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A collection of exclusive interviews never previously heard. Includes a deluxe 16-page booklet with rare & classic color & b&w photographs throughout. Pressed onto a full color picture disc. Over 60 minutes in length. Slipcase. Chrome Dreams. 2004.
Enter a Sacred Dream - This soothing-trance music invites you to remember your own inner peace. Award-winning artists David and Steve Gordon (Sacred Earth Drums, Drum Medicine) combine the Tribal drums and reverent Native Flute melodies they are renowned for with relaxing atmospheres, ancient Shaman chants (Lakota, Tibetan, Aboriginal and Mayan) guitars, sounds of nature and the healing resonance of Crystal Bowls. The album consists of four...
The first release 'Birthday/Last Exit' came in October 2003 - a four track EP with a remix by Fennesz which brought them unanimous acclaim when it caught the attention of a loose collective of music writers & bloggers who jokingly tagged them "the greatest band you've never heard." The 'High Come Down' EP followed in February 2004 with a Manitoba remix & word began to spread. This brings us to the album Last Exit, due for release on the 21st of...
Before alternative sucked.
Heavily steeped in the funk, ex-Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder comes off here like a Mancunian George Clinton as he babbles over top of a skilled, polyrhythmic unit that's far tighter than the slapdash Mondays. --Jeff Bateman
This nearly perfect debut album showcases both the extraordinary songs of Ohio-born singer Chrissie Hynde and the rhythmically complex performances of her U.K.-bred band, Pretenders. The band tramples through the sexual aggression of "Precious," "Up the Neck" and "Tattooed Love Boys"; the classic pop of "Kid" and "Brass in Pocket"; and a brilliant cover of the Kinks's "Stop Your Sobbing." Hynde's sneering vocals add resonance to these tales of...
The ultimate anthology curated by the band, 52 songs including 'Don't Let's Start', 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' and the Grammy-winning 'Boss Of Me' plus a full color book with lyrics, discography and essays by the band and NPR's Sarah Vowell. Digipaks housed in a slipcase. 2002.
Their third album serves up narratives that examine the realities no one wants to look at: war and poverty. The lyrics are about the government, political disillusionment, and being distracted by nightlife, consumerism, and celebrity watching. After some sound and line up changes, the band has largely abandoned their skronky, dance punk sound, but they're still dynamic, elastic, and danceable. They even sound like a pop band at times. All their...
Canada's Junior Boys have emerged with a pop statement that exhibits a confident mix of focus, clarity, and ambition. Both tracks are a mesh of futuristic pop romanticism and electronic funk. "In The Morning" is the product of a collaboration between the band and past tourmate, Andi Toma of Mouse On Mars, and a stunning example of the group's melodic prodigiousness. Meanwhile, the calm menace of "The Equalizer" is one of Jeremy Greenspan's...
Their third full-length is an engaging, varied, and solid record, lyrically more direct and something of a new sound for them.
Limited Edition Reissue of this Classic Album Presented in a Special Package featuring a CD with a Top Side that Resembles an Original LP Vinyl Album, but Don't Let the Looks Deceive You...it's A Fully Playable CD.
New Adventures, despite its studiocentric title, is a snapshots-from-the-road record in the tradition of Neil Young's Time Fades Away and Jackson Browne's Running on Empty. Like them, it captures a where-am-I-and-why ambience, even with its concert and sound-check material reworked in post-tour sessions. This is very much a transitional album, its feel somewhere between the chamber-folk sweep of Out of Time and Automatic for the People and the...
All the clichés ever used about instrumental prog rock at its best would be appropriate here -- "soaring," "anthemic," "powerful," "gorgeous," "cosmic," and so on. In truth, the CD itself builds on such clichés, but that's good news for anyone who wants to revisit the glory days of the genre -- or find out why this type of music still has so many fans. The veteran Djam Karet quartet (here bolstered by a second bassist) is blessed with two...
UK remastered pressing. 1979's '154' represented the final tableau in Wire's Harvest released 70's Tripych and was the first Wire album to be released to a universal set of 5 star reviews from the British Rock weekly's thus it represented the point when the British pop culture establishment publicly recognised Wire's primacy, '154' makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble wrote Nick Kent in the NME, Wire are achieving a lot of things...
Digitally remastered reissue, in standard jewel case, of this 1986 album from the former vocalist of Japan.
Excepter is a NY vocal and freestyle electronics band synthesizing live group performance with intuitive sequencing technology. Besides offering recordings commercially, they've also released hours of free music through the Internet in the form of their live edit STREAMS series. "Alternation" is their first album-length release of all original music; a combination of material recorded and composed both on stage and in the studio.
2006 Digitally Remastered Edition CD of this Alt-rock Classic Album. A Keen Pop Sensibility Meets Sonic Squelching: This is the Jesus and Mary Chain. "Psycho Candy" was Originally Released in 1985, featuring the Tracks 'just Like Honey', 'taste of Cindy', 'never Understand' and Twelve More. Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) Handles the Drumming Duty on this Recording.
This is the Bay Area band's third album and first for Sub Pop; it's also their most varied and richly textured. On "Blue Cathedral", their trademark modern psychedelic sound is enriched by more structured, keyboard-driven jams, churning out Blue Oyster Cult-ish chooglers and slow burners reminiscent of "Harvest"-era Pink Floyd. "Comets On Fire deserve our gratitude...for their distillation of all the best rock riffs since High Rise's take on...
Features the Single "Purple Haze" and Guest Performers Including Neneh Cherry, Red Rat, Richie Havens and More.
Long out of print in the U.S.! Out In L.A. is a virtual alternate audio history of the band, focusing on non-album tracks and remixed and alternate versions of tracks not normally included on RHCP compilations. For starters, six of the songs are unavailable on any of their albums in any form ('Blues For Meister', 'You Always Sing The Same', 'Stranded', 'Flea Fly', 'What It Is' and the seasonal favorite 'Deck The Halls'). Also featured are...
Tree Colored See is a collaborative effort between renowned L.A. hip hop and electronic producer Nobody (Elvin Estella) and Mystic Chords of Memory (featuring Chris Gunst of The Beachwood Sparks and The Aisler Sets Jen Cohen). After swapping successful guest appearances on a few releases, the trio began working on a collaborative project in the spring of 2004. After a year filled with road trips and mailorder-only production efforts, the group...
Last year's bittersweet return Almost Gone memorialized lost friends and family in profound fashion. The deaths of beat luminaries Ginsberg and Burroughs color parts of her seventh album, but overall Smith is back on the barricades and rocking alongside her Lenny Kaye-led band. "1959," a plea for Tibet, is the catchiest, timeliest song here, and, like "Don't Say Nothing," it merits at least a dash of commercial airplay. Ain't going to happen, of...
LTM are proud to present Cool As Ice, a compilation of stone classic old school 80's electro & dance cuts produced by Be Music, the tag used by all four members of New Order. Largely produced between 1983 & 1984 for release on Factory Records & Factory Benelux. This collection features tracks co-produced by Be Music (Bernard Sumner) & DoJo (Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio). 'Nyam Nyam' & the 'Be Music Theme' were produced by Peter Hook, &...
A singles band if ever there was one, the hits on Pop make the duo of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke of Erasure sound like the Rodgers & Hammerstein of synth-pop disco. With the exception of The Circus and The Innocents albums, most of Erasure's full lengths house only a few brief moments of brilliance, the rest of the songs being limp and uninspired. But putting songs like "Blue Savannah" with its sweeping loveliness, the haunting "Ship of Fools,"...
By far Jane's Addiction's best album, Ritual De Lo Habitual is chock full of songs that are both catchy and experimental. The singles "Stop" and "Been Caught Stealing" are good examples; "No One's Leaving" has a nice funk edge with some busy guitar work, and "Ain't No Right" and "Obvious" are strong as well. Unfortunately, "Three Days" and "Then She Did . . ." are overlong and get bogged down well short of halfway through, but the album finishes...
It's ironic that electronica's forefathers include two German bands whom, at least on the surface, were polar opposites. On the one hand, there was Can--shaggy, Stockhausen-trained advocates of trance improvisation--and on the other, Kraftwerk: clean-cut control freaks and masters of the pristine machine groove. Yet, even at their most robotic, Kraftwerk manages to locate the soul of the machine, as they demonstrate throughout this 1977 outing....
English version featuring different cover art.
In the beginning there was...the freezing cold. The harsh winters of Ketchikan, AK kept the three future members of Anavan indoors, staying warm by playing along to their favorite records. Seeking mental escape from Alaska's Inside Passage, the three bonded while all working in a local pawn shop, where, on the side, fisherman would trade them neglected musical instruments for booze money. The trio soon collected enough ancient squeezeboxes and...
It's hard to imagine this disc coming out of Montreal or, really, any urban habitat. The postrock instrumentals on f#a#(infinity symbol), distantly related to the sounds made by the Australian band Dirty Three, serve as walking music for a loner hoping to hitch a ride in the middle of the Arizona desert and dealing with the inevitability of another night in coyote territory. Godspeed's swelling array of guitars, bagpipes, cellos, violins,...
Re-release of Mew's Second Album that Has Been Unavailable Since the Original 5000 Copies were Sold Out in 2000. This Re-issue Will Feature a Bonus CD with Nine Previously Unreleased Tracks Such as Demos, Live Recordings, and Studio Recordings (Among them the Title-track "Half the World is Watching Me"), which were Not Included Back Then.
This Brooklyn trio combines tumultuous noise with enormous, triumphant melodies. Malfunctioning electronics howl in agony, drums rupture like fireworks, battle cries are belted through a monolithic layer of distorted bass and guitar. P&L revel in day-glo noise, charred drones, punk velocity, and phoenix-like hooks; a unique blast influenced by the clamor of Husker Du, the bluster of Boredoms, and the homemade spirituals of Neutral Milk Hotel....
The Raconteurs are a new band made up of old friends, consisting of Jack Lawrence (bass), Patrick Keeler (drums), Brendan Benson (guitars, vocals, keys) and Jack White(guitars, vocals, keys). The seed was sewn in an attic in the middle of a hot summer when friends Jack White and Brendan Benson got together and wrote a song that truly inspired them. This song was "Steady, As She Goes" and the inspiration led to the creation of a full band with...
1999 tribute the the overlooked musical genius of this former Moby Grape/Jefferson Airplane member who died just days after this project was completed. Features exclusive tracks from Beck, Robert Plant, Tom Waits, Mudhoney, Robyn Hitchcok, Diesel Park West, Greg Dulli (Afgan Whigs) and Flying Saucer Attack. 17 tracks total. The full title is 'More Oar - A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album'.
Hologram of Baal represents a stunning comeback album for Australia's Church, who've been virtually silent since 1994's Sometime Anywhere. In the tradition of past classics such as Starfish and Priest = Aura, Baal boasts an expansive, ambient production; lovely guitar layering; and singer Steve Kilbey's hushed, poetic delivery. Tracks such as "The Great Machine" balance the chiming acoustic and electric guitars of Peter Koppes and Marty...
Fourteen studio tracks, including RARE cuts from Green Day, U2 and Foo Fighters. Plus additional songs from Audioslave, Ramones, Good Charlotte, Talking Heads, Rancid, Velvet Revolver and more. Liner notes by Lenny Kaye (guitarist for Patti Smith Group & producer of NUGGETS compilation). Features artwork by Arturo Vega, artistic director for The Ramones.
"Gonzo punkers PRE are well on their way to superstardom. Like Karen O on a cocktail of narcotics, crazy lead singer Keeks Matsuura screeches alongside messy metal guitars with an energy that'd make Duracell proud." -- NME PRE's first outing had an entire audience locked outside, watching through barred windows from above. In the months that followed, the band's rhythmically infectious skip-alongs were demonstrated on a flurry of ...
'Aereogramme make smart, politically charged music out of pungent patchworks of seemingly disparate genres' - Entertainment Weekly. The second album from this Glasgow quartet is a work of epic proportions, containing intricate & anthemic guitar-based music. Matador. 2003.
50 Tracks Mixed Non-stop by Tatsuo Sunaga.
A serial collaborator, Everything & Nothing draws material from the range of David Sylvian recordings, from 1991's Rain Tree Crow (with Japan members Richard Barbieri and Steve Jansen) to Ryuichi Sakamoto's 1986 album, Heartbeat, to his own '87 touchstone, Secrets of the Beehive. In a wonderful coup for devotees, this collection of singles, live recordings, and oddities also features the complete version of the lost Japan tune "Some Kind of...
With their third album, this blues-rock outfit from the Mississippi hills further transcends their mimicry of the Allman Brothers and home-turf heroes Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, and Fred McDowell to forge a distinct sound. Sure, the guitars ring even more like the Allmans' with the addition of Burnside's son Duwayne, who harmonizes his six-string with Luther Dickinson's on plenty of tunes. But improved vocal performances and pop-savvy...
This EP comprises of 3 previously unreleased studio tracks as well as live version of "People". Recorded during the Feels session at a church in Seattle, these tracks are classic Animal Collective.
2007 Release of the Individual Single Excised from the Mammoth Depeche Mode Singles Box Set. Includes all the Mixes that were Released of the Song and It's B-sides.
This is an essential document by one of America's most original and inventive unaccompanied guitarists-- a splendid three-piece gem in which the good Sir Richard Bishop branches out and nods to points west, east, and otherworldly. "Bishop displays a virtuosity that borders on the flabbergasting." -- Pitchfork
Full Color Picture Disc CD and 8-page Booklet with Fold Out Poster.
It would be easy to dismiss B.R.M.C. as another bunch of Britpop wannabes. Their amalgam of fuzzed-out vocals and chugging guitars over layers of droning feedback immediately brings to mind the Jesus and Mary Chain and Primal Scream. But the band's wanton attitude easily compensates for its lack of originality. Plucking its name from the Marlon Brando classic The Wild One and digging deep into its weathered copy of Psycho Candy for lyrical...
HARAJUKU LOVERS LIVE is the first-ever solo DVD from Gwen Stefani. This new release captures her recent high-energy crowd pleasing headlining tour, which brought her music to life in an elaborately staged live show. Filmed in Gwen's hometown of Anaheim, CA and directed by longtime visual collaborator Sophie Muller, this beautifully shot DVD features 2 brand new songs, was recorded with a 5.1 sound mix and contains extensive bonus material...
2007 release featuring the XFM London radio sessions recorded by Childish and the BM's, whose full name is actually Wild Billy Childish & The Friends of the Buff Medway Fanciers Association. 15 tracks featuring a guest appearance from Blur's Graham Coxon. Damaged Goods. 2007.
Fantastic Double Disc Set Helmed by One of Germany's Most Popular DJ'S who Has Been at the Forefront of the Trance Movement Himself as an Artist for Years. He Favours Tracks by Woody Van Eyden as Well as Himself in These Sets to Give You a Good Idea of What a Night in a Club with Atb at the Turntables Would Be Like.
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 record isn't an EP but an 8-song mini album released shortly after the group's debut. The highlight is a cover of The Who's "Disguises", and the album serves as a foundation for which other Of Montreal full-lengths would manifest themselves. Priced...
Outside Austin, Texas, a 53-year-old man sleeps to the melody of four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and a Casio keyboard, all screeching at the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth and his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock. This is the story of Roky Erickson: manic frontman for the legendary band The 13th Floor Elevators, creators of psychedelic music and muse to Janis Joplin. Known for his colossal heroin &...
From the melting pot of New York's East Village come two ultrahip and very tasty expatriate Japanese music-makers, Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda, calling themselves Cibo Matto. That the name (pronounced "cheebo motto") means "food madness" in Italian is appropriate: the female duo sings about things to eat (apples, beef jerky, artichokes, birthday cakes) on all 10 tracks of their debut album, Viva! La Woman. And even if the record's lyrics are...
Solo Project of Former Talk Talk Member.
The most distressing thing about the advent of electronics as a means of making music is that too many musicians use them lazily, with uninteresting music as the tragic result. Fortunately, this doesn't afflict Robert Rich's Seven Veils, an accomplished piece of work with a light touch. Rich, who plays a variety of stringed and percussion instruments as well as handling synthesizer and sampling duties, pulls off the difficult trick of...
First CD from Nirvana, recorded for about $600 in a garage. This Sup Pop release includes 'About A Girl', 'Love Buzz', 'Negative Creep' & 10 more tracks.
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