The new Pixar film Soul imagines that every person on earth comes pre-installed with a soul formed and perfected in a cosmic realm. Jamie Foxx plays a middle-school music teacher on earth who dreams of playing at legendary New York jazz club, The Blue Note. After the wrong step into an open sewer grate, Joe slips back…
Limited Indie Exclsuive Deep Purple Color VinylThe follow-up to Soul Asylum s 1992 breakthrough album Grave Dancers Union fell victim to heightened expectations, but, contrary to the majority of criticism in the alternative music press, this was no major label sell-out. While it was true that Let Your Dim Light Shine boasted such radio-friendly tunes…
Soul Asylum, the mythic garage rockers who helped shape the newly emerging contours of college radio alt-rock in the 80s before becoming Grammy-winning multi-platinum superstars in the 90s, celebrated their third decade with the long-awaited release of 2006 s The Silver Lining. Many of the tracks on The Silver Lining showcase the final recordings of original bassist Karl…
Forerunners of the current 90s grunge revival, New York s Soul Blind brings songs that are filled with layers of distortion, feedback, and rich melodies, often combining the best elements of 90s shoegaze, grunge, alternative rock, and post-hardcore. Their diverse sound has found them at home playing with bands like Angel Dust, Drug Church, Knocked…
Long out of print (10 years!), this new edition of Soul Jazz Records classic Delta Swamp Rock, features a killer all-star line-up of seminal artists who all first blended rock, soul and country together to create a stunning new sound of southern American music in the 1970s. Featuring the Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell,…
Soul Jazz Records new 2018 edition of their long out of print classic first Deutsche Elektronische Musik Experimental German Rock and Electronic Music 1972-83 is a near-definitive guide to some of the worlds most extraordinary music (The Guardian). The album comes as two separate double-vinyl (+ download code) editions and a large double CD pack…
Soul Jazz Records’ long out of print classic ‘Studio One Funk’ collection is being re-released in a new one-off limited-edition coloured pressing 18th anniversary format edition! A heavyweight special limited one-pressing only red 2xLP vinyl + download. 18 years on from its original release Studio One Funk remains one of our Studio One releases most…
Yo! Boombox is the new instalment of Soul Jazz Records’ Boombox series on the early days of hip-hop on vinyl, featuring some of the many innovative underground first-wave of early rap and disco rap records made in the USA between 1979-83. The album includes the first releases of seminal groups such as Grandmaster Flash &…
Los Angeles independent label Minky Records is issuing two crucial, hitherto unheard slices of music recorded in the Õ80s by the late L.A. punk rock legend Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band The Gun Club. On June 12, the company will release an exclusive single version of the Pierce original Ã’Bad IndianÓ and a cover…
180g Clear Vinyl – first time on vinyl. Formed in south London in 1979, The Sound were an English post-punk band fronted by singer-songwriter Adrian Borland. Whilst The Sound may never have matched the commercial success of their peers, the group are frequently hailed as one of the greatest bands of the 1980s and have…
Soundgarden certainly seized their moment with the release of 1991 s Badmotorfinger, the follow-up to 1989 s critically-acclaimed Louder Than Love. Produced once again by Terry Date (Pantera, White Zombie, Helmet), it s one of the definitive albums from alt-rock s heyday, propelling the heavy-minded Seattle rock quartet into the mainstream for good. Anchored by Chris Cornell s wide range and soulful…