Limited yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. 20 Centuries Gone is a collection of two new original songs and six cover songs that span the timeline of Spirit Adrift s most foundational influences. Featuring artwork by Brian Mercer (Lamb of God, High on Fire, Mastodon), and mixed by Zeuss (Overkill, Crowbar, Municipal Waste), this…
Death has been an up close and personal part of my life since I was a young child. When I began writing Ghost at the Gallows, the specter of death hung as constant as ever. This album navigates a world where ghosts are real, and they haunt us in the form of grief, trauma, and…
Almost three years spent sharpening orthodox weapons, Spirit Possession reveal their second full length Of The Sign…, six schizo spiraling, deranged hymns of black heavy metal from a lost time. While the s t full length was a raw blistering torrent draped in first wave blood, Of The Sign… seems to be thoroughly drenched in…
They were one of those bands that were a prequel to what the future was becoming. Feminism, human rights, animal rights, environmental protection, gender issues… Spitboy was singing about these issues 30 fucking years ago. I m so grateful to have witnessed it. -Billie Joe Armstrong Spitboy are one of the most important punk bands…
They were one of those bands that were a prequel to what the future was becoming. Feminism, human rights, animal rights, environmental protection, gender issues… Spitboy was singing about these issues 30 fucking years ago. I m so grateful to have witnessed it. -Billie Joe Armstrong Spitboy are one of the most important punk bands…
Coming March 12: Spoon s classic Gimme Fiction. Featuring the hit single I Turn My Camera On, as well as other tracks included on the recent greatest hits Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, the new edition is included in an ongoing campaign highlighting Spoon s expansive catalog.
Following his latest album, Be Up A Hello and the Vortrack 12 , Squarepusher quickly returns to the fray with Lamental EP, accompanying the former and coinciding with his worldwide tour. Lamental EP bookends the latest saga in the Squarepusher legacy, a stunning atmospheric masterwork that completes the trilogy of recent releases as well as…
Teeming with melodic epiphanies and layered sounds, Squid’s second album O Monolith is a musical evocation of environment, domesticity and self-made folklore. Like its predecessor, 2021’s critically acclaimed, UK number 4 album Bright Green Field, it is dense and tricksy – but also more warm and characterful, with a meandering, questioning nature. A sense of…
When first released back in 2000, Tourist was a global success, selling over four million albums worldwide. It was Ludovic Navarre s (aka St Germain) third studio album which really transformed his career into superstardom; combining elements of house and nu jazz to produce an impeccable album to chill out to. The album continues to be hugely popular to this…
When Paul Janeway learned he was going to be a father he decided to scribe his thoughts – joy, fear, confusion – as messages to his then-unborn daughter. Those letters became Angels in Science Fiction, the stunning fifth album from St. Paul & The Broken Bones. Produced by Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) at the…
This is the first true bossa nova album by jazz artists, the one that began the wave. The name Stan Getz can easily be tied to bossa nova whenever the music is being discussed in jazz circles but would audiences have ever known of bossa nova if not for Charlie Byrd? The sessions for Jazz Samba were arranged only after…
Two names spring to mind upon hearing the words jazz and samba, namely those of Stan Getz and João Gilberto. But really one should be thinking of Antonio Carlos Jobim, who, with his composition from 1958 Chega de saudade, first created the type of Brazilian samba that is known today as bossa nova. It was with one of…
Two names spring to mind upon hearing the words jazz and samba, namely those of Stan Getz and João Gilberto. But really one should be thinking of Antonio Carlos Jobim, who, with his composition from 1958 Chega de saudade, first created the type of Brazilian samba that is known today as bossa nova. It was with one of…
Blue Note Records has announced the continuation of the Classic Vinyl Reissue Series which presents 180g vinyl LP reissues in standard packaging mastered by Kevin Gray and manufactured at Optimal. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes. While the first 16 titles of…
Though it wouldn t first be released until 1980 as part of the LT Series, Stanley Turrentine s Mr. Natural is a standout recording in the soulful tenor saxophonist s immense 1960s Blue Note catalog. Turrentine had already led 12 dates for the label from his hard bop debut Look Out! in 1960 to the soul jazz workout Hustlin  recorded…
All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Stanley Turrentine s Rough N Tumble Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters Joe Harley Stanley Turrentine s 1966 soul jazz classic Rough ‘N Tumble finds a deep and bluesy groove that doesn t let up from start to…