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Originally released internationally in 2000, three years after their Maverick issued album Cowboy, Erasure's ninth collection of original pop songs was co-produced with Flood, Erasure's original producer. Mute. 2003.
Features free bonus DVD " The Making Of One Step Closer" over 30 minutes of never seen before footage.
Fifth release from German new waver's who hit with 'Big In Japan' and 'Forever Young'. Featuring original members Maria n Gold and Bernhard Lloyd. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
This Debut Album for the Flower Machine Follows in the Hazy Footsteps of the New Breed of California Psych-country Bands Like the Beachwood Sparks and the Elephant Six Collective. "Chalk Dust Dream" is a Delightful Trip for the Senses, Moving Hearts and Minds Alike and Capturing Nostalgic Aftershocks of the Summer of Love from a Distance of 36 Years.
Singing the praises of the slithering, sinewy guitar work of Adrian Belew can overlook one of the most playfully creative, genre-be-damned musical minds in rock music. This final sonic panel in the ambitious, rapid-fire triptych Belew began with "Sides" One and Two is easily its most musically adventurous. Belew reunites with the previous chapter's rhythm section of Danny Carey and Primus' Les Claypool to good effect on key tracks like the...
Having scored a massive hit with their debut album, Core, Stone Temple Pilots returned to the same sludge-filled well for Purple, only to come up with an album that's harder, more concise, and filled with thunderous, punishing riffs. Headbangers will rejoice over the grinding guitars of "Meatplow," "Vasoline," "Lounge Fly," and "Unglued," but the album reveals far more than one dimension. They back off the throttle for the hushed (though still...
*UPDATE* from Nonesuch Records - The initial run of Laurie Anderson's Big Science reissue on compact disc contained a slight problem in the mastering that has now been resolved. On the 2nd track, "Big Science," the introduction to the song was missing the first of two wolf howls. If you purchased one of the CDs that contains the 'dropped' wolf howl, please return it (disc only!) to Nonesuch, 1290 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY 10104, attn:...
The Juan Maclean Returns with the Single "give Me Every Little Thing". It Previously Appeared on an Early Rare Dfa 12", Shared with a Track by the Rapture. Now It's Back as One of the Highlights from "less Than Human", and Backed Up by Top Remixes from Xpress 2, Cajmere (Aka Green Velvet) featuring Dajae, Putsch 79 and a Dub Mix from Dfa's in House Engineer Eric Broucek.
Trey Anastasio has built a career of extraordinary stylistic scope as the singer and guitarist of Phish and as a solo artist of wide horizons. Now Trey shows yet another side with Seis de Mayo, an album of instrumental pieces. Anastasio has been writing in this vein throughout and even before his career with Phish. That will likely come as no surprise to hardcore fans who know that a number of band favorites were composed pieces that the other...
Mute in Association with Live Here Now is Happy to Introduce a Selection of Live Concerts which Recordings Are Sold to the Audience 10 Minutes after the End of the Show. Stock is Limited So Don't Miss the Opportunity. This Pressing is Only Available as a CD-R, Not a Standard Pressing.
On their 12th release, art-pop act Stereolab float deeper into the post-rock atmosphere. They still draw from Ennio Morricone and Henry Mancini when creating their own fantasy soundtracks, but Sound-Dust lacks the dynamic interplay that invigorated Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night. The disc is all easy-listening lounge that's almost too gentle on the ears. There are no urgent sonic experiments, and only three tracks really...
The much anticipated follow-up to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, Magnolia features a specially orchestrated soundtrack, largely written and performed by Aimee Mann ('Til Tuesday member and sadly overlooked solo artist). Mann's voice has always been a suitable vehicle for conveying emotional turmoil and indelible sadness, and several tracks here ("Build That Wall," "You Do," "Driving Sideways") do so with the rich melodicism that informs...
From the band that gave Sunno))) their name and concept comes their third album, re-issued on CD. Vinyl also available.
2007 digipak release from the Unknown Instructors features 10 tracks of mind melting guitar psychotronics by Joe Baiza, lockstep backbeat from George Hurley and Mike Watt (2/3rds of The Minutemen and Firehose), and the vocal stylings of Dan McGuire, David Thomas (Pere Ubu), and Raymond Pettibon. Produced by Joe Baiza, Dan McGuire, and Joe Carducci. Smog Veil.
The Rapture wasn't the first band to revisit the clanky dance-punk sounds of bands like P.I.L. and Gang of Four. But with its DFA-produced debut, 2003's Echoes, and the accompanying underground hit, "House of Jealous Lovers," the Brooklyn quartet proved itself to be the most worthy. On its follow-up, the group makes a dramatic left turn with a new crew of producers (Ewan Pearson and Paul Epworth, plus a pair of tracks recorded with Danger Mouse...
They Might Be Giants expands to a sextet on its fifth album, John Henry. Even with the addition of bass, drums, sax, and trumpet, the focus is still on the goofy vocals, silly lyrical puns, and accordion-driven hooks of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, and that is not a good thing. These 20 songs include a tune that quotes Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," love songs to a dirt bike and a copy shop clerk, and a song that takes its lyrics from Alice ...
English singer/songwriter Billy Bragg's Volume 2 box set picks up where Volume 1 left off, but most of the four albums covering 14 years chronicled here involve alterations in the Bragg repertoire: more love songs to balance his social and political rants, and a full band playing behind him. Bragg is nothing if he isn't revolutionary. He mixes adoration ("She's Got a New Spell") and angst ("Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards") on Workers...
14 Track Hits Collection from the Late 80 S, Bjork-fronted, Icelandic Popstars.
This Depeche Mode's Third Single Taken from the Platinum Album "playing the Angel".
This New York-based quartet makes swoony, atmospheric, layered rock that's primarily interested in guitar-based interplay and subtle dynamics. Their pleasant tunes have supple melodies, a solid Velvets-derived groove, and pretty yet weathered vocals that occasionally sound like Sam Prekop from The Sea and Cake. They have too much cojones, not to mention vaguely bluesy chops, to be considered third-generation "shoegazers." Ambulance Ltd. do what...
This limited edition version features a custom sleeve that measure 8 inches square, a 40 page full colour booklet which includes photography by Michael Stipe and full album lyrics.
The DFA (Tim Goldsworthy & James Murphy) return with the first installment of their remix compendium. It is comprised of some of the many remixes that helped establish them as one of the most innovative and unique (and in demand) production teams in the world - Yes it has been well documented that Janet Jackson and Britney and a whole bunch of others called, but the duo have resolutely resisted and cherry picked their productions, mixes and...
This Depeche Mode's Third Single Taken from the Platinum Album "playing the Angel".
The First Album by the UK Krautrock/Newwave/Electronica Act. 11 Tracks Including Bonus Tracks "Skinny Little Punk" and "Electro Karaoke in the Negative Style".
HQ: Los Angeles, CA CHECK OUT: Automatic City (THE MILITIA GROUP; themilitiagroup.com) FOR FANS OF: Cursive, Fugazi, Minus The Bear. On Automatic City, Controlling The Famous display their ability to combine smart, belligerent math rock with huge melodies. Produced by Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, the Locust), the disc is a concept album that attempts to immerse the listener in the frenetic pace one experiences living in Los Angels, touching...
With their gripping blend of roaring guitars, fiery lyrics, and flat-out raw rock power, Outspoken are unquestionably one of the most exciting bands of 2003. The Louisville- based quintet have already blown up stages alongside such bands as Stereomud and Flaw, and with their Lava debut, they are set to explode from coast to coast. 12 tracks featuring the single 'Farther'. Lava Records. 2003.
The central theme of this CD is about negative dominance politically, sexually, and emotionally, despite the space of a new, hopeful relationship. Musically, there's less of a dance influence and more of a pop and academic/experimental influence. It's Xiu Xiu's most experimental record, yet it's their most delicate and accessible.
You're either a believer or you're not when it comes to this hugely popular live band. Well, the lines get blurred here, just as they did a quarter century ago on the Grateful Dead's American Beauty. As he did with the Dave Matthews Band, producer Steve Lillywhite puts a crisp stamp on 13 likable, easy-going songs and instrumentals. --Jeff Bateman
Formed in NYC in the mid-'70s by David Byrne, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth, and ex-Modern Lover Jerry Harrison, Talking Heads soared out of their humble CBGB's beginnings to become Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and one of the most adventurous and influential bands ever. The onstage energy that propelled their rise to fame was documented in the 1982 double-LP set THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS TALKING HEADS, now available on CD for the first time....
Features the Single "Purple Haze" and Guest Performers Including Neneh Cherry, Red Rat, Richie Havens and More.
Check out the artists and song titles on this disc. They'll serve as a once 'n' final warning for anyone thinkin' they've just scored some nostalgic good vibrations from the feelin' groovy sixties (Congratulations, you're about to buy the wrong collection, bub). No, what we have here is the untold, bad-attitude underbelly of that decade's rock 'n' revolution; a teenage nation that churned out thousands of raging garage records that rarely...
20 tracks including, 'Keys Of Life', 'Homi Song', 'Total Eclipse' and 'After The Fall'.
When you come up with the most-played radio hit of the year, there is no need to wrack your brains for a follow-up. Lifehouse, who earned such a distinction with 2001's highly addictive "Hanging by a Moment," shrewdly stick to the emotional guitar-rock palette of that breakthrough single for most of their second album. "I wouldn't change a thing," frontman Jason Wade declares on the searing "Spin," and the band follows through on powerful,...
As Lead Singer of No Doubt, Gwen Stefani is One of the Most Admired Women in Rock. She Can Switch from Performing on Stadium Tours Across America with Blink 182 to Playing Leonardo Di Caprio's Girlfriend in the Hollywood Epic, "The Aviator", to Singing on a Grammy-winning Hip-hop Anthem with Eve. This Edition of her Debut Solo Album Includes "Real Thing" (Slow Jam Mix)" and "What were You Waiting for (Elevator Mix)".
Third heavily anticipated album from Detroit's best band. The first pressing of the CD includes 2 bonus tracks 'King's Lead Hat' (Brian Eno) & 'Executioner Of Love' (Robyn Hitchcock). In The Red. 2003.
Brilliant three CD set that brings together singles, B-sides and rarities from New York based Hip Hop/ Rock/Blues crossover trio Fun Lovin' Criminals, who wrote the musical blueprint that artists like G .Love continue to follow. This collection includes the UK top twenty hits 'I'm Not In Love' and 'Love Unlimited' as well as their breakthrough singles 'Fun Lovin' Criminal' & 'King Of New York'. 40 tracks. EMI.
Echoing everything from bands like Pink Floyd, the Breeders, and of course Black Sabbath, WAR BIRD delivers grinding, tumbling dirge structures one minute, French sung pop based head trips the next, then onto delicate yet tense structures with a choir of Satan's cheerleaders quietly encanting "something" the next.
The Grateful Dead analogies may apply to legions of Phish-head devotees, but musically this double-live set reveals a band with the fluency of early Allman Brothers minus their focus and muscularity. A neat blend of hippie whimsy ("Gumbo") and extended jams ("Stash," "You Enjoy Myself") that aren't as tedious as you'd guess. --Jeff Bateman
Hed Kandi's Distinctive Cover Illustrations Are Modified with this Edition of this Long Running Series. This Eigth Volume Moves on to the Second Golden Age of Classic House Music from 1992 - 96, When House Moved Into Ever More Glamorous Clubs and Pianos Ruled as the Music Moved Evolved from the Earlier Chicago House Sound. One Key Difference this Time is that We're Back-to-back House Music all the Way, No Freestyle Mix of Hip-hop, Rare Groove...
This Boulder, Colorado, quintet does many things well, but nothing great. This double-CD set, culled from 13 different performances, shows off their breadth as they move from electro-bluegrass to fusion to funk to prog-rock like kiddies in a toy store. While they certainly have the chops to pull it off, they wind up playing away from their strengths too often. Everything from bluegrass stomps like "Shenandoah Breakdown" and Jimmy Martin's "Hold...
Following the success of her No Time For Sorrows album, the wonderful French vocalist ,Ms. Delsol, who has without doubt the coolest name in the world, has a compilation of her early material recorded with UK band The Bristols. 14 tracks including 'Hanging On A String', 'I'm Not A Bad Girl', 'Questions I Can't Answer' and 'Baby I Got News For You'. Damaged Goods. 2006.
Special edition of the jungle/ dance duo's 1998 outing with'Sing It Back' (DJ Tommy 'Timmy Mix') added as a bonus cut,plus a four track bonus video disc featuring: 'Fun For Me','Dominoid', 'Where Is The What If The What Is In Why' and'The Flipside'. 16 audio tracks total. Double slimlinejewel case. An Echo Records release.
This group's area code may suggest an ordinary Brooklyn address, but its spiritual home is harder to place. On "Old Dominion," the trio visits the pastoral California coast to indulge in some bright harmonizing in the style of the Mamas & the Papas; "The Late Great Cassiopia" takes a jaunty stroll through the Kinks' tree-lined London streets; and the misleadingly titled closing track, "Berlin," actually signals a summer spent in Baja, with its...
For those of you who didn't get quite enough feedback, arena reverb, or raw electricity from 1991's live Weld album to suit your tastes, Neil Young thoughtfully compiled this bizarre aural document. Originally included as a bonus disc on early versions of Weld, Arc is 35 minutes of stray guitar explosions, feedback screeches, stage announcements, and drum checks, all edited together to form a continuous (and actually rather compelling) listening...
Stephen Brodsky reunited with original Cave In basher JR and Octave Museum bassist Johnny Northrup for this record. Expect monster grooves, psychedelic abandon, and sublime pop melodies. "Eclectic and prolific" - punknews.org. "What happens when a man more closely aligned with metal goes the power-pop route? Stephen Brodsky answers that question and the result is more than satisfactory" - Scene Point Blank.
2003 enhanced release for Latin rock act on Darla Records features 15 tracks including 3 bonus tracks, 'Un Poco De Sed', 'Salven Las Sirenas' (Video) & 'Si Hoy' (Video).
2007 Digitally Remastered Edition from the Original Master Tapes of an Album Both Aphex Twin and Chemical Brothers Say Highly Influenced Them. It was the Work of American-born David Vorhaus, Delia Derbyshire (Who Created the Electronic Version of the "Doctor Who" Theme for the BBC) and Brian Hodgson. It was by Far the Most Experimental and Groundbreaking Album of 1969 and it was Equally Surprising that Two of the Three Members of White Noise...
"A Question of Lust" is Depeche Mode's sixteenth UK single, released on April 14, 1986. It is the second Depeche Mode single with Martin Gore on lead vocals, after "Somebody" and the first to be released in its own right. However, the 12" single was released as a double A-side with "A Question of Time" in the US, like "Somebody".
A strapping, intense 25-year-old, over the past couple of years Jon `Reverend' McClure has established himself as the don of the Sheffield music scene. Before he'd even signed a record deal he was selling-out thousand-plus capacity venues in his home city, curating his night Reverend Soundsystem and collaborating, inspiring and conspiring with the Steel City's key guitar-slinging players. And now he's ready to unleash his debut album. 12 tracks....
The voice of Yoko Ono with colloborations from Cat Power, The Flaming Lips, Anotno (of Antony & The Johnsons, The Apples in Stereo, Jason Pierce of Spiritualized, Peaches and many more.
Where eerie, droning, psychadelic feedback meets textured, muli-layered song-writing, there we find Bardo Pond. Their 4th Matador release, Dilate, is their most fully realized record to date, providing a fresh yet familiar insight into the band's unique take on apocalyptic tension and noise distortion. Sylistically, Bardo Pond venture further into the stoner drone territory that they pioneered but bring with them a newfound diversity which is...
Rockethouse is loud, distorted rock from the mean streets of NYC featuring ex-members of the amazing Aerial Love Feed… With a sound that calls to mind such amazing bands as Primal Scream, Jesus and Mary Chain and Kasabian, "Weapons of Mass Distortion" is sure to leave its mark as one of the best and brashest albums of 2005…
Subtitled - Various Hooligans. The second classic Pebbles compilation includes six bonus tracks, Choir 'I'm Going Home', Avengers 'Be A Caveman', Mark IV 'Don't Want Your Lovin'', Satan & D-Men 'She'll Lie', Undesyded 'Freedom Of Love', & Quid 'Crazy Things'. Aim. 1992.
All Songs Were Written by the Band. Produced by David Lowery (Sparklehorse) and David Herring (Throwing Muses.) Includes Extra Track Not on the Us Version.
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