“How does brokenness walk? Or move through the world?” says guitarist vocalist Carrie Brownstein about The Center Won’t Hold, Sleater-Kinney’s tenth studio album. “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person – ourselves or versions of ourselves…
“How does brokenness walk? Or move through the world?” says guitarist vocalist Carrie Brownstein about The Center Won’t Hold, Sleater-Kinney’s tenth studio album. “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person – ourselves or versions of ourselves…
Sleep releases their first full-length album of new recordings since 1998 on Third Man Records. Years after the release of Volume One in 1991, Sleep s Holy Mountain in 1992 and Dopesmoker in 2003, the sonic titans reaffirm their place at the top of the riff pyramid with this brand-new double album, The Sciences. This…
Volume One is the debut album. It was the only album recorded with second guitarist Justin Marler, before he became an Orthodox monk. Volume One showcases a darker sound and stronger doom metal influence than Sleep s later work.
Spiderland is the second and final studio album by the American rock band Slint. It contains six songs played over 40 minutes, and was released by Touch and Go Records on March 27, 1991. Slint s lineup at the time of recording comprised Brian McMahan on vocals and guitar, David Pajo on guitar, Todd Brashear on bass guitar and Britt Walford on drums. Spiderland was engineered by Brian Paulson and recorded over four…
LIMITED EDITION OF 5000 180 GRAM OPAQUE DARK BLUE VINYL Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991, the six songs on Spiderland methodically mapped a shadowy new continent of sound. The music is taut, menacing, and haunting; its structure built largely…
Over 25 years ago, nine guys from Des Moines, Iowa, shattered the scope of what was possible in metal. Slipknot s music put blastbeats, massive breakdowns and brutal riffs alongside breakbeats and turntablism; punctuated hooky melodies with extreme vocals and percussive rap verses. On stage, bodies clad in numbered jumpsuits and horror film masks crashed…
Originally released in August 2019, We Are Not Your Kind is now available on colored vinyl 2LP. Produced by Greg Fidelman, the band s Unsainted introduced sixth album served as the explosive outfit s first in five years and first following the departure of longtime member Chris Fehn. Guitarist Jim Root noted, This is most time we…
Slow Pulp started to gain traction based off their two debut releases, EP2 and Big Day. This release on vinyl shows the best of the band s roots on one packaging.
Slow Pulp s remarkable full-length debut Moveys is a testament to hard-fought personal growth. In the process of making their new record, the Chicago-based indie rock band powered through health challenges, personal upheaval, and a pandemic, all while breaking old habits and learning how to be better songwriters and friends. Full of blistering energy and…
On Yard, Wisconsin-bred, Chicago-based four-piece Slow Pulp nestles comfortably into pockets of nuance, impressions, contradictions-sonics and lyrics finessed together to bottle the specific tension of a feeling you ve never quite been able to find the right words for. In that regard, listening to Slow Pulp can feel like being in a room with someone…
everything is alive, Slowdive s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995 s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break…
everything is alive, Slowdive s 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995 s Pygmalion; everything is alive also manages to break…
Stripped down and funky beyond words, 1973 s Fresh is quite simply the last great album by Sly & the Family Stone. Funkadelic guru George Clinton, a man who knows something about genre cross-wiring, tabbed Fresh as one of his all-time favorites and convinced the Red Hot Chili Peppers to cut If It Were Left…
Since it took almost two years to make, the fifth album by now bonafide superstars Sly & The Family Stone had everyone salivating in anticipation. Needless to say, Sly did not disappoint! 1971 s There s A Riot Goin On finds the Bay Area-based genius getting funkier than before, even as his artistic vision becomes darker. Some may have…
“This is the Small Faces as they should be heard.” KENNEY JONES ‘Greatest Hits – The Immediate Years 1967 – 1969’ features a wealth of classic Small Faces singles released worldwide on Immediate Records. For the first time ever, all the correct single versions are included, newly mastered from the original Immediate Records mono master tapes, approved by Small Faces members Kenney Jones and…