After blazing a trail with 2020 s critically acclaimed Good Luck Seeker, The Waterboys waste no time in delivering again with the announcement of their brand new record All Souls Hill. Lead track The Liar is a creeping, groove-laden masterpiece, taking a powerful, descriptive swipe at Trump and the lies and deceit that infest those in power. The Liar is…
Waveform* – The Connecticut duo of Jarett Dinner and Daniel Poppa – have been carefully crafting artful, introverted songs since coming together in high school. The two, with a shared affinity for bands both active & long-forgotten to most listeners, feel like students of the indie rock canon. Their grasp of how to craft the…
Cerulean Blue vinyl limited to 700 units! On her second full-length record as Waxahatchee, former P.S. Eliot singer Katie Crutchfield’s compelling hyper-personal poetry is continuously crushing. Cerulean Salt follows American Weekend — a collection of minimal acoustic-guitar pop written and recorded in a week at her family’s Birmingham home. On this new record, Crutchfield’s songs…
Vinyl LP pressing. Strut present the first ever reissue of an essential lost classic from the Black Fire catalogue, Wayne Davis powerful self- titled gospel-soul album from 1976.
This live album (released on vinyl for the first time) is made up of 3 European dates in 2001 and introduced Shorter’s “Footprint Quartet” – pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade. All are in top form, especially on challenging reimaginations of the title track and “Masquelero,” both from his time with…
Wayne Shorter’s 1967 album Schizophrenia found the legendary saxophonist at the pinnacle of post-bop with a sextet of like-minded musical explorers including James Spaulding, Curtis Fuller, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers performing Shorter originals like “Tom Thumb,” “Go,” and “Miyako.” This stereo Blue Note Tone Poet Series was produced by Joe Harley, mastered…
Vinyl LP pressing. We Are The Union is a band with many homes, but is currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Drawing heavily on ska, pop, and punk rock, the band s 2021 full length, Ordinary Life, balances soul crushing lyrics about dysphoria and heartbreak with endless hooks and furiously catchy choruses. The album, which…
Vinyl LP pressing. The Wedding Present recorded a full acoustic and stripped back album during the lock down from COVID-19 featuring classic Wedding Present hits and deep cuts and new tracks like We Should Be Together which is a duet with Louise Wenner of the Britpop band Sleeper. 12 tracks in all included My Favourite…
I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone is Wednesday s second fulllength album & first as a full band. The Asheville, NC quintet (guitarist vocalist Karly Hartzman, lead guitarist Daniel Gorham, pedal steel guitarist Xandy Chelmis, bassist Margo Schultz & drummer Alan Miller) maximizes the dark dissonance of a three guitar attack to highlight…
In a long and emotionally exhausting year of being inside (alone, in my case,) I have found myself thinking about mirrors. How to avoid spending too much time in them, most days. Taking inventory of the real, physical self is difficult work, work that I m not entirely opposed to but work that became immediately…
The Weeknd delivers Dawn FM, the hotly-anticipated follow-up to 2020 s widely-acclaimed After Hours. The new album serves as his fifth in addition to three mixtapes released in 2011. A video trailer introduces Dawn FM as A new sonic universe from the mind of The Weeknd and namedrops Jim Carrey, Quincy Jones, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne and Oneohtrix Point…
Kiss Land is the debut studio album by Canadian singer The Weeknd. It was released on September 10, 2013, by XO and Republic Records. The album was supported by six singles: Kiss Land , Belong to the World , Love in the Sky , Live For , Pretty and Wanderlust . The album s sole…
Academy Award-nominated, 2x Grammy Award-winning, and 9x JUNO Award-winning alternative R&B artist The Weeknd s third studio album Starboy has finally arrived! The highly anticipated follow-up to his triple platinum 2015 release Beauty Behind the Madness captured the No. 1 spot in a staggering 90 countries and debuted atop the Billboard 200. The 18-track double album features four songs that have…
The Weeknd s greatest hits collection The Highlights includes such career-spanning favorites as 2015 s Can t Feel My Face and The Hills, 2018 s Call Out My Name, as well as more recent hits like Blinding Lights and Heartless. The album also features many of the artist s collaborative singles – including I Feel It Coming with…
The first live album from Ween released in 1999 by 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 . This colored 3LP-set…