First of Two Planned 2021 Releases Finds Band Working with 39-Piece Orchestra and Drawing Influence from Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Harry Nilsson s Nilsson Sings Newman! Weezer follow-up 2019 s Weezer aka The Black Album with their fourteenth studio album, OK Human (a nod to Radiohead‘s OK Computer), the first of two planned 2021 releases. It finds the Los Angeles quartet working…
Few records claim as bizarre a history as Weezer s Pinkerton. Upon release in 1996, the band s sophomore effort failed to meet sales expectations, lacked a hit single, and drew primarily negative reviews from the press. Then, via word of mouth and reevaluation, the album began to build a reputation as an initially misunderstood masterwork –…
Weezer present one of their most exciting projects to date: SZNZ, a four EP song cycle of sorts. Already mythical across the internet, SZNZ will, fittingly, be released at the start of every season. Each EP will offer its own palette of colors, creatures, and emotions to explore. They re also being created in real time, made in…
Second of Four Vivaldi-Inspired EPs Weezer present one of their most exciting projects to date: SZNZ, a four EP song cycle of sorts. Already mythical across the internet, SZNZ will, fittingly, be released at the start of every season. Each EP will offer its own palette of colors, creatures, and emotions to explore. They re also being created…
WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird” Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex…
For WEMA, collaboration is a state of mind. The five-piece collective – consisting of Tanzanian multi-instrumentalist Msafiri Zawose, producer Photay and Penya members Magnus P.I, Lilli Elina and Jimmy le Messurier – is an artistic pursuit founded on community; a space in which to harness the transformative power of connection.
Wendell Harrison was born in Detroit in 1942 where he began formal jazz studies for piano, clarinet and tenor saxophone. At 14, while still in high school, Harrison started performing & recording professionally with artists such as Marvin Gaye, Grant Green, Sun Ra, Hank Crawford… and many others. In 1971, Harrison began teaching music at…
The iconic West Side Story: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1957) on exclusive gatefold double vinyl is here. Enjoy the legendary score of Leonard Bernstein s music and Stephen Sondheim s lyrics as they come to life in the comfort of your home. Get yours on sleek colored 2LP with the stand-out cast including Tony Award Winners Carol Lawrence,…
Technological agitation. Narcissism fatigue. A galaxy of isolation. These are the new norms keeping Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) up at night and the themes at the heart of her latest release, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. The celestial-influenced folk album is her follow-up to the acclaimed Titanic Rising. (Pitchfork, NPR, and The Guardian admiringly named it one of…
The phantom zone, the parallax, the upside down – there is a rich cultural history of exploring in-between places. Through her latest, Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood aka Natalie Mering, has designed her own universe to soulfully navigate life s mysteries. Maneuvering through a space-time continuum, she plays the role of melodic, sometimes melancholic, anthropologist. Tellingly, Mering classifies Titanic Rising – which…
Reissue, originally released in 1972. The highly sought-after reissue of a soul classic by Baltimore band. A mix of ballads and groovy tracks produced by George Kerr and Michael Watson. The Whatnauts emerged from Baltimore in the late 60s. This eight-song original LP has become a classic 70s soul album, mixing ballads and groovy tracks. While You Forget…
Ty Segall meets a new non-rock challenge head-on; soundtrack music for the documentary film Whirlybird. A variety of synth sounds, electric keyboards, drums, percussion and saxophone (and yeah, a few guitars) form a shifting impressionist counterpart, instrumental music that dialogues with and serves to frame the film’s compulsive themes and images.
It’s been over five years since White Lung released any new material. After their explosive break-out album in 2014, Deep Fantasy, and the critically acclaimed follow-up, Paradise, the punk band have taken a long yet unintentional hiatus. Now, singer Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William, and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou are back with their latest release, Premonition….
While revealing the band s roots in American folk music, the White Stripes final album Icky Thump (2007) is an explosive, revolutionary assault that brings together garage rock, every blues style of the past 100 years, nouveau, flamenco, Jack White s fastest guitar solo ever recorded, hard country, speed metal, a slide-guitar epic, surf music, spoken word and even bagpipes….
180g Vinyl LP Mastered from the Original Analog Source by George Ingram with Input from Third Man Records! The record that kick-started the garage-rock revival, The White Stripes White Blood Cells serves as the band s commercial breakthrough, going gold and yielding the Top 20 modern rock hits Fell In Love With A Girl and Dead Leaves…