Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones On 180g Vinyl LP Special Edition Vinyl Reissue from the Island Records Vault! Though Tom Waits had spent most of the 70s establishing himself as one of America s most distinctive singer-songwriters, Swordfishtrombones found him reinventing himself and creating one of the most original sounds in popular music. Leaving behind his Kerouac-influenced lyrics and lounge-lizard piano-bar stylings for…
An infectious blend of funky blues, gritty soul and hard-driving house rockers, plus a jam-packed schedule of red-hot live performances, have made Tommy Castro one of the most beloved artists in roots music. Stompin Ground features a dozen irresistible tracks split between fresh Castro originals and revitalized versions of songs that inspired Tommy when he…
***Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving microtonal tunings and re-arranged re-tuned fragments of American church music. In another time, Tongue DepressorÕs ethereal tunings set into motion an unstable…
Originally released in 2005 by Blackground Records, Libra is the sixth studio album by R&B superstar Toni Braxton, and marks her first release with the label. The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold shortly after its release. Featuring the Scott Storch produced single, Please,  Libra served as a well-received return to form…
TONY ALLEN JID019 With each subsequent release, Jazz Is Dead continues to exalt the legacies of iconic musicians who have shaped the fabric of Jazz across generations, genres, and continents. For their latest installment, the label connected with the late great Tony Allen, best known for his foundational work as the drummer for Fela Kuti…
Originally released in July 1987 on Dangerous Music, Born To Mack served as West Coast hip-hop pioneer Too $hort s fourth studio album overall. It also became his first major label offering when it was re-released in 1988 on Jive Records. Out of print on vinyl since 2015, this West Coast classic contains the 9+ minute track…
A pioneer of hardcore rap music, one can t talk about the West Coast hip-hop scene without mentioning Todd Anthony Shaw, better known by the stage name Too $hort. A veteran of the genre, Too $hort s discography is one filled with tracks about pimping, drug use, promiscuity, and unapologetically explicit language. His 1985 record Don t Stop Rappin  is…
One of the era s most highly-anticipated albums, Tool s fifth LP Fear Inoculum originally arrived in August 2019 and debuted at No. 1 on Billboard s Top 200 amidst heaps of critical praise with NPR proclaiming that, Fear Inoculum was worth the 13 year wait,  Revolver hailing it as a masterpiece to be dissected for years to come and Consequence of Sound writing…
Vinyl 2LP Reissue Remastered at Half-Speed for Superior Quality! Commanding a significant and uniquely loyal audience from the rock, pop, alternative, and under-the-radar regions of the music world, Tori Amos has influenced generations of artists in a myriad of platforms. Originally issued on Atlantic in 1994, Amos extraordinary second album Under The Pink finds the eclectic singer songwriter migrating…
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…
The product of a move from South Carolina to Berkeley, CA and the subsequent extended separation from loved ones, Toro y Moi s third full-length, Anything in Return, puts Chaz Bundick right in the middle of the producer songwriter dichotomy that his first two albums established. The producer s hand is prominent–not least in the…
Torture Rack exists for one reason, to pulverize skulls and grind bones through bludgeoning gore-soaked Death Metal depravity. New album ‘Primeval Onslaught’ continues that bloodstained legacy, witnessed previously on ‘Barbaric Persecution’ and ‘Malefic Humiliation’ with a barrage of meat-torn-from-bone riffs and greased-flesh savagery. Death Metal for degenerates and desecrators might be the proper way to…
For Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, the idea of rebirth is a creative driving force – an artistic device which not only informs their work, but anchors it. As the avant-garde electronic group Tosca, the two artists have lived many musical lives, from their early electronic experiments with tape decks to the blissed-out dub compositions…
Revamped, revised and reissued – the notorious 1999 studio album from Los Angeles street punk legends, Total Chaos! The audio has been digitally remastered and edited to sharpen the album’s sonic impact, which even today hits with full force! All new artwork to commemorate this important release! First ever vinyl pressing!
The combination of all their previous work and a steady live band has come together to form the great Henge Beat LP. These guys have outdone themselves with this one. Musically it rests somewhere between late 70s UK new wave a-la Ha Ha Ha-era Ultravox and the now sound Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Aussie garage…
Little Butterfly Records present a reissue of the second album by Totem, Descarga, originally released in 1972 and one of the most important bands in Uruguay s musical history. The Spanish word descarga in a literal sense can refer to several things: lighten charge (material or emotional), make a violent blow, fire a firearm, receive an electric…