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The Drive-By Truckers have been making music together for 13 years resulting in 7 critically acclaimed studio albums which could not contain all of the songs written by the band. DBT recently dug into the New West Records vaults and put the finishing touches on a selection of songs that were never quite completed. The result of the collaboration is The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008, a 12-track album of previously unreleased and rare songs. The Fine Print features songs written by band members past and present, including Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell. Seven of the twelve songs come from The Dirty South era, a highly creative time for DBT. The record also contains four covers including "Rebels" by Tom Petty, which the band recorded originally for the TV show King of the Hill and "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan which provided Shonna Tucker with her first ever lead vocal performance on a DBT recording.

Track Listing:

1. George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues
2. Rebels
3. Uncle Frank (alternative version)
4. TVA
5. Goode's Field Road (alternative version)
6. The Great Car Dealer War
7. Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
8. When The Well Runs Dry
9. Mrs. Claus' Kimono
10. Play It All Night Long
11. Little Pony And The Great Big Horse
12. Like A Rolling Stone

Recorded primarily in Water Valley, MS, When The Devil's Loose expands upon the stripped-down and haunting sound of A.A. Bondy's debut album, American Hearts. A full band now accompanies him on most tracks, lending a full, roomy sound to 10 songs of bluesy Americana carried along by Bondy's lived-in voice. When The Devil's Loose sounds almost from another era, whether it's a quiet, spooky twang ("Oh The Vampyre"), lullaby-like ("On The Moon"), inflected with old-time R&B ("To The Morning"), or colored with traces of '60s pop (the buoyant "I Can See The Pines Are Dancing" and the melancholy, ethereal cadence of "When The Devil's Loose").

A.A. Bondy When The Devil's Loose Track Listing

1. When The Devil's Loose
2. Mightiest Of Guns
3. A Slow Parade
4. To The Morning
5. Oh The Vampyre
6. I Can See The Pines Are Dancing
7. False River
8. On The Moon
9. The Mercy Wheel
10. The Coal Hits The Fire

The Thelonious Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse lasted 11 years. October 31 and November 1, 1964 at the It Club in Los Angeles showcase Monk at particular high point pianistically; in fact, he went into a Los Angeles studio and recorded the album Solo Monk on the afternoons preceding and following the live taping. He is in full force throughout, but his playing is particularly superb on the standards "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and the previously unreleased "Sweet And Lovely."

The band plays standards, many of Monk's famous tunes, a few lesser known items like "Gallop's Gallop" and "Blues Five Spot" and the recent compositions "Teo" and "Bright Mississippi." Propelled by Gales and Riley, Monk and Rouse deliver amazing 10-minute excursions on such Monk classics as "Nutty," "Rhythm-a-ning" and "Blue Monk."

Rouse in his sixth year with Monk had hit his stride, truly becoming Monk's musical alter ego. Remarkably, drummer Ben Riley had joined the quartet at the beginning of 1964 and bassist Larry Gales had only logged in a month at the time of this taping; yet they already show the first signs of collective greatness on these evenings.

Mosaic has returned to the original three-track tapes and mixed them down to beautiful sounding analog stereo masters, presenting the six sets they played that night as they happened.

Track Listing:

1. Blue Monk
2. Well, You Needn’t
3. ‘Round Midnight
4. Rhythm-a-ning
5. Epistrophy (theme- Saturday set one)
6. Blues Five Spot
7. Bemsha Swing
8. Straight No Chaser
9. Epistrophy (theme – Saturday set two)
10. Evidence
11. Sweet And Lovely
12. Nutty
13. Epistrophy (theme – Saturday set three)
14. Teo
15. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
16. Epistrophy (theme – Sunday set one)
17. Misterioso
18. Gallop’s Gallop
19. Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are
20. Epistrophy (theme – Sunday set two)
21. Bright Mississippi
22. Just You, Just Me
23. All The Things You Are
24. Epistrophy (theme – Sunday set three)

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For their follow-up to 2007's Emotionalism and 2008's The Second Gleam EP, The Avett Brothers have enlisted the one and only Rick Rubin to handle production duties. Despite the band’s earthy sound, Scott Avett elaborates “I and Love and You was inspired by an unlikely classic Rubin production: the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik. But without the heroin addiction."

Track Listing:

1. I and Love and You
2. January Wedding
3. Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise
4. And it Spread
5. The Perfect Space
6. Ten Thousand Words
7. Kick Drum Heart
8. Laundry Room
9. Ill with Want
10. Tin Man
11. Slight Figure of Speech
12. It Goes On and On
13. Incomplete and Insecure

Rain Machine is a startling new musical venture from Kyp Malone, known to many as guitarist/singer for soulful art rockers TV On The Radio. For Rain Machine, Malone takes the influences that have always bubbled beneath the surface in TVOR; blues, gospel, 60s jazz, even African music, and brings them to the fore. Performing all the parts himself, Malone has fashioned a deeply personal journey through modern life, looking back on the weight of the history behind us. The result is a communiqué from the soul, if the Rolling Stones stripped away the glitz to find their emotional core on Exile on Main Street, then Malone has performed the same rite here, in all its murky, mercurial glory. Rain Machine will surprise some TVOR fans, stun others, but all will be transported by this dense, spiritual music. Produced by Ian Brennan (Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Lucinda Williams, Jonathan Richman).

Track Listing:

1. Intro
2. Give Blood
3. New Last Name
4. Smiling Black Faces
5. Driftwood Heart
6. Hold you Holy
7. Desperate Bitch
8. Love Won't Save You
9. Free Ride
10. Leave the Lights On
11. Winter Song

The provocative, cutting-edge album The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman features stunning, utterly surprising interpretations of his songs by 12 gifted contemporary female artists: Fiona Apple, Madeleine Peyroux, Missy Higgins, Jill Sobule, Sarabeth Tucek, Nikka Costa, Sara Watkins, Julianna Raye, Sam Phillips, Ambrosia Parsley, Patty Griffin and Perla Batalla. All tracks were fashioned by producer/pianist Dave Palmer.

Cy Coleman was the last major contributor to the Great American Songbook. He's responsible for timeless songs such as "The Best Is Yet To Come" and "The Rules Of The Road" made timeless by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Barbara Streisand, Dusty Springfield, Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. Ella Fitzgerald won a Grammy for her performance of "The Best Is Yet To Come."

Track Listing:

1. The Best Is Yet To Come (Patty Griffin)
2. I've Got Your Number (Jill Sobule)
3. Why Try To Change Me Now (Fionna Apple)
4. I Live My Love (Madeleine Peyroux)
5. Then Was Then And Now Is Now (Ambrosia Parsley)
6. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life (Julianna Raye)
7. You Fascinate Me So (Sam Phillips)
8. Hey Look Me Over (Perla Batalla)
9. Too Many Tomorrows (Sara Watkins)
10. I Walk A Little Faster (Fiona Apple)
11. Where Am I Going? (Sarabeth Tucek)
12. The Rules Of The Road (Nikka Costa)
13. (I'm) In Love Again (Missy Higgins)

Dead By Sunrise is a band consisting of Chester Bennington (Linkin Park), Ryan Shuck (Julien-K), Amir Derakh (Julien-K), Elias Andra (Julien-K), Brandon Belsky (Julien-K) and Fu. Bennington began working on Dead By Sunrise back in 2006, explaining, "I came up with a few songs that felt and sounded really good, but I knew they weren't right stylistically for Linkin Park. They were darker and moodier than anything I'd come up with for the band. So I decided to work on them on my own rather than turn them over and have them transformed into Linkin Park tracks." Out Of Ashes is the debut album for the new side project.

Track Listing:

1. Fire
2. Crawl Back In
3. Too Late
4. Inside of Me
5. Let Down
6. Give Me Your Name
7. My Suffering
8. Condemned
9. Into You
10. End of the World
11. Walking in Circles
12. In the Darkness

K7 presents the next installment in the DJ-Kicks series and they couldn't have come up with a better pairing. Chromeo is Canadian's P-Thugg and Dave 1: best friends, virtuoso musicians and walking hip-hop encyclopedias.

After releasing two albums (She's In Control and Fancy Footwork), hitting the dancefloors, attacking the charts with You're So Gangsta and Needy Girl, remixing the likes of Cut Copy and Lenny Kravitz, Feist and Vampire Weekend, and years of jet setting and globetrotting...the time is right to hear their take on DJ-Kicks.

A tribute to Canada of sorts, it includes many maple leaf underground classics and obscurities as well as unreleased versions of Chateau Marmont and the DJ Kicks exclusive track with Chromeo manipulating The Eagles classic "I Can't Tell You Why."

Track Listing:

1. Kano: Ikeya-Seki
2. France Joli: Gonna Get Over You
3. Carmen: Time To Move
4. Pierre Perpall: J'aime Danser Avec Toi
5. Donna Allen: Serious
6. Val Young: Seduction
7. Lovelock: Maybe Tonight
8. Chateau Marmont: Solar Antapex
9. Cheri: Murphy's Law
10. Shotgun: Don't You Wanna Make Love
11. Leo Sayer: Easy To Love
12. Diane Tell: Tes Yeux
13. Alan Parsons Project: Pipeline

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Rockabilly guitar-slinger, big band impresario, and all-around cool cat Brian Setzer takes a walk on the dark side with his film noir-inspired new album Songs From Lonely Avenue. Made up of ten vocal tracks and three instrumentals, the release marks the first time Brian Setzer has written every track on an album. With all the scope of a Raymond Chandler novel or an Orson Welles film, Songs From Lonely Avenue stands as his most ambitious project to date.

Track Listing:

1. Trouble Train
2. Dead Man Incorporated
3. Kiss Me Deadly
4. Gimme Some Rhythm Daddy
5. Lonely Avenue * Currently Top 5 on iTunes' Jazz Chart!
6. King Of The Whole Damn World
7. Mr. Jazzer Goes Surfin'
8. Mr. Surfer Goes Jazzin'
9. My Baby Don't Love Me Blues
10. Love Partners In Crime
11. Passion Of The Night
12. Dimes In The Jar
13. Elena

Daisy is Brand New's fourth studio release and follow-up to 2006's The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. The album was recorded with long time associate and producer Mike Sapone on Long Island.

Track Listing:

1. Vices
2. Bed
3. At the Bottom
4. Gasoline
5. You Stole
6. Be Gone
7. Sink
8. Bought a Bride
9. Daisy
10. In a Jar
11. Noro

His most captivating work to date, Draw The Line is the rich, warm, organic sound of David Gray reborn and it begins a new chapter for the singer/songwriter/storyteller. Recorded in London, and produced by the artist himself, David Gray’s voice and songwriting are as distinct as ever here and the album showcases the intensity with which he performs. Ripe with melancholic beauty, key tracks include the glorious sublimely layered “Fugitive,” the album’s lead single, the pensive “Draw the Line” and the emotive composition “Nemesis.” Also features two duets with Jolie Holland and Annie Lennox that are not to be missed!

Track Listing:

1. Fugitive
2. Draw The Line
3. Nemesis
4. Jackdaw
5. Kathleen
6. First Chance
7. Harder
8. Transformation
9. Stella The Artist
10. Breathe
11. Full Steam Ahead

Whether as a singer, a songwriter or a guitarist, Neil Young has been one of the most influential and important artists of the rock era. Blending folk, country and rock, the acoustic and the electric, the melancholy and the hopeful, Young has been an icon for the uncompromising and unpredictable since the 1960s.

His self-titled 1968 solo debut album, following his exit from Buffalo Springfield, bridged what was and what would be. Although the eponymous release was his only album not to chart, it featured the classic track "The Loner" and marked the launching point of an illustrious solo career. Neil Young was followed by the three acknowledged masterpieces, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush and Harvest.

Track Listing:

1. Emperor of Wyoming
2. Loner
3. If I Could Have Her Tonight
4. I've Been Waiting for You
5. Old Laughing Lady
6. String Quartet from Whiskey Boot Hill
7. Here We Are in the Years
8. What Did You Do to My Life?
9. I've Loved Her So Long
10. Last Trip to Tulsa

New Zealand soul powerhouse Fat Freddy's Drop present their new studio album, Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW, which features nine tracks of non-categorizable music born from Freddy's live jams, fantastic voyages & many hours of beat reduction and sonic fine tuning in Lyall Bay, Wellington.

Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW went straight to #1 on the New Zealand Music Album charts, having shipped Gold and hitting Platinum in the first four days. Two years in the making, the album is the successor to the band's 2005 debut album Based On A True Story, which also went straight to #1 in New Zealand, reached 8x platinum and won a raft of awards including Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Album of The Year in the UK.

Track Listing:

1. Big BW
2. Shiverman
3. Boondigga
4. The Raft
5. The Camel
6. The Nod
7. Wild Wind
8. Breakthrough

The new Alice In Chains album Black Gives Way To Blue is the sound of a new beginning of a legendary band returning to life. Right from the album’s powerful and deeply meaningful opener “All Secrets Known” through its redemptive closing title track, Black Gives Way To Blue, the first new Alice In Chains album in more than 14 years, is not just another rock reunion, but something far more inspiring.

Alice In Chains always was and always will be very much a band. So after taking a more than respectful break to mourn the loss of their brother and band mate Layne Staley, the surviving members of Alice In Chains, Jerry Cantrell, drummer Sean Kinney and bassist Mike Inez, gradually began to make music again. The band came together for the first time in 2005 to take part in a benefit for the victims of the tsunami in Indonesia.

The following year, Cantrell, Kinney and Inez decided that the time was right for Alice In Chains to reclaim its legacy again on tour. They did so with the help of a new guitarist and vocalist William DuVall, a gifted singer and player in his own right from Atlanta who previously worked with Neon Christ, Comes with the Fall, and as part of Jerry Cantrell’s touring band. As live audiences discovered, DuVall brings a sound and stage presence all his own. Yet when DuVall and Cantrell blend their voices, as Cantrell and Staley did so often, there could be little doubt that the spirit of Alice In Chains was once again alive and well.

Black Gives Way To Blue is the next step for a group that over the course of their career earned multiple Grammy nominations and sold more than 19 million albums worldwide and achieved 11 Top Ten singles. At the same time, the album offers the full, bracing impact of Alice In Chains, a band that kept heavy rock exciting at the dawn of the '90s and helped set the stage for an even grungier Seattle sound still clearly firing on all cylinders.

Recording on Black Gives Way To Blue began in October of 2008 at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge and finished at Henson Studios in Hollywood. The band produced the album with Nick Raskulinecz, whose past credits include Foo Fighters and Rush. Black Gives Way To Blue combines some classic Alice In Chains textures with a renewed sense of energy and possibility, from the epic and fantastically electric rocker “A Looking In View” to the exquisite and romantic ballad “Your Decision” to the album’s stunning first single “Check My Brain,” a throbbing rocker in which a band associated with the Pacific Northwest makes a wry and witty observation on working and living in California.

Through Black Gives Way To Blue, there is a deep sense of the unique life that this band has lived, of “Lesson Learned,” to borrow the title of another standout track. In the end, the album offers a kind of shared group autobiography by a band that has survived so much. Together, they are in a way “Last Of My Kind,” to use the title of another album highlight penned by Jerry Cantrell, long a dominant songwriter within Alice In Chains, with lyrics from DuVall. “Imitations are pale,” DuVall and Cantrell sing together on “Black Gives Way To Blue,” a brand new Alice In Chains classic that really has it all; the brooding hurt, the brute force and the beautiful introspection.

Track Listing:

1. All Secrets Known
2. Check My Brain
3. Last Of My Kind
4. Your Decision
5. A Looking In View
6. When The Sun Rose Again
7. Acid Bubble
8. Lessons Learned
9. Take Her Out
10. Private Hell
11. Black Gives Way To Blue

Opiate Sun is the new EP by former Napalm Death and Godflesh member Justin Broadrick's noisy and melodic shoegaze project Jesu. A one time only limited edition of 2000 copies, broken down across five different colors (300 each) and black vinyl (500 copies), housed in a Stoughton old style tip-on jacket. Mastered by John Golden at Golden Mastering at 45 RPM for maximum fidelity. Features the tracks "Losing Streak," "Opiate Sun," "Deflated" and "Morning Light."

Track Listing:

1. Losing Streak
2. Opiate Sun
3. Deflated
4. Morning Light

The 1965 album Today! was the Beach Boys' eighth studio album and the first of three to be released that year. The album marked a major turning point for the band, and especially the exhausted Brian Wilson. It was around this time where Wilson gave up touring, and many consider this the beginning of his artistic maturation. The album features a fine mix of upbeat numbers like "Do You Wanna Dance" and "Help Me Rhonda" and ballads such as "Please Let Me Wonder" and "Kiss Me, Baby." Aside from their opus Pet Sounds, Today! is the Beach Boys' most highly acclaimed release.

All 'From The Capitol Vaults' titles feature carefully replicated artwork and packaging true to their original single or gatefold jacket LP releases.

Track Listing:

1. Do You Wanna Dance?
2. Good To My Baby
3. Don't Hurt My Little Sister
4. When I Grow Up (To Be A Man)
5. Help Me, Rhonda
6. Dance, Dance, Dance
7. Please Let Me Wonder
8. I'm So Young
9. Kiss Me, Baby
10. She Knows Me Too Well
11. In the Back of My Mind
12. Bull Session With the 'Big Daddy'

The follow-up to Today!, Summer Days (And Summer Nights) remained on the U.S. Charts for 33 consecutive weeks and made it all the way to #2. After the melancholy second side of Today!, Mike Love encouraged Brian Wilson to write more Beach-Boys signature fare which resulted in tracks like "California Girls," "Amusement Parks U.S.A.," "Then I Kissed Her" and a re-worked version of "Help Me, Rhonda."

All 'From The Capitol Vaults' titles feature carefully replicated artwork and packaging true to their original single or gatefold jacket LP releases.

Track Listing:

1. The Girl From New York City
2. Amusement Parks U.S.A.
3. Then I Kissed Her
4. Salt Lake City
5. Girl Don't Tell Me
6. Help Me, Rhonda
7. California Girls
8. Let Him Run Wild
9. You're So Good To Me
10. Summer Means New Love
11. I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man
12. And Your Dream Comes True

Recorded at the Manor Studios in England, the 1974 album Faust IV opens with the drone-based instrumental track "Krautrock" and then is anchored by the tracks "The Sad Skinhead" and "Jennifer" which utilize more conventional songwriting techniques. Also featured is a re-worked medley of "Picnic On a Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableau" from the previous album Faust So Far.

All 'From The Capitol Vaults' titles feature carefully replicated artwork and packaging true to their original single or gatefold jacket LP releases.

Track Listing:

1. Krautrock
2. The Sad Skinhead
3. Jennifer
4. Just a Second (Starts Like That!)
5. Picnic On a Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableau
6. Giggy Smile
7. Läuft...Heißt das es läuft oder es kommt bald...Läuft
8. It's a Bit of a Pain

Originally released on the Beserkley label in 1976 (though most of the material was recorded in 1973), The Modern Lovers is a universally accepted proto-punk classic. It's an album that bridges the gap between The Velvet Underground, a band whom leader Jonathan Richman was obsessed with, and the first wave of punk rock. While also displaying the goofy wit that would later be Richman's signature, The Modern Lovers is equal parts geeky, emotional, angst driven, life affirming, and, from start to finish, absolutely brilliant.

Track Listing:

1. Roadrunner
2. Astral Plane
3. Old World
4. Pablo Picasso
5. I'm Straight
6. Dignified and Old
7. She Cracked
8. Hospital
9. Someone I Care About
10. Girl Friend
11. Modern World
12. Government Center

Brandi Carlile's Give Up The Ghost follows up her 2007 release The Story. Half of the songs on Give Up the Ghost were written since the release of The Story, but the rest were older creations that were just waiting for the right recording moment. As she has done for virtually all of her career, she collaborated on many of the songs with twin brothers Phil and Tim Hanseroth, whom she met while playing the Seattle club scene in her mid-teens. While The Story was produced by T-Bone Burnett, Give Up The Ghost features production from the one and only Rick Rubin and Jason Lader (Elvis Costello, Momofuku.)

Track Listing:

1. Looking Out
2. Pride And Joy
3. Dreams
4. Caroline
5. I Will
6. Oh Dear

Monsters Of Folk is a collaboration of Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and producer Mike Mogis, four of this generation’s most critically acclaimed artists. Monsters Of Folk have come together to create a truly unique album. Each of the band members stands alone in the studio as artists in their own right. Conor Oberst is Bright Eyes, Jim James leads My Morning Jacket, and M. Ward is a critically acclaimed singer songwriter (She & Him). The lead single will be the track "Say Please."

Track Listing:

1. Dear God (sincerely M.O.F.)
2. Say Please
3. Whole Lotta Losin'
4. Temazcal
5. The Right Place
6. Baby Boomer
7. Man Named Truth
8. Goodway
9. Ahead of the Curve
10. Slow Down Jo
11. Losin Yo Head
12. Magic Marker
13. Map Of The World
14. The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me
15. His Master’s Voice

Nowadays the Small Faces are criminally overlooked and often thought of as only the preamble to the Faces and, of course, Rod Stewart. At the time of their debut's original release back in 1966 however, they were one of the absolute greatest rock bands in the UK, with the Who and Rolling Stones being their only real competition. And lead vocalist Steve Marriott could sing circles around both Jagger and Daltrey. Reissued here in all its soul-influenced garage-rock glory is the Small Faces masterful debut.

Track Listing:

1. Shake
2. Come On Children
3. You'd Better Believe It
4. It's Too Late
5. One Night Stand
6. Whatcha Gonna Do About It
7. Sorry She's Mine
8. Own Up Time
9. You Need Loving
10. Don't Stop What You're Doing
11. E Too D
12. Sha-La-La-La-Lee

The Small Faces second album, originally released in 1967, is a rock and soul classic from Steve Marriott & Co. that holds its own among the material that the Rolling Stones and the Who were offering around the same period. There's garage rock, soul, psychedelia, and dance numbers all represented here. A classic release from one of the best, and most criminally underrated bands of the initial British rock explosion.

Track Listing:

1. Runaway
2. My Mind's Eye
3. Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
4. That Man
5. My Way of Giving
6. Hey Girl
7. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me
8. Take This Hurt Off Me
9. All or Nothing
10. Baby Don't You Do It
11. Plum Nellie
12. Sha-La-La-La-Lee
13. You've Really Got a Hold On Me
14. Whatcha Gonna Do About It

Formed in 1930 as a trio of guitar and fiddle music, the original lineup was composed of Lonnie, Sam and Armenter Chatmon, the latter best known as Bo Carter, who was also a solo star of the period. The Mississippi Sheiks took their name from Rudolph Valentino's movie The Sheik and became extremely popular in the 1930s despite the fact that the famous country music artists of the day were almost all solo artists. Their first single, "Sittin' On Top of The World," was also their biggest success. It went on to become a standard country blues song covered by many artists of the caliber of Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan and Cream.

Track Listing:

1. Sitting On Top Of The World
2. Grinding Old Fool
3. Still I'm Traveling On
4. I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You
5. It's Done Got Wet
6. Jail Bird Love Song
7. The World Is Going Wrong
8. The Sheik Waltz
9. Baby Keeps Stealin' Lovin' On Me
10. What's The Name Of That Thing
11. I'll Be Gone, Long Gone
12. Sales Tax
13. Stop And Listen Blues
14. Lonely One In This Town
15. Jake Leg Blues
16. The Jazz Fiddler
17. Lazy Lazy River
18. Somebody's Got To Help You
19. Sweet Maggie
20. Tell Me What The Cats Fight About

Originally released in 1971, Cahoots is the fourth overall album from the Canadian/American roots revitalists and a distinct carnivalesque spirit and beauty infuses the entire set. Highlights include the tracks "Life Is a Carnival," Bob Dylan's "When I Paint My Masterpiece" and "4% Pantomime" which features and was co-written by Van Morrison.

All 'From The Capitol Vaults' titles feature carefully replicated artwork and packaging true to their original single or gatefold jacket LP releases.

Track Listing:

1. Life Is a Carnival
2. When I Paint My Masterpiece
3. Last of the Blacksmiths
4. Where Do We Go From Here?
5. 4% Pantomime
6. Shoot Out in Chinatown
7. The Moon Struck One
8. Thinkin' Out Loud
9. Smoke Signal
10. Volcano
11. The River Hymn

2009 studio album from the reformed band led by guitarist extraordinaire Trey Anastasio. Joy was produced by Steve Lillywhite and was recorded in New York's Chung King Studios. Many of the album's 10 songs have already been road-tested during the band's reunion tour and retain their fresh, live feel on the studio recordings. The album is already being hailed as the band's best ever studio release. Pressed on two 180g vinyl LPs and packaged in a beautiful gate-fold sleeve.

Three-sided Double LP
Side 4 is Etched with Artwork

Track Listing:

1. Backwards Down The Number Line
2. Stealing Time From The Faulty Plan
3. Joy
4. Sugar Shack
5. Ocelot
6. Kill Devil Falls
7. Light
8. Been Around
9. Time Turns Elastic
10. Twenty Years Later

Remastered From Original Tapes by Steve Albini and Bob Weston.

Includes Coupon for Free MP3 Download of Entire Album with Bonus Tracks!

By the time The Jesus Lizard released Down in 1994, alt-rock had long exploded and penetrated the commercial mainstream. Despite being a hair more subdued than the noise-rock band’s previous releases, the still-manic Down didn’t break through, but unlike most releases of the time, it didn’t compromise either. The Jesus Lizard’s final studio album for Touch & Go and last record produced by Steve Albini, it’s also the last essential statement the band put down on tape. And it’s never sounded better.

Part of Touch & Go’s stellar Jesus Lizard reissue campaign, Down has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes by Bob Weston (Mission of Burma, Shellac) and original engineer Steve Albini. The new pressing presents Down in a sonic light that exceeds even the best expectations. There’s greater space between instruments, heightened dynamics, a more solidified midrange, and an incredible boost in energy. Benefitting from Albini’s dry, spare, and no-frills production, indie-rock has seldom sounded so dangerous, physical, blunt, or fervent.

Vinyl packaged in deluxe gatefold album jacket with 12” x 24” double sided color insert including never before seen photos, and extensive liner notes by the band and by journalists who were there when it was all happening. Vinyl also includes a digital download coupon for entire LP, plus 4 bonus tracks not included on the LP itself.

Track Listing:

1. Fly On The Wall
2. Mistletoe
3. Countless Backs of Sad Losers
4. Queen For A Day
5. The Associate
6. Destroy Before Reading
7. Low Rider
8. 50 ¢
9. American BB
10. Horse
11. Din
12. Elegy
13. The Best Parts
14. (intentionally blank track)

MP3 Bonus Tracks:

1. White Hole
2. Glamorous
3. Deaf As A Bat
4. Panic In Cicero

Remastered from Original Masters by Steve Albini and Bob Weston.

Includes Coupon for Free MP3 Download of Entire Album with Bonus Tracks!

A head-splitting jolt of relentless anxiety, frantic paranoia, concussive racket, and oddball frenzy, The Jesus Lizard’s Goat became an instant indie-rock landmark upon its 1991 release. Instigating, cutthroat, and snarling through broken teeth, it became the blueprint followed by the likes of Nirvana, Helmet, Fugazi, and the Melvins, and it’s never sounded better!

Part of Touch & Go’s stellar Jesus Lizard reissue campaign, the pioneering Goat has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes by Bob Weston (Mission of Burma, Shellac) and original engineer Steve Albini. The new pressing presents Goat in a sonic light that exceeds even the best expectations. There’s greater space between instruments, heightened dynamics, a more solidified mid-range, extended imaging, deeper soundstage, and an incredible boost in energy. Benefitting from Albini’s dry, no-frills production, indie-rock has seldom sounded so dangerous, physical, or fervent.

Vinyl packaged in deluxe gatefold album jacket with 12” x 24” double sided color insert including never before seen photos, and extensive liner notes by the band and by journalists who were there when it was all happening. Vinyl also includes a digital download coupon for entire LP, plus 5 bonus tracks not included on the LP itself.

Track Listing:

1. Then Comes Dudley
2. Mouth Breather
3. Nub
4. Seasick
5. Monkey Trick
6. Karpis
7. South Mouth
8. Lady Shoes
9. Rodeo in Joliet
10. (intentionally blank track)

MP3 Bonus Tracks:

1. Sunday You Need Love
2. Pop Song
3. Seasick (Live)
4. Lady Shoes (Live)
5. Monkey Trick (Live)

Thomas Function is the ever-advancing pursuit of impossible satisfaction. Emerging from Alabama in 2007 with two singles, they've since released four more and the highly praised LP Celebration on the Bomp! imprint Alive, in 2008. They've played countless shows in venues ranging from some dude's bathroom to the Metro in Chicago and onward to some dude's kitchen in Sweden. Endless, touring, and an upcoming LP on Fat Possum Records, In The Valley of Sickness ensure that their pursuits were not in vain.

Track Listing:

1. ADP Blues
2. Day In The Shade
3. Picking Scabs
4. Waverly
5. Ew Way Ew
6. Belly Of The Beast
7. When I Was A King
8. How Does It Feel
9. Magic City
10. Two Pigs
11. Not Asking For Much
12. No End In Sight

Mean Creek's new release, The Sky (Or The Underground) is a valiant, dynamic effort to resurrect Boston's relevance back to a time when bands like the Pixies, the Lemonheads and Buffalo Tom reigned supreme. Recorded by Chris McLaughlin (Aberdeen City) at Chelsea Studios in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the album combines the gritty, blue collar-rock of bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and the Replacements with the boy/girl harmonies of Rilo Kiley and the New Pornographers.

Track Listing:

1. The Sky (Or The Underground)
2. Face Of The Earth
3. Beg & Plead
4. Light Into Dark
5. Strange Men
6. Not To Dream
7. Radio Drought
8. It's Good To Be Back Again
9. The Patient
10. Wild Beasts

In early 2009, James McMurtry traveled overseas for his first European tour. The guys played for enthusiastic crowds in Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Scotland, and Belgium. Joining McMurtry’s band on keyboards for the tour was the legendary Ian McLagan (who also played on McMurtry’s latest studio album, JustUs Kids). McMurtry combined the best recordings from the Amsterdam and Geislingen concerts to create Live in Europe.

The deluxe vinyl version includes inserted copies of the CD and a bonus DVD. Fellow Austin-based songwriter, Jon Dee Graham, opened the shows on the tour and joins the band on a version of his tune, “Laredo,” on the bonus DVD.

“James McMurtry packs a lot of story into his low-key songs: tales of loners and losers adrift in wideopen spaces. His voice is deadpan, but his characters survive grand struggles.” — The New York Times

Track Listing:

1. Bayou Tortue
2. Just Us Kids
3. Hurricane Party
4. You’d a’ Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
5. Fräulein O.
6. Ruby and Carlos
7. Freeway View
8. Restless

Bonus DVD

1. Choctaw Bingo
2. You’d a’ Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)
3. Freeway View
4. We Can’t Make It Here
5. L aredo (with Jon Dee Graham)
6. Too Long In The Wasteland

Depending on whom you ask, Jack 'Oblivian' Yarber is either a rock legend or an obsolute unknown. And no one knows this dichotomy better than Yarber, who may be Memphis' most infuential active rock musician.

The list of noteworthy bands Yarber has been a member of over the years is massive and includes Johnny Vomit & the Dry Heaves, new-wavers the End, '68 Comeback, Knaughty Knights, and Tav Falco's Panther Burns. Two of Yarber's former bands, the Compulsive Gamblers and the Oblivians, have seen their reputation and following swell in the decade since their demise, especially the Oblivians, whose international fan base borders on rabid. Due largely to his stint in these bands, both partnerships with Greg Cartwrigth, now of Reigning Sound, Yarber has been an acknowledged influence on artists such as the White Stripes, the Hives, and Jay Reatard.

In the years since, Yarber has toured and released a string of successful solo albums under the Jack O & the Tennessee Tearjerkers moniker. Originally conceived in 2000 as a partnership with former Impala and current Bo-Keys bassist Scott Bomar, the band quickly morphed into Yarber's solo incarnation after Bomar became occupied with film scoring and production work. The band has had a revolving door for side players ever since, at different times including current River City Tanlines John Bonds and Terrence Bishop, Neighborhood Texture Jam guitarist John Wittmore, the Reigning Sound's Greg Roberson, Bluff City Backslider Adam Woodard, and a host of other recognizable local musicians.

Track Listing:

American Slang

1. American Slang
2. 2,000 Man
3. Hustler
4. Honey, I'm Too Old For You
5. Robot Lover
6. Got The Funky Blues (part 1)
7. Got The Funky Blues (part 2)
8. Out Of Tune
9. a.m. slang (reprise)

So Low

1. Intro/Midnight Hour Queen
2. Shake It Off
3. Trash
4. So Low
5. Downtown
6. Let Me Be Your Chauffeur
7. Mama Don't Get Off
8. You Made Me Crazy
9. Human Being
10. All Your Lovin'
11. All The Way Down

Beaten Awake's sophomore release, Thunder$troke is a lo-fi, alternately heavy and rocking, dreamy and rolling landscape of fuzzy bass, resonating drums, and guitars channeled through a late ’70s Fender Super Reverb amp. The members of Beaten Awake have been fixtures of the Kent, OH, music scene since the late ’90s, playing in a number of bands that include Harriet The Spy, The Party of Helicopters, The Man I Fell In Love With, and “New” Terror Class. From the humming, melodic title track to the driving indie rock of “Gyro Quake” to the dreamy, ambling “Coming Home,” Thunder$troke serves in many ways as a document of not only the music they’re making at this time, but also of their continuing dedication to and pride in that musical community.

Track Listing:

1. Mr. Thompson (Can You Dig It?)
2. Suite Cheetah
3. Thunder$troke
4. Gyro Quake
5. I'm Not Asking for the Moon
6. Coming Home
7. Danger Pins
8. (Untitled)
9. Mr. Thompson
10. Halo V
11. I Shot the Mayor, Not the Deputy Mayor

Seven years ago, Neil Finn and friends first got together to perform some live shows and release a resulting live album. In December of 2008 and January of 2009, Neil did it again, only this time bigger and better! He assembled a group of his friends and fellow artists in Auckland, New Zealand to record a brand new album of all new and original material.

The cast list this time includes Neil, Sharon and Liam Finn, members of Wilco, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway of Radiohead, Lisa Germano, Bic Runga, plus others, all contributing to the performances and songwriting

Sony Music UK is contributing part of the proceeds from 7 Worlds Collide The Sun Came Out to Oxfam International. Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 100 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice.

Track Listing:

1. Too Blue - Johnny Marr/Jeff Tweedy
2. You Never Know - Jeff Tweedy
3. Little By Little - Sharon Finn/Neil Finn
4. Learn To Crawl - Ed O'Brien/Johnny Marr/Liam & Neil Finn
5. Black Silk Ribbon - KT Turnstall/Bic Runga
6. Girl, Make Your Own Mind Up - Don McGlashan
7. Run In The Dust - Johnny Marr
8. Red Wine Bottle - Liam Finn/Chris Garland/Johnny Marr
9. The Ties That Bind Us - Phil Selway
10. Reptile - Lisa Germano
11. Bodhisattva Blues - Ed O'Brien/Liam Finn
12. What Could Have Been - Jeff Tweedy
13. All Comedians Suffer - Neil Finn
14. Duxton Blues - Glenn Richards
15. Hazel Black - KT Turnstall/Neil Finn
16. Riding The Wave - Tim Finn
17. The Witching Hour - Phil Selway
18. Over And Done - John Stirrat
19. Change Of Heart - Bic Runga/Dan Wilson
20. Don't Forget Me - Pat Sansone
21. Long Time Gone - Don McGlashan
22. The Cobbler - Elroy Finn
23. 3 Worlds Collide - Glen Kotche/Phil Selway/Neil Baldock
24. The Water - Sebastian Steinberg

In 2001, Sufjan Stevens followed up his debut album, A Sun Came, with Enjoy Your Rabbit, a series of fourteen instrumentals programmatically inspired by the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Much later, in 2006, Bryce Dessner (The National, Dark Was the Night compilation, Clogs) suggested that Sufjan re-arrange the entirety of Enjoy Your Rabbit for Osso, a string quartet that had previously contributed strings to Sufjan’s Illinois and My Brightest Diamond’s Bring Me The Workhorse. The result is Run Rabbit Run. Beautiful packaging includes reproductions of Jessica Dessner’s exquisite pencil drawings.

Track Listing:

1. Year of the Ox (arr. Michael Atkinson)
2. Enjoy Your Rabbit (arr. Michael Atkinson)
3. Year of the Monkey (arr. Michael Atkinson)
4. Year of the Tiger (arr. Rob Moose)
5. Year of the Dragon (arr. Nico Muhly)
6. Year of the Snake (arr. Olivier Manchon)
7. Year of the Horse (arr. Rob Moose)
8. Year of the Sheep (arr. Maxim Moston)
9. Year of the Rat (arr. Olivier Manchon)
10. Year of the Rooster (arr. Gabriel Kahane)
11. Year of the Dog (arr. Rob Moose)
12. Year of the Boar (arr. Michael Atkinson)
13. Year of Our Lord (arr. Michael Atkinson)

The Mountain Goats have been making records since that mythical time when the term “tape-only label” didn’t require any elaborate explanation, but have been recording and touring in their current incarnation since 2007. That current incarnation consists of John Darnielle, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster, who, having toured Australia, England, and the U.S. several times (and a cruise ship once), recorded The Life of the World to Come across three studios with three producers from April through June of 2009: with Brandon Eggleston at Chicago’s Electrical Audio; with John Congleton at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas; and with Scott Solter at Baucom Road in Monroe, North Carolina. Owen Pallet, with whom the band shared a stage in Australia this past January at the Meredith Music Festival, arranged and played strings. The Life of the World to Come’s 12 songs all originate, one way or another, in the Bible, though none of the band, as of press time, had joined the Vineyard Fellowship.

Track Listing:

1. 1 Samuel 15:23
2. Psalms 40:2
3. Genesis 3:23
4. Philippians 3:20-21
5. Hebrews 11:40
6. Genesis 30:3
7. Romans 10:9
8. 1 John 4:16
9. Matthew 25:21
10. Deuteronomy 2:10
11. Isaiah 45:23
12. Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace

Mission Of Burma's fourth LP is a departure from the pinned-needles roar of 2006’s The Obliterati. Far more spacious and dynamic, it blasts off with the anthemic, catchy “1, 2, 3, Partyy!”, a classic Burma rocker on a level with “This Is Not A Photograph” or “Certain Fate.” Other tracks, such as “Feed,” “Forget Yourself” and “Slow Faucet,” are slow, hypnotic builders. “Good Cheer” is a burst of almost uncontainable joy that literally explodes from the speakers.

Of course, all the Burma trademarks are also present: the military snare drum, the melodic basslines high up on the neck, and the furiously dissonant guitarwork, refracted back into the songs via tape loops, all punctuated by the hoarse shouts of drummer Peter Prescott. This controlled chaos, this disciplined letting go, is at the heart of what they do and it remains as exhilarating and fulfilling as ever.

High quality 180g vinyl pressed at RTI. Includes MP3 coupon.

Track Listing:

1. 1, 2, 3, Partyy!
2. Possession
3. Blunder
4. Forget Yourself
5. After The Rain
6. SSL 83
7. One Day We Will Live There
8. So Fuck It
9. Feed
10. Good Cheer
11. Come Undone
12. Slow Faucet

In the four years since his career-redefining, mostly acoustic record Emoh, Lou Barlow has reunited with Dinosaur Jr. and reissued three of Sebadoh’s classic albums. But as the brilliant new Goodnight Unknown illustrates, he’s hardly living in the past. Borrowing the live-band energy of Dinosaur Jr. and the stylistic reach of Sebadoh, Barlow has built on Emoh’s full production and written a set of immediate, melodic pop songs that Lou describes as, “a cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh…to my ears, anyway.”

Track Listing:

1. Sharing
2. Goodnight Unknown
3. Too Much Information
4. Faith In Your Heartbeat
5. The One I Call
6. The Right
7. Gravitate
8. I’m Thinking…
9. One Machine, One Long Fight
10. Praise
11. Take Advantage
12. Modesty
13. Don’t Apologize
14. One Note Tone

Philadelphia singer-songwriter Kurt Vile (yes, that's his real name) makes his Matador debut with Childish Prodigy. His second album (the first came out on the tiny Gulcher label, vinyl on Woodsist), Childish Prodigy is a rich tapestry of rock and folk sounds, occasionally lo-fi, occasionally lustrous, hitting touchstones from Tom Petty to Street Legal-era Dylan to Spacemen 3 to Skip Spence.

Childish Prodigy is more diverse than its predecessor, and ranges from pounding rockers like “Hunchback” and “Freak Train” to gorgeous folky numbers like “Overnite Religion” and the soaring trumpet in “Amplifier.” It includes a Dim Stars cover (Richard Hell and Thurston Moore’s early ‘90s supergroup) plus two hidden tracks. The more you listen, the more deeply you'll be drawn in to Vile’s explorations of rock history. An absorbing and addictive record with layers and layers of discovery.

Track Listing:

1. Hunchback
2. Dead Alive
3. Overnite Religion
4. Freak Train
5. Blackberry Song
6. Monkey
7. Heart Attack
8. Amplifier
9. Inside Looking Out

Import

As musical lunacy goes, things have gotten as crazy as it gets for Death Cab for Cutie since 2002's You Can Play These Songs with Chords compilation. A wildly successful tour with Dismemberment Plan, a collaboration for singer Ben Gibbard with emo-electronic guru Dntel under the Postal Service moniker, and a whole new legion of fans swooning to Gibbard's lyrics as if he were a modern day answer to Kiss Me-era Robert Smith have all amassed considerable hype around Transatlanticism. But the group proves themselves more than equal to the task, answering the call and proving the cynics wrong with their most focused and most mature work in their entire catalog. Transatlanticism wastes absolutely no time and dives in head first with "The New Year," one of the most melodramatic openings to an album since the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight" from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The mellow, mixed-meter percussion and dense atmosphere of "Lightness" is a brilliant lead into the pop-happy "Expo '86" and "The Sound of Settling" before setting up the climatic and intensely dramatic title track. Unconsciously taking a page from Blur's "Sing," the hypnotic drumming and guitar call and responses through the eight-minute climax of the album are backed with a singalong finale that unquestionably will have every audience on the next tour singing along and holding up their lighters. And while most albums would be left exhausted after such a track, the group keeps things moving, albeit at a much slower pace than compared to the anthems that packed the first half. Gibbard seamlessly makes the transition between songs that full out rock to songs that are comparable to Elliott Smith's finest hour with great ease. But it's Gibbard's poetic lyrics and signature introspection that remain a bench mark for Death Cab; and it's the group's maturity as musicians as well as songwriters that make Transatlanticism such a decadently good listen from start to finish. The band has never sounded more cohesive, the track sequencing is brilliant, and it caps off a triumphant year for not only Gibbard, but a band whose time and greater recognition is finally due. ~ Rob Theakston, All Music Guide

Track Listing:

1. The New Year
2. Lightness
3. Title And Registration
4. Expo '86
5. The Sound Of Settling
6. Tiny Vessels
7. Transatlanticism
8. Passenger Seat
9. Death Of An Interior Decorator
10. We Looked Like Giants
11. A Lack Of Color

Herbie Mann established himself as jazz's most popular flutist for over a decade, and in doing so he also solidified the flute's rightful place in jazz. In 1962, his live album Herbie Mann at the Village Gate was his first major success, selling over half a million copies and making him a true superstar.

The first track on the LP, "Comin' Home Baby," placed in the Top 30 on the pop charts and became Mann's first big hit. Composer Ben Tucker plays second bass on that cut, and Mann's other sidemen include vibraphonist Hagood Hardy, bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik, drummer Rudy Collins, and Chief Bey and Ray Mantilla on percussion. Next are two great Gershwin songs. Mann's version of "Summertime" deserves a place in any collection. Last is the long "It Ain't Necessarily So," clocking in at almost 20-minutes. Mann's smart solo on the track wails and the crowd goes wild as the flute rises up from the rhythm section over and over.

Here it all is: a base of bebop with the Latin beat, but also Middle Eastern and African influences. There's funk on this album, there's cool, and Bossa Nova and samba. At this legendary moment in Herbie Mann's career, it all held together, and it just swings.

Track Listing:

1. Comin' Home Baby
2. Summertime
3. It Ain't Necessarily S

Forming in 1982, Anvil released one of the heaviest albums of all time, Metal on Metal, influencing some of the biggest names in rock including Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax. But while those bands went on to sell millions of albums and achieve international fame, Anvil’s career took a different path straight to obscurity.

On the heels of the critically acclaimed documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Lips, Robb and G5 (aka Glenn Gyorffy), persistent as ever, are back with their 13th recording aptly named This Is Thirteen. Produced by Chris Tsangarides (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy), with a legion of newly found fans, heavy hitter manager Rick Sales (Slayer) on board and a new label (VH1 Classic Records) to call home, the band is set to take their rightful place in metal history.

Track Listing:

1. This Is Thirteen
2. Bombs Away
3. Burning Bridges
4. Ready To Fight
5. Flying Blind
6. Room # 9
7. Axe To Grind
8. Feed The Greed
9. Big Business
10. Should' A Would' A Could' A
11. Worry
12. Game Over
13. American Refugee

The highly anticipated final installment in the Blueprint series follows up the international superstar and multi-media mogul's classic Blueprint (2001) and the critically acclaimed Blueprint II (2002). Blueprint III is a Roc Nation/Live Nation release distributed through Atlantic Records.

"This project is all about pushing the envelope. Being an independent artist, I have an incredible freedom to utlize my unique existing relationship with Live Nation and revive partnerships with great creative teams. I have this amazing and rare opportunity to explore different ways to distribute my music. It's exciting because Blueprint III has been a long time in the making."

Track Listing:

1. What We Talkin’ About (featuring Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun)
2. Thank You
3. D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)
4. Run This Town (featuring Kanye West and Rihanna)
5. Empire State of Mind (featuring Alicia Keys)
6. Real As it Gets (featuring Young Jeezy)
7. On to the Next One (featuring Swizz Beatz)
8. Off That (featuring Drake)
9. A Star is Born (featuring J. Cole)
10. Venus vs. Mars
11. Already Home (featuring Kid Cudi)
12. Hate (featuring Kanye West)
13. Reminder
14. So Ambitious (featuring Pharrell) 15. Young Forever (featuring Mr Hudson)

Julian Casablancas' (The Strokes) debut solo album Phrazes For The Young spans eight songs, recorded over 12 months in Los Angeles, New York City and Nebraska. The album was produced by Jason Lader with additional production by Mike Mogis.

Track Listing:

1. Out of the Blue
2. Rive of Brake Lights
3. 4 Chords of the Apocalypse
4. 11th Dimension
5. Ludlow St.
6. Glass
7. Left & Right In The Dark
8. Tourist

Leonard Cohen Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 is a fascinating and timely portrait of the artist as a young man, just three years into his recording career (though he was already a published poet and novelist for 15 years). As he mesmerizes the Isle Of Wight audience, Cohen intersperses a baker's dozen songs with tales both real and apocryphal, as well as a handful of his poems.

This double 180g vinyl LP edition of Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 represents the 77-minute concert set as performed by Cohen and his backup band: Bob Johnston (Cohen's Nashville-based Columbia A&R staff producer), and Nashville musicians Charlie Daniels (electric bass, fiddle), Ron Cornelius (lead guitar), and Elkin 'Bubba' Fowler (bass, banjo). They were joined by backup singers Corlynn Hanney, Susan Musmanno, and Donna Washburn. During the course of their European tour, which Cohen only agreed to undertake if Johnston (producer of Cohen's most recent LP, Songs From A Room) would manage him and organize the band, the group began to call themselves The Army, owing to the battles they were subjected to by audiences on the road.

All but three of the songs on Live At The Isle of Wight 1970 originated on Cohen's first two LPs, his debut Songs Of Leonard Cohen from 1967 ("So Long, Marianne," "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong," "The Stranger Song," "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," "Suzanne"); and Songs From A Room from 1969 ("Bird On The Wire," "You Know Who I Am," "Tonight Will Be Fine," "The Partisan," "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy"). The three other songs "Diamonds In The Mine," "Sing Another Song Boys," and "Famous Blue Raincoat" were destined for Cohen's third album, 1971's Songs of Love and Hate.

Track Listing:

1. Introduction
2. Bird On the Wire
3. Intro to So Long, Marianne
4. So Long, Marianne
5. Intro: "Let's Renew Ourselves Now..."
6. You Know Who I Am
7. Intro to Poems
8. Lady Midnight
9. They Locked Up a Man (Poem)/A Person Who Eats Meat/Intro
10. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
11. The Stranger Song
12. Tonight Will Be Fine
13. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
14. Diamonds In the Mine
15. Suzanne
16. Sing Another Song, Boys
17. The Partisan
18. Famous Blue Raincoat
19. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy

One of the most controversial albums in Bob Dylan's remarkable catalog, the 1970 double-LP Self Portrait continues to exercise considerable fascination amongst Dylan devotees. Released on the heels of the artist's game changing Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait offered a quirky assortment of studio and live tracks, encompassing Dylan originals as well as covers of familiar pop and folk numbers, recorded with an all-star musical cast.

At the time of its original release, the sprawling, unconventional Self Portrait generated an immense amount of discussion and disagreement amonst Dylan admirers. The ongoing controversy surrounding the album has been fueled over the years by Dylan himself. At various times, Dylan has defended Self Portrait as a heartfelt artistic statement, dismissed it as a joke and described it as a concerted effort to escape the pressures of his unwanted status as the voice of a generation. Whatever the artist's actual intentions, Self Portrait retains a unique niche in the hearts of Dylan fans, and is often cited as an early landmark in the birth of alternative country.

Self Portrait's highlights include the Dylan originals "Wigwam," later featured in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums; "Living the Blues," subsequently covered by artists ranging from Leon Redbone to Antony Hegarty; and "The Mighty Quinn," which Manfred Mann had turned into a British Invasion hit in 1968. The latter song is one of a quartet of live tracks drawn from Dylan's legendary performances with The Band at the historic Isle of Wight festival, along with memorable versions of the Dylan standards "Like a Rolling Stone," "Minstrel Boy" and "She Belongs to Me." Also featured are Dylan's readings of a variety of outside material, ranging from his iconic interpretation of the rural folk song "Copper Kettle" to his distinctive takes on such familiar tunes as Paul Simon's "The Boxer," Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Mornin' Rain" and the vintage Every Brothers hits "Let It Be Me" and "Take a Message to Mary."

Sundazed has restored this one-of-a-kind release to its original double-LP format. Mastered from the original analog master tapes, the album is pressed on high-quality, high-definition vinyl, with meticulously reproduced original gatefold cover art.

Track Listing:

1. All the Tired Horses
2. Alberta #1
3. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
4. Days of '49
5. Early Mornin' Rain
6. In Search of Little Sadie
7. Let It Be Me
8. Little Sadie
9. Woogie Boogie
10. Belle Isle
11. Living the Blues
12. Like a Rolling Stone (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969)
13. Copper Kettle (The Pale Moonlight)
14. Gotta Travel On
15. Blue Moon
16. The Boxer
17. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival)
18. Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)
19. Take a Message to Mary
20. It Hurts Me Too
21. Minstrel Boy (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969)
22. She Belongs to Me (Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969)
23. Wigwam
24. Alberta #2

When making the new Built To Spill album There Is No Enemy, Doug Martsch literally lived in the studio working all day and night. He spent hours and hours laying down guitar tracks he realized he couldn't use since the first live takes had the best tone and feel. He had to undigitally remix the record. There Is No Enemy has the sound and feel of the album that every Built To Spill fan has been anxiously awaiting.

In addition to Martsch and his usual support, There Is No Enemy includes guest spots from Sam Coomes, ex-Treepeople co-guitarist/vocalist Scott Schmaljohn, Butthole Surfer Paul Leary, Roger Manning, etc.

Track Listing:

1. Aisle 13
2. Hindsight
3. Nowhere Lullaby
4. Good Ol' Boredom
5. Life's A Dream
6 .Oh Yeah
7. Pat
8. Done
9. Planting Seeds
10. Things Fall Apart
11. Tomorrow

I Told You I Was Freaky is, among a great many other things, a genre-tripping tour de force and includes three songs from the second series of their popular and award-winning/nominated HBO TV show which are otherwise as yet unreleased ("Rambling Through the Avenues of Time," "Too Many Dicks (On The Dance Floor)" and "You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute").

Embossed gatefold sleeve, 8 page color booklet with lyrics and guitar chords, custom dust sleeve and labels and a 24"x24" poster of the complete artwork that was used for the album cover.

Track Listing:

1. Hurt Feelings
2. Sugalumps
3. We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady
4. I Told You I Was Freaky
5. Demon Woman
6. Rambling Through the Avenues of Time
7. Fashion is Danger
8. Petrov, Yelyena And Me
9. Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)
10. You Don't Have To Be a Prostitute
11. Friends
12. Carol Brown
13. Angels

Devil’s Halo, Meshell Ndegeocello's 8th album, harkens back to the way records used to be made with live band energy and phenomenal musicianship. Influenced by a breadth of sounds, from The Human League to Wu Tang to Yes, Devil’s Halo displays Meshell’s own diversity of formidable gifts. Always the uncompromising artist and bass player, this record brings a broad range of musical and lyrical voices and selves: the searcher, the skeptic, the dissenter, and the lover. True to form, Meshell offers compositions with raging climaxes alongside moments of terrifying tenderness and honesty. Genre-defiant as ever, Devil’s Halo asks for the real fans of exploration to please stand up.

Canonized, marginalized or just scrutinized, Meshell Ndegeocello has given up with the politics of explaining herself. After 20 years in an industry that has called her everything from avant garde to a dying breed, what unquestionably remains is the fearsome bassist, prolific songwriter and the creativity and curiosity of an authentic musical force. With that, she has earned critical acclaim, the unfailing respect of fellow players, songwriters and composers, and the dedication of her diverse, unclassifiable fans. For the sake of setting the record straight, a few brass tacks remain: Meshell was born in Germany, raised in DC, signed at 23, and has been nominated for 10 Grammy awards.

Track Listing:

1. Slaughter
2. Tie One On
3. Lola
4. Hair Of The Dog
5. Mass Transit
6. White Girl
7. Love You Down
8. Devil’s Halo
9. Bright Shiny Morning
10. Blood On The Curb
11. Die Young
12. Crying In Your Beer

Los Angeles' premiere heavy metal band, Steel Panther, are releasing their debut album, Feel The Steel, on Universal Republic Records. This mythical musical masterpiece has been 20 years in the making with the band retuning in 2009 to reclaim their rightful place among metal music’s heavyweights. Powered by audacious frontman Michael Starr's fearless vocal charge, the group ignites audiences from every walk of life with their unbridled valentine that goes right for the jugular of the heavy metal repertoire. Joining the effervescent Starr are Steel Panther’s Stix Zadinia on drums, Satchel on guitar, and bassist Lexxi Foxxx.

As word of Steel Panther’s return began to spread around the music community, a who’s who of musical artists stepped up to join the band in reclaiming metals place among the top of the music landscape. Allison Robertson of the Donnas and Justin Hawkins from the Darkness make an appearance on the Steel Panther mantra number, “Party All Day” while Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows lends his voice to “Turn Out The Lights.” Anthrax’s Scott Ian shows up on the soon to be international hit, “Asian Hooker” alongside Slipknot’s Corey Taylor who also appears on the soon-to-be classics, “Eyes Of A Panther” and “Death To All But Metal.” The band’s first single from Feel The Steel, “Community Property,” took the radio waves by storm being the #1 Most Added song at the Active Rock format.

Track Listing:

1. Death To All But Metal
2. Asian Hooker
3. Community Property
4. Eyes Of A Panther
5. Fat Girl
6. Thar She Blows
7. Eatin’ Ain’t Cheatin’
8. Party All Day (**** All Night)
9. Turn Out The Lights
10. Stripper Girl
11. Girl From Oklahoma
12. Hell’s On Fire

Behold the debut album from Eagle Twin! Although Eagle Twin is a very new entity its helmsman: Gentry Densley is no stranger to innovative, heavy music. Densley was the musical visionary and leader of the legendary Jazz, Prog, Rock, Metal, Hardcore group Iceburn from 1991-2001. In order to disseminate his majestic and mountainous riffs in the present day he enlisted massively behemoth skinsman Tyler Smith. The drums are not only a driving force that efficiently steam rolls over you they conjure a repetitious mantra that is eerily infectious. The riffs and music definitely have familiar reference points but are crafted in a way that stands miles beyond the others. The Unkindness of Crows was recorded to tape in Seattle by Randall Dunn.

Track Listing:

1. In The Beginning Was The Scream
2. 10,000 Birds Of Black Hot Fire
3. Murder Of...
4. Storytelling Of Ravens
5. Crow Hymn
6. Crow Hymn Slight Return (Bonus Track)
7. Carry On, King Of Carrion
8. And It Came To Pass That Birds Rain Down As Black Snakes
9. Glimpse Of The Ancient Future (Bonus Track)

On their third full-length record, Midnight Soul Serenade, American rock’n’roll revolutionaries Heavy Trash (Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray) continue their journey, delivering a stunning portrait of love and devotion gone good, gone wrong, and just plain gone.

Recorded at NY HED Studios in the Lower East Side and Toe Rag in London, Mssrs. Spencer and Verta-Ray are joined by an all-star team featuring New York roots-rock champion Simon Chardiet (Simon & the Bar Sinisters, James Chance, Joey Miserable & the Worms, Bo Diddley) on double bass, Sam Baker (Lambchop) on drums, and numerous guests, including Danish rockers PowerSolo, piano ace Mickey Finn (who has also held down that job for Motown legends The Miracles and Barrett Strong), Daniel Collas (The Phenomenal Handclap Band) on organ, and Tennessee sweethearts Those Darlins. Additional mixing was done with Scott Harding (New Kingdom) and Alap Momin (Dalek).

From the brooding promise of “Good Man” to the subtle brutality of “(You’ve Got to Be) Gentle,” the outer-space terror of “Isolation,” and the lysergic balladry of “That’s What Your Love Gets,” this is the sound of two men, souls stripped bare.

Midnight Soul Serenade is a slightly darker, barrel-fermented, and brilliantly matured dose of Heavy Trash. On every track Verta-Ray’s guitars pulsate, ooze, and percolate, while Spencer croons and twangs, shakes and shudders, with raw power and passion. There are more switch-blade riffs, crazy rhythms, sexual tension, and mind-blowing moments of palpable release on this record than ever before.

Track Listing:

1. Gee, I Really Love You mp3
2. Good Man
3. Bumble Bee
4. The Pill
5. Pimento
6. (Sometimes You Got to Be) Gentle
7. Isolation
8. Bedevilment
9. Sweet Little Bird
10. That’s What Your Love Gets
11. In My Heart

Strut's Inspiration Information series moves on from the critically acclaimed Mulatu Asatke/The Heliocentrics collaboration with the fourth album in the series, a mouth-watering head to head between Finnish maverick Jimi Tenor and Afrobeat drumming legend, Tony Allen.

Tenor remains a fascinating enigma in modern day music. Consistently one of the best and most unpredictable live artists around, his work since his breakthrough album Intervision (1997) to a series of Afro-based albums with his band Kabu Kabu. Allen continues to attract new fans as one of the greatest drummers alive today. Celebrated as the creator of the Afrobeat rhythm and a lynchpin of Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, his recent work has included The Good, The Bad & The Queen collaboration with Damon Albarn and his first album for World Circuit Records released earlier this year, Secret Agent.

Recorded at Lovelite Studios in Berlin with further sessions this year in Finland and Paris, the Tenor/Allen collaboration whips up a raw, heavy analogue sound mixing the full range of Allen's Afrobeat repertoire with Tenor's off-kilter brew of dark humor, tongue-in-cheek lyrics and tight, firing musicianship.

The resulitng set is one of the best recordings tha both artists have produced in recent years, topical, biting, funny and always funky, experimental but never straying, this is another high quality addition to the Inspiration Information series.

Track Listing:

1. Against The Wall
2. Sinuhe
3. Selfish Gene
4. Darker Side Of Night
5. Got My Egusi
6. Path To Wisdom
7. Cella's Walk
8. Mama England
9. Three Continents

Track Listing:

1. In One Ear
2. James Brown
3. Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
4. Tiny Little Robots
5. Lotus
6. Back Against The Wall
8. Drones In The Valley
9. Judas
10. Back Stabbin' Betty
11. Soil To The Sun
12. Free Love

Canada's all-girl metal band Kittie returns with their fifth and heaviest album to date! In The Black sees the band successfully reinventing themselves once again, but with all the charm and power that their fans have come to love. In The Black also marks Kittie's first vinyl release!

Track Listing:

1. Kingdom Come
2. My Plague
3. Cut Throat
4. Die My Darling
5. Sorrow I Know
6. Forgive And Forget
7. Now Or Never
8. Falling Down
9. Sleepwalking
10. Whiskey Love Song
11. Ready Aim Riot
12. The Truth

For the band's seventh full-length studio album, The Mother Hips have never been more primed to share their well-traveled tales, the long days and nights on the road, the gritty politics, the smart inward reflections and most of all the music, all delivered with a most appealing balance of Americana storytelling and their California-burnished rock. Pacific Dust's compositions about penning a song in your kitchen at 3:00 am (the thundering album opener "White Falcon Fuzz"), record company politics (garage-rock boogie "Third Floor Story"), and a father and son's relationship through music (on the ballad "Young Charles Ives") indeed tell the story of many American rock bands. But here's why it matters: The Mother Hips have survived, and in fact thrived, throughout the journey and Pacific Dust, with its bittersweet melodies, poignant lyrics, and strong and gritty musicianship, is a perfect example of why.

Earlier albums such as Part-Timer Goes Full, Green Hills of Earth, and Red Tandy have become almost cult classics among indie music buffs, and the band's most recent 2007 release, Kiss the Crystal Flake, offered proof that the band still continues to attract new supporters. Over the years, the band has worked with and played alongside a slew of renowned/respected colleagues including super-producer Rick Rubin, Wilco, Johnny Cash, and many others. Today, armed with their newest release Pacific Dust, The Hips are poised to take their experience and talent to yet another level.

Sufjan Stevens presents The BQE, a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007.

Limited edition double gatefold vinyl includes large scale 32-page booklet with liner notes and photographs, and a black-and-white version of the 40-page Hooper Heroes comic book.

Track Listing:

1. Prelude on the Esplanade
2. Introductorty Fanfare for the Hooper Heroes
3. Movement I-In the Countenance of Kings
4. Movement II-Sleeping Invader
5. Interlude I-Dream Sequence in Subi Circumnavigation
6. Movement III-Linear Tableau with Intersecting Surprise
7. Movement IV-Traffic Shock
8. Movement V-Self-Organizing Emergent Patterns
9. Interlude II-Subi Power Waltz
10. Interlude III-Invisible Accidents
11. Movement VI-Isorhythmic Night Dance with Interchanges
12. Movement VII (Finale)-The Emperor of Centrifuge
13. Postlude-Critical Mass

After a nine year break from releasing albums, the Squirrell Nut Zippers return with their first ever live release titled Lost At Sea. For a band that carved out their reputation as the hottest band in the hall, it seems fitting that the re-launch of the group, will be centered on their strongest suit.

Recorded live at Southpaw, in Brooklyn, NY, the Squirrel Nut Zippers performed many of their greatest hits and strongest material for a standing room only audience. "Danny Diamond," "Put A Lid On It," "Bad Businessman," "Blue Angel" and many other Zipper classics make up the set. The band delivers energetic, sometimes loose, sometimes clairvoyant, but always spirited performances througout.

Track Listing:

1. Memphis Exorcism 2 Good Enough for Grandad
3. It Ain't You
4. Prince Nez
5. Put A Lid On It
6. Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter
7. Suits Are Picking Up The Bill
8. My Drag
9. Happens All The Time
10. Bad Businessman
11. Hell
12. Ghost of Stephan Foster
13. You Are My Radio
14. Blue Angel
15. Do What
16. Missing Link Parade

1973’s Who Do We Think We Are was another platinum plus venture for Deep Purple. While always being on top of their game, with multi-smash albums and huge arena concert tours, this was the last album to feature the legendary line-up of Ian Gillian, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Ian Paice and Jon Lord.

Friday Music kicks things off on their Deep Purple 180g audiophile series with Who Do We Think We Are which has been mastered from the original Warner Bros. tapes by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and Capitol Mastering in Hollywood, CA.

Track Listing:

1. Woman From Tokyo
2. Mary Long
3. Super Trouper
4. Smooth Dancer
5. Rat Bat Blue
6. Place In Line
7. Our Lady

Cosmic Egg is the sophomore release from the Australian rock outfit Wolfmother and besides vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, the album features an entire new lineup consisting of bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres, guitarist Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins. Despite the overhaul, Cosmic Egg is yet another slice of Zeppelin-esque classic rock, with mammoth guitar riffs and top of the mountain vocals. The album was recorded with My Bloody Valentine producer Alan Moulder.

Track Listing:

1. California Queen
2. Phoenix
3. White Feather
4. In the Morning
5. 10,000 Feet
6. Caroline
7. Eyes Open
8. In the Castle
9. Back Round
10. Cosmic Egg
11. New Moon Rising
12. Cosmonaut
13. Sundial
14. Far Away
15. Pilgrim
16. Violence of the Sun