also incorporates New Wave and Goth elements into her solo work; her vocals, alternately cool and impassioned, and her meticulous bass playing, create a new sonic aura that is hazy, dreamy, and all her own. Recorded with a full band of notable musicians, including Norm Block (Mark Lanegan), Dan Elkan (Broken Bells), and Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, right on! will be the perfect winter soundtrack for Warpaint fans and beyond. Preview shows in LA & NYC have been scheduled for Oct/Nov & a national tour is planned for early 2016.
Killing Joke – Pylon
Mark Lanegan – One Way Street
One Way Street set compiles the first five solo albums recorded by Mark Lanegan, the Pacific-Northwest icon also known for his work with Screaming Trees, Gutter Twins, Mad Season, Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell, and more. The Winding Sheet, Mark Lanegan’s first solo work, is notable in its departure from the characteristic sound of Screaming Trees, the band he fronted from 1985 until 2000. Its follow-up, Whiskey for The Holy Ghost, released during the grunge explosion of the early 1990s, showcases Lanegan’s growing maturity as a songwriter and vocalist. Scraps at Midnight could be considered the final installment of a trilogy of albums featuring Lanegan’s interpretation of American roots music accompanied by his troubling lyrics of loss, sin, and redemption. I’ll Take Care of You, Lanegan’s fourth solo effort, consists entirely of cover songs with interpretation of songs from a wide variety of songwriters, including Tim Rose, Tim Hardin, Booker T. Jones, and Buck Owens. On Lanegan’s fifth and final solo album for Sub Pop, Field Songs, Lanegan seems to have taken the best elements from his previous work to create one of the most fulfilled, and fulfilling, albums of his career; Field Songs also includes “Kimiko’s Dream House,” which Mark co-wrote with Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club. Three of these five albums have been out of print on vinyl for many years; I’ll Take Care of You was only released on vinyl in Europe, and Field Songs was only issued on CD. Each album in the One Way Street box set was pressed on 180-gram vinyl, and is housed in a sleeve reproducing the art for its original release.
Cass McCombs – A Folk Set Apart, Rarities, B-Sides & Space Junk, ETC.
Gary Numan – Pleasure Principal
Gary Numan – Replicas
Gary Numan – Telekon
The Pharcyde – Labcabincalifornia
Special limited edition gold vinyl double LP
Spoon – Gimmie Fiction 10th Anniversary Edition
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Spoon classic, Merge will release a deluxe limited-edition version of Gimme Fiction on double-LP (180g) and double-CD. The reissue contains the album remastered by Howie Weinberg from the original tapes, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased demos from the era, nine additional bonus tracks via digital download, and a full-color book containing photos and an extensive oral history of the making of the album. The deluxe LP package will also include a 24” x 36” poster. Gimme Fiction dragged the sonic pointillism of Kill the Moonlight further into dub-influenced weirdness as the increasingly confident Spoon went crazy in the studio, experimenting with everything from warped hip-hop samples to horse whinnies. How all this directionless Dylan worship and psychedelic goofing resulted in an album as sharply realized as Gimme Fiction is a testament solely to Spoon’s self-assurance and tastefulness (and some hard work, and a bit of luck, etc.). Whatever digging or strange alchemy had to go into it, they only produced more gold. Gimme Fiction deserves special recognition because it’s the album where Spoon—backed into a corner—took some crazy leaps, all of them forward. It’s a “departure point” for a band that, lucky for us, has never made a real departure. And when it came time for a reissue, we knew it deserved a lasting place on vinyl, right alongside every other indispensable record in Spoon’s discography.
Various Artists – Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘N’ Roll –
This collection accompanies Peter Guralnick’s landmark book of the same title. A hand-picked selection of 45 of Sam Phillips production that illustrates his unique approach to recording.
Amy Winehouse – The Collection 5 lp box set containing never before released songs
Frank Zappa – Sheik Yerbouti 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2015

Mike Adams At His Honest Weight – Preperation Age Mike Adams At His Honest Weight rounds out 2015 with Preparation Age, a new 5-song one-sided LP. It was recorded during the same sessions as a forthcoming 2016 full-length and serve as companion songs and a taste of what is to come. They build on the solidly crafted pop songs of 2014’s The Best of Boiler Room Classics through sonic experimentation and take the band’s sound into a hazier new territory combining influences from the synth-based rock of Wheat, Grandaddy, and Flaming Lips with Beach Boys inspired vocal harmonies. Throughout Preparation Age, Mike Adams manages to tell stories of forgotten friends and everyday people, turning fear and anxiety from the departed past into something pleasing and beautiful. In the more perfect universe next door, 2016 is the year for Mike and the boys’ magnum opus crowning achievement that will earn them a well-deserved gold record. For 2015, in the here and now, it’s Mike Adams At His Honest Weight’s Preparation Age. Preparation Age is presented in a limited vinyl-only release of 500 copies with the B-side featuring an etching and including a digital download code.
Sam Amidon – But the Chicken Proved Falsehearted
Trey Anastastsio – Paper Wheels
The Avengers – S/T
The Beatles – 1
David Bowie – 1.Outside
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nocturna
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs – Coulda Shoulda Woulda
Re-issue
Meredith Graves / Kevin Devine – Took The Ghost to The Movies / Giesen Split 7″
Inventions – Blanket Waves When Explosions In The Sky’s Mark T. Smith and Eluvium’s Matthew Cooper united as Inventions last year, the expectation was a sound that married Smith’s iconic, emotional compositions with Cooper’s introspective, occasionally noisy ambiance. For the most part, their debut album delivered on that promise. However, their quick follow-up, Maze of Woods, exploded those sounds and smeared them into a rich, abstract space where comfort and confusion coexist. The duo’s individual identities dissolved into a fluid, ever-changing landscape of mechanical rhythms, vocal samples, and indeterminate instrumentation. It was uniquely haunting, and brilliantly executed. Blanket Waves continues in the direction charted on Maze of Woods increasingly malleable, and even farther-reaching in its blurring of dream and reality. Composed of two 12-minute tracks, it encompasses the curiosity and craft that Smith and Cooper are renowned for, exemplified by their weaving of seemingly disparate pieces into a breathtaking pastiche that manages to evoke the same sense of wonder and blissful abandon that have made Explosions In The Sky and Eluvium so important to so many.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – S/T
Johnny Marr – Adrenalin Baby: Johnny Marr Live marr
‘Adrenalin Baby’ was recorded primarily at his Brixton Academy and Manchester Apollo shows during Johnny’s ‘Playland’ tour in support of his Top 10 solo albums ‘The Messenger’ and ‘Playland’. In addition to material from his solo albums, ‘Adrenalin Baby’also features takes on The Smiths’ classics ‘The Headmaster Ritual’,‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ and ‘How Soon Is Now?’. The collection is completed by Electronic’s ‘Getting Away With It’ and Johnny’s interpretation of ‘I Fought The Law’. “I wanted to capture the atmosphere and feeling of the last couple of tours,” says Johnny. “It’s been a special time and the album is a document for fans who were there, and for people who haven¹t seen me and might want to check out what the shows are about. I like live records when they¹re a good listen, It¹s turned out really well.” Released on digital, LP, limited edition and numbered pink coloured double-vinyl (with a poster)
Nirvana – S/T The black & silver greatest hits package released on double 200 gm vinyl mastered at 45 rpms, or a regular single LP version on 150 gram vinyl.
Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy 10th Anniversary Edition In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of thisokkervil iconic album, Jagjaguwar is proud to present the Black Sheep Boy 10th Anniversary Edition, a three-LP set combining the classic Black Sheep Boy album and its counterpart the Black Sheep Boy Appendix with an all new unreleased album entitled There Swims a Swan: full-band recordings made six months prior to the release of Black Sheep Boy which illuminate the album’s roots in the traditional American songbook. Featuring beautiful, emotional readings of songs popularized by such artists as Washington Phillips, Lead Belly, the Louvin Brothers, and Roscoe Holcomb, There Swims a Swan takes the listener on a trip through the songs that inspired Sheff while composing Black Sheep Boy and reads like a run-through of that album’s themes. Black Sheep Boy is celebrated for its album artwork as well as its music, and the Anniversary Edition collects that artwork in a meticulously reworked package, combining every previous element of William Schaff’s imagery with a large new piece by Schaff depicting an updated Black Sheep Boy. The release also includes lengthy liner notes by Will Sheff walking the listener through the circumstances surrounding the album. For Okkervil River fans (the most high-profile of whom was recently revealed to be President Barack Obama, who included “Down Down the Deep River” on his 2015 summer playlist), the Anniversary Edition is a loving, comprehensive, richly expanded presentation of a record many consider to be one of the band’s best. For those new to the band, this might be the best place to start, the first step on a long road, the opening to a forest you can get lost in.
Linda Olah & Isabel Sorline -Cabaret Con temporary All tracks written by Moondog
Original Soundtrack – Kill Bill Vol. 1
Original Soundtrack – Kill Bill Vol. 2
Phoenix – Alone on Christmas
7″ single with Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Paul Shaffer & Buster Poindexter.
Pointed Sticks – The Pointed Sticks have a self-titled new album on Sudden Death and Northern Electric. It’s a great record with ten amazing new songs by Vancouver’s punk / pop kings-“You’re Not The One,” “Lovely Bird” and “Tin Foil Hat” are all über-catchy hits in the band’s classic style. In a parallel universe, this is what the radio might sound like
Professor Longhair – Hadacol Bounce 14 tracks recorded in New Orleans between 1949-1957
Ty Segall – T. Rex
Snoop Dogg – The Game Is To Be Sold, Not Told

The Soviettes – [Rarities]
Peter Stringer-Hye 4 Song 7″ EP
Swans – Love Of Life
Tiger’s Jaw / Kevin DevineIn Between Days / Lovesong Split 7″
Various Artists – Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti
Various Artists – Early Motown EPs Seven 7″ singles in a box mimicking the UK releases. 28 tracks in all, limited to 3000 copies.
Various Artists – The Unbroken Circle: The Musical Heritage of the Carter Family Somewhere, not long into the twentieth century, at the foot of a great limestone mountain, a young, bright blue-eyed girl picked up a guitar for the first time. This simple yet mysterious child of Virginia was then Maybelle Addington. In the quiet hollows of Appalachia near Hiltons, Virginia, where the coal smoke lay like early morning fog over the tobacco fields, she developed a style of guitar playing destined to influence musicians around the world… Artists include George Jones, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Janette & Joe Carter, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Roseanne Cash, & more.

NEW RELEASE VINYL NOVEMBER 2015

November 4th, 2015

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2015

All Them Witches – Dying Surfer Meets His Makerallthem
Boy & Bear – Limit of Love
Neko Case – Black Listed
Cicada Rhythm – Cicada Rhythm
Coil – Backwards
The lost album & essential bridge between “Love’s Secret Domain” and the “Music To Play In the Dark.” Recorded 1992-1996 in London & New Orleans
Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane
LTD Ed 180 gm pressing on maroon colored vinyl.
Merchandise Featuring The Dum Dum Girls – Red Sun / Echo 7″
Moving Mountains / Prawn – Split 12″
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed
Over the Rhine – Blood Oranges In The Snow
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips – Mistress America
Mike Watt + The Secondmen – Chronics 7″
Wombats – Greek Tragedy 7″
Various Artists – Not The Same Old Blues Crap II: A Fat Possum Records Compilation
R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford & Paul Jones

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Sisters of Mercy – Floodland  The classic 1987 LP plus three 12″ EPs

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Adele – 25
Beat Happening – Look Around
Formed in the early ‘80s in Olympia, Washington by Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford, Beat Happening combined a primitive pop sound with a D.I.Y. attitude and inspired countless artists along the way. The community that arose around the band and their label, K Records, was in many ways, the sonic antithesis of their Seattle neighbors (and friends) but was no less influential. Look Around is a remastered, double album anthology, handpicked by the band. It’s a great starting point for the uninitiated as well a refreshing reminder to those who caught the wave the first time around.
Besnard Lakes – Golden Lion 12″
Blue Jean Commitee – Catalina Breeze
Fred Armison’s take on 70’s yacht rock.
Neko Case – Truckdriver Gladiator Mule
The long story of Neko Case and her musical wonderment will finallycase be told in a stunning and long overdue vinyl set , entitled the Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule LP box set. Neko’s entire discography on wax will be available on standard black 180 gram vinyl. The set includes all 8 vinyl remasters (remastered from the original analog tape), plus a limited edition 80-page full color photography book and a vinyl slipmat with illustration, both designed by Neko Case herself. All of this comes in a custom storage box. The titles are beloved by fans and many have been out of print on vinyl for years. Neko will embark on a small tour, with a limited number of special performances, playing songs from throughout her career, and performing as a quartet for the first time in 14 years. – Entire catalog on Vinyl – most have been out of print for years – Includes limited edition 80-page full color pho- tography book – Set includes a vinyl slipmat with illustration by Neko Case – Playing the Mutations Festival in Brighton (UK) on November 28 and headline show at Union Chapel in London (UK) on December 1st.
Miles Davis – Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963
Michael Jackson – Dangerous
re-issue
Jewel – Picking Up The Pieces
Led Zeppelin – Mothership
Led Zeppelin redefined rock in the Seventies and for all time. They werledzepe as influential in that decade as the Beatles were in the prior one. Their impact extends to classic and alternative rockers alike. Then and now, Led Zeppelin looms larger than life on the rock landscape as a band for the ages with an almost mystical power to evoke primal passions.

Produced by Page and mixed by Kevin Shirley, MOTHERSHIP’s 24 monolithic tracks were selected and sequenced by the band, who also oversaw the painstaking remastering. Spanning their epic career, the unprecedented collection pulls immortal songs from all eight of the band s classic studio albums, one of the 20th century’s most enduring bodies of musical work. 
MC 900 FT Jesus – Welcome To My Dream
Since it’s 1991 CD release, Welcome To My Dream has earned a cult reputation as one of the pioneering works of hip-hop, funk & jazz fusion. “In a lot of ways, Welcome To My Dream was a precursor to trip-hop, layering hip-hop beats over jazzy breaks and dream-like instrumentation.” (Sean Carruthers/AllMusic). From U2 sampling the track “The City Sleeps” for Zooropa; to director Tarsem Singh using “Falling Elevator’s” in his famous 1996 Levi’s commercial; Welcome To My Dream is a sonic playground that’s finally giving it’s fans the opportunity to be experienced on vinyl.
Sonny Rollins – What’s New?
Firs vinyl press in over 20 years, limited to 2000 copies worldwide.
Saxon – Battering Ram Limited Edition Box Set. With Biff Byford singing as well as he ever has, Paul Quinn and Doug Scarratt making full use of the term ‘shredding’ with their guitars and the lock-steady rhythm of Nibbs Carter’s bass and Nigel Glockler’s drums, the future and the past crash together in an ear-scintillatingly engaging, raucous, melodic-yet-classically heavy ten songs collection which will instantly be hailed as a Saxon classic. The title track, with its delectable twin guitar assault heralding the album’s commencement, gives the listener an instant crack around the chops, whilst traditionalists will be delighted to hear such a perfect marriage of old, classic Saxon with the newer, fresher invective in such riff-fronted fare as “Destroyer” and “Stand Your Ground”, but there are still moments of space and exploration which fans will love. “This one’s a natural progression from Sacrifice,” says Byford, “There’s a bit less rock’n’roll and a bit more ‘heavy’ on it. We wanted to keep focused on a style rather than moving around too much.” Produced by Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Testament, saxonExodus Accept) at his Backstage Recording Studios in rural Derbyshire, Saxon were able to hone in and whittle down any excess, finding the sonic space and balance to let Battering Ram’s riffs and melodies get the necessary space to scream front and center, Sneap bringing a crispness to the sound which evokes memories of the early ‘80s without for one moment sounding dated. “Yes, Andy has been in charge of everything with this album, I keep on overview of it all, but he’s done a great job and we’re both pleased with the results. We have a great partnership.” Lyrically, Battering Ram covers a variety of social situations, from the screaming fans who rage at the gig barriers (“Battering Ram”) to the inequalities of taxation (“Tax ’Till You Drop”), as well as engaging in some good old fashioned myth (“The Devil’s Footprint” – a 200 year old tale of people waking up in winter snowfall to see unexplained hoof prints which they followed, looking for an answer in vain). “When I’m writing lyrics I like to switch back and forth between complex things, reality and rock’n’roll,” says Byford, “I thought the whole folklore behind “The Devil’s Footprint” made it great material for a metal song, being that it’s both historic and mythical. “With “Queen of Hearts” I wanted to write something around Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, and it’s about the chess game that happens in the story. I wanted it to have prog-feeling in the way of its ambiance and mood. Then you have songs like “Destroyer” and “Hard and Fast” which are ‘80s inspired songs with that modern slant on it. I’m a big fan of Marvel comics, and I wanted to write a song around the character Destroyer, and with “Hard and Fast” it’s as the title suggests, about driving fast! I do like to tie the lyric into the song, so if it’s going to be a song about driving fast, well, it has to be a fast, hard song!” There is also the album’s closing cut, haunting, gripping, melancholic tale of the First World War, “The Kingdom of The Cross”, where a poem unfurls the feelings and horrors which comprised this most brutal of global conflicts. “This year is the centenary of the end of the First World War. Nigel had a piece of music which he played on a synthesizer for a couple of years that I really liked. We had an actor (and singer), David Bower from the band Hell, read the poem and I sang the choruses. I didn’t want it to be typical Saxon, so it is just keyboards, bass, me and Dave.” Wonderfully uncompromising, with Battering Ram Saxon have once again established their rightly-venerated credentials as Kings and vanguards of heavy metal music.
The Silence – Hark The Silence
Sun Ra – To Those of Earth…& Other Worlds
Sonny Boy Williamson – The Trumpet Singles 1947-1955

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Atmosphere – The Fun EP (Happy Clown Bad Dub Eight) Picture disc
Bad Bad Hats – Psychic Reader
David Bowie – Golden Years / Station to Station 7″ Pic Disc
Brooklyn Funk Essentials – Funk Ain’t Ova
John Coltrane – Coltrane’s Sound Limited edition of 2000. Double LP 180 gram, 45 rpm.
Billy Gibbons & The BFG’s – Perfectamundo
Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release, the debut solo album from Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top guitarist/vocalist and Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Perfectamundo is a blend of blues, jazz, Latin and rock, as Gibbons explores songs with a new backing band, The BFG’s, who are a handpicked group of musicians selected for this unique outing. The album itself was inspired by Billy’s early influence of Cuban jazz and studying Latin percussion with Tito Puente at an early age, along with being invited to the Havana Jazz Festival.
Girlschool – Guilty As Sin
Helvetia – Dromomania
Jodorowsky’s Dune
LCD Sound System – YR City S A Sucker 12″
David Lynch & Marek Zebrowski – Polish Night Music
Barren train stations, Polish factories at night, and lynchsilent hotels where lonely travelers meet. These are the images and suggested narratives that pervade the spirit of Polish Night Music, the musical collaboration between American filmmaker David Lynch and Polish concert pianist and composer Marek Zebrowski. Zebrowski and Lynch first met during the Camerimage Film Festival in Lodz, Poland and started to work together during the organic evolution of Lynch’s Inland Empire. Originally, Zebrowski served as a translator for the shooting of several Lodz-based Polish scenes in Empire, but upon discovering their shared interest in musical experimentation and improvisation, Lynch invited Zebrowski to his Los Angeles studio to participate in a series of musical experiments. From these initial collaborations, inspired by their unique and distinct connections to Poland, emerged a tangible mood and distinctly modern texture that became Polish Night Music.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Alone In The Universe
Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell – So Familiar
Panda Bear – Crosswords EP
Parquet Courts – Monastic Living MonasticLivingWeb
Pentimento – I, No Longer
Powermad – Infinite
Trent Reznor – Natural Born Killers Soundtrack
Ride – Nowhere (25th Anniversary Edition)
Dwight Yoakam – Come On Christmas
Neil Young – Blue Note Cafe
Performance series #11. 21 songs on 4 LPs featuring 7 previously unreleased songs.

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Danny Bensi & Saunders Jurriaans – The Gift, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Brokeoffs – Brain Damage / Eclipse / House of the Rising Sun
10″ picture disc of two Pink Floyd covers and the classic American folk song.
Disturbed – Ten Thousand Fists
Driftwood Pyre – Driftwood Pyre
New project from First Communion After Party’s Liam Watkins
Drive-By Truckers – This Weekend’s The Night
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 12, 1965-1966: The Best of The Cutting Edge
Triple vinyl LP edition. Packaged in a slipcase with separate booklet with exclusive photography and liner notes. 2015 archive release featuring the best of Bob Dylan’s unreleased studio recordings from 1965 and 1966, Includes alternate versions of songsdylan such as ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, ‘Desolation Row’, ‘Visions Of Johanna’ and ‘Highway 61 Revisited’. Between 1965 and 1966 Bob Dylan recorded three albums that many believe changed the course of modern music: Bringing It All back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Volume 12 takes you inside the studio during the recording of those three albums. With a staggering wealth of unreleased songs, outtakes, rehearsals and alternate versions – The Cutting Edge provides a unique insight into a legendary icon’s creative process.
Floating Point – Elaenia
The Headcoats – Elementary Headcoats: The Singles 1990-1999
50 of their best on three LPs.
Low – Low Christmas
First time on vinyl domestically!
magMagnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs Vinyl repress of The Magnetic Fields’ classic 1999 3-CD Box set rumination on, of course, love. Funny, smart, dark, memorable, and a lifetime’s worth of listening. Stephin Merritt solidifies his songwriting genius on his “most ambitious and fully realized work.” (AMG) This vinyl reissue is remastered for vinyl & beautifully packaged in a 10” slip case box with three double gatefold sleeves and the original booklet at full size!
Natalie Merchant – New Tigerlily Recordings
Paper Kites – Twelvefour Australian indie-folk outfit The Paper Kites will release their sophomore album, twelvefour on Nettwerk Records August 28th. Produced by Phil Ek (Father John Misty, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses), it is the follow up to the band’s debut album States. Written entirely between midnight and four in the morning, twelvefour is a concept record that explores the theory that an artist’s creative peak lays within these hours. The Paper Kites’ music has been featured on numerous television shows including ABC’s Forever and Grey’s Anatomy, as well as The CW’s Reign.
Lascelles Perkins – Sings Studio One & More Lascelles Perkins was one of the first stars of the Jamaican music scene, Studio One’s leading balladeer, and one of the most underrated singers from that time. Perkins sang sentimental ballads and scored massive local hits for Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One label with tracks like Lonely Moments and Together Forever. Other big hits followed, including The Mighty Organ (a duet with Hortense Ellis, Alton Ellis’s sister), Destiny, and a whole catalog of standards. Perkins could sing any song, make it seem effortless, and, at the same time, address it in his own unique style. Perkins was present at the birth of Studio One, at the initial sessions carried out in 1959 alongside the other big singers of the day, Alton Ellis and Basil Gabbidon. The session took place at Federal Studios and, as was standard at the time, the studio had one mic hanging down in the middle of the room. The singer would be nearest to the mic, and the musicians, depending on how loud their instruments were, would place themselves accordingly in the room, recording everything together in a single take. The singers and the musicians would have to be at the top of their game and would be paid for each side they cut. Doing things over would mean fewer songs finished. Time and money was tight, but this discipline made the great records we know today. This set includes Perkins on some lost tapes from producer Bunny Lee’s archive, singing some of the big Studio One hits of the day, including Rain from the Skies, Stick by Me, Love Me Forever, and No Man Is an Island, alongside other great tunes from the time like Dancing Mood, Pledging My Love, Take My Hand, Never Never, and Dinner for One.
Murder Shoes – Daydreaming
Rush – Counterparts Special double LP edition
Rush – Test for Echo Special double LP edition
Soldiers of Fortune – Early Risers EARLY RISERS is Soldiers of Fortune’s second album, and both are on Mexican Summer. They have been called a NYC hard rock improv collective, and we really really hate that description.   
 The band consists of Brad Truax (so many bands, but dude, Interpol?), Kid Millions (Man Forever, Oneida), Barry London (fuck yeah Oneida), Matt Sweeney (Chavez being his LEAST well-known operation should tell you something), Jesper Eklow (Meandering Tedium, sorry, Endless Boogie), Mike Bones already, and the elusive Papa Crazee (heavy early riser in team Oneida).  
 On this album the superior vocal stylings of the band’s Healer, Shaman and Answer CLARK “YEREMIAS” BRONSON, STEPHEN MALKMUS, CASS MCCOMBS, DAN MELCHIOR, ETHAN MILLER and MATT MCAULEY were also enlisted. The result is the sound of utter confusion and unfocused tender hatred in song form. Meaning, we are truly obsessed with this album.  Not that we ever listened to it all the way through, but we’re a label that TRUSTS THE ARTIST.  You should too.
Sun City Girls – Torch of the Mystics Considered by many fans and critics to be SCG’s peak, Torch is a vertiginous slice of psychedelic rock that assimilates and then mutates Middle Eastern musical elements (Alan and guitarist/brother Richard Bishop have Lebanese heritage) into bold new shapes. It contains some of the most profoundly spiritual music I’ve ever heard (see especially “Space Prophet Dogon”).
U.S. Girls – Half Free U.S. Girls will release Half Free on September, 25th her debut album for 4AD. The work of usgirlsIllinois-born, Toronto-based artist Meg Remy, U.S. Girls has evolved in recent years from the coarse 4-track fidelity found on her early recordings to more luscious and unabashed works, packed with fiery pop sensibilities. Half Free is the next step in this impressive progression, an honest and lyrically jarring exploration of emotions, drenched in a bath of raw beats and loops that have become the hallmark of her work with producer and frequent collaborator Onakabazien. Other album guests include Slim Twig (DFA), Ben Cook (Fucked Up, Young Guv), Amanda Crist (Ice Cream) and Tony Price.
Various Artists – A Blues Christmas New vinyl compilation featuring the best of Alligator’s previous CD-only holiday releases, The Alligator Records Christmas Collection and Genuine Houserockin’ Christmas. Features genre legends Koko Taylor, Carey Bell and Katie Webster, plus current blues headliners Shemekia Copeland, Marcia Ball, Roomful of Blues and Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials. Here’s to a not-so-silent night!
Various Artists – I Saved Latin, A Tribute To Wes Anderson Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve.wes 2014 release, an outstanding tribute to director/screenwriter Wes Anderson. I SAVED LATIN! Features today’s best artists covering songs that have appeared in his films Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and more. Includes covers of songs by the Kinks, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Elliot Smith, Nick Drake, Nico, Cat Stevens, Love, John Lennon, The Zombies, Mark Mothersbaugh, among others. The 6 panel eco-wallet features exclusive Wes Anderson-inspired illustrations by critically acclaimed rock poster designer Lonny Unitus. Includes songs performed by Juliana Hatfield, Kristin Hersh, Margo And The Nuclear So & So’s, Telekinesis, Matt Pond and others.
Various Artists – Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift To You Back in print for this holiday season. Best Christmas album ever!51RAwQgCZ+L._SL500_AA300_
Various Artists – This Record Belongs To:_________ What if your favorite children’s book were not only a timeless story but came with a soundtrack of tunes that kids and grown-ups alike would love? Hold onto your boots… it’s here! This Record Belongs To______ is the antidote to your standard kids compilations. You won’t find boy bands, princesses, or purple dinosaurs here. Instead the record consists of two halves?an upbeat side for daytime dancin’ and a mellow side for bedtime lullabies. Among the many gems featured include songs from Carole King, Woody Guthrie, Donovan, Harry Nilsson, Jerry Garcia, Nina Simone, Kermit The Frog and more. Inspired by the classic Little Golden Books Series and Sesame Street’s In Harmony albums, This Record Belongs To ______ stems from a love of music, reading, and a passion for teaching future generations the interactive experience of holding an album in your hands, putting needle to groove, and immersing yourself in the pages of a record’s sleeve as the music plays.
Frank Zappa – Bebop Tango Contest Live Repressed. With the success of his Apostrophe and Roxy & Elsewhere albums, 1974 saw Frank Zappa at his commercial peak. Evidently feeling a surfeit of goodwill towards his fans, at the close of the year he prepared a personally mixed reel of live performances from the previous year for broadcast on WLIR-FM in Garden City, New York, on New Year’s Eve. Not to be confused with a show he was playing the same night in Long Beach, California, this is a typically adventurous and humorous compilation, and is presented here with background notes and images. 180-gram vinyl; includes insert.

We Are An Authorized Blue Note Dealer

October 6th, 2015

Blue Note Records is celebrating their 85th anniversary by bringing back the #BlueNoteAuthorizedDealer program, and we’re happy to announce that we are one! That means you can find a large selection of new and classic Blue Note titles in our bins, as well as exclusive color variant releases, and more, coming monthly to independent record stores like ours.