Arguably the Smiths masterpiece, 1986 s The Queen Is Dead features the elegance, craftsmanship and humor which has led the band to musical eminence. Johnny Marr s dense web of guitars create a rich musical foundation here for some of Morrissey s most affecting set of lyrics. The wistful The Boy With the Thorn in His Side…
Home to the singles Girlfriend in a Coma, I Started Something I Couldn t Finish, Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me and Stop Me If You Think You ve Heard This One Before, 1987 s Strangeways, Here We Come (named in reference to Manchester s notorious prison) served as the fourth and final studio album…
With synthesizers and mind-numbing excess on the rise, The Smiths took the road less traveled, challenging listeners with outspoken lyrics and taunting guitars. With their eponymous 1984 debut, The Smiths began their tenure as the definitive British indie rock band as well as the torchbearers of a new musical era. Johnny Marr s inventive songwriting…
Continuing rarities unreleased of The Specials and Jerry Dammers on 10 singles for RSD. This new release contains two previously unreleased Work In Progress Demos tracks from 1980 81. The first being a rehearsal version of ‘Friday Night, Saturday Morning’ and on the flip side an early version of ‘I Can’t Stand It’ recordedby Jerry…
Inspired by the psychological effects of modern life and their direct personal experiences, The Steoples are back with their second album for Stones Throw, Wide Through the Eyes of No One. Drawing on an eclectic range of sounds from Latin rhythms to 80’s soul and sombre tones of folk fused with R&B, Wide Through the…
Long before the raw power of punk icon Iggy Pop became legend, his first incarnation as Iggy Stooge of proto-punk trailblazers The Stooges roared into being. The essence of punk years before the genre existed, The Stooges furious music was a howling, visceral, fuzztone-drenched, and unprecedented vortex of sound. Their bracing sophomore release, Fun House portrayed their evolution into a fiercer,…
Is This It, the debut from the Strokes, kickstarted a garage-rock revolution that defined American music from 2001 through 2005. Featuring taut rhythms, frentic tempos, scruffy grooves, melodic hooks, cool-toned vocals, choppy riffs, backstreet attitude, and twitchy arrangements that equally reference Motown, American punk, new wave, and funk, the album is a watershed document that takes off…
On The Clearing, Tone repurposes motifs from sci-fi to convey the workings of the mind. He explains: “When I allude to ‘space’, I am referring to the mind or the imagination. When I mention ‘robots’, I am referring to the way human beings are programmed based on conformity to their perception of social norms”. Tone…
The Used are back with their newest studio album, Toxic Positivity. When Bert McCracken says that the songs that comprise Toxic Positivity are some of the most sincere he has ever written, you know he doesn’t speak those words lightly. Indie Exclusive Picture Disc 2 LP. Limited Edition.
The Used are back with their newest studio album, Toxic Positivity. When Bert McCracken says that the songs that comprise Toxic Positivity are some of the most sincere he has ever written, you know he doesn t speak those words lightly. 2 LP set on standard black vinyl in a gatefold jacket.
Following three highly stylized Andy Warhol-influenced releases on the Verve label, The Velvet Underground signed with Ahmet Ertegun s Atlantic subsidiary Cotillion Records for their fourth and official final full-length, Loaded, a tongue-in-cheek title not about drugs but the label s request that the band produce a record loaded with hits. Released shortly after founder and frontman…
After Hours is Grammy Award-winning, Diamond-certified R&B star The Weeknd s fourth studio album, issued four years after 2016 s Grammy nabbing Starboy. Over the course of his career, The Weeknd has collaborated with countless musicians, so it s surprising that After Hours is a solo affair on the guest features front. The only guests are producers, Oneohtrix Point Never, Max Martin, Metro Boomin and Tame…
Ever since he first appeared in 2011 with his three independent online offerings House of Balloons, Thursday, and Echoes of Silence, which subsequently turned into the chart-topping platinum-selling 2012 epic, Trilogy, Toronto alternative R&B mystic Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd has become one of the go-to voices in music. Everyone from Wiz Khalifa to Juicy J has enlisted his…
FIRST OFFICIAL WEIRDOS BOOTLEG! “Live! At The Club Azteca” documents the legendary show the WEIRDOS performed at the SoCa club one hot night of 1978. The set is presented in its entirety. The release is complete with photos taken on the actual night, shot by legendary photographer Dawn Wirth, and includes an insert with liner…
Named after the Dutch art movement and magazine of the same name from the early 20th century, the White Stripes sophomore release finds the band recording in the comfortable confines of Jack White s Third Man Studios, then housed on the ground floor of his house in Southwest Detroit. This is the album that would…