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Containing three former members of much-lamented New York buzz band Jonathan Fire Eater, who self-destructed before striking gold, the Walkmen seem determined not to repeat past mistakes. They marked their return with an unassuming self-titled EP and spent a meandering year on the club circuit before properly breaking this, their first full-length album, with a song loaned out to a car commercial. "Sometimes I'm just happy I'm older," sings...
Whether fronting seminal Denver band 16 Horsepower or venturing off on his own with Wovenhand, David Eugene Edwards' voice is unmistakable. Haunting and even abrasive, there is rarely a dull moment to be found when Edwards is behind the pulpit. Diverse in style and delivery, his music is never easy to corner. His latest album under the Wovenhand moniker, Consider The Birds, is no exception. Past influences run the gamut of the bluegrass/folk...
In the mid-'80s, the last thing the world expected from the frosty hometown of Prince and the Replacements was a band that perfectly captured the spirit of Gram Parsons. Long before anyone had heard of alt-country, the Jayhawks redefined the Minneapolis sound and damn near perfected it on this 1989 sophomore effort. From the evocative pop of "Two Angels" to the hauntingly resonant "I'm Still Dreaming, Now I'm Yours," it's less rock-centric than...
This 1997 release was slow to catch on with Jayhawks fans; the departure of founder-guitarist-vocalist Mark Olson seemed destined to mark the band as one that had seen better days. But not only do the impeccable country-rock leanings of singer/songwriter Gary Louris shine as always here, his vocals soar beautifully with pianist Karen Grotberg's (as they did with Olson's), and the band isn't shy about genre hopping. Psychedelic pop makes a cameo...
They Blasted to the Top of the Charts at the Height of the Grunge Movement with a Sound that Recalled Van Morrison in his Prime Fused with REM at their Beginning and Adam Duritz's Long Braids Flying in the Video of "mr. Jones". Just Over a Decade Later, They Remain One of the Few Bands of the Era to have Carved Out a Longtime Career and Core Audience that Follows them in Much the Grateful Dead Tradition. This First Collection Assembles their...
25 track comp on Ace for one the best '60s Texan bands & thefirst legitimate comp ever, with all tracks taken from the original master tapes! Contains seven previously unreleased tracks: 'Mohair Sam', 'I Wonder Where The Birds Fly', 'You Are My Sunshine', 'Hand In Hand', 'You Don't Love Me', 'I'm A Man' & 'Nobody Cares'. 1997 release.
From Outside to Earthling, which were released only two years apart in the late 1990s, the rock & roll chameleon did his best to keep pace with fleeting dance trends, jumping straight from the persona of a post-grunge industrial phantom into that of a drum & bass beatmeister. While both albums were respectable representations of each genre, by switching directions with such angularity, the CDs were ultimately more costume than camouflage. With...
Calmer but just as powerful, 1994's STONED & DETHRONED was their last for Blanco y Negro and they went out with the high notes of "God Help Me" featuring guest vocalist Shane MacGowan and "Sometimes Always" spotlighting Mazzy Star front woman Hope Sandoval's ambient vocals. Plus the stand-outs "Come On" and "Never Saw It Coming." DVD Side, All songs in high resolution stereo plus bonus videos for "Sometimes Always," "Come On," and "Snakedriver."
The premise of Divine Intervention is as follows: Steven Halpern performs 10 piano improvisations (plus an eight-minute piece for electronic keyboards, the disc-closing "Rest in the Light") in the presence of Starr Fuentes, a woman identified in the liner notes as a "healer and master teacher" and a "Bishop of 64 Divine Intervention congregations." As Halpern plays, Fuentes's contribution is "anchoring and transmitting multidimensional energy...
Digitally Remastered 5. 1 20th Anniversary Edition of the First Art of Noise EP Takes all the Orginal Tracks and Adds Two Versions of the Hit Single "Close Up" as Well as an Added Dvd with Videos of Four Songs. A Collector's Essential!
Third in Re-releases of Henry Cow. on CD for the First Timewith the Originl Mix and Re-Mastered.
2006 EP from the Critically Acclaimed Irish Trio of Torsten Kinsella (Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards), Niels Kinsella (Bass, Guitars, Visuals) and Lloyd Hanney (Drums, Synths). Their Ethereal, Mostly Instrumental Music Builds from Ambient Bases to Intense Melanges of Sound that Could Definitely Be Considered Part of the "Prog Rock" Movement of the Noughts.
Taken from the 2003 album, 'Rainy Day Music'. Four non-LP tracks, 'Save It For A Rainy Day' (Radio Edit & Live versions), 'Save Me From Myself' (Rainy Day Music demo) & 'Tailspin' (Live). MCA.
Imagine Kraftwerk in a pastoral mood (dressed in pastels rather than primary colors). Or a soft-psych group like the Association or Free Design gone electronic. It would seem that Croatian-born polymath Kelley Polar has done just that. Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens, his full-length debut following a series of 12-inch singles, is the work of a classically trained musician with a disco jones. Best known for his arrangements for Metro Area,...
Asian Version featuring Four Bonus Tracks: 'it Could Be Me', 'i Feel Right', 'boogie (Blacksmith R&B Rub 12inch)', and 'boogie (Andrew Love Levy Mix)'.
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.
The Wallflowers' third album isn't so much a breach birth as it is past due. But Jakob Dylan claimed he needed the four years off to come to terms with whether or not he could plumb his own life for material. It appears he can, because here the songwriter tears the veil off his complicated relationship with his famous father and uses it as a vehicle to express some of the same moments of self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy that we all...
2006 import EP from this Irish duo (brothers Niels and Torsten), who are considered by many to be the most intense live act to emerge from Ireland in recent times. This release trademarks their intense build ups from serene ambience to searing intensity. Five tracks including 'Frozen Twilight'.
Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track: Looking for the Jackalope.
Steve Roach / Vidna Obmana's 2002 CD InnerZone served as the doorway to the surreal environment explored on Spirit Dome. Recorded in one continuous 74 minute session, this is a dark sanctuary of pure texture and beautiful, if not at times foreboding, dissonance pulled along with pulsing beats, subtle loops and dense soundworlds. The single piece, "Spirit Dome," captures a chilling gothic ambience that offers the exploration of remote...
The Strokes Release "Heart in a Cage", Taken from their Number One Album "First Impressions of Earth". "Heart in a Cage" is the Follow-up to the Band's Top Five Single "Juicebox".
Digitally remastered reissue, in standard jewel case, of 1985 album from the former vocalist of Japan. Features four bonus tracks: two of which were only available on the original cassette ('Preparations For A Journey' and 'Steel Cathedrals' and two only available as b-sides ('The Stigma Of Childhood' and 'A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce'. Guests include Steve Jansen, Jon Hassell, Holger Czukay, John Taylor, Robert Fripp & Ryuichi...
Digitally Remastered Classic Album the Australian Band Augmented with a Bonus CD of Rarities and Audio Curiosities.
1994 reissue of 1979 album includes five bonus tracks, 'Song 1', 'Get Down (parts 1 & 2), 'Let's Panic Later', 'Small Electric Piece' & 'Go Ahead'. 18 tracks.
If the burnished musicality of the Fugs at present belies their intermittent career tack ("Never paint yourself into a corner," co-founder Ed Sanders jokes about the album's titular loophole) since 1970, their anarchic good humor remains as politically pointed as ever, if tempered here by some warm, decidedly human-scaled wisdom: Try to be joyful in spite of it all; find yourself in small utopias. Sanders input here ranges from expected dissent...
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips' long awaited follow-up to 1999's The Soft Bulletin.
After an obscure acetate turned up in Connecticut in 2004, Zero Street Records issued a 300 copy limited edition LP of the complete works of Johnny Lunchbreak. The non-album was a mlange of post-Velvets New York mixed with the up turned collar of the Modern Lovers New England. Oddly enough, the band was shooting for the Bee Gees, and their horrible miss was our gain. That LP was perpetually on our office turntable during the spring of 2007,...
In case you hadn't noticed, there weren't a lot of people taking notes during the heyday of psychedelic concertdom. As a result, the lore and legend of that era consists of hazy, mumbled recollections of plankton-brained survivors. Well, rewrite the history books, because Sundazed archaeologist Jeff Jarema - in collaboration with Lovecraft honcho George Edwards - have excavated this remarkably well-preserved snapshot of Freakout Central...
This half NY/half Netherlands hardcore punk outfit got its start in 2000. Das Oath is a fine balance between classic hardcore, structuralized arty noise, and 70's punk rock. Mix the energy of The Germs and the progressive sound of earlier Killing Joke with the gritty noise overload of DC's Void and the anthemic undertones of Agnostic Front and you'll hear Das Oath - a sound no other band comes up with in the world of loud music.
Features 13 Songs, Nine Holly Originals and Four Select Covers.
This follow-up to their critically acclaimed self-titled debut (2000) features a veritable new wave rock party hosted by Ladytron featuring their punked up version of Tweet's 'Oops (Oh My)' plus a DJ mix of influences including Barbie & The Kens, CJ Bolland, The Fall, Wire, My Bloody Valentine and more. 18 tracks. Emperor Norton. 2003.
Set in the U.K. in 1985, Starter For 10 follows first-year university student Brian Jackson through his quest to compete on the hugely popular televised general knowledge quiz show, "The Challenge."
1978 Opus from the Bizzaro-Genius, Bluesy Rocker Captain Beefheart On, Appropriately Enough, the Bizzare Label. Features the Tracks "Tropical Hot Dog Night", "Owed T'Alex", "Bat Chain Puller" and Nine More.
The Chili Peppers finally hit their stride with Mother's Milk, for the first time making their breakneck mix of funk, rap, and metal smooth enough to attract the masses, while keeping it raw enough not to alienate old fans. They've straddled that edge ever since. It didn't hurt that they offered a pretty mainstream cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" to introduce the album. That single though, and the rest of Mother's Milk (including "Knock...
1990 album for the ethereal pop band formerly signed to 4AD. 11 tracks including a cover of the Opal classic 'Fell From The Sun'. Never released domestically.
As if we needed further proof that kitsch is the musical Esperanto, Tomoyuki Tanaka, the DJ behind Fantastic Plastic Machine, spins a blend of American consumerism, French savoir-faire, and Japanese engineering that's as frothy as a vacationer's cocktail. This artificially sweetened confection has a taste and consistency similar to Eurohipsters Dimitri from Paris and Stereo Total--as well as more obvious counterparts like Pizzicato Five. From...
Includes Five CD Singles with Rare and Unreleased Material. Comes in a Metallic Colored Box and Includes Deluxe Booklet with Complete Singles Discography. Very Limited Edition !!!.
The Debut EP from Amina, a Four Piece from Iceland who have Been Performing Since 1998 and Are Currently Setting the Indie World Alive with their Strange and Hypnotic Instrumental Music. They Take on Found Sounds, Field Recordings, and all Manner of Stringed Instruments to Create their Unique Sound. They Came to Prominence as the String Section on the Last Two Records Sigur Ros Albums.
If you're tired of lowest-common-denominator punk bands, McLusky Do Dallas is the album you're looking for. The incendiary British trio invites comparisons with everyone from Nirvana to the Fall. They specialize in the short, sharp songs that clock in around two minutes, but go some way to reinventing the very viscera of punk rock. The opening track is a case in point, as an explosion of cymbals and nodule-inducing vocal ferocity invite...
Lenny Kravitz "Greatest Hits Limited Edition" CD+DVD contains Lenny's 14 Greatest Hits PLUS 2 new additions: "Dig In" and "Where Are We Running." DVD includes 6 classic Lenny Kravitz videos.
The departure of bassist Pete Farndon, and the drug-related death of lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott in 1982, left Chrissie Hynde's Pretenders in disarray, but she and drummer Martin Chambers rallied to produce the stunning 1983 single, "Back on the Chain Gang" (dedicated to Scott), and over the course of the next year, cobbled together enough material for a new album, some of whose tracks included new members: guitarist Robbie McIntosh and...
4 bonus cuts. Remastered. 13 tracks total.
Ladytron successfully fuses together the cold darkness of computer rock with lingering catchy hooks found only in great pop songs. Like Human League and Kraftwerk, throw in a Giorgio Moroder bassline aimed at the dancefloor, and top it off with the rhythmic sensibilities of classic funk and England's Northern Soul Movement. 16 tracks. Standard jewel case. 2000 release.
R.E.M. pushed the jangle out of the picture with Monster, replacing it with reverberating snaps, crackles, and pops. An album that wraps itself to '70s glam finery while reaching out to the flannel-clad post-Nirvana throngs, it largely succeeds at demonstrating that these Georgians still know how to rock. The MTV fave "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" kicks things off on a high note as Peter Buck's distorted power chords set the tone for the...
Blossoming from a self-titled EP in 1995, Moloko has steadily built an international following and a healthy catalog. With six LPs, an EP, and a DVD documentary under their belt it was time to pull out the Best Of. Here are their finest early tracks and several tracks previously unreleased in the US. This record follows the underground success of lead singer Roisin Murphy's solo recording, "Ruby Blue".
The Third Double Disc Issue of Recordings that were Only Part of the Great Recordings that One Could Hear in England's Rough Trade Shop (And Many Other Stores around the World) at the Height of the Diy, New Wave Turn of the Decade Into the 1980's. Many of These Tracks Are Now Obscure and Hard to Find on CD, Making this Collection all the More Special. Some of the Highlights Include the Mo-dettes-white Mice, the Pop Group-we Are all Prostitutes,...
There possibly isn't an album in history that is as genre defining as NIRVANA's "Nevermind." Released in 1991, it single-handedly was responsible for the birth of what became to be known as grunge and has gone on to sell over 8 million copies in the US alone. "Nevermind" was the second album from the Seattle trio and the first on the DGC label (it's predecessor "Bleach" was released on the Sub Pop label). It was produced by Butch Vig (also the...
Japanese Only EP from the Radiohead Frontman, Released in Association with his First Solo Album "The Eraser". The Tracks Are "The Drunkk Machine", "a Rat's Nest", "Jetstream", "Harrowdown Hill (Extended Mix)", and "Iluvya". The Disc is also Enhanced with the Promotional Video Clips of "Harrowdown Hill" and "Analyse".
Limited edition 2004 album from Kings Of Leon featuring the first single 'The Bucket'. Hand Me Down. Having released a debut album that you can safely say was well received (the NME described it as, 'one of the best debut albums of the last ten years'), Kings Of Leon have their work cut out to produce a suitable follow-up. Thankfully their sophomore effort, the strangely titled `A-Ha Shake Heartbreak', is more than a match for its illustrious...
Expanded & Remastered CD+DVD career-spanning edition of the band's classic retrospective now presents over 25 years of hits and essential tracks plus videos for eight of their classic songs.
2007 Release of the Band's Fourth Full Length Album, Building on the Success It's Immediate Predecessor, "The Invisible Invasion". It was Recorded at Oasis' Wheeler End Studios and Produced by Craig Silvey (The Magic Numbers). They Premiered the Songs of this Album During their Appearance at the 2007 Glastonbury "Mudfest", Giving Fans a Taste of Things to Come. The Influence of the Coral on a Generation of Bands is Hard to Overstate, They...
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