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The follow-up to the Latin Playboys' 1994 cult-fave debut finds the union of Los Lobos bandmates David Hidalgo and Louie Perez and the studio team of Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake pushing their envelope-busting, genre-blending mix of ethnic, urban, rock, jazz, and audio vrit across every boundary they can imagine and into a musical place that seems to lie just south of the eighth dimension. It's a journey down Whittier Boulevard by way of the...
2007 Digitally Remastered Edition of the Tenth Depeche Mode Studio Album, Originally Released in 2001.
Put on Stars of the Lid's Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid and bliss out. Unspeakably sublime, the latest effort of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie, who distance themselves from their hometown Austin, Texas, boogie rock scene, is a minimalist, parametric--and ambient--symphony with a faint rock sensibility that refuses to beg for attention. Tired Sounds is built from formal patterns with layers of melody, texture, atmosphere, and rhythm--but not...
"Catchy pop spilling over with Hammond organ and acoustic strumming, not to mention slide guitar and a big harmonica hook ... a killer song."
International edition features one bonus track, 'Send a Message to Her'. 14 tracks in all. Interscope. 2005.
"Having emerged from a fairly lengthy period of obscurity, LSD March's psychedelic credentials are not in question." --Dusted Constellation of Tragedy is the sixth full-length album from Japan's LSD March, often described as a cross between the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. Constellation of Tragedy is their most well recorded and refined album to date, coming to a climactic close and featuring leader Shinsuke Michishita playing...
Japanese Version featuring Bonus Tracks.
Producer Hal Willner has had an extraordinary career matching off-the-wall contemporary performers with some enchanted by-ways of American music, creating fresh visions of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Disney soundtracks along the way. This is the soundtrack for a film of performances of Harold Arlen's music, a sequel to filmmaker Larry Weinstein's previous Willner collaboration, September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill. Arlen was among...
Rooted in the U.K.'s late `70s New Romantic movement, Depeche Mode formed in 1980, and the pioneering, synthesizer-based sound created by the founding partnership of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Vince Clarke, and Andrew Fletcher went on to establish them as one of the most successful alt-rock groups ever. These electro-pop superstars loomed as large as cult heroes as they did as commercial heavies, and their wealth of singles and signature tracks...
Yup, another tribute album and, yup, it's from Seattle. This one is out to prove a point, however--that the rainy city is not a one-sound town, as anyone who's enjoyed the Spinanes, the Fastbacks, the Posies, the Walkabouts, the Young Fresh Fellows, the Picketts, or the Presidents of the U.S.A. already knows. All of the above, save the Posies, make an appearance here, along with the likes of standbys Girl Trouble, Tad, Mudhoney, Flop, Love...
Liquid Mind V: Serenity is a peaceful and soothing musical journey, designed to help you relax deeply, during meditation, massage, yoga, rest, or in times of stress, and is a wonderful background for massage, meditation, healing, yoga, pilates, reiki, shiatsu, t'ai chi or reflexology. The tranquil flow of the music, and the absence of regular rhythm allows the listener to experience a level of relaxation not achievable by more active music....
In many ways, Please brought Euro-techno into the unsuspecting homes of millions like no other album before. This time, the boys--in this case the Pet Shop Boys--were doin' it for themselves. "I Want a Lover" and "Tonight Is Forever" are songs by boys for boys about boys that snuck past so many because of the genderless (for the most part) objects of affection in the lyrics. Please announces with every synthesizer swell layered over electronic...
Same Details as the Limited Digipack Format, Except Not Limited and Packaged in a Jewel Box.
The Tyde, fronted by singer/songwriter Darren Rademaker, formally of Further, blend British psychedelia as seen through the eyes of California oceans and sunsets. The Tyde also includes members from the Beachwood Sparks. Standard jewel case.
Sixth and darkest album yet from the Sunn0))) camp. They continue with their collaborative efforts, inviting OREN AMBARCHI, John Weise (BASTARD NOISE), Wrest (LEVIATHAN, LURKER OF CHALICE), and Malefic (XASTHUR, TWILIGHT). Progressive yet primitive sub-sonic sounds from the deep.
Their Kill Rock Stars debut represents the latest stage in the evolution of one of the most important voices in underground music. Flowing from the mystic prog-laced veins that have informed her art for the past decade, this record builds upon the stark rebellious austerity of 2005's "Ex Hex" and imbues it with warmth and formidable urgency. Equal parts clairvoyance and virtuosity, Mary (formerly of Helium) and her musicians paint in broad...
It's been nine years since Walker's last album. "An increasingly revered figure, Scott Walker is a singular craftsman, one of rock's few individuals to demonstrate a willingness to both embrace elements of the unfashionable and ignore prevailing trends, yet also display an acute awareness of contemporary sound" - Pitchfork.
After Crain's 1996 dissolution, singer/guitarist Tim Furnish started working with a rotating cast of musicians under the name Parlour. Frequently put on hold while Furnish cycled through Aerial M and The For Carnation, Parlour's recorded output came at a glacial pace. After six stop-start years, the first two official Parlour releases saw the light of day. With this long-accumulated material released and sloughed off, Furnish and Parlour were...
The Lovemakers write songs that are impossible to get out of your head and you don't want them to. The band is defiantly accessible on record, onstage and in person they make no apologies for their catchy pop hooks. Forming in 2002 after core members Lisa Light (bass, vocals) and Scott Blonde (guitar, vocals) were kicked out of their previous band for making out with each other during practice, they crowned themselves The Lovemakers, inspired by...
Grunge was the Stone Temple Pilots' stock-in-trade on their first two albums, but Tiny Music takes the group beyond such stylistic limitations. There's still plenty of grinding, metallic alt-rock here, thanks to "Pop's Love Suicide," "Big Bang Baby," and "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart." "Lady Picture Show" is a bracing blast of Beatlesesque pop, however, while "And So I Know" finds Weiland crooning over, of all things, cocktail jazz. The...
Waves of Light was created by Jonathan Goldman, a world-renowned authority in the field of sound healing who presents lectures, workshops, and weeklong intensive training sessions around the world. Extremely relaxing and healing, Waves of Light features the Sacred Healing Code frequencies using the Nine Holy Harmony Tuning Forks to create a soothing and ambient sonic environment of peace and tranquility. The Sacred Healing Code frequencies,...
Defying easy categorization, this female quartet from New York offers up a surprisingly smooth full-length album that criss-crosses musical boundaries like mad. Neneh Cherry fronting a hybrid of Soul II Soul and Kool & the Gang puts you in the ballpark for standout tracks like "Angel," "Here and Citysong." Very hip. --Jeff Bateman
Still getting a visceral kick from the simple thrill of hearing their own amplified voices on tape, the members of L7 kick off their fifth album with a mike check-"Yo! Hello! Hey!"-followed by two ear-shattering screams. The Los Angeles quartet has always had a hard time being heard for exactly what they are: a great punk-metal band, as opposed to a great female punk-metal band. But the group doesn't waste any more time making that point on The...
Contrary to the disc's title, there is nothing polite about this new release from the Rollins Band. Fronted by aggressively prolific Henry Rollins and backed by members of Mother Superior, the Rollins Band takes a chainsaw to society, cutting down people who speak first and think later ("Stop Look and Listen"), cities that break your spine ("I Want So Much More"), and never fitting in ("Going Out Strange"). Rollins gives his typical cynical...
Part of the 'my Generation, My Music' Series of Rock Reissues from Universal. Originally Released in 1999. Includes the Bonus Track 'arabian Nights'.
A kind of Chicago alt-scene supergroup, the Sea and Cake have never been a band lacking for critical notice. Lead songwriter Sam Prekop and bassist Eric Claridge hail from the brilliant and equally lauded Shrimp Boat, while drummer-producer John McIntire and guitarist Archer Prewitt arrived via Stereolab and the Coctails, respectively. That kind of pedigree guarantees a wealth of pointy-headed accolades. Of course, it's all true--those bands are...
Recorded at New York's Bottom Line in 1978 following the release of the acclaimed Street Hassle, this live document probably isn't for the casual Lou Reed fan. But if you appreciate pre-New York Lou, Take No Prisoners demonstrates, perhaps more than any other Reed artifact, the importance of major attitude and myth to classic punk. Often called "the Lou Reed comedy album," Prisoners has the totally revved-up artist coming on like a rock & roll...
A bizzare, semi-secret side project of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More featuring Trey Spruance (guitarist for Mr. Bungle & Faith No More), plus Danny Heifitz and Trevor Dunn of Mr. Bungle. Experimental rock that's entertaining, with elements of Indian and Middle Eastern soundtracks, left field drum 'n' bass, atonal future surf music & more. Remasterd and reissued with a previously unreleased bonus track 'Zulficar II'.
For Hot Chip's installment of the legendary DJ-Kicks series, the boys deliver an eclectic mix that features everything from German minimal techno to classic pop, hip-hop, grime and garage. This is a mix that covers an unbelievable broad range of styles and truly pulls it off. To top off the mix, they threw in a brand new, exclusive Hot Chip track entitled "Piano Song," which takes their sound to an entirely new level.
Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada may last only half an hour, but in that time it imparts an internal experience akin to that of watching a cast-of-thousands Hollywood epic. Godspeed You Black Emperor! are a Montreal-based nine-piece ensemble that uses massed strings, ringing electric guitars, and martial drums to evoke endless vistas and stir strong emotions. "Moya" opens with a solemn drone overlaid with resonant violin overtones, then builds to a...
Debut album from Danish duo Junior Senior is an elaborate fusion of Scandinavian pop, funk, disco, indie and hip hop, with a broad spectrum of influences ranging from Run DMC and the Ramones through to the B-52s and the Cramps. Features 15 tracks including the bonus tracks 'Coconuts' (movie edit), 'Move Your Feet' (Live Version) plus enhanced content 'Move Your Feet' (video) & 'Delta Lab Diary' (in-studio video). Atlantic/Crunchy Frog. 2003.
Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.
"I can't help but marvel over the joys one human's perceptions can bring another." - SPLENDID "Solidly entertaining." - TROUSER PRESS "A truly primitive and prolific talent." - EPITONIC 6 Dozen Cookies is a selection of stories written and read by David Fair and put to music with help from his brother Jad Fair. For years, the two recorded albums and toured as ber-important underground rock duo Half Japanese. Now, the brothers are together...
Somewhat poppier than their previous album, Bricks Are Heavy still features the abrasive guitar riffs and punk inflections that gained L7 their following. "Pretend We're Dead" was the major hit from this album, and is the most commercial song of the lot; songs like "Wargasm", "Everglade", and "Slide" are aggressive, roaring rockers. While "Diet Pill" and "This Ain't Pleasure" emphasize the group's feminist slant, this takes a backseat to their...
A re-mastered collection of timeless pre-beat ambient songcraft from 1988-89, given a full issue in 1999 and mixing the New Music transcendence of the likes of Arvo Part and Gorecki with the sublime and rarified atmospheric territory of Talk Talk, AR Kane and Cocteau Twins. An album of densely organic soundscapes, quiet ambition and heartfelt emotionalism, Speak is that rare thing, a work of genuine beauty and substance. 13 total tracks packaged...
Includes "Rock N Roll Nurse", Not Found on the USA Edition.
The Canadian-based duo has emerged with a pop statement that's easily one of the best albums of the year. It's a work that exhibits a confident mix of focus, clarity, and ambition. From the upbeat single, "In The Morning" to the somber triptych that closes the record, which touches such kindred spirits as Sylvian, Ferry, and Sinatra, Junior Boys manage to tease soul and longing out of their machines in a way that few have dared to try.
Depeche Mode's lyrical content, at times impossibly contrived, is a potential source of frustration. "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours / But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour / And when I die / I expect to find him laughing," goes the chorus of "Blasphemous Rumours," an antireligion song using attempted teenage suicide and fatal car accidents as testimonial. Lyricist Martin Gore always scores points for creative rhyming,...
CD AUDIO SIDE: Entire Album DVD SIDE: * Entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound and enhanced LPCM Stereo * Documentary film 21 Days With Train * "I'm About To Come Alive" video * "My Private Nation" live version video * Exclusive footage of a rare instore performance * Karaoke surprise appearance footage * Band member profiles * Discography This disc is intended to play on standard DVD and CD players. May not play on a limited number of models.
Very limited collection of digitally remastered live recordings & demo versions cut between 1983-1985 by this top British techno act, one of the finest band's to ever grace the Factory label's prestigious roster of artists. 69:21 long, it contains 13 tracks, including 'Looking From AHilltop', 'The Process' & 'Program For Light' recorded in concert in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, plus 'Tchaiko' (Edit - Demo) and '4tmi' (Demo). 1998 LTM Black Box...
Around The Sun, R.E.M.'s first new studio album since 2001's gold Reveal, is as emotional and ulti- mately uplifting as its "Leaving New York" single. With a renewed band dynamic and songs influenced by world events, Around The Sun surprises and satisfies and is both political and poignant. Says Michael Stipe: "Even the most depressing R.E.M.song is going to have a glimmer of hope." For fans of one of rock's most acclaimed bands, hope revolves...
This is the second Sub Pop album from Seattle's monsters of instrumental post-psychedelic rock. Since their last offering, Kinski had the chance to tour with everyone from Acid Mothers Temple to Mission Of Burma to Comets On Fire, and we'll be damned if that doesn't make sense. The new album is a logical, and thrilling step forward.
This collector's edition provides a perfect introduction to the career of this pioneer in the field of sound healing. Healing music -- music that Steven Halpern has prescribed for over 30 years -- is now recommended by leading health experts, including Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Deepak Chopra. This definitive anthology features electric piano, grand piano, flute, harp and angelic choir. Of special interest is a heart-opening version of...
24-bit remastered reissue of 1989 album. 15 tracks, including "The Mayor Of Simpleton."
DVD SIDE & * Entire album in Enhanced PCM Stereo & * "Feels Just Like It Should" video & * Making of "Feels Just Like It Should" & * Interview with Jay Kay about the making of the album
The follow up to their last full-length 'Sound Of Water', this is a collection of b-sides, instrumentals and exclusive new tracks. Includes CD-ROM video with two versions of 'How We Used To Live'. 12 tracks 'Roseneck', 'Northwestern', Queen of Polythene', 'Stevie', 'Red Setter', 'Shoot Out The Lights', 'Mountain Rain', 'Bar Conscience', 'Le Ballade De Saint Etienne', 'Thank You', 'Boy Is Crying' and 'Lose That Girl'.Standard jewel case. 2001...
While John Cale certainly gave the first couple of Velvet Underground albums a signature sound, his departure enabled Lou Reed to do exactly what he does best: write kick-ass, stripped-down rock songs. On Loaded his talent comes to full fruition. Who can imagine a world without "Sweet Jane" and "Rock & Roll," arguably two of the greatest rock tunes ever penned? The brilliance of those songs is so bright, it's easy to overlook a couple of other...
Mentored by Daniel Lanois, Daniel Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records the last ten years and it has all coalesced into this career-defining work. "Offshore" is one continuous piece, made up of six distinct songs. It's equally beautiful and noisy, composed though loose, akin to the late '80s/early '90s 4AD-laden world of shoegaze wash-rock like Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Mark Hollis, their...
"A Question of Time" is Depeche Mode's seventeenth UK single, released on August 11, 1986, following the similarly titled "A Question of Lust" single.
PAL/Region 0. Limited edition two disc (DVD + CD) set. Recorded on their Union Street tour, the DVD features 22 live performances and a short documentary while the CD contains the audio for the first 18 of the DVD's songs. For 2006's Acoustic Tour, Andy Bell and Vince Clarke reworked a selection of the defining songs that embody their two decades together and were joined onstage, for the first time ever, by a full band. Led by guitarist Steve...
Buried At Sea is a flowing wave of trance-like massiveness. They combine elements of doom, space rock, and experimental noise to create a sound of thick and heavy textures that migrate from quiet to an Earth-rattling assault. The band has been compared to the likes of SUNNO))), Eyehategod, Burning Witch, and Neurosis, but definitely carry a unique sound that's all their own. With tidal waves of hatred, Buried At Sea shatters speakers and...
Park Attack are the new noise. Driven and intense, the band's music is an explosion of feedbacking power and wild-throated melody. Founded by the trio of guitarist Rob Churm, drummer Lorna Gilfedder and keyboardist Tom Straughan, Park Attack have been the best kept secret of the Glasgow music scene for years.
Since 2001, Texas's Riverboat Gamblers have cultivated a fanatical following with their rowdy energetic live shows that have led to supporting slots on tours with Flogging Molly, Hot Water Music, Burning Brides, and the MC5, as well as a 2005 stint on the Van's Warped Tour. "Don't Bury Me" will be included in the Van's 2006 Warped Tour compilation on Side One Dummy, and "Walk Around Me" is included on the "Take Action Vol. 5" compilation (Sub...
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