Everything changed for Auckland, New Zealand s The Beths when they released their debut album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. They quit their jobs, said goodbye to their hometown, and devoted themselves entirely to performing across the globe. Songwriter lead vocalist Elizabeth Stokes worked on The Beths second LP, Jump Rope Gazers, in between…
Everything changed for Auckland, New Zealand s The Beths when they released their debut album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. They quit their jobs, said goodbye to their hometown, and devoted themselves entirely to performing across the globe. Songwriter lead vocalist Elizabeth Stokes worked on The Beths second LP, Jump Rope Gazers, in between…
The Beths Warm Blood is a strong contender for the catchiest record you ve never heard. Formed when four jazz students at the University of Auckland bonded over their shared love of the pop-punk sounds of their youth, The Beths bring new energy to the genre. This 5-song debut EP, a deliriously pleasurable statement of…
A compilation of earlier recordings, Hee-Haw is composed of The Birthday Party’s first two UK singles and songs previously only released in Australia. Tracks include their 1979 EP with the same title and the 1980 LP The Birthday Party (originally released under their previous band name, The Boys Next Door).
The best music reflects a wide-screen view of the world back at us, helping distill the universal into something far more personal. Since forming in Austin in 2004, The Black Angels have become standard-bearers for modern psych-rock that does exactly that, which is one of many reasons why the group’s new album, Wilderness of Mirrors,…
 (VARIOUS VAN COVERS. WE CANNOT GUARANTEE A SPECIFIC VAN IMAGE) 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Vinyl 3LP Reissue featuring Remastered Version of the Original Album and a Previously Unreleased Live in Portland, ME Concert Recording! The Black Keys release a special 10th anniversary deluxe edition vinyl 3LP reissue of their landmark seventh studio album El Camino featuring a remastered version…
The vinyl version includes alternate versions of Heavy Soul, She Said She Said. Rawboned blues duo the Black Keys hail from Akron, Ohio, but a listen to The Big Come Up suggests the Keys may have been raised by Mississippi ridge-runners. While Dan Auerbach s overdriven ax is powered by the same internal-combustion engine that…
Limited translucent blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Released in October 2006, The Bluetones was the band s fifth album and reunited them with Hugh Jones, producer of their first two albums. It features the singles My Neighbour s House , Head On A Spike and Surrendered . Now issued on vinyl for the first time…
In 2009 The Bouncing Souls celebrated their 20th anniversary as a band by releasing a new song on the first of each month throughout the year, via digital download. They also pressed these songs onto a series of 7 vinyl records which they sold everywhere they went during a year-long tour. Here finally, they ve…
THERE S SO MUCH TO THE BREEDERS LAST SPLASH. The sophomore album, from what was originally Kim Deal s side project from the Pixies, packs in a bevy of ideas that are perfectly executed. You can feel how much heart and soul Deal poured into the album, writing the majority of the wide ranging songs and…
The Budos Band return with Burnt Offering; a wild, booze-fueled ride of hazy riffs and take no prisoners horn lines that summons the occult – an evolved sound for this mighty 10-piece band sparked by their love of Black Sabbath and Pentagram. Burnt Offering was recorded live in the studio, engineered and produced by Tom…
15 years after the release of their debut album, Daptone s Royal Court from Staten Island delivers a truly epic collection of new material that finds the group further bridging the gap between the farfisa-fueled Ethio-Funk stylings of their early recordings, with the psychedelic, Sabbath-inspired hellfire of late. The title track and lead single, Long…
Like the deadly scorpion of the album s cover, The Budos Band s second release, The Budos Band II, creeps stealthily over the hot desert sand. It is with unmistakable purpose that each beat of the music drives forth, one footstep of many to carry the Scorpion toward its meaning. With his tail arched high…
Daptone Records is proud to present The Budos Band III, unleashing The Budos Bands brazen sound and inspiring fervor among music lovers throughout the world. Produced by Bosco Mann and TNT at Daptone Records House of Soul Studios in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the band s third full-length studio effort was conceived during weekly, beer-fueled Staten Island…
SMASH debut by the undisputed kings of Staten Island Afro-funk and Soul, now that the Budos are bonafide Daptone heavyweights – There s not much to say about this record, other than if you don t own it you have a serious hole in your soul. Before the release of this LP the Budos had…