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For the sessions that became Blood Pressures, Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart returned to Key Club Studios in Michigan where they reunited with Midnight Boom engineers Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins. Produced by Jamie Hince, the album was mixed in London by Tom Elmhirst.

With their basic sound intact; searing guitars, driving rhythms and sexually charged lyrical savvy, the 11 tracks on Blood Pressures find The Kills embracing a fuller sound and becoming more adventurous in the studio, while the lyrics are honest, heartfelt and sometimes just plain heartbreaking. Departing from the sparse, angular sound of Midnight Boom, the duo explore complex textures on Blood Pressures with heavier instrumentation and layered, huge-sounding harmonies. Alison and Jamie play all the instruments on the album, including piano and mellotron.

Track Listing:
1. Future Starts Slow
2. Satellite
3. Heart Is A Beating Drum
4. Nail In My Coffin
5. Wild Charms
6. DNA
7. Baby Says
8. The Last Goodbye
9. Damned If She Do
10. You Don't Own The Road
11. Pots and Pans

Inspired by Barbara and Ethans love for Fleetwood Mac, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, and Stevie Wonder, the albums artfully arranged, freewheeling songs brim with breezy, California melodies and bracing pop harmonies, fueled by the driving rhythms Barbara plays on drums. A longtime fixture on the Los Angeles music scene, Barbara is a sought-after live drummer who toured with Inara George and Jenny Lewis, among others, before she picked up a guitar and formed The Belle Brigade with her singer-songwriter younger brother Ethan two years ago.

Raised in a musical family (their father is songwriter/composer Jay Gruska and their maternal grandfather is renowned film composer John Williams), Barbara and Ethan have a strong familial chemistry, which, along with their obvious songwriting gifts, has resulted in one of the most thrilling debut albums of the year. As performed by the Gruskas and their talented group of backing musicians (bassist Bram Inscore, electric guitarist Blake Mills, pianist Aaron Arntz, and veteran Hammond B-3 organist Mike Finnigan), songs like Sweet Louise, Where Not To Look For Freedom, Lucky Guy, and Lonely Lonely, are tailor-made for road-tripping up the coast with the car top down, sunshine on your face, and the music blasting into the roar of the wind.

Track Listing:
1. Sweet Louise
2. Where Not To Look For Freedom
3. Losers
4. Belt of Orion
5. Shirt
6. Lucky Guy
7. Lonely Lonely
8. Punch Line
9. Rusted Wheel
10. My Goodness
11. Fasten You To Me

For the past five years, Light In The Attic has embarked on a dream project working with the blessing of the legendary Kris Kristofferson to compile a selection of his demos from the late 1960s and early 70s. For our 50th release, we are proud to present this 16-song collection, an amazing snapshot of the formative years of one of the giants of contemporary American music. The recordings found on this compilation of previously unreleased material include early versions of songs that would become standards of his impressive catalog. Included on this title are: Me and Bobby McGee, Just The Other Side of Nowhere, Come Sundown and Please Dont Tell Me How The Story Ends. This release is an intimate portrait of an important artist at the beginning of a long, storied career.

Track Listing:
1. Me and Bobby McGee
2. Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends
3. Smile At Me Again
4. The Lady's Not For Sale
5. Border Lord
6. Just The Other Side Of Nowhere
7. Come Sundown
8. Slow Down
9. If You Don't Like Hank Williams
10. Little Girl Lost
11. Duvalier's Dream
12. When I Loved Her
13. Billy Dee
14. Epitaph (Black and Blue
) 15. Enough For You
16. Getting By, High, and Strange

East Coast rockers from Queens, New York, the Vagrants are as OG as they come. Admired from across the Forest Hills High School cafeteria by future members of the Ramones, they ripped across the city and state with ecstatic abandon and an explosive stage show. They pissed off Bill Graham on a mini West Coast tour and were told theyd never play there again. Full of damage and pure dynamics, the Vagrants provided the blueprint for early punk. They invented their own timeless interpretations of soul and contemporary rock smashes including their infectious take on Respect, eventually immortalized on the original Nuggets compilation in 1972. Shit, they may even be responsible for helping to push a young Hammond B3 rocking Billy Joel (then in the Hassles) into the big league. Not to mention a little Mafioso mayhem thrown in for good measure (steal, beg or borrow the album to read an extensive set of deep liner notes from Ugly Things Mike Stax on the subject). But forget the tales of these real rock Rumble Fish, its the music that tells the story. 12 slabs of groovy garage, propulsive psych, and primitive proto-punk, Light In The Attic score another coup with I Cant Make A Friend 1965-1968.

With the aforementioned annotation by Stax, I Cant Make A Friend 1965-1968, is set for a 2011 release on 180 gram LP. Its this handcrafted effort (along with the usual Light In The Attic attention to detail), that makes this a must purchase (and worthy of precious shelving space). The Vagrants (on record) have never sounded better! File right before the Velvet Underground in your record collection (re: era, geography, and alphabet). NYC!

Forget contemporary carbon copies, heres a vinyl slab of the real thing. With perfect production by Felix Pappalardi and the monumental guitar of pre-Mountain Leslie West, the Vagrants will rip your mind apart and take you off-the-wall at your local cave-stomping discotheque, almost fifty years after their initial recording. The songs are that powerful. Forget the masses, this is music for the heads. Its the sound of five New York kids with big dreams: Roger Mansour (drums), Peter Sabatino (vocals, harmonica, tambourine), Jerry Storch (organ, vocals), Larry West (bass, vocals), and Leslie West (guitar, vocals).I Cant Make A Friend? Surely some things have changed for the Vagrants, right fellows?

Track Listing:
1. Oh Those Eyes
2. You're So Young
3. I Can't Make A Friend
4. Young Blues
5. The Final Hour
6. Your Hasty Heart
7. Respect
8. I Love, Love You (Yes I Do)
9. Beside The Sea
10. A Sunny Summer Rain
11. And When It's Over
12. I Don't Need Your Loving

Have Moicy! was recorded over the course of three days back in 1976 by the musical equivalent of the Yippies. Leading the way was Holy Model Rounders founder Peter Stampfel, aided and abetted by fellow travelers Michael Hurley and Jeff Fredrick. The lot of them patched together a never-too-cute assortment of country-folk novelty numbers that are playful, irreverent, randy, and ribald. Have Moicy! is that rare album which captures the gleeful camaraderie of like-minded musicians having a once-in-a-lifetime weekend. It's one of the finest albums of its decade, which Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called "The greatest folk album of the rock era".

Track Listing:
1. Midnight In Paris
2. Robbin' Banks
3. Slurf Song Listen
4. Jacknife/The Red Newt
5. Griselda
6. What Made My Hamburger Disappear
7. Sweet Lucy
8. Country Bump
9. Fooey Fooey
10. Jealous Daddy's Death Song
11. Driving Wheel
12. Weep Weep Weep
13. Hoodoo Bash

There's no doubt that the Dug Dug's toughened up their sound on "Smog": to some people they sound like a crazy Mexican version of Jethro Tull, and to others like a Spanish speaking incarnation of MC5. No matter how you look at it, this is tremendous progressive-influenced hard rock, with a new chunky sound. It is clearly among a small group of elite recordings from the psychedelic age; it is also possibly the best Mexican hard rock album of all time.

Track Listing:
1. Smog
2. Buscalo
3. Hagamoslo Ahora
4. Yo No Se
5. Cual Es Tu Nombre?
6. Meditacion
7. No Somos Malos
8. Voy Hacia El Cielo (Voy Hacia El Sol)

Emmanuelle Parrenin was part of Frances folk movement in the late 1960s; her popularity and sense of style led some to call her Frances version of Sandy Denny and Mandy Morton. Maison Rose is her last album, released in 1977, and generally considered her best, with delicate, multi-tracked ballads that range from lush folk to more experimental pieces heavy on percussion. Her mixing of folk and the avant-garde brings to mind Brigitte Fontaine, while her ethereal prettiness evokes the likes of Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs. But Parrenin is a sui generis through and through, and Maison Rose captures her at her best.

The record seems to alternate between a cosmic take on an ancient Breton sound, and delicate, multi-tracked balladsranging from sounds that would not be out of place on an Ash Ra Tempel album to elements of traditional French folk music (including home-made instruments) that are just as exotic.

Track Listing:
1. Ce Matin A Fremontel...
2. Plume Blanche, Plume Noire
3. Liturgie
4. Thibault Et L'Arbre D'Or
5. Ritournelle
6. L'Echarpe De Soie
7. Topaze
8. Belle Virginie
9. Ballade Avec Neptune
10. Maison Rose
11. Apres L'Ondee
12. Le Reve
13. Voyage Migrateur

The Folklords were a Toronto, Ontario band who released the rare folk psych LP Release the Sunshine on Allied Records No. 11 in 1968. The band members were Tom Martin on bass and vocals; Paul Seip on guitar and vocals; Martha Johnson on autoharp and vocals; and Craig Boswell on drums. The album was produced by Jack Boswell and Bill Bessey. Two Brothers Music. Photography was by Jack Umpleby. The Folklords album is one of the most sought after albums of this genre and currently commands a $400 price tag for a NM copy.

Glorious sound, as the reissue taken directly from the master-tapes. Bonus single is an exact replica of the rare, privately issued non-LP single, which features haunting, drum-less versions of Forty Second River and Unspoken Love, both of which were re-recorded for the original Allied release.

Track Listing:
1. Jennifer Lee
2. Don't Hide Your Love From Me
3. Child
4. Unspoken Love
5. Windows
6. Forty Second River
7. Pardon Me Judas
8. Thank You For Your Kindness
9. We'll Love Like Before
10. Suzanne Marie
11. Don't Look Back
12. The Slave
13. Forty Second River
14. Unspoken Love

One of the latest "true queer art punks" to emerge from the cracked pavement of southern suburban sprawl, Atlas Sound is the solo moniker of Deerhunter frontman / provocateur Bradford Cox. Here on his debut album, Cox / Sound moves out of dank nightclubs filled with eternal existential drone punk, and relaxes at home in his Grant Park, Atlanta bedroom. And this is, essentially, a bedroom album, a collage, mixing the garage rock and ambient electronic influences previously explored with Deerhunter in a new context, with newly explored recording techniques, mainly laptop-based, learned with guidance from kranky artist Nudge's Brian Foote. The result is 14 Songs of melancholy and mania.

This is a true solo album, entirely created and produced by a single person. That is certainly not unique, especially in the contemporary scene. But Bradford Cox's unusual talent is the ability to take a wide variety of seemingly incongruous sound elements, and seamlessly meld them into a cohesive pop narrative. A sunken 4/4 techno beat underpinning "Winter Vacation"? Perfect. Mbira loops running over the top of "Quarantined"? Just what it needed. An insistent, clipped drum roll carrying "River Card"? Masterful. And ultimately it is this innate ability to combine all these disparate elements into a singular whole that makes this album such an enjoyable, and unique listen.

"This album is for my best friend Lockett. It has a lot to do with childhood. I wanted to make an album that was uplifting but honest, which is why it seems sad a lot of the time. I want to make music that could be 'healing' or therapeutic to people who relate to it." Bradford Cox

Track Listing:
1. A Ghost Story
2. Recent Bedroom
3. River Card
4. Quarantined
5. On Guard
6. Winter Vacation
7. Cold As Ice
8. Scraping Past
9. Small Horror
10. Ready, Set, Glow
11. Bite Marks
12. After Class
13. Ativan
14. Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

Filled with heavy fuzz, loud wah guitars and screaming vocals, the album sounds unlike any rock artifact unearthed from Iran so far. Sadly no record label would releasie their album, so they continued to perform at local venues, and even managed to get a performance at the German Embassy before disbanding.

Here for the first time ever is a limited edition pressing taken directly from the reels they recorded in 1972. Fully licensed, this is a one time pressing only. The 500 copy LP is housed in a heavy old style paste-on jacket with extra heavy cardboard stock.

Track Listing:
1. Going Away
2. Southern Blues
3. All Wrong
4. Jokers Theme (Better Days/Tears/Tumbling Down)

Its 1993 and grunge has exploded from the basement to the shopping mall, being pipelined into the mainstream corporate consumer culture. Sage and his Wipers watch as their influence is diluted from passionate teenage revolt to soft drink commercial. Rather than scramble to cash in, Sage ignores the outside world and digs deeper into his singular and solitary sense of self and again creates an album ahead of trends and outside of time.

Written and recorded while Sage lived in Arizona, the desert informs Silver Sails dry, desolate and ghostly feel. The down-tempo pieces are positively haunted by it. Stand-out tracks such as Y I Came, and the albums centerpiece, the epic and lumbering The Prisoner countervail the heavy guitar sounds of 1993 and exhibit traits of the then burgeoning slow-core scene.

Side Two is all plodding surf rock, eerie soundtracks and jangly punk echoing an Athens, GA sound through the �lter of Northwestern gloom and 90s detachment.

Above all Silver Sails best moments come from being exactly what it is: Deeply personal, constantly searching and undeniably unique. In other words, it is a Wipers record.

Track Listing:
1. Y I Came
2. Back To The Basics
3. Warning
4. Mars
5. Prisoner
6. Standing There
7. Sign Of The Times
8. Line
9. On A Roll
10. Never Win
11. Silver Sail

Originally issued in 1996 on Tim/Kerr (and nearly impossible to find on vinyl for over a decade) the album is fast, fuzzy and moody. Drenched in rocket-fuel guitar tones, the paranoid beauty that spilled forth from the early recordings resonates on blasts such as Green Light Legion and No Safe Place. On The Herds slower pieces, such as Wind The Clock Slowly, Sages urgent and virtuosic leads peel away at the psyche leaving only underlying and once hidden truths.

Even as the most successful bands of the time were raking in mountains of money ripping off the Wipers, Sage and his band were crafting something new, unexpected and powerful. Something that evokes such musical excitement that it borders on panic. 17 years and 10 studio albums later, that feeling so prevalent on the first record is masterfully woven into the very fabric of The Herd.

Track Listing:
1. Psychic Vampire
2. No Place Safe
3. Last Chance
4. Wind The Clock Slowly
5. The Herd
6. Green Light Legion
8. Stormy
9. Sinking As A Stone
10. Sunrise
11. Defiant
12. Resist
13. Insane

Warma is the new 5 track EP from Brooklyn's Darlings. The release follows-up 2009's Yeah I Know.

Track Listing:
1. Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
2. Spit It Out
3. Everybody
4. Don't Wanna Hang Out Tonight
5. Big Girl

Hailing from Tokyo, Japan, Shugo Tokumaru is a gifted songwriter and multiinstrumentalist responsible for producing every sound heard on his records. With Port Entropy, Tokumaru takes the magic of his previous full-length, Exit, and expands on it.

Throughout Port Entropy his arrangements soar to new heights, most prominently in the coda of standout track Lahaha. Conversely, the twinkling piano lullaby Linne showcases a quieter, more introspective side of Tokumarus songwriting.

Track Listing:
1. Platform
2. Tracking Elevator
3. Linne
4. Lahaha
5. Rum Hee
6. Laminate
7. River Low
8. Straw
9. Drive-thru
10. Suisha
11. Orange
12. Malerina

Men started in 2007 as the DJ/production team of Le Tigre members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman. With Le Tigre on hiatus, the duo began to write new songs, and they merged their efforts with JD's other project Hirsute. Now Johanna and artist Emily Roysdon contribute as writers, consultants and producers as JD and Michael lead the Men charge.

Track Listing:
1. Life's Half Price
2. Off Our Backs
3. Credit Card Babie$
4. Boom Boom Boom
5. Take Your Shirt Off
6. Who Am I To Feel So Free
7. Make It Reverse
8. Simultaneously
9. If You Want Something
10. Rip Off
11. My Family
12. Be Like This

Cleared is the debut album from the band of the same name (the Chicago duo of Steven Hess and Michael Vallera), released in a limited edition of 500 copies on heavyweight white vinyl. Included is a coupon for a free MP3 download.

Cleared was formed in the latter part of 2009 as a project meant to focus on repetition and patience as central elements of composition. Hess and Vallera have previously worked in various contexts of improvisational, long form and experimental music. Cleared is an effort to take the knowledge both have gained from these arenas in order to build hypnotic patterns of sound and rhythm.

Track Listing:
1. Cleared
2. When The Ground Is Close
3. Staying For Winter
4. Nests
5. False Morning

Um, Uh Oh is the result of the last ten years of Elbogen's experiences with failing relationships, both musical and otherwise. It is also his best record to date. It's weary and blue-noted, revealing, personal and pained and there's expressiveness in his performance absent from previous releases. In fact, it's difficult to fathom that the same songwriter that once wrote the sugary frivolity of the early Say Hi material could have written such a mature collection of songs.

Track Listing:
1. Dots On Maps
2. Devils
3. All The Pretty Ones
4. Take Ya Dancin
5. Posture, Etc.
6. Sister Needs A Settle
7. Lookin Good
8. My, How It Comes
9. Shiny Diamonds
10. Handsome Babies
11. Trees Are A Swayin
12. Bruises To Prove It

Chronicled in a live "field-recording" style at Sidi's sister's house, the simplicity of the takes highlight the beauty of the songs and the skill of the players. Each track on the album is a duet recording of Sidi and one friend, a product of a very specific two-day process. On the first day, the friends would meet, play, and choose a song over a glass of tea. On the second day they would record the song, allowing themselves just two takes to retain the spontaneity of the recording and reunion.

Track Listing:
1. Bon Koum
2. Adema
3. Djarii Ber
4. Bera Nay Wassa
5. Sïnji
6. Taray Kongo
7. Haallah
8. Wayey Zarrabo
9. Artiatanat

Album opener (the appropriately titled) Opening slinks through your stereo with an iridescent lead guitar, setting the stage for the manic maraca and single note battle cry that opens Whats a Mans Paris, a song bursting at the seams with thick, droning chords and jagged edges of wild feedback. Elsewhere, first single Summer is Here opens with a riff that is pure Iggy and the Stooges, Claws and Paws turns Some Velvet Morning on its head, infusing its lead melody with a damn-near Sabbath-esque guitar onslaught, while I Feel Fine is anchored by a Stereolab organ woozy enough to knock you right off your feet. And like any good band, by the last fading note, Darker My Love leaves you wanting much, much more.

Track Listing:
1. Opening
2. What's A Man's Paris
3. Helium Heels
4. Post Mortem, Post Boredom
5. Wake
6. Fall
7. Hello Traveler
8. Claws & Paws
9. Catch
10. People
11. I Feel Fine
12. Summer's Here

Neon are still one of the most influential and multi-faceted bands on the entire Italian new wave scene, able to flirt simultaneously with both electronica and industrial culture. Rituals, their first album, originally released on KinderGarten and distributed by Polygram in 1985, represented a crucial turning point in their career, and in some respects, their creative peak.

This vinyl reissue on Spittle arrives, therefore, in celebration of their return to the scene with numerous live performances, and with the hope of renewing interest in one of the most exciting seasons of the Italian underground. Rituals was a seminal album precisely for its ability to bring together the more martial rhythms of dance with the guitar-heavy sound of post-punk, a practice that soon would be legitimated by other bands on the scene like Chicago's Wax Trax, and the side projects of Ministry. Their reinterpretation of Jimi Hendrix's "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" still sounds like a lethal experiment.

Track Listing:
1. Runnin'
2. Last Chance
3. Isolation
4. The Same Ritual
5. Dark Age
6. Harry
7. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
8. My Blues Is You

Often mislabeled "demented-rock", the Skiantos were in reality an exception to the rule. This reissue of their second album is, therefore, a road to understanding to what degree rock music was putty in the hands of this band from Bologna, who away from cumbersome references to British and American rock chose to follow their own path to originality. Their youthful and unprejudiced energy together with the personality of great thinkers became an oft-debated manifesto, but one that is destined to maintain its importance in the years to come. The album's cover art picturing an enormous dinosaur destroying a building is testimony to their ironic, but biting attack on institutions, which when translated into music paid homage both to Italy's eccentric singer/songwriter tradition as well as the heretic dialectics of coeval punk. The album was originally released in 1978 on the Cramps label, but not a day seems to have passed since then.

Track Listing:
1. Eptadone
2. Panka Rock
3. Pesto Duro
4. Diventa Demente
5. Io Me La Meno
6. Bau Bau Baby
7. Io Sono Uno Skianto
8. Io Ti Amo Da Matti
9. Vortice
10. Massacrami Pure
11. Largo All'Avanguardia
12. Ehi, Ehi, Ma Che Piedi Che C'Hai

The third album by this combo from Bologna is the apotheosis of their histrionic verve. Directed in studio by Italian progressive rock luminary, Paolo Tofani, Kinotto was released in 1979, and as Freak Antoni himself declared, the album was closer to new wave than previous efforts and its best-known track, "Mi piaccion le sbarbine." was soon on heavy rotation.

With Kinotto, also came the artistic consecration of the Skiantos, who went from being a cult band to one of the most energetic and histrionic in Italian rock. Invited to replace Italian rock superstar Vasco Rossi's back-up band in 1990, and undoubtedly a source of inspiration for the evil doings of Italian "mock rock" band Elio e Le Storie Tese, with Kinotto the Skiantos wrote one of the most thrilling pages in Italian music.

Track Listing:
1. Mi Piaccion Le Sbarbine
2. Non Ti Sopporto Più
3. Ti Rullo Di Kartoni
4. Kakkole
5. Sono Un Teppista
6. Non Farò Mai Quello Che Vuoi
7. Gelati
8. Kinotto
9. Se Mi Ami Amami
10. Freezer
11. Sono Buono
12. Il Rock Ti Da Lo Shock
13. Tu Sei Bellissima

The brainchild of classically trained musician, Vini Reilly, who took the band's name and idea of putting their first release in a sandpaper sleeve (so as to "destroy all other albums on the shelf", from the avant-garde Situationist International movement, but Reilly himself, DC's only constant member, was (and is) 100% Manchester.

Releasing a steady stream of experimental albums on the legendary Factory Records (Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, etc.) beginning in 1981. Originally released on the Factory Benelux label in 1986, Circuses and Bread was DC's fifth in a steady stream of excellent and experimental studio albums, featuring viola, trumpet and piano interspersed with Reilly's stellar guitar work.

Track Listing:
1. Pauline
2. Tomorrow
3. Dance II
4. Hilary
5. Street Fight
6. Royal Infirmary
7. Black Horses
8. Dance I
9. Blind Elevator Girl (Osaka)

Prince's Cutting-Edge 1980 LP Back on Vinyl for First Time in Ages: Rock, Funk, New Wave, and Pop Meet in a Furious Fusion

Mastered from the Original Tapes: Lacquers Cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Pressed at RTI and Features Complete Reproduction of Original Packaging: An Audiophile Spectacular

Prince had made a name for himself with his self-titled sophomore record, but didn't come into his own until the liberating Dirty Mind. Originally released in 1980, Dirty Mind is the pop provocateur's third album, completely produced, arranged and composed by Minneapolis' favorite son. While it established parameters that Prince would follow for the remainder of the decade, the record also remains unique for its blend of rock, funk, pop, and new wave. Prince uses rock, rather than soul or R&B as the foundation, and weaves the other styles around a demeanor that finds the singer/multi-instrumentalist both bluntly honest and fabulously furious.

True to the album's title, Prince doesn't shy away from sexuality, with both "Head" and "Sister" guaranteed to make many ears blush and, well, nearly every other track on the record addressing desire, lust, and partying in one form or another. Seldom as any performer been so candidly outspoken and gifted with a genius reflected in the irresistble melodies, hooks, and grooves.

After more than two decades of being out of print, Dirty Mind is finally back on vinyl--and how. Mastered from the original tapes, with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, and pressed at RTI on 180g vinyl, this is the very best version you'll ever hope to hear. No longer will you have to settle for the slightly compressed original or nearly unlistenable CD versions. Moreover, rhino's analog reissue boasts replicate original packaging.

Grab the LP and get ready to party like it's 1999!

Track Listing:
1. Dirty Mind
2. When You Were Mine
3. Do It All Night
4. Gotta Broken Heart Again
5. Uptown
6. Head
7. Sister
8. Partyup

Mastered from the Original Tapes: Lacquers Cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Pressed at RTI and Features Complete Reproduction of Original Packaging: Comes With Collectable Poster

Continuing on with the pioneering directions he began pursuing on Dirty Mind, Prince again comes up roses on 1981's Controversy, an enterprising record on which he turns more political and furher assimilates keyboards and synthesizers into arrangements. Dirty Mind is also home to the piano ballad and chart smash "Do Me, Baby," a sensitive song that's considered by many as his finest vocal effort. Given that we're talking Prince, that's saying something.

As had already become customary, Prince again handles all production, arrangements and composition duties, using "Controversy," "Annie Christian," and the unsparingly direct "Ronnie, Talk to Russia" as potent sociopolitical statements during an era which responsibility had lapsed and conservatism set in. Willing to stir it up, Prince injects contagious grooves, melodies, and refrains into arrangements that mix new wave, rock, funk, and pop, all serving to heighten the immediacy of the lyrics. And he knows how to have fun. Saucy, stylized, and sexy, "Jack U Off" and "Let's Work" are tailor-made for getting the opposite sex between the sheets.

After more than two decades of being out of print, Controversy is finally back on vinyl--and how. Mastered from the original tapes, with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, and pressed at RTI on 180g vinyl, this is the very best version you'll ever hope to hear. No longer will you have to settle for the slightly compressed original or nearly unlistenable CD versions. Rhino's analog reissue also boasts replicate original packaging and comes with the poster that accompanied the first-generation pressings.

Let's go crazy!

Track Listing:
1. Controversy
2. Sexuality
3. Do Me, Baby
4. Private Joy
5. Ronnie, Talk To Russia
6. Let's Work
7. Annie Christian
8. Jack U Off

1980s Pop Landmark Back on Vinyl for First Time in Ages.

Mastered from the Original Tapes: Lacquers Cut by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering

Pressed at RTI and Features Complete Reproduction of Original Packaging: An Audiophile Spectacular

Records don't come more influential or stunning than 1999. Originally released in 1982, 1999 signified Prince's fifth full-length album and first to feature The Revolution as his backing band. The breakthrough set gave him his Top Ten album and paved the way for what would be an unrivaled pop run for the next decade, culminating in an international stardom and literally revolutionary creativity. Moreover, the synth- and drum-machine-dominant arrangements on 1999, as well as its surfeit of dance grooves, rock anthems, and insanely catchy hooks wrote the script for nearly every artist that followed, as well as what transpired in the house, electronic, and techno fields.

Rolling Stone nailed the record's appeal when the magazine named it #163 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time:

The second half of 1999 is just exceptional sex-obsessed dance music; the first half is the best fusion of rock and funk achieved to that date, and it lays out the blueprint for Prince's next decade. Except for a few background hand claps and vocals, Prince plays most every instrument himself and creates a relentless, irresistible musical sequence of apocalypse ("1999") and raunchy sex that he proposes as the only possible response "Little Red Corvette," "Let's Pretend We're Married," "Delirious" and, well, just about every other song on the album. --Rolling Stone, "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time," November 2003

If any more evidence was needed of the double-LP's greatness, just take a look at the track listing. Yet, in addition to the hits, Prince also provides worthwhile sonic experimentation and ventures into areas he'd previously bypassed. It's no wonder that no artist of his generation--and arguably, no musician from any generation--has covered so much ground. Such breadth is what helps make 1999 so distinctive.

After more than two decades of being out of print, 1999 is finally back on vinyl--and how. Mastered from the original tapes, with lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, and pressed at RTI on 180g double vinyl, this is the very best version you'll ever hope to hear. No longer will you have to settle for the slightly compressed original or nearly unlistenable CD versions. Rhino's analog reissue also boasts replicate original packaging.

Don't pass up this classic!

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. 1999
2. Little Red Corvette
3. Delirious
4. Let's Pretend We're Married
5. D.M.S.R.

LP 2
1. Automatic
2. Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)
3. Free
4. Lady Cab Driver
5. All The Critics Love U In New York
6. International Lover

Fallen is the 9th studio album from Burzum, and follows the highly critically acclaimed 2010 release Belus which put Burzum straight back at the top of the chain as one of the most innovative and creative metal artists of our time. Fallen follows Belus in sound and structure, and can also be compared to the music on the groundbreaking DET SOM ENGANG VAR. Fallen is more dynamic and hard hitting then Belus and has an even bigger sound, but still carries the same trademark melody lines throughout that make Burzum sound so iconic and unique. Burzum says of the new album and his style of music: "Musically FALLEN is like a cross between BELUS and something new, inspired more by the debut album DET SOM ENGANG VAR than by HVIS LYSET TAR OSS or FILOSOFEM. The sound is more dynamic we mastered the album as if it was classical music and I was more experimental than I was on BELUS in all respects. Lyric-wise it is similar to the debut album, in the way that it is more personal and focuses on existential issues, but the mythological undertone known from BELUS is still there. I have also included some ambient tracks - a short introduction and a longer conclusion."

Track Listing:
SIDE 1
1. Fraverdenstreet
2. Jeg Faller
3. Valen
4. Vanvidd

SIDE 2
5. Enhver Til Sitt
6. Budstikken
7. Til Hel Og Tilbake Igjen

Deep Dark Robot's debut album, 8 Songs About a Girl is being released on Perry's own label, Custard. The songs are very personal in nature and are inspired by a broken heart. Each song throughout the album is woven together to tell the story of a troubled relationship.

Track Listing:
1. I'm Coming For You
2. No One Wakes Me Up Like You
3. Can't Getcha Out Of My Mind
4. You Mean Nothing To Me
5. If Fucking Hurts
6. Won't You Be My Girl?
7. Speck
8. Fuck You, Stupid Bitch

This second release is a continued history lesson in dance music. Morales formed M+M productions with the late Sergio Munzibai, whose output of over 650 mixes will be unmatched by many celebrity big name remixers of today. From the Rolling Stones to Gloria Estefan, The Temptations to Hall and Oates, Aretha Franklin to BBE, all have been molded be John's everlasting influence. This superb double LP presents some of John's finest works including previously unreleased mixes of Jocelyn Brown's underground cult hit "Make It Last Forever."

Track Listing:
1. The More I Get - Teddy Pendergrass
2. Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Station
3. Dreamin - Loletta Holloway
4. Make It Last Forever - Inner Life

On this release, Metallica's select favorites unfold like never before with the eloquent backing of the San Francisco Symphony. Metallica has never sounded more powerful or dramatic. Grammy and Oscar-nominated composer/conductor/arranger Michael Kamen, who has worked with pretty much everyone in show business, scored the symphony and conducted the performances, while Bob Rock, who captured the band on Load, Re-Load and the ten-times-platinum Metallica, served as producer.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. The Ecstasy Of Gold
2. The Call Of Ktulu
3. Master Of Puppets
4. Of Wolf And Man
5. The Thing That Should Not Be
6. Fuel
7. The Memory Remains

LP 2
1. No Leaf Clover
2. Hero Of The Day
3. Devil's Dance
4. Bleeding Me
5. Nothing Else Matters
6. Until It Sleeps
7. For Whom The Bell Tolls
8. Human

LP 3
1. Wherever I May Roam
2. Outlaw Torn
3. Sad But True
4. One
5. Enter Sandman
6. Battery

On this release, Metallica's select favorites unfold like never before with the eloquent backing of the San Francisco Symphony. Metallica has never sounded more powerful or dramatic. Grammy and Oscar-nominated composer/conductor/arranger Michael Kamen, who has worked with pretty much everyone in show business, scored the symphony and conducted the performances, while Bob Rock, who captured the band on Load, Re-Load and the ten-times-platinum Metallica, served as producer. Here on deluxe edition 6 x 180g 45RPM LP.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. The Ecstasy Of Gold
2. The Call Of Ktulu
3. Master Of Puppets
4. Of Wolf And Man

LP 2
1. The Thing That Should Not Be
2. Fuel
3. The Memory Remains
4. No Leaf Clover

LP 3
1. Hero Of The Day
2. Devil's Dance
3. Bleeding Me

LP 4
1. Nothing Else Matters
2. Until It Sleeps
3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
4. Human

LP 5
1. Wherever I May Roam
2. Outlaw Torn

LP 6
1. Sad But True
2. One
3. Enter Sandman
4. Battery

Obscura's highly-anticipated new album Omnivium sees the critically-acclaimed quartet cementing their place amongst the all-time metal-elite. Omnivium finds the band pushing the progressive edges of the genres sounds to new heights while delivering the technical metal that has become their calling card. The band gracefully blends brutality and beauty with complex, commanding songs played at stunningly virtuosic levels.

Tracks such as album opener Septuagint, Vortex Omnivium, Euclidean Elements and Celestial Spheres are expressive and elaborate, and exude class and the confidence of a band at the peak of their abilities. Ominivum very clearly raises the bar for extreme, technical metal and is hands down Obscuras finest moment to date.

Track Listing:
1. Septuagint
2. Vortex Omnivium
3. Ocean Gateways
4. Euclidean Elements
5. Prismal Dawn
6. Celestial Spheres
7. Velocity
8. A Transcendental Serenade
9. Aevum

Pete Yorn's 2001 release Musicforthemorningafter was arguably one of the last of its kind: an unknown singer/songwriters debut, given a classic major-label push. And it still sounds like one of the best things that happened to rock that year. Made at the weird unruly intersection of '90s alternative rock and a new stubbornly-indie underground, Yorns first record was a decisive turn away from the large hollow rage of grunge and rap-metal, into a richer tumult of folk-rock reflection, garage-band grind and pop-smart composition, with a striking confessional tension rooted in Yorns teenage passion for the British rhythm and melancholy of the Smiths, the Cure and New Order. LP reissue features original 2LPs in gatefold jacket, remastered by original engineer Bob Ludwig, on 180g vinyl.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Life On A Chain
2. Strange Condition
3. Just Another
4. Black
5. Lose You
6. For Nancy
7. Murray
8. June

LP 2
1. Sense
2. Closet
3. On Your Side
4. Sleep Better
5. EZ
6. Simonize
7. Knew Enough To Know Nothing At All
8. A Girl Like You

Comprised of frontman Ryan Schaefer, drummer Chris Rusk and guitarist Sam Stratton, Royal Bangs combine catchy hooks with heavy synths to create a sound that SPIN Magazine describes as "a mix of LCD Soundsystem's pulsing eletro-punk and the new Wave-y shimmer of the Strokes."

Hailing from Knoxville, TN, Royal Bangs received some local buzz from their self-recorded album We Breed Champions, catching the attention of Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) who then re-released the progressive album on his own record label. The band followed up that effort with Let It Bleep which was released in 2009 to critical acclaim.

In September of 2010, Royal Bangs signed with Glassnote Records. Their newest release, Flux Outside was mixed by Dave Fridman (Flaming Lips/MGMT). Gatefold double LP with MP3 download card.

Track Listing:
1. Grass Helmet
2. Fireball
3. Back Then It Was Different
4. Triccs
5. Bull Elk
6. Bad News, Strange Luck
7. Loosely Truthing
8. Faint Obelisk Two
9. Silver Steps
10. TV Tree
11. Dim Chamber
12. Slow Cathedral Melt

Recorded with the production and mixing team of Flood (Depeche Mode, U2) and Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride), Belong unleashes added power, while retaining all the sweet melodies that still hit that pop spot.

Track Listing:
1. Belong
2. Heavenʼs Gonna Happen Now
3. Heart In Your Heartbreak
4. The Body
5. Anne With An E
6. Even In Dreams
7. My Terrible Friend
8. Girl Of 1,000 Dreams
9. Too Tough
10. Strange

Haunting and hook-laden numbers such as "Hives," "Tina Said" and "Bumd" tussle with the confessional weight of other songs like "Waste Away" and "Let U Down." Stylistically, the band has created a range of sounds; "Boy" is reminiscent of Spector's summery girl pop, "Mystic Mind" is a fully-realized stoner jam and "$" is a lesson on the slippery nature of money sung in an infestation of gang vocals.

Track Listing:
1. Screws Get Loose
2. Be Your Bro
3. Let U Down
4. Hives
5. Mystic Mind
6. Tina Said
7. $
8. Boy
9. Fatty Needs A Fix
10. Waste Away
11. Bumd

Here, his landmark second solo album Labour of Lust gets the deluxe reissue treatment, sporting an expanded 12 page booklet with period photos, new essays and artwork by groundbreaking graphic artist Barney Bubbles. The reissue also includes Nick's biggest U.S. hit "Cruel To Be Kind," the originally U.K.-only "Endless Grey Ribbon" and U.S.-only "American Squirm" plus bonus B-side "Basing Street." LOL is the only of Lowe's solo albums to hold the distinction of featuring Nick's Rockpile cohorts Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams on every track.

Track Listing:
1. Cruel To Be Kind
2. Cracking Up
3. Big Kick, Plain Scrap
4. American Squirm
5. Born Fighter
6. You Make Me
7. Skin Deep
8. Switchboard Susan
9. Endless Grey Ribbon
10. Without Love
11. Dose Of You
12. Love So Fine
13. Basing Street

1. Cover Me (Slowly)
2. Agoraphobia
3. Never Stops
4. Little Kids
5. Microcastle
6. Calvary Scars
7. Green Jacket
8. Activa
9. Nothing Ever Happened
10. Saved by Old Times
11. Neither of Us, Uncertainly
12. Twilight at Carbon Lake

Weird Era Continued LP:

1. Backspace Century
2. Operation
3. Ghost Outfit
4. Dot Gain
5. Vox Celeste
6. Cicadas
7. Vox Humana
8. VHS Dream
9. Focus Group
10. Slow Swords
11. Weird Era
12. Moon Witch Cartridge
13. Calvary Scars II / Aux. Out 13

This is not some stop-gap release between albums, or mere leftovers from their most recent Microcastle album, but an all new session. The band loves the EP format and thinks it does not get the respect it deserves. Hell, some bands arguably work best in the EP format, think Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine, and now maybe we should add Deerhunter to that list. That's certainly not to say their albums aren't great, but with 2007's Fluorescent Grey EP and this new one, a lucid argument can be made that minute for minute, and hook for hook, their two EP's can't be matched for visceral energy and pop smarts.

The fearsome and fearless Atlanta foursome come back with another shot to the head.

Track Listing:
1. Rainwater Cassette Exchange
2. Disappearing Ink
3. Famous Last Words
4. Game of Diamonds
5. Circulation

1. Intro
2. Cryptograms
3. White Ink
4. Lake Somerset
5. Providence
6. Octet
7. Red Ink
8. Spring Hall Convert
9. Strange Lights
10. Hazel St
11. Tape Hiss Orchid
12. Heatherwood

Fluorescent Grey LP:

1. Fluorescent Grey
2. Dr. Glass
3. Like New
4. Wash Off

A lot of our songs are about what were going through right now, the fear of growing up and facing adult responsibility, says Brian. And in a way that fear is what makes people join cults in the first place, wanting to escape competition and success and be a part of something bigger, communal. We also want to live our own lives with our own schedules and expectations, so in a way this band has become our own cult. - Cult

Track Listing:
Side 1
1. Abducted
2. Go Outside
3. You Know What I Mean
4. Most Wanted
5. Walk At Night
6. Never Heal Myself

Side 2
1. Oh My God
2. Never Saw The Point
3. Bad Things
4. Bumper
5. Rave On

Sony Legacy is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo releases with Randy Rhoads; Diary of a Mad Man and Blizzard of Oz. For the first time since the 2002 re-releases, the original performances will be restored to these two classics.

Track Listing:
1. I Don't Know
2. Crazy Train
3. Goodbye To Romance
4. Dee
5. Suicide Solution
6. Mr. Crowley
7. No Bone Movies
8. Revelation
9. Steal Away (The Night)
10. You Lookin' At Me Lookin' At You

Sony Legacy is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Ozzy Osbourne's first two solo releases with Randy Rhoads; Diary of a Mad Man and Blizzard of Oz. For the first time since the 2002 re-releases, the original performances will be restored to these two classics.

Track Listing:
1. Over The Mountain
2. Flying High Again
3. You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
4. Believer
5. Little Dolls
6. Tonight
7. S.A.T.O.
8. Diary Of A Madman

Professionally Recorded on 7-Inch Reel-to-Reel Tape: Phenomenal Sonics Capture the 21-Year-Old Bard Solo and Acoustic

Features Stripped-Down, Intense Versions of Songs from the Then-Forthcoming The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and Still Long-Off The Times They Are-A Changin'

Early, archival insights into the burgeoning genius of a young Bob Dylan don't come any better than this: A previously unknown live recording of a 21-year-old Dylan taped at the Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 10, 1963, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 captures the rollicking wit, deadpan delivery, and driving intensity of the young artist's onstage persona in an assortment of end-of-the-world songs (none of them commercially available at the time) performed in front of an appreciative audience two weeks prior to the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Indeed, these two performances took place just weeks before Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" became a smash for Peter, Paul, and Mary and months before his appearance at the Newport Folk Festival would forever change the course of music history.

The Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 concert tape was discovered recently in the archives of the noted music writer and Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, where it sat on a shelf for more than forty years. "It had been forgotten, until it was found last year in the clearing of the house after my mother died," said Toby Gleason, Ralph's son. "It's a seven inch reel-to-reel that sounds like it was taped from the mixing desk."

Drawn from two sets that spring night at the Brandeis Folk Festival, tracks on Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 include "Honey, Just Allow Me On More Chance" (incomplete), "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," "Ballad Of Hollis Brown," "Masters of War," "Talkin' World War III Blues," "Bob Dylan's Dream," and "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues."

Previously available as a limited time offer, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 has been reissued in response to overwhelming popular demand for a wide release. The new Columbia/Legacy edition features liner notes penned exclusively for this release by noted Bob Dylan scholar Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and the three-volume Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, who provided an explication of the album's seven songs and historical/cultural context for the performances.

Track Listing:
1. Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance (incomplete)
2. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
3. Ballad of Hollis Brown
4. Masters of War
5. Talkin' World War III Blues
6. Bob Dylan's Dream
7. Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues

Recorded at the bands Mill Studio in Aberdeen, XXV has been over a year in the writing and recording and marks a welcome return to Pallas heavier rocking prog and as anyone who has recently seen the band on their handful of XXV preview shows there is a new dynamism to the band, brought about in the main by Paul Mackies far more upfront vocal style.

Track Listing:
1. Falling Down
2. Crash And Burn
3. Something In The Deep
4. Monster
5. The Alien Messiah
6. Twenty Five Good Honest Men
7. Young God
8. Sacrifice
9. Blackwood
10. Violet Sky
11. The Unmakers Awake

The New York City duo known as Sleigh Bells emerged in the Fall of 2009 with rhythmic pop songs that combine overdriven guitar riffs and sugary female vocal melodies. Derek Miller, who played in the popular Florida hardcore outfit Poison the Well, teamed up with singer Alexis Krauss after he happened to serve her and her mother at a Brazilian restaurant in Brooklyn.

Track Listing:
1. Tell 'Em
2. Kids
3. Riot Rhythm
4. Infinity Guitars
5. Run The Heart
6. Rachel
7. Rill Rill
8. Crown On The Ground
9. Straight A's
10. A/B Machines
11. Treats

Writing for Ill Never Get Out Of This World Alive began three years ago, the longest span of any song cycle in Steve Earles career. The first two compositions were God Is God and I Am A Wanderer, two songs written by Earle for Joan Baez 2008 album, Day After Tomorrow (which Earle also produced). The album also includes the celebrated song This City, written for the HBO Original Series, Treme, which Earle also appeared in as an actor. This year, Earle will be reprising his role of Harley during many episodes of Tremes second season.

This City features horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint and has garnered a Grammy Award Nomination in the Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media Category. Additionally, the song also garnered Earles first Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics Category. Ill Never Get Out Of This World Alive also features Heaven or Hell, a duet with Earles wife, the critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.

Track Listing:
1. Waitin On The Sky
2. Little Emperor
3. The Gulf of Mexico
4. Molly - O
5. God is God
6. Meet Me In The Alleyway
7. Every Part of Me
8. Lonely Are The Free
9. Heaven or Hell (with Allison Moorer)
10. I Am A Wanderer
11. This City

Here, Under Protest, however, unanimously delivers on every bit of the anticipation. Comprised of 14 tracks, the album drips with the signature punk revival/country/ Irish folk sound that has sustained the Swingin' Utters as one of the most successful independent punk bands of their time. As always, the song structures on each track reflect the Utters' advanced degree of musicianship through a fabric of clever guitar work, well timed hooks, and captivatingly interwoven vocal melodies. All this is tempered with the grit and edge the band has always been known for.

Here, Under Protest also features alternating vocalists (Johnny, Darius and Spike), but this time around they've added the fluid lead vocal abilities of guitarist Jack Dalrymple to the mix. From top to bottom, every song on Here, Under Protest is unique, memorable and exhilerating and as a collection the album proves to be well worth the wait.

Track Listing:
1. Brand New Lungs
2. Taking the Long Way
3. Bent Collector of 1,000 Limbs
4. Kick It Over
5. Good Thing
6. Sketch Squandered Teen
7. Heavy Head
8. (You've Got To) Give It All To the Man
9. Time On My Own
10. Lepers, Thieves and Whores
11. Blindness Is Kind
12. Reds and Blues and Beggars
13. Scary Brittle Frame
14. Effortless Amnesiac

Other highlights include one of Marc Bolan's most gorgeous and heartfelt ballads, "Broken Hearted Blues," as well as the brief, explosive rocker "Country Honey." Tanx marked the close of what many consider T. Rex's golden era; unfortunately, the bandmembers would drift off one by one soon after, until Bolan was the only one left standing by the mid-'70s.

Track Listing:
1. Tenement Lady
2. Rapids
3. Mister Mister
4. Broken Hearted Blues
5. Shock Rock
6. Country Honey
7. Electric Slim & The Factory Hen
8. Mad Donna
9. Born To Boogie
10. Life Is Strange
11. The Street & Babe Shadow
12. Highway Knees
13. Lefthand Luke

Recorded in London at Eastcote Studios and produced by Elliott James (Bloc Party, Noah And The Whale) with a number of tracks mixed by Phillipe Zdar (Phoenix, Justice, Cassius), the album simply multiplies the singles surfeit of ideas and sounds. The opening track, Cigarettes In The Theatre, perfectly displays the bands light-footed yet hard-driving energy, highlighted by Alexs vocal melody, with its almost dreamy brand of urgency. Its followed by Come Back Home, a sequel of sorts; introducing a bed of woozy synths that build and act as a launching pad for a digi-funk backdrop that bounces, swings and rocks behind Alexs confessions of relationships-past.

Track Listing:
1. Cigarettes In the Theatre
2. Come Back Home
3. Undercover Martyn
4. Do You Want It All?
5. This Is the Life
6. Something Good Can Work
7. I Can Talk
8. What You Know
9. Eat That Up, It's Good for You
10. You're Not Stubborn
11. Undercover Martyn Flexin' It

Now, for the first time in over a decade, Tight is back and it is Tighter. This amazing re-issue features the 15 original, highly coveted, mono recordings, all newly remastered, plus 12 previously unreleased audio tracks. Whether you're an old-school MSI fan or a newbie, Tighter will make you feel like you were there from the very beginning.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Bring Me The Pain (New Wave) (Method Man cover)
2. Tornado
3. Bring The Pain (Method Man cover)

LP 2
1. Grab The Mic
2. Mindless Self Indulgence
3. Tight
4. Diabolical
5. Molly
6. Daddy
7. Pussy All Night
8. Apple Country
9. Dickface
10. Bite Your Rhymes
11. Tornado (Live at CBGB)
12. Ecnegludni Fles Sseldnim
13. JX-47
14. Cake
15. I Hate Everyone
16. If Only I Didnt Want To F The Ones Who Didnt Want To F Me
17. Agents
18. Tornado (Cassingle Version)
19. This Isnt Good
20. Dickface Demo
21. Tight 8-Bit
22. I Think I Turned 22
23. Free As A Birdie
24. Bring The Pain (acapella) (Method Man cover)

LP 2
1. Nevermore
2. Bigtime
3. Confrontation Camp
4. Broken Imaginary Time
5. Still Aging
6. The Passover
7. Tonight
8. Flipside
9. Jehovah Sunrise
10. Second Life Replay

Rubbles debut album is a modern Texas psych project seven years in the making. The Austin band was formed in 2003 by King Coffey (Butthole Surfers) and Bobby Baker (ST-37, Baby Robots). Tom Carter (Charalambides) played guitar for a while before handing the keys over to Shawn David McMillen (Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast, Warmer Milks). Rounding out the fivesome is Matt Turner (Quttinirpaaq) and Craig Stewart (Sex Organs of Emittance).

Farewell Drugs is a diverse album of high-speed squalls, slow stomps that go from the lower mantle to the inner core, and anthems to the stratosphere. The MVP moments come from Ralph White (of solo and Bad Livers fame) on kalimba and violin.

Track Listing:
1. Cigarette Rabbit
2. It's So Easy
3. Waiting To Die
4. Tom Of Midland
5. Old Dominion
6. White Melt
7. On The Road South
8. Kangchenjunga
9. Southside Ashes
10. Grey At Grace

Produced once again by the inimitable Anthony Chapman (Collapsed Lung, Bis, Klaxxons, Ten Benson), Age of Reason is a more mature take on the angular agit-pop of their previous outings. The cheese-wire treble of the guitars remains, the bass thuds and booms and the drums clatter at light speed, but the songs contained in Sarandons Age of Reason are more carefully crafted and arranged. There are songs to make you shout and songs to make you sing. There are even songs to make you dance. Sarandon is back with a vengeance.

Track Listing:
1. Theme From The Age Of Reason
2. Big Trev Speaks
3. Big Trev
4. The Grumbling Begins
5. Mustn't Grumble
6. Feeling Happier
7. Perky (Part 1)
8. Perky (Part 2)
9. Down The Discotheque
10. Do The Dance
11. The Big Question
12. Dinosaur
13. Meeting A Girl
14. Piglet
15. Hatching The Plot
16. Mackenzie
17. The Pay Off
18. The Age of Reason
19. Return To The Theme From The Age Of Reason

Their sophomore album Homo delivers on the promise of these early releases. Working again with Eddy Current Suppression Ring guitarist Mikey Young at the recording and mixing stages, the UV Race developed the songs over several sessions. Their willingness to explore is clear, from the psychotic bedroom confessional of Girl in My Head with its confident teen-heat swagger, to the seven-minute closer Homo, where nods to the Ramones enclose a psychedelic freak-out reminiscent of the closing minutes of The Stooges Funhouse.

In between, the band explores influences ranging from their Australian proto-punk and garage fascinations to American country, Krautrock and UK post-punk, citing the Velvet Underground and the Saints as influences.

Track Listing:
1. Girl In My Head
2. Burn That Cat
3. Lost My Way
4. Inner North
5. Nazicistic
6. Down Your Street
7. Slow Mo
8. Low
9. Always Late
10. Homo

Creep On Creepin On was produced by Timber Timbre and engineered by Kees Dekker and three-time Grammy nominee Mark Lawson inside a converted church studio. And while settings continue to change for the band, the guiding inspiration behind its music has not. Our goal remains to make interesting songs that sound as though they could come from any time in the era of western music, Kirk explains. The idea is to make music we love and therefore embrace the risk of sounding like all the music weve ever loved, all at once.

The result is Timber Timbres most brilliant and robust record to date, a collection of 10 tracks that expands to incorporate rich and varied melodies, affecting lyricism and evocative vintage instrumentation. With Creep On Creepin On, Timber Timbre has succeeded in reaching a place it was long destined for, where its music is as powerful and extraordinary as it has always been unmistakable.

Track Listing:
1. Bad Ritual
2. Obelisk
3. Creep On Creepin On
4. Black Water
5. Swamp Magic
6. Woman
7. Too Old To Die Young
8. Lonesome Hunter
9. Do I Have Power
10. Souvenirs

Three years in the making Dorwytch finds Tucker refining his song craft and introducing minimalist string movements that build into dense spiraling riffs around his distinct vocals. With varied sounds and grandiose ideas, the album marries the abstract with more traditional song structures, using layering techniques to create the illusion of an ensemble.

This album is the first time Tucker has used drums, collaborating with free improv drummer Paul May to create rhythmic improvised beats. Other guests include brooding blues songwriter Duke Garwood (Fire Records), singer/songwriter Jess Bryant and multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Daniel OSullivan (Guapo, Aethanor, Miracles, Ulver).

Track Listing:
1. His Arm Has Grown Long
2. Red String
3. Matter
4. Hose
5. Gods Creature
6. Half Vast
7. Pearl Relics
8. Atomized
9. Skeletor Blues
10. Dark Rift/Black Road
11. Sill
12. Mildew Stars
13. Jamie
14. Craters

The best songs on In Love With Oblivion are effortless and rapturous. Through The Floor burns on fevered energy, Silver Sun kisses the air with a beautiful stream of jangle guitar, Alien Rivers is a spooked, psychedelic requiem and Precarious Stair is the best girl-pop-song-not-actually-fronted-by-a-girl since Just Like Honey.

Track Listing:
1. Sycamore Tree
2. Through the Floor
3. Silver Sun
4. Alien Rivers
5. Half a Moon
6. Flying Into the Sun
7. Shake the Shackles
8. Precarious Stair
9. Invisible City
10. Blood Barons
11. Prometheus at Large

Nirvana co-founder Krist Novoselic also makes a cameo, contributing bass and accordion to I Should Have Known, while former Nirvana touring guitarist and longtime extended FF family member Pat Smear now joins the permanent FF core of Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiflett.

The album received its first public airing at a surprise gig Friday, January 28th at the minuscule Velvet Jones club in Santa Barbara, where the band ripped through the entire record from start to finish, and followed up with a crushing live collection of greatest hits and rarely played deep cuts including Wattershed from the bands self-titled 1995 debut.

45 RPM Edition

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Bridge Burning
2. Rope
3. Dear Rosemary
4. White Limo
5. Arlandria
6. These Days

LP 2
1. Back & Forth
2. A Matter Of Time
3. Miss The Misery
4. I Should Have Known
5. Walk

After the rousing success of the quartet's 2009 release, Power Patriot, Garage A Trois headed to Studio In The Country in Bogalusa, LA to record with revered sound engineer Randall Dunn (Southern Lord). A laser sharp foucs was paid to capturing Garage A Trois' sinewy, fourth-dimensional, polychromatic instrumental songwriting. The resulting album Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil delivers from track to track.

Track Listing:
No Listing Available.

Side 2
1. Guilty
2. The End of Truth
3. Supplicants
4. Banality

Mastered By Joe Reagoso & Kevein Gray at RTI/Acoustech

There are breakthrough albums and then there are amazing groundbreaking masterpieces like Journeys Infinity. This legendary 1978 LP broke a lot of records during its colossal two year run on the coveted radio and retail charts. Journeys tireless touring and fan support truly drove this album to the top, as our San Francisco based superstars finally achieved their well deserved platinum plus status.

With the tremendous addition of their exciting new vocalist Steve Perry, as well as his incredible songwriting collaborations with bandmates Gregg Rolie (Santana), Neal Schon (Santana), Ross Valory (Steve Miller Band) and Aynsley Dunbar (Jefferson Starship), Journeys Infinity truly became a classic album for all time.

Filled with enough hit songs to be its own Greatest Hits album, the Infinity line-up included chart topping smashes like "Wheel In the Sky," "Feeling That Way," "Anytime" and of course their hometown anthem "Lights." Plus, the prog-rock leanings of masterful tracks like "Winds Of March," made this magical LP the classic that it is today.

Friday Music proudly announces its 180g Audiophile Vinyl release of Journey's Infinity. As with their previous Journey Escape offering, this impeccable release was mastered from the original Columbia Records tapes by Joe Reagoso and Kevin Gray at AcousTech/RTI.

This limited edition masterpiece also comes packaged in a beautiful first time gatefold cover, which includes the song lyrics as well as the cover artwork of Kelley and Mouse. The album cover is also packaged in a poly cover and the LP is in a poly sleeve.

Track Listing:
1. Lights
2. Feeling That Way
3. Anytime
4. La Do Da
5. Patiently
6. Wheel In The Sky
7. Somethin To Hide
8. Winds Of March
9. Can Do
10. Opened The Door

But thats not to say that the album is depressing, it actually soars with beautiful melodies and gentle, yet deliberate instrumentation. Written partially while staying at a little cabin in Northern Sweden, which band member Ashley says is the only place shes ever truly heard silence, songs like Skeleton Costume, and Pilgrims Day were born in a shed there, and have the creaky barn wood/fresh air sound to prove it.

The album as a whole is all about moving forward; realizing what we as people are given every day, and figuring out how to pay back for it whenever possible. In the bands own words: "Giving and Receiving is meant to be uplifting. It offers an antidote to depression. The more that you give, the more that you receive.

Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. One Small Step
3. Roger Miller
4. Within/Without
5. The Stars
6. Stumble Around
7. Giving & Receiving
8. Mother Natures Promise
9. Skeleton Costume
10. Bird and the Berry
11. Interlude
12. Pilgrims Day
13. Efforts
14. Distant Stars

Nowhere is the Martian and sublunary contrast more present than in two of The Golden Records standouts, Cannons and The Heron and the Fox. While "Cannons" conjures visions of receiving signals and painting portals through space over celestial echoes and otherworldly buzzes, The Heron and the Fox recalls a more terrestrial sound while recounting an intense yearning and lamentation of her salad days through a quiet, painful present.

Co-produced with Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre), The Golden Record features Little Scream on guitar, vocals, violin and keyboard. In typical Montreal fashion, it showcases a cast of local talent including Richard Parry, Mike Fuerstack (Snailhouse), Becky Foon (Silver Mt. Zion), Patty McGee (Stars) and Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire, Bell Orchestre). The Nationals Aaron Dessner also contributed on The Heron and the Fox. The Golden Record was recorded at City Hall, Montreal and Aarons Garage, New York in 2009/2010.

Track Listing:
1. The Lamb
2. Cannons
3. The Heron and the Fox
4. Your Radio
5. Black Cloud
6. Guyegaros
7. Boatman
8. People is Place
9. Red Hunting Jacket
10. Hallowed

Duluth Indie-Rock Trio's Ninth Studio Album Charms With Minimalist Chamber Pop, Staggering Textures

Recorded in a Converted Church: Phenomenal Sonics and Presence

Wilco Guitarist Nels Cline Guests on Warm Set That Addresses Relationships

Cmon is the shortest title of any Low album, which seems fitting, as it also ranks among the most succinct and straightforward entries in their variegated discography. Comprised of new material written on and off the road, the ten-song set was recorded in a former Catholic church, aka Sacred Heart Studio (where the band previously crafted 2002s Trust) and co-produced and mixed by Matt Beckley. The band took full advantage of Sacred Hearts high, vaulted ceilings, natural reverb, and audible affinity for organ sounds and group singing. The thunder-crack percussion that peppers the final minute of the slowly unfolding Majesty/Magic is just one example of this dynamic in action. With its jangly guitars and sweet vocal harmonies, opener Try to Sleep sets the albums tone: warmer, fuller and more introspective.

Whereas 2007s Drums and Guns railed against the war in Iraq, Cmon feels like a plea for humanity, decency and common sense in a world gone mad. Singer-guitarist Alan Sparhawk concurs. With the last couple of records, we were grappling with something outside of ourselves. This one feels more like, Well, forget that. Im looking in your eyes right now, and we need to figure out how to get through the next moment, together, as human beings.

Without curtailing their artistry one iota, the trio has made one of its most accessible, affecting albums to date. And while the origins of Cmon may lie in a church in Minnesota, Beckleys apartment in CA and the hearts of the modest individuals who created it, the resulting music has the capacity to resonate deeply with audiences everywhere.

Track Listing:
1. Try to Sleep
2. You See Everything
3. Witches
4. Done
5. Especially Me
6. $20
7. Majesty/Magic
8. Nightingale
9. Nothing But Heart
10. Something's Turning Over

Brash, bratty and incredibly catchy, the album, recorded on an old lightship moored on the Thames, collects a slew of new songs, as well as newly recorded versions of tracks that first appeared on their much talked-about back catalog of 7"s, splits and cassette releases.

Mazes are the collision point for Kinks/Big Star tunefulness, the raw, infectious attack of the best Buzzcocks singles, and the occasional mellow meander a la early Pavementm, but a list of influences as long as the day cant capture the smile-inducing, foot-tapping immediacy of A Thousand Heys.

Track Listing:
1. Go Betweens
2. Surf & Turf / Maths Tag
3. Most Days
4. Bowie Knives
5. Summer Hits or J+J Dont Like
6. Wait Anyway
7. Cenetaph
8. Boxing Clever
9. Vampire Jive
10. Eva
11. No Way
12. Death House
13. Til Im Dead

The highly influential Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock. They later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's subsequent album Too High to Die went gold and became their most successful release. The band reunited in 2006.

Track Listing:
1. Incomplete
2. Orange
3. Shave It
4. Baby Don't
5. Hour of the Idiot
6. Lantern
7. Town
8. Damn Thing
9. Amazing
10. Way That It Are
11. Vile
12. The Spider and the Spaceship

Demos were cut this past summer, of which Oldham says, Im sure Ive never had a clearer plan of how a record should go before, and its true that the finished album is near identical in sequence and structure. Touching on ground most groups do not know exist, Borrow A Horse is rich with melody and instrumentation, its simple songs rooted in folk and bluegrass, and presented in a swirl of psychedelia. Its a near-perfect album, forged in history, created in the present, and timeless in sound.

Track Listing:
1. I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
2. Bonny Cuckoo
3. When I was Taken
4. Follow My Bangalorey Man
5. Do Not Play with Gypsies
6. Far From Home
7. Stool-ball
8. A Gift, a Ghost/Monday Alone
9. There Are Men in the Village of Erith
10. Henry was a Worthy King
11. What did I Dream

Both as a member of Animal Collective and as the solo artist, Panda Bear, (aka Noah Lennox) helped redefine the aesthetics and methodology of experimental and independent music. With work ranging from splayed but lyrical noise, florid acoustic arrangements, and guitar-centric psychedelia, he and his bandmates have covered a vast musical territory that blurs the line between pop and experimentalism. But while Panda Bear and Animal Collective have garnered acclaim with each successive sonic venture, their music really started to take hold when they began working with electronics. In 2007, Lennox released the milestone Person Pitch, a mélange of loopy samples, ethereal textures, and dubby echoes all bound together by his soulful tenor. Hailed by many as an instant classic, the albums influence was almost immediately recognizable. He continued work with Animal Collective, releasing another landmark album Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009.

While the interval since Person Pitch has seen plenty of work from the Animal Collective camp, Panda Bear activity has been rare. He has toured sparingly, done intermittent remix work, and appeared on a few peers releases while rumors circulated about his next full-length, Tomboy. The second half of 2010 saw the records first offerings: a string of 7s containing tracks from the album, each released on a different label. With one more due before the albums release, the singles have revealed Tomboys palette while helping Lennox gauge his progress and focus on individual songs.

Recorded at his studio in Lisbon, Tomboy sees Lennox stepping away from the sample-based parameters of his previous record and incorporating more guitar and synthesizer. Still prevalent, though, is the interest in texture that made Person Pitch such a dense record; crashing waves and cheering crowds bounce against the gurgling arpeggios and give the tracks an immense sense of space. Soaked in reverb and punctuated with inflections of delay, the albums drums reveal a dub influence which gives them a visceral punch that lingers after each hit. Lennoxs lofty, self-harmonizing vocals smooth out the songs, and Sonic Booms mixing gives the work a large dynamic range. With Tomboy, Lennox has created a more plaintive atmosphere, but in accordance with the conflicting image of its title, the highs of the album balance out its lows. The record, massive in its span of emotion, genre, and sound, is the welcome return of one of the most prolific and consistent audio pioneers in recent memory.

Track Listing:
1. You Can Count On Me
2. Tomboy
3. Slow Motion
4. Surfers Hymn
5. Last Night At The Jetty
6. Drone
7. Alsatian Darn
8. Scheherazade
9. Friendship Bracelet
10. Afterburner
11. Benfica

So Beautiful Or So What is the highly anticipated all-new release from one of the greatest and most popular artists in music lore, Paul Simon. The original 10 song set is his first album in 5 years and his most heartfelt and introspective to date. The album was produced by Phil Ramone and Simon himself and includes liner notes written by Elvis Costello.

Rolling Stone magazine recently declared it, "His best since Graceland," and National Public Radio affirmed, "His new music balances great poetry and pop. Paul Simon is a national treasure." In their current issue, Filter Magazine calls the new album, "A new masterpiece from the Picasso of music."

Track Listing:
1. Getting Ready For Christmas Day
2. The Afterlife
3. Dazzling Blue
4. Rewrite
5. Love and Hard Times
6. Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
7. Amulet
8. Questions for the Angels
9. Love and Blessings
10. So Beautiful Or So What

Part one of this severely schizophrenic dual album is Quintron with far wider instrumentation than usual. Tympani, vibraphone, whistling and tape loops join the ranks of drum machine and electric organ. There is also a noticeable increase in the number of chords used per song compared to previous Quintron albums. There are also two dreamy Miss Pussycat tunes entitled Banana Beat and Spirit Hair. Noise and field recordings creep into this first half of Sucre Du Sauvage. In part two, these elements win the battle as music and structure completely surrender to disparate sounds running wild. Electronic and acoustic instruments blur together with ducks, insects, birds, water and even museum elevators until they all become brutal hypnotic madness.

The NOMA sessions yielded literally thousands of hours of tape. This album is the cream of that crop, the Sucre Du Sauvage. No post-production or overdubs were done. When the exhibit closed, the work was finished. It is what it is, and it probably aint happening again any time soon.

Track Listing:
1. Ring the Alarm
2. Face Down in the Gutter
3. New Years Night
4. Kicked Out of Zolar X
5. Banana Beat
6. Sucre Du Sauvage
7. All Night Right of Way
8. Spirit Hair
9. Elevator
10. Deer in the Clouds
11. Bells
12. Train Ride
13. Jazz bar
14. Morning

Side 2
1. Painted Parade
2. Number Thirteen
3. Into The Eye
4. The Undertow
5. Human Herd

The lyrics of the album touch on real world events, such as Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Although the lyrics discuss grim topics, they actually take on a positive view and were written from the perspective of: "What if the place on the other side of this transition is a place we'd all rather be living in?

Track Listing:
1. Architects
2. Help Is on the Way
3. Make It Stop (September's Children)
4. Disparity By Design
5. Satellite
6. Midnight Hands
7. Survivor Guilt
8. Broken Mirrors
9. Wait for Me
10. A Gentlemen's Coup
11. This Is Letting Go
12. Endgame

LP 1 Side 2
1. Dig Your Grave
2. Bury Me With It
3. Dance Hall
4. Bukowski
5. This Devil's Workday

LP 2 Side 1
1. The View
2. Satin In A Coffin
3. Interlude (Milo)
4. Blame It On The Tetons

LP 2 Side 2
1. Black Cadillacs
2. One Chance
3. The Good Times Are Killing Me
4. I've Got It All (Most)

A Scarcity of Miracles is a significant addition to the extended King Crimson family.

When Robert Fripp & Jakko Jakszyk got together in February 2009 neither expected that their initial sessions of guitaronly improvisations would result in a full-blown album, or that it would ultimately be deemed to be a King Crimson projeKct. As the material from those first sessions developed it was obviously becoming much wider in scope and scale. The arrival of sax player & former King Crimson member, Mel Collins, added further colour & texture to the emerging songs. The line-up was completed with the addition of bassist Tony Levin and Porcupine Trees drummer, Gavin Harrison (both members of the 2008 incarnation of King Crimson) adding their parts to the material in their respective studios.

Track Listing:
1. A Scarcity of Miracles
2. The Price We Pay
3. Secrets
4. This House
5. The Other Man
6. The Light of Day

Hand pulled screen cover art

Its not often that an album disavowed by its own author at the time of release goes on to become considered a modern classic. Yet thats exactly what happened with Chicago blues legend Howlin Wolfs 1969 LP The Howlin Wolf Album, a release that has since attained mythical status due to the controversy behind it.

Released on Cadet Records, a subsidiary of legendary imprint Chess Records, The Howlin Wolf Album was a radical experiment for a well established artist: attempt to integrate electric instruments and psychedelic arrangements into his revered signature blues sound. The result was an album that Wolf himself initially disregarded on the nowinfamous cover, but one that has won a special place amongst dedicated music aficionados thanks to its unique mix of traditional blues and electric rock elements.

Get On Downs reputation for high quality reissues continues with The Howlin Wolf Album, which features a special Stoughton vinyl pressing with audio remastered from the original analog tapes for optimum sound quality and comes packaged in a paste-on style jacket featuring the albums famous original artwork.

Track Listing:
Side 1
1. Spoonful
2. Tail Dragger
3. Smokestack Lightning
4. Moanin at Midnight
5. Built For Comfort

Side 2
1. The Red Rooster
2. Evil
3. Down In The Bottom
4. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
5. Back Door Man

Massive double vinyl edition of this stellar collection of Porcupine Tree b-sides and non-album tracks. 180 gram slabs of black vinyl in a 350 gram heavyweight gatefold sleeve. Also comes with heavy duty printed inner sleeves.

Track Listing:
LP 1
1. Buying new soul
2. Access denied
3. Cure for optimism
4. Untitled

LP 2
1. Disappear
2. Ambulance chasing
3. In formaldehyde
4. Even less
5. Oceans have no memory

Side B
1. Sample And Hold
2. Beelzebub
3. Adios A La Pasada (Goodbye To The Past)
4. 5G

Side Two
5. The Sliding Door
6. Palewell Park
7. Plans For J.D.
8. Land's End

TV Ghosts sophomore full-length, Mass Dream was recorded by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris) and it is by far their clearest and most coherent release to date. While sacrificing none of the bands scuzz-punk dementia, Mass Dream is far less dense and impenetrable than its predecessor; Ghost frontman Tim Gicks lyrics are clearer and his complex song structure a bit easier to get a handle on. That said, this is still blood-boiling, spastic and down right evil music by anyones standards.

Track Listing:
1. Wired Trap
2. Sleep Composite
3. The Winding Stair
4. Cancor
5. An Absurd Laceration
6. The Inheritors
7. Doppleganger
8. Subterfuge
9. The Degradation of Film
10. Tropes
11. Mass Dream

Leb Laze began to record and embrace these freakouts, using them as a basis for the majority of the songs on this album..adding to them, enhancing them and/or sculpting around them. Two shorter pieces, Revelations and Dial In/Dial Out were actually created entirely from these freakouts. Think of this record and, most importantly, these two tracks, as my MPC's last words--a testament to the idea that the nonliving world is actually very much alive.

Track Listing:
1. Simple Systems Mantra - 2:32
2. Complex Rising - 2:01
3. Keep Rising - 0:36
4. Voltage Power Barrio - 1:05
5. Hushhhhhhh Maing - 2:04
6. Duck Duck Flow - 1:34
7. Static Radiates (Underwater Meditation) - 2:25
8. We Found Answers - 3:02
9. In Love (Vocoded Freak Testimonials) - 3:11
10. This Means to Clarify - 3:08
11. Nature Meets Static - 4:02
12. Swerve Transmissions - 0:54
13. Toxic Knock (A) - 2:11
14. Toxic Knock (B) - 2:10
15. Revelations... - 1:41
16. Uncaged - 4:28
17. Dial In / Dial Out - 0:37

It took discipline, says Maja Ivarsson, the towheaded vocal vamp of the band, but the sound we got was exactly what wed been looking for, and never found, at other studios. Something kinda harsh and a little cold, its hard to put into words, but here we were, in our own place, listening back to what wed recorded, and were like, This is it! From opener Its So Easy, the difference is palpable. With four on the floor, the band bangs out a pulsing track that goes from ominous to blindingly bright as it approaches the transcendent Dance With The Devil. Here, Maja promises to conquer our planet with dance, and with anthemic, electrofueled tracks like Better Off Dead and Yeah Yeah Yeah, The Sounds may do just that.

Weve been interested in electronic music from the beginning, says Jesper Anderberg, keyboardist, guitarist and other main writer. Thats actually why a lot of us started playing music, and we wanted to emphasize that a bit more this time. When most of the group came together in 1998 as high school students in Helsingborg, they were club kids says Felix. Rounded out by bassist Johan Bengtsson and drummer Fredrik Blond, The Sounds have always displayed a healthy respect for bombastic synths and propulsive beats, but on Something To Die For, the feeling is bigger, broader and bolder. The same could be said about the bands rocking side.

Songs like Diana show off The Sounds undeniable penchant for playful post-punk, while The No No Song is pure rock-pop rave-up, with Maja spitting vitriol through a vicious sneer: It didnt matter to you when it felt so right/And now you lost it all, well youre not so bright. All of it comes together perfectly on the titular song and album centerpiece, Something To Die For where, over the course of five and a half minutes, Jarre-like atmosphere dissolves into a speaker-crushing thump that climaxes in a winning collision of red hot guitars and icy keyboards. Its all about passion and dedication, says Maja. Thats what the title means...its something to be proud of, something to stand up for...something to die for.

Track Listing:
1. Its So Easy
2. Dance With The Devil
3. The No No Song
4. Better Off Dead
5. Diana
6. Something To Die For
7. Yeah Yeah Yeah
8. Wont Let Them Tear Us Apart
9. The Best Of Me
10. Wish You Were Here

TV Ghosts sophomore full-length, Mass Dream was recorded by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris) and it is by far their clearest and most coherent release to date. While sacrificing none of the bands scuzz-punk dementia, Mass Dream is far less dense and impenetrable than its predecessor; Ghost frontman Tim Gicks lyrics are clearer and his complex song structure a bit easier to get a handle on. That said, this is still blood-boiling, spastic and down right evil music by anyones standards.

Track Listing:
1. Wired Trap
2. Sleep Composite
3. The Winding Stair
4. Cancor
5. An Absurd Laceration
6. The Inheritors
7. Doppleganger
8. Subterfuge
9. The Degradation of Film
10. Tropes
11. Mass Dream

The Cars Return with their First Studio Album in 24 Years!

After a string of platinum albums and Top 40 singles made them one of the most popular American rock 'n' roll bands of the late '70s and the mid-'80s, The Cars are back in action with the the highly anticipated Move Like This.

Featuring original band members Ric Ocasek, David Robinson, Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, Move Like This recalls the alt-rock minimalistic sound The Cars are so well known for, yet at the same time, maintains significant relevance to the music of today. Produced by The Cars and Gareth 'Jacknife' Lee (U2, REM).

180g vinyl version also includes a download card offering a bonus track not available on the CD release.

Track Listing:
1. Blue Tip
2. Too Late
3. Keep On Knocking
4. Soon
5. Sad Song
6. Free
7. Drag On Forever
8. Take Another Look
9. It's Only
10. Hits Me

The ten-song Share the Joy finds the threesome of guitarist/vocalist Cassie Ramone, bassist/vocalist Kickball Katy and new drummer Fiona Campbell, continuing to evolve and expand, building on the D.I.Y. achievements of their 2008 debut, Vivian Girls, and its 2009 follow-up, Everything Goes Wrong, while delivering their most memorable songs and most focused performances yet.

Share the Joy's musical and emotional depth is reflected on "The Other Girls" and "Light In Your Eyes," each of which clocks in at over six minutes. The former tune manages to encompass hammering hardcore, Beach Boys-esque melodic bliss, Neil Young/Nirvana-inflected guitar frenzy and ethereal harmonic drone, while the latter closes the album on a triumphant note of surging sonic uplift. Elsewhere, "Dance If You Wanna" and "Take it As It Comes" rank with the band's most intoxicating pop confections, while "Lake House" and "Vanishing of Time" maintain a thoughtful, introspective tone that may come as a surprise to those who'd had Vivian Girls pegged as a lo-fi garage outfit.

Vivian Girls recorded Share the Joy at Rear House, the home studio run by Jarvis Taveniere (of the Brooklyn combo Woods), who engineered the album.

Track Listing:
1. The Other Girls
2. I Heard You Say
3. Dance (If You Wanna)
4. Lake House
5. Trying to Pretend
6. Sixteen Ways
7. Take It As It Comes
8. Vanishing of Time
9. Death
10. Light In Your Eyes

In And Out Of Youth and Lightness was produced by the band and Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket) at The Funeral Home in their hometown of Louisville, KY. The musical palette remains fundamentally the same; singer/guitarist Evan Patterson's cavernous, warped blues riffs weighted by Nick Thieneman's earth-shaking bass and drummer Jeremy McMonigle's sturdy, shifting rhythms, but the augmented instrumentation and choral vocals lifts them to incredible new heights. With lyrical themes of emotional despair and domestic dissolution leading to inevitable catharsis, In And Out Of Youth and Lightness finds Patterson rising from his personal hell with a level of wisdom and maturity that most aggressive bands will never know.

With a depth and ambition well beyond their years, Young Widows have stepped out of the shadows of their influences to become one of America's more interesting and spirited underground rock bands.

Track Listing:
1. Young Rivers
2. Future Heart
3. In and Out of Lightness
4. Lean on the Ghost
5. The Muted Man
6. Right in the End
7. Miss Tambourine Wrist
8. White Golden Rings
9. In and Out of Youth

Earth Grid, Zomes second solo album, is the culmination of Osborne's years of exploring meditative modal models. Written, played, and recorded entirely at home on cassette tape, Earth Grid, is an intimate and intentionally primitive recording. The album was mastered by Bob Weston.

Track Listing:
1. Openings
2. Pilgrim Traveler
3. Melody, the Prism
4. Bloodlines
5. Spiraling
6. Stark Reality
7. Step Anew
8. Youth of the Beast
9. The Garden
10. OK Philosophy
11. Aquanauts
12. Earth Grid
13. Life on the Wheel
14. Alecs Anthem
15. A Path of Music

Up Close is his most revelatory and diverse album to date, rich with compelling songs and stunning six-string artistry. Beautiful special double LP gatefold release with printed sleeves. Remastered for 180g vinyl release by Jim Wilson.

Track Listing:
1. Awaken
2. Fatdaddy
3. Brilliant Room
4. Texas
5. Gem
6. Traverse
7. Austin
8. Soul Surprise
9. On The Way
10. Arithmetic
11. The Sea And The Mountain
12. Vortexan
13. A Change Has Come To Me
14. Change (Revisited)
15. Your Book

Forever Today was recorded over 2 sessions: Something happens when we come together, says front man and bandleader Emanuel Lundgren, we wanted to capture that energy on tape so we decided to record the entire new album live in the studio.

Forever Today follows 2008's Who Killed Harry Houdini?, I'm From Barcelona's sophomore album which saw streaks of melancholy mixed into it's colorful pop songs.

Track Listing:
1. Charlie Parker
2. Get In Line
3. Battleships
4. Always Spring
5. Can See Miles
6. Come On
7. Skipping A Beat
8. Dr. Landy
9. Game Is On
10. Forever Today

Vanishing Point was Primal Scream's first album to feature bass player Gary 'Mani' Mounfield (formerly of The Stone Roses) while guests include Augustus Pablo, Glen Matlock and The Memphis Horns. The band draws inspiration from dub and Can, ambient music, Motörhead and The Stooges here to create a dark mix of drum and bass, dance, and rock close to their magnum opus Screamadelica. The album fully displays how successfully an act can reinvent itself yet stay true to what it is best at.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Burning Wheel
2. Get Duffy
3. Kowalski
4. Star
5. If They Move, Kill 'Em
6. Out Of The Void

LP2
1. Stuka
2. Medication
3. Motörhead
4. Trainspotting
5. Long Life

Now 15 years after the cult-class Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy, listen as Clyne, one of America's great singer/songwriters continues his journey down the highway across the dusty Mexican borderlands to Unida Cantina. The release marks Clyne's most upbeat record since the aforementioned Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy and the most collaborative Peacemaker album to date. RCPM reaches new heights on Unida Cantina with the songwriting duo of Clyne and guitarist Jim Dalton and the dynamic rhythm section of bassist Nick Scropos and drummer PH Naffah.

Track Listing:
1. Wait So Long
2. Victory
3. It's A War
4. Separate
5. Bloodshot Eyes
6. New Son/Burnt Iron
7. Help You
8. Feet Bones
9. Gasoline
10. Sounds Like A Movie
11. New Orleasn
12. Again

Produced, as always, by the legendary Joe Boyd, these albums feature some of the bands best, and most accessible song writing. While Hangmans and The 5000 Spirits may have been considered more revolutionary at the time, Wee Tam and The Big Huge have aged considerably better and many considered them to be the bands finest work. Reissued here in their original US form as individual LPs on 180g vinyl with a deluxe tip-on jacket.

Track Listing:
1. Maya
2. Greatest Friend
3. The Son Of Noah's Brother
4. Lordly Nightshade
5. The Mountain Of God
6. Cousin Caterpillar
7. The Iron Stone
8. Douglas Traherne Harding
9. The Circle Is Unbroken

Produced, as always, by the legendary Joe Boyd, these albums feature some of the bands best, and most accessible song writing. While Hangmans and The 5000 Spirits may have been considered more revolutionary at the time, Wee Tam and The Big Huge have aged considerably better and many considered them to be the bands finest work. Reissued here in their original US form as individual LPs on 180g vinyl with a deluxe tip-on jacket.

Track Listing:
1. Job's Tears
2. Puppies
3. Beyond The Sea
4. The Yellow Snake
5. Log Cabin Home In The Sky
6. You Get Brighter
7. The Half -Remarkable Question
8. Air
9. Ducks On A Pond

LP2
1. Liebling
2. We Would Fall Against the Tide
3. You and Me Then?
4. Peace of Mind
5. Tåget
6. Slottet
7. What You Sell
8. Mad about the Boy
9. Closing Scene
10. Messy Enough
11. The Idle Urban Contemporaries
12. All About Our Love
13. On Your Side
14. The One

Indeed, Oaklands particular landscapes serve as primer for what you hear on Whokill, with the citys unique vitality fuelling the album's brightness. By applying the Tune-Yards live approach to her studio work for the first time, Garbus added more buttons and joints to those already being used, one essential new joint is dexterous bass member Nate Brenner, who co-wrote a few songs.

Produced by Garbus herself and working with engineer Eli Crews, they show theres no substitute for a good microphone, and the sonic nuances that can only be achieved through masterful recording techniques.

Track Listing:
1. My Country
2. Es-So
3. Gangsta
4. Powa
5. Riotriot
6. Bizness
7. Doorstep
8. You Yes You
9. Wooly Wolly Gong
10. Killa

With their identity firmly established, their debut album Dead to Me is the next step forward and solidly delivers on the promise shown on previous releases. The song writing is more defined and the production values have been sharpened, representing a definitive break from the nonsensical lo-fi tag that has been associated with them.

The band entered the studio in the last half of 2010 with the conscious desire to make an old-fashioned pop album, albeit one with a perverse haunted feel. The ten tracks that comprise Dead to Me are possessed with a warm, classic quality derived second-hand from the 60s influenced bands of the 80s. The songs When You Cry, Bury Me and I Lose are characterized by a timeless melodicism thats long been the reserve of pop classicists from the Walker Brothers to Orange Juice, while others such as Séance on a Wet Afternoon reveal a darker undercurrent.

Track Listing:
1. Lawrence
2. I Could Die
3. When You Cry
4. No More Words
5. Nothing More To Say
6. I Lose
7. Cut Up
8. Bury Me
9. Kiss Goodbye
10. Seance On A Wet Afternoon

The set, which spans the breadth of their career to date, captures the intuitive live evolution of LCD Soundsystem as a band. Nothing is replicated with computers, everything is recreated in real time, tougher, looser and less clinically. London Sessions features tracks from all LCD Soundsystems studio albums to date, as well as the long-lost B-side classic Yr Citys a Sucker, and is a must for any fan of the band.

Track Listing:
1. Us V Them
2. All I Want
3. Drunk Girls
4. Get Innocuous
5. Daft Punk Is Playing at My House
6. All My Friends
7. Pow Pow
8. I Can Change
9. Yr Citys a Sucker