Walking through the residential heart of Portland s Mississippi district you ll find a charming wooden house under the overcast Oregon sky. This local landmark is the home of soul legend Ural Thomas, built by hand with found materials decades ago. The basement is overflowing with musical equipment. When you walk down into the room…
Portland, OR’s Blackened Doom outfit, USNEA, return after 6 years with their most accomplished work to date entitled “Bathed in Light”! Produced by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios and featuring art by vocalist guitarist Justin Cory, “Bathed in Light” encompasses some the most impressive fusion of funeral doom, death metal and black metal all while…
The follow-up to Valerie June s widely adored The Order of Time-a 2017 effort that earned the admiration of Bob Dylan and landed on best-of-the-year lists from the likes of Rolling Stone – The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers is a potent catalyst for that kind of magic. With her spellbinding vocals and infectious…
Vampillia and The Body are two creative forces that are no strangers to the worlds of experimental and abrasive music. Although both have touched upon various types of metal styles in their previous works, also has each entity shown an obvious penchant for compositions that lean heavily into the worlds of electronics and experimental music….
Vampillia and The Body are two creative forces that are no strangers to the worlds of experimental and abrasive music. Although both have touched upon various types of metal styles in their previous works, also has each entity shown an obvious penchant for compositions that lean heavily into the worlds of electronics and experimental music….
2008 was quite a year for Vampire Weekend. After the release of their eponymous debut album in January, the New York quartet graced the cover of Spin Magazine, played on almost every television program from Saturday Night Live to David Letterman, and toured the world several times over including stops at the Coachella and Bonnaroo festivals. They…
Modern Vampires of the City is Vampire Weekend s third album, and it will be released on May 7th, 2013 by XL Recordings. The album is a bustling world of voices and visions — from the death of Henry Hudson to the Orthodox girl falling in love at an uptown falafel shop, from Hannah Hunt tearing up the New…
2015 Remastered Edition Cut Straight from the Quarter-Inch Tapes by Chris Bellman Van Halen reinvented the sound of hard rock in 1978 with their influential and wildly successful eponymous debut album and then achieved even greater success six years later with 1984. Both albums would define a generation while selling more than 10 million copies each…
Considered one of the greatest debut albums in rock history, Van Halen took the music world by storm in 1978 with an 11-song manifesto that features some of rock radio s most played songs of all time and scorching concert staples like Runnin With The Devil, Ain t Talkin ‘Bout Love, Jamie s Cryin , the band…
2015 Remastered Edition Cut Straight from the Quarter-Inch Tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering Van Halen s third record in as many years, Women and Children First doesn t surrender anything to its two famous predecessors. Eddie Van Halen, David Lee Roth, and company go for broke, amping up the energy and escalating the heaviness on…
25th anniversary colored vinyl LP pressing of The Vandals punk rock classic Hitler Bad, Vandals Good. The breakthrough 1998 album includes such favorites as the poignant breakup tune My Girlfriend s Dead, the Oscar-worthy Idea for a Movie, and the catchy opener People That Are Going To Hell, as well as a skillful interpretation of The Sound…
Limited edition BLUE WHITE HAZE version of the infamous 2004 album by playful punk anarchists The Vandals! This, the band s 10th studio album, included a logo that parodied Variety magazine which resulted in a protracted legal battle that saw Vandals bassist Joe Escalante heroically taking on the Goliath legal team at Variety… and winning! Musical…
The second album from the clown princes of punk rock, Southern California s The Vandals! Originally released in 1988, the album was later reissued as The Vandals Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes in 1999, but for this reissue we ve restores the original artwork as well as the full track list PLUS 2 bonus…