The best music reflects a wide-screen view of the world back at us, helping distill the universal into something far more personal. Since forming in Austin in 2004, The Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock that does exactly that, which is one of many reasons why the group’s new album, Wilderness of Mirrors,…
The vinyl version includes alternate versions of Heavy Soul, She Said She Said. Rawboned blues duo the Black Keys hail from Akron, Ohio, but a listen to The Big Come Up suggests the Keys may have been raised by Mississippi ridge-runners. While Dan Auerbach s overdriven ax is powered by the same internal-combustion engine that…
The Black Keys’ new album, Turn Blue, will be released May 2014 on Nonesuch Records. Produced by Danger Mouse, Dan Auerbach, and Patrick Carney, Turn Blue features 11 new tracks, including the first single, “Fever.” Turn Blue was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood during the summer of 2013 with additional recording done at the Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI and Auerbach’s Easy Eye…
On I Shall Die Here, The Body sonically serrates the remains of metal s already unidentifiable corpse and splays it amid tormented voices in shadow. Sharing their heathen vision with The Haxan Cloak, The Body s tried, true, and absorbingly tragic sound is mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state. This double LP…
The Body and BIG|BRAVE are both bands possessed with an unequaled ability to convey overwhelming weight with simplicity, repetition, and detailed sonic atmospheres; artists who continue to alter the definition of what it means to be a heavy band. The Body are consistently prolific while increasingly ambitious as untethered producers and collaborators. BIG|BRAVE shape sound…
In 2009 The Bouncing Souls celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band by releasing a new song on the first of each month throughout the year, via digital download. They also pressed these songs onto a series of 7 vinyl records which they sold everywhere they went during a year-long tour. Here finally, they ve…
In October, The Breeders announced their return to 4AD, along with a new album, All Nerve, released this Spring. We are also happy be reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl. Pod is the bands 1990 debut and is continually ranked as one of the best albums of the 90s. Recorded by Steve Albini in…
In October, The Breeders announced their return to 4AD, along with a new album, All Nerve, released this Spring. We are also happy be reissuing their previous four albums on vinyl. Pod is the bands 1990 debut and is continually ranked as one of the best albums of the 90s. Recorded by Steve Albini in…
Legendary British producer Kevin Martin is back with his first new full-length album under The Bug moniker in seven years. “Fire”, the third album to his urban triptych (“London Zoo” & “Angels & Devils”) will be released on Ninja Tune in August 2021.
The Bug aka Kevin Martin, and vocalist Dis Fig aka Felicia Chen, refer to their style on ‘In Blue’ as “Tunnel Sound”; a foggy, melancholic meltdown of narco-dancehall-soul and dread-drenched, electronic dub. The rhythms continue Martin’s ongoing quest for a futuristic dancehall mutation, but more sci-fi, aquatic and smokey than before. An obsessive search for…
The ringing sound of the Byrds – a band that created at least three rock n roll genres (folk-rock, raga-rock and country-rock) would make any red-blooded music fan reach for the nearest tambourine to beat the jingle-jangle daylights out of it. Sanctuary collects all of the best rarities, alternate takes and 45-only sides into one…
Limited 180gm clear violet colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Celebrate the Byrds 1973 reunion album produced by David Crosby (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash). Remastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso (The Byrds Souther Hillman Furay) from the original Asylum Records tapes. Featured songs include: Gene Clark s Full…
Limited 180gm clear violet colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Celebrate the Byrds 1973 reunion album produced by David Crosby (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash). Remastered impeccably by Joe Reagoso (The Byrds Souther Hillman Furay) from the original Asylum Records tapes. Featured songs include: Gene Clark s Full…
For the follow-up to their eponymous debut, The Cars teamed up once again with producer Roy Thomas Baker (Queen) to record Candy-O. The album was released in the summer of 1979 and became a huge hit, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard Album Chart and eventually earning quadruple-platinum certification in the U.S. One of its singles, Let s Go,…
Newly Remastered and Expanded Version featuring Original Album Plus Rare and Unreleased Recordings; Music on 3 Sides with Etching on the 4th Following the massive success of The Cars multi-platinum debut in 1978, the band kept its platinum-album streak rolling with Candy-O and Panorama, releases that include memorable hits like Let s Go, It s All I Can Do…