Flying Wig is an album of recurrent dualities; a can of paradoxes, a box of worms. The pine-surrounded cabin studio where Banhart was “constantly listening to The Grateful Dead” somehow birthed something slick, city pop-adjacent and eno-esque. It’s the actualisation of a “precious friendship” with producer Cate Le Bon – a coming together prophesied by…
Double vinyl LP pressing. 2023 compilation celebrating 50 years of Devo s career. Including the band s biggest hits Whip It , Jocko Homo , Beautiful World and more. This 2LP version includes 25 tracks, and tracks from all different Devo eras for the first time.
Devo s cornerstone 1981 effort New Traditionalists was the first to be completely produced by the band and it also marks the first time that keyboards and electronic drums dominate the arrangements. The songwriting skills of Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale are as strong as ever and the band s trademark humor and wit are on full display….
Produced by Brian Eno, 1978 s Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! was a seminal touchstone in the development of American new wave. It was one of the first pop albums to use synthesizers as an important textural element, an innovation that began to lay the groundwork for the synth-pop explosion that would follow. Q: Are…
On June 30, 1986, the same day that Diamanda Galás s The Divine Punishment was released, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia s so-called sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick, criminalizing consensual sex between men. At the time, about 15, 000 people were known to have died of AIDS in the U.S. alone,…
In 1997 Diamond released his second studio album Hatred, Passions and Infidelity. Included are the tracks “MC Iz My Ambition” and “No Wondah”, which were built around the lyrics from De La Soul s “Stakes Is High”, released one year earlier. The album features many guest performances, including Don Barron, John Dough, Gina Thompson, Phife…
Now available again on vinyl is this second LP from Milwaukee, WI s Die Kreuzen, which saw the band get darker and a little more metal-influenced than on their first full-length but retaining their hardcore urgency, further defining the band s signature sound.
Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut, they here set out to prove their artistic prowess. This is intelligent, alternative hip hop that sounded like party music. Its lyrics are dense with wit, social commentary and politics – and its original inner sleeve was modeled on the newspaper of the Black Panther movement. Its instrumentation…
Digital Underground s follow-up to Sex Packets, This is an EP Release, has been out of print since 1991. Featuring 2Pac s first appearance on the track Same Song. The EP features songs from the movie Nothing But Trouble along with some Sex Packets remixes.
Their second album, Dillinger Four holds true to their roots. With their dynamically aggressive yet deceptively simply vocal melodies, they pack a punch of social injustice every punk kid loves to scream about.
Limited bone and black colored swirled colored vinyl LP pressing. Conceived in the heart of the Norwegian black metal scene in 1993, Dimmu Borgir quickly broke free from the boundaries of the genre, daring to combine a traditional raven black sound with opulent symphonic orchestration. Pioneers of their field, forging groundbreaking albums such as Enthrone…
Celebrating the 15th anniversary since its original release, Dinosaur Jr. is reissuing Beyond on limited edition colored vinyl with a special edition 7 . With J Mascis on guitar & lead vocals, Lou Barlow on bass and vocals, and Murph on drums, the 2007 album was the first from original lineup Dinosaur Jr. since 1988…
On limited Translucent Purple Ripple vinyl. Here is Sweep It Into Space, the fifth new studio album cut by Dinosaur Jr.. during the 13th year of their rebirth. Originally scheduled for issue in mid 2020, this record s temporal trajectory was thwarted by the coming of the Plague. But it would take more than a…
Diplo -the prolific artist s self-titled new album and first full-length of dance electronic music in 18 years- is the realization of a three-year deep dive into the house music that first blew Diplo s mind as a teenager and that he has now founded the label Higher Ground to champion worldwide. A titan of…