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30 JUNE 09
CDs:
+Ace Hood - Ruthless CD (We The Best)
New release from the Florida rapper features guest appearances from Jasmine Sullivan, The Dream, Ludacris, Rick Ross, Birdman and more.
+Bjork - Voltaic CD/CD+DVD/2xCD+2xDVD Nonesuch)
Voltaic is a remarkable, multi-media document of what happened after Volta was completed -- a journey of a different sort as the ever-evolving singer assembled her live band, made a collection of typically amazing videos and one-step-ahead remixes, and toured the world. She recorded the Voltaic live CD in one take at Olympic Studio in London. It's a stunning performance, featuring cutting-edge computer technology, an old-school horn section and a female, flag-toting Icelandic choir. Deluxe version includes the Voltiac live CD plus a DVD featuring 21 songs performed on the Volta tour. Super deluxe 2xCD+2xDVD version features live recordings, remixes, videos and much more.
+Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 2xCD/2xLP (Sanctuary)
Digitally remastered and expanded edition includes a bonus disc containing nine previously unreleased tracks.
+Carcass - Wake Up And Smell The Carcass CD+DVD (Earache)
17 rarities from different eras of the band's career, including five extras from the Swansong period, Radio One Session tracks and rare EP cuts. The accompanying DVD contains two complete live sets taking in 17 classics from the period 1989-1992. The DVD also comes with the band's five promo videos.
+Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom Redux CD+DVD (Earache)
Special Redux Edition includes a DVD featuring over and hour and a half of their set in London in July 2008.
+Matt Duke - Acoustic Kingdom Underground CDEP (Rykodisc)
Singer/songwriter Matt Duke released the full-length
Kingdom Underground in September 2008. It contained a thoroughly engaging collection of intelligent, literate folk-based pop songs that exude a unique playfulness while tackling some often-weighty topics. Acoustic Kingdom Underground is the companion piece to Kingdom Underground, and showcases more intimate performances of the album’s standout tracks.
+Guru Guru - Tango Fango CD (Revisited Records)
Remastered digipak reissue includes new liner notes.
+Levon Helm - Electric Dirt CD/LP (Vanguard)
Electric Dirt again finds Levon steeped in tradition in his connection to the land and those who live by it, but this record goes deeper and wider, incorporating gospel, blues and soul elements in a bracing collection of originals and carefully chosen outside songs.
+Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane: The Woodstock Experience 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Lavishly packaged double disc set combines Jefferson Airplane’s 1969 album
Volunteers with their entire Woodstock performance.
+Jeremih - Jeremih CD (Def Jam)
Growing up on Chicago's infamous Southside is the 21 year-old behind the nationwide hit “Birthday Sex.” He is a singer, songwriter, producer, and musician able to play multiple instruments including the saxophone, percussion, keys and quads.

+Janis Joplin
- Janis Joplin: The Woodstock Experience 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Lavishly packaged double disc set combines Joplin’s 1969 album
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama with her complete Woodstock performance.
+Killing Joke - Gathering 2008 Part 1 2xCD (Candlelight)
+Killing Joke - Gathering 2008 Part 2 2xCD (Candlelight)
+Killing Joke - Gathering 2008 4xCD (Candlelight)
The Gathering 2008 saw the original Killing Joke line up play live in London at two historic sold out concerts for the first time since 1982. Available as two separate double disc volumes, or as a limited edition collector’s box set.
+Cledus T. Judd - Polyrically Uncorrect CD (Koch)
The country funnyman is back with his first new project in four years.
+Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage CD/CD+DVD (Roadrunner)
Brand new album. Special edition CD+DVD contains four bonus tracks and a 30-minute “behind the scenes” documentary and deluxe packaging.
+David Lynch - David Lynch Presents Fox Bat Strategy: A Tribute To Dave Jaurequi CDEP (David Lynch Music)
A long-time pet project of film director David Lynch.
Fox Bat Strategy features a cast of musicians who began collaborating with Lynch surrounding the filming of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The same line-up of players appeared on Fire Walk With Me's two roadhouse cuts: ''The Pink Room'' and ''Blue Frank'' (as well as made cameos in the film itself). In 1994, these same musicians, with an invitation from Lynch, re-entered the studio for experimental collaboration. What emerged were these six tracks. For nearly fifteen years these songs have remained unreleased and unheard, slow cooking in the ether of time, all the while retaining a uniquely modern sensibility. This release is a tribute to the album's late singer and guitarist Dave Jaurequi, who passed away suddenly in 2006.
+Albert King With Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session CD (Stax)
Deluxe reissue of the famed in-concert 1983 jam session -- the only known recording of Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan performing together.
+Moby - Wait For Me CD/LP+MP3 (Mute)
Wait For Me is a radical departure from Moby's recent albums. Liberated from the pressures of trying to please himself at the same time as the industry, Moby decided to forego the expensive studios, state-of-the-art equipment, big name guest artists, and phalanxes of graphic designers and image consultants that have characterized some of his previous albums. "There's something so relaxing about doing everything yourself, and not trying to second-guess the market," Moby says. "It's nice to try to do things for the right reasons -- just make a record because you want to make a record."
+Obituary - Darkest Day CD (Candlelight)
New album from the veteran death metal band.
+Santana - Santana: The Woodstock Experience 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Lavishly packaged double disc set combines Santana’s self-titled 1969 album with his complete Woodstock performance.
+Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Lavishly packaged double disc set combines Sly & The Family Stone’s 1969 album
Stand! with their complete Woodstock performance.
+Suicide Silence - No Time To Bleed CD/CD+DVD/LP (Century Media)
Sophomore album from the American deathcore metal band. Limited CD+DVD “Maximum Bloodshed” box set edition includes a bonus track (“Misleading Milligrams”), a bonus DVD featuring behind the scenes footage, a poster and collector cards.
+Tanya Tucker - My Turn CD (Time/Life)
On her new album, Tanya Tucker takes classic country songs originally recorded by male country
legends and turns the tables, giving classics by George Jones, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty and Eddy Arnold a powerful spin from a woman's point of view. Guest artists include The Grascals, Jim Lauderdale and bluegrass stars Rhonda and Darrin Vincent, with producer Anderson playing guitar on every track.
+Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry 2xCD (Atlantic)
Rhino's 25th Anniversary Edition combines the newly remastered, nine-track album with an additional disc featuring 15 previously unreleased outtakes and demos from the original sessions plus a new track.
+Various Artists - Reggae Gold 2009 CD+DVD (VP)
An assortment of top artists and hits including Estelle featuring Sean Paul on the international smash “Come Over,” as well as tracks by Beres Hammond, Tarrus Riley, Queen Ifrica, T.O.K. and Serani's massive radio hit, “No Games.”
+Wilco - Wilco (The Album) CD/2xLP+CD (Nonesuch)
Wilco’s seventh album combines the intimacy of its previous studio disc,
Sky Blue Sky, with the experimentation of A Ghost Is Born in a set that boasts strong melodies and gorgeous, often unabashedly pop arrangements.
+Willie Isz - Georgiavania CD/LP (Lex)
Acclaimed producer, lyricist and singer Jneiro Jarel teams up with Goodie Mob’s Khujo Goodie.
+Johnny Winter - The Woodstock Experience 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
Lavishly packaged double disc set combines Winter’s self-titled 1969 album with his complete Woodstock performance.
+Johnny Winter - Live Bootleg Series Vol. 5 CD (Friday Music)
For the fifth volume in the acclaimed
Live Bootleg Series, Johnny digs back into his archives for some very super rare performances “Lights Out,” “Rock And Roll Hoochie Coo,” “You Keep Sayin' That You're Leavin'” and others.
+Wu-Tang - Chamber Music CD (Koch)
Chamber Music's throwback sound features a combination of live instrumentation and new RZA beats shaped in a classic old-school soul type of vibe, reminiscent of the group's classic 36 Chambers sound but with a completely updated, modern twist. Includes newly recorded verses from every key member of the group, plus affiliates Cappadonna, Killah Priest, Street Life and more.

DVDs:
+Ted Nugent - Motor City Mayhem DVD/CD (Eaglerock)
July 4, 2008 was a landmark night at the DTE Energy Music Centre in the 41-year touring career of Detroit's own Ted Nugent, as he performed his 6,000th show to a raucous hometown crowd of 20,000 plus fans. Also available as a separate audio CD.
+RiP! A Remix Manifesto - DVD (Disinformation)
In
RiP! A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film’s central protagonist is mash-up phenom Girl Talk. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister Of Culture Gilberto Gil, and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.
+Rob Thomas - Something To Be Tour: Live At Red Rocks DVD (E1 Entertainment)
Featuring the multi-platinum recording artist performing 18 hits from his solo career and Matchbox Twenty, this incredible set also includes a special acoustic arrangement of “Smooth” and a cover of the David Bowie classic “Let’s Dance.”

Vinyl:
+Dead Weather
- Hang You From The Heavens 7” (Third Man)
B-side is a cover of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”
+Pete Yorn - Back & Fourth LP (Columbia)
Now available on vinyl.


23 JUNE 09
CDs:
+Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO
- Dark Side Of The Black Moon: What Planet Are We On? CD/2xLP (Important)
More proggy psych from Acid Mothers Temple -- mixes Pink Floyd with fuzzy wah guitars and cosmic sounds. Double LP includes an exclusive bonus D-side track.
+Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Card CD (Vagrant)
Alexisonfire’s first album in three years.
Old Crows / Young Card is filled with anger, beauty, and pop.
+Amazing Baby - Rewild CD/LP+MP3 (Artist First)
Rewild is a collection of songs self-produced with limitless imagination. Their brand of catchy, intelligent indie rock/pop made waves at this year’s SXSW. HQ-180 vinyl includes an MP3 download and bonus track.
+Astra - The Weirding CD (Metal Blade)
San Diego’s cosmic masters are riding at the forefront of the new wave of psychedelic prog.
+The Bats - The Guilty Office CD (Hidden Agenda)
For their seventh studio album, The Bats continue to refine and develop their own idiosyncratic path, whilst also adding fresh sparkle and new ideas.

+Bergraven
- Till Makabert Vasen CD (Hydra Head)
On
Till Makabert Vasen, Par perfected his already unique rendering of Nordic chants and vehement growls.
+Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue CD/2xLP (Warp)
Focusing on location recording using cassettes, a half-broken sampler, dictaphones, and experimental ways of affecting sounds, Bibio has crafted a unequalled style that is as subtle as it is powerful.
+Bird Names - Sing The Browns CD (Upset The Rhythm)
Psyche-pop troupe's fifth album. A moody pop album scribbled in loose, intuitive musicianship, kissed with love and friendship. Folk in its frankness, privacy and melancholy; psychedelic in its conjuring the displacement of drug experience; pop in its melody, stickiness and demand of obsessive listening.
+Birds Of Avalon - Uncanny Valley CD (Volcom)
Their second full-length. Raleigh, NC's Birds Of Avalon have toured with Raconteurs, The Flaming Lips, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, The F**king Champs, Big Business, Oneida, Mudhoney, Valient Thorr, Destroyer, Federation X, The Hold Steady, and Drunk Horse, to name a few.
+Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star CD (DFA)
The latest project by longtime DFA alumni Gavin Russom is inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America's Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock.
+Tom Brosseau - Posthumous Success CD (Fatcat)
His third full-length for Fatcat marks a huge stylistic shift from the spare, acoustic arrangements of his previous releases. A buoyant, well-crafted, and sprawlingly lovely album. ''Brosseau combines Buckley's swoony delicacy with Nick Drake's restraint, in the service of a singular songwriting voice.'' -- NPR
+Kendel Carson - Alright Dynamite CD (Train Wreck)
Kendel Carson returns with an explosive new album. The 24 year-old singer/fiddler burst onto the scene in 2007 with the widely acclaimed
Rearview Mirror Tears which hit the Top 10 on the Americana Chart.
+Richard Cheese - Viva La Vodka CD (Coverage)
America's loudest lounge singer performs swingin' Vegas versions of rock, rap, and Top 40 hits, ''swankifying'' contemporary songs into traditional pop vocal standards.
+Cliks - Dirty Kings CD (Tommy Boy)
Toronto's Cliks have dredged the emotional mire of a hectic past two years to create this, their second record.
+Codes In The Clouds - Paper Canyon CD (Erased Tapes)
Debut full-length release from the cinematic post-rock pop quintet.
+Darkest Hour - Eternal Return CD (Victory)
Epic and furious metal written by metal-heads for metal-heads.
+Dead Prez & DJ Green Lantern - Pulse Of The People CD (Invasion)
Stic.man and M-1, the revolutionary duo that comprise Dead Prez, combine forces with DJ Green Lantern for
Pulse Of The People.
+Dear Hunter - Act III: Life And Death CD (Triple Crown)
Set in a WWI era,
Act III: Life And Death documents the metamorphosis of a fictional central character as he makes the transition from innocence to impurity.
+Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day CD/LP+MP3 (Partisan)
Unlike
War Elephant, Born On Flag Day features the three new members of Deer Tick that principal songwriter John J. McCauley III recruited to form the current incarnation, and reflects a natural evolution from a singular vision of one songwriter to something greater.
+Def Leppard - Adrenalize 2xCD (Island/Mercury)
Remastered deluxe edition includes a bonus disc with rare, live, acoustic and demo versions.
+Def Leppard - Pyromania 2xCD (Island/Mercury)
Remastered deluxe edition includes a bonus disc of a previously unreleased show from the L.A. Forum in '83.
+Dial - Dial CDEP (Robotic Empire)
This austere New Zealand outfit successfully channels the darkest corners of the AmRep catalog, the raw ferocity of classic hardcore, the off-time kilter of math-rock, and the concept that music can actually be dangerous.
+Dinosaur Jr. - Farm CD/2xCD2xLP+MP3 (Jagjaguwar)
Their fifth full-length with the original lineup. At times wholly ‘70s guitar-epic, at times perfect for sitting by a babbling brook with Joni and Neil,
Farm encompasses Dinosaur Jr.'s signature palette, soaring and distorted guitar, unshakable hooks, and honey-rich melodies. Deluxe 2xCD version features a bonus disc containing four non-album tracks. Double LP comes in beautiful litho-wrapped gatefold jackets and includes MP3 download.
+Dogr - In Korean Wilds And Villages CD (Sonig)
The debut album by Dogr, a young New-York-based conceptual artist/instrumentalist/vocalist. Dogr explores unheard musical ideas and conducts webbed experiments, not only for the sake of discovering and exploiting a great art, but to speak in a clear and beautiful language, accurate in its contraction and original in its musical quality. Produced by Mouse On Mars’ Andi Toma.
+Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings CD/3xCD/LP (Roadrunner)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings -- produced by band members Mike Portnoy and John Petrucci, who also serve as the group's main lyricists -- offers a vibrant manifestation of the world-class musicianship, vivid lyrical scenarios and ambitious, multi-leveled compositions that have established Dream Theater as a uniquely compelling creative force. Special Edition version adds a second CD containing six cover songs, as well as a third CD of instrumental mixes of the entire Black Clouds & Silver Linings album.
+Envy/Jesu - Split CD (Hydra Head)
Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Envy's three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind Justin K. Broadrick wrote, recorded, mixed, and produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January - May 2008.
+Falty DL - Love Is A Liability CD/2xLP (Planet Mu)
This New Yorker is no stranger to making music, with releases on Napalm Enema and Ramp Records, and his signature style is drawing attention from plays on Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 show.
Love Is A Liability is comprised of post-garage ambience, round, warm melodies, and disjointed two-step beats.
+Fenn O’Berg -Magic & Return 2xCD (Editions Mego)
Editions Mego (re)presents legendary supergroup Fenn O'Berg (Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg) with this double CD reissue of
The Magic Sound Of Fenn O'Berg and The Return Of Fenn O'Berg, each originally released in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
+Foreign Born - Person To Person CD/LP (Secretly Canadian)
An album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songwriting contemporaries like Cass McCombs, James Mercer, and David Bowie. African high-life guitars are countered with new wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its palette open to most any influence, from U2 to The Feelies.
+Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another... CD/LP+MP3 (4AD)
The follow-up to their acclaimed 2008 debut
Curses is both melodically brutal and uncompromising in its lyrical bit. Features the single "The Hope That House Built" with its marching Queens Of The Stone Age-style riff.
+Ginuwine - A Man’s Thoughts CD (Notifi LLC)
The sixth album from the R&B vocalist, produced by The Underdogs, B Cox, Timberland, The Runners, Johnta Austin, Oak and Polow Da Don. Includes guest appearances from Brandy, Missy Elliott, Bun B and Timberland.
+Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God CD (Metal Blade)
Follow up to 2006's
A Haunting Curse features current and former members of Acid Bath, Soilent Green, Crowbar, and Nachtmystium.
+God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl CD/LP+MP3 (Matador)
After the success of Belle And Sebastian’s most recent album,
The Life Pursuit, band leader/singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch decided to pursue his dream of writing a rock musical scored for female singers. After auditioning vocalists via Internet contests, he made his choices and, with all members of Belle And Sebastian backing him up, recorded this breathtaking record. It combines the strengths of early Belle And Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, drawing equally on musicals, ‘60s girl groups, ‘80s indie, and classic pop.
+A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Délivrance CD/LP (Leaf)
Recorded in Budapest during mid-2008 around the core of the Hun Hangar Ensemble (a group of extraordinarily talented Hungarian folk musicians),
Délivrance proves that months of submersion in the local culture and making music the focus of daily life has seeped right through Barnes and Trost's songwriting and playing. A vivid, intense, and confident work.
+Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul (Deluxe Edition) CD (Stax)
Remastered 40th Anniversary Edition features two bonus tracks, new photographs and expanded liner notes by Jim James (My Morning Jacket).
+The Higher - It’s Only Natural CD (Epitaph)
If Justin Timberlake were a band, he'd be The Higher. With boy band good looks and unabashed pop sensibilities, The Higher have won a legion of fans with their unique take on emo, pop, and R&B colliding in a dance party explosion.
+Jedi Mind Tricks - Greatest Features CD (Babygrande)
Jedi's tattooed, gritty and enigmatic frontman Vinnie Paz has worked with a slew of the underground's best throughout his career. Now, for the first time, all of the tracks that Vinnie Paz has recorded outside of the Jedi Mind Tricks umbrella are collected in one place for the fans' listening pleasure. Featuring 7L & Esoteric, Guilty Simpson, Percee P, Apathy, ILL Bill, Outerspace, and many more.
+Jets Overhead - No Nations CD (Vapor)
Jets Overhead follows up its 2007 Juno nomination (Canadian Grammy equivalent) with an album that combines atmospheric moods with timeless songwriting. ''The band's lush, driving rock is the bristling, slightly psychedelic offspring of the likes of Radiohead and Pink Floyd.'' -- L.A. Times
+LANDy - Eros And Omissions CD (Nine Yards)
LANDy is occasionally famous actor/filmmaker/musician Adam Goldberg, plus Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips), Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart), a host of others, and often times, Goldberg very much alone. ''Adam's music is kind of the opposite of him in some ways, unguarded and fragile... And he's created a beautiful little world of sound. Oh, and this record is perfectly complemented with a bottle of bourbon.'' -- Steven Drozd
+Leadbelly/Sonny Terry/Brownie Meghee - American Blues Legends 2xCD (Varese Sarabande)
Original recording remastered. Double-disc set from these all-time legends of acoustic blues containing a set of tracks from Leadbelly on the first and a collection of tracks from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on the second.
+Timothy Leary - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out CD (ESP-Disk’ Ltd.)
Original recording remastered. The first-ever reissue of the original ESP-Disk' edition released in 1966.
+Lemonheads - Varshons CD (The End)
Lemonheads’ new album feels like a cool mix tape slipped to you by a music-obsessed friend. Produced by Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and featuring guest appearances by Liv Tyler and Kate Moss, the collection is filled with strange bedfellows, from G.G. Allin and Townes Van Zandt to Wire and Leonard Cohen.
+Loop - A Gilded Eternity 2xCD (Reactor)
The last in the Loop reissues series -- their final album, originally released in 1990. This two-disc set has been remastered from the original analog sources and includes extra material from the relevant timeframe.
+Lord Cut-Glass - Lord Cut-Glass CD (Chemikal Underground)
Sometimes bashful, occasionally imbued with curmudgeonly bluster, and yet always lifted by humorous life learned truisms, Lord Cut-Glass strikes a dashing figure of musically inventive bravado. Galloping percussion, waltzes and marches, promenades of male and female harmony, delicate and serene creations punctuated by casual profanity and shot through with brazenly hilarious words-to-the-wise.
+Love Is All - Last Choice CD/LP (What’s Your Rupture?)
Sweden's Love Is All are back with the ultimate tale of late night regret. ''Last Choice,'' the stand out track from their release ''A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night'', is backed with five all new recordings.
+Man - Revelation CD (Esoteric)
Originally released in 1969,
Revelation was the first album by Welsh rock legends, Man. A fabulous blend of psychedelia and acid rock, the set is now regarded as an early classic by the band. Featuring the French hit single “Erotica” and a loose concept inspired by the space race, this reissue features four bonus tracks including a previously unreleased extended take of “Erotica.”
+Bob Marley - B Is For Bob CD (Tuff Going)
Executively produced by Ziggy Marley,
B Is for Bob is a collection of original Bob Marley songs re-imagined for kids and fans of all ages.
+The Mars Volta - Octahedron CD (WB)
Their fifth studio album. Following 2008's
The Bedlam In Goliath, The Mars Volta's punkperverted neo-psychedelia goes acoustic on Octahedron. Says the band's Cedric Bixler Zavala: “There's electricity throughout it! But that's what our band does-celebrate mutations.”
+Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster - III CD (Ferret Music)
Surges forward with as much savage twang and fearsome melody to inspire the wrath of any just god. A barrage of crunch and stomp, a tirade of licks and rapid-fire snares. ''If Lynyrd Skynyrd had a hair up their butts and were more generally pissed off than Slayer, they'd sound a whole lot like Birmingham, AL’s Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster.'' -- L.A. City Beat
+Eugene McGuinness - Eugene McGinness CD+MP3 (Domino)
The North American debut of this young and gifted songwriter from Liverpool highlights his acidic sense of humor on twelve utterly charming pop tracks that skip between stylistic boundaries. The album veers from unabashed, starry-eyed romance to pre-coital forked-tongue come-ons via a sound that's cinematic yet endearingly ramshackle.
+John Mellencamp - Life Death Live And Freedom CD (Hear Music)
Live performances of key songs from Mellencamp's highly successful 2008 release
Life Death Love And Freedom. These live versions are presented here just as they were performed: no overdubs or studio enhancements of any kind were added.
+John Mellencamp -Life Death Love And Freedom 2xCD+DVD (Hear Music)
Deluxe Tour Edition reissue includes the original T Bone Burnett produced CD+DVD set plus the eight-song live companion CD,
Life Death Live And Freedom, recorded on his Summer 2008 tour.
+Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds V.6 CD (Important)
Sixth in the 13-month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien’s
Catalogue D’Oiseaux.
+David Moore - My Lover, My Stranger CD (Doghouse)
''(David Moore) reaches back beyond
Nebraska to the Springsteen of Born To Run and Darkness On The Edge Of Town to the parched and pleading soul of Wilson Pickett and Sam & Dave. It helps that he bears a muscular resemblance to the Boss, and that he's got the thematic skills to back it up.'' -- CMJ
+Mount Eerie - Dawn CD+Book (Buenaventura)
The music of Mount Eerie and The Microphones has always been a very personal, almost voyeuristic, view inside the mind of Phil Elverum.
Dawn is an archival core sample from an intensely creative period of Elverum’s life, the winter of 2002/2003 spent in arctic Norway, a kind of “lost album” finally properly recorded on just guitar and singing. Packaged with a 144-page hardcover book and 16 color photo cards, all bound in simulated “wood” paper.
+National Health - National Health CD (Esoteric)
+National Health - Of Queues & Cures CD (Esoteric)
Reissues of National Health’s late-‘70s albums. Evolving from Canterbury stylists Hatfield & The North, National Health featured the talents of Dave Stewart (Eurhythmics) on keyboards, John Greaves on bass, Pip Pyle on drums and Phil Miller on guitar along with guests such as Jimmy Hastings and Peter Blegvad.
+Native Window - Native Window CD/LP (Star City)
Not long ago, the members of Kansas found themselves in a bit of an uncertain situation. ''Three to four years ago, the main writers for Kansas -- Steve Walsh and Kerry Livgren -- stated that they would no longer be writing for the band Kansas,'' explains drummer Phil Ehart. ''That didn't mean that Kerry might not write a song or two for a special project, but that the two of them were done writing any album length material for Kansas. The four of us decided that we were not one yet, and Native Window was born to scratch that 'new material itch.'''

+Nurse With Wound - Spiral Insana CD (United Jnana)
Originally released in 1996,
Spiral Insana is more ambient and user-friendly than other NWW outings, but still surreal and avant-garde. Here, Stapleton and guests mix bowed piano, percussion, a radio, and loops together into an hour-long collage of mashed-up sounds, jarring juxtapositions, buzzsaw distorion, and even a pipe organ.
+Ohbijou - Beacons CD (Last Gang)
Born in the bedrooms of their family home in Ontario, bound with youthful frailty and unnerving beauty. Furnished with mandolin, violin, piano, banjo, cello and an impressive array of other instruments, Ohbijou is an orchestral pop tour de force.
+Brian Olive - Brian Olive CD/LP (Alive Records)
Brian Olive's name first came into the public eye as a founding guitarist/singer of the Greenhornes, and later as a member of the Soledad Brothers, for whom he provided saxophone and sundries under the pseudonym of Oliver Henry. Brian's self-titled debut is a breakout multicolored affair.
+Onna - Onna CDEP (Holy Mountain)
Reissue of this 1983 psychedelic punk single from Japanese artist Keizo Miyanish. ''Cortigiana Dal Velo'' and ''Mune O Tsutsunde'' pair acid guitar and bass over tripped out drum programming and loops to produce a psychedelic masterpiece that fits somewhere between the first White Stains seven-inch and Les Rallizes Denudes oeuvre circa 1980.
+Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers) - Murdering Oscar: And Other Love... CD/LP+CD (Ruth St.)
The second solo record from the leader of the Drive By Truckers. Most of his DBT band mates join him, along with Don Chambers, Will Johnson, and Scott Danbom from Centro-matic.
+Phenomenal Handclap Band - Phenomenal Handclap Band CD (Friendly Fire)
A sound that is equal parts anthemic, dancefloor-oriented and orchestral, borrowing elements from progressive rock, disco, electro, and psychedelia.
+PRE - Hope Freaks CD/LP (Skin Graft)
The second album from London’s new school, no-wave naughties PRE. Recorded in Chicago with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and mastered by Weasel Walter in San Francisco,
Hope Freaks is a power vault up from the acclaimed newborn gnarl of their debut, Epic Fits.
+Push-Pull - Between Noise And The Indians CD (Joyful Noise)
This Bloomington, IN band's sound lies somewhere in between highbrow prog and lowbrow, PBR-soaked basement punk. With
Between Noise And The Indians, it seems the trio have sharpened their wit and crafted their musical skills into something unique and undeniably important.
+Masha Qrella - Speak Low - Loewe And Weill In Exile CD (Morr Music)
In October 2007, indie-pop chanteuse Masha Qrella (Contriva, Mina, Nmfarner) was asked by Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House Of World Cultures) to put together an evening's performance as part of the ''New York-Berlin'' celebrations to mark the venue's 50th anniversary. Under the heading Broadway - Cradle Of Popular Music, the challenge was to work with and find new approaches to the compositions of Kurt Weill and Frederick Loewe, two giants of Broadway who had their origins in Berlin.
+R.E.M. - Reckoning 2xCD/LP (A&M)
Remastered and expanded -- includes the original album and a bonus disc of a previously unreleased concert from 1984 at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom.
+Risil - Non Meters Vol. 1 CD (Important)
Risil is a band of 1,000 alternating members with a foundation of 13. Risil stands for the word ''resilient,'' characterized or marked by resilience as A: capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture; and B: tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.
+Charlie Robison - Beautiful Day CD (Dualtone)
The follow-up to his 2004 Dualtone debut,
Good Times. Since then, Robison got divorced from his wife Emily (Dixie Chicks), so it's only natural to assume that this new record is his ''divorce album,'' which is not altogether untrue. But Robison writes from a perspective that draws from and speaks to larger matters and issues within human existence.
+Royal City - Royal City CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty)
For a generation of Guelph music fans, Royal City was something akin to a supergroup. From his early teens, Aaron Riches was a figurehead in the city's hardcore punk scene, fronting numerous politically charged punk bands and promoting DIY gigs. Tracing punk's spiritual heritage back to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Aaron found himself drawn to the acoustic guitar and began writing softly strummed songs about streetlights, Shakespeare, dogs, and broken hearts, all sung in his creaky, distinctive voice. This previously unreleased collection tells the story of Royal City.
+Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: Age Of Love CD/LP (Ubiquity)
A unique blend of street wit, dirty-sex talk, tall stories, and intergalactic future sounds. The album oozes equal parts jazz, soul, pop, funk, and hip-hop. Contributors include Erykah Badu, saxophonist Gary Bartz with his quartet, and many talented, up-and-coming artists.
+Serengeti & Polyphonic - Terradactyl CD (Anticon)
Serengeti and Polyphonic's
Terradactyl is about place -- losing place, mostly, struggling to find it again, and succumbing to the fact that it's cold, and surprisingly lonely, dressed in the human condition.
+Mack Allen Smith - Early Years 1962-1967 CD (Fat Possum)
The songs on this collection were all cut at either Hi recording studio or at Rick Hall's Fame recording studio in Muscle Shoals, AL, and most appeared on singles on the now collectable Vee Eight, Mariteen, Status, and Cynthia labels. Many are straight blues, a style Smith first heard as a boy blaring out of the cafes on the other side of the tracks in North Carolina.
+Soul Assassins -Intermission CD (Gold Dust)
The third album from Soul Assassins, lead by DJ Muggs.
Intermission features a rotating cast of heavyweight MCs including Bun B, B-Real, Evidence, Prodigy, and others.
+Regina Spektor - Far CD/CD+DVD/LP (Sire)
New album spotlights Spektor’s daring piano pop, vocal acrobatics and offbeat wit.
Far combines her rich soundscapes with evocative and intricately structured melodies and a remarkable gift for crafting intelligent, refreshingly honest odes to life. Special Edition package adds a DVD featuring four videos.
+Spinnerette - Spinnerette CD/LP+MP3 (Anthem Entertainment)
The self-titled Spinnerette album includes 13 new songs written by Brody Dalle and produced by Alain Johannes, and is the first Brody Dale helmed full-length release since The Distillers' 2003
Coral Fang album. Recorded in L.A. at Pink Duck, the band lineup on the record includes Dalle, Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Eleven) Tony Bevilacqua (The Distillers) and Jack Irons (Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers).
+Spooky Tooth - Lost In My Dream: Anthology 2xCD (Esoteric)
Spans their entire recorded output for Island Records -- from their first single to 1974’s “The Mirror”. Includes non-album singles, a previously unreleased mix of “Lost in My Dream” and two previously unreleased songs from 1968.
+Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer CD/2xLP+MP3 (Jagjaguwar)
Sunset Rubdown was once the moniker under which Spencer Krug released lo-fi solo recordings. The project has long since evolved into a full band, and
Dragonslayer is the third full-length. The musicianship is unassisted by studio magic, and the songs are left to justify for themselves their own screwy pop-rock existence.
+Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs CD (Telarc)
Taylor's new recording,
Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs, throws a light on the complexities of love in all of its forms. In addition to Taylor's trademark haunting vocals and simple but stirring guitar riffs -- a combination often referred to as trance blues -- the album also features guest appearances by Irish blues-rock guitarist Gary Moore and jazz/hip-hop pianist Jason Moran.
+Tonic - A Casual Affair: The Best Of Tonic CD (Polydor)
Features 12 selections from Tonic's three albums (
Lemon Parade, Sugar, Head On Straight), plus three previously unreleased bonus tracks.
+Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship CD/LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)
Their first new record in over five years,
Beacons Of Ancestorship gives nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. In fewer words, it is exactly what you’d expect from Tortoise.
+Various Artists - Appalachian Tradition: Original Bluegrass Classics CD (The Great American Music)
The Appalachian Tradition is an ideal primer for those just beginning to explore bluegrass. Its 18 selections are immediately accessible. The ''classics'' presented here, in other words, are usually those infrequent bluegrass cuts to have gained radio recognition beyond a core bluegrass audience.
+Venetian Snares - Horsey Noises CDEP/12” (Planet Mu)
Hot on the heels of his new album,
Filth, Venetian Snares is back with a new four-track EP. The title track includes a vocal, and the B-side includes a remix of the song.
+VNV Nation - Of Faith, Power And Glory CD (Anachron America)
New album from the Irish/English duo. As with all of VNV Nation's albums, the title represents the theme. In this case, it is a commentary on us as individuals and on humanity as a whole. Faith, power and glory; three things that, in succession, can bring people to the greatest of heights and achievement, or that can corrupt and destroy.
+Voivod - Infini CD (Relapse)
The phrase ''living legends'' is often overused however nothing better represents Voivod and the band's nearly three-decade contribution to the evolution of metal.
Infini, the final studio release since the untimely death of founding member Denis ''Piggy'' D'Amour, and addition of bassist Jason Newsted (Metallica) in 2002, perfectly articulates the many facets of this trail blazing band.
+Larry Jon Wilson - Jon Larry Wilson CD/LP (Drag City)
His first album since 1980. Known for his deep country soul style, this album is the closest to the bone. It stands apart from his ‘70s recordings as Wilson stands mostly alone, occasionally accompanied by a single fiddle.
+Woolfy - If Ya Know What’s Good For Ya CD (Rong/DFA)
New release from Scottish singer/songwriter Simon James (AKA Woolfy) eloquently brings together varying styles and sounds to great effect. Woolfy's vast knowledge and influences produce a seamless blend of funk, pop, dirty disco, rare grooves, and new wave, full of epic guitar lines and infectious lyrics.
+YaHoWha 13 - Magnificence In The Memory CD/LP (Drag City/Twos & Fews)
Skimmed from the riches in Source Family member Isis Aquarian's vaults, the nine tracks on
Magnificence In The Memory run the gamut of YaHoWha 13's rainbow of styles, from the whispered funk of “Camp Of The Gypsies” to the screaming and stomping of “Camp Of The Gypsies.”
+Pete Yorn - Back And Forth CD (Columbia)
Back And Fourth follows Yorn’s first three albums, which he considers a trilogy, and is his first album in three years. Yorn wrote all ten songs and recorded the album in Omaha, NE, with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley). Columbia’s co-chairman Rick Rubin helped guide the project from its earliest demo stages to final mastering.
+Yppah - They Know What Ghost Know CD (Ninja Tune)
Joe Corrales, Jr., AKA Yppah (pronounced ''Yippah''), is back. Fashioning a rockier sound than last time out, the album draws on a cultural heritage that takes in not only hip-hop, but various forms of electronic music, psychedelic soul, and rock as well.

DVDs:
+John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band - Live In Toronto ’69 DVD (Shout Factory)
Filmed on the eve of the release
Abbey Road, this is the only performance ever caught on film of John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band.
+Amanda Palmer - A Collection Of Music Videos DVD (Roadrunner)
Subtitled:
A Surrealist Mini-Mystery By Michael Pope. Featuring additional videos by Alex De Campi, Chip Yamada with The Danger Ensemble. Includes exclusive interview footage.
+Various Artists - Punk In England DVD (Odeon Entertainment)
Picking up where
Punk In London left off, this music packed sequel features a variety of punk, post punk, ska and new wave acts. Includes legendary performances and insightful interviews from The Clash, The Jam, Spizzenergi, Madness, The Pretenders and more.
+Various Artists - Punk In London DVD (Odeon Entertainment)
The musical magic of the London punk scene of the late 1970s is captured for posterity in this documentary that showcases some of the era’s most important bands. Includes interviews and performance footage featuring The Adverts, Chelsea, X-Ray Spex, The Lurkers, The Red Cow Club, The Jolt, The Killjoys, Subway Sect, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, The Clash and more.

Vinyl:
+Chesterfield Kings
- Up And Down 7” (Wicked Cool)
Up And Down is the first 7'' in several years from the Chesterfield Kings. It also features a live rendition which will be on the band's CD/DVD release this fall, plus two additional tracks.
+Cocktail Slippers - Saint Valentines Day Massacre LP+CD (Wicked Cool)
Now available on vinyl. Includes a bonus CD of the entire album and three bonus tracks.
+Earth - Radio Live LP (Southern Lord)
Vinyl only release.
Radio Live is comprised of two tracks from a live radio broadcast on KFJC (12/31/07) and two tracks from a live performance in Vienna on their 2008 European tour.
+Eprhyme - Shomer Salaam b/w My Mouth Is 7” (K)
This is the latest installment of K Records'
International Pop Underground series. Moving effortlessly from Middle Eastern melodies to dance hall and deep house rhythms, "Shomer Salaam" is multicultural and polyrhythmic. On the B-side, "My Mouth Is A House Of Prayer" represents soul music in its purest form.
+Faust - So Far LP (4 Men With Beards)
HQ-180 vinyl reissue of the band's second album (1972). Includes exact reproductions of all ten original LP inserts.
+Al Green - Greatest Hits LP (Fat Possum)
+Al Green - I’m Still In Love With You LP (Fat Possum)
+Al Green - Let’s Stay Together LP (Fat Possum)
HQ-180 vinyl reissues.
+Green Day - Know Your Enemy 7” (Reprise)
Ultra-limited edition 7” single features the non-album B-side “Hearts Collide.”
+Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse LP (Island)
HQ-180 vinyl pressing.
+Modest Mouse - Autumn Beds 7” (Epic/Sony)
Insanely ultra-limited edition 7” single features the B-side “Whale Song.”
+Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Castle 7”+MP3 (Polyvinyl)
The third single from
Skeletal Lamping is backed with a remix by Depressed Buttons (Todd and Jacob of The Faint). Initial pressing is limited to 2000 copies on colored vinyl. Includes digital download code with songs and bonus video.
+Owen / The Rutabega - Split 12”+MP3 (Polyvinyl)
Mike Kinsella (American Football, Cap'n Jazz, Joan Of Arc) and his nom de guerre is joined by The Rutabega (a.k.a. Josh Hensley) on this popular Owen title that's being released for the first time on vinyl.
+Pavement - Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition 4xLP+MP3 (Matador)
Vinyl edition of the deluxe reissue of
Brighten The Corners includes eight extra tracks not on the CD reissue, several of which are previously unreleased. Also includes material from the CD version: the re-mastered original twelve song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session tracks. Super deluxe M-Pak accordion style box set, 16-page, 12"x12" full color booklet, MP3 coupon, and huge essay by New Yorker critic Alex Ross. The wealth of extra material testifies to the extraordinary creativity of the band in this period.
+Skull Defekts - Temple 2xLP (Important)
The Skull Defekts is a band from Sweden. Since early 2005, their intense, monotonous, rhythmic, and sexual rock has been spreading energies of various kinds to welcoming audiences and listeners.
The Temple is the follow-up to Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy), but is deeper, harder, more sexual, and more occult.
+Sparks - Kimono My House LP (Hip-O)
HQ-180 vinyl reissue.
+Those Darlins - Those Darlins LP+CD (Oh Wow Dang)
Those Darlins are a pop group, if they are any one thing, which doesn't mean anybody with ears can't hear the country and rock ‘n’ roll in their sound. After seducing live audiences nationwide supporting acts as various as Dan Auerbach, Boss Hog, Wanda Jackson, Ida Maria, Deer Tick, Those Darlins quickly became the next ''it'' band at this year's SXSW.
+Valhall - Red Planet LP (Housecore)
Pure stoner rock from Norway, featuring Fenriz from the mighty Darkthrone on drums. Slow and grooving, with free riding, free smoking, dirt head biker themes that'll drone its hooks into your THC filled head.
+Various Artists - Black Rio 2: Original Samba Soul 1971-1980 LP (Strut)
Highlights some of the lesser-known gems of the ‘70s Black Rio Soul and Funk movement in Brazil. The album is compiled and annotated by leading Brazilian music DJ Cliffy, the man behind London club night Batmacumba, the longest running Brazilian club night in England.
+Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones LP (Island)
HQ-180 vinyl reissue.
+Wilco - You Never Know 7” (Nonesuch)
Ultra-limited edition 7” single includes the B-side “Unlikely Japan.” New album
Wilco (The Album) due 6/30/09.
+Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium LP+10” (Southern Lord)
This deluxe gatefold edition of
Punctuated Equilibrium is manufactured on HQ-180 vinyl and features a bonus 10'' with four brand new bonus tracks unavailable on the CD.
+The Woggles - Tempo Tantrum LP+CD (Wicked Cool)
The Woggles’
Tempo Tantrum is a compilation of the band's coolest instrumentals, carefully amassed from both their early material and newer recordings. Features two bonus tracks and includes a CD with all 14 tracks.
+Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson - Relator b/w I Don’t Know What To Do 7” (Rhino)
Ultra-limited 7” released ahead of their forthcoming collaborative album
Break Up, due late-summer 2009.
+Aggrolites - IV LP (Hellcat)
+Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 2xLP (Anti)
+Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches Below LP (Ferret)
+Damian Lazarus - Smoke The Monster Out LP (Get Physical Music)
+Lightnin’ Hopkins - Lightnin’ Strikes LP (Vee Jay)
+Thou - Tyrant LP (Southern Lord)
+Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade 2xLP (Southern Lord)
These titles now available on vinyl.


16 JUNE 09

+Among The Oak & Ash - Among The Oak & Ash CD/LP (Verve Forecast)
Veteran singer/songwriters Josh Joplin and Garrison Starr have teamed up for a very unique project. Among The Oak & Ash faithfully render traditional ballads and folk tunes but with a contemporary American sound.
+Amorphis - Skyforger CD (Nuclear Blast)
New album is a mix of their early influences melded with Finnish folk music, clean vocals and dark yet romantic lyrics.
+Beherit - Engram CD (Fontana International)
Latest from the black star of Finnish metal.
+Big Star - #1 Record / Radio City CD (Fantasy)
This newly remastered version of
#1 Record / Radio City features enhanced packaging and two unreleased bonus tracks.
+Michael Buble - Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden CD+DVD (Reprise)
Live recording features powerful performances of his hits “Everything,” “Home,” and “Feeling
Good.” DVD features the 60-minute concert, plus two bonus songs “Stardust” and “You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You.”
+Builders And The Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well CD (Gigantic)
In the vein of the Southern gothic tales, songwriter Ryan Sollee weaves stories of struggle with the usual cast of characters: God, the devil, soldiers, branches, wind, rain and hellfire.
+Sonny Burgess - Arkansas Wild Man CD (Snapper)
Contains 25 tracks by the rockabilly wild man from Sun Records, including “Red Headed Woman,” “We Wanna Boogie,” “Restless” and many more.
+Rodney Carrington - El Nino Loco CD (Capitol Nashville)
Ten years after his first major label release, Rodney is still the same regular guy he's always been -- sporting his trademark black cowboy hat, boots, and Texas twang. He is the king of middle class comedy and has no plans of changing his regular guy approach.
+Will Downing - Classique CD (Peak)
Taking his inspiration from the French term “Classique” -- an author, artist, or work of art of the highest excellence -- Will Downing returns with his fourteenth collection of sensual grooves and true love primers.
+Tommy Emmanuel - Only: Special Edition CD (Original Works)
This special edition includes bonus tracks of previously unreleased recordings. Remixed and remastered by the original engineer/producer.
+Ha Ha Tonka - Novel Sounds Of The Nouveau South CD/LP (Bloodshot)
Written in 1907,
The Shepherd Of The Hills (a novel by Harold Bell Wright) is the story of an old, mysterious man (The Shepherd) who leaves the city for a remote hills life. Through encounters with others, he gradually learns to find peace with losses he’s experienced and those yet to come. The novel is an Ozark classic, and comprises the basis for Ha Ha Tonka’s new album.
+George Harrison - Let It Roll: The Songs Of George Harrison CD (Capitol)
George Harrison’s first-ever career-spanning solo hits collection. Special packaging includes a 28-page booklet featuring previously unseen and rare photos, and new liner notes by Warren Zanes.
+Don Henley - The Very Best Of CD (Geffen)
Features his most enduring songs -- "Dirty Laundry," "The Boys Of Summer," "The End Of The Innocence" and "The Heart Of The Matter."
+Incubus - Monuments And Melodies 2xCD/4xLP (Epic)
New hits collection includes two new tracks and a bonus disc of B-sides and rarities.
+Laura Izibor - Let The Truth Be Told CD (Atlantic)
On her debut album, Izibor continues the lineage set out by artists like Lauryn Hill and Jill Scott -- artists who combine a reverence for the traditions of early R&B with a thoroughly modern sensibility.
+The Jacka - Tear Gas CD (Smc)
Third solo album from the hip-hop star.
Tear Gas is being dubbed this year's blockbuster album, featuring a host of hip-hop favorites from coast to coast coupled with Jacka's unique production.
+Jonas Brothers - Lines, Vines And Trying Times CD (Hollywood)
Lines, Vines And Trying Times showcases an incredible musical journey by the Jonas Brothers, as well as their growth as songwriters and musicians. They’ve incorporated horns into several songs, as well as harmonicas and peddle steel guitars. Enhanced CD features two exclusive bonus videos.
+Candye Kane - Superhero CD (Delta Groove Productions)
Having recently beaten pancreatic cancer, and with renewed energy and a new lease on life, Candye makes a triumphant return with
Superhero. Features special guests Kid Ramos, Dave Gonzales and Mitch Kashmar.
+The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Socitety 3xCD (Sanctuary)
Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe three-disc edition of their 1968 masterpiece features a plethora of bonus material including original stereo mixes, mono versions, demos, Euro editions, instrumentals BBC sessions and more.
+Legends - Over And Over CD (Labrador)
A brilliant, modern mix of white noise, ‘60s girl pop, indie and krautrock. Hypnotic washes of distorted synthesizers and sweet, bouncy melodies echo under walls of feedback and crushingly loud shimmering guitars.
+Kim Lenz And The Jaguars - It’s All True! CD (Riley Records)
Twelve new tracks include seven Kim Lenz originals, a track co-written by Kim and Big Sandy, a number crafted expressly for Kim by the Lucky Stars' Sage Guyton, and two rampaging covers.
+Little Big Adventure - Hateful Eye CDEP (Labrador)
Cool and delicately poignant pop melodies mixed with hard distorted drums and warped synthesizers.
+Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind CD (Willowtip)
Debut full-length combines elements of grind, crust, and thrash.
+Major Lazer - Guns Don’t Kill People... Lazers Do CD/2xLP+MP3 (Downtown)
Major Lazer is the Grammy-nominated super producer duo of Switch and Diplo, best known for their work with M.I.A and Paper Planes, as well as production work for Santigold, Amanda Blank, Bondo do Role (Diplo) and Tricky (Switch).
+Mary Onettes - Dare CD (Labrador)
Imagine a Swedish equivalent of The National on a diet of speed and Go-Betweens singles.
+Lee Phil - So Long, It’s Been Good To Know You CD (SteadyBoy)
With thirty years of roadwork and songwriting, Nashville singer songwriter Phil Lee is the real deal. You can hear it in his rough-edged voice, and in the vivid imagery that his lyrics present, with stories of worker-bee illegals, truck-driving killers, rats, weasels, and humans with rodent-like qualities. Lee's is a world of people on the literal and figurative outskirts, straight out of Springsteen's
Nebraska, just a little further south and with a sense of humor.
+Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers Blues Quartet - Soul Monsters CD (Delta Groove)
Over the last 44 years as a musician, Piazza's virtuosity on the harmonica and respect for tradition has been celebrated by fans and critics alike. On
Soul Monsters he is joined by the interplay, spontaneity, and classic chops of The Mighty Flyers.
+Rock Plaza Central - At The Moment Of Our Most Needing CD (Paperbag)
“This is a straight-forward, Americana-flavored indie rock album. There’s something of a Western aspect to the roll of the lyrics – almost like a desert album accidentally fallen into the hands of a city indie band. There is also some pretty lonesome fiddle screeching going on at times, squarely in Spaghetti Western territory, but whilst they flirt with this aesthetic, they never seem to quite give themselves over to it entirely.” -- songbytoad.com
+Sleep - Holy Mountain CD (Earache)
Special limited edition digipak reissue features a bonus track and video.
+Solitude Aeturnus - Downfall CD (Crash Music)
+Solitude Aeturnus - Through The Darkest Hour CD (Crash Music)
Long out-of-print classic albums reissued in limited edition digpaks.
+Tim Sparks - Little Prince: Tim Sparks Plays Naftule Brandwein CD (Tzadik)
Another fabulous disc of traditional Jewish music arranged for finger-style guitar and performed by the wonderful trio of Tim Sparks, Greg Cohen and Cyro Baptista.
+Spectrum - War Sucks CDEP (Mind Expansion)
Running the whole gamut of Spectrum's take on pop, psychedelia, rock and experimental sounds, this four-song EP features two covers: a reworked version of the Red Crayola classic "War Sucks" and Laurie Anderson’s overlooked gem "Walking & Falling," plus two originals.
+Spinal Tap - Back From The Dead CD+DVD (Label Industry)
Includes re-imagined versions of all the hits from the classic movie, plus new tracks and an hour-long DVD featuring a newly recorded track-by-track commentary by David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls.
+Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club CD (Street Sweeper Social Club)
Tom Morello and Boots Riley are Street Sweeper Social Club. This eleven-song set was produced by Morello and features Riley on vocals, Morello on guitar and bass, and Stanton Moore (Galactic) on drums.
+Stone Breath - Silver Skein Unwound CD (Hand Eye)
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this rural acid folk classic. The album is informed by the furrowed fields and green forests, shaded by falling leaves and falling dreams; time worn, weird, blood-red, rattled and ragged. Sparse in places with thick tangled drones in others, aged in moldy oak barrels for flavor, hidden from the sun, decayed, withdrawn. Features a previously unreleased song from the same sessions along with the original illuminated color lyric booklet and housed in special packaging.
+Sworn Enemy - Total World Domination CD (Century Media)
Featuring a newly reinvigorated lineup, this ten-track offering takes the group’s sound to new heights, which sees them embracing a thrashier edge and pummeling the listener with unbridled aggression.
+The Thing - Bag It! CD (Smalltown Superjazz)
After four intensive days of recording with Steve Albini, The Thing created
Bag It!, a new mastodon of ecstasy music. The Thing is well known for their free jazz versions of rock classics from PJ Harvey, The White Stripes, The Sonics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Lightning Bolt. This time the band is only doing two rock interpretations. Contains a bonus CD featuring a 30-minute impro-suite (also recorded by Albini) entitled "Beef Brisket - For Ruby's."
+Tiny Masters Of Today - Skeletons CD (Mute)
It has certainly been an action packed journey for siblings Ivan and Ada (ages 15 and 13 respictively), A.K.A. Tiny Masters Of Today. Almost overnight, the band went from a few homemade recordings on MySpace to collaborating with Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kimya Dawson, Fred Schneider (B-52s) and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), being remixed by CSS and Liars, and touring the world.
+Rhonda Vincent - Destination Life CD (Rounder)
The seven time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year returns with a stellar lineup of new, original and classic bluegrass songs. Rhonda Vincent takes the music to new heights while maintaining her deep bluegrass roots. The new album features her award-winning touring band in their first studio appearance.
+The Waifs - Live From The Union Of Soul CD (Compass)
Live From The Union Of Soul is a collection of 14 songs recorded on the road during last year's memorable and historic Australian Union Of Soul tour and features guest appearances from John Butler and Clare Bowditch.
+The Wallflowers - Collected: 1996-2005 CD (Interscope)
With leader Jakob Dylan overseeing its production and compiling the track list, the 16-track
Collected: 1996-2005 is the definitive look at a critically-acclaimed favorite of the past decade, whose tales of disillusionment and perseverance were wrapped in a sound both gritty and polished, melancholy and aggressive.
+Wand - Hard Knox CD (Ecstatic Peace)
A collection of demos, outtakes and home recordings. "These lo-fi hymns succeed because they're highly listenable. The collection's direct, unadorned, honest, and idiosyncratic. Like neo-folk's most interesting players (Banhart, Ben Chasny, Joanna Newsom), Toth sounds more like his precursors than his contemporaries, and very much like himself." -- Pitchfork
+Holly Williams - Here With Me CD (Mercury Nashville)
The granddaughter of Hank Williams and daughter of Hank Jr. has succeeded in creating the type of album that would easily find a place among the works of her favorite artists: Tom Waits, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, and Jackson Browne.
+Hank Williams Jr. - 127 Rose Avenue CD (Curb)
New album from the rowdy country rock icon features the single “Red, White, & Pink-Slip Blues.”


Vinyl:
+Burial Hex / Zola Jesus - Split LP (Aurora Borealis)
A split from two of Wisconsin's finest exports. Limited edition (500).
+Serge Gainsbourg - Bonnie And Clyde LP (4 Men With Beards)
A classic from these two French heroes -- originally released in 1968 -- reissued on HQ-180 vinyl with a high quality tip-on jacket.
+Plastic Ono Band - Live Peace In Toronto LP (Capitol)
Repressed on HQ-180 vinyl. Comes with an original, spiral-bound 1970 calendar with photos.
+Psychedelic Horsesh!t - Sh!tgaze Anthems LP (Woodsist)
After a two year absence, what has happened since we last peeked in on these "sh!tgaze" innovators? Well, that famous "distorto-lo-fi-sound" has been popping up in quite open spaces: No Age has become the new Brittany Spears, Wavves crashed in outta nowhere like a mid-‘90s grunge signing, and Vivian Girls are playing on the speakers in Target stores nationwide. Expect better production, poppier songs with druggier references, and elements as disparate as dub and emo combining to form a classic sound that is at once new and strangely familiar.
+Red House Painters - Songs For A Blue Guitar 2xLP (Plain)
First time on vinyl for Mark Kozelek's fifth album as the Red House Painters. Originally received a 9.0 rating from Pitchfork.
+Roxy Music - Country Life LP (Virgin)
+Roxy Music - Stranded LP (Virgin)
Repressed on HQ-180 vinyl. Each comes with a poster of the cover image.
+Steel Pulse - True Democracy LP (Elektra)
Vinyl edition of the iconic British reggae stars’ debut studio LP for Elektra.
+Various Artists - Smalltown Supersound On Fire LP (Smalltown Supersound)
All new stuff taken from the forthcoming STS releases as well as some exclusive goodies including Bjorn Torske's great Sunburned Hand Of The Man remix and Prins Thomas' remix of Tussle. The album also introduces the new signings K-X-P, Mungolian Jet Set, Meanderthals, and Drivan. "Everything here is brilliant and it’s possibly the best compilation I’ve heard this year." -- Fact Magazine
+Beach Boys - Sunflower LP (Capitol)
+Beach Boys - Surf’s Up LP (Capitol)
+Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley LP (Capitol)
+Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother’s Milk LP (Capitol)
+Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan LP (Capitol)
+The Specials - The Specials LP (Elektra)
Repressed on HQ-180 vinyl.
+Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown LP (Reprise)
+Green Day - Nimrod LP (Reprise)
+Hatebreed - For The Lions LP (Koch)
+Taking Back Sunday - New Again LP (WB)
These titles now available on vinyl.


DVDs:
+Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Rockpalast: 30 Years Of Southern Rock DVD (SPV)
Dickey Betts & Great Southern were the third highlight at the Rockpalast Festival on March 4th/5th, 1978. On those evenings, they played for the first time in Europe in front of an enthusiastic audience at the Gruga-Halle in Essen, Germany and millions of viewers on television. Dickey Betts is not unknown to those who are familiar with American rock music. He was one of the original members of the Allman Brothers Band and formed his own band Great Southern in 1976.
+De La Soul - Me, Myself & I DVD (Charly)
This concert, filmed at the 1997 Lokerse Festival, features their hits “Me, Myself And I” with its samples of Funkadelic’s “Not Just Knee Deep” and “Ring, Ring, Ring.”


09 JUNE 09

+Above & Beyond Presents Oceanlab - Sirens Of The Sea Remixed 2xCD (Ultra)
Above & Beyond is joined by the vocal talents of Justine Suissa, who has collaborated with some of the world's top DJs, including Armin Van Buuren. Contains remixes by Jaytech, Andy Duguid, Oliver Smith, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, and of course, Above & Beyond.
+The Aggrolites - IV CD (Hellcat)
The Aggrolites offer their brand of funky old-school ska and reggae, lovingly representing the classic sounds of ‘70s Jamaica to a generation that has never heard of Studio One. This is their most accomplished set yet, with more soulful settings to feature singer Jesse Wagner's Motown-inflected voice.
+Amber Asylum - Bitter River CD (Profound Lore)
Bitter River is the darkest and most devastating Amber Asylum album ever conceived. The perfect follow-up to the plunging Still Point, this introspective journey into lost love and lost innocence paints powerful sonic portraits of vast, lonely landscapes, dark chambers, rolling fog, and monumental twilight.
+Trey Anastasio / Don Hart - Time Turns Elastic CD (Rubber Jungle)
Collaborative recording blends the intrinsic elegance of classical music with searing blues-rock guitar, resulting in an exhilarating work that engages and challenges fans of both genres.
+Anti-Flag - People Or The Gun CD/LP+MP3 (Side One Dummy)
Their seventh full-length takes aim at those who use the bible to control the masses. The Bush Administration's legacy should keep the band in songs for years, from the war in Iraq to the economy. The group writes songs to build community and union, to create awareness and preparedness for when the students and workers of the world push to level the playing field and bring equality.
+A Skylit Drive - Adelphia CD (Fearless)
The musical mix between vocalist Michael Jagmin -- whose high-pitched voice is reminiscent of Geddy Lee, Anthony Green, and Claudio Sanchez -- and the band's heavy instrumental work, has earned ASD the respect of the hardcore scene. RIYL: A Day To Remember, Coheed & Cambria, and Chiodos.
+Autumn Offering - Requiem CD (Victory)
Requiem is a brooding, furious metal masterpiece that blends the incredible hooks and melodies of their last opus, Fear Will Cast No Shadow, and their first two Southern thrashers.
+Biosphere - Wireless: Live At The Arnolfini, Bristol CD (Touch)
First live CD from hugely influential Norwegian master of ambient, recorded live at The Arnolfini, Bristol, October 27, 2007.
+Blackberry Smoke - Little Piece Of Dixie CD (Adrenaline)
Oozes addictive melodies and hooks, not to mention multiple shots of lead singer Charlie Starr's trademark dry wit. Recorded with legendary producer Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts) and engineered by Justin Niebank. Atlanta-based Blackberry Smoke continues to grow into the premiere southern rock band of America.
+Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies) CD (Black Eyed Peas)
Brand new album from the hip-hop hit makers.
+Black Landlord - Addicted To Distraction CD (Sanctuary)
Rolling Stone describes this nine-piece musical machine as ''what would happen if KRS-One and James Brown showed up at your house and then wouldn't leave.'' Highly anticipated coast to coast, this is pure big band hip-hop soul music from Philadelphia.
+Black Meteoric Star - Black Meteoric Star CD (DFA)
The latest project by longtime DFA alumni Gavin Russom is inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America's Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock.
+Blackout - Best In Town CD (Epitaph)
The Welsh screamo-rock sextet's Epitaph debut resembles an aural entry into a boxing ring; a powerful sonic right to the chin. ''Driving, sinuous modern rock packed equally with aggression, sublime melodies, and hooks the size of Peru!'' -- Kerrang
+Blind Pilot - 3 Rounds & A Sound CD (ATO)
Original July 2008 release now on ATO. Blind Pilot sounds something like a wistful mix of The Shins with a bit of Iron & Wine folksiness.
+British Sea Power - Man Of Aran CD+DVD (Rough Trade)
Man Of Aran is a powerful and provocative dramatized documentary from the late American filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty. In a series of startling black and white sequences, the film presents daily life on the inhospitable Aran Islands on the west coast of Ireland. Includes the accompanying soundtrack.
+Busdriver - Jhelli Beam CD (Anti)
Both smart and smartass, theatrical without being pompous, and, as always, funny. BD's breath-defying flow teeters precariously on top of samples of classical music, jazz drumming, and proggy guitar parts, without ever losing sight of the electronic music that helped define his sound.
+Cave - Psychic Summer CD (Important)
Chicago group’s latest -- expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can-cloud-bounce, and full-on heavy chant. Like driving a train full-speed off a cliff only to discover that the plane can fly and you’ll live forever if you stay inside.
+Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot CD/2xLP (Redline Entertainment)
New supergroup featuring Joe Satriani, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony and Sammy Hagar.
+Chicks On Speed - Cutting The Edge 2xCD/2xLP (Chicks On Speed)
Chicks On Speed’s fifth album is the result of two years of productive creativity: filming video, making art installations, organizing Girl Monster extravaganzas, reading books, exhibiting all over the planet, making patchwork fashion collections, and building “objekt instruments.”
+Coalesce - Ox CD/LP+MP3 (Relapse)
With
Ox, Coalesce encapsulates over a decade of forward thinking hardcore into fourteen songs that typify the trend-eschewing band and proves that they still have much to say. The Kansas clan lurches uncontrollably, adding just the right touch of bombast and contrast to make the seething aggression all the more engaging.
+Cosmos - Jar Of Jam Ton Of Bricks CD/LP (Happy Jack)
The latest collaboration project from Robert Pollard comes with a bit of a twist: Pollard hooked up with another indie rock icon, Richard Davies (The Moles, Cardinal), to form the band Cosmos. To round out the ensemble, Davies enlisted some of his Massachusetts merry men to assist with the music, including David Minehan (The Neighborhoods) and Malcom Travis (Human Sexual Response, Sugar).
+Dance Gavin Dance - Happiness CD (Rise)
Dance Gavin Dance's fourth album -- catch them on this year’s Warped Tour.
+Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange CDEP (Kranky)
Certainly not a group to rest on their laurels (especially difficult when they have new songs burning a hole in their collective back pockets), Deerhunter delivers five new tracks on this extended play. This is not some stopgap release between albums, or mere leftovers from
Microcastle, but an all-new session.
+Serge Devant - Wanderer CD (Ultra)
The debut from one of the top DJs in the world. Includes the single, "Sweet Harmony", already a favorite of Pete Tong on BBC Radio.
+Dial - Dial CDEP (Robotic Empire)
Progressive rock/pop with female vocals from Detroit, Michigan.
+Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca CD/LP (Domino)
Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. Its idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 compilation
Dark Was The Night. In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.
+Discipline - Anthology CD (I Scream)
The undefeated kings of European street rock have released four studio albums, a cover album, a compilation, numerous EPs, and a live split with Agnostic Front. Ten years after their debut they deliver twenty-eight of their best tracks on a double CD.
+Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion CD/LP (Dredg)
''Veering between ominous dirges and wide-eyed big sky anthems, they play massive art metal that's been treated to multi-layered, intricate production in the vein of Radiohead and Pink Floyd; and for a band that can smash and roil like waves against Pacific beaches, they frequently take the subtler road, softening themselves with atmosphere and world music flourishes.'' -- Pitchfork
+Einstürzende Neubauten - Ende Neu CD/LP (Potomak)
Reissue of their classic 1996 release. The quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their craftsmanship in new compositional areas,
+Elusive Parallelograms - And Everything Changes CD (Rainbow Quartz)
Psychedelic, fuzzed-out guitars and engaging rhythms.
+The Features - Some Kind Of Salvation CD (Loose Tooth)
It's been four years since Nashville, TN's best-kept secret snuck onto our speakers with their critically lauded debut,
Exhibit A. They return with self-produced Some Kind Of Salvation, which boasts a hodgepodge of songs with inventive lyrics and infectious melodies.
+The Friday Night Boys - Off The Deep End CD (Fueled By Ramen)
Produced by Emanuel Kiriakou, The Boy’s debut features everything from instantly accessible power ballads (“She’s Finding Me Out”) to energetic pop-punk rockers (“Suicide Sunday”) and everything in between.
+Holly Golightly - Down Gina’s At 3 CD/2xLP (Damaged Goods)
+Holly Golightly - Painted On CD/LP (Damaged Goods)
+Holly Golightly - Up The Empire CD/LP (Damaged Goods)
Her Sympathy label back-catalog -- reissued via Damaged Goods.
+Nanci Griffith - The Loving Kind CD (Rounder)
The Loving Kind finds Nanci Griffith at the top of her game as a songwriter, interpreter, and singer. Features nine new songs and four well-chosen covers.
+Robert Hampson - Vectors CD (Touch)
New album from the founding member of Loop and Main.
+Headdress - Lunes CD/LP+MP3 (No Quarter)
The second album by this Texas psychedelic duo.
Lunes was written in the desert, but recorded during an endless NYC winter, resulting in a dark meditation on Americana. It's the blues shaped by the avant compositions of La Monte Young and Dylan Carlson. It's drone rooted deep in the American tradition. Vinyl is limited to 1,000 copies and includes an MP3 download card.
+Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey - Here And Now CD (Bar/None)
The first collaboration in almost two decades by the acclaimed songwriters of The dB's. “With pop this piercingly pure, and Everly’s-worthy harmonies to boot, The dB's songwriting team has put together another instant classic.” -- Blurt
+Homemade Jamz Blues Band - I Got Blues For You CD (Northern Blues)
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band rocked the Blues world by coming in second in the 2007 International Blues Challenge in Memphis -- competing against 100 other bands. Their debut recording last year,
Pay Me No Mind, led to the Homemade Jamz receiving a Blues Music Award nomination for Best New Artist Debut.
+Hoods - Pit Beast CD (I Scream)
Their music is a call to arms for all those who've grown tired of watching hardcore get exploited and bastardized. Mike Hood has spent his years of experience crafting one of the most brutal and honest West Coast hardcore bands ever.
+The Horse’s Ha - Of The Cathmawr Yards CD (Hidden Agenda)
Debut album from Chicago slowburn-folk troupe led by Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day, Freakwater) and Jim Elkington (The Zincs) backed by stalwart Chicago indie-rock vets. Think Fairport Convention, Pentangle and a little Astral Weeks.
+Iron Maiden - Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack 2xCD/2xLP+MP3 (Columbia/Legacy)
17 tracks as they appear in the film
Flight 666. Follows the band on the first leg of their Somewhere Back In Time World Tour in February and March of 2008. Also available on limited edition double-picture disc vinyl.
+Joan Of Arc - Flowers CD/LP (Polyvinyl)
Despite being written over the course of a year in four different sessions with four different lineups, the songs on
Flowers sound more cohesive than those on last year's Boo Human. This experience encapsulates the spirit of Joan Of Arc -- a mentality that embraces contradictions and tears apart common musical structures, only to rebuild them without a blueprint.
+JR Writer - Presents Fred Money: Money Rules Tha World CD (Babygrande)
Buzzing New York street artist Fred Money has been building his following consistently over the last few years across numerous appearances on his brother JR Writer's albums. Now, with his solo debut
Money Rules Tha World, Fred is ready to take over the game.
+Kasabian - West Ryder Paurer Lunatic Asylum CD (RCA/Red Ink)
Two years in the making,
West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is the sound of a band at the peak of their powers. A 52-minute mash up of sky scraping melodies, electro-punk riffs, Morricone-esque symphonics, Mariachi stomps, and psych-pop lullabies, it is both a stadium sized declaration of intent and a bar raising benchmark.
+Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants CD (Kranky)
A series made up of performances and compositions using tapes as the main source material, as well as mono speakers of various cassette players for the piece's amplification. Inspired by experiments with tape loops, cassette players and recorders, analog synths, sine oscillators, mixer feedback, contact mics and various acoustic sound sources.
+Lady Gaga - Lovegame: The Remixes CDEP (Interscope)
Features five remixes of “Lovegame.”
+Tracy Lawrence - The Rock CD (Rocky Comfort)
A powerful, emotional overview of spiritual consciousness,
The Rock takes stock in life's blessings and the need to be more grateful, recognizes that life is hard, and not always good, but through it all, the strength of faith and hope reign triumphant.
+Liechtenstein - Survival Strategies In A Modern World CD/10”+MP3 (Slumberland)
Mixing its '80s influences with a very fresh and contemporary enthusiasm,
Survival Strategies In A Modern World packs so much excitement into less than 23 minutes that you will discover a new favorite song with every spin. At least, that is, until your sister sneaks into your room, snatches it (along with your Vivian Girls records and rare Mo-Dettes singles), and takes her own shot at indie stardom.
+The Lonely H - Concrete Class CD (The Control Group)
Their third full-length howls through roadhouse walls and soothes that long walk of shame the next morning. Twelve glowing tracks of tires humming through the Southwest while Skynyrd scratches through the nearest AM radio station. Written at bar stools and scrawled on diner napkins,
Concrete Class seethes with a lust for America's highways and laughs with the trials that ensue.
+The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin CD (Nonesuch)
The group's Nonesuch debut,
Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, offers an elegant sort of Americana. Its songs about long-ago travels and romantic travails, eternal longing and inevitable leaving are often hushed, dreamy and mysterious. Simple folk-song structures are uplifted by hymn-like, chamber music arrangements.
+Teena Marie - Congo Square CD (Stax)
Internationally renowned singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Teena Marie, the "Ivory Queen Of Soul," presents an all-new 16-song set. Features guest appearances by Faith Evans, George Duke, MC Lyte, Howard Hewitt and Shirley Murdock.
+Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller CD (Shout! Factory)
Old 97’s singer/songwriter Rhett Miller returns with his sophomore solo effort. Recorded in Dallas and produced by Salim Nourallah (who also produced the latest critically acclaimed Old 97’s release, 2008’s
Blame It On Gravity) the album also features multi-instrumentalist and producer Jon Brion on guitar and bass, The Apples In Stereo’s John Dufi lho on drums and Billy Harvey on guitar.
+Molotov Solution - Harbinger CD (Metal Blade)
Molotov Solution delivers a violent and brooding sound with a strong politically driven message that this world is only getting worse as each day goes by.
+Morrissey - Maladjusted (Expanded Edition) CD (Fontana)
Originally released in 1997, this expanded reissue features upgraded packaging, album B-sides, rare photos, a twelve-page booklet, and more.
+Mos Def - The Ecstatic CD/2xLP (Downtown)
Fourth studio album from the New York rapper. Produced By Chad Hugo and Mos Def.
+Nite-Liters - A-nal-y-sis CD (Dusty Groove)
Reissued for the first time on CD. The Nite-Liters were the instrumental core of Harvey Fuqua's New Birth soul collective for RCA but they also stood strongly on their own, and were easily one of the hippest acts to ever record for the label in the 70s. Each cut feels like a lost funky 45 stepping out with heavy keyboards, choppy guitar, monstrous drums, and sharp-edged horns that really make the record cook.
+North Lincoln - Midwestern Blood CD (No Idea)
Hailing from the reeling metropolis of Grand Rapids, deeply rooted in a community that rode the post-industrial wave of collapse and still struggles to keep its head above water, North Lincoln embodies a newer wave of working-class punk rock that ditches the anthemic trappings of Boston and New York and instead builds on the melancholy hymns of luminaries like Jawbreaker and Leatherface.
+Offonoff - Slap & Tickle CD (Smalltown Superjazz)
Massimo Pupillo, Terrie Ex and Paal Nilssen-Love performed this gem live in concert at Kongsberg International Jazzfestival in July 2007. If possible to describe, the music is in the midst of Black Flag, DNA, Pere Ubu, Last Exit, James Blood Ulmer, early Sonic Youth and of course Terrie's very own legendary band The Ex.
+Pastor Troy - Ready For War CD (Real Talk)
The aggressiveness of Pastor Troy is still in his heart as it's let out on the amped-up banger
Ready For War. Throughout the whole album you get Troy's best music with his hyped-up crunk style along with a dose of realistic lyricism like only he can deliver.
+Pigface - 6 CD (Full Effect)
6 is uniquely Pigface, combining all the alumni (Connelly, Levi, Esch, and the usual suspects) with new blood (Hanin Elais, Noko, Alex Moklebust, Chant, and more).
+Placebo - Battle For The Sun CD (Vagrant)
Battle For The Sun -- recorded over three months by producer Dave Bottrill (chosen by the band largely because of his work with Tool) and mixed in London by Alan Moulder -- is a startling, alive, vital and boundary-vaulting record that marks a whole new era for a band that were in need of a change.
+Portland Cello Project - The Thao & Justin Power Sessions CD (Kill Rock Stars)
Portland Cello Project is a group of cellists from Portland, OR. This album includes collaborations with Thao Nguyen of Thao as well as local musician Justin Power. As would be expected of PCP, the remainder of the album showcases cello sublimity and madness: from a Pantera cover, to a solemn religious piece by John Tavener.
+Post Honeymoon - Post Honeymoon CD/LP+MP3 (Two Thumbs Down)
Echoes the sultry and urgent sounds of Siouxsie & The Banshees, Motels, Suicide, and Love & Rockets. Limited edition vinyl includes free digital version with exclusive remix.
+The Present - Way We Are CD (Loaf)
Following their abstract masterpiece,
The World I See, The Present returns with an album that delves ever deeper into the human psyche. Like an audio equivalent of Apocalypse Now, The Way We Are is by turns terrifying, enchanting, hallucinatory, and sharply focused. A psychedelic power-trio from a mythical dimension, The Present creates a strangely familiar music, as if they had already seen your dreams and your nightmares.
+Quest For Fire - Quest For Fire CD/LP (Tee Pee)
"Toronto's Quest For Fire conjure up the original root of psychedelia with the raunch, muscle, and oscillations of Hawkwind and Comets On Fire, and Pink Floyd's sensory panorama, all resting on a simplistic, plodding Spacemen 3 thump." -- Montreal Mirror
+Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue CD (UME)
+Rolling Stones - Some Girls CD (UME)
+Rolling Stones - Tattoo You CD (UME)
+Rolling Stones - Undercover CD (UME)
Phase two of the remastered reissues.
+Rubies - Explode From The Center CD (Telle)
Debut album from Californian bedroom disco duo is nothing less than a modern classic. First single “I Feel Electric” (featuring Feist) is already a massively popular radio (not to mention blogged) tune. The album features musical appearances from Feist and friends Lars Skoglund, Maria Eriksson (The Concretes), Karl-Johan Winqvist (Blood Music) and Erik Glambek-Boe (Kings of Convenience).
+Oumou Sangare - Seya CD (Nonesuch)
Singer and songwriter Oumou Sangare is genuine superstar in her native Mali, and a charismatic performer who has thrilled audiences around the world with her exhilarating live performances.
Sangare takes up the causes of her fellow Malian women, frankly exploring their problems and unabashedly articulating their desires; the outspokenness of her words are a liberating as her music, which combines traditional instrumentation and rhythms with a sophisticated, funk-driven, contemporary groove.
+The Seasons - Undone CD (City Centre Offices)
This is the debut full-length release by The Seasons -- a collaborative project by an international assemblage of accomplished musicians in the realm of jazz, electronic, and indie-rock.
+Six Finger Satellite - Half Control CD (Load)
Archival 2001 recordings from Providence's finest square peg. Half Control veers sharply away from the krautrock stylings of 1998's
Law Of Ruins with a lineup that is hotwired.
+Todd Snider - Excitement Plan CD (Yep Roc)
Combines social commentary, gypsy recession recovery plan and soul-folk in to one unified masterpiece. Self-awareness never sounded so good as Snider and crack sidemen Jim Keltner and Greg Liesz team up with Grammy-winning producer Don Was (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones) for an album that exemplifies Snider's by-your-wits lifestyle and once-an-age lyricism.
+So Many Dynamos - Loud Wars CD (Vagrant)
For the past six years, Edwardsville, Illinois’ So Many Dynamos have been developing their own highly evolved brand of indie rock that touches on math rock, dance punk and indie pop while staying firmly outside the confines of any one genre. Their sonic evolution has culminated with the group’s third full-length,
The Loud Wars.
+Sonic Youth - The Eternal CD/2xLP+MP3 (Matador)
The Eternal is a supercharged rocker, recalling aspects of the Evol-Sister-Daydream Nation holy trinity, but with cleaner, louder production and more straightforward momentum. With Pavement's Mark Ibold joining on bass, and producer John Agnello back at the controls, The Eternal takes the melodic songwriting of 2006's Rather Ripped and slams down the accelerator pedal. Initial pressing in a four-panel wallet with two printed inner sleeves; one containing disc, the other a sticker and card with credits. Subsequent pressings are jewel case. Double-LP pressed on hyper-deluxe HQ-180 RTI vinyl and packaged in a heavy duty Stoughton gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves.
+Stardeath And White Dwarfs - The Birth CD (WB)
One half stoners with nothing to do but roll joints on their King Crimson record sleeves and one-half confetti launchers/space bubble technicians for the Flaming Lips, Stardeath And White Dwarfs debut their own free-floating circus. A mind-trip of emotion and mood, recalling everything from “upper” dance freak-outs to “downer” Floyd-esque anthems,
The Birth celebrates a love of all things psychedelic.
+Stars Of The Lid - Music For Nitrous Oxide CD (Sedimental)
Long-overdue reissue of Stars Of The Lid’s brilliant 1993 debut.
+There For Tomorrow - A Little Faster CD (Hopeless)
The follow-up to their debut self-titled EP is filled with hard hitting yet perfectly glossed guitars, pop hooks in minor keys, and vocals dripping with the emotion of vocalist/guitarist Maika Maile's unique voice.
+Traditionalists (Secret Chiefs 3) - Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini CD/LP (Web Of Mimicry)
From out of nowhere, Secret Chiefs 3 (operating here as Traditionalists, one of the seven satellite bands introduced on their
Book Of Horizons album) present an elaborate colonna sonora paranoica: original compositions that were dreamt up in the harmonic language of the Giallo Horror Film Soundtrack -- a particular subgenre of B-movie with remarkable scores by Italian masters such as Bruna Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani, Ennio Morricone, Goblin, or Pierro Piccioni.
+U2 - Magnificent CDEP (Interscope)
Features five remixes of “Magnificent.”
+Paul Van Dyk - Volume 2xCD (Ultra)
Volume includes selections from his massive fifteen-year catalog. Track list includes works from his studio albums 45 RPM, Seven Ways, Out There And Back, Reflections, and In Between. Also includes the long-awaited remastered and remixed classic "2009 For An Angel."
+Various Artists - 2009 Warped Tour Compilation 2xCD (Hopeless)
The official soundtrack for the 2009 tour is a double CD featuring new, rare, and unreleased tracks from the biggest names in rock, including NOFX, Flogging Molly, Underoath, Chiodos, Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Less Than Jake and many more.
+Various Artists - Blasting Concept CD (Smalltown Superjazz)
Features Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Ken Vandermark, Lasse Marhaug, Thurston Moore, Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love, Joe McPhee, John Hegre, Håvard Wiik, Jim O`Rourke, Peter Brtzmann, Massimo Pupillo, Cato Salsa Experience, Terrie Ex and Yoshimi. The album title is borrowed from SSTs groundbreaking compilation with the same name. We wanted to have a label with its roots in the 60's free jazz but with the DIY attitude of the 80s punk/hardcore label. Like a meeting between Black Flag & Albert Ayler. Maybe. Anyway. Decide for yourself, here is our blasting concept.
+Various Artists - Memphis 60: Soul, R&B And Proto Funk From Soul City USA CD (BGP)
A look at the soul, R&B and proto funk that the real music city was releasing in the 1960s. These feature some classic artists, but also many who were never known outside the myriad small clubs that filled the city. Some of these records are sought after collectors' items, others are newly discovered gems that we are pleased to place under the spotlight.
+Various Artists - Milky Disco 2: Let’s Go Freak Out! 2xCD (Lo)
Milky Disco 2 is packed with exclusive tracks as well as a few new underground classics like the rolling Throbbing Gristle-meets-Snatch slo-mo groove of Pollyester's "You Are Amen," the deep-bush kalimba vibes of "Pissed and Passed Out" by Ghost Note, the Arthur Russell-ish narco-disco of Nite Jewel's "What Did He Say," Canyon's deep-space blues "Big City Lights," and Gatto Fritto's kraut-meets-disco epic "Hungry Ghosts."
+Various Artists (Cielo) - Playtime 2xCD (Tommy Boy)
From its state-of-the-art space in NYC's ultra-chic Meatpacking District, Cielo provides a music program specializing in deeply soulful house music as well as various genres of electronic music. Featured artists include Furry Phreaks, Amana Melone, Risk Soundsystem, Kenny Larkin, DJ Fudge, The Lost Men, Phonique, Kiko Navaro, Sebo, and more.
+Various Artists - Ultra Dance Anthems CD (Ultra)
With a fresh and funky mix of massive club tunes exploding on dance floors everywhere, this set includes: Jes, Deadmau5, Sharam, David Guetta vs. Chris Willis, Kaskade with Tamra, Benny Benassi feat. Channing, and many more.
+Various Artists - Ultra Hits CD (Ultra)
Includes fifteen of the top urban releases to come out over the past year.
+Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl - Two CD (Nettwerk)
Supremely talented Mercury prize nominee Kathryn Williams and amazing guitarist/vocalist Neill MacColl teamed up to record the critically-acclaimed
Two, one of the most astonishingly beautiful albums to see the light of day in recent years.
+Darryl Worley - Sounds Like Life CD (Stroudavarious)
On
Sounds Like Life Worley is reunited with James Stroud. Stroud has a long history with Worley, having signed him to his first record deal as president of Dreamworks Nashville. Worley also works with his long time touring band, The Krew, on the vast majority of the tracks.
+Toki Wright - A Different Mirror CD (Rhymesayers)
The first artist in the Rhymesayers’
Spotlight Series. Best known as opening act and hype man for Brother Ali, Toki is not only a well-established emcee, but he's one of the hardest working community activists in the Twin Cities. With numerous accolades and a tour history that has taken him from NY to Uganda, Toki is ready to take his next step with this release. Features Brother Ali, Scarub (Living Legends), I Self Devine, Felipe Cuauhtli (Los Nativos), St. Paul Slim, and Trama.
+Wumpscut - Bunkertor 7 (Re-Sample Edition) CD (Metropolis)
Featuring eleven of the original tracks completely redone by Wumpscut as well as Haujobb and Stillste Stund. Still as impressive as
Bunkertor 7 was in 1995, this release is sure to leave its mark on the electronic music community.

DVDs:
+Iron Maiden
- Flight 666: The Film 2xDVD (Columbia/Legacy)
Flight 666 documents the first leg of Maiden's legendary Somewhere Back In Time World Tour. Includes a second disc of the entire set from the 2008 segment of this tour. Sixteen songs from sixteen different cities in eleven countries around the world, for the first time ever encompassing such varied places and cultures in one concert.
+Various Artists - Woodstock: 3 Days Of Peace And Music - The Director’s Cut 2xDVD/4xDVD (WB)
Newly remastered. Bonus content includes: new retrospective
The Museum At Bethel Woods: The Story Of The Sixties & Woodstock. Four-disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition features more than three hours of extras -- including two hours of rare performance footage and three featurettes.

VINYL:
+Avenged Sevenfold
- Sounding The Seventh Trumpet 2xLP (Hopeless)
+Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen 2xLP (Hopeless)
Limited edition (1000) specially colored vinyl versions of the classic Hopeless Records albums.
+Blank Dogs - Waiting 7” (In The Red)
Two exclusive tracks. "Waiting" finds the band drifting ever closer to C-86 Brit-pop terrain and incorporates more guitar than synth.
+Cheap Time - Woodland Drive b/w Penny And Jenny 7” (In The Red)
Two brand new studio tracks from Nashville, TN's favorite pop-punk-glam-bubblegum band. Snotty, catchy ditties informed by Sparks, The Quick, Milk 'n' Cookies, and early Kinks that'll tide you over until this band unleashes their next full-length.
+Equinox - Vivid Dreams 12” (Planet Mu)
Following releases on some of the most influential drum 'n' bass labels (Metalheadz, Bassbin, Breakin, Inperspective, and Intasounds), scene veteran Equinox is back on Planet Mu with more weighty jungle business.
+Gable - I’m OK LP (Loaf)
A twelve-track mini-album big on ideas,
I'm OK represents a progression in style. Gable uses conventional instruments like cello and brass in unconventional ways that complement their usual array of found sounds, squeaks, and samples.
+Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes LP+MP3 (Matador)
Their critically acclaimed Matador debut and best selling album is back in print on vinyl for the first time since 1999. HQ-180 virgin vinyl, gatefold sleeve.
+Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet 2xLP (Kranky)
Double-vinyl pressing of Hecker’s 2006 experimental/electronic/ambient gem.
+Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic LP (Western Vinyl)
Now available on vinyl. The album was recorded using analog synths, a cassette four-track, and a trusty SM-57 mic, coloring the sound with warmth and creating textures that you just want to
wrap yourself in.
+The Kills - Keep On Your Mean Side LP (Domino)
Vinyl reissue of The Kills’ 2003 debut.
+Kreng - L'Autopsie Phenomenale LP (Miasmah)
These sample-based constructions incorporated sounds from free-jazz, new electronic-generated sounds, classical modernism and vintage geographical recordings. Discordant segments of wailing, top-end violins give way to clunking rhythmic passages of metal marimbas and tuned percussion; free-roaming passages of rasping, low-end bass and the shuffle of free-jazz recall the work of
Prestige-era Moondog, as well as aspects of Harry Partch's instrumentation via Tom Waits.
+Love Is All - Covers LP (What’sYourRupture)
Covers include "Kung Fu On The Internet" (Lung Leg), "I Ran" (A Flock Of Seagulls), "So Far Away" (Dire Straits), "Golly Gosh" (Jed Dmochowski), and "Darling Nikki" (Prince). Limited edition (500).
+Pelican - Ephemeral 12” (Southern Lord)
Over three songs and 20 minutes, the vinyl-only
Ephemeral introduces a heavier, darker, more riff-based Pelican for 2009. Features a cover of Earth’s "Geometry Of Murder" with Dylan Carlson on guitar.
+Riverboat Gamblers - A Choppy Yet Sincere Apology 7” (Volcom)
Leaving behind the images of broken teeth and lacerated body parts, the Gamblers push their unique brand of blistering pith 'n' vinegar anthems and quirky pop serenades over the edge. Limited edition (300).
+School Of Seven Bells - My Cabal 12” (Ghostly International)
Third single from
Alphinsisms. Pronounced "my cable." The song "My Cabal" reflects that strange conflation of technology and the supernatural, spinning a drum-machine throb, a few chiming guitars, and a My Bloody Valentine-style atmospheric "whoosh" into a sophisticated dream-pop anthem.
+Starkey - Miracles (Jamie Vex’d Vs. Starkey Remix) 12” (Planet Mu)
Following the huge success of his debut album
Ephemeral Exhibits, Starkey is back with another absolutely mind-blowing, next-level 12-inch, ahead of his in-the-works second album on Planet Mu.
+Tape - Luminarium LP+MP3 (Immune)
Taking cues from pop, experimentalism, and minimalism Tape has become recognized internationally for it's "luminarium of sound where past and present merge at the speed of light." Released on CD by Hapna in 2008, Immune is proud to release "Luminarium" on vinyl for the first time. Limited edition (500).
+Thieves Like Us - Really Like To See You Again 12” (Shelflife)
12” single lifted from their 2009 album
Play Music. Think 1982 with heavier low end and less tape hiss. The four songs include a ballad written about that non-existent other half, a rerecorded version of "Desire" with guitars overdubbed in a Creation style and an old four-track demo.
+White Hills - Heads On Fire LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)
Now available on vinyl. With just the right blend of psychedelia and hypnotic grooves, White Hills weave in and out of anthemic chants, deep space bleeps, and otherworldly madness for a mix that proves intoxicating.

+Cake
- Motorcade Of Gernerosity LP+MP3 (Upbeat)
+Children - Hard Times Hanging At The End Of The World LP (Kemado)
+Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications 2xLP (Rough Trade)
+Deastro - Moondagger LP (Ghostly International)
+DOOM - Born Like This LP (Lex)
+The Horrors - Primary Colours 2xLP (XL)
+Ben Sollee - Learning To Bend LP (Sonablast!)
These titles now available on vinyl.


02 JUNE 09
+311 - Uplifter CD/CD+DVD/LP (Volcano Entertainment)
311's ninth album, produced by Bob Rock (Metallica, Bon Jovi, The Cult) at the band's L.A. residence/studio.
Uplifter will satisfy longtime followers while serving to grow their tribe, exposing a new generation to 311's music and their hopeful message of vitality and unity. Limited deluxe CD+DVD edition includes two bonus audio tracks plus a bonus 70-minute DVD.
+Acid Mother’s Temple - Are We Experimental CD (Prophase)
The world's premier psychedelic warriors have blasted out yet another album that distills their weird world into eleven tracks of sonic mayhem. Hawkwind-style guitar overload meets ethnic folk music from around the globe as a UFO crashes in the midst of it all.
+Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight CD/CD+DVD (Napalm)
The Scottish buccaneers stand ready to capture the wealth of the seven seas by offering a treasure chest of sweeping Scottish pirate metal worthy of any loot-loving corsair. Irresistible growling choruses from the port side and lively keyboard melodies and heavy metal riffs from starboard form the basis of this highly explosive rum-induced metal mix. Deluxe edition includes a bonus live DVD featuring their entire 2008 Wacken performance.
+AZ - Legendary CD (Real Talk)
With
Legendary, AZ brings back the much-anticipated, original “AZ sound.” His incredible flow and legendary lyricism have had hip-hop fans hooked for over a decade.
+Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun CD/2xLP (Lost Highway)
New album from Ryan and The Dead Horses -- produced by Marc Ford, formerly of The Black Crowes.
+Boy Least Likely To - Best B-Sides Ever CD (+1R)

Indie-store exclusive! Limited edition seven track disc of B-sides and rarities.
+Jeff Buckley - Grace Around The World CD+DVD/CD+2DVD (Columbia/Legacy)
CD+DVD set marks the 15th anniversary of Buckley’s masterpiece Grace. Grace Around The World includes footage from TV appearances that Buckley taped in America, Germany, England, Japan and France. And because Buckley didn't perform the Grace track ''Corpus Christi Carol'' on tour, the DVD includes footage of him doing the non-album track ''What Will You Say'' instead. The DVD also includes several bonus songs and interviews. The CD contains audio of all ten live performances from the DVD, as well as additional versions of ''Grace'' and ''So Real'' recorded in 1995 on MTV's 120 Minutes. The deluxe version includes the regular CD+DVD set along with a bonus DVD Amazing Grace -- an hour-long documentary directed by Buckley fans Laurie Trombley and Nyla Bialek Adams. The film features archival footage of Buckley as well as interviews with fans and people close to him.
+Ray Charles - Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Volumes 1 & 2 CD (Concord)
Expanded and remastered reissue of the 1962 classic album and its successful follow-up. Packaged together for the very first time, Volume 2 has never-before been available on CD.
+Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane And Sugarcane CD (Hear Music)
New album -- produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded by Mike Piersante during a three-day session at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studio. Joining Costello were Jerry Douglas (dobro), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Mike Compton (mandolin), Jeff Taylor (accordion) and Dennis Crouch (double bass), some of the most highly regarded recording artists and musicians in traditional American country music, bluegrass and beyond. Also features a duet with Emmylou Harris.
+Marshall Crenshaw - Jaggedland CD (429)
A musically dynamic and lyrically intimate collection of songs creating a truly a career-defining record harkening back to the best and brightest from one of America's greatest songwriters and performers.
+Crosby, Stills & Nash - Demos CD (Rhino)
Twelve-song collection of previously unreleased demos from 1968-1971. Features Neil Young on ''Music Is Love.''
+Daestro - Moondaggers CD (Ghostly International)
New album from electronic singer/songwriter Randolph Chabot AKA Deastro. Moondagger expands upon the positive electropop of Keepers, their home-recorded opus from 2008, with the addition of a full band. Thankfully, the mercurial, prolific Chabot still seems blissfully unaware of his music's genrelessness.
+Deranged Diction (Jeff Ament) - No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules CD (Monkeywrench)
Indie store exclusive! Jeff Ament’s (AKA Jeff Diction) old band. From Jeff: ''Seattle, Washington, 2008. I ran into Rod at Easy Street Records and reminisced about our days in Deranged Diction and he mentioned having a rehearsal tape of the songs we wrote together. I listened and we thought it was a shame that we never recorded those songs. Rod and I approached Bruce and Sergio about recording those songs. We went into Avast studios and recorded and mixed it in four days in the spirit of how we might have done it 24 years earlier. It was a blast playing with my old friends again and it's sounds pretty damn good, if I say so myself.''
+J Dilla - Jay Stay Paid CD (Nature Sounds)
25-track collection of unreleased Dilla beats mixed and arranged by Pete Rock. While mostly instrumental, J$P also offers a few guest vocals from artists that Dilla worked with or admired including Black Thought (The Roots), DOOM, M.O.P., Blu and more.
+Drop Dead, Gorgeous - The Hot N’ Heavy CD (Suretone)
New album from Denver-based metalcore band.
+Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Living In The Light CD (Stony Plain)
Ronnie Earl returns for his fifth Stony Plain release. Including his old friend Kim Wilson on harmonica and vocals on three tracks, Living In The Light is mostly an instrumental. Features additional guests David Maxwell, Rod Carey, Dave Keller and Jason James.
+Eels - Hombre Lobo: Twelve Songs Of Desire CD (Vagrant)
The seventh studio album from the ever-changing project led by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E). Hombre Lobo was recorded entirely at E's studio in Los Angeles with Koool G Murder (bass, keyboards and guitar) and Knuckles (drums and percussion).
+Emery - ...In Shallow Seas We Sail CD (Tooth & Nail)
Returning to work with producer Aaron Sprinkle (Anberlin, The Almost, Emery's The Question), ...In Shallow Seas We Sail showcases some of the best songwriting of Emery’s career.
+Enslaved - Hordanes Land CD (Season Of Mist)
Limited reissue of the Norwegian metal album.
+Franz Ferdinand - Blood CD/LP (Epic)
Upon completion of Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, the album's co-producer, Dan Carey, began to conduct a dub experiment with the tracks. Carey's own experience had included an apprenticeship of sorts with legendary south London dub specialist The Mad Professor, owner of Ariwa Sounds, one of the UK's premier reggae labels. And thusly, Blood was born. Comprised of eight radical revisions from Franz Ferdinand's acclaimed third album, a bonus ninth track, "Be Afraid."
+Girl In A Coma - Trio B.C. CD/LP (Blackheart)
A unique amalgamation of eclectic influences: oldies, rockabilly, ‘90s alternative, and contemporary bands both indie and mainstream. Features Joan Jett on guest vocals.
+Hoots And Hellmouth - The Holy Open Secret CD (Mad Dragon)
The Holy Open Secret was produced by the band in collaboration with Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man) and captures the fire and the spirit of a Hoots And Hellmouth community revival with a fierce and fiery alchemy. Outfitted with three-part harmonies, acoustic guitars, mandolin, upright bass and foot stomps, colorful Hammond organ and drums, the record enlivens your spirit through a blend of Americana style and punk rock attitude.
+Iwrestledabearonce - It’s All Happening CD (Century Media)
New album from the electro-metal, trip-hop pioneers from Shreveport, LA.
+Kult Ov Azazel - Destroying The Sacred CD (Arctic)
Heretical black metal outfit return with a fresh scathing attack on monotheistic religions.
+Amy LaVere - Died Of Love CD (Archer)
Indie store exclusive! Songstress and stand-up bass player Amy Lavere has released this EP for fans of her smooth and smart lyrics and melodies. From the otherworldly cover of Tom Waits' ''Green Grass'' to the thundering rock of ''Washing Machine (Reloaded)'' and driving ''If Love Was A Train,'' the set reveals an artist in LaVere who is relentlessly daring and infinitely intriguing.
+Lydia Lunch - Queen Of Siam CD (Atavistic)
Reissue of Lydia Lunch's solo debut -- originally recorded in 1980. Featuring the noted talents of guitarist Robert Quine (Lou Reed, The Voidoids), multi-instrumentalist Pat Irwin (B-52's, Eight Eyed Spy), and the big band sound orchestra of Billy VerPlack (of Flintstones theme fame), the work proved to be a slap in the face to those critics awaiting a new Teenage Jesus-type of album from Lunch. Dirty, sophisticated, literary and raw, the album is today seen as the jewel in the crown of NYC’s no-wave underground movement.
+Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King CD/CD+DVD/2xLP (RCA)
Dave Matthew’s highly anticipated first studio album in four years. Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance), Big Whiskey has been hailed by Rolling Stone as the group's “heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally.” The deluxe version adds a DVD documenting the making of the new album.
+The Meatmen - Cover The Earth CD (Meat King)
After a twelve year lapse, The Meatmen bounce back big with a 24-track ode to the tuneage of yore. Cover The Earth features all of Tesco's favorite musical blasts of the last 40 years. Some are obvious: Fear, GG Allin, Johnny Thunders; and some are head scratchers: Jimmy Dean, 10CC, The Temptations (?!). All delivered in reverential but irreverent form.
+Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up CD (Atlantic)
Sunny Side Up sees Nutini continuing to mine his arresting brand of soulful modern pop. Songs such as “Ten Out Of Ten” and “Coming Up Easy” display the gifted tunesmith's ever-growing knack for irrepressible melodies melded with insightful and intimate lyricism, all held together by Paolo's gritty and unpredictable vocal stylings.
+Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason CD (EMI/Capitol)
Reissue of the Floyd-sans-Waters 1987 album. This 1997 remastered version, available now through EMI, was the band's first release after the departure of Roger Waters and features David Gilmour along with Floyd members Nick Mason and Richard Wright. Also features musical assistance from Tony Levin, Carmine Appice and Jim Keltner.
+Pisces - A Lovely Sight CD (Numero)
Unfortunately, 1969's A Lovely Sight -- Pisces' only attempt at an LP -- never made it to wax. Now resurrected on CD, the album combines homespun psychedelic vision and secondhand studio trickery with naive readings of the rock sound of the day, resulting in a diverse, haunted rock headspace few coastal bands ever flew through, let alone over.
+Iggy Pop - Préliminaires CD (Astralwerks)
Iggy Pop takes on the language of romance and puts a decidedly French twist on his new album, Préliminaires. Produced by longtime collaborator Hal Cragin (They Might Be Giants, Sarah McLachlan, Rufus Wainwright), Préliminaires (which translates to "foreplay") highlights another facet of the Iggy Pop persona, focusing more on jazz arrangements and the distinctive, rich baritone heard on classics like "Nightclubbing" and his duet with French legend Françoise Hardy on the song "I'll Be Seeing You."
+Willy Porter - How To Rob A Bank CD (Weasel)
Seventh release from the esteemed guitarist/singer/songwriter is a self-produced tour de force on three fronts: vast and deep writing, crisp playing and powerful vocal arrangements.
+Rancid - Let The Dominos Fall CD/2xCD+DVD/2xLP (Epitaph)
A ready-made punk classic that'll take its place beside And Out Come The Wolves as a touchstone of the genre. Deluxe three-disc (double CD+DVD) edition includes the regular CD, an additional acoustic disc, a bonus DVD, three foldout posters and four guitar picks.
+Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes 2xCD (Felmay)
Recorded in Los Angeles, CA and Paris, France between 1971 and 1972. An instant classic from one of the fathers of minimalism.
+Perry Robinson & Burton Greene - Two Voices In The Desert CD (Tzadik)
One of the greatest modern free jazz clarinetists in the world meets virtuoso pianist in this historic new installment to Radical Jewish Culture.
+The Sounds - Crossing The Rubicon CD/LP (Original Signal)
Their synth-pop, guitar driven sound still takes center stage, but there’s an ambition and sophistication to both the songs and production that reveals new layers of depth to the overall aesthetic.
+Dakota Stanton - Time To Swing CD (DRG)
The dean of the world jazz critics, Leonard Feather, called Dakota Staton "a dynamic song stylist recalling at times elements of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughn." On Time To Swing, originally released in 1959, she is backed by the famous arranger-leader Sid Feller. Also included are five bonus tracks of never-before-released material.
+Taking Back Sunday - New Again CD/CD+DVD (Warner Bros.)
Taking Back Sunday returns with a new energy, a new guitarist and a new fearlessness on New Again -- produced by David Kahne (Sublime, The Strokes, Paul McCartney). The deluxe edition includes a bonus DVD and special packaging.
+Tankard - Thirst CD (AFM)
Fresh alcohol-fueled thrash metal.
+TYR - By The Light Of Northern CD/Limited Edition CD (Napalm)
Traditional homeland melodies, Viking choruses, and classic heavy metal songs from the Norwegian Viking metal band. Limited digipak edition features two bonus tracks.
+Umphrey’s McGee - Live: Soundstage CD (E1 Entertainment)
A must-have for fans, this amazing performance -- recorded in high-definition for the PBS concert series
Soundstage -- showcases the band's spontaneity and dazzling musicianship in an awe-inspiring 13-song set. Includes two bonus live tracks (including "Made To Measure" off their new studio album Mantis).
+Various Artists - Music From The Original Soundtrack And More: Woodstock 2xCD (Rhino)
Deluxe 40th anniversary double-CD reissue of the sprawling and era-defining sonic document featuring CSNY, The Who, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, and much more. Remastered from the original analog soundboard tapes.
+Various Artists (Bob Dylan) - Theme Time Radio Hour: The Best Of The Second Series CD (Chrome Dreams)
50 tracks as played by Bob across the second series of the show. The selections are just as eclectic, fascinating and enjoyable as those he played during the first series, and again each show was themed by subject matter.
+Various Artists - Omnidance CD (Last Gang)
Latest in the Turbo Studio Sessions series. All new and exclusive material from core artists and long time Turbo collaborators Tiga, Boys Noize, Chromeo, Dim and more.
+Various Artists - SK 200 CD (Sonar Kollektiv)
200 releases is a great achievement for any indie label. To mark this respective milestone for the Sonar Kollektiv label, Jazzanova put together another of their pristine compilations. Far from adhering to a kind of obvious “best of” format, they have chosen to include almost exclusively tracks from the last year of Sonar's output.
+Various Artists - Well Hung CD (B-Music)
22 stomping selections from the vaults of Eastern Europe's best kept secret, Hungaraton/Qualiton Records. This compendium piles heavy psych, jazz, glam and funk onto a heaping spoonful of ‘60s/’70s Hungarian rock.
+Various Artists - Woodstock Two 2xCD (Rhino)
Originally released as a double-LP, Woodstock Two expands the listening experience with 16 additional performances from the historic 1969 concert. Two's highlights include extra tracks from legendary sets by Hendrix and CSNY, with additional tracks by two performers not featured on the original soundtrack -- Mountain and Melanie. Remastered from the original analog soundboard tapes, including a deluxe booklet with new liner notes and rare photos.
+Ween - All Request Live CD (Chocodog)
All Request Live was recorded in 2003 (originally available in a painfully limited edition) and features tracks that were recorded especially for the CD (Parts 4 and 5 of ''The Stallion''). From the classic old school jam ''Reggaejunkiejew'' to the should-have-been-a-hit ''Stay Forever'' to old Pod favorites like ''Awesome Sound'' and ''Demon Sweat,'' the craftsmanship remains top-notch. The highlight for most Ween heads is the six minutes of ''Where'd The Cheese Go,'' the band's now-legendary rejected Pizza Hut jingle.
+The Who - Sell Out: Deluxe Edition CD (MCA)
Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe double-disc edition of The Who's 1967 classic. Contains previously unreleased songs and mixes, and a 28-page booklet featuring unseen photos, ephemera and more.
+Vanessa Williams - The Real Thing CD (Concord)
Her first album in four years, The Real Thing serves up a mix of sultry jazz standards and pop sketches. Features two new songs written by Babyface.
+Neil Young - Neil Young Archives, Vol. 1: 1963-1972 8xCD (Reprise)
This is the first volume of the Neil Young Archives series of box sets, produced by Young himself. This series is the definitive, comprehensive, chronological survey of his entire body of work. Volume I covers the period from his earliest recordings with the Squires in Winnipeg, 1963, through to his classic 1972 album, Harvest and beyond, including studio and live tracks with the legendary Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, and Neil Young with Crazy Horse. A total of 116 tracks, all presented in HDCD quality sound, and featuring over 40 previously unreleased songs, versions, mixes, and rare tracks.

DVDs:
+B.B. King - Live At Montreux DVD (Eagle Rock)
Features “Every Day I Have the Blues,” “Nightlife,” “Love Me Tender,” “Inflation Blues” and more.
+Deep Purple - History, Hits & Highlights ’68 - ’76 2xDVD (Eagle Rock)
Since Deep Purple’s debut in 1968, fourteen different musicians have contributed to 24 studio and live albums. Today the group consists of vocalist Ian Gillan, guitarist Steve Morse, bassist Roger Glover, keyboardist Don Airey and drummer Ian Paice. This is the lineup represented here, with the exception of retired member Jon Lord, who plays keyboards in most of the concert footage.
+Various Artists - Fillmore: The Last Days DVD (Rhino)
Renowned rock promoter Bill Graham closed the famous Fillmore West venue in 1971 with five nights of all-star concerts to mark the occasion. Every moment was captured for posterity and the resulting documentary is a testament to the San Francisco sound of the ‘60s. Great performances from Santana, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and other acts that epitomized the club are featured.
+Neil Young - Neil Young Archives Volume 1 (1963 - 1972) 10xDVD (Reprise)
Neil Young produced this comprehensive survey of his career that’s unlike any other music retrospective. This ten-DVD set focuses on his early days in Winnipeg with The Squire’s through the recording of
Harvest and features live performances, videos, interviews, studio footage and more. Also included, in addition to the 128 recordings, is Young’s first film Journey Through The Past (1973).


Vinyl:
+Beck - One Foot In The Grave 2xLP (Interscope)
Expanded 15th anniversary edition of the pop/rock uber-genius' 1994 album includes 16 bonus tracks (13 of them previously unreleased). Bonus tracks include cuts from the rare “It's All In Your Mind” single.
+Various Artists - Beat At Cinecitta LP (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
The first volume in a series dedicated to the most raunchy, erotic beat film music from the vaults of Italian ‘60s and ‘70s cinema. Brass pasta sound for hot nights from some of the most acclaimed Italian composers of all time: Bruno Nicolai, Pierro Piccioni, Armando Trovajoli, Luis Bacalov, Riz Ortolani. Comes with with numerous stills ''al dente'' as well as extensive liner notes. Limited edition, gatefold white vinyl.
+Various Artists - Shake Sauvage LP (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
Compilation of French soundtracks from the ‘60s and ‘70s (only exception: ''Grand Theme Malko'' from 1982). Sails from pulsating thriller-beats to relaxed sexy grooves. Limited edition, gatefold white vinyl.
+Various Artists - Smart’s Palace LP (Numero)
Between 1963-1975 Smart’s Palace held court for the entire Wichita, Kansas soul scene. At its heart was Dick Smart, bassist, club owner, DJ, record store owner, promoter, and sole proprietor of the Solo label. Collected here for the first time is the story and songs that came out of this thriving, if not totally unknown scene.
+Gert Wilden & Orchestra - The Schulmädchen Report LP (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
Compiles Wilden’s work for the erotic cinema, including the most swinging themes from the famed
Schoolgirl Report series and other sexploitation films. Limited edition, deluxe gatefold white vinyl LP includes numerous sexy stills and extensive liner notes.
+Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali 2xLP+CD (Nonesuch)
+Chester French - Love The Future LP (Interscope)
+Earth Crisis - To The Death LP (Century Media)
+New York Dolls - ‘Cause I Sez So LP (Rhino)
+Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms 2xLP (Secret City)
These titles now available on vinyl.


26 MAY 09

+Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women - Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women CD (Yep Roc)
Dave Alvin, has been roaming the highways of American music for over a quarter century. During those decades he's busted speakers with roots rock kick-starters The Blasters, as well as mined the depths of country, folk and blues with his solo projects. A mainstay during much of this journey has been Alvin's electrifying band The Guilty Men.
+Dave Alvin & Various Artists - Chris Gaffney Tribute: The Man Of Somebody’s Dreams CD (Yep Roc)
A founding member of the Hacienda Brothers and a renowned west coast country-soul singer/songwriter, Chris Gaffney moved people as much with his smile as with his trademark croon. Gaffney passed away in 2008 after a courageous battle with liver cancer and is survived by his family and the litany of musical heroes he called friends and collaborators.
+Naim Amor - Soundtracks Vol III CD (Amormusic)
The third installment of all-instrumental tracks by ex-Parisian Amor that he has recorded in his chosen home city of Tucson, AZ. The fact that there are no actual films to go with the utterly charming music doesn't lessen its impact in the least. Amor is a bit of a wizard, a supremely gifted singer, songwriter and guitar player. On this CD he also plays violin, lap-steel, vibes, drums, piano, banjo melodica, harp, a vintage SK1 keyboard and does some drum programming.
+Bachelorette - My Electric Family CD/LP (Drag City)
Bachelorette’s music beams to us through a universe of unconquered pop. She stands in the cradle of modern songwriting, that of psychedelic pop music. The psych vibe shimmers in an acousto-synthetic haze, not really overt -- so completely are those long-ago verses absorbed in her DNA. Her impulses are fed into a format that rhymes couplets over dancing beats, voices, keyboards, and a variety of guitars and percussions to create the melodic constructs we know so well, and delight in, and sing along with, and imagine to.
+Ray Barbee & The Mattson 2 - Ray Barbee Meets The Mattson 2 CD+DVD (Galaxia)
Collaboration between guitarist extraordinaire and contemporary jazz duo.
+Buffalo Stance - Sugar Glider CD (Obey Your Brain)
Brainchild of soulful pianist Jamey Robinson. Filled with wonderfully layered keyboards and vocals, the album at times sounds like Wendy Carlos' sublime synthesizer symphonies combined with a simultaneously innocent and informed approach to singing and harmony. Features appearances from members of Icy Demons, Man Man, Need New Body, Delta 72 and Bardo Pond.
+Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet - Make The Veiller CD+DVD (Varese Fontana)
31 tracks of pure Cajun music on the 35th anniversary celebration of the band. Performing to a small "living-room" audience they demonstrate not only their complete mastery of traditional music but also of their fusion of modern influences.
+Bike For Three! - More Heart Than Brains CD/LP (Anticon)
Debut release from international duo Buck 65 and Greetings From Tuskan.
+Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak Of Araby CD (Drag City)
The debut of Bishop and his Freak Of Araby ensemble-- a talented quartet of players getting deep into the Middle Eastern mystic with hand drums, percussion, bass, drums, electric guitars and a heavy dose of Moroccan chanters, all of it captured with depth, detail and sympathy for the eternal enigma.
+Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us CD (Graveface)
After a year of eerie, stilted silence, the sun shines and the shadows reappear. Black Moth Super Rainbow has crept from the forests and cities to make Eating Us, their dark bubblegum freakout for 2009. The first fully hi-fi BMSR record, Eating Us, adds space and dimension to the band's sticky, off-kilter melodies.
+James Blackshaw - Glass Bead Game CD (Young God)
Latest from UK twelve-string guitar virtuoso.
+Blank Dogs - Under And Under CD/lLP (In The Red)
Massive new album from Brooklyn artist shows off his pop chops more than previous releases.
+Brain Donor - Wasted Buzz Excessive CD (Brain Donor Records)
Wasted Fuzz Excessive is the long awaited follow-up to Brian Donor's 2006 epic DrainD Boner. This new album continues the dark traditions of declaimed metallic poetry, but extends further into works of epic construction and length.
+Brian Jonestown Massacre - Smoking Acid CDEP/2x12” (A Records)
A collaboration between Anton Newcombe and Icelandic artist Jon Saemundur Auoarson. The double 12'' features an etched disc by Jon Saemundur Auoarson.
+Harold Budd / Clive Wright - Candylioin CD (Darla)
Candylion contrasts previous work, A Songs For Lost Blossoms, in that it is more thoughtful and structured. Still, it constantly surprises the listener with a fresh collage of aural landscapes and moods. Sometimes it evokes the feeling of a traditional Japanese piece, or the mood of a gentile, ‘60s, British film, or a Renaissance cathedral with cloisters reverberating a choral ensemble. Harold Budd and Clive Wright use new colors to paint Canylion's soundscapes: Harp, strings and even drums.
+Gary Burton & Pat Metheny - Quartet Live! CD (Concord)
An all new eleven-song live recording Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow and newest member Antonio Sanchez.
+Bury Your Dead - It’s Nothing Personal CD (Victory)
Guitarist Brendan ''Slim'' MacDonald previously stated about the group's new material: ''I say it every time we go into the studio: This is the best thing ever that we have ever written ever and it's meaningful. Between the awesome tours and heading overseas twice, there were a fair amount of remedial bullshit to have to get over, and I promise you will hear about most of it on the record.”
+Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson - Barcelona Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson CD (Fat Possum)
Black musicians playing the fiddle and banjo have a history that dates back from slavery times to well into the last century. Joe Thompson of Mebane, NC is the oldest and last known black traditional old time fiddler of this genre. In 2005, it seemed to Joe that his community would not carry on his music. Then, the Carolina Chocolate Drops began to visit him every Thursday night to learn his songs. This album was recorded live at MerleFest 2008.
+Cave - Psychic Summer CD/LP (Important)
Important Records' dream come true -- a full length studio album from Chicago's Cave. Major momentum, expertly crafted and embracing maximum minimalism, repetition, Can-cloud-bounce, and full-on heavy chant. Like driving a train full-speed off a cliff only to discover that the plane can fly and you'll live forever if you stay inside.
+Corridor - Corridor CD (Manimal Vinyl)
Eight tracks of lush noise drenched stories of passion, loss and coming of age in the modern world. Multi-instrumentalist Michael Quinn is in his early 20’s but is already considered a seasoned player in the post-hardcore scenes in Boston and Seattle. Once he transplanted to L.A., Quinn wasted no time getting key slots on shows with Ariel Pink, Xu Xu Fang, Winter Flowers, etc. Taking his influences from ‘70s kraut-rock, Michael Gira's Swans and Django Reinhardt.
+Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Covers The Classics CD (Fantasy)
Brand new compilation that covers their classic hits.
+City Center - City Center CD/LP (Type)
Debut full-length release by Brooklyn-based Fred Thomas as City Center. Although this is his first solo project, Thomas is far from a newcomer to the scene. Rather, he has spent most of his life in search of the perfect pop music -- first as the frontman/mastermind of Saturday Looks Good To Me, recording with His Name Is Alive's Warn Defever, and as a member of Flashpapr.
+Crash Kings - Crash Kings CD (Milk/Crash Kings)
Three-piece alt-rock band from L.A., signed by Linda Perry in 2008.
+Current 93 - Aleph At Hallucinato By Mountain CD (Coptic Cat)
The unpredictable follow-up to
Black Ships Are The Sky is Current 93’s most powerful album to date.
+Das Boton - Soda Drip CD (Sixgunlover)
Bill Dolan is most known for his guitar work in 5ive Style and Heroic Doses (Sub Pop). He has been a huge influence to a generation of artists with his explosive 1960’s New Orleans / Afrobeat guitar work. With his roots intact, this record is heavily influenced by post-punk and early NYC new wave. Features his former band mate, Ryan ''Euphone'' Rapsys and Karl ''Babybird'' Ropp.
+Fully Celebrated - Drunk On the Blood Of The Holy Ones CD (AUM Fidelity)
Long one of Boston's musical gems, Fully Celebrated have always been Jim Hobbs (alto sax), Timo Shanko (bass), and Django Carranza (drums). "The band's core instincts involve bold, expressionistic playing, and drumming with emphatic glee. Indian raga, free-form swing, waltz, ballad, Latin, and funk rhythms were employed before the climactic rave." -- Boston Globe
+Georgia's Horse - Shepherd CDEP (Fire)
Redolent of the sun-baked vacant lots of Wim Wenders'
Paris, Texas, the gentle (ex-patriot) Americana of The New Pornographers, a light dusting of the folk-psychedelia of Smog and the torrid and threatening country death songs of PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love.
+Graves Of Valor - Salarian Gate CD (Relapse)
Graves of Valor (ex-Through The Eyes Of The Dead) explode to the forefront of the modern extreme metal scene with their Relapse debut.
+Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest CD/2xLP (Warp)
The long-awaited follow-up to Grizzly Bear's critically hailed album
Yellow House. Neoclassical composer Nico Muhly and Beach House singer Victoria Legrand contribute.
+Hallucinogen - In Dub Live CD (Sci Fidelity)
A solid hour of heavy grooves and upbeat psychedelic sofa monsters that features several new tracks.
+The Intelligence - Fake Surfers CD/LP (In The Red)
The possibility of an industrial/pop music crossover seems as unlikely as a black metal/country conglomeration, but on this new album, The Intelligence introduces a whole new spectrum of sonic awareness cleverly buried under little piles of dirt, with glimmering specks of brilliance poking through.
+Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul CD (Hydra Head)
Clean Hands Go Foul represents the final nail in the Khanate coffin, and a more fitting ending could not have been devised. Having left hordes of imitators in their wake, there will only ever be one Khanate. Clean Hands Go Foul is the most interesting material from Khanate and is telepathic in its cohesion.
+The Lava Children - Lava Children CD/LP (Graveface)
With their debut on Graveface, Oklahoma's The Lava Children have created eerie masterpieces that bring about feelings of nostalgia while immediately making the listener aware that they are witness to something completely uncommon.
+Damian Lazarus - Smoke The Monster Out CD (Get Physical Music)
Though Lazarus's grounding in house and techno is apparent throughout, this record is really a song based affair, full of unusual acoustic instrumentation and delicately wrought arrangements.
+Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II CD/4x12”+CD (Eskimo)
The highly-anticipated second full-length release by Oslo's cosmic-disco kings Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, the follow-up to their 2006 eponymous debut, which captured the hearts and minds of the global music community.
+Julian Marley - Awake CD (Tuff Going)
Third album from Bob Marley’s son.
+Marilyn Manson - High End Of Low CD/2xCD (Nothing)
New album. Reunites Manson with long time collaborator Twiggy Ramirez.
+Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds V.5 CD (Important)
Fifth volume in Merzbow's 13-month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien's
Catalogue D'Oiseaux.
+Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone CD (Relapse)
New album burns slow through twisted, psychedelic post rock with equal parts bombast and deliberation.
+Guido Möbius - Gebirge CD (Karaoke Kalk)
The third full-length release by Berlin's Guido Möbius sounds quite different from everything Mobius has previously released. His first two albums,
Klisten (Klangkrieg) and Dishoek (Dekoder) featured melodies on a collision course with sounds, styles and idiosyncrasies, melancholy and humor. Everything was interwoven, multi-layered and contrasting.
+Mandy Moore - Amanda Leigh CD (Storefront)
Mandy Moore purposely chose to record her latest album Amanda Leigh in a modest home basement studio in Meford, MA within the span of four weeks. No glitz, no glamour, and once again reinforcing her penchant for electing art over commerce. Inspirations for the album included Joni Mitchell, Tudd Rundgren, CSNY, and Nilsson.
+The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 1 CD (Kill Rock Stars)
On
Someday This Could All Be Yours Vol. 1, The Paper Chase sounds even more unlike any other band in modern music. As a band, The Paper Chase has matured but hasn't lightened up, leaving open spaces and allowing melodies to fully develop, the group presents its most powerful work to date. Utilizing a newfound dynamic command with drummer Jason Garner making his recorded debut with the group, these songs are able to breathe -- subtly building feelings of anticipation, yet erupting into violence and chaos as crisis becomes inevitable.
+Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix CD/LP+MP3 (Glassnote)
Brand new (fourth) album from the popular French, indie rockers. ''Stylishly morose noir pop, lighter than light, cooler than cool.'' -- Rolling Stone
+Po’ Girl - Deer In The Night CD (Po Girl)
This disc sees Po' Girl bring a fresh clarity to their self-styled urban roots music, distilling the seemingly instinctive interplay and magical chemistry between Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira (and Bennt Sidelinger and JJ Jones) into life affirming and soulful jams.'' -- Alan Pedder/Where's The Trouser Magazine
+Pour Habit - Suiticide CD (Fat Wreck)
Straight outta Compton, CA Pour Habit is the newest member of the Fat family. Turning heads since they formed in 2005, Pour Habit has emerged as one of the punk scene’s most dynamic up and coming bands. Their debut brings blazing dual guitars, furious bass lines, tight pummeling percussion, and soulful energetic melodies.
+Rusted Shut - Dead CD/LP (Load)
Houston's Rusted Shut has been at it in one form or another since 1986. This record is the work of a band determined to work out some difficult shit, so bear witness.
Dead is not for the faint of heart or those with weak kidneys. Don Walsh spins a negative vortex of such power that clothing, food wrappers and other loose items are easily sucked into its encompassing downer orbit. The music backing this maelstrom references hard rock superheroes with no sense of fidelity: The tinittus of Lemmy Kilmeister and the cochlea pain of GG Allin.
+Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens - What Have You Done My Brother? CD/LP (Daptone)
Like many gospel and R&B singers, Naomi Davis Shelton learned to sing at an early age in the church where she was baptized in Alabama. She began her professional career with a gig as the house singer at a little club called the Night Cap in Brooklyn, NY. It was there where she would meet the man who would become her producer, mentor, and friend for life. Over the next few years, Roth formed and developed Daptone Records with partner and saxophonist Neal Sugarman. It took three sets of sessions over three years before Roth and Driver finally found the right combination of singers, songs, and musicians to cut Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens' full length. The final result,
What Have You Done, My Brother?, is a testament to the singular sound of gospel and soul music.
+Shitmat - One Foot In The Rave CD/2xLP (Planet Mu)
Fourth Planet Mu full length for Brighton breakcore veteran is an old-school throwback.
+Michelle Shocked - Soul Of My Soul CD (Mighty Sound)
The sentiments on
Soul Of My Soul are couched mainly in straight four, no frills rock ‘n’ roll -- just the context for Shocked's two pronged passion play. She's righteously, morally, and intellectually pissed off at the state of the nation over the last eight years.
+Shonen Knife -Super Group CD (Valve)
The all-female Japanese garage pop punk legends Shonen Knife, championed by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Red Kross, etc. return with their latest album
Super Group.
+Stratovarius - Polaris CD (Armoury)
The band took a month off in a cottage on the sea in the Finnish countryside and emerged better than ever. Here is their newest CD full of positive energy, melody, and strong anthems for life.
+Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions CD (Southern Lord)
Sunn O))) is proud to present their seventh studio album. Work that spanned a year and a half resulted in their most intense, mature, and off-a-point-of-reference work to date. With this album they wanted to extend their embracing of sonic to integrate acoustic ensemble players.

+Team B
- Team B CD (Tonacity)
The previous two years have been extremely busy for former Lexingtonian Kelly Pratt. Between touring with The Arcade Fire and Beirut and recording with Coldplay, Nina Persson, Final Fantasy, The Macabees, Bishop Allen, Herman Dune, and many others, there shouldn't be time to breathe, much less write songs. This busy sideman lifestyle, however, is the driving force behind Pratt's new project, Team B.
+Thirteenth Rune - Thirteenth Rune CD (Ghost Dance)
Kevin Finn, now performing under the Thirteenth Rune moniker, continues to reconstruct his art with a patchwork of new songs creating new musical dimensions for voice and guitar. For fans of Mark Kozelek.
+Christopher Tignor - Core Memory Unwound CD (Western Vinyl)
For years, Slow Six bandleader, composer, and software designer Christopher Tignor has performed with his signature software instruments alongside fellow band members, sampling and transforming their live performances in accordance with his meticulous, emotionally charged scores. On
Core Memory Unwound, Tignor's debut under his given name, he brings his software to the forefront alongside some of his most intimate compositions for violin and piano.
+Tyvek - Tyvek CD/LP (Siltbreeze)
First full-length album from Detroit band follows a string of popular singles and EPs.
+Vast - Me And You CD (2Blossoms)
Sixth studio album continues Vast’s tradition of deep songwriting and innovative production featuring moving vocals and lush strings.
+Viva Voce - Rose City CD (Barsuk)
After two years of non-stop touring, band founders Kevin and Anita Robinson took an entire year off (unheard of for them) to clear their heads and focus on other projects. Now Viva Voce are back with
Rose City, an album they wrote, arranged, and recorded all in one furious month -- choosing not to deliberate over every little thing but living purely in the moment musically and lyrically. Immersing themselves in sonic experimentation, it was spontaneous and cathartic. The result is an angular, immediate record that pulses with the palpable urgency of a band yearning for a return to the vagabond life of the working, touring musician.
+War Tapes - Continental Divide CD (Sarathan)
Although a studio album, this bands energy shines through as though it were a live punk out get down and fly around punk show.
+Xasthur - All Reflections Drained CD/2xLP (Hydra Head)
All Reflections Drained is just another step in Xasthur's slowly evolving descent into psychic isolation and misanthropic bleak darkness. All of the usual symphonic contempt is present; bordering on blurred misery and solitary beauty. Recorded in 2007/’08, All Reflections Drained marks yet another crucial transition for Xasthur, with the inclusion of guest vocalist M.H., but to say it is the next logical step would be an uneducated statement. Malefic's musical progression is as reclusive and unsettling as the man himself and that's a good thing. This is music agony, not entertainment.
+Jenny Owen Young - Transmitter Failure CD (Nettwerk)
After being thrust into the spotlight with a record deal, her song ''F**k Was I'' being featured on the TV show
Weeds season two premier, and being the topic of super-celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, Jenny Owen Youngs returns with her latest album Transmitter Failure.
+Zap Mama - ReCreation CD (Heads Up)
In addition to a rhythm section rooted in a rich Brazilian vibe,
ReCreation also boasts a guest list of high-profile vocalists including Bilal, G. Love, actor Vincent Cassel (La Haine, Ocean's Twelve) and several others. The album offers everything the title suggests -- a time to make a break, to renew, and to play.

The Reissue zone...
+Amon Amarth - Avenger 2xCD (Metal Blade)
Amon Amarth is reissuing their first four albums as double-disc sets. The first disc features the original album with bonus tracks, and the second contains a live show of the band performing the album in its entirety. All shows were recorded between December 28-31, 2008.
+Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Concert (40th Anniversary) CD (Fantasy)
Recorded live at the Oakland Coliseum Jan 31, 1970.
+Del-Lords - Frontier Days CD (American Beat)
+Del-Lords - Based On A True Story CD (American Beat)
+Del-Lords - Johnny Comes Marching Home CD (American Beat)
What do you get when you mix the guitarist from legendary New York punk-rock band The Dictators (Scott Kempner), the one-time guitarist from Joan Jett's Blackhearts (Eric Ambel), the future-drummer of country-alt-rockers Cracker (Frank Funaro), with a bass player that could bottom out the Grand Canyon (Manny Caiati)? You get the Del-Lords -- a Springsteen meets Johnny Thunders mix of back-to-the-roots country-fied urban rock ‘n’ roll.
+Alejandro Escovedo - Gravity 2xCD (Floating World)
Gravity was the first solo album by the former main man of The True Believers and Rank And File (and before that hard core punk outfit The Nuns) and was originally released in 1992. Escovedo's debut was met with much critical acclaim and paved the way for his major label breakthrough. Includes a bonus disc of live material.
+Alejandro Escovedo - Thirteen Years 2xCD (Floating World)
The follow up to
Gravity was released in 1994 -- here Escovedo expands his musical line up to include Cellos, Violins, and Harps, yet kept the rocking element, particularly on the track, ''Losing Your Touch'' which features the guest guitar of Charlie Sexton. This release has an added a bonus disc which contains live and rare material including a stunning version of The Velvet Underground's “Pale Blue Eyes.”
+Golden Ear-rings - Just Earrings CD (RPM-Retro)
+Golden Ear-rings - Miracle Mirror CD (RPM-Retro)
+Golden Ear-rings - Winter Harvest CD (RPM-Retro)
The Golden Ear-rings (name change to the singular Golden Earring in 1969) were pioneers -- Holland's first homegrown beat-era stars: before The Motions, before Q65, before The Outsiders. Their first single hit the charts in April 1965 and began a career which still thrives today. Before the international smash “Radar Love” in 1974 the band had scored an unbroken run of Dutch hit singles during the '60s. Unlike most bands of the era, The Golden Ear-rings wrote their own material -- they only ever recorded a single cover version. The reissue of their first three albums -- 1965's
Just Earrings, 1967's Winter Harvest and 1968's Miracle Mirror -- reveals that The Golden Ear-rings were amazingly assured, years before the international recognition. Bonus tracks from singles complete these reissues, making The Golden Ear-rings' entire recorded works available for the first time.
+Holly Golightly - Down Gina’s At 3 CD/2xLP (Damaged Goods)
+Holly Golightly - Painted On CD/LP (Damaged Goods)
+Holly Golightly - Up The Empire CD/LP (Damaged Goods)
Her Sympathy For The Record Industry back-catalog -- reissues via Damaged Goods.
+Loop - The World In Your Eyes 3xCD (Reactor)
+Loop - A Gilded Eternity 2xCD (Reactor)
Final two in a series of reissues from late-‘80s British psych rock band includes a wealth of bonus material.
+Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood (20th Anniversary) CD (Motley Records)
The expanded 20th Anniversary edition of Dr, Feelgood features all original 11 tracks, 5 bonus live tracks, and never before seen photos from the Dr. Feelgood photoshoot.
+Dave Brubeck -Time Out (50th Anniversary) 2xCD+DVD (Columbia Legacy)
+Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain (50th Anniversary) 2xCD (Columbia Legacy)
+Charles Mingus - Ah Um (50th Anniversary) 2xCD (Columbia/Legacy)
Deluxe reissues now available.

Simply The Best...
+Big Audio Dynamite
- Best Of CD (Camden)
2009 collection from the '80s outfit formed by former Clash guitarist/vocalist Mick Jones (later of Carbon Silicon). Fifteen tracks including “C'mon Every Beatbox,” “The Bottom Line,” “Just Play Music,” “Rush” and many more.
+Paul Hardcastle - Collection CD (Trippin’ N’ Rhythm)
From the elusive hit maker and studio wiz Paul Hardcastle comes this definitive collection of some of his finest works in a set that will invigorate his passionate legion of fans. Includes two new tracks ''The Circle'' and ''Dancing Lights.''

Simply The Rest...
+Six Finger Satellite - Half Control CD (Load)
Archival 2001 recordings from Providence's finest square peg.
Half Control veers sharply away from the krautrock stylings of 1998's Law Of Ruins with a lineup that is hotwired.
+Pumajaw - Favourites CD (Fire)
Retrospective of the first four albums. These fourteen gems were handpicked by the group. A duo that weave multi-octave voice with looped guitar, mandolin, samples, concertina and hypnotic rhythms. They have their own seductive sound that defies categorization and stretches from psychedelic pop through sultry folk songs to eerie, cacophonous, trance-inducing laments.
+Telescopes - Singles Collection Volume 2 CD (Mind Expansion)
Ten mind blowing tracks taken from the extremely limited edition 7” singles and an extremely rare live 10'' vinyl single from 2005. Also features songs that were only released on the hand made tour CD's.

The Compilation zone...
+Various Artists - Not Given Lightly: A Tribute To The Giant Golden Book Of New Zealand’s Alternative Music Scene 2xCD/3xLP (Morr Music)
Morr Music presents a compilation paying tribute to the great, highly-influential New Zealand indie-pop bands of the 1980s, whose steadfast DIY aesthetic paved the way internationally for the future development of all modern indie bands to follow. CD1 features cover versions of New Zealand's most beloved songs from that era by Morr's top current artists, and CD2 features previously-unreleased tracks that look towards the future of indie-pop. In New Zealand, the archetype of what was called indie-pop was established.
+Various Artists - Psychedelic Guide To Monsterism Island CD (Lo Recordings)
Original compositions from some of the underground's most intrepid musical explorers. Monstrous rock fry-ups, electronic exotica via psychedelic folk and spooky krautrock. Artists include: Luke Vibert, Wolf People, Gruff Rhys and Monsters At Work.
+Various Artists - Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography 1890-1950 Book+CD (Dust-To-Digital)
The latest release from Grammy Award-winning reissue label Dust-to-Digital gives music fans another reason to rejoice. A stunning 96-page hardcover book of historic baptism photographs, taken between 1890 and 1950 and compiled from the collection of noted folk art collector Jim Linderman, is accompanied by a CD of rare gospel and folk recordings from original 78 RPM records (1924-1940), featuring artists Washington Phillips, Carter Family, Tennessee Mountaineers, and more. Produced by the 2009 Grammy winner for "Best Historical Album," Steven Lance Ledbetter. The CD could easily be seen as the seventh disc of Goodbye, Babylon (DTD 001CD), Dust-To-Digital's critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated box set from 2003. Original 78 RPM records came from the collections of Joe Bussard, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Frank Mare and Roger Misiewicz. 96-page hardcover book (8.75 x 6 inches) with 75 sepia photograph reproductions from 1890-1950; CD includes 25 songs and sermons from 1924-1940.
+Various Artists - Twenty First Century Twenty First Year CD (Luaka Bop)
The Luaka Bop label started in 1988 as David Byrne began making cassettes for his friends of his favorite Brazilian music. Now, twenty-one years later, this compilation album begins with the first track on Luaka Bop's first album:
Unbabrumma by Jorge Ben. Twenty First Century Twenty First Year continues through some of their biggest hits with tracks from artists such as Shuggie Otis, Zap Mama, Geggy Tah, Susana Baca, Los Amigos Invisibles, and Moreno Veloso.

The DVD zone...
+Diana Krall - Live In Rio DVD (Eagle Rock)
Diana Krall has had a long time fascination with bossa nova, a type of music, which perfectly suits her sophisticated yet sensual style. This culminated in her recently released studio album
Quiet Nights and in this stunning concert filmed in the home of the bossa nova, Rio de Janeiro, in November 2008. Accompanied by her band and an orchestra, Diana Krall delivers a superb set of standards in true bossa nova style but clearly bearing her unique stamp. This DVD captures Diana Krall at her scintillating best.
+Ministry - Adios...Putas Madres: Ministry's Final World Tour 2008 2xDVD (13th Planet)
The peerless sounds of Ministry take center stage -- literally -- in this two-disc set that features a performance from the group's final tour and an insightful documentary. Join frontman Al Jourgensen and his bandmates as they present such industrial music classics as ''Let's Go,'' ''Waiting,'' ''So What,'' ''N.W.O.,'' ''What a Wonderful World,'' and more
+The Moody Blues - Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 DVD (Eagle Rock)
In 1970 The Moody Blues were at their creative and commercial peak. After reinventing themselves from their R&B roots to a much more sophisticated sound, between 1967 and 1970 they released five albums, four of which hit the Top 5 in the UK with two of them going to No.1. They enjoyed similar success in the USA where four of the albums hit the Top 20 and the other was just outside. At the end of August 1970,shortly after the release of their album
A Question Of Balance, The Moody Blues took to the stage of the Isle Of Wight Festival in front of an audience estimated at over half a million. This DVD makes that performance available to be seen for the first time.
+Procol Harum - Live In Concert With The Danish National Concert Orchestra And Choir DVD (Eagle Rock)
This DVD was filmed over two spectacular concerts held in the grounds of Ledreborg Castle in Denmark in August 2006. The band was accompanied throughout by the Danish National Concert Orchestra And Choir and these epic songs really benefit from the full symphonic arrangements they receive. Also included are six previously unreleased live tracks from a 1974 Danish TV special as a bonus feature.

The Vinyl zone...
+Asunder / Graves At Sea - Split LP (20 Buck Spin)
Much-requested repress of the long out-of-print doom LP.
+DJ Kaos - Love The Nite Away 12” (Rong/DFA)
A disco/rock hybrid reminiscent of Daniele Baldelli with its rough male vocal sound and “I Feel Love”-style acid bass lines.
+Group Doueh - Treeg Salaam LP (Sublime Frequencies)
Compiled from their personal archives, these five tracks are as brain shifting in their ecstatic brilliance as any music ever heard. From the wah-stroked lead off track to the blazing dexterity of "Ragsa Jaguar," the whole of the first side is an entrance to the lip-puckering tea den of Saharan trance heaven. One-time pressing of 1,500 copies on HQ-180 vinyl.
+iTal Tek - Massive Error 12” (Planet Mu)
Hot on the heels of his 2008 debut album
Cyclical, Alan Myson is back with more material at the crux of techno and dubstep.
+Walter Jones - I’ll Keep On Loving You 12” (DFA)
Staggeringly unique, haunting electronic pop from dance music enigma.
+The Juan MacLean - One Day 12” (DFA)
A concise and exhilarating slice of electro-pop -- the second single off The Juan MacLean’s epic new full-length
The Future Will Come.
+Pinch - Attack Of The Giant Killer Robot Spiders 12” (Planet Mu)
Arguably the king of the Bristol scene, DJ Pinch is a name that everyone into dubstep should know.
+Raffertie - Wobble Horror 12” (Planet Mu)
Hailing from Britain’s South Coast and now based in Birmingham, Raffertie is the 21 year old DJ/producer whose innovative and downright filthy style has been smashing up the UK’s underground dance music scene for the last couple of years.
+Omar Souleyman - Highway To Hassake: Folk And Pop Songs Of Syria 2xLP (Sublime Frequencies)
Now available on double-LP. Omar Souleyman is a Syrian musical legend. Since 1994, he and his musicians have emerged as a staple of folk-pop throughout Syria, but until now they have remained little known outside of the country. To date, they have issued more than 500 studio and live-recorded cassette albums which are easily spotted in the shops of any Syrian city. Born in rural Northeastern Syria, he began his musical career in 1994 with a small group of local collaborators who remain with him today.
+What’s Up? - Content Imagination LP+MP3 (Obey Your Brain)
Debut from Portland, OR instrumental rock group led by Robby Moncrief. CD out on Tomlab.
+Feist - Let It Die LP (Arts & Crafts)
+Feist - Open Season LP+MP3 (Arts & Crafts)
+Feist - Reminder LP (Arts & Crafts)
Deluxe HQ-180 vinyl reissues now available.
+Anathallo - Canopy Glow LP (Anticon)
+Karen Dalton - It’s So Hard To Tell Whose Going To Love You The Best 2xLP (Light In The Attic)
+Steve Earle - Townes 2xLP (New West)
+Eminem - Relapse LP (Aftermath)
+Heartless Bastards - Mountain LP+7” (Fat Possum)
+Monks - Black Monk Time 2xLP (Light In The Attic)
+Mt. Eerie (Mount) - Live In Copenhagen 3xLP (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
+Witch Hunt - Burning Bridges To Nowhere LP (Alternative Tentacles)
+Your Black Star - Beasts LP (Hawthorne Street)
These titles now available on vinyl.


19 MAY 09

+Almost Charlie - Plural Of Yes CD (Words On Music)
North American debut release by Berlin, Germany’s Almost Charlie. The record’s thirteen compositions, a cunning blend of gifted melodies and chamber pop atmospherics, are the inimitable offspring of a transatlantic songwriting duo who, to this day, have never met. Berlin-based singer-guitarist Dirk Homuth answered an Internet ad in early summer 2003 from New York City lyricist Charlie Mason, who was searching for a composer. Almost Charlie was born and with it a strict division of lyricist and composer that brings to mind classic songwriting teams like Burt Bachrach/Hal David. RIYL: Elliott Smitth, Belle & Sebastian, Nick Drake, and Kings Of Convenience.
+Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin CD/CD+DVD/LP (Republic)
Tori's tenth studio album is another innovative chapter in the artist's trailblazing story. Every track on the album will be accompanied by a corresponding `visualette,' featuring footage that has been captured over the past year. Shot in HD and Super 8, the visualettes will incorporate a documentary style. Also available on vinyl.
+Apostle Of Hustle - Eats Darkness CD (Arts & Crafts)
Apostle Of Hustle consists of Andrew Whiteman (lead guitarist of Broken Social Scene), bassist Julian Brown (Feist), and Dean Stone (Sarah Harmer, Amy Millan) on drums. Each highly regarded for their individual accomplishments in their craft, together they create a sound that is incredibly unique, thought provoking, and fueled by a raw, explosive energy.
+Au Revoir Simone - Still Night, Still Light CD (Our Secret Record Company)
Third release from the indie pop darlings. Lush, intricately arranged keyboard sounds create a backdrop for the ladies' beautiful vocal harmonies in a soundscape ranging from the intimately delicate to the powerfully psychedelic. The album is a warm, circuitous current of energy that is gorgeously incandescent and instantly familiar.
+Avizee - Zee Avi CD (Brushfire Records)
23 years old and born in Borneo, she became a YouTube sensation, and discovered by Raconteurs’ drummer Patrick Keeler, who immediately got her signed.
+Scott H Biram - Something’s Wrong / Lost Forever CD/LP (Bloodshot)
Austin TX's dirty old one-man band's third album for Bloodshot is profane and tender, alluring and frightening. And while such intensely polarizing forces would tear a lesser man apart, Scott appears to revel in the tug of war.

+Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast For Vultures CD (Candlelight)
Seven blistering songs from the Norwegian metal band.
+Harlan T. Bobo - I’m Your Man CD (Goner)
Harlan is a feature character in MTV's web and TV series
$5 Cover, and this, his second album, also contains songs featured on the series.
+Dale Ann Bradley - Don’t Turn Your Back CD (Compass)
Good advice, and a great new album. Bradley has never failed to deliver the goods when it comes to making music. This one finds her with her familiar mix of covers, traditional and originals. Produced by friend and fan Alison Brown this one goes perfect with those Spring breezes that we’ve been feeling around here lately.
+Busta Rhymes - Back On My B.S. CD/CD+DVD (Motown)
As Busta Rhymes embarks on his eighth studio album
Back On My B.S., his first release through Motown Records, Busta will once again prove that he is a formidable centerpiece in music. His undeniable talent coupled with upcoming partnerships, demonstrate he is a living legend. Bonus DVD edition features “Arab Money [Live]” and bonus material.
+Carbon Leaf - Nothing Rhymes With Woman CD (Vanguard)
Produced by John Morand, who manned the board for their Vanguard debut,
Indian Summer, Nothing Rhymes With Woman finds the Virginia-based band firmly in touch with its roots -- the Celtic tinge that cloaks "Pink" is reminiscent of Carbon Leaf's passel of self-released discs. Throughout the set, however, the quintet affirms a commitment to moving forward, kicking out the jams a bit more aggressively on the sinewy walking blues "Another Man's Woman" and interpolating the rich organ playing of longtime Dave Matthews Band keyboardist Butch Taylor on several tracks, including the arresting opener "Indecision."
+Children - Hard Times Hangin’ At The End of the World CD (Kemado)
Tradition meets stamina head on throughout the album's six massive long playing tracks. With intricate, narrative dual guitar work and a frenzied wired demeanor they bring it all together: thrash advancements, serious girth, familiar passage crosscut with relentless speed, a formidable edge and self-proclaimed "spiritual conspiracy party riffs."
+Craig Chaquico - Follow The Sun CD (Shanachie)
Craig Chaquico is an undeniable guitar wizard who remains at the top of the national charts for a fourth decade and a new millennium. Smooth jazz concert veterans will recognize Chaquico as an original cast member of Guitars & Saxes all-star tour that has featured Richard Elliot, Warren Hill, Peter White, Jeff Golub and Jeff Kashiwa.
+CKY - Carver City CD (Roadrunner)
The roots of the relationships that bring you the present-day CKY date back to late 1992 in West Chester, PA. Over the course of four albums, a DVD, countless live shows and several stints with MTV2 programming, CKY emerge in 2009 stronger than ever and ready to stir things up again. Also available as a Special Edition version with four bonus tracks.
+Eric Clapton And Steve Winwood - Live From Madison Square Garden 2xCD (Reprise)
History rocked and rock made history during a sold-out three-gig stand at Madison Square Garden in late February 2008 when icons Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed together for the first time since their all-too-brief days in the legendary Blind Faith in 1969. Also available on DVD.
+Coralie Clement - Toystore CD (Compass)
Coralie Clement, the tri-lingual French pop singer (she records in French, English, and Italian), took a playful approach to her third album
Toystore. Backed by a montage of toy instruments (ukulele, pennywhistle, pocket comet, alto half-violin, slide-flute, Melodica, maracas, shaker, xylophone, baby Farfisa) Clement's expressive vocals are a perfect fit for film.
+Clues - Clues CD/LP (Constellation)
This is the wondrous debut record from Clues. Co-founders Alden Penner and Brendan Reed have been quietly nurturing this project in Montreal since the demise of their respective bands, Unicorns and Les Angles Morts. As a member of the short-lived Unicorns, Penner's songwriting prowess was unveiled in a bright burst of mysterious and kaleidoscopic energy, in the form of a single full-length album (released in 2003) and countless live shows, both of which rallied passionate responses from audiences and critics alike.
+Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications CD/2xLP (Rough Trade)
His second solo album, following 2006's
Jarvis. Recorded in Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, Further Complications contains the more roughed up tunes Cocker has been peddling since parting with Pulp.
+Combichrist - Heat EP: All Pain Is Beat CDEP+12” (Metropolis)
Features remixes by the likes of VNV Nation and Assemblage 23. The CD contains six tracks and two bonus videos, while the 12-inch maxi single houses three tracks on a red buzz saw-shaped slab of vinyl.
+The Curious Mystery - Rotting Slowly CD/LP (K)
A junkyard band with a heart of dirt, smoke and wires. This Seattle group blends ‘60s-style psychedelia with American country-blues and garage experimentalism. Their debut places an emphasis on dense sonic texture and unorthodox song structures. It has a vast implied distance and textural tension, canvassing canyons and turning tight corners.
+Dane Cook - Isolated Incident C+DVD (Comedy Central)
After his last two highly rated specials and multi-platinum selling albums, Dane reinvented his act and took it to the stage in front of 400 people at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. This intimate show was performed in a nightclub atmosphere where Dane shared the audience's energy in a real-time performance, without a safety net. Here, he showcases a darker and more personal set with cutting edge material that pushes the envelope. The double-digipak contains a full-length CD of his best new material plus a DVD documenting the making of the album.
+Deathstars - Night Electric Night CD (Bieler Bros.)
Night Electric Night is tough and black, yet seductive and passionate in its expression of the city's destructive night side. By expanding structures and using even more varied elements, these Swedish death glammers have strengthened and deepened the richness in their trademark super dark rock.
+Drive A - Loss Of Desire CD (Adrenaline)
Their debut is a killer mix of pounding drums, lethal guitars, cascading bass lines, and fierce vocals that converge to create a sound that pays respect to the past, stands up to the present, and will kick down the door to the future.
+Ear Pwr - Super Animal Brothers III CD/LP (Carpark)
Blistering thumpers with infectious melodies, disco chants with wild-eyed electro anthems - all part of the unique electronic vision of Baltimore's Ear Pwr. This duo has blended bits of Italo disco, Baltimore club, and twee indie pop to create a nuclear party grenade that'll blow your mind.
+Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colors CD (Goner)
This explosive second album from the Melbourne, Australia group.
+Elfin Saddle - Ringing For The Begin Again CD/LP (Constellation)
Elfin Saddle is the musical project co-founded by Jordan McKenzie and Emi Honda. Partners in life and in art, Jordan and Emi have been building a wonderful body of visual, installation and video art that combines organic living materials with found and scavenged objects to create enchanted environments of growth, slow transformation and gradual decay. Miniature examples of this work can be seen on the album cover art for this, their second record, and first for Constellation.
+Richard Elliot - Rock Steady CD (Artistry)
Richard Elliot has a history of picking the right tune and wrapping his signature sax sound around it. Rock Steady boasts appearances by Gerald Albright, Rick Braun and Jeff Lorber among others.
+Eminem - Relapse CD (Aftermath)
Eminem marks his tenth anniversary as a hip-hop icon with
Relapse, yet another skillful collaboration with Dr. Dre. Features the single “Crack A Bottle” (which features Dre and 50 Cent).
+Evil Cowards - Covered In Gas CD (Metropolis)
Evil Cowards is the side project of Tyler Spencer of Electric Six. The debut by this NYC duo is catchy while bathing in the majesty of William Bates' (Fall On Your Sword) unique production.
+The Field - Yesterday And Today CD (Anti)
The Field is Axel Willner, and 2007's
Here We Go Sublime was one of the year's most acclaimed releases, receiving a 9.0 from Pitchfork as well as universal praise. It was a soundtrack to the spit-shined airport of your dreams -- faceless, futuristic, and fuzzy. Now, Willner expands his palette, continuing the oblique sampling strategy while building up the rhythmic architecture.
+Faraway Places - Out Of The Rain, The Thunder, & The Lightning CD (Save It Records)
The second record from this L.A. band comes at you with a full-force blend of creative influences. The group combines Motown rhythm, Lou Reed guitar and blown-out moog-style synths. This album explores a sonic collage with an arena-rock flavor and a sound the band has dubbed as "California Krautrock."
+Flipper - Fight (Live) CD (Flipper)
Live album from the gritty art punk masters. Recorded in 2007 as the live companion to the new studio album,
Love.
+Flipper - Love CD (Flipper)
Brand new studio album from the art punk sludge legends. Recorded by legendary grunge producer Jack Endo at Krist Noveselic’s Murky Slough Studios.
+Oscar G - DJ 2xCD+DVD (Nervous)
Oscar G is a world class DJ who has built his reputation on the substance of his music and ability, not just his image. This double CD+DVD was recorded and filmed live from Space Terrace during one of his infamous Sunday morning after-hour sessions.
+Paul Giallorenzo - Get In To Go Out CD (482 Music)
This high-voltage aggregate features Giallorenzo’s alternately fiery and contemplative pianism in the company of saxophonist Dave Rempis, cornetist Josh Berman, bassist Anton Hatwich, and Frank Rosaly on drums. "
GITGO" presents controlled fire music born of an homage to experimental jazz of the late ‘50s and blazing trails into territory illuminated by the music's pioneers.
+Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown CD (Reprise)
Produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage)
21st Century Breakdown continues American Idiot's punk-rock opera format.
+Guru - Guru 8.0: Lost & Found CD (7 Grand)
Fourth release from the iconic MC.
+Mike Hale - Lives Like Mine CD/LP+MP3 (Suburban Home)
Follow-up to his debut,
Broken With No Hope. Vinyl limited to 1,000 copies, on colored vinyl, coming with a download coupon.
+IamX - Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction CD (Metropolis)
The Sneaker Pimps' Chris Corner releases his third album -- ''a place where the aches and pains of banality can be relieved; vices, insecurities, stupidities cured. A little bit like Disneyworld but with lipstick, cynicism, and wit.'' -- Chris Corder, Postwave
+Jack O & The Tennessee Tearjerkers - Disco Outlaw CD (Goner)
MTV series
$5 Cover character Jack Yarber, aka Jack O, is an underground Memphis legend. According to Spin Magazine, he is ''arguably the finest rock talent Memphis has produced since Alex Chilton.''
+Jes - High Glow CD (Ultra)
Jes is undeniably an outstanding singer -- her vocal talents have been used on collaborations with Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, and Gabriel & Dresden. She was also the vocalist of Motorcycle. ''High Glow'' remixes her self-proclaimed and utterly unique ''rocktronica'' sound.
+Jonathan Kane - Jet Ear Party CD/2xLP (Table Of The Elements)
Drummer and visionary multi-instrumentalist Kane was a founding member of No Wave behemoth Swans, then the percussive thunder behind the minimalist ensembles of La Monte Young and the guitar armies of Rhys Chatham. Underlying it all is Kane's complete immersion in the blues. His second release is a masterpiece of raw, ass-thumping Americana.
+Karate High School - Invaders CD (Eyeball)
San Francisco-based Karate High School’s debut commercial release effortlessly melds metal guitar riffs with electronic accents, forming an album of true punk rock.
+Mat Kearney - City Of Black & White CD (Aware)
Mat Kearney returns with an album informed by the traveling, performing and adventuring the Oregon-born, Nashville-based singer did while supporting his breakthrough album.
+Killah Priest - Exorcist CD (Iceman Music)
New release from the Wu-Tang Clan associate.
+Kronos Quartet - Floodplain CD (Nonesuch)
With
Floodplain, Kronos Quartet draws together work from the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe in particular from those nations whose external conflicts and internal divisions have, for many Westerners, often overshadowed their rich musical legacies. With these twelve specially commissioned tracks, Kronos Quartet explore centuries-old traditions while also presenting adventurous new music by young composers who sample and reinterpret aspects of their indigenous cultures.
+Jim Kweskin - Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) CD (Blix Street)
A mixed set consisting of four brand new tracks, joined by four tracks from his album
Now And Again, and three tracks from Samoa Wilson's Live The Life album. Backed by The Jim Kweskin Band.
+Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard - ‘Em Are I CD/LP (Rough Trade)
Part folkie, part indie-rocker, part comic book artist -- how does indigenous New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis do it?
Em Are I is an eleven-song production that seems to reflect a love of the last forty years of popular music, all filtered through Jeff's unmistakable idiosyncratic muse.
+Frank & Lorin London - Skramberg - Tsuker-Zis CD (Tzadik)
This third installment of their Nigunim projects focuses on Hasidic holiday songs. Features guitarist Knox Chandler (Psychedelic Furs), legendary oud player Ara Dinkjian ank Indian percussion virtuoso Deep Singh.
+Joe Lovano Us Five - Folk Art CD (Blue Note)
Joe Lovano formed a new band that he calls Us Five to record Folk Art, his 22nd effort for Blue Note. In the liberated spirit of 1960s avant-garde and 1970s loft scenes -- featuring rising stars Esperanza Spalding on bass, Francisco Mela and Otis Brown III on drums and percussion, and James Weidman on piano -- this is Joe's first album of all original compositions, mixing his native-tongue free jazz elasticity with nuanced Latin grooves and meditative lyricism.
+Jason Lytle (Grandaddy) - Yours Truly, Commander CD/LP+MP3 (Anti)
Highly anticipated new album from Granddaddy frontman, Jason Lytle. After fifteen years at the helm of Grandaddy, Lytle returns with a new collection of songs that elaborates on the musical and lyrical ideas he explored in that band. Electronic flourishes collide with acoustic guitars and soulful piano parts, recreating Lytle's signature electro-lo-fi atmospheres.
+Steve Martin - The Crow: New Songs For The Five-String Banjo CD (Rounder)
Comedian, actor, author, and banjo player Steve Martin releases his first musical recording since 1978's
King Tut. This is no novelty record though. It's some of the best banjo music to come down the pike in a long time. The Crow features able assistance from some of Steve's pals, including Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck, Tim O'Brien and Mary Black. Martin wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on this album.
+Antsy McClain & The Trailer Park Troubadors - New Good Old Days CD (DPR)
“Why is this man laughing? We’re a nation at war for pete’s sake! Our economy is going down the tubes! We’re in the middle of a housing crisis, surrounded by man-made and natural disasters, and this guy has the audacity to smile. What does this guy know that we don’t know?? The answer is music!! Antsy’s new album is an upbeat and often humorous look at our changing world. His songwriting reminds me of Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and me.” -- Willie Nelson
+Method Man & Redman - Blackout 2 CD (Def Jam)
New album from the hip-hop duo.
+MewithoutYou - It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright! CD (Tooth & Nail)
It's All Crazy!... is another daring adventure. Much of the MewithoutYou anguish of old has given way to a sense of gentle wonder, as the band and a whole slew of guest musicians have unearthed strange and beautiful sounds that accompany the album's many marvels. The band remains in left field, but one that continuously draws to them more eccentrics, seekers, and lovers of original music.

Milk Inc - Forever CD (Ultra)
New hit album from Belgium's hottest live dance act. They're the winners of this year's MIA Best Dance/Electronica award and the TMF Award's Best Album, Best Live, and Best Dance awards. This release has now gone platinum in Belgium.

Miss Kittin And The Hacker - Two CD/2xLP (Nobody’s Bizzness)
Miss Kittin (Carline Herve) and The Hacker (Michel Amato) -- individually, as writers, artists, DJs and producers they are impressive. On the brand new album,
Two, together again as a duo, they are unrivalled. It's been far too long since the release of their era-defining classic First Album, but wait no more, dear music lover, for they are back with a bang. And you'd better believe, it's a big, cosmic ''bang''.

Monahans - Dim The Aurora CD (Misra)
Austin's Monahans offer their second album, showcasing their newly discovered pop talents. In order to give these anthemic pop vistas the space they need, the band has balanced the album with a number of predominantly instrumental tracks, including the twenty-plus minute ''Terrene''. Their music is as enduring as the white sand hills of West Texas after which they were named. RIYL: My Morning Jacket, REM, Explosions In The Sky, Califone.

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out - Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out CD (Rural Rhythm)
The soulful mountain vocals of Russell Moore, combined with the unmatched band harmonies and top-notch instrumentation from IIIrd Tyme Out, continue to define this group as one of the most respected names in acoustic/Bluegrass music.

Ikue Mori - Class Insecta CD (Tzadik)
One of the pioneers of laptop electronics, Ikue (formerly of the landmark No Wave band DNA) has been breaking new ground on the musical frontier for three decades. This newest solo CD features her idiosyncratic take on contemporary dance rhythms and electronica. Fascinating ambient textures, detailed improvisations and pulsing hypnotic rhythms clash and combine in this complex and charismatic electronic masterpiece.

Nino Moschella - Boom Shadow CD/LP (Ubiquity)
Boomshadow is a fictional character concocted by Moschella and friends nearly a decade ago. He's a super hero of sorts who didn't have a specific power, but would just come onto the scene and save everyone. As such, this album launches with a super hero-like frenetic flying kick to the eardrums, followed by raw, angular funk rock, more soulful sounds, and tracks with a cosmic bounce.
+The Oak Ridge Boys - The Boys Are Back CD (Spring Hill)
The Boys Are Back... back with an all-new album... back to the traditional four-part harmonies on which they were founded... back to the "rootsy" recording styles of the outlaw music days on the Row... and back to their timeless ability to stay on the cutting edge.
+OHMphrey - OHMphrey CD (Magna Carta)
OHMphrey, the brainchild of three members of the Chicago-based jam-band Umphrey's McGee (keyboardist Joel Cummins, guitarist Jake Cinninger and drummer Kris Myers) and OHM guitarist Chris Poland, a legendary player who's perhaps best known for work with head-banging pioneers Megadeth, and bassist Robertino Pagliari (a.k.a. ''Pag''), unleashes their improv-heavy self-titled debut -- a record that assimilates not only disparate musical genres but the individual playing styles of everyone involved.
+Old Man’s Child - Slaves Of The World CD (CMA)
Seventh album from the Norwegian black metal outfit.
+Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens - Play My Game CD (Steamhammer)
American metal vocalist Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens’ (Beyond Fear, ex-Judas Priest, ex-Iced Earth) new album features a dozen brand-new tracks that Owens composed with renowned friends, including Bob Kulick and Chris Caffery (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra), guitarists Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), Michael Wilton (Queensryche), Jeff Loomis (Nevermore), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), bassists Marco Mendoza (ex-Whitesnake), Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, ex-David Lee Roth), and more.
+Passion Pit - Manners CD/LP (French Kiss)
Starry-eyed Massachusetts D.I.Y. poppers Passion Pit have one foot in the skronky, shambling lo-fi underground and one in the flashing-lights big-room dance-pop overground.
+Dusty Rhodes And The River Band - Palace And Stage CD/LP (Side One Dummy)
Their sophomore album blends modern rock, gospel, Motown, alt-country, and folk in an intoxicating mix, showcasing music that is as accessible as it is original. Their sound defies easy categorization, but boasts the freewheeling approach that draws natural comparisons to
Exile On Main Street-era Rolling Stones.
+Lionel Richie - Just Go CD (Island/Mercury)
Singer, songwriter, producer, Oscar recipient and five-time Grammy award-winning artist Lionel Richie gets into a new groove on
Just Go, his first new studio album in more than two years.
+Savath & Savalas - La Llama CD (Stone’s Throw)
Savath & Savalas is Guillermo Scott Herren (perhaps best known as Prefuse 73), Eva Puyuelo Muns and Roberto Carlos Lange. We've been experimenting with some different ways of releasing our records, just as Guillermo Scott Herren is experimenting with a new way of releasing Savath & Savalas, his Catalan acid-folk project which even pre-dates Prefuse 73.
+Polly Scattergood - Polly Scattergood CD (Mute)
Debut album from the quirky singer/songwriter. Built around fractious yet pretty guitar and piano (she plays Stylophone and accordion, too), Polly Scattergood's peculiar talent conjures up a looking glass world where nothing is quite how it first appears to be. More creative than a person has a right to be, Polly writes brilliantly unsettling odd pop and will soon unveil a live show that is as arresting and powerful as her recordings, expect more revelations from this extraordinary young artist.
+Settle - At Home We Are Tourists CD (Epitaph)
The debut by this Pennsylvania band is a pop dreamscape that deftly combines indie and dance rock, alternately ironic and deeply emotional. Citing influences from Elvis Costello to The Liars, and inspiration from art to social networking sites, this record illustrates both the outlandish collection of pop culture that moves the band, and an unusual ability to craft a remarkably accomplished record. RIYL: Franz Ferdinand, The Liars, Arctic Monkeys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Brand New.
+Andy Shauf - Darker Days CD/LP (P Is For Panda)
This album is crisp and full of character, easily called a new-folk pop record due to the mounting hooks and layered studio sound, but it's much more. Whether full of layered vocals that feel like an Elliott Smith song cleaned up for a date, or the light picking sounds of an old guitar marking the lessons of letting go, each song retains the original bedroom fuzz -- the experiment of an idea in the quick moment - because Andy's musical roots begin there, with the bedroom demos he hid from even those closest to him.
+Skeletonbreath - Eagle’s Nest, Devil’s Cave CD (Ernest Jennings)
While the name Skeletonbreath might suggest ghostly figures and chain-rattling wraiths lurking behind your walls, the Brooklyn-based instrumentalist trio is anything but invisible. Bob Pycior (of O'Death, violin) and Andrew Platt (bass) cut their Skeletonbreath teeth in 2002, with former member Crockett Doob on drums, and in 2006 self-released their debut,
Louise. Their relentless touring turned heads, and the sonic orgy of screeching strings and explosive percussion seized ears. Though Doob parted amiable ways with Pycior and Platt in 2007, Skeletonbreath's inertia was unrelenting, and the remaining duo sequestered the skills of Tris Palazzolo (also of Philly's Red Racket, formerly Red Rocket, and Grandchildren) and have since only gained momentum.
+Leo Wadada Smith / Jack DeJohnette - America CD (Tzadik)
Features six new compositions by one of the most consistently brilliant composer/performers out of the legendary AACM, and telepathic interplay by two virtuoso instrumentalists who have been pushing the musical envelope since the 1960s.
+Ruben Studdard - Love Is CD (Sony)
The collection of love songs features originals as well as covers, including Ruben's versions of Extreme's classic hit “More Than Words” and Michael Jackson's “I Can't Help It.”
+Tartufi - Nests Of Waves And Waves And Wire CD (Southern)
This San Francisco duo, much praised for their awe-inspiring live sets and loop-heavy soundscapes, have taken their sonic vision to the next level. After three years of experimentation within their performance, both on-stage and in the studio, the band has developed their craft into an art form. Tartufi welcomed engineer and co-producer Tim Green back into the control room and spent over four months recording and mixing what has become their most ambitious work to date.
+U.S. (Funkadelic) - U.S. Music With Funkadelic CD (Westbound)
In 1972, as the lineup of Funkadelic that had made the first three albums collapsed in on themselves, some members shuttled back and forth between Detroit and Toronto and kept recording. One of the projects they embarked upon was an LP by a group called U.S. (United Soul). The original album of five tracks includes some prime era Funkadelic grooves including the outrageous “Rat Kiss The Cat On The Navel” and “Be What You Is” which are both uptempo psychedelic funk, as well as the wonderful gospel-imbued vocals of Gary Shider on the opener “This Broken Heart.” An album reached test-pressing stage, but was never released.
+John Vanderslice - Romanian Names CD/LP (Dead Oceans)
His best record to date contains twelve songs representing a career-defining moment; a pitch-perfect collection written and recorded with the utmost care and attention. A symphony of sounds both subtle and lush.
+Gaura Vani & As Kindred Spirits - Ten Million Moons CD (Equal Vision)
The second release from one of the most sought after kirtan (chant) groups in the world. They transport us to their divine universe with lush, cinematic arrangements, beautiful vocal harmonies, dynamic ethnic rhythms, and rich textured instrumentation.
+Kate Voegele - A Fine Mess CD (Interscope)
New release from Kate Voegele who has starred in
One Tree Hill.
+The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes CD/LP (Tee Pee)
Throbbing bass lines, distant rolling thunder drums, and zombie rattlesnake shake are a heartbeat of strange, ominous vitality. Guitars howl, slash, and bounce like light. The vocals sound oddly alone and unsettlingly intimate all at once.
+White Rabbits - It’s Frightening CD/LP (TBD Records)
Highly anticipated sophomore album from this Brooklyn band. Produced by Britt Daniel of Spoon. ''Exuberant Brooklyn rock with no fuzzy distance, either sonic or ironic.'' -- Village Voice
+Hermas Zopoula - Espoir 2xCD (Asthmatic Kitty)
Zopoula is the youngest of thirty-six children of a West African family. He's a moped enthusiast, orphanage volunteer, and Internet café proprietor. He's also a psalmist, and this is his first international recording. Hermas sings in four different languages here: French, English, Dioula, and Sissali (his mother tongue). Disc One presents a refined and practiced Hermas while the second disc is just him and a guitar in his backyard. Comparisons to singer/songwriter Seu Jorge are inevitable, but listeners will find Hermas' voice sweeter and warmer.

The Reissue zone...
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Les Baxter - Space Escapade CD (El Records)
Space Escapade (not reissued or digitalized in the half century since it's original release) is the Holy Grail to Baxterites and students of the exotica genre -- showcasing all of the eclecticism and sensual orchestral effects that are Baxter's trademark.
+Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - First Born Is Dead CD+DVD (Mute)
+Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity CD+DVD (Mute)
+Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks CD+DVD (Mute)
+Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Your Funeral My Trial CD+DVD (Mute)
Remastered classics from Nick Cave, Each deluxe double disc set contains the remastered stereo album, the new 5.1 surround mix, a specially commissioned short film, plus the B-sides from the singles. Previously import-only, now available domestically.
+Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet CD (Season Of Mist)
Original recording remastered.
+Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule: 20th Anniversary Edition 2xCD (Virgin)
20th anniversary deluxe double-CD reissue of Lenny Kravitz's debut album features the original album remastered with six bonus tracks. Disc Two features a ten track live performance from a 1989 Boston performance and two tracks from a 1990 Amsterdam performance.
+Jim O’Rourke - I’m Happy, And I’m Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4 2xCD (Editions Mego)
Indeed Mr O'Rourke (look under O' in the Penguin guide to post populist art-wank) has done just this to produce a solo computer album. Although traits of O'Rourke-ien past can be found here, some definite bright new angles also shine throughout the three(dare we say it) elegant tracks featured here. Equal parts -- schizoid pop, cracked minimalism, concrete drama and melancholic contemplation. It strikes us as a highly personal release. Imagine the powerbook as a springboard to explore oneself inside... not a machine for accentuating the inhuman, but a machine for embracing, and giving voice to the more delicate elements of the inner human. Thought it couldn't be done? Think again. It has, and has been blessed with a nifty title to boot!
+Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hyaena CD (Fontana Hip-O)
+Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss In The Dreamhouse CD (Fontana Hip-O)
+Siouxsie & The Banshees - Nocturne CD (Fontana Hip-O)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox CD (Fontana Hip-O)
Import reissues now available.
+Subhumans - From The Cradle To The Grave CD/LP (Bluurg)
Remastered from original analog tapes with restored artwork.

Simply The Best...
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Kenny Chesney - Greatest Hits II CD (RCA)
2009 collection from the country music great, his second collection of hits, featuring fifteen tracks including the brand new single “Out Last Night” (only available on this collection).
+Jellyfish - Best CD (Virgin)
Digitally remastered twenty-track anthology from the critically acclaimed psychedelic pop band that earned their fame in the early 1990s. This special collection includes four live tracks previously only appeared as single B-sides plus two demo tracks originally included on the now out-of-print
Fan Club box set.

Simply The Rest...
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Civ - Solid Bond: The Complete Discography 2xCD (Equal Vision)
The complete 43-track discography of the NY punk band. Members were in the legendary hardcore bands Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, and Quicksand. This release contains their 1995 debut
Set Your Goals, their second and final release Thirteen Day Getaway, B-sides, live tracks, and rehearsal recordings from the Civ archive.
+Iron And Wine - Around The Well 2xCD/3xLP (Sub Pop)
Collects songs ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released and spans Iron And Wine's earliest sessions which yielded the band's debut (2002's The Creek Drank The Cradle) through material recorded for 2007's The Shepherd's Dog. An assortment of hushed home recordings, unedited and raw, and highlighted moments captured in the studio with the help of other musicians, friends, and engineers. Triple LP also available.
+Panicks - Complete Recordings CD (Gear Fab)
The great Ohio garage band that was featured on
Psychedelic States Ohio In The 60's. Eight previously unreleased studio recordings from 1967-1968, plus their two great 45’s and a great live version of ''You're My Baby.''
+Ernest Tubb - Early Years 1936-1945 CD (JSP)
Four-disc, 103 track collection by the country music legend.

The Compilation zone...
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Various Artists - Exotic Beatles V.3 CD (Exotica)
A long overdue repress, for this, the third part of Exotica's Beatles trilogy and it features many more classic Beatles songs interpreted in eccentric, but truly endearing ways. The disc also contains interludes and introductions from The Beatles themselves as well as characters such as Noel Gallagher, Rolf Harris and Homer Simpson. The
Exotic Beatles series are recognized as the most well researched and thorough Beatle related cover albums in the world.
+Various Artists - Songs From The Penalty Box 7 CD (Tooth & Nail)
These are great compilations with great artists. This one features Emery, Jonezetta, Run Kid Run, FM Static and many more.

The Soundtrack zone...
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Soundtrack - True Blood CD (Elektra)
Soundtrack includes the show theme song “Bad Things” by Jace Everett and features artists such as C.C Adcock, Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Allen Toussaint, The Legendary Shack Shakers, The Watson Twins and more.

The DVD zone...
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Eric Clapton And Steve Winwood - Live From Madison Square Garden DVD (Reprise)
DVD version. History rocked and rock made history during a sold-out three-gig stand at Madison Square Garden in late February 2008 when icons Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed together for the first time since their all-too-brief days in the legendary Blind Faith in 1969.
+De La Soul - Me Myself & I DVD (Charly)
Singing about peace and love rather than about sleaze and violence like most of their considerably more hardcore rap contemporaries, De La Soul come across as modern day hippies, an image which found favor with rock audiences. Hailed on their arrival on the scene in 1989 as the future of hip-hop, De La Soul were quickly perceived as the leaders of a contingent of New York based alternative rappers who dubbed themselves The Native Tongues Posse. This movement for a while looked as if it was going to eclipse hardcore hip-hop in terms of popularity. This concert, filmed at the 1997 Lokerse Festival, features their hits “Me, Myself And I” with its sample of Funkadelic’s “(Not Just) Knee Deep,” and “Ring, Ring, Ring.”
+King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open DVD (Discipline)
King Crimson are an enduring rock legend, their experimental progressive rock tinged sounds still win over countless fans across the globe. Two full concerts are included on this release, proving their strength in the live arena. A mixture of improv and standard songs make up the two shows, one from Tokyo in April 2003, the other from London in July 2000.
+Paul Simon - Paul Simon & Friends DVD (Shout! Factory)
Commemorating the first awarding of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to Paul Simon, the Library of Congress arranged for a spellbinding array of Simons peers to perform in a remarkable live concert tribute in the nations capital. The program includes performances by Simon, Art Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Alison Krauss, George Harrison from 1976, James Taylor, Lyle Lovett and others.
+Various Artists - Likk Your Idols DVD (Le Chat Qui Fum)
Likk Your Idols plunges you right into the New York undergound scene of the nineteen eighties. Through steamy excerpts, exclusive interviews Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Thurston Moore, in your face performances and previously unreleased photographs, Likk Your Idols retraces the chaotic story of transgressive cinema. In New York, in the beginning of the nineteen eighties, this spontaneous movement, monster child of Reaganism, definitively broke free of the codes set by avant-gardism and the classic conventions of storytelling. As ephemeral as a suicide, as sensual as it is sexual, transgressive cinema created for itself improbable links between Warhol, Dadaism and the punk attitude.


The Vinyl zone...
+
Animal Collective - Danse Manatee 2xLP (Fat Cat)
Import. More early goodness from the AC boys now re-issued on 200 gram DMM heavyweight audiophile vinyl.
+Bellini - The Precious Prize Of Gravity 2xLP (Temporary Residence)
After four years, this husband-and-wife punk rock power couple of Giovanna Cacciola and Agostino Tilotta reunite with bassist Matthew Taylor and drummer Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys) to unleash their third and most thunderous album. Recorded as always with long-time collaborator Steve Albini. RIYL: The Jesus Lizard, X, Husker Du, Girls Against Boys, The Ex, PJ Harvey.
+Comet Gain - Broken Record Players 2xLP (WhatsYourRupture)
Deluxe issue Double LP in a gate-fold Stoughton jacket.
+Desolation Wilderness - No Tomorrow b/w Pacific Palisades 7” (K)
These two new songs connect last year's debut,
White Light Strobing to their next full-length, New Universe, due in August 2009. "No Tomorrow" is a tribute to summer days well spent, living in the moment, never growing old. "Pacific Palisades" is a slow burner -- the soundtrack of a California beach under a long dusk.
+Faux Hoax - Your Friends Will Carry You Home 7” (Polyvinyl)
Faux Hoax contains members of Menomena, Gang Of Four, Tracker, 31Knots, and Asthmatic Kitty. Very little is known: are they a band? Are they a studio project? And are these the only songs they'll ever record? This two-song 7-inch includes a digital download code for both tracks plus two bonus songs. First pressing on black vinyl limited to 1,000 copies.
+Headlights - Remixes LP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)
Originally released as a limited edition CD last December and sold out in less than three months. Now comes this limited edition (2,000 copies) LP featuring remixes from The Album Leaf, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and Son Lux, to name a few. Includes digital download code with bonus track.
+Mates Of State - All Day LP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)
Does an EP have the capacity to mark a pivotal point in a band's history? Whether they intended to or not, this organ and drums duo did just that with
All Day. Available for the first time on vinyl.
+Charlie Poole - Husband And Wife Were Angry One Night LP (Monk)
Born in North Carolina in 1892, singer and banjo player Charlie Poole is often considered to be one of the grandfathers of bluegrass and modern country music. Poole recorded 60 songs during the 1920’s for Columbia Records with his wildly popular North Carolina Ramblers, so this LP is a small sampling of some of his very best songs, many of which, like his first big hit for Columbia, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues" are blues standards. His North Carolina Ramblers sold huge numbers of records for the time and Poole became one of the first country music stars.
+Sigur Ros - Von 2xLP (One Little Indian)
+Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun 2xLP (Fat Cat)
Import. 200 gram DMM audiophile vinyl pressings.
+Young Widows / Melt-Banana - Young Widows Split Series Vol. 2 7” (Temporary Residence)
Second of four 7”’s in Young Widows split singles series. All songs are new and exclusive to this series, and each is limited to a one-time pressing of 2,000 copies. The artwork fits together to form one large puzzled image.

+Black Eyes - Black Eyes LP (Dischord)
+Cocteau Twins - Garlands LP (Vinyl 180)
+Leonard Cohen - Live Songs LP (Sundazed)
+Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony LP (Sundazed)
+Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room LP (Sundazed)
+Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen LP (Sundazed)
+Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate LP (Sundazed)
+Faust - So Far LP (Four Men With Beards)
+Flipper - Public Flipper Limited LP (Four Men With Beards)
+Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby LP (Four Men With Beards)
+Fugazi - In On The Killtaker LP (Dischord)
+Public Image Ltd. - Flowers Of Romance LP (Four Men With Beards)
+Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition LP (Four Men With Beards)
+M. Ward - End Of Amnesia 2xLP (Future Farmer)
HQ-180 vinyl reissues now available.

+Booker T - Potato Hole LP+MP3 (Anti)
+Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career LP (4AD)
+Les Claypool - Of Fungi And Foe LP (Prawn Song)
+Crystal Method - Divided By Night LP (Ingrooves)
+Cursive - Mama, I’m Swollen 2xLP (Saddle Creek)
+Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On LP+7” (Ipecac)
+Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock 2xLP (Team Love)
+Ben Harper & The Relentless 7 - White Lies For Dark Times 2xLP (Virgin)
+Hopewell - Good Good Desperation LP (Tee Pee)
+Horrors - Primary Colors 2xLP (XL)
+Joker’s Daughter - Last Laugh LP (Team Love)
+Rodriguez - Coming From Reality LP+7” (Light In The Attic)
+Allen Toussaint - Bright Mississippi 2xLP (Nonesuch)
These titles now available on vinyl.


12 MAY 09

+Acid Mothers Temple & The ME - Lord Of The Underground: Vishnu And The Magic Elixer CD/LP (Alien 8)
This latest full length is made up entirely of new studio recordings that have captured the band in fantastic form.
Lord Of The Underground will see the light of day on both limited edition vinyl and CD. The band is captured flying at full speed, dishing out three slabs of Turkish-psych-meets-Krautrock, served up Acid Mothers Temple style.
+Afroman - Frobama: Head Of State CD (Hungry Hustler)
He’s back, with new singles “Homegrown Alabama,” “No No Fro,” and many more.
+Aiden - Knives CD (Victory)
Knives is guaranteed to be an album that will close this decade off with style and open the floodgates to a whole new chapter for dark defiant rock.
+Americans In France - Pretzelvania CD (Odessa)
"Liking You" is beautifully heartfelt, girded by melancholy organ lines, and features their signature complementary vocals. They are elusive shape-shifters, who seem equally at home with prog rock as they do with punk rock, a marriage that is cringe-inducing on paper, but feels natural upon listening.
+Belleville Outfit - Time To Stand CD (Belleville)
Time To Stand captures what the band does best by mixing genres like blues, swing, bluegrass and even gypsy into a sound that’s all their own.
+Better Than Ezra - Paper Empire CD (MRI)
Full of the great hooks and melodies that the band is famous for,
Paper Empire marks yet another step forward in main Ezra songwriter Kevin Griffin's evolution as a master tunesmith and builds on the great work Kevin has done writing with and for artists like Howie Day, David Cook, Train, and Missy Higgins.
+Big Business - Mind The Drift CD (Hydra Head)
Producer Phil Ek (insert famous bands like The Shins here) has again evolved the band's grandiose sound and taken the biz into new sonic territories. Guitarist and newest band member Toshi Kasai adds new voice and dimension.
+Boxcutter - Arecibo Message CD (Planet Mu)
A veteran of Planet Mu, Boxcutter (the Irish-born Barry Lynn) returns with his latest installment in album form,
Arecibo Message. It is a space voyage, a musical journey through the galaxy. Arecibo Message collects a number of shorter, more condensed tracks, one of which, ''A Familiar Sound,'' features electronic soul duo Kinnego Flux with Brian Greene on vocals.
+Brain Donor - Wasted Fuzz Excessive CD (Brain Donor)
Wasted Fuzz Excessive is the long awaited follow-up to Brian Donor's 2006 epic DrainD Boner, this new album continuing in those dark traditions of declaimed metallic poetry, but extending further into works of epic construction and length.
+Bricolage - Bricolage CD (Slumberland)
The symbiotic relationship between Glasgow and an indefinable, distinct breed of extraordinary pop is the object of limitless fascination. Virtually from the moment the legendary Orange Juice transformed the once barren Scottish metropolis into a wellspring of tuneful, literate, joyous music, new bands have continued to flow from its environs. From the early-'80s explosion that begat Altered Images, The Pastels, and many others, to latter-day heirs such as Teenage Fanclub, Belle & Sebastian, and Franz Ferdinand, the city is as synonymous with the abstract notion of ''indie'' as Detroit is with the Motown sound or New York with early punk.
+British Expeditionary Force - Ch.1: Long Way From Home CD (Erased Tapes)
Ethereal soundscapes, sonorous guitars, beautifully fragile vocal and vocoder work, Justin Lockey's now-trademark sensitivity to drum sounds and Aid Burrows inclement lyrics combined together to form something akin to My Bloody Valentine filtered through the best of Brian Eno with a smattering of the sonic vistas of Sigur Ros.
+Brötzmann/Kondo/Pupillo/Nilssen-Love - Hairy Bones CD (OkkaDisk)
This new quartet brings together, on disc, for the first time since the late ‘90s Peter Brötzmann (reeds) and Toshinori Kondo (electic trumpet). With a new rhythm section of Massimo Pupillo (electric bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums). Live recording.
+Burden Of A Day - Oneonethousand CD (Rise)
The new record was produced by Andrew Wade (A Day to Remember). For fans of A Day to Remember, Chiodos, and Silverstein.
+Burning Image - Fantasma CD (Alternative Tentacles)
Their first new album in more than 20 years was fuelled by the gloom and doom of life during wartime and global economic meltdown, arguably the best time for dark music to emerge. The record features ten songs birthed in this new world of pain -- a return to form from ''the band that refused to die.”
+Cam’ron - Crime Pays CD (Asylum)
Founder of the highly successful crew The Diplomats, Cam'ron releases his eighth album,
Crime Pays. After a highly publicized split with former underlings Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zeekey, Cam'ron returns with a vengence.
+Cats On Fire - Our Temperance Movement CD (Matinee)
Second album from fashionable Finnish pop foursome that has earned favorable comparisons to indie legends The Smiths, Felt, Orange Juice, Pulp, and Belle & Sebastian. This album expands upon the traditional guitar, bass, and drums with liberal bursts of piano, organ, clarinet, banjo, glockenspiel and other percussion which help to showcase the extraordinary style of singer Mattias Bjorkas and his poetic, sardonic, and rather eccentric take on the world.
+Children - Hard Times Hanging At The End CD/LP (Kemado)
Tradition meets stamina head on throughout
Hard Times six massive long playing tracks. With intricate, narrative dual guitar work and a frenzied wired demeanor Children bring it all together: thrash advancements, serious girth, familiar passages crosscut with relentless speed, a formidable edge, and self proclaimed ''spiritual conspiracy party riffs.''
+Church - Untitled #23 CD (Second Motion)
New album.
Untitled #23 is an irresistibly melodic album, dense, psychedelic, yet emotive and personal. Set in a lush soundscape carved out of another world, the band has succeeded in creating a listenable work of art, meshing guitars and rhythms into a sonic journey of intrigue and understanding.
+Stanley Clarke Trio - Jazz In The Garden CD (Heads Up)
Stanley brings us a straightforward new recording -- an acoustic jazz trio phenom. Features Hiromi and Lenny White.
+Crystal Method - Divided By Night CD/LP (Ingrooves)
Brand new album -- featured guests include New Order bassist Peter Hook and Matishyahu.
+Dexateens - Singlewide CD (Cornelius Chapel)
For the better part of the last decade, a band of Alabama garage rockers called the Dexateens have been bringing their self styled skillet rock to an audience of music lovers that hunger for something that feeds the spirit, sets the soul ablaze, and gives the body the inspiration to jump up and dance, to witness, to testify, and sing along. As the title indicates, Singlewide is a decidedly low fi turn for the band, a simplification of sorts to the band's essence.
+James Luther Dickinson - Dinosaurs Run In Circles CD (Memphis International)
Jim Dickinson's third album in as many years for Memphis International is very much a stylistic departure from anything he's previously recorded in a music career that spans five decades. Here he is joined only by the rhythm section of Sam Shoup (bass) and Tom Lonardo (drums) for an outing that celebrates his non rock and roll roots.
+Casey Driessen - Oog CD (Red Shoe/Thirty One Tigers)
“Sitting on the San Diego coastline watching breathtaking fiery red sunsets over the Pacific Ocean, I strummed and plucked out these melodies on my fiddle in anticipation of the famed ‘green flash.’ I never witnessed the flash -- maybe I blinked -- but I look forward to another viewing excursion. This interpretation was inspired by the drum ’n’ bass work of Squarepusher. The low bass notes are from using my shoe to strike a metal room service plate cover I borrowed from a hotel in Glasgow, Scotland.” -- Casey Driessen
+Candy Dulfer - Funked Up CD (Heads Up)
On
Funked Up Dulfer is joined by artists such as Moon Baker, Leona, Thomas Bank, and an all-star cast on horns.
+Durutti Column - Love In Time Of Recession CD (Fulfill)
New album written and played by Vini Reilly, with drums and percussion from guru Bruce Mitchell -- this is the second album to feature new vocalist Poppy Roberts, who also plays electric piano on several tracks.
+Steve Earle - Townes CD/2xCD/2xLP (New West)
Steve Earle's new album
Townes is the highly anticipated follow up to the Grammy Award winning Washington Square Serenade. The fifteen-song set is comprised of songs written by Earle's friend and mentor, the late singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The songs selected for Townes were the ones that meant the most to Earle and the ones he personally connected to. Deluxe double-CD edition featuring eleven bonus tracks also available.
+Jeremy Enigk - OK Bear CD (Lewis Hollow)
OK Bear, the third full-length solo album from Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft), offers a surprising sense of intimacy while staying undeniably Enigk.
+Paul Gilbert & Freddie Nelson - United States CD (Mascot)
Paul Gilbert began his career with the legendary shred metal band Racer X and since then his guitar playing has brought him number one hits with the band Mr. Big and a devoted following of guitar and music lovers all over the world. Singer and guitarist Freddie Nelson shares many of the same musical and cultural roots. Both grew up outside of Pittsburgh and were born and started playing guitar around the same time. This album is the first collaboration of Paul Gilbert and Freddie Nelson and it features ten new songs, which they wrote, performed, and produced together in the summer of 2008.
+Haystak - The Natural, Vol. 2 CD (Real Talk)
New album. Initially known best for being a huge white-boy rapper from Tennessee, Haystak overcame his anomalous status with time as listeners learned to cherish his sincerity. Unlike many of his Southern peers, Haystak didn't embrace materialism and greed; he rapped about his life as so-called "white trash," exploring the social dimensions of being white and underprivileged in the South.
+Hill Country Revue - Make A Move CD (Razor & Tie)
Formed last year by Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars, Hill Country Revue is a collective of musicians from the fertile soil of North Mississippi who have grown up living the music. The self proclaimed ''modern blues band for the new generation'' features Cody Dickinson (rhythm guitar), Chris Chew (bass), Kirk Smithart (lead guitar), dixie Dan Coburn (vocals), and Ed ''Hot'' Cleveland (drums). Hill Country Revue represents a return to the juke joint one chord trance blues of North Mississippi, styles made famous by local blues legends like R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
+Hanne Hukkelberg - Blood From A Stone CD (Nettwerk)
Blood From A Stone is the third album by Norwegian artist Hanne Hukkelberg. In part inspired by her past as a member of various rock and metal bands (especially their live incarnations) and in part by her 80’s dominated collection of indie/rock albums, Hanne acknowledges that the likes of Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Einstüerzende Neubauten and P.J. Harvey have all exerted an influence over her new songs, while one can also detect traces of Siouxsie & The Banshees at their most oblique and many other new wave/post punk outfits.
+Impossible Arms - Ripped In No Time CD (Odessa)
A raucous amalgamation of sloppy but searing guitar solos, upbeat rhythms, pounding bass and catchy vocal melodies. From the Misfits-esque "Oh Oh OHHS!" of "Big Plans" to the lone acoustic guitar and vocal of "Ghost Town," this album is a song cycle that charts a tumultuous but inspired year in the life of a trio of friends.
+Kid 606 - Shout At The Döner CD (Tigerbeat6)
New album combines all the brash and exciting plunderphonic and sampledelic elements he is best known for with a whole new world of uncharacteristically musical and danceable hooks and styles which are both fresh and timeless. 606 draws on some of his biggest electronic influences like LFO, AFX, Mike Ink, Green Velvet, Mouse on Mars, the Prodigy, Daft Punk, Shizuo, Mr. Oizo and Giorgio Moroder, to make bold and powerful songs about the decline of America, leaving California, broken hearts, drunken hook-ups, social phobias, soulless partying, economic downfall, gnarly basslines, ego worship, moving to Berlin, diva vocals, Baltimore club, obsessive compulsive disorder, the best parts of horror movies, acidhouse, ADHD, shameless irony, speed garage, megalomania, LSD, satanism and the ever prevalent Döner Kebab, arguably Europe's best late night cuisine to consume on the way home from from the club (especially if you had too much to drink!).
+Kiki - Kaiku CD (BPitch Control)
Finnish beatmaker Kiki will return to the production arena after a quiet 2008 with his newest full-length,
Kaiku. The album features two prominent guest spots: First, MC Chela Simone drops in for what the press release calls some “old school jacking,” in what we’re guessing is a nod to his hip-hop past. Then, later on in the album, we have Italian experimental quartet Pirica for goodness knows what.
+Liondialer - Live! CD (White Box)
Debut full-length collaborative project from Greg Haines and Danny Saul. Using cello and guitar as a starting point, they compose and process their sound to devastating effect -- laptop pub-ambient, anyone? The songs on this record are glimmering evocations built from dark cello drone and echoing guitar meanderings that sound almost too beautiful and fully realized to possibly be improvised. Looped meditations for stringed instruments for fans of Talk Talk, Stars Of The Lid, Tony Conrad and Loren Connors.
+Louderbach - Autumn CD/LP (Minus)
Louderbach’s long awaited second album autumn represents another jump in the evolutionary cycle of minimal techno, having developed from the largely instrumental project that gave us enemy love into a fully-fledged song based outfit. As a result, autumn has a much deeper feel than its predecessor and indeed breaks new ground, with the dark metaphors of Gibby Miller’s often chilling vocal performances fitting hand-in-glove with the ominous landscapes and broken architecture that troy pierce constructs so effectively.
+Mark Kozelek - Lost Verses - Live CD (Caldo Verde)
Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon performs a veritable best of selection of songs from his career on his new live album,
Lost Verses - Live. Recorded live during Kozelek’s 2007 and 2008 acoustic tours with Phil Carney as accompaniment, this fourteen song set features songs primarily chosen from the Sun Kil Moon catalog but also includes solo and Red House Painters’ material.
+Maximo Park - Quicken The Blame CD/LP (Warp Record)
Maximo Park have two albums that are just about to go platinum in the U.K. A Mercury nomination for the first one, 2005's
A Certain Trigger. An impassioned fan base that tunes into Paul Smith’s idea packed lyrics, the songs intense pop explosion, and the bands incendiary live shows.
+Del McCoury - By Request CD (McCoury Music)
By Request is a collection oh what Del and his sons feel are the 14 most requested songs during Del's live shows (as most of you know, Del never had a set list, but plays audience requests).
+Chuck Mead - Journeyman’s Wager CD (Grassy Knoll)
He's been known as the cofounder of BR549, the honky honk heroes that almost single handedly lit and carried the blowtorch for the mid '90s alternative country explosion.
+Meanderthals - Desire Lines CD (Smalltown Super Sound)
Meanderthals'
Desire Lines is their chosen path of beautiful anc mellow balearic disco. A warm and dreamy blend of dub, folk, prog, kraut, psychedelia and ‘70s West-Coast combined to invent an organic, slanted and proggy feel. Recorded live.
+Meat Puppets - Sewn Together CD/LP (Megaforce)
Twelve new songs of pure rock, country, and a bit of punk attitude. Recorded at The Saltmine in Phoenix, Arizona in winter 2009,
Sewn Together features the Kirkwood brothers, Cris and Curt, with drummer Ted Marcus.
+Fabio Musta - Passport CD (Babygrande)
With his finger on the pulse of the local Italian scene, and never more than a few ''clicks'' away from the U.S. indie hip-hop scene, Fabio Musta is perfectly positioned to push the borders and boundaries of hip-hop, with
Passport.
+Nugentalecia - Hillbilly Goddess CD (Rounder)
Her voice is winning hearts worldwide. On
Hillbilly Goddess Nugentalecia is joined by Brad Walker, J.D. Crowe, The Infamous Stringdusters and many others.
+Pixel - The Drive CD (Raster-Noton)
This is the third full-length release by Danish artist Pixel (Jon Egeskov). The Drive is meant to be the soundtrack to his imaginary journey by car across the USA -- a road movie encoded in the tracklist.
+Poison Arrows - First Class & Forever CD (File13)
New project featuring members of Don Caballero, Atombombpocketknife, Ponys and 90 Day Men.
+Projects - Words Of Love Broadcast CD (Mind Expansion)
Second album by London-based group with co-founding members Graeme Wilson and Alex Lawton joined by Ladytron’s Mira Aroyo and Dino Gollnick, Comet Gain’s Phil Sutton, David O'Malley and that one-man-record making-machine Edward Ball. A journey through the thought processes of Graeme Wilson -- a world where voices in Russian or Spanish coexist with English without losing intimacy or familiarity. Its musical formulas follow a constructivist pattern overlaid with utterances torn from the pages of a diary, fragile in their harshness. Ultimately, these songs invoke lullaby qualities with a sense of melancholy found in the knowledge that there's an end to all things.
+Prong - Power Of The Damn Mixxxer CD (Megaforce)
Prong's
Power Of The Damn Mixxxer conjures the same dissonant, dark, dirty, and deranged emotion as it predecessor Power Of The Damager and brings it to a boil. This isn't some half-baked feel good remix record aimed at dance floor DJs. This remix compilation of Power Of The Damager material has added elements provided by great remixers, producers, and deejays infused in all the tracks.
+Roman Candle - Oh Tall Tree In The Ear CD (Carnival)
Produced by Jason Lehning (Alison Krauss, The Silver Seas), Roman Candle's
Oh Tall Tree In The Ear capitalizes on the band's distinct melodic sensibilities and its earnest, introspective lyrics. Skip, Timshel, and Logan Matheny, the familial trio at the core of Roman Candle, remain a band dedicated to the power of a well-crafted song.
+snd - Atavism CD (Raster-Noton)
Atavism is the fourth album from Sheffield, UK's snd (Mark Fell, Mat Steel) -- their first full-length release since 2002's Tenderlove on Mille Plateaux. Atavism reveals, explores and reinterprets the fundamentals of its origins interpreted in a new time and a new context: simultaneously iteration, re-interpretation and a process of invention; both an allusion to the origins of a type and the genesis of something new.
+Spiral Joy Band - Little Sparrow CD (VHF)
Derived from the extended Pelt/Jack Rose/Black Twigs family, the group traffics in lengthy microtonal explorations rooted in the expansive tradition of beards like Taj Mahal Travellers, Henry Flynt, and Theatre Of Eternal Music. The four tracks here are an evolution from the trance-like gong and percussion sounds of recent Joy Band releases, with the quartet putting more of an emphasis on heavily bowed string sounds.
+Starring Janet Leigh - Spectrum CD (Metal Blade)
Fusing death metal, hardcore, and modern jazz to create a sound that can best be described as progressively technical death metal, Starring Janet Leight's aural onslaught is a fine blend of artistry, fury, passion, and precision.
+Starving Weirdos - Into An Energy CD (Bo Weavil)
Avant/drone/psychedelic improv duo. These eight new pieces bear all the hallmarks of the group's greatest work: the dizzying mixture of instrumental sounds, electronics, and field recordings, the pointillistic attention to sonic detail, the duo's post-production technique, which achieves something like the aural equivalent of deep-focus photography.
+Torngat - La Petite Nicole CD (Alien 8)
Montreal's ambient power trio Torngat create majestic instrumental music that is at times as breathtaking as the glorious Quebec mountain range from which they take their name.
La Petite Nicole offers forays into dub-heavy elements of post rock as well hints of Krautrock and the occasional miniature freak-outs.
+Unholy - New Life Behind Closed Eyes CD (Prosthetic)
Unholy's
New Life Behind Closed Eyes will grab you from within the same way death draws you nearer to it on a daily basis. For fans of Entombed, Hatebreed, Slayers, Crowbar, and Carcass.
+Utada - This Is The One CD (Island/Mercury)
Ten new songs written by Utada herself -- produced by Stargate and Tricky.
+Paul Wall - Fast Life CD (Asylum)
Featuring guests like Pittbull, Webbie, Yung Joc, and Tech N9ne,
Fast Life is further proof that hard work pays off. Former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker offers up three productions on Fast Life including the drug-induced “Pop One Of These” featuring Too $hort, Skinhead Rob and The Federation. This album is a hearty dose of life as only Paul Wall knows it. For the people, by the people.
+Wisp - Shimmering Hour CD/2xLP (Rephlex)
This is the highly anticipated debut full-length Rephlex release from Niagara Falls, NY-based braindancer Reid Dunn aka Wisp. After a track of his was confused with the mysterious
The Tuss back in 2007, Rephlex did some further investigation of the artist known as Wisp, and it just so happened that he had a veritable vault of unreleased gems waiting to see the light of day. Rephlex (and many other fans) believes that Wisp is perhaps the most exciting signing for perhaps a decade.
+Wooden Birds - Magnolia CD/LP+MP3 (Barsuk)
The Wooden Birds is the new project of American Analog Set frontman Andrew Kenny. He returned home to Austin from Brooklyn to make
Magnolia the album of his career, featuring members of acclaimed bands Sparklehorse, Ola Podrida and Lymbyc System. Despite the involvement of new musical partners, creating a much more vocal-and percussion-driven sound than the keyboard-and-vibes-hypnotics of American Analog Set, his voice and ear for melody and rhythm are unmistakable.

The Reissue zone...
+Death Set - Rad Warehouse To Bad Neighborhood CD+MP3 (Counter)
Reissue includes downloadable extras.
+Duncan Browne - Give Me Take You CD (Grapefruit)
Widely acknowledged as a genuine UK baroque pop/psychedelic folk classic,
Give Me Take You has long been a heavily sought-after album on the collectors' circuit.
+Ned Doheny - Ned Doheny CD (Collector’s Choice)
After Dave Mason recorded his song “On And On” in 1971, Ned Doheny became the very first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records label. And, though he didn't meet with the commercial success of label-mates Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne (Geffen's batting average was to improve with age), he did lay down this memorable album with such stellar sidemen as Graham Nash and Don Menza. Long, long out of print, this album appears here with notes by Richie Unterberger that explore Doheny's place in the fertile SoCal singer-songwriter scene.

+Al Green - Belle Album CD (Fat Possum)
+Al Green - Gets Next To You CD (Fat Possum)
+Al Green - Livin’ For You CD (Fat Possum)
Three previously out-of-print albums by the soul legend, originally released by the Hi label -- remastered and reissued.

+Freddie Hubbard - Baddest Hubbard CD (Wounded Bird)
+Freddie Hubbard - Bundle Of Joy CD (Wounded Bird)
+Freddie Hubbard - High Energy CD (Wounded Bird)
+Freddie Hubbard - Liquid Love CD (Wounded Bird)
+Freddie Hubbard - Love Connection CD (Wounded Bird)
+Freddie Hubbard - Skagly CD (Wounded Bird)
+Freddie Hubbard - Windjammer CD (Wounded Bird)
Freddie Hubbard’s Columbia catalog has been seriously overlooked as far as CD reissues go, until now.

+Ann Peebles - I Can’t Stand The Rain CD (Fat Possum)
Digitally remastered reissue of the soul diva's 1973 album originally released by the Hi label. Includes her signature hit “I Can't Stand The Rain.”
+William Elliott Whitmore - Hymns For The Hopeless CD (Southern)
Repressed. Songs that are stripped bare of any pretense, songs of redemption and murder; with little more that a banjo, a harmonica and an incredibly resonant voice. For fans of Ralph Stanley, Leadbelly, Doc Watson, and Handsome Family.
+William Elliott Whitmore - Song Of The Blackbird CD (Southern)
The crowning jewel of the Southern Records trilogy. Haunting songs of love and loss, life and death.
+Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings - Greatest And Latest: Just For Thrill And Live 2xCD (Varese Sarabande)
Two-for-one reissue, now available.

Simply The Best...
+Amazing Rhythm Aces - Very Best Of CD (Varese Fontana)
A greatest hits collection from the 'Aces -- lots of Southern pop/rock/country rock hits.

Simply The Rest...
+Del McCoury - Celebrating 50 Years 5xCD (McCoury Music)
A stunning five-disc special edition box set collection encapsulating a 50-year legacy of brilliant, heartfelt music from the Bluegrass icon. With more than 30 new recordings of songs from Del’s first 40 years of performing, and an additional eighteen from the Del McCoury Band’s most essential tracks of the last decade, this quintessential box set is complete with a twelve-page full color booklet of photographs from the McCoury family archives -- some which have never been seen.
+VNV Nation - Reformation 01 2xCD+DVD (Anachron America)
Deluxe hardcover embossed box contains two full length CDs, a DVD, and a 32-page booklet. The first CD has twelve live tracks, the band's first ever-live album release. The second features thirteen tracks of unreleased material and remixes. The DVD collects eight live video clips from their last two world tours.
+Hank Williams - Rockin’ Chair Money: Gonna Shake CD (Bear Family)
Rockin Chair Money is the first new compilation of Hank Williams uptempo classics since 1957. Starting with his original Sterling recording of “Pan American,” this collection showcases classics from virtually every point in the singers six-year recording career along with some unexpected, seldom-heard treats, including a guitar-only demo of “Ten Little Numbers” and a full-tilt rockabilly overdub on “Fool About You.” Six other posthumous overdubs feature sympathetic backings from Williams' Drifting Cowboys and steel guitarist Don Helms. Part of Bear Family's acclaimed Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight series, this 33-track collection is perfect for parties and road trips.

The Compilation zone...
+Various Artists - Sound Of Wonder CD (Finders Keepers)
The first wave of plugged-in pop from the Pakistani picture house. Rare electronic pop from the Lollywood vaults (1973-1980). Fifteen un-traveled currants of space-age cinematic surf and Urdu funk.
+Various Artists - We All Love The Human Race: Fairytales Can Come True Volume 4 CD (Psychic Circle)
The Psychic Circle label presents the fourth volume in the
Fairytales Can Come True series -- a compilation of strange things fluorescently shimmering. Twenty tracks of a pop-psych nature gathered from the UK and Europe are presented here for your listening pleasure.


The Soundtrack zone...
+Soundtrack (Bill Frisell) - All Hat CD (Emarcy)
In conversation with
All Hat's composer, Grammy-winner Bill Frisell "It's hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell. Mixing rock and country with jazz and blues, he's found what connects them: improvisation and a sense of play. Unlike other pastichists, who tend to duck passion, Mr. Frisell plays up the pleasure in the music and also takes on another often-avoided subject, tenderness." -- The New York Times

The DVD zone...
+Insane Clown Posse - A Family Underground DVD (Psychopathic)
The documentary cameras of
A Family Underground give you all access and front row seats -- but it's not just about the concerts, comedy, carnival rides, nightclubs, contests, or wrestling. It's about the Huggalos and what brings them together. It's a step into their world.
+Queen - Rock In Rio DVD (Hudson Street)
Queen performs live at the historic Rock In Rio Festival. Titles are, “Tie Your Mother Down,” “Seven Seas Of Rhye,” “Keep Yourself Alive,” “Liar,” “It’s A Hard Life,” “Now I’m Here,” “Is This The World We Created,” “Love Of My Life,” “Brighton Rock,” “Hammer To Fall,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Radio Gaga,” “I Want To Break Free,” “We Will Rock You,” “We Are The Champions” and “God Save The Queen.”

The Vinyl zone...
+Ada - Adaptations 12” (Kompakt)
A sublime slice of electro power pop. It is as if Matthew Dear did trance. On The flip is the slightly more dancefloor “Fizzmann” with a Dee Pulse Remix. Top end teasing all the way with this one. A great showing of spacey production and how to really work a remix. Solid allround. Trance is ok.
+Beaten Awake - Coming Home LP (Fat Possum)
Band includes former members of Party of Helicopters, The Man I Fell In Love With, The Six Parts Seven and Harriet The Spy. Beaten Awake has a completely unique sound maybe like a drunk Nick Drake with electric guitars.
+Cause Co-motion! - Because Because Because 12” (Slumberland)
Hot on the heels of their critically-lauded singles compilation,
It’s Time!, Cause Co-Motion! have hit the studio to bring you their latest installment of earnest DIY pop, this time in the form of this fab six-song 12”.
+Cindytalk - Silver Shoals Of Light 10 LP (Bluesanct Music)
The concept behind this series is to celebrate the tenth year of the label with a series of releases that give an excuse to work with some of its biggest influences.
Silver Shoals Of Light is quintessential Cindytalk, written and produced by Gordon Sharp and Matt Kinnison. For those not familiar with Cindytalk's work, it is a sound that straddles several genres. Gordon Sharp was at one time perhaps best known for lending his angelic voice to several tracks on This Mortal Coil's classic 1984 masterpiece It'll End In Tears (4AD), but those tracks are nothing but a footnote in history. Since 1982, Cindytalk has recorded half a dozen fiercely challenging albums of devastating beauty, and there is no end in sight for this seminal group.
+Genghis Tron - Board Up The House Remixes V4 LP (Anticon)
Following the arrival of Genghis Trons celebrated Relapse Records debut, the kaleidoscopic metal feast Board Up the House, Anticon has released the fourth in a five-volume series of remix EPs on limited multi-color vinyl. Things kick off with the first official Anticon contribution from long-time label associate and Lex Records band Subtle. Known for its uniquely hands-on remixes/reinventions, the Subtle sextet here braids two Genghis Tron originals into the frenetic and moody City Whipped. Recent B-Pitch Control signees Telefon Tel Aviv follow with their dub of Relief, supplying an entirely new beat-seething ether for Genghis frontman Mookie Singermans vocals to bask in.
+Grischa Lichtenberger - Ununbium 12” (Raster-Noton)
The second release in Raster-Noton's Unun series, derived from the Greek atomic numbers of the chemical elements 111-119 in the periodic table. For
Ununbium, Berlin's Grischa Lichtenberger recorded sounds from the world around him -- a sliding table-top, the noise of a radiator or the droning of a broken machine. By means of digital manipulation, these sounds become instruments.
+Mt. Eerie - Live In Copenhagen 3xLP (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
Mt. Eeries Live in Copenhagen is our most ambitious vinyl release ever: three LPs in a triple gatefold jacket with LP-sized booklet that includes hand-written lyrics in both English and Danish, all beautifully illustrated by Phil Elverum. Five sides contain 34 live tracks from a two-set solo performance in Copenhagen from 5 April 2003. The sixth side features an etching by Genevieve Elverum (Phils wife) and a bonus track, 'The Boom,' recorded in a Copenhagen apartment.
+Nofx - Frisbee LP (Fat Wreck Chords)
After recently celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band,NOFX are still firing on all cylinders with the release of their 11th studio full length, Coaster. Boasting a title that takes a playful jab at the current direction of the music industry, Coaster showscases NOFX's limitless proficiency in crafting songs that simultaneously electrify and entertain. Cd has alternate title Coaster and different artwork but same music.
+Osborne - Hovercrafting 12” (Spectral Sound)
One of Ghostly International's compilation standout tracks "Wait A Minute" by Osborne is back by popular demand. The extended mix has an irresistible Rhodes-based hook and ubiquitous talkbox which noodles into Arto Mwambe's remix, which squishes the track's exuberance into an understated slice of handclap-house. On "Fire," Osborne spins scratchy lite-funk guitars and violins into an elegantly arranged disco number. "The Count" closes things out with fat 'n’ dirty techno tones that are decidedly of-the-moment.
+Various Artists - Designer Records Presents Together LP (Fat Possum)
This is the first release from this classic soul gospel catalog. It features tracks by the Jubliee Humming Birds, Union Gospel Singers, Madam Andrews And The Heavenly Echoes, and The Mosby Family Singers.
+Jamie Vex’d - In System Travel LP (Planet Mu)
Jamie Vex’d is without question one of the pioneers of the dubstep/bass scene.
In System Travel is a deep lush sounding track. Warm and organic in feel, it has a wave of bass that will push you along. On the flip side "Radiant Industry" is a full-blown space bass adventure. Waves of bass, flickers of light, and space debris everywhere. "Saturn's Reply" has a warm thick bass over a staggered lurching beat. Listening is believing. Welcome to 2009.
+Weinland - Breaks In The Sun LP (Jealous Butcher)
It's uncommon for a contemporary artist to create a timeless album, one that is both surprising and comforting. Yet after only a few listens to the new record from Weinland, a soon-to-be well known quintet from Portland, you'll know it's still possible. The characters in Adam Shearer's lush songs are often tense, morose, and struggling, but they're informed by a wry, celebratory hope. Their calm sense of knowing foils the emotional complexity in Shearer's lyrics -- that, and the gorgeously subdued vocal harmonies, atmospheric finger picking, strings, brushed drums, melodica, and subtle percussive minutiae.
+Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Snake LP (Leaf)
Being awarded with the Jazz in Sweden-award this year, Wildbirds & Peacedrums return with a new album. This time they've dug deeper into the darker corners of the human soul and returned with an eclectic, evocative and multi-faceted sound. The music takes you on a journey through a multitude of different moods.
+Witch Hunt - Burning Bridges To Nowhere LP (Alternative Tentacles)
Philadelphia co-ed anarcho screamers Witch Hunt do their dirty deeds for the first time on Alternative Tentacles. Formed in 2001 as a New Jersey trio, Witch Hunt's political lyrics and breakneck speeds recall the hardcore of yore. Parts of ''Everyday'' and ''Reflections'' veer toward a vintage Husker Du guitar tone. Short bursts of fury cross over between the crust world and modern contemporaries like F##ked Up. Having Rob Fitzpatrick move from drums to second guitar adds a thickened wall of density to the sound.
+Easy Star All-Stars - Lonely Hearts Dub Band LP+7” (Easy Star)
+Flower-Corsano Duo - Four Aims 2xLP (VHF)
+Los Straitjackets - Further Adventures Of Los Straitjackets LP (Yep Roc)
+Juan Maclean - Future Will Come LP (DFA)
These titles now available on vinyl.


05 MAY 09

+39 Clocks - Zoned CD (De Stijl)
German art rock band 39 Clocks were known for pranksterism and the destruction of the clubs in which they'd perform. Theirs was a sound attuned to classic American punk/
Nuggets. This collection was put together with the non-completist in mind (originals of some of these records are extremely rare), intending to display the general 39 Clocks vibe, but also some of their more curious wrinkles.
+69 Chambers - War On The Inside CD (Nightmare Records)
The debut album War on the Inside from the rock/metal trio 69 Chambers with frontwoman Nina Treml on guitar and vocals, bass player Maddy Madarasz and drummer Michi Brugger. It's a high quality production with a powerful sound, heavy dropped guitars, and unique vocals that sing unusual yet catchy melodies.
+Abstract Rude + Vitamin D - Rejuvenation CD (Rhymesayers)
The new album from Project Blowed, ATU, Haiku D'Etat, A-Team, Mass Men affiliate and West Coast legend Abstract Rude. Produced entirely by Seattle super producer Vitamin D. Features Aceyalone, Myka 9 and the next generation of Project Blowedians.
+Akron/Family - Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free CD/xLP (Dead Oceans)
Their musical vocabulary runs deep - it's not just Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, and The Grateful Dead that inform this record; the band feels at home, confident, and self-assured. With limited outside assistance, the trio has made a focused, powerful, and unified work. This is the new psychedelic rock.
+Arctic Monkeys - At The Apollo CD+DVD (Domino)
Double-disc set contains an exclusive live album recorded in Texas and the entire 75-minute live performance film plus bonus footage.
+Autumn Hour - Dethroned CD (Rock Ridge)
This New Jersey project began as a dark, acoustic singer/songwriter collaboration between vocalist Alan Tecchio (Hades, Non Fiction) and guitarist Justin Jurman. The duo eventually expanded into a quartet, which has molded a new, bold, dynamic sound on this, their debut. ''Dethroned'' is a three-part concept album based upon exponential technological growth and its effects in a post-apocalyptic world.
+Ballyoo! - Cheers! CD (Surfdog)
This group has been touring nonstop for the past couple of years, spreading their music from coast to coast.
+Chris Barber - At The BBC CD (United States Of Distribution)
British jazz trombonist Christ Barber celebrates his 60th year as a bandleader. Inspired by the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band, Chris formed his first Barber New Orleans Band in 1949.
+Jim Beard - Revolutions CD (Sunnyside)
Pianist and composer Jim Beard has been writing inspiring musical compositions for many years. On his new recording, Revolutions, Beard was fortunate to be able to realize the full spectrum of his compositional sound with his work with Vince Mendoza and the Metropole Orchestra. The radio orchestra (featuring full big band and strings) along with Mendoza's arrangements bring Beard's compositions to full bloom.
+Beherit - Nordic Demons Live CD (IMV Blueline)
First official live album from the dark Gods of Scandinavian black metal. Raw, brutal and heavy featuring all classic songs from the 90s like ''Black Mass Prayer'', ''Werewolf, Semen and Blood'' and ''Dawn of Satans Millennium.”
+Benassi Alle Presents Mobbing (Benny Benassi) Rock The Dog CD (Ultra)
The hot new artist album from Italian house legend Benny Benassi's other half: Grammy Award winning power-producer Alle Benassi. "Open Legs" has dominated the Beatport charts and is supported by top DJs such as Bob Sinclair, Fedde Le Grand, and Carl Cox.
+The Birthday Massacre - Show And Tell CD (Metropolis)
Toronto's Birthday Massacre offer their first live CD, capturing the intensity of their shows recorded in late 2007 in Hamburg. Features fifteen fan faves. Look for the DVD later this year, as well as another studio album.
+Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast For Vultures CD (Candlelight)
Seven blistering songs from the Norwegian metal band.
+Fiona Boyes - Blues Woman CD (Yellow Dog)
Following three consecutive Blues Music Award nominations for ''Contemporary Blues Album'', ''Contemporary Blues Artist'', and ''Acoustic Blues Album'', Fiona Boyes picks back up her electric guitar for a new studio album full of tasty licks and brassy attitude. Described by one reviewer as ''Bonnie Raitt's evil twin'', Boyes is joined by special guests Marcia Ball, Pinetop Perkins, and Watermelon Slim for a rollicking trip through the contemporary blues landscape.
+Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities CD (United States Of Distribution)
Bruford Levin Upper Extremities is the band formed by Bill Bruford and Tony Levin in 1998. Both musicians first came together in King Crimson in the early '80s and of course had extremely distinguished careers before meeting up in King Crimson.
+Candlemass - Death Magic Doom CD (Nuclear Blast)
Brand new studio album from the kings of epic doom metal. Includes bonus track.
+Carolina Chocolate Drops - Presents Colored Aristocracy: Sankofa Strings CD (Musicmaker)
Listening to them is like dropping the needle on a Victrola record. -- Mitch Teich, Arizona Public Radio
+The Chariot - Wars And Rumors Of Wars CD (Solid State)
2009 release from the metalcore monsters. The Chariot have never been a band comfortable with the status quo.
Wars And Rumors Of Wars will tip the scales and push the limits of what modern Metalcore can accomplish in the span of just ten songs.
+Ciara - Fantasy Ride CD/CD+DVD (LeFace)
Includes the smash singles "Never Ever" featuring Young Jeezy, "Love Sex Magic" featuring Justin Timberlake and "Tell Me What Your Name Is." Limited edition deluxe version adds a bonus DVD and extra tracks.
+Closure In Moscow - First Temple CD (Equal Vision)
The debut full-length by this Australian group follows an impressive EP. RIYL: Saosin, The Mars Volta, Coheed & Cambria.
+Combichrist - Heat EP: All Pain Is Beat CDEP+12” (Metropolis)
Featuries remixes by the likes of VNV Nation and Assemblage 23. The CD contains six tracks and two bonus videos, while the 12-inch maxi single houses three tracks on a red buzz saw-shaped slab of vinyl. Look for Combichrist on tour this summer.
+Cracker - Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey CD (429 Records)
That creative genius David Lowery from Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven, is back with new, edgy, innovative and original rock songs! Features guests Adam Duritz, John Doe, and Patterson Hood.
+The Dangerous Summer - Reach For The Sun CD (Hopeless)
Their debut full-length is a polished and wise endeavor brimming with a poise that belies the band's years. Love, life, death, the past, the future...it's all there in the vein of the honest and clear-cut rock of Jimmy Eat World, Third Eye Blind, and Foo Fighters. RIYL: Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line, Taking Back Sunday, The Maine, We The Kings.
+Das Boton - Soda Drip CD (Sixgunlover)
Bill Dolan is most known for his guitar work in 5ive Style and Heroic Dose (Sub Pop Records). He has been a huge influence to a generation of artists with his explosive 1960s New Orleans, Afrobeat guitar work. With his roots intact, this record is heavily influenced by post punk and early NY new wave. Joined by his former band mate, Ryan ''Euphone'' Rapsys and Karl ''Babybird'' Ropp for Das Boton's debut album.
+David Davis & The Warrior River Band - Two Dimes & A Nickel CD (Rebel)
David Davis has come a long way since he first picked up the mandolin. As leader of the Warrior River Boys for nearly 25 years, he has seen many festivals, hotels, diners and overnight drives. Decidedly the most significant thing he's seen in those years is the evolution of his music. From a strict adherence to the traditional style of bluegrass to a more contemporary sound, Davis has always strived to bring a fresh, sincere sound to his fans. Two Dimes And A Nickel is testament to this man's ambition and is the latest installment in his life's work.
+Deradoorian - Mind Raft CDEP (Lovepump United)
Astonishingly mature, dark, beautiful, and unexpected, if only because it seems to have tapped into something far older and wiser than Angel Deradoorian's (Dirty Projectors) twenty-two years would suggest. Whether it's the guitar, bass flute, or her stunning voice, Angel's musical proficiency is boundless. This is as promising as a debut can get.
+Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above And Branches CD/CD+DVD (Ferret)
Their Ferret debut is possessed of equal parts slithering metal riffage meshed with plush rock passages, peppered with a barrage of synth sounds and harsh to melodic vocals. Their attack is complicated further with unexpected twists and turns in composition, larger melodies, and a more focused aggression. Limited, deluxe edition contains bonus DVD.
+Diary Of Dreams - (If) CD (Metropolis)
Their ninth studio album features twelve tracks riddled with emotional stress and turmoil. Themes of happiness, sadness, confusion, loss, and understanding run throughout, but it's not a concept album. Each track tells its own story. Their mix of classical, electronic, and rock elements couple with powerfully stunning vocals to deliver a message straight from the heart to the soul. Heartwarmingly sad, yet beautiful.
+DJ Shadow - Diminishing Returns 2xCD (Reconstruction Productions)
Official djshadow.com 'last chance limited-edition re-release.' The groundbreaking mix in its entirety -- includes bonus track "War Is Hell" by DJ Shadow.
+Double Dagger - More CD/LP+MP3 (Thrill Jockey)
Baltimore trio Double Dagger creates a cacophonous wall of sound. Their dynamic combination of energy, melody, angst, and playfulness is captured exquisitely on their third full-length/Thrill Jockey debut.
+Earth Crisis - To The Death CD (Century Media)
Following one of the most talked about reunions of 2008, Earth Crisis return to deliver their most angst ridden and unrelenting offering to date. Featuring "To Ashes."
+Fischerspooner - Entertainment CD (WFL)
Third full length -- recorded over a two-year period in a carriage house in Brooklyn.
+John Foxx / Robin Guthrie - Mirrorball CD (Metamatic)
An idea that began when the pair performed at a Harold Budd concert in May 2005. Layers of echoes and reverberations are explored on Mirrorball, so that Guthrie's unique playing merges with abstract, often improvised vocals. The former Cocteau Twins guitarist and producer has joined John Foxx who has been experimenting as a film-maker (including a pioneering video for L.F.O. and recent performances of his Super 8 project Tiny Colour Movies in Melbourne, London and Barcelona), artist (he has exhibitions this year in London and New York and his images have been used on the covers of books by Anthony Burgess and Salman Rushdie) and musician and he's now developing a growing international reputation as a writer - last year he headlined a major literature festival where he reads extracts from his as yet unfinished novel The Quiet Man. He is currently working on new material with Paul Daley (Leftfield).
+Gibson Brothers - Ring The Bell CD (Compass)
12 track blend of bluegrass and old-timey harmonies, featuring six new original songs by Shawn Camp, Paul Kennedy, Chet O'Keefe, Joe Newberry, and Marshall Warwick. The "Brothers" include Mike Barber on bass, Clayton Campbell on fiddle, Joe Walsh on mandolin, and guest resonator guitarist Mike Witcher from Missy Raines & The New Hip.
+Green Day - Lowdown 2xCD (Sexy Intellectual)
Double-disc set celebrates the incredible achievements and staggering longevity of Green Day. Featuring a stunning disc of exclusive interviews with all the band members, and a disc of audio biography which tells Green Day's complete story on a spoken word talking book, this package is an ideal companion to the Green Day catalog. Completed with booklets, rare photos, inner
+Ben Harper / Relentless7 - White Lies For Dark Times CD/CD+DVD (Virgin)
This is a timeless rock album, mixing raw, unrelenting thunder with deep grooves and haunting emotion. Ben has a new band with him this time around. The deluxe edition includes a DVD featuring a video for the song ''Shimmer and Shine'', exclusive documentaries, band photos and more.
+Joel Octet Harrison - Urban Myths CD (Highnote)
Joel Harrison is a wildly diverse musician with a penchant for unorthodox instrumental combinations who has sustained one of the most unpredictable discographies of the last decade. Here Joel, along with David Binney, Stephan Crump & others sets his focus on the electric jazz of Chick Corea, Zawinul and Shorter, Frank Zappa & others that influenced him growing up in the 1970's.
+Hatebreed - For The Lions CD (E1 Music)
18 new bludgeoning covers including "Refues / Resist" (Sepultura), "Ghosts Of War" (Slayer), "Escape" (Metallica) and "Suicidal Maniac" (Suicidal Tendencies) and more.
+Highwaymen - Cambridge Tapes 2xCD (Folk Era)
Originally a college group that had Top Ten hits of Michael Row the Boat Ashore and Cotton Fields, The Highwaymen toured extensively during their college careers, juggling studies during the week with performing on weekends. Following graduation in June of 1962, they pursued music full-time. This album, recorded on October 26, 1963, has The Highwaymen returning to campus, this time to MIT for a fantastic live performance that would be a career highlight. Fortunately it was preserved on tape and is presented here, digitized and only lightly edited.
+Hopewell - Good Good Desperation CD (Tee Pee)
On
Good Good Desperation Hopewell blends vintage fuzz pedal jams with their early space rock and shoegaze roots. A perfect noisy bridge between the epic psychedelia of '90s acts like The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev and a new generation.
+Jon Hopkins - Insides CD (Domino)
This composer, pianist, and self-taught studio wizard makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies, and amorphous bass rumbles. His previous two albums had him labeled by ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator, while an impressive sweep of artists such as Herbie Hancock, David Holmes, Coldplay, and lo-fi folkster King Creosote have called upon his handiwork as producer and composer. On this, his Domino debut, Hopkins showcases an intriguing musical aesthetic. "Insides" is about juxtaposition: natural, arcane textures welded to pulsing, hypnotic rhythms; beautiful acoustic melodies set against jarring bass. Reminiscent of the beautiful melodies and harsh dirty beats of Four Tet, Squarepusher, Burial, and Aphex Twin.
+The Horrors - Primary Colours CD/2xLP (XL)
Their debut
Strange House was as controversial as it was celebrated, landing them on the cover of NME in their native England. Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead) and noted video director Chris Cunningham (Aphex Twin, Bjork). ''Genuinely, gloriously deranged.'' -- The Onion
+Ice Palace - Wonder Subtly Crushing Us CD (Rebel Group)
Fifteen years ago, Ice Palace's singer/songwriter Adam Sorensen and Cloud Cult's Craig Minowa spent a night writing and recording a song together. After years of separate endeavors, the two have re-aligned on this album. ''...a beautifully melancholic and jittery nod to Northern rock, from the Pacific Northwest to the shores of Lake Superior.'' -- Minnesota Public Radio
+Isis - Wavering Radiant CD (Ipecac)
This is the bands fifth full length effort, they navigate the process of growing and evolving without disavowing their initial vision, first single is ''20 minutes/40 years.''
+King Crimson - Collectable King Crimson V.4 2xCD (Discipline)
Fourth in the series which captures live King Crimson at their finest, live in Warsaw, Poland, 2000 will appeal to both Crimson enthusiasts and music lovers alike. This 2 CD is the perfect companion to the forthcoming re-release of the Eyes Wide Open double DVD.
Live In Warsaw 2000 showcases the four piece line up of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn and includes an encore rendition of David Bowie's `Heroes', the original of which Robert's distinctive guitar playing helped make famous.
+Chris Lake - Crazy CD (Nervous)
Chris is one of the most respected DJ/producers repping the more progressive side of dance, creating classic collaborations with Deadmau5 and Sebastien Leger, and deejaying the top venues in the world. For his debut, he's managed to combine the best of his many talents, including underground bombs like "Word" and "Aqualight", radio hits "Changes", "Carry Me Away", and "Only One", and his next chart topper "If You Knew" featuring vocalist Nastala.
+Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - Lonely Street CD (Rounder)
One of Bluegrass' most honored and revered talents is back with another blue ribbon recording featuring the award winning vocal harmonies and hot picking that has placed Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at the top of bluegrass radio charts and award shows time and time again.
+Led Bib - Comfortable Shoes CD (Cuneiform)
Sensible Shoes is the third album by this London quintet of dual saxes, keyboards, bass and drums. It is a cataclysmic offering of free-jazz, jazz-rock, avant-skronk, funk-rock, noise-metal and whatever else they can lay their hands on.
+Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (El Groupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) - Cryptomnesia CD/LP (Sargent House)
El Groupo Nuevo De Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is differentiated from the guitarist's other namesake projects by his selection of players, specifically Zach Hill (Hella) on drums, Jonathan Hischke (Hella) on synth bass, and Juan Alderete de la Peña (The Mars Volta) on bass guitar. Additionally,
Cryptomnesia features the vocals of guest frontman Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta).
+Madina Lake - Attics To Eden CD (Roadrunner)
They have been touring non stop for two years, including Warped Tour and others, here's their new release, first single is ''Never Take Us Alive.''
+Magik Markers - Balf Quarry CD/LP (Drag City)
Balf Quarry has moody space in its soul, melodies whether stretched over rock, ululating rhythm, chimes 'n’ piano and/or wah-wah, but it is also a mind-and-body-slamming forty-five minutes.
+Ziggy Marley - Family Time CD (Tuff Going)
Family Time is Ziggy Marley s third solo album and first full-length offering especially for children and families.
+Katie Melua - Pictures CD (Dramatico)
Includes the tracks "If THe Lights Go Out,k" "Perfect Circle," and "If You Were A Sailor." "Melua's third album is arguably her best." -- Mojo
+Chrisette Michele - Epiphany CD (Def Jam)
Featuring The Hits "Epiphany (I'm Leaving)", "What You Do" featuring Ne-Yo and "Blame It On Me." Produced by Ne-Yo.
+Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa CD/LP (PPM)
Never polished, always urgent and catchy, they somehow conduct a current take on the old emotions of great punk rock bands that came before them, such as the blistered energy of Redd Cross and early Legal Weapon, the charming shrillness of Lilliput and Rubella Ballet, and the ferocity of The Adolescents. On their second full-length, they expand on their remarkable songwriting skills, mixing great riffs with simple ideas and melody with speed while sending you into a mind melting frenzy.
+Miriodor - Avanti! CD (Cuneiform)
For fans of: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Gentle Giant, Hatfield & The North, Henry Cow, Univers Zero, and Frank Zappa.
+New York Dolls - 'Cause I Sez So CD (Atco)
Produced by Todd Rundgren."It was amazing working with Todd again, and I think we were able to evoke the special sound of our first album and drag it by the hair in the the present." David Johansen
+Nomo - Invisible Cities CD/LP (Ubiquity)
With a theme stolen from Italian novelist Italo Calvino, each tune on
Invisible Cities is a little world of its own, dense with rhythm and timbre. Hot horns blaze through intersecting lines, heavy percussion drives the band down winding streets, the bass rumbles in some subterranean corridor.
+Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South CD/2xLP (Merge)
While touring in support of last year's debut
Conor Oberst, Conor And The Mystic Valley Band began writing new songs. The result is the first album credited to this group. Oberst's songwriting and delivery remain an engaging presence, but the addition of songs by Taylor Hollingsworth, Nik Freitas, and Jason Boesel make for a multi-textured and colorful collaboration. The Mystic Valley band also includes Macey Taylor and Nathaniel Walcott.
+Tara Jane O’Neil - A Ways Away CD/LP (K)
Her fifth album and first for K contains an elegant attention to detail in the mix that will please all those in need of great headphone jams, electronic minimalist drone magic, and heroic adventure. Contributors include Jana Hunter, Mira, Osa Atoe (New Bloods), Geoff Soule (Fuck), and Jean Cook and Daniel Littleton (Ida).
+Our Brother The Native