Mastered from the Original Tapes by Longtime Who Engineer Jon Astley and Cut at Half-Speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios! By early 1968, The Who had been a prominent part of British pop culture for three years. Their reputation as a live force, and Pete Townshend s growing ambition as a writer, was taking them…
The previously unreleased 14-track collection Miss Kitty s Lounge was recorded in John Keane s Studio in Athens, GA during the demo tracking session in the winter of 1990. It features the original five (John Bell, Michael Houser, Todd Nance, Dave Schools, and Domingo Ortiz) plus John Keane on guitars, Page McConnell on organ, and Randal Bramblett…
De Doden Hebben het Goed is WIEGEDOOD s debut album, but we can hardly call this a debuting band. The band members have already proven their worth in other acts like Amenra, Oathbreaker, Hessian, Rise and Fall… This is surely an interesting gathering of musicians that immediately raises high expectations. And they deliver. Big time….
As the world circles the abyss at gathering speed, WIEGEDOOD have returned to provide a perfectly vicious soundtrack. Formed in 2014, the Belgian trio have built an unassailable reputation as purveyors of visceral and bleak black metal in its purest and most destructive form. Since unveiling their debut album “De Doden Hebben Het Goed” in…
Wiki has become a fixture of New York City hip hop since, at 17 years old, he founded the boundary defying group Ratking, whose aggressive style represented a new generation of city kids and artists, hungry for innovation and raw energy. Half God is produced entirely by Navy Blue, one of the most refreshing young,…
Cruel Country, Wilco s twelfth studio album, is comprised of 21 country music inspired tracks, recorded at the band s Chicago studio, The Loft. Jeff Tweedy commented on the concept and recording process of Cruel Country: There have been elements of country music in everything we ve ever done. We ve never been particularly comfortable with…
2019 release, the 11th studio album from pioneering Chicago-based alt-rock Americana band Wilco. The album features 11 songs written and produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded by Wilco at the bands own Chicago studio dubbed The Loft. The album is the follow-up to their 2016 album Schmilco and their self-imposed short hiatus. The album s…
Cruel Country, Wilco s twelfth studio album, is comprised of 21 country music inspired tracks, recorded at the band s Chicago studio, The Loft. Jeff Tweedy commented on the concept and recording process of Cruel Country: There have been elements of country music in everything we ve ever done. We ve never been particularly comfortable with…
Animal Records – founded by Chris Stein of Blondie fame – only ever released one album in it s brief early-80s history, but what an album that was. Wild Style remains the most seminal soundtrack in hip-hop history, a snapshot of the scene as it evolved from the streets to the recording studio. But it…
Time is…Time and duration are core themes in the work of both William Basinski and Janek Schaefer, and this long-distance collaboration took a suitably long gestation of seven years from start to finish. The completed work exhibits those strands of time eloquently and exquisitely.Limitation breeds creativity, being an expression of minimalism and focus. Deploying a…
1970 was a time for heady experimentation in popular music, but very few records—and even fewer on major labels—come close to matching the stylistic ground covered by William S. Fischer’s album Circles. African-American composer arranger keyboardist saxophonist Fischer grew up woodshedding with the likes of Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, and Percy Mayfield…and then…
Legendary star of the stage and screen, William Shatner, brings his dramatic interpretive talents to the blues music canon on this superb new album! The 13-track collection features guest appearances by blues giants Sonny Landreth, Canned Heat and Tyler Bryant plus country superstar Brad Paisley, Deep Purple s Ritchie Blackmore and many more! The lead single finds Shatner teaming up with the current…