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4 LP set on standard black vinyl with 60-page, lavish color book featuring unseen material, new liner notes and interviews, archive memorabilia and photos, printed inner sleeves and four art print photographs, all housed in a hardback slipcase. Limited Edition.
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Beastie Boys’ multi-platinum Ill Communication album, this limited-edition deluxe reissue is a rare version of the album that was originally released as a limited run in 2009. Long out-of-print and sought after by fans and collectors, it features lenticular cover art and includes a bonus LP with 12 bonus tracks (remixes, B-sides and rarities), all housed in a rigid slipcase and pressed on 180g vinyl.
Three time Grammy nominated Hiatus Kaiyote return with their eagerly anticipated new album Love Heart Cheat Code. The band have warmed up fans with standout single 'Everything's Beautiful' and what awaits is a masterfully crafted album from a band who are firing on all cylinders and totally in sync. LHCC is a mix of their classic neo-soul sound, fused with jazz, soul and rock - which is on full display on their cover of the Jefferson Airplane classic 'White Rabbit' and a fan favorite from their live shows, 'Cinnamon Temple'. The album also includes a feature from BMO from the cult classic animated series Adventure Time (Cartoon Network/Adult Swim). Throughout the campaign the band will build a bright and vibrant world for fans to dive into, with games, artifacts, mazes and all other matter of zaniness that one can expect from Hiatus Kaiyote. Just ahead of album release the band will be embarking on a 19 day US tour, which includes stops at Montreal and Toronto Jazz Fests and Electric Forest.
Camila Cabello has released brand new track “HE KNOWS (featuring Lil Nas X)” from her forthcoming album C, XOXO, which is out June 28th on Interscope Records and available for pre-order now. C,XOXO is written by Camila and brought to life with executive producer El Guincho (Rosalia, FKA twigs, Frank Ocean) and co-producer Jasper Harris (Lil Nas X, Baby Keem, Jack Harlow). Camila recently appeared on the March 2024 cover of Paper magazine, who describe C,XOXO as having “an emotional immediacy and rawness” and go on to proclaim C,XOXO as her “boldest solo album.”
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This is a limited edition Metallic Gold vinyl pressing. This is the first time this record has been pressed on color vinyl.
This is a first time color vinyl pressing of the anticipated follow up to the Grammy® Award-winning 2009 release Townes titled, I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive . This 11-track set was produced by T-Bone Burnett and was Earle's first collection of original material since his 2007 Grammy® Award-winning album, Washington Square Serenade. The album includes the celebrated song" This City," written for the HBO Original Series, TREMÉ, which Earle also appeared in as an actor. "This City" features horn arrangements by Allen Toussaint and has garnered a Grammy® Award Nomination in the Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media Category. Other highlights include the ballad "Every Part of Me" and the ode to those who make their living on The Gulf Of Mexico.
30 is the first new music from Adele since the release of her third studio album 25 in November 2015. The album is produced with former collaborators Greg Kurstin, Max Martin and Shellback and Tobias Jesso Jr., as well as new collaborators Inflo and Ludwig Goransson.
Achtung Baby: 30th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2LP]
A limited-edition black vinyl release of the Grammy-award winning U2 album Achtung Baby, to celebrate its 30th Anniversary.
Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and recorded between Berlin’s Hansa Studios and various locations in Dublin, Achtung Baby was released to critical acclaim in 1991 & is regarded as one of U2’s most seminal albums. The album featured five singles: ‘The Fly’, ‘Mysterious Ways’, ‘One’, ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ and ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’.
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Destroyer: 45th Anniversary Edition [Super Deluxe 4CD + Blu-ray Audio]
In 1976, KISS dropped the bombshell on the world being DESTROYER, an album that originally received resistance from fans due to the band exploring a new sound and has long become the quintessential and all-time best selling KISS studio album.
Exploding with concert staples and KISS Army favorites like “Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It OutLoud,” and “God Of Thunder” – the album’s new sounds came from the softer side of songs like “Do You Love Me?,”and songs heavy with orchestral arrangements including “Great Expectations” and their surprise hit single “Beth.”
For the 45th anniversary, UMe is releasing the most comprehensive Super Deluxe Edition 4CD + Blu-ray Audio boxset that will melt the KISS Army’s minds. The original album on CD 1 is newly remastered by Abbey Road Mastering, CD 2 features 15 demos from Paul Stanley’s and Gene Simmons’s personal archives – 9 of which are unreleased. CD 3 loads up with studio outtakes, alternate versions / mixes and single edits – most notably a brand-new stripped-down mix for “Beth (Acoustic Mix)” where we found the acoustic guitar stems recorded for the entire song but originally only used in the last several closing notes of the song on the album. CD 4 features a ripping performance from the band’s visit to Paris France at the L’Olympia on May 22, 1976.
Steven Wilson was brought in to create a first-ever Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround mix of the original studio album plus 2 bonus tracks “Beth (Acoustic Mix)” and “Sweet Pain (Original Guitar Solo)” the latter featuring Ace Frehley’s original recorded guitar solo that was not released on the studio album (this track is available on the 2012 Destroyer: Resurrected project.)
Packaging features a lift top-style box loaded with so much ephemera even KISS fans may need to seek medical advice upon receiving this boxset
Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. Like he’s done throughout his career, Shauf wrote, performed, arranged, and produced every song on his new album Wilds at his studio space in the west end of Toronto.
Over the course of a year-and-a-half, Shauf had written more than 50 songs, and pared down this massive body of work, into a single album’s worth of material, which became 2020’s highly acclaimed The Neon Skyline album. These songs focused on a theme by intertwining the individual characters stories of a group of friends who gathered for one night at the same local bar. Wilds includes songs from those same writing sessions, that did not fit into the Skyline storyline and had their own singular identity apart from that album, though he does revisit with his old friends Judy and Jeremy in this outing.
Steve Earle was nineteen and had just hitchhiked from San Antonio to Nashville in 1974. Back then if you wanted to be where the best songwriters were you had to be in there. Guy Clark had moved to Nashville and if you were from Texas, Guy Clark was king. Flash forward more than forty years. In the fall of 2018, Steve and The Dukes went into House Of Blues studio in Nashville and recorded GUY in six days. 'I wanted it to sound live...When you've got a catalog like Guy's and you're only doing sixteen tracks, you know each one is going to be strong.'
Earle and his current, perhaps best-ever Dukes lineup, take on these songs with a spirit of reverent glee and invention. But in the end Guy leads the listener back to its beginning, namely Guy Clark, which is what any good 'tribute' should do. Guy is a saga of friendship, its ups and downs, what endures. We are lucky that Earle remembers and honors these things, because like old friends, Guy is a diamond.
A collection of holiday classics reimagined earnestly and passionately by beloved indie rock stalwarts Manchester Orchestra. Familiar, inclusive, and the essence of holiday spirit, regardless of one’s beliefs. Holiday Red LP with B-Side Etching.
HuDost’s new album defines real, honest love and is a lush, breathtaking original collection of compositions that ask important questions and evoke the imagery of dreams. Special guests include Jars of Clay, The Accidentals, Christie Lenée and others. The music video for the first single ‘Our Words Will Be Louder’, included additional cameos from Kevin Clash (Elmo), Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies), Cy Curnin (The FIXX), GangstaGrass, Alana Bridgewater, Nawal, Hymn for Her, Jai Uttal, and more.
Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), is back with their new album Fun House - the most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking a difficult, if much-needed, moment of pause. Emboldened by going into therapy and coaxed by Ashworth to push the songs into unexpected new shapes, the resulting music is more acutely personal and stylistically adventurous than anything you’ve heard from Hand Habits before. The push/pull of styles, paired with songs that move deftly between the present and past, give the record a wildly diverse, hall of mirrors quality that befits its name. Where previous Hand Habits records could be fairly insular affairs, Fun House feels ebullient, lush, a fully-realized conversation.
Super Deluxe contains 5 CDs showcasing the newly remastered album from the original analog tapes along with 4 complete concerts on the Nevermind Tour from Amsterdam, Melbourne, Tokyo and Del Mar, California. Additionally, a Blu-ray of the complete Live in Amsterdam concert video (newly remastered in HD) is included along with a 40-page hardcover book with unreleased photos.
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Now Hear This! - June 2024
Lucius
Wildewoman (The New Recordings)
FantasyBuy Now Wildewoman (The New Recordings) re-imagines and expands Lucius’ sparkling debut album. Features friends Marcus Mumford on “Go Home,” and Devon Gilfillian on “Tempest.” Also features close friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile on the previously unreleased fan favorite “Housewarming.” Les Savy Fav
Oui, LSF
Frenchkiss RecordsBuy Now A glorious mix of tragedy and comedy — studded with nods to the band’s eclectic musical taste — delightfully weird and utterly them, tripping from ghostly bops to ruminations on love and loss to some seriously debauched and crazy nights. A decade may have passed, but Les Savy Fav is still growing. Jon Muq
Flying Away
Easy Eye SoundBuy Now Ugandan-born, Austin-based Jon Muq's debut, Flying Away, melds African and Western melodies, reflecting his astonishing journey. Produced by Dan Auerbach, the album is infused with themes of resilience, and Muq's spontaneous, reflective songwriting captures the essence of his cross-continental life. Rainbow Kitten Surprise
Love Hate Music Box
New ElektraBuy Now Produced by Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves) along with Konrad Snyder (Noah Kahan) and frontperson Ela Melo, the much-anticipated album ponders life’s ups and downs, and traces the turbulent trajectory of relationships, painted out loud in hues of pop, electronic, rock, and hip-hop. As such, it finds the musicians at their most vulnerable, vibrant, and vital. Arooj Aftab
Night Reign
VerveBuy Now Mercurial and moody soundscapes are infused with wistful romance in one of the Grammy-winning singer and composer’s most spirited records to date. It’s a perfumed, public garden of renewal, desire, shelter, and love guided by Aftab’s soothing voice – its reach and intensity complementing the sun’s departure. Girl and Girl
Call A Doctor
Sub PopBuy Now Not since the early work of Car Seat Headrest or Bright Eyes has indie rock managed to come across as this intimate and grandiose. The Australian quartet lay a lifetime's worth of woes across a canvas of indie rock that feels both timeless and in-the-moment. Feeling down never sounded so goddamn good. The Marias
Submarine
AtlanticBuy Now Whereas some forms of dream-pop sound unmistakably like winter, the Marías make music for poolsides, afternoons in air conditioning, and glamorous waterfront locales after dark. It’s exquisite music for chilling out: funky, jazzy, loungey, dreamy pop that never lets its atmospheric qualities drift into sleepy nothingness. mxmtoon
The Masquerade
Turtle Girl Records LLCBuy Now This special edition pays homage to the unwavering passion and raw emotion that captured hearts worldwide upon its initial release in 2019. The original album is being released alongside an intimate collection of acoustic recordings, inviting you to rediscover the soulful essence and sardonic wit of the ukulele-toting musical genius. Andra Day
Cassandra (Cherith)
Warner RecordsBuy Now After portraying Billie Holiday onscreen, Day’s soaring voice reaches inward. Andra examines every iteration of love: lost, gained, rekindled, interpersonal, and with "God". She sings about her personal experiences with intense love, gut-wrenching heartbreak, reclamation, and spiritual growth while bringing jazz virtuosity to songs of her own. La Luz
News of the Universe
Sub PopBuy Now Unashamedly vulnerable, unabashedly feminine, and undeniably triumphant, News of the Universe is another knockout record from a band so reliably great, led by an earnest belief in the cosmic power of love and a great riff. This is not groovy indie finery; there’s a rock-as-high-art vision at work here. John Moreland
Visitor
Old Omens/Thirty TigersBuy Now Moreland’s artistic integrity will only allow him to tell the truth, and he’s past the point of false hopes. Still, the music on Visitor is an honest companion, an important presence in the void that presses us to pay attention to what matters most. It’s folk-rock that is intimate, immediate, deeply thoughtful, and catchy as hell. Umbra Vitae
Light of Death
Deathwish Inc.Buy Now Umbra Vitae fit in twice as many ideas than your common or garden death metal band in around half the time. Led by Converge front man Jacob Bannon (as well as members of Hatebreed and The Red Chord),the bandleads listeners down a rip-roaring descent into darkness in this modern metal masterpiece. Jesse Dayton
The Hard Way Blues
Blue Elan RecordsBuy Now Dayton redefines himself once again with The Hard Way Blues, a blues-based rock record produced by Grammy winner Shooter Jennings. Inspired by longtime influences like '70s-era Bob Dylan, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Mance Lipscomb, the album balances some of the sharpest songwriting of Dayton's career with loud guitar riffs and amplified attitude. Young Jesus
The Fool
Saddle CreekBuy Now “You think every day’s the same / But it’s new, and it’s brief, and it takes your breath away,” John Rossiter sings on his new album of gritty indie folk. It’s a fitting for a committed gardener like himself, one who sees the rainy days and the sunny days with equal gratitude and gravity— the sun “like a balloon / sent from Hell / straight to the moon.” Swamp Dogg
Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St
Oh Boy Records/Thirty TigersBuy Now Blackgrass mixes the sacred and the profane in typical Swamp Dogg fashion as it blurs the lines between folk, roots, country, blues, and soul. It’s as reverent as it is raunchy, challenging genre and race while celebrating the music that helped make Swamp Dogg the beloved iconoclast he’s known as today. Anna Tivel
Living Thing
Fluff and Gravy RecordsBuy Now Recorded against a pandemic backdrop Tivel’s eighth album features just her guitar and violin with producer Shane Leonard on everything else. Living Thing ride waves of anxiety, resilience and hope, surfed with her whispering vocals and washes up on a shore that ultimately looks out to the light on the horizon rather than the darkness behind. Fantastic Cat
Now That’s Why I Call Fantastic Cat
Four Quarters RecordsBuy Now Individually, each member boasts their own critical acclaim. Paste declared Don DiLego’s latest album a “stunner.” NPR said Anthony D’Amato “sings and writes in the tradition of Bruce Springsteen or Josh Ritter.” Rolling Stone called Brian Dunne’s new record “the sleeper album of the year” and praised Mike Montali’s band, Hollis Brown, as “the soundtrack for a late-night drive through the American heartland.” Collectively, though, the four transcend their respective roots, emerging as a velvet-clad rock and roll cooperative far greater than the sum of its parts. LISTEN HERE LISTEN HERE DIIV
Frog In Boiling Water
FantasyBuy Now Said to be the bands most collaborative and first fully democratic endeavor, Frog in Boiling Water pushes the bands ethos and breaks new ground in their storied career. Alternative tunings, tape loops, drum samples, the band’s first acoustic-led song, and some of their most striking lyrics yet fill out the album’s edges, and leaves the listener floored. Andrew Bird
Sunday Morning Put-On
Loma VistaBuy Now Featuring nine covers and one original, Sunday Morning Put-On finds Bird making a straightforward jazz album, or at least his version of a straightforward jazz album. His approach to these songs is hardly radical, but he understands their beauty and finds his own way of bringing it out while reminding us just how quietly brilliant Andrew Bird can be. -
New Release Round-Up 05-31-24
Ringo Starr - Crooked Boy- UMe
Written and produced by Songwriter’s Hall Of Famer Linda Perry, Crooked Boy features four brand-new tracks from Ringo Starr with his trademark vocals and legendary drumming.
Jon Muq - Flying Away - Concord / Easy Eye Sound
Ugandan-born, Austin-based Jon Muq's debut, Flying Away, melds African and Western melodies, reflecting his astonishing journey. Produced by Dan Auerbach, the album is infused with themes of resilience, and Muq's spontaneous, reflective songwriting captures the essence of his cross-continental life. From busking for children on the streets of Kampala, to cruise ship clubs, to sharing stages with music's biggest stars, Muq now embarks on the grandest voyage of all: releasing his first album.
The Marías - Submarine [Indie Exclusive Iridescent Blue LP]
Willie Nelson - The Border [LP]
Becky Hill - Believe Me Now? [Indie Exclusive Black/White Splatter LP]
Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi [LP]
Kenny Burrell, John Coltrane - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Original Jazz Classics Series) [LP]
Swamp Dogg - Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St [LP]
Arooj Aftab - Night Reign [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Silver LP]
Hope Conspiracy - Tools Of Oppression / Rule By Deception [Indie Exclusive Orange / Blue Mix LP]
LUCIUS - Wildewoman - (The New Recordings) [Translucent Forest Green LP]
Rogers & Hammerstein - My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert [CD]
Candy - Its Inside You [Indie Exclusive Yellow with Splatter LP]
John Moreland - Visitor [Indie-Exclusive Opaque Cream LP]
Jessie Baylin - Strawberry Wind [Limited Deluxe Edition - Tangerine and Strawberry Sherbet LP]
Norman Blake - Pilgramage to Rising Fawn [LP]
Stephen Stanley - Divided Frame Of Mind
For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.UPCOMING RELEASES