Feeling lonely tonight? Turn off the TV and lower the lights. Baltimore duo Beach House have returned with their sophomore full length entitled Devotion. Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand have written eleven delicate pop tunes about love, feeling, and, of course, devotion. Their new album is a surefire antidote to the winter blues. Beach House…
The Surface is the fifth studio album by American rock band Beartooth. The album was released on October 13, 2023, through Red Bull Records and was produced by Caleb Shomo.
Back on vinyl for the first time in decades, the Beastie Boys  1995 EP Aglio E Olio covers a lot of ground in the span of 8 tracks and 11 minutes, a reminder of the group s early punk beginnings. Along with Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA, Aglio E Olio features contributions from drummer Amery AWOL Smith of…
Some albums define an era, a place, a certain time in one s life. The Beastie Boys Check Your Head practically defined the summer of 1992 for those who were wary of the mainstreaming of rap and the insurgency of grunge. It was here that MCA, Adrock and Mike D. created a musical montage that defied genre, one…
Hello Nasty (25th Anniversary) [Deluxe 4 LP] – Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Beastie Boys multiplatinum Hello Nasty album, this deluxe vinyl reissue is a rare version of the album that was released as a limited run in 2009. It includes two additional LPs with 21 bonus tracks (remixes, B-sides, rarities) and features the singles…
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is the eighth and final studio album by the American hip hopband Beastie Boys, released on April 27, 2011. The album received critical acclaim upon its release and was also a moderate commercial success, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart. The release was supported by four singles…
The Beastie Boys 1994 release Ill Communication is remastered here on double 180g gatefold vinyl that was overseen by the band. It s all here; live funk, a bit of hardcore, ingenious samples of obscure records, Money Mark on keys, guest shots by Q-Tip and Biz Markie, and the inevitable cascade of witty old-school rhymes. Certified triple platinum, Ill Communication peaked at #1…
In November 1986, the Beastie Boys released their debut album Licensed To Ill on Def Jam Columbia. It stands as one of Columbia s fastest-selling debuts to date and eventually sold over nine million copies in the U.S. alone. Licensed To Ill is still the only album by a white hip-hop act to receive the coveted 5 mics from the Source who has…
The Beastie Boys originally released Some Old Bullshit in 1994. It compiles several of their early EPs, recorded in the early 1980s. These recordings present a sound radically different from that of the hip-hop sound generally associated with the band. Instead, these songs represent the band s part in the early New York hardcore scene. The album also features…
The Beastie Boys were once upon a time the court jesters of rap. Wearing the label loud and proud, the New York trio lived by their own set of rules and ignited controversy wherever they set foot. Besides their daring-to-be-different and non-conforming attitudes, Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz, Michael Mike D Diamond and Adam MCA Yauch were considered pretty influential musicians too – the…
The Mix-Up is Beastie Boys first-ever full album of all-new instrumental material. The follow-up to 2004 s To The 5 Boroughs, The Mix-Up features Diamond, Horovitz and Yauch back on drums, guitar and bass, with able assistance from Keyboard Money Mark and percussionist Alfredo Ortiz, on 12 brand new wordless, sample-less, scratchless originals. Sure to…
The Beastie Boys were once upon a time the court jesters of rap. Wearing the label loud and proud, the New York trio lived by their own set of rules and ignited controversy wherever they set foot. Besides their daring-to-be-different and non-conforming attitudes, Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz, Michael Mike D Diamond and Adam MCA Yauch were considered pretty influential musicians too – the…
Pulling together the lion’s share of the band’s non-LP material not covered by the expanded edition of the debut album, Music To Climb The Apple Tree By collects tracks from the band’s singles and compilation contributions along with their share of the Beat Happening Screaming Trees EP. Essential ephemera
IngraThe Beatles 1 on 180g 2LP One-Stop Shopping for All the Beatles #1 Hits: Among the Most Seminal and Influential Songs Ever Recorded  Reissued in Correlation with the All-New Editions of The Beatles 1!      Between 1962 and 1970, The Beatles released 27 No. 1 hit singles in the U.S. and the U.K. In 2000,…
On the surface, Help! was the soundtrack to the Beatles’ second feature film. Yet the 1965 record marked the emergence of several new directions for the band—and benefited from the biggest strides in production technology yet. Thematically encompassing mature sexual longing, uncertainty, estrangement, infatuation, and innocence, the group pounced on an armada of available instruments—acoustic guitars, bongos, electric pianos, flutes,…