Formed in 1984, Dinosaur Jr carved a singular path through the latter half of the 1980s, issuing three highly influential albums in the process before finding a home with Sire Records, who issued 'Green Mind' in 1991 as the alternative American rock scene the band had long been part of exploded globally. Produced by a stripped down line-up of the group (in fact, J Mascis himself plays almost everything), the album and Sire's international reach took Dinosaur Jr's reputation to a new level, aided by the singles 'The Wagon' and 'Whatever's Cool With Me', a non-album EP of new material and live recordings, all of which are included here. Critically lauded on release, 'Green Mind' remains one of the band's strongest collections, and a firm fan favourite. Collected together here for the first time with related singles, B-sides and live recordings, and accompanied by in-depth sleevenotes from Mojo's Keith Cameron (based on recent and exclusive interviews with J Mascis), this edition provides a thorough snapshot of the band at a period when all eyes were on American guitar groups, many of whom owed their existence to Dinosaur Jr.
The new album from Tears For Fears, Songs For A Ne... Morervous Planet, features four new studio tracks plus live recordings of Tears For Fears on tour and at their best. The album features live performances of hit songs like "Shout," "Head Over Heels," "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," "Mad World" and more. Spanning all eras of the band from The Hurting to The Tipping Point and beyond, this record takes you on the incomparable sonic journey that is a Tears For Fears live show and their career to date. 2 LP set. Contains 16 tracks. Less
Real Estate’s sixth full-length album Daniel was... More recorded in an ebullient nine-day spree in RCA Studio A, in Nashville with celebrated producer and songwriter Daniel Tashian. In 11 compulsively tuneful songs, they connect the uninhibited wonder of their earliest work with the earned perspective of adulthood. Martin Courtney actually learned of Tashian through his daughter, who adored an album he’d produced, Kacey Musgraves’ Golden Hour. The band reached out and spotted an instant connection despite their distinct wheelhouses—the Grammy-winning Nashville country-pop guy who’d helmed several smashes and the Northeast indie rock quintet with narcotic guitars. Real Estate had been thinking about R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People and ’90s “soft-rock radio,” the background music of their youth. Tashian helped lead them back toward it, toward an improved edition of the less self-conscious band they’d been at the start. Several days into recording, all five members of Real Estate were discussing album titles when someone suggested “Daniel,” simply because it seemed funny to bestow a human name upon a record. Was it for Daniel Tashian? Maybe. Was it a nod to The Replacements’ Tim? Possibly. Was it the sign of a band that has now been around long enough to take its music seriously without taking itself or its perception too seriously? Absolutely. Less
YES!, the fifth studio album from Jason Mraz, mark... Moreed the artist's first full-length recording and songwriting collaboration with indie-rock-folk band, Raining Jane (Mai Bloomfield, Becky Gebhardt, Chaska Potter, and Mona Tavakoli).Celebrating the album's 10th anniversary,YES! (Deluxe Edition)is an expanded 2-LP set on gold vinyl featuring brand new cover art, a 12" x 24" poster, and five previously unreleased live tracks recorded at The Mranch, including the hit single "Love Someone." Less
Remastered edition of Billy Idol's self-titled sol... Moreo debut album. The album was prefaced in June 1982 by the single "Hot in the City," which made the Hot 100, but it was given a second breath of life a year after its release when its second single, "White Wedding," finally caught on after an eye-catching video played on MTV and made the Top 40 in July 1983. Available on vinyl with lithograph of alternate cover art. Limited Edition. Less
The sixth volume in the ‘LP on LP’ vinyl serie... Mores highlights “Simple” and “Blaze On” from the first show of a three-night stand at Ruoff Music Center (better known as Deer Creek) in the Indianapolis suburbs. Deer Creek is one of Phish’s most-played venues with 23 shows between 1995 and 2016 before this 3-nighter (shows #24-26), rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19. Side A is the Deer Creek “Simple” – a lush performance displaying the band’s expanding and experimental sonic palette. Side B consists of an extended “Blaze On” that stretches to 27 minutes (the longest to date) of funky, must-hear Phish. These two cuts highlight modern-day peak Phish in a summer soiree at a favorite spot in what was once the cornfields of Indiana. ‘LP on LP’ 06 was recorded by Garry Brown and mixed from the multitrack masters by Vance Powell. Less
Diamond Life (1984) is Sade’s debut album, featu... Morering the singles “Your Love Is King”, “When Am I Going To Make A Living”, “Smooth Operator”, and “Hang On To Your Love.” The album was recorded at Power Plant Studios (England). The vinyl audio uses high resolution digital transfers of the stereo master mixes, from the original studio recordings, remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios. The elaborate, half-speed mastering process has produced exceptionally clean and detailed audio whilst remaining faithful to the band’s intended sound. No additional digital limiting was used in the mastering process, so the album benefits from the advantage of extra clarity and pure fidelity, preserving the dynamic range of the original mixes, presented on pure 180-gram heavyweight black vinyl. The original album sleeve and packaging elements have been meticulously reproduced in exact detail with authentic paper and printing methods. Less
Live At The L.A. Forum presents an extraordinary A... Morepril 1969 performance by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Before a raucous, sold-out house, Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding tore through a unique set featuring highlights such as "I Don't Live Today," "Purple Haze," "Red House,"and an astonishing medley of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love". This pristine recording, newly mixed by Hendrix's longtime engineer Eddie Kramer, captures the original Jimi Hendrix Experience in their unrivaled, peak form. A portion of this performance was previously included as part of a short-lived Westwood One radio documentary box set [Lifelines 1990-1992] but has been unavailable in any form for two decades and this marks the first time ever that it will be available on vinyl. The double LP release in gorgeous gatefold packaging and a 12 page 12"x12" book--complete with liner notes from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons who witnessed the show first hand--gives this seminal performance its proper platform, presenting the complete performance mixed directly from the original eight-track master tapes. Less
Otis Redding Sings Soul is the third album by soul... More singer Otis Redding and is considered by many critics to be Redding's first great album. Recorded in April and July of 1965, it was released September 15th of that same year. Otis Blue includes covers of three songs by Sam Cooke, Redding's idol, who died the previous December in 1964. Their styles couldn't have been more different; Cooke smooth and sure, Redding raw and pleading. But Redding's versions of "Shake" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" show how Cooke's sound and message helped shape Redding's Southern soul sound. Redding's singing reaches a new level of expressiveness with this as well as with covers of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" and the Motown hit "My Girl". Less
2019 repress on black vinyl. Originally released o... Moren CD in 1996, now reissued on A Recordings, Anton Newcombe's own record label. Released on 180 gram vinyl. The Brian Jonestown Massacre's obsession with the Rolling Stones continues unabated on the brilliant Take It from the Man!; where the group resurrected psychedelic-era excesses on the previous Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request, here they jump further back in time to the Stones' mid-'60s period, with even more superlative results. From the opening "Vacuum Boots" onward, Take It from the Man! Is gritty, swaggering R&B-influenced rock, delivered with remarkable assurance and attitude; singer Anton Newcombe is half-madman and half-shaman, and he commands each delirious moment with absolute mastery, emerging not so much a disciple of Mick Jagger but as a serious threat to the throne. Less
The mighty Guided By Voices are set to unleash upo... Moren the world their 35th and quite possibly... best album, Crystal Nuns Cathedral. How do they do it you might ask? Well we have no idea how they do it, but we certainly do know why they do it. They do it because quite honestly we need them to do it. The world needs The Rock, and we need loud guitars, we need anthemic songs, we need a reason to raise a rock fist in the air and give a "Hell Yeah"! On Crystal Nuns Cathedral, the band delivers all of this and so much more. Just four months since It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!, comes this latest, twelve songs determined to challenge for the title of greatest Guided by Voices album of all-time. Hyperbole you say? Not this time. The guitars are bigger, the arrangements are more ambitious, the songs are uplifting, epic, and as incredibly hook-laden as always! Pure power pop perfection like lead single "Excited Ones" mix perfectly with the slow burning "Climbing A Ramp," which reaches it's climax on a stunning guitar lead before dissolving into the fist pumping anthem "Never Mind the List," which serves as the beating heart of the entire album. Do you still need convincing? Listen to the one-two punch of "Forced to Sea" and "Huddled" and marvel at the epic scope and vision of an incredible band on full display. This record is a statement, a challenge, a monument, a call to arms. Top this one if you can, this is the new benchmark. Who will best it? Who will try? Listen to Crystal Nuns Cathedral, and report back to us. We will be eagerly waiting. Less
Destroy Boys' catalog vinyl is back in stock! 2024... More has been a big year for the band with the release of their new album, Funeral Soundtrack #4 (available on Hopeless Records) and Epitaph Records are harking back to these two seminal vinyl releases from the band's early days, just in time for Black Friday! "Sorry Mom" (2017) and "Make Room" (2018) will be available on Black Vinyl as well as each getting a limited 500 unit pressing on colored vinyl exclusive for Indie Retail. Destroy Boys formed in 2015, when founding members Violet Mayugba and Alexia Roditis were just 15 years old, and each release has marked a period of growth and change. "Looking back, our first three albums marked the deaths of things," says guitarist Violet Mayugba. "They were soundtracks to our funerals, whether they were for our ages, our mental states. We've gone through a lot of changes as a band and as people." "The first one (Sorry, Mom) was our high school album," Mayugba explains. "On the second record (Make Room), we went to college and were saying goodbye to our childhood. On the third one, we'd just gone through COVID and, speaking for myself, I lost my entire sense of self and gained a new one."Now, at 24, Mayugba and Roditis are standing firmly on solid ground with more resolute and confident than ever in their place as musicians. Less
21 years since the release of Radiohead’s semina... Morel albums, Kid A and Amnesiac comes a combined and expanded reissue, KID A MNESIA Here put back together as originally intended, with an additional disc of bonus material - including 2 original unreleased recordings from the era: ‘If You Say the Word’ + ‘Follow Me Around’ Less
The Hunter is one of Ike & Tina's most blues-o... Moreriented albums. It was cut during the blues revival period of the late 1960s. Released just a few years after the Phil Spector-produced River Deep Mountain High, The Hunter boasts several fine blues workouts in which the Stax sound figures prominently. The album features electric blues guitarist Albert Collins. This masterpiece earned Tina Turner her first solo Grammy nomination. This is the first official U.S. vinyl reissue in more than 40 years. Less
Wicked: The Soundtrack features performances by th... Moree stars of Universal Pictures' new cinematic event with music and lyrics by legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Including songs performed by Emmy, Grammy and Tony-winner Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Grammy-winning, multiplatinum superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda. Also featuring Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh as the regal headmistress Madame Morrible; Olivier Award-winner Jonathan Bailey as the roguish prince Fiyero, and Jeff Goldblum as the legendary Wizard of Oz. Based on one of the most beloved and enduring musicals of the past 20 years, the spectacular, generation-defining film adaptation is destined to be the most talked-about films of the holiday season. Featuring iconic Wicked songs "Defying Gravity," "Popular," "Dancing Through Life" and more! Wicked, in theaters November 22, 2024, is the first chapter of a two-part immersive, cultural celebration. Wicked Part Two is scheduled to arrive in theaters in November 2025. 2 LP. Less
Sleater-Kinney returns with Little Rope, one of th... Moree finest, most delicately layered records in the band's 30-year career. On the surface, Little Rope's ten songs veer from spare to anthemic, catchy to deliberately hard-turning. But beneath that are perhaps the most complex and subtle arrangements of any Sleater-Kinney record, and a lyrical and emotional compass pointed firmly in the direction of something both liberating and terrifying: the sense that only way to gain control is to let it go. Less
NOW Country Classics: 90's Dance Party is the 4th ... Moreinstallment in the popular Country Classics series featuring country superstars Shania Twain, George Strait, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Brooks & Dunn & many more. This project is a joint venture from Universal Music Group & Sony Music Entertainment. This release is part of the multiplatinum NOW That's What I Call Music! compilation series with sales topping 250 million copies worldwide and 94 million in the U.S. alone. Lemon & Spring Green 2 LP. Less
Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You is a tale old as ... Moretime. It’s an album. Its songs and music are by and for people together. For listening together. Before it gets too late. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy stands at the nexus all the kinds of music he can summon, with friends, with family and community. all roads roll though him. There can be no holding back. A million billion moments are on the line. He’s gonna tell us about a world... Less
Public Displays of Affection is a soundtrack of in... Moretimacy that seemed to offer an answer: You let love lead. ""I am a lover","" she explains. ""I prefer to be kind. I believe in fairytales. The reason Public Displays of Affection worked is because love was absent in R&B."" For that breakthrough project", Muni wanted to mimic the ebbs and flows of a relationship", dipping and diving between moods and sounds-which is real", because love can be tumultuous", too. Less
Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. As the Rose... Moremary Hill EP begins, Sixpence None the Richer's first release since 2012, Leigh Nash sings, "In the eye of the storm, I'm gonna thread the needle." Now three decades after Nash met her musical partner Matt Slocum in New Braunfels, Texas, Sixpence is threading the needle in the sweet spot they have often longed for throughout a stormy yet momentous career. Slocum confesses that two of the six new songs are an attempt to immortalize their hometown: "New Braunfels was an amazing place to grow up... We could roam freely in the streets, from sunup to sundown." Nash adds, "Meeting Matt is the most important thing that happened for me in New Braunfels." That rings true for all of us; New Braunfels, Texas is the birthplace of Sixpence None the Richer, a great American rock 'n' roll band. While Sixpence has been Nashville-based for most of their career, Rosemary Hill reveals they are at heart a Texas band. The title track cites the street Slocum grew up on, as Nash sings Slocum's words, "That was a long time ago - But the feelings, they don't get old - Every time that I come home - I'll be riding, I'll be flying on Rosemary Hill - My Rosemary Hill." Less
The first-ever vinyl release of Hans Zimmer's GRAM... MoreMY-nominated score for the classic comedy-drama, Driving Miss Daisy. This Transparent Violet LP features Zimmer's unforgettable original compositions for the Academy Award-winning film, as well as songs performed by Eartha Kitt and Louis Armstrong. Limited Edition. Less
A masterwork of innovation, Sign O’ The Times is... More widely regarded as one of Prince’s greatest albums. Spanning funk, pop, and rock, it delivers powerful social commentary alongside irresistible grooves. Essential listening for any serious music collector. Less
The first live album from Ween released in 1999 by... More Elektra Records was a career retrospective (up to that point) comprised of recordings dating back to the bands very first duo shows up to their theater tour in support of "The Mollusk," including an infamous 26 minute version of "Poop Ship Destroyer." First vinyl pressing in over 20 years! Brown vinyl in a triple gatefold jacket. Less
Limited five vinyl LP box set. NOW Music is proud ... Moreto announce NOW Presents... Disco, a stunning collection featuring 80 of the greatest Disco classics ever. Includes tracks by Donna Summer, Earth Wind & Fire, Chic, Sister Sledge, Gloria Gaynor, Village People, Grace Jones, Amii Stewart, Candi Staton, A Taste of Honey, Alicia Bridges, Cheryl Lynn, Chaka Khan, Alicia Bridges, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Odyssey, Elton John, Barry White, the Spinners, Tina Charles, Boney M, Viola Willis, Gloria Gaynor, Lipps Inc., Kool & The Gang, Frantique, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, and many others. Less
In March 2020, Roger Eno and Brian Eno released th... Moreeir first album, Mixing Colours, on Deutsche Grammophon. Roger and Brian have revolutionized many concepts of music production and performance, from Brian Eno's groundbreaking treatment of pop music to younger brother Roger Eno's Erik Satie-esque ambient synth/piano recordings. These qualities resonate on this release. Each brings their unerring sense of place and mood to the album. The timbre in each track deepens and opens with each listen. Concrete yet abstract tracks guide the listener through the collection, which was created over several years in a unique collaboration between the two artists. 2 LP set on magenta and blue color vinyl. Limited Edition. Less
Globally acclaimed, GRAMMY Award-winning superstar... More Shakira presents her self-titled album now available for the first time ever on eye-catching translucent pink vinyl. ‘SHAKIRA’ features a list of top collaborators including John Hill, Kid Harpoon, Steve Mac, Mark Bright, and Busbee. Standouts include “La La La”, “Empire”, and the album's lead single “Can't Remember to Forget You” featuring Rihanna. Less
This collection celebrates the 60th anniversary of... More jazz pioneer John Coltrane's 1958 recordings for New York based indie jazz label Prestige Records, presented in a complete chronological sequence. The duration of time covered on this box set may be one calendar year, but the rate at which Coltrane's musical abilities grew-as well as his fanbase-is remarkable. These 37 tracks serve an inspiring listening session revealing all aspects of Coltrane's approach that year. Less
You’re The One is singer/songwriter/multi-instru... Morementalist, Rhiannon Giddens’ 5th album and first full band release in over 6 years. The album, which is her first album of all original songs (all written or co-written by Giddens), was produced by Jack Splash (St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Valerie June, Solange) and features guest appearances from Jason Isbell, Leyla McCalla, and Eryn Allen Kane. Over the course of her career, Rhiannon Giddens has established herself as one of the most important artists in the world. Her mission has been to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. That work has led to massive press recognition and multiple GRAMMY wins; a McArthur “Genius” grant, hosting various podcasts and tv shows, amongst countless other initiatives Less
Vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Sometimes, Mitski... More says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what's truly hers, what can't be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. She hopes her album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will continue to shine that love long after she's gone. Listening to it, that's precisely how it feels: like a love that's haunting the land." This is my most American album," Mitski says about her seventh record, and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of it's private sorrows and painful contradictions. In this album, which is sonically Mitski's most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like the light from a distant star. The album is full of the ache of the grown-up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It's a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything, and everyone, is crying out, screaming in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning us and then rejecting us. To love this place - this earth, this America, this body - takes active work. It might be impossible. The best things are. Less
Revelator is an album that speaks to "the gra... Morend sadness in life" - perennial Phosphorescent subject matter, by Matthew Houck's estimation. In some ways, Revelator extends seamlessly from the story begun by Muchacho and continued by C'est La Vie. It finds Houck further mastering his unique blend of ragged, experiment-y classicism intertwined with ethereal, lachrymose atmospherics. Across Revelator, Houck sings from a woozy, worn headspace, but leads us to a place where dreams and reality mingle. Less
Sophomore album by the Punk legends. U.K. Subs are... More an English punk rock band, among the earliest in the first wave of British punk. Formed in 1976, the mainstay of the band has been vocalist Charlie Harper. In May 1979, the band signed to GEM Records, a punk rock offshoot of RCA Records. Their style combined the energy of punk and the rock and roll edge of the then-thriving pub rock scene. Originally released in 1980 and a UK National Chart No.18 hit, and includes the hit singles "Warhead" (No.30) and "Teenage" (No.32). Less
Danny Elfman, who has scored many of Tim Burton's ... Moreimaginative films (Edward Scissorhands, his two Batman films, etc.), is a perfect musical partner for the somewhat macabre director, and never more so than here, where, in fact, Elfman gets not only to write the music but to play the part of the main character. The Nightmare Before Christmas is an animated movie musical about the abduction of Christmas by the denizens of Halloween land, and Elfman sings the part of Jack, the Pumpkin King. Less
'the record' is the debut full-length album from b... Moreoygenius. The LP is pressed on black vinyl and features gatefold packaging, a temporary tattoo, and 24-page zine. Less
Congo Funk!, Analog Africa’s long-awaited journe... Morey to the musical heart of the African continent, presents fourteen funky, hypnotic and schizophrenic tunes from the 1970s, meticulously distilled from an initial selection of around 2000. The double LP compilation showcase the many facets of the Congolese capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, uniting veterans and youth orchestras, famous and obscure, who pushed Rumba to new heights and electrified an entire continent with an indestructible groove. Less
40th anniversary edition of this classic album. 18... More0-gram audiophile vinyl, remastered from the original stereo master tapes. Certified 6x Platinum. Includes the hits “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”, “Faithfully” and “Send Her My Love” plus a bonus 7” featuring new remixes of “Only The Young” and “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)” by Steve Perry and Bryce Miller along with the original single versions of “Only The Young” and “Ask The Lonely” that were left of the original vinyl release due to time constraints. The 7” plays at 33 1/3 RPM. Less
Founded in spring 1983 in Herne in Germany’s Ruh... Morer region, Rage surrounding vocalist/bassist Peavy Wagner has integrated a wide range of stylistic nuances into its musical concept. There have been releases which focused primarily on hard thrash sounds, but also recordings featuring anthemic power metal as well as albums with a – in the true sense of the word – symphonic orientation. Wings Of Rage, the latest offering by the three-piece, consists of all this and much more. Peavy and his colleagues Marcos Rodriguez (guitar) and Vassilios Maniatopoulos (drums) have succeeded in summarizing the diversity and experience of almost 37 years of band history in twelve topical songs, starting a new chapter at the same time. Less
If KiCk i is a multidimensional self-portrait that... More held all of Arca's many mutations, KICK ii sees her deconstruct reggaeton rhythms she grew up listening to in Caracas, balancing structure and chaos to create her most accessible work yet, without sacrificing any of her uncompromising experimentation; the rising cycle. KicK iii sees her returning to the club nights that shaped her early adult-hood where Arca was born: the surrealist DJ, warping dance music structures to fit her singular vision-relentless rhythms to drive listeners into uncharted states of euphoria, anthems for the basement-dark queer clubs of our cyberpunk near-future; the climax of the cycle. With kick iiii, the cycle resolves, and a new species of xenopop emerges, sensual and serene. Arca's talents as a composer and sound designer take the lead on closing track "Paw," setting melodies to drift on deep, gentle waves of orchestral ambience, an oceanic bliss. On kiCK iiiii the ambient ecstasy transitions swiftly into lullaby-like compositions as we come to the conclusion of the KICK series; the renewal stage. Less
Star Trek Into Darkness is the sequel to J. J. Abr... Moreams’ 2009 reboot of the iconic franchise, and follows Captain James T. Kirk, and the crew of USS Enterprise as they are sent to the Klingon home world seeking a former Starfleet member-turned-terrorist, John Harrison. This first-ever vinyl release of the Deluxe Edition of Michael Giacchino’s score for the film features 51 tracks, which come in a 3-LP boxed set packaged in a die-cut slipcase. Less
On June 25th, 1961, Bill Evans and his trio made j... Moreazz history over the course of five sets at the Village Vanguard. Selections from those performances were released on two full-length LPs, WALTZ FOR DEBBY and Sunday AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD, both of which went on to become landmark jazz albums from the era. The three-disc COMPLETE VILLAGE VANGUARD RECORDINGS provides a valuable service by presenting all five sets in their complete and original sequence, with crisp remastered sound, a previously unissued take (Scott LaFaro's "Gloria's Step"), and snippets of on-stage patter. Much has been made of the chemistry between Evans, bassist LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian, and little of it has been overblown. The three make intuitive, shape-shifting music that breaks new ground with its subtle, sophisticated rhythmic interplay and achingly lyrical beauty. Evans's playing, informed by a Chopin-esque delicacy as much as by post-bop dynamism, is a case study of the jazz ideal achieved. The music, the improved sound, and the chance to have the complete date under one cover make this set a must. Less
