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Its one of the lost classics of the 60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and whats more intriguing is that its maker a shadowy figure known as Rodriguez was, for many years, lost too. A decade ago, he was rediscovered working as a menial day laborer in Detroit, Michigan. He was unaware that his defining album had become not only a cult classic, but for the people of South Africa, a beacon of revolution.

Rodriguez recorded Cold Fact his debut album in 1969, and released it in March 1970. Its crushingly good stuff, filled with tales of bad drugs, lost love, and itchy-footed songs about life in late 60s inner-city America. Gun sales are soaring/Housewives find life boring/Divorce the only answer/Smoking causes cancer, says the Dylan-esque Establishment Blues.

But the album sank without trace, thanks, in part, to some of Rodriguezs more idiosyncratic behavior, like performing at an industry showcase with his back to the audience throughout. When the follow-up, 1972s Coming From Reality, also sold poorly, Rodriguez called an end to his recording career. Hed never even played a proper gig. And he got on with life. Over the years, he turned his hand to local politics, gaining a degree in philosophy, factory work and eventually, hard labour.

As his music career became a memory, Rodriguezs legend was growing on the other side of the world. In South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Cold Fact had become a major word of mouth success, particularly among young people in the South African armed forces, who identified with its counter-cultural bent. But Rodriguez was an enigma not even the label knew where to find him and his demise became the subject of debate and conjecture. Some rumours said hed died of a drug overdose or burned to death on stage. Others said he was in a mental institution, or in prison for murdering his girlfriend. Barring a couple of sold out Australian tours in 1979 and 1981, nothing had been heard of him for almost 30 years.

But the tide began to turn in 1996, when journalist Craig Bartholemew set out to get to the bottom of the mystery. After many dead ends, he found Rodriguez alive, well, free and perfectly sane in Detroit, ending years of speculation. Rodriguez himself had no idea about his fame in South Africa (the album had gone multi-platinum, Rodriguez has received not so much as a Rand in royalties), and embarked on a triumphant South African tour followed, filling 5,000 capacity venues across the country. A documentary named Dead Men Dont Tour: Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 was screened on national TV.

Rodriguez is spoken of in the same reverent tones as The Doors, Love and Jimi Hendrix.

Track Listing:
1. Sugar Man
2. Only Good For Conversation
3. Crucify Your Mind
4. This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues
5. Hate Street Dialogue
6. Forget It
7. Inner City Blues
8. I Wonder
9. Jane S. Piddy
10. Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme)
11. Rich Folks Hoax
12. Like Janis
13. I'll Slip Away
14. You'd Like To Admit It

An American Classic: Gorgeous Breakthrough Album of Pop Standards Spent More than a Decade on Country Charts

Quintuple Platinum 1978 Set Finds Nelson Interpreting Fare From Likes of Kurt Weill, Hoagy Carmichael, and Irving Berlin

Sumptuous Sound Elevates Booker T. Jones Production: Mastered on Mobile Fidelitys World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI

As a Singer, Nelson Never Better: Gets Inside the Phrasing, Lyrics, and Emotions of Songs

Why be predictable?, Willie Nelson asked Columbia Records executive Nick Blackburn, after the latter resisted the Red Headed Strangers decision to make an album of classic pop tunes. Talk about outlaw country. Cutting against the genres traditions and Music Row conventions, Nelsons Stardust remains a genius-level creation as well as the icons most commercially successful release, a truly gorgeous record infused with ultimate respect for composers and lyrics and many of the finest performances of his career. It is a quintessential part of any catalog.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelitys world-renowned mastering system and pressed at RTI, this Silver Label LP dazzles with dead-quiet surfaces, tube-like warmth, and an enhanced soundstage. Further exposing the delicate touches abounding in Stax legend Booker T. Jones production, this edition brings out the textured kernels of Nelsons voiceand the deep-seeded dignity, austerity, devotion, grit, sensitivity, grace, and plaintiveness within it. His brilliant phrasing throughout is on par with that of Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles, two giants that influenced this project and his willingness to pair with strings and small combo to wondrous effect.

Having met Jones while living in Malibu, Nelson established a relationship with the musician that extended to roles as producer, arranger and band mate. Jones superior knowledge of the American Songbook comes through via the materials economy of scale and sympathetic approach. Acoustic guitar arpeggios, contrasting breaks, bluesy harmonicas, glowing organs, R&B-tinged horns, brushed drums, and relaxed bass lines trickle throughout the songs, all distinguished by Nelsons intimate timbre and absolutely astonishing vocal expressiveness.

In redefining and reimagining standards such as Irving Berlins Blue Skies, Hoagy Carmichaels Georgia On My Mind, and the age-old All of Meall of which landed in the Top 5 of the Country singles chartNelson wedded together pop, country, jazz, folk, and blues in a manner in which no artist had ever before done. He gained considerable rewards for his exquisite efforts: Stardust sold more than five million copies and, incredibly, stayed on the Country album charts for more than ten years.

This is a record no one should be without. Hear the definitive analog pressing.

Track Listing:
1. Stardust
2. Georgia On My Mind
3. Blue Skies
4. All of Me
5. Unchained Melody
6. September Song
7. On the Sunny Side of the Street
8. Moonlight In Vermont
9. Dont Get Around Much Anymore
10. Someone to Watch Over Me

Ranked 164/500 on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Remastered From a HD Transfer by Linda’s manager John Boylan

This Release Sounds Far Superior to The Long Available Unremastered Capitol Version

Considered one of the finest recording of the 1970’s and a defining release of the Country Rock genre, Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like A Wheel is a timeless recording that has never sounded better.

Featuring the cream of the cream of the Los Angeles Country Rock scene, Heart Like A Wheel contains You’re No Good (#1 Billboard pop single), and When Will I Be Loved (#2 Billboard pop single).

BONUS TRACKS:
You’re No Good: Mono Mix
When Will I Be Loved: Mono Mix

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The discovery of these 2-track masters comprising Stereo ‘57 - The Essential Elvis Volume 2, is nothing short of a miracle, and this 200-gram pressing cut at 45 RPM from Quality Record Pressings sounds so astonishing, your jaw will hit the floor!

From the moment Elvis began working with a new song, sound engineer Thorne Norgar had the 15 ips mono tape machine rolling simultaneously with a 2-track protection copy. The machines weren't switched to pause until Elvis was satisfied with the take.

A couple of years before the advent of the stereo LP in mid-1958, major record companies were experimenting with stereophonic recordings, often refered to then as binaural. Studios were using the new Ampex 2-track tape recorders for other purposes, such as for recording session back-ups. But few Elvis fans know how close history came to permanently losing these precious audio glimpses of a young Elvis engrossed in the creative process.

Founded in 1933, Radio Recorders of Los Angeles was the preeminent recording studio of its day, and its director of recording, long-time engineer Thorne Nogar, engineered all of the Elvis sessions from 1955 to 1961. Some of popular music's greatest hits: "Jailhouse Rock," "All Shook Up," "Loving You," and "Teddy Bear," are just a few of the blockbusters that Nogar oversaw Elvis record at the studios, located at 7000 Santa Monica Blvd.

Elvis would be right in the center of everything, at every recording session, Nogar would later recall. "Like with the Jordanaires when he sang, we would set it up with a unidirectional mike, so he would be standing right in front of them, facing them, and they would have their own directional microphone and they would be singing to one another."

The 2-tracks from which this record was pressed could not have sounded better, and there was no one more careful, more experienced and technically skilled to record these historic sessions than Nogar, says Acoustic Sounds' founder and CEO Chad Kassem.

Yet one day years later when Thorne was "cleaning out" his tapes closet, remarkably, he set these 2-track backup tapes aside, intending to dispose of them. Noted producer Bones Howe had worked for Nogar as a tape operator at Radio Recorders, and thanks to him the tapes were saved from a final resting place in the trash can. Bones took the tapes home with him. He'd put them safely away in a bank vault.

These 2-tracks have "erase" clearly written on the master log sheets. They're from a January 1957 session at which Presley produced material for two EPs and the film "Loving You" soundtrack. They're the only known ones surviving from the pre-stereo era.

RCA's Essential Elvis series was a vehicle for the release of Presley's alternate takes. On this double LP set, listeners hear Presley at work, refining band arrangements and working through the nuances of his vocal performance. The LP reveals the Jordanaires voices' sparkling with a natural lifelike sound that's both sonically rich and detailed.

The Jordanaires, a vocal quartet originally formed as a gospel group in 1948, gained fame largely for being Elvis' background singers, both in live appearances and recordings, from 1956 to 1972. If discovering these rare, almost lost recorded treasures weren't enough, the sound reproduction puts this release over the top! When the Jordanaires sing "Peace in the Valley," you'll swear you're hearing a melody sent from heaven. An audiophile's prayer come true!

There are a number of first and second takes, during which Presley and his backing musicians make tentative passes at the material. As the record progresses, arrangements take shape and Presley, growing more confident that a keeper take is imminent, sings with more enthusiasm. Throughout, Presley is heard directing the proceedings and demonstrating a lot of "aw shucks" charm in the process, goofing with band members and laughing through his and others', flubs.

Like other reissues pressed by QRP, this magnificent 200-gram LP is notable for its absolutely silent background. The vocal harmonies are tingle-inducing, life-sized and utterly natural.

For serious Elvis fans and anyone else interested in the creative process, Volume 2 meets the first definition of "essential" as well as the second: it's indispensable stuff.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. I Beg Of You (Take 1)
2. Is It So Strange (Take 1)
3. Have I Told You Lately That I Love (Take 2)
4. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) (Takes 1,2,3)
5. Blueberry Hill (Take 2)
6. Mean Woman Blues (Take 14)
7. There'll Be Peace In The Valley (Takes 2,3)
8. Have I Told You Lately I Love You (Take 6)
9. Blueberry Hill (Take 7)
10. That's When Your Heartaches Begin (Takes 4,5,6)
11. Is It So Strange (Takes 7,11)
12. I Beg Of You (Takes 6,8)
13. There’ll Be Peace In The Valley (Take 7)
14. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You (Takes 12,13)
15. I Beg Of You (Take 12)

Cut at Sterling Sound directly from the original master tape. This was a straight transfer, bypassing the console altogether. There was no EQ of any kind. A true direct transfer, using a VMS 80, the most sophisticated lathe. You're hearing the master tape!

In the late 1950s and the '60s, country music was essentially a singles medium. This album, first released in 1967, collects a dozen of Patsy Cline's biggest hits — all of them from the country singles market — including "Walkin' After Midnight," "Sweet Dreams (Of You)," "Crazy," and "I Fall to Pieces." Producer Owen Bradley surrounds Cline's full-throated, emotionally charged vocals with lush, sophisticated arrangements that set the standard for Nashville's "countrypolitan" sound. Before Shania Twain found a new (though not necessarily improved) way to combine country and pop in the 1990s, this was the top-selling country album of all time by a female artist.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Crazy
2. Back in Baby’s Arms
3. Faded Love
4. You’re Stronger Than Me
5. Sweet Dreams
6. Walking After Midnight
7. Strange
8. I Fall to Pieces
9. So Wrong
10. Leavin’ on Your Mind
11. She’s Got You
12. Why Can’t He Be You

“Rosie Flores was born too late to be tagged ‘the Female Elvis,’ which is just as well. Although she’s made her reputation singing and playing rockabilly, primitive R&B, and early rock-flavored tunes, she has a further-ranging taste than Elvis ever had, and has also written some of the best tunes in her repertoire.”—All Music Guide.

Track Listing:
1. Working Girls Guitar
2. Little But I’m Loud
3. Yeah, Yeah
4. Surf Demon #5
5. Drug Store Rock and Roll
6. Love Must Have Passed Me By
7. Too Much
8. If (I Could Be With You)
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

For Garrett, Seeds From The Underground is a special recording. It once again consists of all original compositions, and is truly an homage to those who have inspired and influenced him, both personally and musically. “All of these songs are dedicated to someone,” says Garrett. “And the ‘seeds’ have been planted, directly or indirectly, by people who have been instrumental in my development.”

With Seeds From The Underground Garrett has crafted a project that offers his appreciation while always making the listener aware of his band’s skillful approach to melody, harmony and rhythm. From personal nods such as the opening track “Boogety Boogety,” dedicated to his memory of watching western films with his father (the title refers to the sound of a galloping horse); “Wiggins,” which references his high school band director Bill Wiggins; and “Detroit,” an evocative, reflective composition about his hometown, and a celebration of mentor Marcus Belgrave; to his appreciation of some of his musical heroes on “J Mac” (Jackie McLean); “Haynes Here” (Roy Haynes); and “Do Wo Mo” (Duke Ellington, Woody Shaw and Thelonious Monk).

Melody, as a matter of fact, was a key element for the saxophonist when writing for the recording. “I wanted to focus on the melody,” Garrett reflects. “I want people to remember what the melody is before we start improvising…and on some songs I heard voices, the singing of the melody.” This latter point is in evidence on the selections “Haynes Here,” “Detroit” and “Welcome Earth Song.”

Another notable component compositionally for Garrett on Seeds From The Underground is his approach to rhythm and meter. Over the past few years, one of the most popular and acclaimed groups that he has been a part of is the GRAMMY® award winning Five Peace Band, joining guitarist John McLaughlin, pianist Chick Corea, bassist Christian McBride, and drummers Vinnie Colaiuta and Brian Blade. His participation in that band led him to experiment with writing in different meters. “Some of these songs are in odd meters; in my experience with John, we played some songs in odd meters, so I thought, this is a different way of writing songs,” Garrett states. “So there is some of that approach here.”

Garrett’s current working band is very much up to the task on Seeds From The Underground. And like all successful bandleaders, Garrett knows what he wants musically and has formed a band that will best communicate his message (with implicit trust among one another). Bassist Nat Reeves is a rhythmic anchor and a long-standing member of Garrett’s past aggregations. However, for this recording, Garrett thought a lot about the talents of fellow Detroiter, drummer Ronald Bruner, as well as Venezuelan pianist Benito Gonzalez. “When I decided I wanted to do the album, I had Ronald in mind; I thought that he would work well on these songs. And Benito has been in my band for a while, and we talked conceptually about how I hear the piano in the band. McCoy Tyner is my man, so I wanted to have more of that sound, and there aren’t a lot of young guys around who are dealing with that like Benito is.” Percussionist Rudy Bird also provides a driving, rhythmic pulse to the recording.

A very important contributor to Seeds From The Underground is the project’s co-producer: pianist, composer and educator, Donald Brown. His friendship with Garrett goes back to their days with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. He has been an integral part of past Garrett recordings, and has been a musical inspiration for him. “I feel comfortable in the studio with him and I know he’s going to hear what I hear, because we think alike in how we hear music,” states Garrett. “I’ve also always admired his compositions and he was really inspired by these compositions, so he was glad that we were able to hook back up on this project.”

Garrett has always expressed interest in music from other parts of the world. Whether it’s Africa, Greece, Indonesia, China or Guadeloupe, he immerses himself in the culture and gleans from his experience something that becomes a part of his artistic message. On Seeds From The Underground, the African-influenced “Welcome Earth Song” and “Laviso, I Bon?” (the latter was inspired by a musician friend in Guadeloupe) are prime examples.

The album highlights Garrett’s overall approach to music: wide-ranging, receiving ideas from all musical sources and genres. Garrett states, “I love the challenge of trying to stay open…about music and about life. If it’s music, I just try to check it out. Right now I’m listening to some music from Martinique and I’m lovin’ it. If I like it, maybe I can incorporate some of it into what I do.” As for composing: “I don’t try to control what I write,” he says. “Music comes from ‘The Creator.’ It’s a gift that’s coming in, and I receive it. I write in all genres, and I’m writing all the time. It’s never about what it is…I just say thank you.”

Seeds From The Underground is the latest stop on what continues to be a fascinating musical journey for Kenny Garrett and his listeners. It’s a recording that is not only a significant personal statement from the saxophonist, but a musical declaration of his continued growth as a musician, and in particular, as a composer.

Track Listing:
1. Boogety Boogety
2. J. Mac
3. Wiggins
4. Haynes Here
5. Detroit
6. Seeds from the Underground
7. Du-Wo-Mo
8. Welcome Earth Song
9. Ballad Jarrett
10. Laviso, I Bon?

Superdrag’s first for Elektra Records, Regretfully Yours included the hit single "Sucked Out", which peaked at #17 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

Track Listing:
1. Slot Machine
2. Phaser
3. Carried
4. Sucked Out
5. Cynicality
6. Destination Ursa Major
7. Whitey's Theme
8. Truest Love
9. What if You Don't Fly
10. Garmonbozia
11. N.A. Kicker
12. Nothing Good is Real
13. Rocket

LP 2
1. Four Wheel Drive
2. Slave To The Rhythm
3. Blue Collar
4. That's What It Is
5. Sledgehammer
6. Rollin' Along
7. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
8. Shakin' All Over
9. Roll On Down The Highway
10. Takin' Care Of Business

Venom, the hugely influential UK outfit now celebrating a full 30 years since the release of their "Welcome To Hell" debut, will have a brand new studio album released on November 20th via Spinefarm Records.

Titled "Fallen Angels" and featuring 13 fresh recordings produced by main-man/bassist Cronos, this is the follow-up to 2008's "Hell" release, and sees the trio (completed by guitarist Rage and drummer Dante) adopting a style highly redolent of classic early Venom with modern studio technology employed only to increase the general level of natiness.

Says Cronos: "We make an album, it usually take a few tracks to get into the vibe, although this album's vibe was very much present during the ideas stage...everything came together so naturally.
We started throwing ideas together on the South American tour, and then again during the live shows of 2010, and so we knew from the start that we had some amazing new songs to make a great album.
With any new album, you look for a few songs to put into the live set, although that is going to be very difficult with this record, as we can nail the entire album live if we want!"

Track Listing:
LP 1:
1. Hammerhead
2. Nemesis
3. Pedal To The Metal
4. Lap Of The Gods
5. Damnation Of Souls
6. Beggar Man
7. Hail Santanas
8. Sin

LP 2:
1. Punk's Not Dead
2. Death By Thy Name
3. Lest We Forget
4. Valley Of The Kings
5. Fallen Angels
6. Annunaki Legacy
7. Blackened Blues

The brand new album, AWAKENED, from San Diego, CA's devastating metal act AS I LAY DYING will be a gatefold release with colored vinyl featuring a "half & half" split with half the album grey and the other half black.

AS I LAY DYING continued to chart worldwide with AWAKENED coming in at #58 on Billboard's Top 200, #24 on the Rock Albums chart, #11 on the Independent Albums chart, and #3 on the Hard Rock Albums chart while landing at #49 on Canada's Top 200 Current Album chart, #5 on the Hard Music chart, and #64 on the Top Digital albums chart in the album's second week. AWAKENED also landed at #55 in its second week on the German Top 100 Albums Charts, #52 in Austria, and #72 for the album's third week in the German Media Markt / Saturn Charts.

Track Listing:
1. Cauterize
2. A Greater Foundation
3. Resilience
4. Wasted Words
5. Whispering Silence
6. Overcome
7. No Lungs to Breathe
8. Defender
9. Washed Away
10. My Only Home
11. Tear Out My Eyes

LP2 - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (1988)

LP3 - Fear Of A Black Planet (1990)

LP4 - Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black (1991) (2xLP)

LP5 - Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age (1994) (2xLP)

LP6 - He Got Game (1998) (2xLP)

Considered by many to be her best album, 1961’s The Second Time Around, found Etta James performing a string of pop hits from the 1940s in an attempt to crossover to a wider audience. Songs like 1948’s “It’s Too Soon To Know” (the first rock & roll song ever), or 1946’s “Fool That I Am”, were both brought to life again here by James. The album’s biggest hit however, was 1929’s “Don’t Cry Baby”, first recorded by the Empress of the Blues, and James’ idol, Bessie Smith.

Track Listing:
1. Don't Cry Baby
2. Fool That I Am
3. One For My Baby
4. In My Diary
5. Seven Day Fool
6. It's Too Soon To Know
7. Dream
8. I'll Dry My Tears
9. Plum Nuts
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

180 Gram Vinyl LP and Bonus CD of The Album

This LP, originally released in 1959, features 11 songs famously recorded by Lady Day during the course of her brilliant career. When asked why he wanted to do this album, Cooke simply replied, “She was, and still is, the greatest that ever lived for my money,” no small praise from a man who himself ruled the charts with over 30 Top 40 hits from 1957 until his death at age 33 in 1964.

Track Listing:
1. God Bless The Child
2. She’s Funny That Way
3. I’ve Got A Right To Sing The Blues
4. Good Morning, Heartache
5. T’aint Nobody’s Bizness (If I Do)
6. Comes Love
7. Lover Girl (Man)
8. Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
9. Lover Come Back To Me
10. Solitude
11. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
12. Crazy In Love With You

On 11 January 1980 at Amsterdam’s Paradiso Club, Joy Division played a mind-blowing 70-minute-long set to a mere handful of dedicated fans. Only a few live Joy Division performances remain, and this one is undoubtedly the best!

Track Listing:
1. Passover
2. Wilderness
3. Digital
4. Day Of The Lords
5. Disorder
6. Insight
7. New Dawn Fades
8. Transmission
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. These Days
11. A Means To An End
12. 24 Hours

Temporal spans this groundbreaking band's entire discography, with inclusions from Mosquito Control to the band's final full-length album, Wavering Radiant. "It was fun and also very nostalgic collecting material for this release," commented Aaron Harris. "I hear our catalogue differently now that I'm not living with these songs day to day. This is a special collection of outtakes, demos, unreleased tracks and videos; some of which I think we even forgot about."

Track Listing:
1. Threshold of Transformation (demo)
2. Ghost Key (alternate demo version)
3. Wills Dissolve (alternate demo version)
4. Carry (demo)
5. False Light (demo)
6. Grey Divide (demo)
7. Streetcleaner (Godflesh cover, recorded in 1999)
8. Hand of Doom (Black Sabbath cover, originally released on the Sawblade CD, 1999)
9. Not in Rivers, But in Drops (Melvins/Lustmord remix; originally released on Holy Tears, 2007)
10. Holy Tears (Thomas Dimuzio remix; originally released on NIRBID, 2008)
11. Temporal (Recorded in 2009)
12. Way Through Woven Branches (Originally released on Melvins/ISIS split LP, 2010)
13. Pliable Foe (Originally released on Melvins/ISIS split LP, 2010)
14. 20 Minutes/40 Years (Acoustic version)

DVD
1. In Fiction
2. Holy Tears
3. Not In Rivers, But in Drops
4. 20 Minutes/40 Years
5. Pliable Foe

In 1999, DJ Muggs introduced Alchemist to his good friends, Mobb Deep. Alchemist produced two songs for Mobb's Murda Muzik album. Impressed by his production skills and street smarts, Mobb Deep took him under their wing, using his beats on all their subsequent albums. He has since gone on to produce for many of hip-hop's leading artists today including Curren$y, Snoop Dogg, Nas and Ghostface.

The Alchemist's latest endeavor, Russian Roulette, hosts a cast of today's most acclaimed emcees including Action Bronson, Danny Boy, Schoolboy Q, Guilty Simpson and Roc Marciano with Alchemist overseeing production on all tracks.

Track Listing:
1. Soundcheck
2. Apollo’s Last Stand feat Ag Da Coroner
3. Crushed Kremlin feat Mayhem Lauren
4. Decisions Over Veal Orloff feat Action Bronson
5. Learned by Listening
6. Training Montage – Getting Stronger
7. Ivan’s Workout Plan
8. Never Grow Up feat Evidence
9. The Turning Point feat Roc Marciano
10. Live From Dynamo Stadium 2
11. Don Seymour’s Theme feat Midaz
12. Before The Fight Prelude
13. Adrian’s Words – Champion Song
14. Flight Of The Bumblebee
15. Kalashnekov Guns feat Guilty Simpson
16. Fight Confirmation feat Danny Brown and Schoolboy Q
17. Press Conference Prelude
18. Freakish Strength
19. Junkyard Fight Scene feat DRDC
20. Oleg’s Flight feat Fashawn
21. Moscow Mornings – Sunrise
22. Moscow Evenings – Sunset
23. The Kosmos Pt 1 – Liftoff feat Chuuwee
24. The Kosmos Pt 2 – Power Glove feat Boldy James
25. The Kosmos Pt 3 – In Orbit
26. The Kosmos Pt 4 – Moon Probe feat Big Twinz
27. The Kosmos Pt 5 – 1st Contact – The Chase
28. The Kosmos Pt 6 – Life On Another Planet feat Willie The Kid
29. The Kosmos Pt 6 – The Explanation feat Mr. Motherfuckinging Exquire
30. The Kosmos Pt 7 – Return To Earth Outro

This is a Very Limited Pressing of 500 on Blue Marble!

Like Moths To Flame debut Rise Records release "When We Don't Exist" has quickly become a favorite for fans and critics alike. The Album has quickly sold over 20,000 copies since its release a year ago. The band was just featured on the cover of Alternative Press and is currently on the Alternative Press tour with Miss May I and The Ghost Inside. Like Moths To Flame is no longer the scene's best kept secret. To celebrate the band’s buzz and success, Rise Records is releasing a deluxe version of "When We Don't Exist" on vinyl for the holiday season.

Track Listing:
1. Learn Your Place
2. Shapeshifter
3. The Worst In Me
4. GNF
5. No Hope
6. You Won't Be Missed
7. Faithless Living
8. Your Existence
9. Trophy Child
10. My Own Grave
11. Something To Live For
12. Real Talk
13. Praise Feeder

The essential signatures of post-Pantera metal are in abundance on Lamb of God's inaugural album (though they had issued a disc under the name Burn the Priest). A veritable cornucopia of double picking and double-kick drumming, New American Gospel provides a mighty oak upon which gritty American metal's faith is maintained, effectively bridging the '90s' insistence upon drill-sergeant technicality and the old school's determined focus on riff construction. Both kick and snare beats are as insistent as pneumatic drilling, and beyond that, they are diamond-precise, riveted flawlessly into place by Steve Austin's Today Is the Day drum-heavy production. Lamb of God plays a brand of heavy -- emphasis on heavy -- metal not unlike Meshuggah having jettisoned some of their mathematical insistence. What elevates this Richmond, VA, quintet's assault above the majority of modern metal is the attention given to constructing definite melody and complete songs; this is a creative act who generally is subordinated by most metallers to the pursuit of heaviness. Lamb of God does both tastefully in the proper balance.
-All Music Guide

Track Listing:
1. Black Label
2. A Warning
3. In the Absence Of The Sacred
4. Letter To The Unborn
5. The Black Dahlia
6. Terror & Hubris In The House Of Frank Pollard
7. The Subtle Arts Of Murder & Persuasion
8. Pariah
9. Confessional
10. O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E.

In February of 2009 Ladyfinger released their sophomore effort Dusk. The album bridged three decades of influence, mixing early 70’s classic rock with punk and hardcore of the late 80’s and early 90’s. This unique fusion gained them praise (Pitchfork called Dusk’s lead single ‘Little Things’ “all power and momentum and baldface 70’s classic-rock glory”) and a pack of new fans.

After a brief time away and a lineup change, Ladyfinger (ne) began playing shows on and off in early 2010. The shows went well and by the summer of 2011 the band was revisiting unfinished songs from the Dusk sessions and writing new tracks. In May of 2012 the band found itself at ARC studios in Omaha once again recording with their longtime producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Minus the Bear, Isis).

Upon listening to the ten songs found on Errant Forms it’s clear that the music was indeed there. Their signature mix of classic rock bombast and punk grit is back on display here in standout tracks “Galactic” and “Poison For Hire”, while “Birds” paints an ominous vision of atonement over subtle guitars that slowly build until absolution is realized with the pounding drums and organ that emerge at the song’s climax. Lead single “Dark Horse” is an ode to escapism that stands out for being as solemn as it is anthemic. Errant Forms adds a new level of musical nuance and lyrical breadth to Ladyfinger's already dynamic sound.

Track Listing:
1. Renew
2. Birds
3. Away Too Long
4. Galactic
5. Dark Horse
6. Poison for Hire
7. Hole in My Sole
8. Meathead
9. Blue Oyster
10. He Said She Said

Radar Brothers return with Eight, a very special new vinyl-only release. Featuring an expanded band of brothers including Stevie Triechel and Be Hussey from The Illustrated Garden as well as new members Dan Iead (Cass McCombs, The Broken West) on guitar/pedal steel, Brian Cleary on keyboards and Ethan Walter on piano and synthesizers. Between the two keyboards and Iead and Putnam’s guitars, the band orchestrates a swirling fervor that glides over Triechel and Hussey’s rhythmic aggressions. Eight may well be Radar Brothers’ darkest, hardest rocking, most psychedelic, and yet most intensely personal album to date. From Putnam’s tribute to Joni Mitchell’s cover art (The Hissing of Summer Lawns) to the surreal, picturesque lyrics to the unidentifiable textures and sounds that pour from your speakers like liquid paintings—this may also be the band’s most visual album to date.

Track Listing:
1. If We Were Banished
2. Reflections
3. Couch
4. Change College Law
5. Disappearer
6. Ebony Bow
7. House of Mirrors
8. Angler’s Life
9. Bottle Song
10. Time Rolling By
11. Horse Down

Packaged in a Slick Gatefold Cover

1978 was a banner year for Yes & their smash platinum LP "Tormato." Reuniting the dream team of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White & Rick Wakeman, "Tormato" is often considered of the finest recordings in their amazing career. Yes fans continue to praise "Tormato" as a truly inspiring masterwork. This important piece of music consists of nine amazing Yes workouts such as the definitive opener "Future Times," the art rock driven "On The Silent Wings Of Freedom," & the international smash "Don't Kill The Whale."

Track Listing:
1. Future Times
2. Rejoice
3. Don’t Kill the Whale
4. Madrigal
5. Release, Release
6. Arriving UFO
7. Circus of Heaven
8. Onward
9. On the Silent Wings of Freedom

"Temper Temper," the band's fourth studio album, was once again produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Good Charlotte), who worked on the group's last LP, 2010's "Fever", and was mixed by noted engineer Chris Lord-Alge (Deftones, Nickelback, Avenged Sevenfold).
-Blabbermouth

Track Listing:
1. Breaking Point
2. Truth Hurts
3. Temper Temper
4. P.O.W.
5. Dirty Little Secret
6. Leech
7. Dead to the World
8. Riot
9. Saints & Sinners
10. Tears Don't Fall (Part 2)
11. Livin' Life (On the Edge of a Knife)

Shout Out Louds comment: “In our eagerness to please no one but ourselves this time around, we decided to take on the challenge of producing our own music for the first time ever. Our close friend and sound aficionado of choice Johannes Berglund and his studio in Stockholm presented us with an ideal package for the endeavor. A secluded work space close to home, but off the earth’s surface, a more than generous timeline, and the patient and brilliant sixth member we needed to get through the whole thing safely. Together we made up a downstairs world of explosive colors, big, warm sounds and a very, very uninhibited work process. We never worried about following a clear path, trusting that the conscious decision not to worry would be enough to lead us right, and that right doesn’t necessarily have to mean rational or even reasonable…We all set prestige and skillfulness aside in favor of experimentation and sheer gusto. That will probably come across live too. I don’t think we’ve ever been this excited to take an album on tour.”

Track Listing:
1. Sugar
2. Illusions
3. Blue Ice
4. 14th of July
5. Burn
6. Walking in Your Footsteps
7. Glasgow
8. Where You Come In
9. Hemila
10. Chasing the Sinking Sun
11. Circles
12. Destroy

Mastered From the Original Tapes by Joe Reagoso with Original Gatefold Cover

1972 was a banner year for The Doobie Brothers as they took their acoustic Bay Area soul & rock sounds to a new dimension thanks to the hits on "Toulouse Street." This multi-platinum event would go on to become one of the most successful albums by anyone that year as the LP spawned a number of top chart singles like "Listen To The Music," "Jesus Is Just Alright" & "Rockin' Down The Highway." This anniversary edition was impeccably mastered by Joe Reagoso (Doobie Brothers/Michael McDonald/Boz Scaggs) from the original Warner Bros. tapes at Friday Music Studios and at Capitol Mastering with Ron McMaster. Toulouse Street sounds incredibly rockin’ and soulful as you remember it. As an added anniversary bonus, the original gatefold cover artwork, not seen in years, has been re-created, further enhancing your Doobie Brothers listening experience.

Track Listing:
1. Listen to the Music
2. Rockin’ Down the Highway
3. Mamaloi
4. Toulouse Street
5. Cotton Mouth
Side Two
1. Don’t Start Me to Talkin’
2. Jesus Is Just Alright
3. White Sun
4. Disciple
5. Snake Man

Chelsea Light Moving is the new band from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, recently named the #1 Guitarist Of All Time by Spin. Featuring the backing talents of Keith Wood on guitar, Samara Lubelskion bass and John Moloney on drums. This is the same band from Thurston's last solo album Demolished Thoughts -- but this time it hits hard with rock n roll noise. The man himself describes the tracks as "chug & shred burners," and they hit the usual mindblowing variety of rock-historical referencepoints and the primal clatter Thurston's pinoeered for over two decades.

Track Listing:
1. Sleeping Where I Fall
2. Alighted
3. Lip
4. Groovy & Linda
5. Burroughs
6. Empires Of Time
7. Frank O'Hara Hit
8. Mohawk

Bonus 7"
9. Heavenmetal
10. Communist Eyes

Lena Hughes' repertoire can be devided roughly in half: finger-picked numbers adapted from fiddle tunes and recast parlor guitar pieces gleaned from popular sentimental songs, hymns and 19th century airs. As a faithful attendee at folk festivals, Hughes was accompanied by her guitar-playing husband, Jake. Her most mesmerizing performances, such as "Pearly Dew," "Spanish Fandango" and "Kentucky Moon Waltz" depend heavily upon resonance of the open chord as it relates to the picking of the melodic line, primarily on one string. This ethereal harmonic technique, which seems so natural in Hughes' playing, is the holy grail for most finger-picking guitarists. Her lack of pretense and her mastery of this repertoire are what define her legendary status.

Track Listing:
1. Pearly Dew
2. Under the Double Eagle
3. Letter Edged in Black
4. Blue Heaven
5. Galloway Bay
6. You Are The Only Star of My Blue Heaven
7. Spanish Fandango
8. Kentucky Moon Waltz
9. Silver Threads Among the Gold
10. What A Friend We Have in Jesus
11. Cedar Brook Waltz

While it might have seemed an odd fit for a power-riffing pop rock act to put out a record on a West Village disco label, the euphoric vibe of Free Energy perfectly complimented a roster of artistically different but equally accomplished bands, such as Black Dice, Yacht, The Rapture, and LCD Soundsystem. This sophomore release demonstrates the band doing what they love—condensing handclaps, harmonies, massive choruses, and lazer guided guitar leads into tracks like “Electric Fever”, “Hey Tonight” and “Girls Want Rock” - while working a time-tested formula that can still sound fresh in the right hands. Much like their DFA debut, Love Sign flirts with hysteria-inducing pop songwriting and classic rock production, this time around working with John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and The Hold Steady). Released on the band’s new imprint “Free Energy Records”.

Track Listing:
1. Electric Fever
2. Girls Want Rock
3. Dance All Night
4. Hey Tonight
5. Hold You Close
6. Backscratcher
7. Hangin
8. Street Survivor
9. True Love
10. Time Rolls On

Never Before Released Recordings

People, Hell & Angels is a new album of twelve never before released Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. This special album showcases the legendary guitarist working outside of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. Beginning in 1968, Jimi Hendrix grew restless, eager to develop new material with old friends and new ensembles. Outside the view of a massive audience that had established the Experience as rock’s largest grossing concert act and simultaneously placed two of his albums together in the US Top 10 sales chart, Jimi was busy working behind the scenes to craft his next musical statement.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Earth Blues
2. Somewhere
3. Hear My Train A Comin'
4. Bleeding Heart
5. Let Me Move You
6. Izabella

LP2
1. Easy Blues
2. Crash Landing
3. Inside Out
4. Hey Gypsy Boy
5. Mojo Man
6. Villanova Junction Blues

Impossible Truth will challenge your ideas of what an instrumental guitar record can and should be. As his friend and tour mate M.C. Taylor from Hiss Golden Messenger puts it, “William will worry a phrase—some tangled chordal wormhole—until you are certain it’s all that exists. He’ll take you over the stiles, he’ll love you up and down, and then he’ll make you cry for the world and what we’ve done to it." This double LP comes in a gatefold jacket with a download coupon for the full album.

Track Listing:
1. Country of Illusion
2. The Geography of Nowhere
3. Cadillac Desert
4. We Can’t Go Home Again
5. A Portrait of Sarah
6. Hotel Catatonia
7. The Last Residents of Westfall
8. The World Set Free

From the 2008 Digital Remaster

Track Listing:
1. Looking For Someone
2. White Mountain
3. Visions Of Angels
4. Stagnation
5. Dusk
6. The Knife

From the 2008 Digital Remaster

Track Listing:
1. The Musical Box
2. For Absent Friends
3. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
4. Seven Stones
5. Harold The Barrel
6. Harlequin
7. The Fountain Of Salmacis

From the 2008 Digital Remaster

Track Listing:
1. Watcher Of The Skies
2. Time Table
3. Get 'Em Out By Friday
4. Can-utility And The Coastliners
5. Horizons
6. Supper's Ready

From the 2008 Digital Remaster

Track Listing:
1. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight
2. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
3. Firth Of Fifth
4. More Fool Me
5. The Battle Of Epping Forest
6. After The Ordeal
7. The Cinema Show
8. Aisle Of Plenty

From the 2008 Digital Remaster

Track Listing:
LP1
1. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2. Fly On A Windshield
3. Broadway Melody Of 1974
4. Cuckoo Cocoon
5. In The Cage
6. The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging
7. Back In NYC
8. Hairless Heart
9. Counting Out Time
10. Carpet Crawlers
11. The Chamber Of 32 Doors

LP2
1. Lilywhite Lilith
2. The Waiting Room
3. Anyway
4. Here Comes The Supernatural Anaesthetist
5. The Lamia
6. Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats
7. The Colony Of Slippermen
8. Ravine
9. The Light Dies Down On Broadway
10. Riding The Scree
11. In The Rapids
12. It

Comes With High Quality MP3 Album Download Which Includes Full Album and a Previously Unreleased Song

The spawn of actors Jack Black and Kyle Gass, Tenacious D combine grandiose rock and roll cliche with hell-bent-for-leather comic passion to create a stew that motivates their legions of fans to caravan across the country to see their over-the-top live performances. The duo first came to prominence as "The D" in their self-titled HBO show in the late '90s, and now have grammy nominations and three full length albums under their belt, earning them fans from all over the world. Originally produced by hit making production duo the Dust Brothers, and featuring Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on both guitar and drums, this 12th Anniversary Edition is being released with the full cooperation of Jack and Kyle.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Kielbasa
2. One Note Song
3. Tribute
4. Wonderboy
5. Hard Fucking
6. Fuck Her Gently
7. Explosivo
8. Dio
9. Inward Singing
10. Kyle Quit the Band
11. The Road

LP 2
1. Cock Pushups
2. Lee
3. Friendship Test
4. Friendship
5. Karate Schnitzel
6. Karate
7. Rock Your Socks
8. Drive-Thru
9. Double Team
10. City Hall

Double-Platinum Album Includes Top 10 Hit “Chuck E’s In Love”

Rickie Lee Jones was hip before hipsters came of age. Wearing a beret, exuding supreme cool, and visually demarcating herself as a member of a bohemian underground, her image on the cover of her self-titled debut says as much about the singer-songwriter as it does the music within the grooves. Uninterested in coloring within the lines, Jones steps out, a dreamer in the post-punk age, an adventurous drifter seemingly deaf to the noisiness of her era. No wonder the work remains one of the most impressive opening salvos in history.

Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity’s 180 gram LP edition of Jones’ double-platinum 1979 smash finally gives listeners the ultimate version of this long-adored masterpiece. Always prized by audiophiles for its sonics, the record now breathes with a clearer air, with enhancements in dynamics, imaging, soundstaging, and frequency extension apparent seconds after the needle touches down on the opening grooves. Jones’ singular, jazzy vocals—straddling territory between youthful surprise, street-smart sharp, and grown-up seriousness—take on stupendously lifelike qualities to the extent you can hear into her lungs.

Emerging from a quiet Los Angeles scene that also laid claim to Tom Waits, a former love interest, Jones reflects an undiminished capacity for fusing folk, R&B, pop, jazz, and scatted word poetry on an effort that matches the flexibility and elasticity of the artist’s creative approach. As if playing games of hide and seek, Jones often dances around conventional syllabic phrases, using her delivery to stretch language and vowels, turning in diction that’s at once gorgeous and enterprising. She taps into a subtlety of texture and ambience well beyond her then 23-year-old age, inserting sly humor when apt, and never shying away from raw emotion.

Renowned for the Top 10 hit “Chuck E’s In Love,” Rickie Lee Jones overflows with finger-snapping be-bop accents, funky cabaret melodies, bluesy bridges, soothing balladry, and even Westernized fills. Subdued complexities flavor the arrangements, expressly tailored for Jones’ portrait-rich storytelling and character-driven narratives. Such diversity is on display on the metaphorical heartache of “Last Chance Texaco,” reflective “Company,” and corner-hangout musings of “Danny’s All-Star Joint.” Throughout, intricate guitar lines give listeners further reason to concentrate on the tunes. This one is simply a must-have.

Track Listing:
1. Chuck E’s In Love
2. On Saturday Afternoons in 1963
3. Night Train
4. Young Blood
5. Easy Money
6. Last Chance Texaco
7. Danny’s All-Star Joint
8. Coolsville
9. Weasel and the White Boys Cool
10. Company
11. After Hours

“This album could be considered my first attempt at a high kick,” she says, acknowledging Own Side Now as a much more small scale and pared down recording. “We’re not aiming to make indie-sounding records. How boring would that be? ”Incorporating classic influences from her Nashville roots with a modern pop twist, Caitlin’s vocals soar over lyrics that seem to possess the wisdom of an old soul. Crafted with Nashville producers Jordan Lehning and Skylar Wilson (Justin Townes Earle), featuring two songs co-written with Gary Louris (The Jayhawks), The Stand-In came together and took form as a team effort, strengthened by a longtime friendship with band mates Jeremy Fetzer and Spencer Cullum.

Inspired by classic country musicians, misunderstandings, break ups, mystical landmarks and the constantly evolving landscape of the Nashville music scene, The Stand-In is an ambitious record, a testament to Rose’s bold approach and strength as a songwriter. With a trademark punch that the New York Times once likened to a young “Patsy Cline learning to howl," Rose’s fiery disposition shines through on rollicking tracks like “No One To Call” and “Waitin’,” songs that possess a huge sound and a whole lot of character. Never the type to be one-dimensional, Rose wears her heart on her sleeve on candid serenades like “I Was Cruel” and sentimental ballads like “Pink Champagne” or “When I’m Gone.”And in true form, Rose includes a brilliant cover on The Stand-In, this time of The Felice Brothers’ single, “Dallas.”

Track Listing:
1. No One to Call
2. I Was Cruel
3. Waitin’
4. Only a Clown
5. Dallas
6. Pink Champagne
7. Golden Boy
8. Silver Sings
9. Everywhere I Go
10. When I’m Gone
11. Menagerie
12. Old Numbers

Fiddler Katie Weed says of the album, "The songs on “Down Side Up” are the result of a wonderful confluence of things: of touring for years and waking up together in cities across the world, of discovering new worlds while still missing home, of stories that we’ve wanted to tell for ages, of melodies that permeated our minds and then soundchecks, and of songs that took shape and life truly as a collaboration between band members. Fat Mike and Johnny worked closely with the band to produce what we think is the best album we’ve ever been a part of. And it happened to be recorded in the same room where we used to burn stove-top popcorn and drink beer and dream about how amazing it would be if we could turn this passion into a life, or even career. We lived, breathed, ate, and slept these songs. Several members literally lived in the studio that we built. Recording in our own studio provided almost unbridled freedom: unlimited opportunity to tweak the songs, and the luxury of being able to take creative risks. Harmonies conceived and recorded at 3 AM or solos re-recorded during lunch became the norm, and allowed us myriad options and creative control. Where else but in the OMM home studio could we lay down a ripping distorted autoharp track and then pop outside to the backyard to record the crickets of Van Nuys?"

Track Listing:
1. Blood on My Hands
2. Rehearsal
3. America’s Dreaming
4. Come Around Here
5. Blindfold
6. So Much More
7. Hard to Understand
8. Beyond the Moon
9. Hand Me Down
10. Up Side Down
11. Fastbreak
12. Train of Thought
13. Too Soon for Goodnight

"The first single off the album is called "Now". It feels like the perfect way to start this new journey we are embarking on not only as a band but as a movement. To show people that you can lose battles but come back and win full on wars. You can rise from ashes. You can make something out of even less than nothing. The only thing you have to do is keep moving forward!"

Track Listing:
1. Fast In My Car
2. Now
3. Grow Up
4. Daydreaming
5. Interlude: Moving On
6. Ain’t It Fun
7. Part II
8. Last Hope
9. Still Into You
10. Anklebiters
11. Interlude: Holiday
12. Proof
13. Hate To See Your Heart Break
14. (One Of Those) Crazy Girls
15. Interlude: I’m Not Angry Anymore
16. Be Alone
17. Future

Mastered from Original Atlantic Records Tapes by Joe Reagoso

Often considered one of the finest recordings in the amazing Yes catalog, Going for the One continues to receive praise from fans as a truly inspiring masterwork. This important piece of music consists of five amazing Yes workouts such as the definitive opener Going for the One, the fan favorite Turn Of The Century, and of course the international smash hit Wonderous Stories. Yes enthusiasts were superlatively rewarded with even more progressive rock favorites with the brilliant Chris Squire composition Parallels, and the stunning Jon Anderson and Steve Howe collaboration Awaken, which truly made Going for the One one of the finest albums of classic rock era.

Track Listing:
1. Going for the One
2. Turn of the Century
3. Parallels
4. Wonderous Stories
5. Awaken

Certainly, the single "Call You Mom" could almost pass for a children's song with its garage pop riffs and slightly goofy lyrics. If you've got any kids who enjoy They Might Be Giants, they might well get a kick out of this one. This is the band's first album since 2011's Join Us.
-Alex Hudson

Track Listing:
1. Through Mind and Back
2. Mute
3. Attic Doctor
4. The Bath
5. Pelican Man
6. Dropla
7. Sleep Paralysis
8. Third Dystopia
9. Raspberry Cane
10. Daisyphobia

The long awaited latest chapter from The Cinematic Orchestra greets us with style. With track selection and order seeing many revisions since the inception of the project, this 23 title strong series is one of the most defined Late Night Tales yet.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Flying Lotus - Anties Harp
2. Nick Drake - Three Hours
3. Terry Callier - You're Gonna Miss Your Candyman
4. The Freedom Sounds ft. Wayne Henderson - Behold The Day
5. Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
6. Thom Yorke - Black Swan
7. The Cinematic Orchestra - Restaurant
8. Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint

LP 2
1. Bjork - Joga
2. Imogen Heap - Cumulus
3. Songstress - Sea Line Woman
4. Sebastian Tellier - La Ritoumelle
5. Burial - Dog Shelter
6. Burt Bacharach - South American Getaway 8. Will Self - The Happy Detective Part 3

Paul Kletzki is best remembered today for his conducting career and many recordings but less well known is his pre-war career as a composer. Born in Poland in 1900, he joined its Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of fifteen as a violinist. After serving in the First World War, he studied philosophy at the University of Warsaw before moving to Berlin in 1921 to continue his studies. During the 1920s his compositions were championed by Arturo Toscanini; and Wilhelm Furtwängler, who permitted Kletzki to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 1925.

Because he was Jewish, he left Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to Italy, however due to the anti-semitism of the Italian Fascist regime he moved to the Soviet Union in 1936. He later went to live in Switzerland. From 1942 onwards Kletzki wrote no more compositions; having lost much of his family in the holocaust, Nazism had destroyed his spirit and his will to compose.

His conducting skills then came to the fore. Kletzki was invited by EMI's Walter Legge to conduct the newly-formed Philharmonia Orchestra in London and many fine recordings were made (including this Sibelius record in early stereo) for EMI. In 1954 he was appointed chief conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and between 1958 and 1961 he was principal conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. From 1966 until 1970 he was the General Music Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. He died in 1974.

In the original June 1956 review M. M. of the GRAMOPHONE wrote: "Kletzki makes an impetuous attack on the music which is virtually completely successful, carried along by a marvellous quality of both orchestral playing and recording... Whether it is a sweep of full-bodied tone, a biting attack, a resonant pizzicato, or a sensitive solo that is called for, it is always there; even to tunes from the basses with a distinctly above-average proportion of note to rumble. And all of it set off by a brilliant quality of recording with fine internal balance... The new Kletzki... addresses the listener directly and convincingly."

Cut at Abbey Road Studios from the original stereo analogue master tapes with the Neumann VMS82 lathe fed an analogue pre-cut signal from a specially adapted Studer A80 tape deck with additional ‘advance’ playback head, making the cut a totally analogue process.

Pressed on 180g vinyl to audiophile standards at the Vinyl Factory, Hayes, using the old EMI Records presses.

Recorded in stereo on 15 & 16 July 1955 at the Kingsway Hall, London. Produced by the legendary Walter Legge and engineered by Douglas Larter and Neville Boyling.

Track Listing:
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
Side One:
1. I. Allegretto
2. II. Tempo andante, ma rubato
Side Two:
1. III. Vivacissimo
2. IV. Finale (Allegro moderato)

MGMT’s Late Night Tales selection of post-punk, cult indie and counter-culture figureheads reflects the band’s multifaceted sound, and draws comparisons with contemporary dreampop/chillwave/shoegaze/folk scenes on both sides of the Atlantic.

The listener finds MGMT presiding over the playlist "after-the-after-party”; daybreak creeping through the curtains earlier than desirable, broken bodies lining the corridors, the emotionally bankrupt kept alive by timeless songs of heartache and longing.

Luminaries The Velvet Underground, Suicide and Julian Cope, although not with their most famous songs, sit alongside less familiar names such as Disco Inferno; whose "Can’t See It Through" from their final ‘96 album "Technicolour" opens proceedings.

MGMT’s exclusive cover of "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" by Bauhaus sits comfortably alongside the UK post-punk-gothic band’s peers The Durutti Column, The Chills, The Jacobites and Felt’s brief but imposing instrumental "Red Indians." Paranoia strikes deep: the double header of Cheval Sombre’s "Troubled Mind" and "Drug Song" by 60’s Christian folk singer Dave Bixby accentuate the hope offered by the ever penitent Spacemen 3 (MGMT’s second album "Congratulations" was recorded with founder Pete Kember aka Sonic Boom), who deliver "Lord Can You Hear Me?" in respect to the beautiful closer "Morning Splendor," taken from Pauline Anna Strom’s rare ‘82 LP Trans-Millenia Consort.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Disco Inferno - Can't See Through It
2. The Great Society - Love You Girl
3. Suicide - Cheree
4. Martin Rev - Sparks
5. Television Personalities - Stop & Smell The Roses
6. The Velvet Underground - Ocean
7. Felt - Red Indians
8. Julian Cope - Laughing Boy
9. The Durutti Column - For Belgium Friends

LP 2
1. MGMT - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
2. Mark Fry - For Wilde
3. Cheval Sombre - Troubled Mind
4. Dave Bixby - Drug Song
5. The Jacobites - Hearts Are Like Flowers
6. The Chills - Pink Frost
7. Spacemen 3 - Lord Can You Hear Me?
8. Paul Morley - Lost For Words Part 2

The monster hit “Fire Water Burn” propelled the second album of Punk-Pop pranksters Bloodhound Gang from frat-house obscurity into the Pop mainstream. A downright party record, the genre-bending band fronted by Jimmy Pop defied all critics by refusing to compromise their sound. With lyrics full of perverted innuendo and toilet-humor served on a bedding of simple punky chords, One Fierce Beer Coaster was just what the kids in 1996 needed. The album even sports a sublime cover version of RUN-DMC’s “Tricky”. In keeping with a band that doesn’t give a s**t, the first 1,000 copies are lovingly churned out onto brown vinyl!

Track Listing:
Sue’s Side
1. Kiss Me Where It Smells Funny
2. Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)
3. Fire Water Burn
4. Yellow Fever
5. I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks
6. Why’s Everybody Always Pickin’ On Me
7. It’s Tricky

Jen’s Side
1. Asleep At The Wheel
2. Shut Up
3. Your Only Friends Are Make Believe
4. Boom
5. Going Nowhere Slow
6. Reflections Of Remoh