Select stand-alone albums from 2018 s David Bowie: Loving the Alien (1983-1988) box set will be issued on vinyl LP by Rhino Parlophone in February 2019 including remastered versions of the three studio efforts, Let s Dance (1983), Tonight (1984) and Never Let Me Down (1987). The upbeat romanticism introduced on Let s Dance certainly extended to Tonight, though the single Loving the Alien seems eerily prophetic in…
Toy was recorded following David Bowie s triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album ‘old school with the band playing…
1975 s Young Americans spent almost a year on the U.S. charts, peaking at No. 9 on Billboard s Albums chart, while its single Fame hit No. 1 on the Pop Singles chart. Bowie s Diamond Dogs had cracked the U.S. Top 5 the previous year, so while Young Americans was not the album that initially broke Bowie in America, it…
David Bowie Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (The Motion Picture Soundtrack) on 180g 2LP Historic Live Album Documenting Bowie s Final Performance as His Most Famous Alter Ego Ziggy Stardust! The events of July 3, 1973 at London s Hammersmith Odeon made rock and roll history: David Bowie retired Ziggy Stardust! His final concert appearance as Ziggy was…
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim’s acclaimed 2010 album Here Lies Love receives its first-ever vinyl release to coincide with a new production opening on Broadway this summer. Here Lies Love is a double-disc song cycle – improbably poignant, decidedly surreal, surprisingly thought provoking – about the rise and fall of the Philippines notorious Imelda Marcos. It was conceived by…
In Fall 2012 David Byrne & St. Vincent release their collaboration album, Love This Giant, recorded over two years, largely at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ. The album is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with Byrne and St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) co-writing ten of the album s twelve tracks, and…
2020 release. My Love is a Hurricane is an ode to love from an exhausted heart. Written as a transformative relationship began ripping apart at the seams, the lyrics and storytelling of once heart-broken and cynical singer songwriter David Ramirez sit upon dreamy, psychedelic landscapes that evoke genre-melding contemporaries from Michael Kiwanuka to Grizzly Bear….
Third album from former Temptations member David Ruffin, the LP made it into the US R&B Top Five in 1973. David Ruffin was ranked as one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 for his…
From the first note, Misadventures of Doomscroller, the eighth studio album by the Los Angeles based rock band Dawes, sets a tone all its own. Recorded by Jonathan Wilson (Roger Waters, Father John Misty, Jackson Browne, Jenny Lewis) at his Five Star Studios nestled in Topanga Canyon, Misadventures of Doomscroller is an expansion from their previous records, the 6-track wonderfully epic…
Alternative rockers Days of the New s eponymous 1997 debut studio album was the first of their three self-titled albums and was produced by Scott Litt, who is best known for working with R.E.M. The acoustic-based, Platinum-certified affair spawned three hit singles including Touch, Peel And Stand , The Down Town and Shelf In The…
DC Gore (Dominic Gore) shares his synth-layered, politically prescient debut album, All These Things. As inspired by the unvarnished portraiture of Martin Parr as he is Ballardian grotesquerie – and by the seedy witticisms of Jarvis Cocker and arch art-pop commentary of Neil Tennant, Gore’s music sits proudly within a rich tradition of distinctively British…
Equally inspired and innovative, 2000 s Mosaic Thump served as the fifth studio effort by De La Soul overall and the first in their Art Official Intelligence series. The laundry list of guest artists appearing on the album include Redman, Tash and J-Ro of Tha Liks, Xzibit, Busta Rhymes, Mike D and Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, Busy…
Alt-rock artist DE WAYNE releases his sophomore album My Favorite Blue Jeans . These eleven songs find the musician exploring new routes on his emotional road map, embracing the passion of new love as well as the freedom that comes with true self-acceptance- featuring collaborations with Good Charlotte, Grandson, POORSTACY, and WILLOW who played guitar…
With the industrial textures of their eponymous debut behind them, the fifth album from Dead Can Dance (Aion, released in 1990) is perhaps the most focused and concise of their albums. Predominately recorded at their own studio in Southern Ireland, it features guest vocals from soprano David Navarro Sust. His vocals add to Brendan and…
The uncompromising eponymous debut, Dead Can Dance (1984), harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds (including the distinct sound of the yangqin) with the then five-piece interchanging instruments to leave the vocals of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry as the only constant. The album’s cover was important as an introduction too, a Papua New Guinean mask…
Garden Of The Arcane Delights is the only EP released by Dead Can Dance, coming out in 1984 and acting as a bridge between their first two albums. Its sleeve a sketch by Brendan Perry, depicting “primal man deprived of perception, standing within the confines of a garden containing a fountain and trees laden with…