Coming Feburary 24th Algiers returns with Shook, their first new music since 2020’s There Is No Year, called “a heady concoction of post-punk, ‘60s soul and political insight.” (NME ****) Shook features contributions from Rage Against The Machine’s Zack De La Rocha, Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews, Big Rube, billy woods, Backxwash, and many more. September’s…
Algiers return in 2020 with third album There Is No Year , which will be released January 17th on Matador Records. There is No Year solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even more epic, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of a different era, as described by…
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah — known to his fans in southern Nigeria as the Oyoyo King, the Godfather of Afemai Music, the Etsako Super Star — is the originator of a form of Muslim highlife that fuses local folk styles with pan-Nigerian highlife and Western pop. A devout Muslim and an exemplar of religious piety in…
Celebrating the great Ali Farka Touré (active album release campaign planned for 2023), this reissue of his Green album will be the first vinyl issue since the 80s, on limited edition transparent green vinyl.
Ali Farka Touré is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate: Ali s sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, resulting in the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well…
A fantastic live performance from Alice Coltrane – and one that features a very heavy-hitting group, one that features both Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on tenor, in a spirit that s as strong and righteous as Alice s Ptah The El Daoud album! The set features one long track – a reading of the…
Alice Coltrane had become a disciple of Swami Satchidananda, which explains the title of her 1971 masterpiece Journey in Satchidananda, recorded in November 1970 (except for the lone live track Isis and Osiris ) and issued in January of 1971. It was recorded at the Coltrane home studio in Dix Hills, New York. Coltrane and Ed…
Recorded in the basement studio of the Coltrane home in 1970, Alice Coltrane s fourth album is a masterpiece of spiritual jazz. The title track is an ode to the Egyptian God Ptah (the El Daoud meaning the beloved ). Moments on the album reach what Coltrane defined the term Turiya as a state of…
Killer certainly takes its title to heart. This is an album that bursts forth with energy, danger, and a razor-sharp edge. Too much ain t enough. This 1971 set followed up on the breakthrough success of Love It To Death and solidified Alice and his band s position as rock s most notorious, shocking, sleazy, and theatrical unit. …
Deluxe Edition 180g Vinyl 3LP Reissue with Original Album Newly Remastered and Expanded with Rare Recordings and Previously Unreleased 1972 Live Performance Alice Cooper was unstoppable during the 70s when the band released four consecutive platinum albums and five Top 40 hits like I m Eighteen, School s Out, No More Mr. Nice Guy, and…
50th Anniversary Gatefold 180g Vinyl LP Reissue Mastered by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios and Capitol Records in Hollywood; Features Long Out-of-Print, Die-Cut Cover with Pull-Out 1972 Calendar Killer certainly takes its title to heart. This is an album that bursts forth with energy, danger, and a razor-sharp edge. Too much ain t enough. This…
Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing including bonus DVD. Formed in 1968, the original Alice Cooper band forged a theatrical brand of hard rock that was destined to shock and had never been seen before. By 1974, the band had risen to the upper echelon of rock stardom… and then, it dissolved. In October 2015,…
Alice Cooper Road on 2LP + DVD The road will make you or break you. To survive it, you need to be as tough as asphalt and move fast enough to make the competition eat dust. Throughout 2022, Alice collaborated closely with the members of his touring band as well as long-time producer Bob Ezrin, putting together…
Alice Cooper Road on 2LP + DVD The road will make you or break you. To survive it, you need to be as tough as asphalt and move fast enough to make the competition eat dust. Throughout 2022, Alice collaborated closely with the members of his touring band as well as long-time producer Bob Ezrin, putting together…
At the time of its release in 1972, School s Out made Alice Cooper and his lethal band the biggest names in rock. The title track alone united people of all stripes and to this day remains one of the most recognized songs ever recorded. Yet Cooper and Co. throw down the gauntlet throughout this amazingly executed concept album,…