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This U.K. duo barely blipped the radar here with its 2004 debut, "Kicking the National Habit," a sublime, catchy melange of the Police's rhythmic pop, New Order's dance-driven rock and the Bee Gees' knack for melody. "A Drink and a Quick Question" is more diverse, touching on the homespun feel of "Tusk"-era Fleetwood Mac on lovelorn laments like "Joker and Clown" and conjuring intriguing disco/rave hybrids like "By the Time I Get Home There...
CD AUDIO SIDE: Entire Album DVD SIDE: * Entire album in enhanced LCPM Stereo * Live video clips, including: "Lollapalooza" "Bridge School Benefit" "While We Were Out" (making of the new album) "Brandon's Injury" This disc is intended to play on standard DVD and CD players. May not play on a limited number of models.
Dragons of Zynth are ready to take over your mind, body and soul, and with Coronation Thieves, it just might do that. Prepare yourself for the aural experience of a lifetime, but there is just one caveat, listening with headphones will bring you to another universe (and we kind of like that!) Here be the Dragons!
The Aggregate Responsible for Inspiring Sarah Mclachlan to Enter the Dance Music Realm is Back with a Fresh Set of Beauties for 2003, Including Guest Appearances by Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer) and They also Managed to Get Julee Cruise (Twin Peaks, Angelo Badalamenti) to Record Once More. This Special Edition of the Album Comes with a Bonus Disc of a Track that Didn't Make the Regular Album and a Remix of "After All", Along with Three...
When he stepped off the stage of the world famous Scribble Jam Battle (proving grounds for such rappers as: eminem, slug, and sage francis), Astronautalis knew it was time for a change. After spending the last 8 years as a well-respected battle rapper, and rising from lunchrooms to concert halls, the thrill was gone. His famous freestyle skill was all there, but the creative void was no longer filled by the braggadocio and machismo of the battle...
Wilco drummer/percussionist Glenn Kotsche's solo label debut, Mobile, comprises eight original compositions, with inspirations ranging from mobile sculpture, coimposer (and label-mate) Steve Reich, the Ramayana, Wilco drumbeats, the Nonesuch Explorer series, and percussionists Tony Allen and Ed Blackwell. The album features a wide range of instruments, including vibraphone, kalimba, mbira and drum kit.
The Nine Track EP features Extended and Remix Versions of Tracks Taken from their Album `light at the End of the World'. The Package also Includes an Exclusive Duet featuring Cyndi Lauper and Andy Bell on Vocals plus the Winning Entry to the Remix Competition of When a Lover Leaves You (Made Using Apple's Garageband Software).
"This is where you go to find every aspect of Frank's music squeezed into two perfectly formed records."Dweezil Zappa. This new addition to Eagle Vision's acclaimed Classic Albums series focuses on Frank Zappa's early seventies albums "Overnite Sensation" (1973) and "Apostrophe(`)" (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's extraordinary musical diversity and were also the two most commercially successful albums that he released in his...
Athens' Of Montreal has seen a resurgent interest in their back catalog following the overwhelming success of their most recent two albums: "Satanic Panic In The Attic" and "The Sunlandic Twins". This, their second full-length, features uncredited appearances by members of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Late B.P. Helium. It was the first in which Of Montreal built characters around concepts. Though not as developed as later concept albums by the...
Instrumental rock has always been best left to the fringe. Avoiding words to tell ideas, these bands convey meaning with a whole other vocabulary--a lexicon to which few can relate. It's not for the literal-minded, nor for the easily distracted. When it's not successful (most times) it's not much use to anybody. But then comes a band like Australia's Dirty Three, a rather (true to its name) grimy trio of drums, guitar, and violin. Their version...
"Mr. Wild successfully creates a soothing and calming atmosphere which could be an excellent addition to one's nightly sleep regimen." William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D. Director of Sleep Disorders and Research Center Stanford University School of Medicine "The titles of the first seven Liquid Mind albums have honored values important to me on my life's journey. This eighth album honors the need in all of us for a healthy and regenerating rest...
Imagine Frank Zappa composing the soundtrack for Ed Wood's Plan Nine from Outer Space, or the Residents unleashing a techno-dance project: that should give you some idea of Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante, an album of cheesy synthesizers, mangled disco beats, virtuosic playing, and juvenile noises. Like the Residents, Mr. Bungle is a Northern California band that obscures its true identity (it shares members with Faith No More) by prohibiting photos...
Digitally remastered reissue of their classic 1965 album featuring 'Just Like Me' and 'Steppin' Out', plus the original artwork and three bonus tracks- 'Ride Your Pony' (Unreleased), 'Just Like Me' (Alternate Album Mix) and 'B.F.D.R.F. Blues' (Single). 15 tracks total, all taken from the original master tapes. 1998 Sundazed release.
Digitally Remastered and Expanded Edition of the Bunnymen's Fifth and Final WEA Album with Ian Mccullogh as Lead Singer. The Arrangements Are Noticeably Clean and Punchy, Mostly Eliminating Strings and Focus Almost Exclusively on Guitars, Keyboards, Drums and Occasional Percussion. Seven Bonus Tracks have Been Added to this Edition; Album Tracks Alternate Versions, Some Previously Unrelesaed and Two Previously Unreleased Live Tracks from "The...
Though they found worldwide fame in 1969, Winnipeg's Guess Who had been scoring scads of hard-rockin' hits in Canada for years, beginning with 1965's ferocious rendition of 'Shakin' All Over.' Now, spurred by the recent unearthing of a bevy of vintage master tapes-and with the help of Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman - the Sundazed label gathered 24 of The Guess Who's hardest-hitting, most awesome recordings from '63-'67. With many...
San Diego's instrumental post-rock quintet came together after playing in such seminal San Diego bands as The Locust, Crimson Curse, Swing Kids, and Gogogo Airheart among others. This is their third full-length since the release of their critically acclaimed debut "Spine & Sensory" in 2000. It has layers and textures akin to Boards Of Canada and Amon Tobin. Melodic and inventive, emotive and inspirational, the music sings so eloquently...
Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Dvd with Several Videos. Dvd is Ntsc, Region Code Two.
Once you take your first hit of Opium you might find it hard to quit. The same could easily be said of Opium Garden, a vast open-sky nightclub in Miami's trendy South Beach, the brainchild of Eric and Francis Jones, son of Mick Jones of Foreigner. The Club has dominated the nightlife scene on Miami Beach as a playground favored by international travelers and South Beach locals. Not unlike a sophisticated Bedouin tent with an open-air...
With their eagerly awaited 10th album... provoking and seducing in equal measures... a soulful, insistent and sometimes riotous collection of songs and distracting instrumentals, the album features the ever present musical heart of shriekback - the vocal and lyrical alchemy of Barry Andrews, and the percussive bedrock of Martyn Barker along with Mark Raudva, Carlo Asciutti, Wendy Partridge, Barry Andrews' son Finn and Andy Partridge who...
%@#$!!? Brace yourself, super group Fantomas is back with a vengeance on their fourth album SUSPENDED ANIMATION. Unlike the epic DELIRIUM CORDIA, SUSPENDED ANIMATION likens itself with Fantomas' first record (self titled) punctuated with cartoon escapades. The special spiral-bound edition is gone but not to worry, you shan't be deprived. Packaged in a digipak with a 30 page booklet of all of the same beautiful Yoshitomo Nara original...
The first solo album from the legendary Butthole Surfers' front man and co-founder. It's a groundbreaking collection of songs from one of the most dynamic, controversial, and influential icons of the alternative music movement. Sure to be embraced by Butthole Surfers fans and the alt music world.
Digitally Remastered Edition of the Former Tangerine Dream Man's "Dune", Originally Released in 1979. It's One of Schulze 's Most Important Albums, featuring Two Long-form Compositions. The Second Track features Arthur Brown on Vocals and Wolfgang Tiepold on Cello. The Cello Provides a Drone. Brown 'reads' a Poem by Schulze.
2006 Japanese Limited Edition Release of the Duo's Eighth Full Length Album, Reuniting them with Producer Trevor Horn (Who also Produced "Introspective") that Includes a Special Bonus CD Filled with Remixes! "Fugitive" was Originally Written at the Beginning of 2005 and Completed with Richard X. "in Private" is the Duo's Own Version of the Hit They Wrote and Produced for Dusty Springfield in 1989 and this Version features an Appearance by Sir...
2006 Issued Digitally Remastered Edition of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Return to Recording in 1978 for the Virgin Label (And Warner Bros in the Us Only for this Album in this Phase of his Career). The Songs were First Put to Tape under Its Original Title "Bat Chain Puller" in 1974, but Due to Typically Complex Beefheart Legal and Personal Reasons Only Saw the Light of Day with "Shiny" Added to the Title and after Re-recording the...
Japanese pressing scheduled to include 4 bonus tracks. Legendary reworker Senor Coconut who is Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart) is back with Latin-styled renditions of the greatest hits of YMO (Yellow Magic Orchestra)! Features guest performances from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Towa Tei, Akufen, Mouse on Mars, Burnt Friedman and more.Third-Ear. 2006.
Originally released in 1988, the A.R. Kane album 69 features 10 tracks from the British dance twosome including "Dizzy," "Scab," and "Spermwhale Trip Over."
The Stems, the Stonefish, the Someloves, Dm3, the Majestic KELP: Five Easy Steps on Dom Mariani's Endless Quest for the Ultimate Guitar Pop Masterpiece. "Popsided Guitar" is Mariani's First Career Overview, a Double CD Sprawl that Handpicks 38 of the Brightest Jewels from a Pop Craftsman who Has Long Defined a Certain Uncompromising Passion in the Australian Rock Underground. His Work is a Distillation of Rock'n'roll Energy, Sunstreaked...
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...
Recorded virtually live in the studio presents a different facet of the groups style. 18 tracks.
In Latin America, surrealism and the metaphysical intersect with daily life at greater frequency than in the far more materialistic El Norte. This social environment is perhaps more conducive to an aesthetic life in spite of high unemployment and less opportunity overall. The charms of life in Latin America are evident via the vivaciously enchanting sound of Entre Rios. One listen to Onda (Wave), recorded during the southern hemisphere summer,...
Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
On an old boat, maybe a raft--slowly floating under a canopy of overgrown trees lining the river bank--sultry but cool, with rays of sunlight sporadically breaking the tree shade--coming up on a dilapidated house--getting closer, the house takes on personality--sad but strong and defiant, melancholy with more than a hint of smirk. This is what I thought after one listen to Evangelista, and the album proves just as provocative with each...
Digitally Remastered Single Disc Extraction from the Legendary Four CD "Nuggets" Box Set that Presents 27 of the Great Tracks for Your Psychedelic Listening Enjoyment. Features Great Artists Like the Seeds, the Shadows of Knight, the Standells, the Remains, the Knickerbokers, Mouse and the Traps (Featuring Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in the Lineup), the Amboy Dukes (Ted Nugent), Blues Magoos, Nazz (Todd Rundgren) and Many Other Surprises!
Iceland may be the land of volcanoes, wondrous vistas, and Bjork, but Henrik Bjornsson and his bandmates in Singapore Sling have taken their musical inspirations from horizons as far a field as Dick Dale, the Velvet Underground, and Jesus & Mary Chain. Powered by a triple-guitar assault that easily lives up to its droning, metallic potential, the Sling's ominous sonic assault can just as quickly morph into subtler shades of grey....
At first glance, it may seem that Toronto's Sadies have merely stood pat with their trademark blend of psychedelic country and twangy surf rock. But theirs has been a sly evolution, and Favourite Colours, their fifth full-length (not including various collaborations), finds them masterfully honing and building on their core sound. There's an emerging depth and pensiveness to their songwriting, a growing sense of spirituality and drama. The...
Guerolito is a remix companion to the critically acclaimed Guero, which included the singles "E-Pro," "Hell Yes," and "Girl". It features an eclectic lineup of artists handpicked by Beck to create Guero's multidimensional bizzaro twin, and includes remixes by Air, Ad Rock (Beastie Boys), EL-P, Boards of Canada, Mario C., 8 Bit, and more. Additionally, Guero cover artist Marcel Dzama has "remixed" the album's artwork.
Working with a limited palette of guitars and piano, Eluvium dropped 'Lambent Material,' a masterpiece of aquatic drones and fractured neoclassical compositions, in 2002. He followed it a year later with a brief album of solo piano suites that turned everyone's expectations upside-down. Not quite classical and certainly not ambient in the common sense, 'An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death' garnered the kind of jaw-dropping acclaim that...
2007 Release of (Believe it Or Not) the Major Label Debut Album (Their Second Full Length Overall) by the Band Fronted by Former Libertine Pete Doherty, who Steals More Headlines in the International Press for his Substance Abuse Troubles. The Set was Produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths/Blur/Kaiser Chiefs) at London's Olympic Recording Studios. One (As Yet Unidentified) Song features Guitar Work by the Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr., While...
Sophmoric, 1982 Release from One of the Leaderd of the Early 80's Goth/New-Wave Movement. This Full-Length from the Sydney, Australia-Based Group Contains Ten Tracks; Among Them: "When You Were Mine", "Almost with You", "Don't Look Back" and More.
2007 release that collects various singles, alternate versions and unreleased tracks from across the '60s popsters' entire career. Often compared to Paul Revere & The Raiders, Chicago's New Colony Six burst onto the scene and into the charts with the garage-pop classic 'I Confess' in early 1966. They followed this with a string of excellent Anglophile-influenced singles and scored further hits with 'I Lie Awake', 'Love You So Much' and 'You're...
Swedish travelling musician Rickard Jverling is a man with heart, something never more evident than when gliding through Two Times Five Lullaby -- his debut album. After spending some time in Ireland and Glasgow playing folk music to earn a living, Jverling decided to return to his native Sweden and start laying down the tracks he'd always dreamed of with his musical friends in Stockholm. Taking influence from his love of American folk music,...
2006 Digitally Remastered Anthology of Recordings from the British Pop Group's Years Associated with the Blanco Y Negro and WEA Labels. Inlcudes their Global Hit Standard "Missing", "Driving" and Many More Gems from their Vaults.
Mystery White Boy, culled from Jeff Buckley's eight-month world tour of the same name, is not just another live album blighted by whoops and catcalls. Such was the reverence granted the ill-starred singer-songwriter's electrifying confessionals that hardly a whimper issues from the audience in 78 minutes--not, at least, until each gargantuan heart-and-soul epic ends. Buckley treated music like it was Shakespearean tragedy, and that grandiosity...
International pressing of the 2006 sophomore album from the No Doubt vocalist featuring one bonus track: 'Wind It Up' (Live . Includes the hot new single 'Wind It Up' and 12 other amazing new tracks. Production and co-writing duties come from an eclectic cast including Pharrell, Nellee Hooper, Martin Gore (Depeche Mode), Akon, Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane) and No Doubt's Tony Kanal. This album sees Gwen once again pushing the boundaries of pop and...
The first three Mothers albums, released between June 1966 and March 1968, come packaged as a ruthless, mind-bending, (and now, midline) monster. During this period of remarkable and unprecedented creativity, Zappa and the Mothers produced ambitious, far-ranging, unsettling, provocative, and wholly original psychedelic rock--simultaneously ridiculing psychedelic rock as they raised it to a completely new level. The musical trail brilliantly...
2005 EP with 2005 Remixes as Well as the Originals of the Tracks that Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe Did with Bobby O at the Helm. Includes the Original Mixes, a "Giga" Mix, the 2005 Remixes and the Special "Sunglasses at Night/West End Girls" Mix that was Created at the Turn of the Century.
With There's No 666 in Outer Space, Hella steps up with an album that is as fiercely imaginative as any the Sacramento-based group has released before. As groundbreaking and fearless as 2002's Hold Your Horse Is or 2004's The Devil Isn't Red, 666 provides its audience with a multifaceted listening experience that defies musical boundaries and may, upon repeated listens, permanently alter the senses. "Friends Don't Let Friends Win," "The Hand...
By their very nature, best-of collections lend themselves to nostalgia, and Depeche Mode's instantly identifiable sound and string of pervasive, catchy singles are undoubtedly the soundtrack to many memories--memories served well by this fine collection of beautifully remastered songs. If you've heard any of the band's double-disc rereleases, you'll have an idea of just how good their remastered songs can sound. While there are some obvious...
Originally conceived by Kurt Cobain, LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT! is a video document of Nirvana's rise from a scruffy trio from the Pacific Northwest into one of the most iconic and important bands in the history of rock music. Combining live material from their `91-'92 "Nevermind" tour, LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT! has long been the "holy grail" for Nirvana fans... and one that has never been available on DVD until now. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, a...
Deerhoof play with a primal abandon and molten group chemistry that remains untamed since the band's early days. Still, at nearly twice the length of their previous albums, "The Runners Four" is more complex and challenging than anything they've recorded. This is more than rock; it's a wholesale rewrite of the rock and roll dictionary. Deerhoof herald the era of the defiant DIY album. The Runners Four: a quartet of racers, chasers, messengers,...
CD Side: Entire original album, plus the bonus track "I've Got It All (Most)", previously available only as a b-side to the "Float On" single. DVD Side: * Entire album in Enhanced LPCM stereo * VMA-nominated "Float On" and "Ocean Breathes Salty" videos * 5-minute interview piece directed by and featuring lead singer Isaac Brock * New music video "Stiff Animal Fantasy" * 2 photo galleries: behind the scenes at "Ocean Breathes Salty"...
Liars have never been a band comfortable with staying in one place for very long. Geographically, personally and most of all musically, each successive album that they release comes with a new agenda, a new heritage, a new set reference points and a new way of thinking about music. After the multimedia multitasking of 2006's Drums Not Dead, Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross have returned with their most stripped back and direct album...
The massively influential band New Order formed in Manchester, England, in 1980, rising from the ashes of U.K. post-punk pioneers Joy Division (after singer Ian Curtis took his own life). Guitarist Bernard Sumner assumed vocal duties for the new unit, and with drummer Stephen Morris, bassist Peter Hook, and keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, made music history. Successfully fusing new wave, electronica, synth-pop, and club music earlier than many...
Though punk rock rarely emphasizes a vocalist's emotional range and subtlety, John Doe distinguished himself during the glory days of X as arguably the finest singer that punk has ever spawned. His latest solo release gives him more room to stretch, showcasing a vocal expanse that is equal parts romantic hope, world-weary resignation, and hard-boiled desperation--sometimes all at once, as on "Mama Don't" (sung with his 16-year-old daughter...
Best known for their 1965 smash "Wooly Bully," which helped introduce Tex-Mex rhythms to mainstream rock & roll, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs were formed in Dallas by lead singer Domingo Samudio, who took the name Sam the Sham from a joke about his inability as a vocalist. The Pharaohs consisted of guitarist Ray Stinnet, bassist David Martin, saxophonist Butch Gibson, and drummer Jerry Patterson. Before hitting it big with "Wooly Bully," a song...
Special UK edition featuring 'Sleepwalker' demo & video.
Kieran Hebden is one of those artists whose receptive audience is without classification. And that extends into the world of musical colleagues. Four Tet has commandeered fans and collaborators as wide reaching as experimental rock bands (Radiohead), massive pop acts (Coldplay), underground hip-hop producers (the late J Dilla), post-punk influenced upstarts (Bloc Party), electronic mavericks (Aphex Twin), folk chanteuses (Beth Orton and...
This is the most recent collaborative release (and first for Hydra Head) from two of Japan's most prolific and challenging artists. At times minimal and acoustic and at other times saturated with noise induced drone, this 60-minute track (in three movements) covers the spectrum of experimental music."Boris are the only living band (with the possible exception of Electric Wizard) who have mastered the art of out-Sabbathing Black Sabbath...only...
Previously only available through Polyvinyl mail order and through the band on tour, this record is finally available at retail. "Icons" is considered the companion piece to Of Montreal's latest, "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?" These five songs were recorded during the "Hissing" sessions.
After releasing "Electricity" in 1979, OMD quickly became one of the more influential electro-pop bands to emerge from England. While the premise of a singing synthesizer duo may now be a fairly conventional concept, Andy McClusky and Paul Humphreys had very few role models when they first developed their unusual style. This package pulls together two full decades of OMD's distinctive pop craftsmanship. From the early sounds of "Enola Gay" to...
Simultaneously challenging and accessible, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is a song cycle about death and dying, people, relationships, optimism, innocence--you name it. On his first two albums, Ben Folds was quick to toss off bombs of blame (most notably on the vitriolic "Song for the Dumped"), but here he aims most of his criticism at the mirror. On the wondrously snarky "Redneck Past" he sings, "My ex-wives all despise me /...
Green catapulted R.E.M. from campus cult favorites to rock stars of the highest order. The album contains three of the Athens, Georgia, quartet's most popular radio hits ("Pop Song 89," "Stand," and "Orange Crush"), punching up the big rock hooks and letting the spooky independent production slip away. Some diehard fans cried "Sellout!" but that's a strange attitude given singer Michael Stipe's environmental activism. "I'm very scared of this...
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