The All Seeing Eye is Wayne Shorter s brilliant and multi-layered album for Blue Note. His goal was to use a wider range of colors and textures while continuing his explorations of life and the universe and God. Joining Shorter are Freddie Hubbard, Grachan Moncur III, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers, and…
This live album (released on vinyl for the first time) is made up of 3 European dates in 2001 and introduced Shorter’s “Footprint Quartet” – pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. All are in top form, especially on challenging reimaginations of the title track and “Masquelero,” both from his time with…
Vinyl LP pressing. We Are The Union is a band with many homes, but is currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Drawing heavily on ska, pop, and punk rock, the band s 2021 full length, Ordinary Life, balances soul crushing lyrics about dysphoria and heartbreak with endless hooks and furiously catchy choruses. The album, which…
Vinyl LP pressing. The Wedding Present recorded a full acoustic and stripped back album during the lock down from COVID-19 featuring classic Wedding Present hits and deep cuts and new tracks like We Should Be Together which is a duet with Louise Wenner of the Britpop band Sleeper. 12 tracks in all included My Favourite…
Cape Fear s own WEEDEATER are like no other heavy band. With a style and presence that is unfiltered, unrefined, and unruly, the notorious North Carolina trio have burned through the heavy rock underground for over fifteen years. Now, WEEDEATER and Season of Mist bring you Sixteen Tons , a reissue of their second brick…
The Weeknd delivers Dawn FM, the hotly-anticipated follow-up to 2020 s widely-acclaimed After Hours. The new album serves as his fifth in addition to three mixtapes released in 2011. A video trailer introduces Dawn FM as A new sonic universe from the mind of The Weeknd and namedrops Jim Carrey, Quincy Jones, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne and Oneohtrix Point…
Academy Award-nominated, 2x Grammy Award-winning, and 9x JUNO Award-winning alternative R&B artist The Weeknd s third studio album Starboy has finally arrived! The highly anticipated follow-up to his triple platinum 2015 release Beauty Behind the Madness captured the No. 1 spot in a staggering 90 countries and debuted atop the Billboard 200. The 18-track double album features four songs that have…
The Weeknd s greatest hits collection The Highlights includes such career-spanning favorites as 2015 s Can t Feel My Face and The Hills, 2018 s Call Out My Name, as well as more recent hits like Blinding Lights and Heartless. The album also features many of the artist s collaborative singles – including I Feel It Coming with…
The first live album from Ween released in 1999 by Elektra Records was a career retrospective (up to that point) comprised of recordings dating back to the bands very first duo shows up to their theater tour in support of The Mollusk, including an infamous 26 minute version of Poop Ship Destroyer . This colored 3LP-set…
Weezer doesn t look like rock stars, its amusing name doesn t evoke stadium-heights glories, and the group s lyrics don t exude confidence or flash. For precisely these reasons, and the fact that the band s songs on their Ric Ocasek-produced 1994 self-titled debut are the stuff of air-guitar dreams and shout-it-out choruses, the…
Weezer s second self-titled album (2001) and third overall, collectively known as the Green Album, nearly never came to pass. The band had all but broken apart, with leader Rivers Cuomo choosing to go back to college and the other members dismayed at the initial reception to 1996 s Pinkerton. Persuaded at the turn of the century to return…
First of Two Planned 2021 Releases Finds Band Working with 39-Piece Orchestra and Drawing Influence from Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Harry Nilsson s Nilsson Sings Newman! Weezer follow-up 2019 s Weezer aka The Black Album with their fourteenth studio album, OK Human (a nod to Radiohead‘s OK Computer), the first of two planned 2021 releases. It finds the Los Angeles quartet working…
Few records claim as bizarre a history as Weezer s Pinkerton. Upon release in 1996, the band s sophomore effort failed to meet sales expectations, lacked a hit single, and drew primarily negative reviews from the press. Then, via word of mouth and reevaluation, the album began to build a reputation as an initially misunderstood masterwork –…
Weezer present one of their most exciting projects to date: SZNZ, a four EP song cycle of sorts. Already mythical across the internet, SZNZ will, fittingly, be released at the start of every season. Each EP will offer its own palette of colors, creatures, and emotions to explore. They re also being created in real time, made in…
Second of Four Vivaldi-Inspired EPs Weezer present one of their most exciting projects to date: SZNZ, a four EP song cycle of sorts. Already mythical across the internet, SZNZ will, fittingly, be released at the start of every season. Each EP will offer its own palette of colors, creatures, and emotions to explore. They re also being created…
WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story stars Daniel Radcliffe as “Weird” Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex…