From its ominous, xeroxed album cover, to the barely legible lyric sheet to the sheer chaos invoked by the music, Rancid 2000 (as the second self-titled LP has come to be known) is paint-peeling punk rock of the highest order. Produced by long-time friend and producer Brett Gurewitz, most of the 22 songs clock in…
Rancid – the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album, Tomorrow Never Comes on Epitaph Records. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century. Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and…
Carrying the same raw energy since their 1991 inception, Rancid has been deemed by Stereogum as “incapable of making a bad album.” The Berkeley, California, punk stalwarts continue that streak with the announcement of their highly anticipated 10th studio album. ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’ is due for a June 2nd release via Epitaph Records, produced by…
Rancid s latest album Trouble Maker is available now via Hellcat Epitaph Records. This is the ninth studio album for the punk legends and the follow-up to 2014’s critically acclaimed …Honor Is All We Know. Trouble Maker was produced by Rancid’s longtime producer and founder of Epitaph Records, Brett Gurewitz. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkley, California, Rancid has…
Good Old Boys is the fourth studio album by American musician Randy Newman, released on September 10, 1974 on Reprise Records, catalogue number 2193. It was Newman s first album to obtain major commercial success, peaking at number 36 on the Billboard 200.
“The revelation that you didn’t need formal training to start a band in 1977 and the realization that you don’t need to be Merce Cunningham to dance are one and the same.” – Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork, 2003 47 minutes. Two sides. A single spine jacket. Confident and deliberate. Lightning in a bottle. The Rapture’s Echoes…
Depending on who you ask, the term “rat king” has a few different meanings: One describes a group of literal rats, who meet their death after getting their tails knotted together on a sticky piece of trash, their bodies doomed to rot together in the trash for all eternity like a crown of rodent corpses….
In just about every Hall of Fame that has anything to do with music, be it Rhythm & Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll, Gospel or Country & Western, Ray Charles name is very prominently displayed. The most concentrated driving force in Ray s life was music and it s hard to argue with his claim, “I…
All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz Remastered from the Original Analog Tapes, Pressed at QRP, and Housed in Stoughton Gatefold Jacket Originally released in 1961, Ray Charles Genius + Soul = Jazz is a big band jazz album featuring arrangements by Quincy Jones and Ralph Burns and accompaniment from members of Count Basie s band…
Double vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. Genius Loves Company is the final studio album by rhythm and blues and soul musician Ray Charles, posthumously released August 31, 2004. Recording sessions for the album took place between June 2003 and March 2004. The album consists of rhythm and blues, soul, country, blues, jazz, and…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. This essential album from the multi-Hall of Fame legend features 14 iconic tracks. Side A has up-tempo party songs, while Side B contains ballads of love and loss. This album is presented in gorgeous new sleeve artwork. Includes: I Got A Woman, Georgia On My Mind, Hit The Road Jack,…
Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain On 2 x Vinyl LP With his remarkable rough hewn vocals and evocative, finely crafted songs, Ray LaMontagne has become the rare artist for whom the world waits to see what each new work will reveal. On his much anticipated third album, Gossip In The Grain, the singer songwriter has produced a warm and…
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release, the eighth studio album from singer songwriter Ray LaMontagne. The 10-track album sees Ray not only writing and producing the album once again but also includes added duties of engineering as well as performing all the instruments for the tracks.
Ray LaMontagne will release his fifth studio album, SUPERNOVA. The album is the follow up to his critically acclaimed, Grammy award winning album GOD WILLIN & THE CREEK DON T RISE. SUPERNOVA, which was produced by Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), was recorded in Nashville, TN. Ray s most recent album GOD WILLIN & THE…
Ray LaMontagne emerged in 2004 from a secluded family life in Maine seemingly fully formed as a singer, songwriter and performer. His 2004 debut, Trouble, became one of that year s most acclaimed releases, spawning an instant classic single in the album s title track. He returned two years later with the stunning Till The Sun Turns Black,…